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🇬🇾🗽Sydette The Dreaded Gorgon🗽🇬🇾 @blackamazon.bsky.social · 16/10/2026

So the return of the r- slur isn’t neutral . None of them are The rejection of “woke” is directly connected yo justifying harm It’s not funny, yall aren’t cute and these people are going after KIDS

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Lorigold @lorigold.bsky.social · 16/10/2026

If I’m being completely honest, we don’t talk about it enough imo

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Lorigold @lorigold.bsky.social · 16/10/2026

We’re still talking about that time Doug Ford ate a wasp at a press conference

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Lorigold @lorigold.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

What I don’t understand is how you can “suddenly” remove 500 trees. Did no one notice until 500 trees were gone?

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Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

Also it’s time for the news to stop treating this administration’s racist war against Somalis as “Trump being Trump.” They targeted Minneapolis because they hate an ethnic group here, and now they’re targeting the most prominent political figure in that group with thinly rationalized state violence.

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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

After years of championing "free speech," Texas lawmakers have enabled a dramatic rise of censorship in Texas universities, banning concepts, canceling courses and closing departments seen as "woke," and even using AI bots as censors. All in the name of freedom. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/1...

In other professors’ syllabi, the bot flagged the Pulitzer Prize–winning play Angels in America by Tony Kushner, essays by the Mexican American MacArthur genius grant recipient Sandra Cisneros, and materials related to a class about the Holocaust (that professor was told to drop material regarding Nazi persecution of LGBTQ people).

Putting aside the ideological slant of the new rules, the bot, like many large language models, seems to “hallucinate,” or make mistakes. The AAUP lawsuit lists texts banned for their “sex-based ecofeminist framework” and “gendered ecofeminist frameworks.” These phrases might sound persuasively like academese, but the academics behind the lawsuit had never heard of them; these concepts “do not exist,” the complaint says. Matthew Pehl, a history professor at Tech, told me that he knew several people who’d received reports from the system that were “plainly written by an AI that had hallucinated content or confused content from one class to another.”

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Victor Ray @victorerikray.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

This eventual outcome has long been obvious to any good-faith observer of the right's supposed concerns about free speech. Me in 2017: www.insidehighered.com/advice/2017/...

Weaponizing Free Speech
By targeting the comments of presumably left-wing professors, the right is using free speech as part of their long-term strategy of delegitimizing higher education itself, writes Victor Ray.

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David Simon @audacityofdespair.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

No doubt this has occurred to other bystanders as well, but it would seem that a handful of billionaires dropping $150 million into a single state's election in an attempt to defeat a wealth-tax initiative just about makes the entire case for a wealth-tax initiative.

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Shannon Buchart 🇨🇦🍁 @sgbab.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

"To watch the government present immigrants as the primary source of societal strain is both insulting and soul-crushing. More importantly, it is an empirical fraud designed to deflect from years of provincial underinvestment and poor planning."

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

New open-access paper: Direct File showed that govt could build its own user-centered platform without relying on contractors. But the product was killed after a DOGE lead spoke with the private tax preparation industry lobbying against a private option. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

The ability of governments to build and sustain public interest capacity partly depends upon the position of private interests, and the ability and willingness of a government to resist private interest opposition.
The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) built a digital tax reporting service, Direct File, that created significant public value for users.
Direct File depended upon the creation of internal capacity: a government digital service team that could build digital platforms, rather than procuring a product from private vendors. Government control of the process allowed agile development and iterative improvement that would have been impossible under a traditional outsourcing model.
Long-standing opposition to Direct File by the private tax preparation industry, combined with Trump-era downsizing by the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), led to the elimination of the tool.

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

Let's talk PROFITIZATION of healthcare Dual Billing is Step Three of the 3 step plan by govt 1 - Help pay to build private facilities 2 - Force more care in these private facilities 3 - Allow Dual Billing without any discussion - drives workforce to private facilities

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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

The right wing crash out over asian students celebrating at a UT football game reveals that all along the true goal of reactionary colorblindness was never “meritocracy” but resegregation. (Gift link) www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/1...

