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LNORTL

@nortl.bsky.social
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Retired small business owner, Valley Fever, Autoimmune Diseases Warrior , NDP/LIB, LGBTQ, BLM, SCIENCE, HUMAN RIGHTS, DEMOCRACY

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Calgary Sun @calgarysun.com · 47m
"Long overdue:" Alberta welders prepare to join B.C. strike over stagnant wage rates calgarysun.com/news/alberta...
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Barb Hymanyk @barbh-ab.bsky.social · 2h
“ … by endorsing the Smith government’s constitutional cosplay, we are agreeing to another election cycle’s worth of distraction and blame-avoidance from the real challenges facing Alberta.” Imagine a government working for the good of Albertans. #abpoli substack.com/@drjaredwesl...
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Pandering to Pandora
Why the UCP’s four constitutional questions are threats to provincial autonomy
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Barb Hymanyk @barbh-ab.bsky.social · 2h
“What does “ability to pay” mean? Can a patient afford surgery because they can borrow money? Use retirement savings or delay retirement? Skimp on food?” The nightmare scenario that Tommy Douglas sought to prevent. #abhealth #publichealth
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Jeremy Appel 🍉 @readtheorchard.org · 3h
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...
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The most worrying part of the Alberta referendum isn’t separatism
Nine questions are about immigration and immigrants.
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Timothy Caulfield @caulfieldtim.bsky.social · 3h
🚨 Watch for FAKE journals, FAKE conferences, FAKE societies! Exclusive: Sham scientific societies are misleading star researchers www.nature.com/articles/d41... "...a sprawling international constellation of suspicious academies and societies..."
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Exclusive: Sham scientific societies are misleading star researchers
A Nature investigation reveals a network of organizations that have been building their ranks through deceptive practices.
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Ritz 🍁 @ritzmotu.bsky.social · 43m
#abpoli #ableg
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Parksy @pfparks.bsky.social · 5h
This will become the norm in Alberta. Adriana Lagrange knows this, and doesn’t care.
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Spetrath.bsky.social 🇨🇦 Elbows up‼️ @spetrath.bsky.social · 2h
Albertans didn’t vote for this. The UCP leader promised during the most recent general election that no Albertan will ever pay for healthcare. One of her many, many lies.
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KGE hockey fan 🇨🇦🍁 @kbyrd.bsky.social · 4h
I cannot understand anyone listening to stories from the US about bankruptcies and debt ... and then voting for that here in Canada. 🫤🤷‍♀️💔
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forpetesake1.bsky.social @forpetesake1.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
There are more than two categories of people affected. What about those people who are managing day-to-day, but suddenly find themselves facing a choice about whether to wait years for surgery or sell their house or cash in their life savings in order to get necessary treatment?
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inthewoodshop.bsky.social @inthewoodshop.bsky.social · 4h
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@KatyET www.abresistance.ca @katyet.bsky.social · 6h
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Danielle Smith, Premier of Alberta‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎(Parody) @abdanielsmith.bsky.social · 5h
Packed living rooms and Albertans who care about where this province is headed. The most affluent wealthy people telling me what is going on in their lives. How they struggle with affordability, finding private healthcare and schools for their kids. #abpoli #UCPCorruption
A photo of Danielle Smith standing in a wealthy person’s living room and speaking to a gathering of people. A photo of Danielle Smith in a wealthy person’s home speaking to a gathering of people. A photo of Danielle Smith seated in a wealthy person’s home and listening while another person speaks. A photo of a smiling Danielle Smith standing in a wealthy person’s home with other people on either side of her.
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MondoAB @mondoab.bsky.social · 4h
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Canadian 🇨🇦 @lovewildernessbsky.bsky.social · 2h
Someone should tell this dipshit the US needs to stay out of Canadian internal affairs, ie Alberta. Fucking hypocrite. ici.radio-canada.ca/rci/en/news/...
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Trump trade adviser says Canada will ’pay even more dearly’ if ’you interfere’ in U.S. midterms | RCI
Peter Navarro said Canadian lobbyists should 'get the hell out of our country'
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Hon. Thomas A. Lukaszuk @lukaszukab.bsky.social · 2h
Calgary’s Muslim community is proud to be Canadian and proud to support #ForeverCanadian. #YYC #ableg #cdnpoli
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404 Media @404media.co · 3h
BREAKING: The Trump administration is using a grant program from the 1980s to force cities around the US to funnel their ongoing collection of Flock, Axon, and other ALPR data into large federal surveillance centers that fall under the White House’s jurisdiction, 404 Media has learned
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How Cities Are Forced to Funnel License Plate Data to a Massive Federal Surveillance Program
How the federal government built a massive database of license plate reader data through an anti-drug trafficking program.
