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ProPublica @propublica.org · 6h
Our analysis found that from 2020 to 2025, the rate of deaths involving ectopic pregnancies nearly doubled compared with the previous six-year period. The uptick was steeper in states with abortion bans.
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Ectopic Pregnancy Deaths Have Nearly Doubled. It’s Worse in States With Abortion Bans.
With prompt and appropriate medical care, experts say, people shouldn’t die from an ectopic pregnancy. Women in Texas and Oklahoma have sued over delays in care, which, coupled with our new analysis, ...
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Miaganga @miaganga.bsky.social · 11h
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Shawna Gawreluck @shawnagawreluck.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
This is why the UCP are desperately trying to gerrymander Alberta ridings. Like dividing Red Deer into four quadrants with wide swaths of rural in each one level gerrymandering. #ableg
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Bill Leibenguth @bill-leibenguth.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
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Ilhan Omar @ilhanmn.bsky.social · 17h
I’m ok. Make no mistake: this is an attempt to target political enemies and weaponize federal law enforcement. For ten years, Trump has targeted me with baseless lies and smear campaigns. This is just the latest escalation in his campaign of political intimidation. I will not be silenced.
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darren32359.bsky.social @darren32359.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
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The Breakdown AB @thebreakdownab.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
“True North, a right-wing media organization, promoted the event on social media as “the most important free speech event of the year” “Media outlets were denied access to the event and were unable to hear the premier’s remarks.” Alberta in a nutshell. calgaryherald.com/news/local-n...
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Smith says she attended True North event to sway separatists, but critics aren't convinced
Premier Danielle Smith says she attended True North event to sway separatists, but critics aren't convinced
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Adam Kinzinger @adamkinzinger.substack.com · 18h
Spotted:
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Lynn Miclea @lynnmiclea.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 11/10/2026
Mamdani: "What you could see in the videos is bystanders outside unsure as to what they were even seeing. Because in that imagery, it feels as if you’re almost looking at a mass shooter as opposed to seeing someone who’s purportedly representing a federal agency."
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Hon. Thomas A. Lukaszuk @lukaszukab.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
Danielle Smith, how did your yesterday’s secretive meeting with the separatists and convicted Tamara Lich go? Why weren’t media and Albertans allowed to hear what you said to them? When campaigning for unity, we don’t hide. calgaryherald.com/news/local-n... #ableg #cdnpoli
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Smith says she attended True North event to sway separatists, but critics aren't convinced
Premier Danielle Smith says she attended True North event to sway separatists, but critics aren't convinced
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Dotbob @dotbob.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
WTF are they even doing on Native land!
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DC Council @councilofdc.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
This is clearly not acceptable
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Prof. Eliot Jacobson @climatecasino.net · 10/10/2026
Tides in Santa Barbara are running 1-2 feet above predicted levels. Why? Thermal expansion due to record ocean temperatures, the Kelvin waves from the current El Nino and tropical storm Rachel. Interesting times are getting even more interesting. tidesandcurrents.noaa.gov/inundationdb...
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Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
OP-ED: “Removing Toronto's bike lanes puts children's health at risk.” Actually, well documented evidence shows that EVERYONE is put at risk. And it costs EVERYONE. “The Ford government decision to tear up bike-lanes is bad for kids, families, cyclists, drivers, taxpayers & the planet.” And more.
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OP-ED: Removing Toronto's bike lanes puts children's health at risk
Two members of the volunteer group For Our Kids Toronto argue the Ford government's decision to tear up bike lanes is bad for kids, families, cyclists, drivers, taxpayers and the planet
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Colleen @collburns.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
For all those Conservatives and so called Liberal supports blaming the Carney Government for the layoffs at Stelco Steel!!!!!!!👇👇👇👇👇👇
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Dave The Artist @coloradofaux.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Sounds good to me! 👇 Now Vote! 😎✌️ #Blue 🌊🌊🌊🌊🌊🌊🌊🌊
IF WE LOST THE MIDTERMS, IT WOULD BE THE END OF THE TRUMP PRESIDENCY.
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1kr5ur43m.bsky.social @1kr5ur43m.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
“Christian” pastors cheering on public executions when the whole Christian faith is based on the abhorrence of the gruesomeness of a public execution shows how far Christian Nationalism is off the rails.
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Freethinkers United For Change @freethinkersunite.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
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Christopher-J (aka Eustach the Wanderer) @chrjcar.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
A fifth estate investigation shows that the Oct. 19 #referendum is the end result of the efforts of #Alberta #separatists to change the United Conservative Party #UCP to get the secession question on a referendum ballot and break up the country. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
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The Alberta question: How separatists took hold of the province’s governing party | CBC News
A fifth estate investigation shows that the Oct. 19 referendum is the end result of the efforts of Alberta separatists to change the United Conservative Party to get the secession question on a refere...