Color-blind meritocracy was, for many years, a successful rhetorical strategy for undermining antidiscrimination law and excluding Black people from selective schools and prominent positions. That’s why so many former segregationists seemed to suddenly embrace the concept in the 1970s. For them, resegregation—not color-blindness—was always the goal. As long as the success of some immigrants could be used to paint Black students as undeserving, color-blind meritocracy was good. But now many on the right see a new problem: too many Asian Americans in elite spaces. Their success, therefore, must be portrayed as a sinister theft of real (white) Americans’ birthright.

The declining “social trust” that the administration warned against is, of course, not the fault of these students. The problem is bigots like Bo French who cannot accept into their community people who do not share their race and religion, and those who monetize or otherwise profit from that bigotry by spreading it through social media. Like the proverbial child who kills their parents and asks for mercy as an orphan, they are responsible for the problem they are decrying.

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Anjali Dayal @anjalikdayal.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

I don't want to dunk-quote on this person, but actually, this is a perfect illustration of the problem. we can't become accustomed to or expect or concede constant monitoring from armed troops as we go about our business. it should always make us recoil. there's danger in it becoming unremarkable.

screenshot of a post that reads "Not to be all "you're getting sold" National Guard troops spend all day standing in out of the way corners of DC. Not great that they're standing in front of a ballot drop box, but c'mon, people, use some common sense. They're not stopping anyone from dropping something off." it is a quote-post of a post from the DC Council that says "this is clearly not acceptable" and features a photo of national guard members standing around a ballot box in Foggy Bottom

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Deirdre Mitchell-MacLean @womenofabpoli.ca · 08/10/2026

“…who among us hasn’t wondered how a bunch of nobodies from Alberta ended up getting meetings with officials from the U.S. Administration in the first place? Nobodies who have the gall to offer up access to things only the Alberta govt can offer?” #ableg #abpoli open.substack.com/pub/womenofa...

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We’ve heard this story from Danielle before

They say the best predictor of future behaviour is past behaviour. That’s bad news for Alberta; again.

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Sam Da Bear @samdabear09.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Absolute must reading! Ms. Mitchell-MacLean lays out Dani's devious denials and how Dani stretches credibility until the elastic snaps.

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Alberta's Voice @albertasvoice.ca · 08/10/2026

Danielle Smith's referendum is bad for business. The Calgary Chamber's own survey shows members expect more harm than good from her immigration questions. Alberta needs workers, not more barriers. Stay in Canada. No to the Nine. #alberta #abreferendum #abpoli #ableg #daniellesmith

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 07/10/2026

Troy Jackson: "As late as 2024, the FBI was circling around Sen. Collins ... then when President Trump came back, his administration dismantled the investigation. Now she votes with Donald Trump 96% of the time. Look, I don't owe Donald Trump nothing."

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Ghouly Hoye 👻🇨🇦 @hollyhoye.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Jen Gerson with more truth bombs: “Voting to leave is not sending a message to Ottawa. It’s sending a message to Washington.” “The message is this: Canada is weak, regionally divided, and can be turned on itself for America’s benefit. Ultimately, that message hurts all of us, including Albertans.”

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Jen Gerson: Oh, so you want to send Ottawa a message, eh?

Vote to stay and send Washington the right message. Namely, don’t fuck with us.

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Sara Hastings-Simon 🇨🇦 @shastingssimon.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

🎀 if you live in alberta and are 45 or older and you haven’t already - call tomorrow to make a self referral to have a mammogram. If you are 40-44 ask your family doctor to refer you to have it done (starting next April you can self refer) - it just might save your life like it did mine

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Lorigold @lorigold.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

I think that’s why they went to Washington

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Dave Cournoyer 🇨🇦 @daveberta.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

So much about what is happening in Alberta right now, days ahead of the October 19 separation referendum, can be traced back to the Free Alberta Strategy that Danielle Smith promoted before and during her campaign for the United Conservative Party leadership in 2022.

daveberta.substack.com

A classic: Danielle Smith’s Alberta Sovereignty Act is all about creating a political crisis

So much about what is happening in Alberta right now can be traced back to the Free Alberta Strategy

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Canadian In Alberta @canadianinalberta.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Never forget that Alberta is in this mess because Smith was determined that we would have a referendum on separation Remember the UCP announced the question while an #ableg committee were still debating the Forever Canadian petition This is all down to Smith #abpoli www.ctvnews.ca/edmonton/art...

