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Ryan Hoffman

@somati-ca.bsky.social
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Somatic Education based in Treaty 7 Territory, Canada Trained in Law, Feldenkrais Method, Biochemistry. Ashkenazi, with a modest Jewish education, thorough Shoah education. somati.ca 🇵🇸🏳️‍🌈🪶🐝

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Independent Jewish Voices @ijvcanada.bsky.social · 8h
Three years into Israel’s genocide in Gaza, passive mourning alone is not enough. We remember those killed, stand with Palestinians resisting destruction, and recommit ourselves to ending Canadian complicity, apartheid, occupation, and Zionist domination. bit.ly/4hAvwTr
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Phillip Meintzer @phillipmeintzer.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
CleanUpYourMess.ca just launched our new website! It features stories from ordinary Albertans affected by the oil & gas cleanup crisis, and actions YOU can take right now to stop tens of billions in industry's cleanup costs from being pushed onto the public! #ABPoli #ABLeg @cuym-alberta.bsky.social
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Alberta landowners & allies fighting for an industry cleanup of oil and gas wells.
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T. Ryan Gregory 🇨🇦 @tryangregory.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Remember this when our leaders talk about valuing international law. www.cbc.ca/news/politic...
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ANALYSIS | Netanyahu is flying freely over Canada as his international arrest warrant remains in place | CBC News
A review of two years of flights by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu shows that the Israeli leader is once again routinely taking a more direct path — through Canadian airspace — when travell...
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Mondoweiss @mondoweiss.net · 01/10/2026
In Masafer Yatta in the southern occupied West Bank, Israeli settlers are accelerating their attacks on Palestinian farmers and herders in the area by cutting off their water supply. mondoweiss.net/2026/09/pale...
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Palestinians in Masafer Yatta are surviving without water after Israeli settlers cut off a lifeline
In Masafer Yatta in the southern occupied West Bank, Israeli settlers are accelerating their attacks on Palestinian farmers and herders in the area by cutting off their water supply.
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Jeremy Appel 🍉 @readtheorchard.org · 02/10/2026
"Distrustful of mainstream institutions, some in Alberta’s separatism movement have constructed their own online world populated by independence-minded influencers." www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
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It’s the biggest Alberta separatist account on the internet. It shares DNA with a movement leader | CBC News
The account Rise of Alberta is anonymous and drives four times as much engagement as the next most popular account.
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Reconciliation Action Group YYC @ragyyc.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Join Lee Crowchild, former Chief of Tsuut’ina Nation & defender of sovereignty & treaty rights, as he shares an Indigenous perspective on separation. Event starts at 6, doors open at 5:30. www.eventbrite.ca/e/an-indigen...
Blue background, bright blue on the bottom darker blue on the top in a wave pattern.Yellow vertical line on the top left and top right a series of circles leading off the page with larger circles leading off the bottom left corner. Text and information in the centre with a picture of Lee Crowchild in a circle middle page. Lee Crowchild, former Chief of Tsuut’ina Nation & defender of sovereignty & treaty rights, shares an Indigenous perspective on separation.
Join Lee Crowchild, former Chief of Tsuut’ina Nation & defender of sovereignty & treaty rights, as he shares an Indigenous perspective on separation.
Event starts at 6, doors open at 5:30.
Parking available on-location after 5PM.
Elevators + wheelchair accessible space and washroom.
Light refreshments will be available.
This event has been organized as part of We’re Together Ending Poverty’s Ancestral Nations of Mohkinstsis History and Culture Series. For more information contact wtepyyc@gmail.com.
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Rachel Gilmore @rachelgilmore.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Here’s AFN National Chief Cindy Woodhouse Nepinak last week saying the major projects office — which Carney touted as doing sufficient consultation ahead of naming this oil pipeline in the “national interest” — “don’t know what they’re doing when it comes to First Nations.” TRC day was yesterday.
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Ryan Hoffman @somati-ca.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
On this National Day for Truth and Reconciliation, I reflect on how colonial thinking runs the show, off the cliff. Alberta separationists can't handle that they are on Treaty 7 land. Federal Liberals can't handle that an LNG port expansion is expected to cause an orca population to go extinct.
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Reconciliation Action Group YYC @ragyyc.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Tomorrow is September 30th the National Day for Truth and Reconciliation and Orange Shirt Day – Every Child Matters The National Day for Truth and Reconciliation was established as a response to Call 80 Follow us as we share each of those 94 Calls to Action
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Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada: Calls to Action
In order to redress the legacy of residential schools and advance the process of Canadian reconciliation, the Truth and Reconciliation Commission makes the following calls to action. 