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Elizabeth Jacobs, PhD @elizabethjacobs.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
This is a disaster. The ethics committee in Denmark that approved the Guinea-Bissau study which will withhold the birth dose of HepB vaccine “had never considered medical studies before but it changed the rules in order to vote on this one”. Four members of the committee have resigned in protest.
theguardian.com
Controversial vaccine trial touted by RFK Jr gets go-ahead in Guinea-Bissau
Recommended dose of hepatitis B vaccine will be withheld from thousands of newborns by Danish researchers
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Dan Froomkin/Press Watch/Heads Up News @froomkin.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Rubio urges Europe to embrace white nationalism, and the New York Times mindlessly regurgitates it. Other outlets did a bit better, but it's a low bar. presswatchers.org/2026/10/marc...
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Marco Rubio’s ethnonationalist speech gets no pushback in the New York Times | Press Watch
Stenography is no way to report on dangerously divisive and retrograde pronouncements from this government
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Malena-PRO-CHOICE 🌊 🟦🟧Fighting Tyranny! @malena.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
If one group has their rights stripped away, then none of us have rights. The government can just say we're immigrants, brutalize us & deny us due process or miranda rights. Any citizen can be accused of being an immigrant, and denied our rights, too! #ICELawlessness
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Malena-PRO-CHOICE 🌊 🟦🟧Fighting Tyranny! @malena.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
𝐓𝐫𝐮𝐦𝐩'𝐬 𝐈𝐂𝐄 𝐓𝐡𝐮𝐠𝐬 𝐁𝐫𝐮𝐭𝐚𝐥𝐢𝐳𝐞 𝐘𝐨𝐮𝐧𝐠 𝐂𝐡𝐢𝐥𝐝𝐫𝐞𝐧 🚨 If not for the kindness of concerned good samiritans, who knows what would have happened to these children. They'd have likely been abducted along with their parents. As is, they likely sustained life altering trauma. Your voice matters. Speak out! 🧵
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David Hamer @davidhamer1951.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
You know how the 🍁gun cult loves to reassure us that firearms kept at home by “law abiding gun owners” are perfectly safe and pose no threat? Well now we know the Tumbler Ridge shooter got hers simply by stealing them from her LAGO mother’s home gun safe. 🤷🏼😠😒😔🤷🏼
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David J. Climenhaga @djclimenhaga.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
It’s no surprise that the Most Hated Man on Earth thinks Canada should be busted up and sold for scrap. albertapolitics.ca/2026/10/its-...
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It’s no surprise that the Most Hated Man on Earth thinks Canada should be busted up and sold for scrap - Alberta Politics
It’s no surprise the Most Hated Man on Earth thinks that Canada should be busted up and sold for scrap. But it does clear the air to have it right out there, don’t you think?  I speak of course of Elo...
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Hazel B. 🇨🇦 @hab3261.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
This is concerning. Canada Post recommends mailing ballots back by Oct 9th to have them arrive by October 16th. #abpoli
October Calendar with election dates

October 2026 voting calendar for the Alberta referendum, presented as a large monthly calendar with voting deadlines and key dates highlighted. The header reads “OCTOBER 2026” in red and dark gray, with Forever Canadian and Canadiens pour toujours logos on the left and a QR code labeled “ELECTIONS ALBERTA” with the text “For up-to-date information” on the right. The calendar runs Sunday through Saturday, with Sundays shown in red.

Key information shown on the calendar includes: October 9, highlighted in red, with the message “LAST RECOMMENDED DAY TO MAIL your completed special ballot package.” A yellow sticky note also says “Mail ballot package back 9.” October 12 is labeled Thanksgiving Day. A green highlighted bar spanning October 13 through October 17 reads “ADVANCE VOTING,” with arrows pointing in both directions. October 16 is marked in red with the message “5:00 PM DEADLINE Elections Alberta must receive your completed special ballot package.” October 19 is marked with a blue sticky note reading “REFERENDUM DAY.” Later dates are shown in gray.

The calendar footer lists “Forever-canadian.ca | Canadiens-toujours.ca.” The design uses a clean white background with gray calendar lines, large black date numbers, red accents for Sundays and important deadlines, and colored sticky-note graphics to emphasize mailing and referendum dates.
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CALL TO ACTIVISM @calltoactivism.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
This just happened at the Iowa debate. Moderator: Aren't you worried about a nuclear Iran? Josh Turek, who never walked due to his dad's Agent Orange exposure in Vietnam, said this from his wheelchair: "I'm an example of the generational consequences to these forever wars."
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CALL TO ACTIVISM @calltoactivism.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
MAGA billionaires have poured more than $14 million in this race to take down Josh Turek. Tonight’s debate brought momentum. Suffolk’s poll has Turek up 48%–44%. His campaign is just $496 short of its emergency goal. Can you help close the gap?