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Early press release from UCP caucus stalls Forever Canadian review committee

The Alberta government’s move to add a potential separation question to a fall referendum was stalled by an apparent UCP media release error that announced a decision before it was actually approved.

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Corey Hogan 🇨🇦 @coreyhogan.ca · 03/10/2026

Today the Globe and Mail reports about American political operatives involving themselves in Alberta's referendum. This is, of course, wholly inappropriate. I want to provide some context to any American who sees an "opportunity": (🧵)

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Dominique Baker @bakerdphd.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

"The current level of political animosity is exactly what one would expect to see if an extremist faction attempted to rescind the hard-earned rights of the vast majority of the country’s citizens." There are not enough exclamation points to convey how I felt reading this paragraph

Screenshot of article which reads: From this perspective, the “both sides” frame falls apart. The prob-
lem is not that the parties are divided. The problem is the existential
threat that a reempowered ethnonationalist strain poses to pluralistic
U.S. democracy writ large. The current level of political animosity is
exactly what one would expect to see if an extremist faction attempted
to rescind the hard-earned rights of the vast majority of the country’s
citizens. The only way to re-oppress most of a country is to use anti-
democratic and authoritarian tactics. And the only way to oppose those
tactics is to push back as a population and clearly reject them. This is
the argument happening in the United States, and its pathology is not
anger—it is the movement to undermine a generation of rights.

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Hunter Walker @hunterw.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

They love these biological one liners or prejudiced implications LGBTQ people are predators. They never want to talk in concrete terms like, is it reasonable to have gender neutral bathrooms with private stalls? Should people get to make their own medical decisions?

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Lorigold @lorigold.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Thank you! It feels like the media has been assuming far too much good faith in the entire exercise!

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Jeremy Appel 🍉 @readtheorchard.org · 30/09/2026

NEW: In the @thestar.com, I wrote about how the most dangerous aspect of Alberta’s October referendum is the scapegoating of migrants for the province’s overcrowded schools and hospitals. www.thestar.com/opinion/cont...

thestar.com

The most worrying part of the Alberta referendum isn’t separatism

Nine questions are about immigration and immigrants.

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The Progress Report @theprogressreport.ca · 30/09/2026

The Alberta chapter of the Canadian Bar Association has published an analysis of Premier Smith's nine referendum questions. They find that most of these proposals would invite immediate court challenges, and several of them are not legally clear at all.

cbaalberta-referendum-analysis.com

CBA Alberta Referendum Analysis

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Jen St. Denis @jenstden.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

My story about Second Sons showing up in Kamloops and how experts say this is a wake up call to law enforcement, and to political parties who have been making space for residential school denialists. thetyee.ca/News/2026/09...

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Masked Group in Kamloops Sparks Alarm and Racism Fears | The Tyee

‘I don’t want these people in my neighbourhood, in my city, in my country.’

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Lorigold @lorigold.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

“If the NDP was spending $130 million because they wanted a “mandate from Albertans,” without doing what every governing party should do if they want a mandate— that’s ‘call an election,’ Lauretta— I don’t think Conservative Albertans would be thrilled.” www.womenofabpoli.ca/p/albertas-r...

womenofabpoli.ca

Alberta’s referendum is an affront to our values; as Canadians, and Albertans

The ask is insulting, the cost is offensive, and there’s no logic to be found.