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Scott Dworkin @dworkin.bsky.social · 3h
Leon Black paid Jeffrey Epstein $158 million. Then his wife started writing checks to a senator. We found them. She's on the ballot in 34 days.
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A Billionaire Paid Epstein $158 Million. These Republicans Kept His Checks.
Also: an Alabama builder wins round one against ICE, California adds a buffer, and a judge refuses to let Rubio put 43,000 visa applicants back on hold.
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Scott Dworkin @dworkin.bsky.social · 3h
Susan Collins has had five years to give back Leon Black's money. She's had ten months to give back his wife's. Here's what her office did when we called. www.dworkinsubstack.com/p/a-billiona...
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Chicago Council of Lawyers @chicouncillawyers.bsky.social · 3h
Chicago Council of Lawyers President Rob Held warned ICE agents and federal officials that they must uphold the law. He spoke at a press conference about the civil lawsuit he filed a lawsuit against Adam Saracco, the ICE agent who recently pleaded guilty to battery for his attack against Held.
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Elizabeth Warren @warren.senate.gov · 3h
This is wrong: Trump and Republicans in Congress gave BILLIONS in tax breaks to Big Tech companies building AI data centers. So YOUR tax dollars are subsidizing their AI data centers — at the same time you pay higher electricity and water bills.
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The Lincoln Project @lincolnproject.us · 3h
Worst candidate in the country is calling out Donald Trump.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 3h
Klobuchar on Schmitt: "He's not aware that there's also women's sports ... because they wanted to do this to distract everyone, I would say they got their comeuppance"
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 3h
Tonight in BRENTWOOD… www.instagram.com/p/Dd4JBL3l8E...
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 3h
Klobuchar: "The fact that when people are hurting this much and literally can't pay their bills & insurance premiums, that he then spends govt money instead of to help people pay for their insurance, on an ad to glorify himself. They are making the connection now on corruption and affordability."
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 3h
Klobuchar: "You got this guy who clearly thinks he's got this gotcha moment. And I am sitting there listening because I was the next one up, and starting to think to myself, it's not really major sleuth here, 'I just don't think Jack Smith would lie under oath that he hadn't been at the game.'"
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 2h
Hey TN media— will anyone ask @MarshaBlackburn why she ducked 🦆 Jack Smith after whining about him for YEARS? A TVA photo op instead of doing her job on Judiciary committee🤔? Did she not want to remind us she tried to pocket MILLIONS from taxpayers over him doing HIS job? 🤷🏼‍♀️
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 2h
Ummmm…
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 2h
On the same day Trump announces that top tech firms have signed an accord to "self-police" their own AI development, we learned that OpenAI employees and security researchers were reportedly ignored when they brought safety concerns to the company's top executives. See the problem here?
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OpenAI Ignored Employees’ Warnings About Safely Testing A.I. Models
Employees and security researchers said that they had cautioned the company on safely testing its A.I. models and strengthening its corporate infrastructure, but that OpenAI did not listen.
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Abdul El-Sayed @abdulelsayed.bsky.social · 2h
Tomorrow, on October 1, the biggest transfer of wealth from the working class to the wealthy hits a critical milestone. Many of the provisions from the Big Ugly Bill will go into effect, harming hundreds of thousands of Michiganders in order to create tax cuts for the richest people in America.
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Angry @angrystaffer.bsky.social · 2h
This whole story is insane. If passengers hadn’t intervened, this could have been really bad. Having to worry about rogue pilots as well as hijackers is… not great.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2h
Markwayne Mullin makes up the word "frauded"
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2h
this guy can barely talk, folks
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Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 4h
He desperately tries to pretend that he didn’t publicly embarrass himself in front of the entire nation today. 🤡
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Eric Columbus @ericcolumbus.bsky.social · 5h
Not a great sign when your 12-person private fundraiser includes someone who hates you enough to leak damaging audio
The audio of Mr. Paxton was shared with The Times by an attendee who recorded him speaking at a private fund-raiser in Washington attended by roughly a dozen people. The person, who opposes Mr. Paxton’s campaign and provided the recording to The Times, was granted anonymity because Mr. Paxton’s remarks were private.
