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Dr. Beth Rohlman @beadskrit.bsky.social · 4h

I once read a post that said libertarians think loosing their watch is indistinguishable from loosing their arm. And if that doesn’t resemble a toddler melting down over a dropped ice cream cone I don’t know what does.

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Dr. Johnathan Flowers, Bisexual of the Blade (Alt-text or DIE) @shengokai.blacksky.app · 16h

I found “the $30k isn’t life changing thread” and I’m thinking shutting down economics isn’t enough: we need to burn the whole field to the ground, salt the fucking earth, and erect warning placards so that future generations avoid the poisoned ground the field stood on.

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Jason Markusoff @markusoff.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

43,500 Ukrainians in Alberta with non-permanent migrant status. They'd be affected by Danielle Smith's immigration questions. Doubt they're the explicit target of the proposed crackdown on services for temporary residents, but they represent about 1 in 7 of them. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

cbc.ca

She fled Ukraine to safety in Alberta. Now, she’s worried about her place after the referendum | CBC News

Ukrainians in Alberta fear what the outcome of the immigration questions in the referendum could mean for their standing in the province they now call home.

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Jeromy Farkas @jeromyyyc.bsky.social · 16/10/2026

I had the honour of introducing Prime Minister Carney at tonight’s Forever Canadian rally in Calgary. But my heart was with the victims of the tragic bus crash in northeast Calgary, their loved ones, and the first responders. Our entire city stands with you in grief.

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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 16/10/2026

The last two years of this administration are going to be a blood bath and the only thing to debate is how much of it will be literal and how much will be figurative. Sigh.

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The Breakdown AB @thebreakdownab.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

“Havoc is hitting hospitals as patients hospitalized for some other acute illness are getting COVID, adding to the complexity of care — and Alberta’s COVID vaccinations aren’t available yet, and the province’s low vaccination rate isn’t helping.” #abpoli edmontonjournal.com/news/covid-p...

edmontonjournal.com

COVID patients lumped together in Edmonton hospital

“We're seeing hallways full of stretchers and ambulance patients being offloaded into hallways."

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Erin Biba @erinbiba.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

Holy shit ASOS released an adaptive clothing line specifically for people with disabilities?!?!!! Magnets instead of buttons, special pockets and holes to hold wearable medical devices that have tubes, and zippers to make them more comfortable for wheelchair users. www.asos.com/women/fashio...

A woman in a wheelchair with a brown suit that has zippers on the leg openings

A woman in a wheelchair with a grey marbled dress

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The Intercept @theintercept.com · 13/10/2026

After a woman obtained public records indicating a Google datacenter would cover only one-third of the cost of a new solar plant to power the facility — contradicting its promises that ratepayers would not be on the hook — her electricity company sued her.

theintercept.com

An Arkansas Mom Obtained Public Records About a New Data Center. Then She Got Sued.

Cases in Arkansas and California show how desperately we need a federal law against lawsuits intended to chill free speech.

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

there's an off-the-books slack channel started by centers for medicare and medicaid for tech companies to exchange ideas on making money off of AI tools that access all of your medical records. insane story i missed from last week.

kffhealthnews.org

AI, Tech Leaders Are Lobbying Trump Health Officials in a Government-Run Chat Room - KFF Health News

A Slack workspace managed by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services has served as an extraordinary war room for AI industry insiders and Trump administration officials to launch a rapid campaign...

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Aparna Nair @disabilitystor1.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

One very clear and observable example of how Twitter changes you has been the wholesale normalization of the r-word. People with PhDs and adult jobs now use that word openly because it’s been normalized by their tenure on X

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Dominique Baker @bakerdphd.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

"We should be asking ourselves: When is civility useful and when is it a canard for oppression? When is anger a detriment and when is it a righteous tool?" www.insidehighered.com/opinion/colu...

insidehighered.com

What’s Wrong With Civility?

Civility can be a tool of engagement. But history has shown it can also be used to oppress the powerless.

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CUPE Alberta @cupealberta.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

Blaming newcomers won't fix Alberta's healthcare and schools. It just divides us. In our latest video with Linda Hoang, Marcella talks about why targeting immigrants on the ballot isn't about fairness, it's scapegoating. Vote NO on Questions 1 to 9. #ableg #canpoli #abpoli

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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

somehow it feels like there is still an impulse in mainstream media to downplay or minimize the MAGA movement's hunger to genuinely, actually, non-hyperbolically do physical violence to women Democrats (especially women of color, but not exclusively, as Melissa Hortman's death proves)

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

X is the platform of choice for these smears. Musk himself pushed this conspiracy from his own account three times. Democrats need to go to war against Musk because he's already attacking them. He's deeply unpopular. And, as we saw in Wisconsin, voters recoil when he becomes an issue in a race.