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Donate to Josh Turek
Show your support with a contribution.
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Pierre Polyester @canadian-critic.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
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Canada's National Observer @nationalobserver.com · 07/10/2026
For months, Alberta’s business leaders largely stayed away from the debate on separation. Now, with a referendum just weeks away, a flurry of businesses are taking Canada’s side. But oil producers and pipeline companies remain notably absent from the debate.
nationalobserver.com
Alberta’s major oil producers and pipeline companies are staying out of the referendum debate
With less than two weeks before the vote, dozens of businesses signed on to an open letter calling for national unity, including several heavy hitters in the energy sector. But oil producers and pipel...
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Shannon Phillips 🇨🇦 @sphillipsab.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Here’s a gift link to the Globe and Mail investigation about American interference in the Alberta referendum, and the separatist operatives (one of whom is a UCP President) who went to the United States to offer them our water and oil. www.theglobeandmail.com/gift/64d9ad7...
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The elephant in the room
Alberta separatists have gone to D.C. offering fresh water and oil in exchange for American support – and Republican operatives have provided tactical assistance inside the province
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Alessandro Rigolon @alerigolon.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
The population of Southern California (spanning from San Diego to the Los Angeles metro) is nearly 24 million people, or 6.8% of the country. "A very small price to pay."
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Ars Technica @arstechnica.com · 06/10/2026
Norway plans to introduce a law to parliament that would temporarily ban the tech at places such as parks, beaches, schools, and kindergartens, while also setting up an expert group to propose permanent national rules: arstechnica.visitlink.me/5Agx05
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AI glasses face their first major government crackdown
Norway wants time to write permanent rules for glasses that can record bystanders.
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Goddamn, this point by @anandwrites.bsky.social really needed saying.
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Michael Mechanic @michaelmechanic.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
This is all hands on deck! Pneumatic plague is airborne and nearly always fatal if untreated. Wiped out 150 million, half of Europe, way back when. Treatable with antibiotics, but we don't have enough antibiotics. Also from a lab in Russia, where they still have weaponized plague. Total nightmare.
motherjones.com
Reports of a plague outbreak in Russia follow the death of a researcher
Several hospitals in the Irkutsk region have been shut down and up to 200 workers have been quarantined.
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Elizabeth Jacobs, PhD @elizabethjacobs.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
I will never forgive or forget a single Republican Senator who voted yes on RFK Jr.’s confirmation as HHS Secretary. But as you know I hold especial contempt for Bill Cassidy (R, Invertebrate) for greasing the skids for RFK Jr. and for the destruction of U.S. public health.
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Brian Wooton @bdwoot.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Goldwater told Nixon to resign. That's not a coup.
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
36 minutes before the hearing started.
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Bob Ballentine @raballentine.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
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Headquarters @headquartersnews.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
www.nytimes.com/2026/09/30/t...
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https://www.nytimes.com/2026/09/30/technology/meta-ai-data-centers-taxes.html
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Headquarters @headquartersnews.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
New reports reveal Meta has been classifying gigantic data centers as "pilot models" in order to secure a tax credit from the 1980s. The loophole has allowed Meta to avoid paying nearly $4,000,000,000 in taxes last year alone.
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Michael @mjfromla.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Wasn't the best Marine but a good one. '85 - '91 E-5 (Sgt) 📸 Jungle Warfare Instructor, Northern Training Area, Okinawa Japan '90s Hegseth - infantry officer, never earned a Ranger tab, never attended Ranger School, never attended the Q course didn't attend Sapper School. Nope to Airborne School.
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Stewart Prest @stewartprest.ca · 04/10/2026
I regret to say I was right.
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Julee @juleemc.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Rubio released a memo asserting that lawful permanent residents could be deported for their “past, current or expected beliefs, statements, or associations.” "Expected" beliefs. Expected. Apparently we’re doing pre‑crime for opinions now.
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Jack Daniels @jackdaniels-07.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
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Miaganga @miaganga.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
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FranklyMyDear @frank-lee.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Where the guy most responsible for imposing an ugly mix of divisive polarizing anti-Canadian Reform Party/MAGA Republican policies decides he's 'pro-Canada.' Gee .. The last we saw of this nitwit was when he was punted over his beloved Alberta firewall onto the other side. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
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Stephen Harper warns Alberta separatism will bring 'no benefit' | CBC News
Former Conservative prime minister Stephen Harper cautioned against the prospect of Alberta separation in a column Friday, writing that even voting just to "send a message" would represent a fraught a...
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Cameron 🇺🇸🗽🦅 @cameroncorduroy.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
there are vanishingly few principles that Donald Trump holds to, but by far the most important one is a universal admiration and fellowship with sex criminals
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