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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @aoc.bsky.social · 03/07/2025

I don’t think anyone is prepared for what they just did w/ ICE. This is not a simple budget increase. It is an explosion - making ICE bigger than the FBI, US Bureau of Prisons, DEA,& others combined. It is setting up to make what’s happening now look like child’s play. And people are disappearing.

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 02/07/2025

Sickening, revealing stuff from someone with the president’s ear

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Luke LeBrun @lukelebrun.ca · 01/07/2025

What if Canada could make groceries more affordable for underserved communities and support Canadian farmers / food workers all while taking power back from Galen Weston and the price-fixing grocery barons? @vassb.bsky.social says public grocery stores could be a good idea in Canada too:

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A New Kind of Corner Store | Perspectives Journal

A grocery model that puts affordability and access ahead of margins could nourish something we’re starved for: a little more stability, and a little more imagination.

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Керрі Світ🇺🇦🇨🇦🇩🇰🇪🇺 @carriesweet.bsky.social · 01/07/2025

The concentration camp on the left has alligators and unbearable heat. The one on the right made people say "never again" until Trump came along.

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Bill Comeau 🇨🇦 @bill-comeau.bsky.social · 01/07/2025

Proud that we stand on the side of freedom and democracy. 🇨🇦🇺🇦 "Warmest congratulations to Mark Carney and the entire Canadian people on Canada Day. This day celebrates a nation that has become a shining example of unity, democracy, and the defense of freedom." - Volodymyr Zelenskyy

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Dr. Zachary Rubin @rubinallergy.bsky.social · 01/07/2025

This is a friendly reminder that vaccines save lives and they are one of the greatest public health achievements we have ever created. It’s worked so well that people forget how bad these diseases used to be.

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Victor Ray @victorerikray.bsky.social · 30/06/2025

No, it's a simple recognition that massive wealth in the hands of individuals is often used to constrain the freedom of others, and a functioning society should have checks against unconstrained power. Like taxing billionaires out of existence.

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Pragmatical 🇨🇦 @allij.bsky.social · 30/06/2025

In the Alberta Next survey on immigration, it literally says we would be able to stop allowing “types of immigrants we don’t want” if levels get too high. Let’s just let that percolate for a minute.

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David Hamer @davidhamer1951.bsky.social · 28/06/2025

If 🇨🇦Canada needs to ban exports of oil, gas, potash, hydroelectricity, aluminium and critical minerals to the 🇺🇸USA in order to respond to their trade attacks, then so be it. The rest of us will then need to share the costs with the affected provinces. 🇨🇦#ElbowsUp

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Lori Sirianni @4animallife.bsky.social · 28/06/2025

Please watch this, esp from 1:00-3:00. Charlie's right. Trump and his gangsters are "building a narrative" using the "right-wing playbook": "creating a convenient enemy, an existential threat that must be dealt with." *Just like Putin did w Ukraine.* We and our money are NOT coming back to USA. 💸

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Art and Politics with Renee @reneebfa.bsky.social · 27/06/2025

It is the rhetoric of invasion. On Gaurd!

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MondoAB @mondoab.bsky.social · 28/06/2025

UCP doing UCP things. "Accessing the shot will also be more limited: in the near future, pharmacists like "People are scared," Elfishawi said during an interview at his south Edmonton location, describing the calls he's had from clients – especially seniors." www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

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What charging for COVID-19 vaccines means for Albertans going forward | CBC News

Alberta's new path makes it an outlier in Canada, prompting questions about why the province has diverged from national recommendations on vaccines, what the timeline is for rolling out the new distri...

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Dr. Margot Burnell @drmargotburnell.bsky.social · 28/06/2025

We are relieved to see the Court of King’s Bench of Alberta grant an injunction which restores Alberta physicians' ability to make clinical decisions based on evidence, in consultation with patients and their families. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

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Alberta judge grants temporary injunction blocking a transgender health-care bill | CBC News

Judgement puts on hold a provincial law that bans doctors from providing gender-affirming care to youth.

