Tim Abray, PhD 🇨🇦

I'm collecting my long explanatory threads from the hell site and will post them in a series of posts to Medium. I'll link to each one individually, below, just to make it easier for me to find them and link to them. 🧵

This is encouraging to see, no question. But it’s also a flashing “check engine” light on the dashboard of democracy. People going to extremes to exercise their rights and making news by doing it means something is terribly wrong. Voting should be easy, accessible, and common. This isn’t that.

Just in case you didn’t know this side of @seandevine9.bsky.social. He writes plays. Nice to see this one getting another run.

🗳️ Less than two weeks to go until Election Day! Time to hunker down for the home stretch. I’m so pleased with our momentum. I’ll keep knocking on doors, sharing campaign trail stories, and launching new platform elements. 👉 Visit www.seandevine2026.ca to get involved! 🧵👇1/

Apropos of nothing… (okay, it’s about Ottawa city politics)… Pro tip from a political theorist: an ideology is a coherent system of ideas. To say that you like ideas but reject ideology suggests that you might just not be all that coherent… or simply aren’t aware of your own underlying assumptions.

Ah, Sign Night—one of the most chaotic, exciting traditions of any election campaign! 🪧✨ At midnight, volunteers and candidates hit the streets to stake out the best spots across the city. If you want to join our re-election crew and get in on the fun, drop your info in our sign-up form below! 👇1/

Over the past few days, Mayor Sutcliffe has been framing the city’s challenges as something inherited from “previous councils,” while warning against “divisive ideology.” That framing deserves a closer look. 1/

Journalists, please remember that repeating obviously false statements is not balance or fairness. It is actively participating in deception.

A doctor who witnessed the shooting submits a sworn declaration in federal litigation to halt ICE surge in MN: "I did not see him attack the agents or brandish a weapon of any kind." and "The victim had at least three bullet wounds in his back." Read storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

This is Minneapolis. Literally every corner along Lake St. packed with people holding candles, many singing, honoring a person who by all accounts was an absolute gem of a human, whose life was tragically stolen by a fascist, paramilitary occupation force.

By who? Who shot the person dead? You saw the video. We all know a federal agent shot a man dead who was prone on the ground. Also, it's not "according to officials." It's according to verified video seen with your eyes. Not saying what anyone can obviously see with their eyes is a form of lying.

“I don't know why they shot him. He was only helping. I was five feet from him and they just shot him.”

America. Enough. You are now alone in the world and no one trusts you. When are you going to wake up and realize *you* are now the murderous villain?

It is newsworthy that the president of the United States is increasingly verbally abusive of women reporters and he should be asked about it.

This was a scurrilous ad hominem attack on the integrity of City Council colleagues by @timtierney.ca. During a Term of Council when we've all sought to avoid the petty divisiveness of the last term, Councillor Tierney sadly brought us all lower yesterday. 1/ ottawacitizen.com/opinion/budg...

There's enough inaccurate or concerning information in the way in which @en.ottawa.ca is communicating about the 2026 Budget that I felt it should be addressed. And it's the concept of $252M in "savings" that I want to talk about, because this information is being used falsely. 1/

I can’t believe what I just heard on The Current. This “documentary” pack report is… straight up christo-prop. Just wide-eyed cultist reporting from an indoctrinated “reporter.” What the hell, @mattgalloway.bsky.social? There is a way to approach this subject without it becoming a recruiting drive.

Is AI making job recruitment less meritocratic? We're getting some v interesting research studies on this question now, and the news is... not good. @jburnmurdoch.ft.com & I dive in, in the latest edition of our newsletter The AI Shift www.ft.com/content/e5b7...

Well. I guess we know why Ford wants to get rid of speed cameras. Wow. Whoever this asshat is, they need to be fired, ASAP. globalnews.ca/news/1146702...

"Emmy award-winning journalist Mario Guevara was deported today to El Salvador – a country he fled over 20 years ago — in retaliation for filming law enforcement activities." "This cruelty is meant to stifle our free press." #Georgia #USA #ElSalvador #Incarceration #Deportation #EthnicCleansing

BREAKING🚨 Journalist Mario Guevara has officially been deported Friday from the United States back to his native El Salvador. This is a shameful erosion of press freedom in the U.S. — the first time that CPJ has documented this type of retaliation related to reporting. cpj.org/2025/10/jour...

There we are.

Just thinking today of all the colleagues who called us alarmists and cranks when we pointed out that Trump was talking and acting like a fascist in 2016

This seems to be where we are. Pro tip: real bad guys don’t know they’re bad guys. This isn’t a cartoon. It’s up to everyone else to say, “You know, that’s not gonna be okay with the rest of us.” …oh yeah… and then they need to DO something.

If George Washington himself had done this as President, he would have been impeached, removed, prosecuted, and imprisoned. This was one of the greatest fears of the Framers.

Over 40% of Americans approve of a President threatening civil war over his fantasy version of his opponents. As a journalist I still feel some obligation to try to understand. As a human I want to stay as far away as possible, and don't know if I'll ever bring my family across the border again.

So… Pete Hegseth is just channeling full War Criminal now, yeah? Great. Fucking great. Might be high time for the senior military leadership to say, “Fuck no.”

So Disney’s putting Kimmel back on the air. For how long? Pretending this was just a “pause” is not okay. If you want to be taken seriously (and stop the bleeding) you might want to do the brave, honest thing and admit the mistake you made. And then maybe start defending democracy like a grown up.

The United States could have great things like this. But we like to spend our money on kidnapping people and trafficking them to concentration camps instead. #Priorities

Disney has managed to undermine the most important thing it has: trust. It’s like everyone woke up and realized that Cruella De Vil is actually in charge and the whole business is about making her rich enough to make coats out of every Dalmatian in the nation. Breaking trust this badly is deadly.

100% this. People have been warning about these dangerous idiots for years. Have y’all got the message yet? No real journalist would ever sign such a thing. The whole point is to hold authority to account, not kowtow to their demands and feed their unhealthy need for validation.

Alberta governments have mused about using the notwithstanding clause before. Albertans have stood up for human rights, forcing the government to back down. Now is that time once again.

Have any notable and influential celebrities said anything in defense of Kimmel? Sincere question.

Not really an overstatement to say that the test of a free society is whether or not comedians can make fun of the country's leader on TV without repurcussions.