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MelArch 🕊️🇨🇦🌻

@melarch.bsky.social
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UofC Alumna. Mother, Wife, Albertan. Not AI 😂 Interests: Sarcasm, Plants 🌱🪴, Learning📚. Strongly Opposed to Reactionary Politics.

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Jason Markusoff @markusoff.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
A special provincial health fee jist for non-provincial workers in Alberta, atop the taxes they pay. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
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Alberta premier floats charging temporary residents $1,900 to access public health care | CBC News
The figure comes as Albertans will vote in the Oct. 19 referendum on charging certain non-permanent residents a "reasonable fee or premium" for access to Alberta's health care and education systems.
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Emmett Macfarlane 🇨🇦 @emmettmacfarlane.com · 15/09/2026
Ed Sheeran learning the hard way that there's no such thing as being "politically neutral" - trying to be political neutral is itself inherently political.
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Greg MacEachern @gregmaceachern.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
NDP upsets UCP stronghold in Calgary-Shaw byelection results www.ctvnews.ca/calgary/arti...
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NDP upsets UCP stronghold in Calgary-Shaw byelection results
Kyle Campbell has been elected to be the next MLA for Calgary-Shaw.
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Jeffrey Hecker @heckheck03.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Bill Maher showing a bar graph of numbers that constitute a real genocide is one of the craziest things I have seen in a long long time.
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Rhuta Bhayga @rhutabhayga.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
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Jared Wesley @jaredwesley.ca · 06/09/2026
Are you skeptical of the Smith government's claims that immigrants are to blame for their own mismanagement of our social, health, and education systems? You should be. Check out this website to educate and equip yourself to fight back in this fall's referendum. ouralbertaadvantage.ca
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Stop Premier Smith’s Scapegoating of Immigrants
Premier Danielle Smith is scapegoating immigrants to hide her own failures. Vote NO on her racist referendum.
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Deirdre Mitchell-MacLean @womenofabpoli.ca · 07/09/2026
I’m not sure anyone has banned more of the U.S.’s food than *checks notes* the U.S..
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Holly Hoye 🇨🇦 @hollyhoye.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
How to vote by mail in Alberta: 1. Open the envelope, sort through the TEN questions. 2. Fill out the declaration that you are eligible to vote by mail. 3. Worry that you may go to jail. 4. Stand on your head. 5. Fill out the ballots anyway. 6. Do the hokey-pokey. 7. Say a prayer for democracy.
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Katiesaurus @katiesaurusseven.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
"All told, a Black Cambridge professor endured 249 times more media coverage for an accusation of plagiarism by a known racist propagandist than a White Cambridge professor found guilty of plagiarism."
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
Don’t have anything insightful to say about the Arday case beyond this: we assign some cases to have profound symbolic meaning. But which cases we assign meaning is a choice. Firing of faculty in the US for wrongthink now is routine but does not shape the discourse. www.nytimes.com/2026/07/29/u...
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Florida Professor Fired for Assigning a Profane Story, Lawsuit Says
South Florida State College fired an English professor after she assigned a story about a teacher who talks about sex with her students. Now the professor is suing.
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Max Fawcett @maxfawcett.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
As I’ve been saying all along: the biggest impediment to the new west coast pipeline is getting producers to commit the barrels, not federal approvals. Case in point: they won’t even commit to a 250,000 barrel per day increase. www.reuters.com/business/ene...
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Canada's Enbridge postpones plans for second phase of Mainline oil pipeline expansion
Canadian pipeline operator Enbridge has postponed the 250,000-barrel-per-day second phase ‌of its Mainline crude pipeline network, it said on Friday, partly because Canadian oil producers have not com...
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Flint Dibble @flintdibble.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
One detail Nolan got wrong in The Odyssey is a key detail that EVERY SINGLE ADAPTATION of the Odyssey has gotten wrong for centuries In ancient Greece, the sirens were NOT voluptuous mermaids. They were birds with human heads A short thread of sirens in art 1/5
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PHL SportsNut @ispw8842.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
Ironically, the Twain award is for comedic political satirists, and maher self-censored his opinions on tRump to get the award and tRump is attacking free speech and free press constantly.