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Heather McPherson MP @heathermcpherson.bsky.social · 28/06/2025

The fact that the UCP have a $8.3B surplus and have the lowest per student spending in Canada, have purposely broken our healthcare system, and are taking $200/month away from people living with a disability tells you everything you need to know about their “values”. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

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Alberta posts surplus of $8.3B in 2024-25 fiscal year | CBC News

The final numbers are in on last years' Alberta budget, and the bottom-line figure is an $8.3-billion surplus.

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Keith Boykin @keithboykin.bsky.social · 27/06/2025

Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson, dissenting in 6-3 SCOTUS birthright citizenship case: "It is not difficult to predict how this all ends. Eventually, executive power will become completely uncontainable, and our beloved constitutional Republic will be no more." www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/24p...

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 27/06/2025

"Israeli soldiers in Gaza told Haaretz that the army has deliberately fired at Palestinians near aid distribution sites..." www.haaretz.com/israel-news/...

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IDF soldiers ordered to shoot deliberately at unarmed Gazans waiting for humanitarian aid

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Spudislander45 🇨🇦❤️🌎💪🫡 @spudislander45.bsky.social · 27/06/2025

One of our best political leaders in Canada. #Manitoba #NDP #WabKinew #cdnpoli

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Luca Migo @victinibcn.bsky.social · 26/06/2025

Bibi Netanyahu being boycotted by UN diplomats. It’s time for this criminal to face the consequences of his atrocities.

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Ghouly Hoye 👻🇨🇦 @hollyhoye.bsky.social · 26/06/2025

“British Columbia Premier David Eby says the growing spread of measles across Canada is "the sadly predictable outcome" of the "recklessness" of anti-vaccination politicians.” **weeps in Albertan**

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Bev Toews @bevtoews.bsky.social · 23/06/2025

MONDAY, JUNE 23, IS ELECTION DAY! You want a better Alberta where seniors are respected, rural families can thrive, and healthcare remains accessible. I’m ready to stand up for you. Stand with me. 🗳️ Polls are open 9AM - 8PM 📌 Find your poll location: albertandp.ca/vote #VOTEforBETTER

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billfromcanada.bsky.social @billfromcanada.bsky.social · 23/06/2025

It’s alright everyone; Brian Lilley has decided that Trump’s illegal bombing of Iran was “necessary” What an asshole

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Charlie Angus @charlieangus104.bsky.social · 23/06/2025

Pierre Poilievre is the only national leader in the history of Canada who refuses (or can't get) national security clearance. He doesn't have a clue what he is talking about as he tries to stoke war in the Persian Gulf. No wonder voters booted his arse out of Parliament.

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Olga Nesterova @onestpress.onestnetwork.com · 23/06/2025

Pope Leo condemns US bombing Iran

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Charlie Angus @charlieangus104.bsky.social · 23/06/2025

The only thing I can say about Keir Starmer is thank God he wasn't PM back in May 1940. He will go along dutifully with whatever Trump claims. Canadians would be fools to think this punter would have our back in a showdown with Trump. www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/poli...

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Starmer backs Trump’s Iran bombing saying Tehran cannot develop a nuclear weapon

Prime minister backs US president as he bombs Iranian nuclear sites and says key facilities ‘completely and totally obliterated’

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Senator Paula Simons 🇨🇦 @senatorpaulasimons.bsky.social · 23/06/2025

I received this update from Global Affairs Canada tonight. Sharing information here, to help reach a larger audience. #Israel #Iran #GAC #Canada

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News Eye @newseye.bsky.social · 22/06/2025

BREAKING: Iran’s Parliament approves the closure of the Strait of Hormuz. Decision needs ratified by Iran’s Security Council. It would trap 20% of the world’s oil supply and send a catastrophic shock through the global economy.

A picture of the Hormuz Strait with Iran at the top and the slim entrance to the Gulf to its south between UAE and Oman

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Paris Marx @parismarx.com · 22/06/2025

They were at the negotiating table, Ursula! They weren’t the ones that pulled out of the JCPOA! Experts say they were not going for the bomb! Is the EU going to sanction Israel and the US for their violations of international law?