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 5h
* FRANCE'S MACRON: IF THE BRITISH PM WANTS BRITAIN TO RETURN TO THE EU THAT WOULD BE EXCELLENT NEWS AND A GOOD DECISION @reuters.com
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Cheryl in Nova Scotia 🇨🇦🍁🍁 @minibubbly.bsky.social · 5h
Mark Carney built a global profile in 2026 by standing up to Donald Trump. If some prediction-market traders and prominent admirers are right, the Canadian prime minister could end the year with the Nobel Peace Prize and Time magazine’s Person of the Year. www.ctvnews.ca/politics/art...
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Mark Carney's stand against Trump leads to Nobel Peace Prize and Time Person of the Year buzz
Mark Carney built a global profile in 2026 by standing up to U.S. President Donald Trump. If some prediction-market traders and prominent admirers are right, the Canadian prime minister could end the ...
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Digital Warrior - Combat Disinfo @digitalwarrior.bsky.social · 5h
ICYMI: I love this for O’Leary. All of these billionaires intent on making our lives worse off should have to defend themselves in court. This is how we can fight back. #DV1 #ProudBlue #Voices4Victory #USDemocracy variety.com/2026/tv/news...
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‘Shark Tank’ Star Kevin O’Leary Sued For Claiming Utah Data Center Opposition Has Ties to China
Kevin O'Leary was sued after claiming data center opposition in Utah had ties to China.
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The Lincoln Project @lincolnproject.us · 5h
Could things get worse with another 2 years of Republicans in control? You do the math.
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Tea Pain @teapainusa.bsky.social · 5h
After yesterday’s Senate hearing, it’s crystal clear that Jack Smith should be the next Attorney General.
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Democracy Docket @democracydocket.com · 5h
Trump is going to try to normalize the deployment of armed federal agents at and around the polls. Let us be clear: this is completely abnormal. “The risk here is that they are going to try to wage a campaign of fear,” Marc Elias says. This isn’t over. Stay close: demdock.com/3T3Owjg
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Bill Leibenguth @bill-leibenguth.bsky.social · 4h
Ketamine is used for date rape because the victim’s memory will be empty or very confused.
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Pam Keith @pamkeithdc.bsky.social · 5h
Sooooo someone in that police department (you know, the one that is funded and run by Cornell) has some ‘splaining to do. Also, it is very weird for a DA to get a report from a police department that clearly states no crime was committed. A curious DA would ask questions about that.
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Pam Keith @pamkeithdc.bsky.social · 5h
Ok. So it appears that the tape of Jane Doe’s report to the police bears no resemblance to the report the police wrote for the DA which she did not sign. The report to the DA says voluntary & consensual all over the place & that she was conscious while on ketamine. That is NOT what she told police
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Abdul El-Sayed @abdulelsayed.bsky.social · 5h
Mike Rogers has the audacity to lie to you about his plan like he didn't vote 4 times to stop you from getting cheaper medication from Canada, take $1M from Big Pharma, and vote 19 times to keep prescription drug prices higher. GTFOH.
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Scott MacFarlane @macfarlanenews.bsky.social · 5h
JUST FILED: The worst kind of viral moment for a Senator Who is skipping Trump's Ohio rally? Forecasts for 11 more US House races shift Latest twist in Kennedy Center battle macfarlanenews.substack.com/p/day-ahead-...
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DAY AHEAD - My Daily Editorial Note
September 30, 2026
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Luca @lucagalletti.bsky.social · 5h
Two of the world’s largest pine cones. A heavy Coulter pine (Pinus coulteri, left/taller) and a long sugar pine (Pinus lambertiana, right/shorter. IG: @bigtreehunters www.instagram.com/bigtreehunte...
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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 5h
New York AG Letitia James’ office will reportedly probe Cornell University’s handling of gang rape allegations made by a former student
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Letitia James' Office To Review Cornell's Handling Of Rape Allegations: CNN
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Stephen Moran. @moranstephen1000.bsky.social · 5h
Pedolf 2016 : "You see the mob takes the Fifth. If you're innocent, why are you taking the Fifth Amendment?"
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JoJoFromJerz @jojofromjerz.bsky.social · 5h
Melania Trump tried to bully me into silence because she didn’t like what I had to say about her. Shouldn’t our First Lady have more important things to worry about?
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