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Emmett Macfarlane 🇨🇦 @emmettmacfarlane.com · 21/07/2026
Oh, and stop using the stupid "elephant versus mouse" metaphor. Canada has the 11th largest economy in the world. We're no mouse. If we started restricting oil and potash, the US would feel very real pain. We can hurt these fuckers. We *should* hurt these fuckers. Too bad our PM is a coward.
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Emmett Macfarlane 🇨🇦 @emmettmacfarlane.com · 20/07/2026
On every item Trump exempted from these tariffs, we should impose 100% export levies.
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Seth Cotlar @sethcotlar.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
Government-promoted anti-intellectualism is a common feature of fascist states, with “intellectualism” coded as feminine and/or Jewish/leftist.
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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
Trump doesn’t force people to do bad things. All he did was show people they could get away with being horrible if they really wanted to, and a lot of powerful people decided they didn’t need to pretend anymore. Especially those in influential positions who could push back but did not.
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Emmett Macfarlane 🇨🇦 @emmettmacfarlane.com · 01/07/2026
Wait, am I reading this correctly? Has an unnamed political scientist agreed to do secret work for a partisan redistricting of elections in Alberta?
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Emmett Macfarlane 🇨🇦 @emmettmacfarlane.com · 24/06/2026
My sincere respect to Leonid for this decision. The MLI has become a hotbed of unprincipled, simplistic, and ugly attacks on the courts in the past year or two. It has left the Institute's reputation in tatters, and should concern anyone committed to judicial independence and the rule of law.
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Popehat @kenwhite.bsky.social · 12/06/2026
/3 Anyway, I don’t think Jesse would devote himself to helping get minorities in Europe killed. But I think he would do a multi-part series critiquing and mocking anyone who didn’t want minorities in Europe killed.
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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 13/06/2026
Oliver is so good at this. Absolutely devastating account of how Rufo and DeSantis destroyed a college and fucked up its students’ education. youtu.be/jFMc07F1UUU?...
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New College of Florida: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO)
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Heather Campbell @thatheatherc.bsky.social · 05/05/2026
I have said it before, I will say it again. Every single councillor and the mayor should be required to take transit from their residence in their ward to work (i.e.: City Hall) once per week. Calgary Transit will better for all Calgarians when the decision makers use the services of the city. 7/
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 24/04/2026
They want you worried about Hasan Piker so you don’t see what the oligarchy is doing. www.huffpost.com/entry/elliso...
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August J. Pollak @augustjpollak.bsky.social · 26/04/2026
The amount of misinformation we’re getting about an incident that just occurred in front of 1,500 news reporters is truly the metaphor of our generation.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 26/04/2026
I’m at an NBA playoff game tonight and will not be covering Trump’s post-gunman press conference, which I’m sure will be deeply unsettling and weird. Congrats, America.
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Jason Markusoff @markusoff.bsky.social · 16/04/2026
NEW from us, on the latest wrinkles in the AHS/Mentzelopoulos/Mraiche affair: www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
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Former AHS CEO wants podcasters held in contempt for ‘harassment’ campaign | CBC News
The former CEO of Alberta Health Services is asking a judge for legal protection and a contempt finding against two podcasters she alleges have run a campaign of harassment and intimidation against he...
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Duane Bratt🇨🇦 @duanebratt.bsky.social · 16/04/2026
It is not the increase from 89 to 91 that is problematic. It is this part of the motion. Throwing out the Electoral Boundaries Commission (and all of their work) and instead creating a new committee of MLAs with a new advisory panel.
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 11/04/2026
i firmly believe that kennedy wants preventable diseases to rip through american communities since, in his warped mind, those who survive without vaccines will have proven themselves “healthy.”
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Elliot Blake @elliotblake.bsky.social · 04/04/2026
Los Angeles Bluesky, I need your help. I just learned that on Saturday at the protest at the downtown Metropolitan Detention Center, a friend’s 18-year-old son was shot in the eye with a pepper ball by DHS, permanently blinding him. He needs justice. If you were there and saw anything, please… 1/5
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Emmett Macfarlane 🇨🇦 @emmettmacfarlane.com · 03/04/2026
Yeah, you're the bad guys. Nothing should surprise you.
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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 03/04/2026
Reactionary centrists and republicans spent years smearing, belittling, or dismissing anyone who properly described the Trumpism as a white supremacist project. bsky.app/profile/nbcn...