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Dr. Damien P. Williams, dread portent down from a mountain cave @wolven.blacksky.app · 22/06/2025

My only working explanatory hypothesis right now is that billionaires and authoritarians *Literally* thrive on human misery; that if people aren't suffering then all their money and power don't actually sustain them, and that cruelty & sheer horror are the only things that flow through their veins.

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Sam Bagenstos @sbagen.bsky.social · 22/06/2025

There's no declaration of war, and no AUMF that covers this. Entering this war is wrong on the merits; we had a perfectly peaceful way to address Iran's nuclear program. It's also unlawful. A democratic republic should not be able to enter a war of choice on one man's say-so.

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Rakhi Pancholi @pancholirakhi.bsky.social · 21/06/2025

After years of advocacy, applications for the $200/month Canada Disability Benefit opened today. But the only provincial govt in Canada that will keep its citizens with disabilities from actually benefiting from it is the UCP. They are the only ones clawing it back. It’s cruel & shameful.

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Sarah J. Jackson @sjjphd.bsky.social · 21/06/2025

Mahmoud said free them all

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Mai El-Sadany @maitelsadany.bsky.social · 21/06/2025

They ripped him apart from his pregnant wife in her last trimester. They stole from him the birth of his baby boy Dean, his graduation ceremony, his first Father's Day. They detained him illegally for 104 days. But today, Mahmoud Khalil is FINALLY FREE. 🤍✊🏼

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Cheryl in Nova Scotia 🇨🇦🍁🍁 @minibubbly.bsky.social · 20/06/2025

Come along for the first-ever all-Canadian voyage to #Antarctica, get a rare front-row seat to climate science, and witness geopolitics in action in this CBC News Special Presentation. #Canada gem.cbc.ca/cbc-in-antar...

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CBC in Antarctica | Films | CBC Gem

Come along for the first-ever all-Canadian voyage to Antarctica, get a rare front-row seat to climate science, and witness geopolitics in action in this CBC News Special Presentation.

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Ghouly Hoye 👻🇨🇦 @hollyhoye.bsky.social · 20/06/2025

How about this alternative headline: “Alberta government returns $137 million transfer payment from Ottawa for cleaning up orphan wells, losing local reclamation jobs in the process.” And the UCP thinks they’re great with money and red tape reduction. 🙄

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'A lost opportunity': Alberta gives back $137M to Ottawa in unspent funds to clean up inactive wells | CBC News

Questions remain about why the Alberta government was unable to use all of $1-billion in federal funding aimed at cleaning up aging oil and natural gas wells, considering there are tens of thousands o...

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Eco Trekkie (he/him) @ecotrekkie.bsky.social · 20/06/2025

Time for another pollinators tip! Pollinators need places to lay eggs, overwinter and just hide. Old logs, dead plant stalks, fall leaves, and other "messy" areas are all good for pollinators. Flowers are just a food source. They need homes and nurseries too! So let's keep things a bit messy! 🌱 🌎

An old log stuck in the ground with native nodding onions and perennial vegetable kosmic kale growing around it. The nodding onions are flowering with purple flowers.

A pile of small logs and rocks with native checkermallows growing around it.

A taller old log stuck in a "messy" growing area with checkermallows, kosmic kale and nodding onions. This area is kept messy on purpose to support pollinators and other critters.

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Alberta NDP @albertandp.ca · 19/06/2025

Say goodbye to the 'Alberta Advantage.' Life has gotten worse under the UCP. Period.

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Jason Markusoff @markusoff.bsky.social · 19/06/2025

Danielle Smith gov't fought for 2yrs to not release its Alberta pension plan survey results. It's finally out. Only 10% of people expressed support, 63% said don't. by Ed Journal's @matthewblack.ca ack , at long last. edmontonjournal.com/news/politic...

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Alberta releases its pension survey results, 63% opposed to leaving CPP

After a more than 21-month wait, the Alberta government has released to Postmedia the results of its 2023 provincial pension plan survey.

