John Phillips
@John___Phillips
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Ottawa, Ontario
Joined November 2011
“Once a man walks out of the field and joins a picket line, he’s never the same again.”
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"She needed to fix her hair though and put some of that stuff around her eyes. She looked washed out and tired, like she'd been picking melons."
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"When Connie Chavez came in Chino knew right away who she was. No hat now. Tight jeans and a T-shirt. Not as good looking as he thought she'd be, but not bad. About five-three, nice little can that stuck out, and real tits.
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"Once a man walks out of the field and joins a picket line, he's never the same again."
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#GeneHackman's private eye Harry Moseby wants to surprise his wife. But she surprises him instead: with a boyfriend. Then, he tails them.😉 #BOTD #DedeAllen edits together all of these NIGHT MOVES (1975), directed by #ArthurPenn. #HarrisYulin #SusanHarris
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Nuremberg – Its Lesson for Today (1948) https://t.co/5hy7DTmSxE
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Robert Jackson: "The wrongs which we seek to condemn and punish have been so calculated, so malignant and so devastating, that civilization cannot tolerate their being ignored, because it cannot survive their being repeated."
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"Clinton Taylor didn't wear work clothes; he wore old clothes that had once been good, sport shirt and continental no-belt pants and regular shoes with thin soles."
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"Recently, I broke the ice and asked them directly, 'What gives? Why is no one reading?'" Gregor Campbell @macleans
macleans.ca
In my university English courses, I'm working with screens instead of against them
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"If Trumpism is a collection of contradictory fantasies ... it is also, always, a hustle." @david_j_roth @DefectorMedia
defector.com
Given his age when he first came to the world’s attention and assuming continued good health in the intervening decade and change, Marine Todd would be in his late 30s today. That would be if he was...
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"Stewart’s book ... invites us to reflect on the challenges of governing a vast, bilingual and multicultural federation and how success in nation-building rests on negotiation and political accommodation." Thomas d’Aquino @policy_mag
policymagazine.ca
The Prime Ministers: Canada's Leaders and the Nation They Shaped
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“They did not include information about services and programs, but rather appeared designed to improve Ontarians’ impression of the current state of Ontario, the subtext of which promotes the governing party.” h/t @ColinDMello
globalnews.ca
Auditor General Shelley Spence’s annual review of advertising found, in the fiscal year ending in March 2025, the province spent $111.9 million on advertising.
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"Ribbentrop’s eyes filled with tears at the sight of Hitler. Von Schirach patted Hess on the back for his bravura performance at the podium in Triumph of the Will. They appeared like a group of school children seeing for the first time pictures of themselves, an observer wrote."
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"The defendants seemed to enjoy the trip down memory lane. They nudged each other in the ribs when one of their number appeared on screen. Hermann Göring beamed and positively 'bounced with delight.' A few tapped their feet in time to the tunes of The Horst Wessel Song.
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Long before today’s true-crime spectacles, the Nuremberg Trials turned the courtroom into a global stage. Motion picture cameras—once barred from American courts—became tools of public reckoning. https://t.co/8L0uLmpWdP
tabletmag.com
Long before today’s true-crime spectacles, the Nuremberg Trials turned the courtroom into a global stage. Motion picture cameras—once barred from American courts—became tools of public reckoning.
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"The main event opened on November 20, 1945. 'Nazi Bigwigs Hold Reunion, Trial Opened,' was the wry headline in the New York Daily News."
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“Nuremberg was orchestrated as a show trial in the best sense of the term—fully open and transparent so that spectators outside the courtroom could take part as judge and jury." @TomDohertyfilm @tabletmag
tabletmag.com
Long before today’s true-crime spectacles, the Nuremberg Trials turned the courtroom into a global stage. Motion picture cameras—once barred from American courts—became tools of public reckoning.
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There are some movies that raise your testosterone levels by the mere act of watching them. Walter Hill's debut film in the directors chair is definitely one of them.
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“In profiling, we see people as we need them to be, even if it blinds us to the ambiguities of reality.”
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