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Timothy Caulfield @caulfieldtim.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Dear Alberta, VOTE! 🗳️ NO to the 9. 👎 YES to Canada. 🇨🇦

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Chris Nagano @charliesaito22.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

SpaceX is going to kill imperiled animals & destroy rare habitat in TX’s Rio Grande Valley, some of the very same species & habitats the GOV, env NGOs, & private individuals have invested $$$$, many decades & much sweat restoring & protecting dustyrhoads.substack.com/p/elon-musks...

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Elon Musk’s SpaceX to Destroy Texas Horned Lizards

Texas Horned Lizards were in the news at least twice this past week. But you were probably only aware of one instance, if at all.

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Ash Oro @ashoro.co.uk · 22/09/2026

4/23 The distinction matters. A person does not stop being a person in distress because somebody believes they entered the sea illegally. Search and rescue is not an immigration hearing conducted offshore. The legal status of the person can be dealt with afterwards. First, you stop them dying.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 22/09/2026

again, i am begging people to actually look at the circumstances where this stuff is successful versus getting caught up in the fantasies they have generated in their minds

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The Baffler @thebaffler.com · 22/09/2026

For decades, Border Patrol has quietly sent illegal “cover-up” teams to crime scenes involving their agents. Activists have spent years trying to confirm their existence. The shooting of Marisol García Alcántara offered a smoking gun. thebaffler.com/salvos/the-r...

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Shot by the Border Patrol, One Woman Pursues Justice

Can a Mexican woman shot by the Border Patrol while migrating into the United States exact justice from the legal system?

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

imagine trying to write innocently about Your Struggle in the midst of today's cancel culture

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🎃 Imani Gandy Corn 🎃 @angryblacklady.blacksky.app · 20/09/2026

I just honestly can't get over that Save Women Sports, an anti-trans group could only find five trans athletes competing K through 12. Five. The NCAA president testified a year and a half ago or so that there were less than 10 college level trans athletes. What the fuck are we doing, people

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Lorigold @lorigold.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

She’s just worried the separatists are going to phase out *her* livelihood

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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Trump banning media outlets from the WH over their coverage is unlikely to affect their reporting much, but it is yet another example of how the right wing definition of “free speech” is that they can say what they want and you can say what they want. (Gift link) www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

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Speak at Your Own Risk

Donald Trump’s attacks on the First Amendment

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Lorigold @lorigold.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Yeah, it’s one of those things where they don’t try to answer the question “why aren’t they a state already?” Because we don’t want to.

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Seth Masket @smotus.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

My hot take: We are not arguing about SSRIs. Some of us are using them as prescribed by our doctors to treat mental health difficulties. This administration has decided that's a problem based on no actual research.

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Alberta's Voice @albertasvoice.ca · 18/09/2026

10 referendum questions, one clear choice. Vote to Stay in Canada and say No to the Nine. On October 19, vote with Alberta’s Voice. 🇨🇦🔗 albertasvoice.ca #alberta #abpoli #ableg #referendum

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The Narwhal @thenarwhal.ca · 17/09/2026

A leaked document has made a big splash in Alberta, but the full details have not been made public — until now. The document lays out plans to overhaul Alberta’s natural gas pipelines in an effort boost oil and gas and support new AI data centres, via @drewanderson.bsky.social.

thenarwhal.ca

Read the leaked plan to boost data centres, oil and gas in Alberta | The Narwhal

The document proposes dramatic changes to Alberta’s natural gas pipelines as part of a plan to boost oil and gas production and support new AI data centres

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Jared Wesley @jaredwesley.ca · 17/09/2026

"You never once saw a serious Quebec separatist begging for federalists to lend them their votes for “leverage” against Ottawa to accomplish their agenda." My latest on why the separatists' push for "leverage" is ill-conceived and ill-fated. calgaryherald.com/opinion/colu...

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When 'leverage' isn’t leverage: Why the separatists’ push for bargaining power is an empty bluff

Why the separatists’ push for bargaining power is an empty bluff.

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Roland Smith @rolandmcs.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Very nice to hear a sane voice from Piddington. Serious respect to this woman, who is apparently already being othered by more bigoted villagers.

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