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Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 18/06/2025

Like I've said before, if you have any doubts about climate change, just go to a super-boring insurance conference and listen to the super-boring panels where they dryly talk about the growing threat of disasters so catastrophic and unpredictable in scope they simply cannot be insured at any price.

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Nathan Kalman-Lamb @nkalamb.bsky.social · 18/06/2025

"Not for you." Palestinian citizens of Israel--21% of the population--are being excluded from bomb shelters on the basis of their ethnicity. This is the society the West will defend at all costs. www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/6/...

Mostly living in cities, towns, and villages within Israel’s internationally recognised borders, many Palestinian citizens of Israel found themselves excluded from life-saving infrastructure during the worst nights of the Iran-Israel conflict to date.

For Samar al-Rashed, a 29-year-old single mother living in a mostly Jewish apartment complex near Acre, the reality of that exclusion came on Friday night. Samar was at home with her five-year-old daughter, Jihan. As sirens pierced the air, warning of incoming missiles, she grabbed her daughter and rushed for the building’s shelter.

“I didn’t have time to pack anything,” she recalled. “Just water, our phones, and my daughter’s hand in mine.”

The panicking mother tried to ease her daughter’s fear, while hiding her own, gently encouraging her in soft-spoken Arabic to keep up with her rushed steps towards the shelter, as other neighbours climbed down the stairs, too.

But at the shelter door, she said, an Israeli resident, having heard her speak Arabic, blocked their entry – and shut it in their faces.

“I was stunned,” she said. “I speak Hebrew fluently. I tried to explain. But he looked at me with contempt and just said, ‘Not for you.’”

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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 18/06/2025

“The only democracy in the Middle East” they keep telling us “Just because it’s Jews only doesn’t make it an apartheid state” they insist www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/6/...

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‘Not for you’: Israeli shelters exclude Palestinians as bombs rain down

Shelters are a lifeline in Israel from Iranian attacks, but Palestinian citizens of the country have been locked out.

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Natacha @natacha.bsky.social · 18/06/2025

TW: harm to children. My research into the effects of the UK government puberty-blocker ban has finally been published after peer-review. It details the severe harm being caused to young trans people & children by the Starmer government's puberty-blocker ban. Unlike Cass it is peer reviewed...

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Harming children: the effects of the UK puberty blocker ban

This paper presents an analysis of data from trans children and young people and their parents following the imposition of a UK-wide ban on puberty blockers for this group. The consequences of this...

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Ashley’s Corner @myeffinopinion.bsky.social · 18/06/2025

I’ve been asked what changed me. …it wasn’t someone yelling or being called a hypocrite or brainwashed... It was seeing the cracks for myself. It was the quiet discomfort that grew louder over time. The inconsistencies that refused to settle. The small moments that didn’t make sense until they did”

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Becks 🇨🇦📎 @mx-replicant.bsky.social · 16/06/2025

www.projectalberta.org/ucp_charge_f...? My letter:

Good morning,

I am e-mail today to express my outrage that MY government would take any of its policy ques from the United States, especially health related policies like vaccine recommendations.

I would appreciate it if MY province's government would take its medical policy advice from Health Canada and the actual experts such as physicians, medical colleges, and epidemiologists.

Giving in to United States pressure, like this government has done on multiple occasions, most recently adding United States made alcohol back to AGLC's lists, is the opposite of Elbows Up. This pandering and falling in line with would be authoritarian regimes is dangerous. It shows me as an Albertan and as a Canadian that this UCP government cares more about keeping a good relationship with a corrupt fledgling dictatorship than it does its own people.

The UCP says it isn't interested in separation but it sure is showing us that it thinks Alberta should be getting closer to the USA vs strengthening ties within Canada and limiting its interactions with the USA.

I have been disappointed in the UCP's running of this province for a while but this is too much. The extreme and overt capitulation with our southern neighbours is disturbing and telling. The average Alberta isn't an anti-vax, tin foil hat wearing white supremacist. The UCP needs to start listening to the rest of us and not the tiny crack pot base that worships a geriatric, cognitively compromised foreign leader.

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