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Jake Grumbach @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

Economists really need to get off twitter. EconTwitter is now just like “bad instruments are DEI and women ate stupid” interspersed with a few good economists talking about the latest Claude update

Labrador Skeptic & @SaysSimulation
X.com
This is a perfect example of DEl in the wild.
Women gets Harvard PhD, Princeton postdoc, NY Fed job. Impeccable credentials - on paper.
Writes post demonstrating that she doesn't under the basics of causality & statistics. There's also a very strong urban class component
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Natalia Emanuel * @NataliaHEmanuel • 2d
Coffee shops boost innovation. 10% more
Starbucks in an area -> 3-4% more inventions.
People gather over a cuppa. They share ideas, discuss how to untangle a knotty problem, help se...
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Women really are retarded. This one has a phd from Harvard and still can't grasp simple concepts. She actually posted this thinking she was clever. A dimwit can see the glaring error of her simple thoughts.

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Natalia Emanuel @ @NataliaHE... • 2d
Coffee shops boost innovation. 10% more
Starbucks in an area --> 3-4% more inventions. ...

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These are what you call middle-upper class townies. They look great on paper, seem competent when you talk to them, but have no idea how the world works or any real common sense as to how things relate to other things, with no real beliefs of their own to boot.
I see these types of women in software all the time - many of them were shoe-horned into their roles by a system that wanted to "promote women" at any cost, and really are not good at this kind of stuff or have any actual interest in improving the products they work on.
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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

If there is good news, it is this: we are at the dawn of an age when no one will care what anyone who let Trump happen says about anything. I kind of think that’s a future worth living for.

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Tom Scocca @tomscocca.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

This stuff sounds like firm insistence on standards but it seems timid to propose civil liability as the big weapon against trillion-dollar companies when they keep using their products to commit crimes www.nytimes.com/2026/10/10/o...

nytimes.com

Opinion | A.I. Companies Say They Aren’t Responsible for Their Unpredictable Products. Don’t Believe Them.

A.I. giants must operate under our laws.

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Tim Carmody @tcarmody.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

We also love to sing and dance. Which is not unrelated

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Tim Carmody @tcarmody.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

One combination of cultural and personality traits that indigenous, Irish, Black, and Jewish people have in common is a long memory, a sense of humor, and the hard-earned knowledge that the world has ended many times. Yet we went on. Life may break your heart. But life also cannot be stopped.

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Dr. Beth Rohlman @beadskrit.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

See also: the Alberta separatist sphere.

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Dr. Beth Rohlman @beadskrit.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

I’m now fantasizing about what would happen if UCalgary Arts could vote to authorise a strike independent of the professional faculties. Godspeed, comrades!

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 11/10/2026

question for brooks: what if they are, literally, nazis?

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James Medlock @jdcmedlock.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

Turns out the friction of having to learn photoshop was a crucial firewall protecting society from the terrible taste of small business owners

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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

Proposing analog to,”racism can explain every weird thing in America” is, “women are busy working for money is the secret reason everything we miss about a society is now dying.”

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Jess Calarco @jessicacalarco.com · 10/10/2026

This article offers half a dozen reasons why people have stopped having friends and family over, but it ignores the fact that the women who planned parties and kept homes tidy enough for unplanned guests are now working for pay full-time (usually more than 9-5). www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...

theguardian.com

The dreadful decline of hosting at home: ‘I feel shame any time a friend comes over’

It used to be quite normal to pop next door for a coffee or invite friends over for dinner. But not any more. What’s behind this change – and just how damaging is it?

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Keith Law @keithlaw.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

so the final four are * a team that has never won the World Series in its 28 seasons * a team that has never won the World Series in its 57 seasons * a team that hasn’t won the World Series in 77 seasons * Dodgers

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Scott Robertson @sarobertson.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Martin Patriquin isn't buying Danielle Smith's belief that a referendum will settle the separatism debate: "The idea that this issue is just going to go away because the Alberta separatists lose a referendum on a referendum is pure delusion."

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Soraya Nadia McDonald @soraya.press · 10/10/2026

The machine did not "go rogue." The machine belongs to and is the responsibility of the people who own it. Hold those people accountable for their goddamn machine.

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Ryan Jespersen @ryanjespersen.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Mayors @andrewknack.bsky.social and @jeromyyyc.bsky.social accuse Premier Danielle Smith of "sharing blatantly untrue information" and "setting us up to fail" in explosive interviews on #RealTalkRJ. Catch the full episode on our YouTube channel and wherever you get your podcasts. #yeg #yyc #abpoli

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Duane Bratt🇨🇦 @duanebratt.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Just to be clear on Trump's priorities. On the same day, he removed sanctions on Russia to acquire diesel fuel and imposed sanctions on the International Criminal Court.