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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 21/03/2026
A lot of the people arguing free speech for Rushdie were just Islamophobic cranks using a Motte and Bailey strategy to push Islamophobia. Same thing happened with trans people. It wasn't about free speech.
A screenshot of a social media post on X (formerly Twitter) by Helen Lewis (@helenlewis). The post, dated March 21, 2026, reads: "I’ve never thought about it like this before, but the TERF wars of the late 2010s were as radicalising for a cohort of feminists as the Salman Rushdie fatwa was for the liberals of a generation earlier. People that you assumed cared about free speech just … backed away."
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Max Fawcett @maxfawcett.bsky.social · 18/03/2026
If you like hearing oil and gas industry talking points get smacked down, you'll enjoy this episode.
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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 03/03/2026
Could the press please, finally, learn this lesson: Everything these people said about Afghanistan, Iraq, the Middle East, starting new wars—all of it—was false. Not because they meant the opposite, but because they're post-truth and say whatever they think gets them an advantage in the moment.
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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 02/03/2026
One thing about Jamelle is that he absolutely drives a lot of his peers crazy because he’s better at his job than they are at theirs. I think the reasons for that are not hard to figure out.
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Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 02/03/2026
Accusing Jamelle Bouie of "exaggerated nastiness" and "hateful, uncharitable commentary" is absolutely insane.
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 02/03/2026
I think the fact that so many people who dislike BlueSky are reposting a weird person making an unpopular and insane claim about Jamelle Bouie as a sign of some deeper trend is probably more telling than the weird and unpopular claim. Noah Smith suggests it is a cultural norm that enabled fascism.
Noah Smith reposting Jess Signal reposting some dipshit calling Jamelle Bouie a Nazi collaborator
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Governor Gavin Newsom @governor.ca.gov · 02/03/2026
Donald Trump would rather talk about his ballroom curtains than the tragic loss of American lives.
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MelArch 🕊️🇨🇦🌻 @melarch.bsky.social · 02/03/2026
Anger at @jamellebouie.net can subside now that the culture war nut jobs over on X are busy hating him.
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Sharon 🪳🌹 @sharonk.bsky.social · 02/03/2026
i feel like if you think bouie is a practitioner of Schmittian politics, you are not prepared for the future of global politics
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Moira Donegan @moiradonegan.bsky.social · 02/03/2026
Just want to give a shout out to this classic.
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NPR @npr.org · 01/03/2026
The nearly $111 billion marriage would unite Paramount and Warner film studios, streamers and television properties — including CNN — under the control of the wealthy Ellison family.
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Paramount and Warner Bros' deal is about merging studios, and a whole lot more
The nearly $111 billion marriage would unite Paramount and Warner film studios, streamers and television properties — including CNN — under the control of the wealthy Ellison family.
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Emmett Macfarlane 🇨🇦 @emmettmacfarlane.com · 27/02/2026
Peter MacKinnon with an absolutely inane piece about EDI hiring opens by noting that 'affirmative action' is discriminatory and against section 15(1) of the Charter. He fails to note section 15(2) of the Charter, which EXPLICITLY PROTECTS AFFIRMATIVE ACTION POLICIES. nationalpost.com/opinion/pete...
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Peter MacKinnon: University of Alberta should be applauded for resisting affirmative action
Affirmative action — by whatever name it is known — is discriminatory
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MelArch 🕊️🇨🇦🌻 @melarch.bsky.social · 01/03/2026
Tim Dillon is hilarious. I think I’m hooked 😬
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Max Fawcett @maxfawcett.bsky.social · 27/02/2026
“Let them eat liver”
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djchocolatemlk.bsky.social @djchocolatemlk.bsky.social · 21/02/2026
Danielle Smith in 2024: "We want Alberta to have 10 million people by 2050. Red Deer will have a million people." Danielle Smith in 2026: "I can't believe trudeau did this to us."
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sam @samthielman.com · 18/02/2026
What’s so awful and stupid about this is that it applies to every single right-wing “Intellectual.” The whole culture is a snake pit of race science cranks and misogynist perverts. They have not changed their positions meaningfully since the civil war began.
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economymedicine.bsky.social @economymedicine.bsky.social · 13/02/2026
I'm not convinced Tyler Austin Harper and Thomas Chatterton Williams are not the same person.
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