Parker Donham
Father. Grandfather. Retired journalist & blogger. Cape Bretoner. Chronic FOIPOP litigator. Dual U.S.-Canadian citizen. First car: Model A. Second car: Model T. Current car: Kia Niro EV Wave. 🇺🇦 ⚾
- Shame!
- Pretty incredible that Jeff Bezos' Amazon announced a "$5 billion-plus" partnership w/ a Saudi AI co launched by Mohammed Bin Salman and sent CEO Andy Jassy to meet with him less than 7 years after MBS murdered Jamal Khashoggi, a columnist for Bezos' Washington Post. techcrunch.com/2025/05/13/a...
- Read @pkrugman.bsky.social's frightening assessment of climate policy under Trump Republicans. Then consider that Krugman used to publish in the @NYTimes.com, until intrusive editing so dulled the arguments he tried to raise that he was forced to quit. open.substack.com/pub/paulkrug...
- Andry Romero, a young gay man, was given an asylum appointment by the U.S. Government. When he showed up to the appointment we kidnapped him and sent him to a foreign prison. I asked Secretary Noem to check if he’s alive. Her response was shameful.
- What a despicable person she is. Hateful.
- I immigrated to Canada 65 years ago. I've paid taxes, and—I hope—contributed in other ways. Thanks to recent immigrants—mostly young students—Cape Breton is no longer a white-bread community in perpetual decline. Ethnic restaurants, food shops, and other new businesses are enriching our island.
- Nova Scotia's professional associations (read: trade unions) are fighting hard against the Houston government's plan to reduce inter-provincial trade barriers. Sadly, Houston is backing down. www.theglobeandmail.com/gift/4c0b452...
- New Pope Leo blasts non-religious people, saying (quite shockingly) that 'lack of faith' comes from 'the loss of meaning in life, the neglect of mercy, appalling violations of human dignity' We'll remain composed in the face of such abject nastiness, but it's untrue to say the least
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View full threadHe's condemning them in this quote and you're defending him, so that's an odd thing to say.
- It's a lost cause, Boba Fest. Filipe is so lacking in self-awareness, he doesn't realize he's being a bully. Many religionists can dish it out, but heaven forfend anyone should question their magical beliefs. By the way, this pope seems OK as popes go.
- An official plan to erase the history of residential school abuse in Canada:
- So, just to be clear, you're calling someone a 5 year old because they've interpreted the *pope* using the word "faith" and interpreting it as him talking about his religion? That's an argument you're willing to stand by is it?
- UK Humanist and I said what we said, not what you paraphrased. But, in general, yes: people use "faith" and "religion" interchangeably (especially when they are trying to make religious bullying more palatable ("faith-based").
- I'm periodically obligated to write that all of the campaigns begging for help, the people who are in the process of being mass murdered - a genocide, lest we forget - hundreds of thousands could have been saved with a phone call from Biden saying "fucking stop it" they ADMITTED to never having made
- Yes, it's all Biden's fault and we should stop complaining about Trump. You fucking child!
- I have now actually read the Pope’s first homily and it’s pretty crazy that British Atheist Twitter is getting hot and bothered about an extended and unsubtle critique of church relationship to politics
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- You're agnostic, but you would exclude atheists from this discussion? You're as much a bully as the religionists.