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Jared Wesley @jaredwesley.ca · 09/10/2026

"The province’s dalliances with recall, petitions, and referendums have only empowered narrow factions, weakened representation, and distracted government." Ken Boessenkoool and I make the case for ditching direct democracy in Alberta. thehub.ca/2026/10/09/w...

thehub.ca

Why Alberta needs to ditch direct democracy

The province’s dalliances with recall, petitions, and referendums have only empowered narrow factions, weakened representation, and distracted government from the real work Albertans demand from them...

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Jeromy Farkas @jeromyyyc.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

With the latest provincial overreach, Danielle Smith is now ordering me how to vote at Calgary City Council. If I refuse, I risk losing my job. I want to work constructively with the province, even when we disagree. But we must be free to listen to residents and make fair decisions.

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Jared Wesley @jaredwesley.ca · 09/10/2026

The UCP wants you to get bogged down on the policy debates around infill. Don't be fooled. Their intrusion into local democracy reveals something far more troubling to folks across the political spectrum. drjaredwesley.substack.com/p/this-isnt-...

drjaredwesley.substack.com

This isn’t about infill

The UCP government’s intrusion into municipal authority raises much deeper concerns

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Jim Stanford @jimbostanford.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

This is a good day to ponder what an amazing deal B.C. residents have enjoyed thanks to public auto insurance. Avg nominal premiums are no higher than 9 years ago when J.Horgan was elected Premier, vs 45% avg increase in Canada and 119% in next-door Alberta. Data from StatsCan. #bcpoli

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Parksy @pfparks.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

calgaryherald.com/op... Take a read👇 I hope you'll catch the sarcasm and absurdism... I worry our Premier and Minister probably won't Make no mistake though: this absurd logic is exactly what our govt is selling you TRICKLE DOWN Health Care! (Help rich first = all benefit!)

calgaryherald.com

Opinion: What if ER docs joined the province's private-pay plan?

Tongue-in-cheek column shows folly of double billing and how allowing people to pay privately for health it doesn't solve long wait lists.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 09/10/2026

Ossoff: "I think Pete Hegseth is frankly a deeply unwell person who seems to relish this kind of brutality all the while he's running a department that is falling into chaos. The guy cannot run the military competently and is spending his time with this kind of obscene medieval spectacle."

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Max Fawcett @maxfawcett.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

The Quebec election was yet another example of the flaws inherent in our first past the post system, one that rewards division and creates false majorities. Mark Carney should fix them. #cdnpoli www.nationalobserver.com/2026/10/08/o...

nationalobserver.com

The Quebec election was yet another example of our electoral system’s flaws. Mark Carney should fix them

It was more than a decade ago when former prime minister Justin Trudeau promised to change Canada's electoral system. Mark Carney should finish the job.

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Alan Sepinwall @sepinwall.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

For The New York Times, I wrote about how Rod Serling create The Twilight Zone in part because it was the only way in the 1950 and 60s for him to comment on the subjects he cared about most, and how that's a good blueprint for contemporary media to deal with our surreal current moment:

nytimes.com

Opinion | ‘The Twilight Zone’ Created a Blueprint for Surviving Our Surreal Moment (Gift Article)

With “The Twilight Zone,” Rod Serling created a durable blueprint for understanding our surreal reality.

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Kat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Anthropic banning “abusive or cruel behavior” toward Claude in its new usage policies is proof to me that tech companies are going to moderate violence against AI before they ever moderate violence against women and minorities

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The Breakdown AB @thebreakdownab.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Sturgeon Lake Cree Nation is calling out Smith’s claims she had no idea separatists were meeting with the US State Department… While pointing out they raised the alarm on this months ago. With receipts. #abpoli #ableg #cdnpoli

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Duane Bratt🇨🇦 @duanebratt.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Smith made it very clear that she will interpret the results. This is not grassroots democracy. Govt decided what to ask (and what not to ask), wrote the questions, and will interpret the results.

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Judah Grunstein @judah-grunstein.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

I think part of the problem is that, in seeking to firewall against Nazism since WWII, we created a vacuum in knowledge about Hitler that leaves space for this sort of idiocy. The best antidote to these people would be greater popular familiarity with what a freak and loser Hitler really was.

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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

The context here is a dwindling, aging readership for traditional media. And that’s an overlap of people who cannot get enough stories about: wayward college students, “why won’t my adult kids do what I want them to do”, and any sort of everyday eugenics.

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