Reconciliation

Commemoration
80. We call upon the federal government, in collaboration with Aboriginal peoples, to establish, as a statutory holiday, a National Day for Truth and Reconciliation to honour Survivors, their families, and communities, and ensure that public commemoration of the history and legacy of residential schools remains a vital component of the reconciliation process.
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🇬🇾🗽Sydette The Dreaded Gorgon🗽🇬🇾 @blackamazon.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
This was the dude who talked about Dylan Roof and HIS family as victims . What a lot of hierarchical minded people think of as “empathy” is just identification . And .. sometimes recognizing identification isn’t about WOKE it’s about HISTORY www.postandcourier.com/news/crime/j...
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Ex-Charleston County magistrate must register as a convicted sex offender after guilty plea to federal charges
After nearly 30 years of wearing black robes and sitting in judgment, James Gosnell stood on the other side of the courtroom, before a judge in federal court July 2, and admitted to possessing and dis...
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The Tyee @thetyee.ca · 28/09/2026
“This tragedy occurred in a political environment that prioritized economic growth over the health and safety of a vulnerable group of workers. The result was a large-scale, tragic outbreak, the scope of which was preventable,” reads a new Parkland Institute report. thetyee.ca/News/2026/09...
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Alberta’s Deadly Betrayal of Meat Plant Workers During COVID | The Tyee
A shocking report finds the UCP ignored evidence of high risk.
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Mariana Z @mariana057.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Man: Waiter, this soup is cold Waiter: It’s Gaspacho Man: Gaspacho, this soup is cold…
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bronwyns.bsky.social @bronwyns.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Saw the amazing Carsie Blanton in Winnipeg the other night. I'm obsessed. Here's her new song:
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KangaRod @kangarod.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
Why the fuck do they keep saying “taxpayers”. You can say residents, citizens, or even people. The only reason anyone would draw lines around “taxpayers” as the people they speak for is if they think children shouldn’t be represented.
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Rachel Gilmore @rachelgilmore.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Cool, another big pro-corporate, anti-worker move from our Conservative prime minister! I am becoming The Joker Source: www.ctvnews.ca/politics/art...
CTV News article text reads: The sources tell CTV News the gover ment has conveyed to them that the legislation will be aimed at introducing binding mediation before strike action is taken. Industry's message to the government was that its traditional tool to use for binding arbitration, Section 107 of the Canadian Labour Code, can only be applied too late in the labour dispute process and from its perspective, does not adequately prevent the damage caused from a work stoppage.
Several union sources CTV News spoke with are on red alert over the possibility of this legislation and contend it will strip workers of their right to strike. Unifor National President Lana Payne expressed worry on Friday in an interview on The Graham Richardson Show on HeartRadio.
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The Real News Network @therealnews.com · 16/09/2026
“Palantir has no place in our hospitals, no place in our community… Nurses are advocates first. We’re trained to advocate and to speak up when something is wrong, and that’s what we’re doing.” @nationalnurses.bsky.social
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'Purge Palantir!': Union nurses warn Big Tech and Big Brother are invading our healthcare system
“Palantir has no place in our hospitals, no place in our community... Nurses are advocates first. We're trained to advocate and to speak up when something is wrong, and that's what we're doing.”
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Resist 🕎🍉 @antizionistjew.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
🧵 People think the movie "Naza" is supposed to be a portmanteau of "Nazis" and "Gaza", but no, the name of the movie actually has a deep meaning behind it Naza in Hebrew (נז"א) is an abbreviation of נזק בלתי אגבי, which means "collateral damage" I've volunteered in a research unit >
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Jonathan Howard @joho.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Our current medical establishment proved themselves to be unbothered by viruses that kill and injure people. Listen for yourself. Too bad so few people cared about this in 2020.
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Dr. Jay Bhattacharya, say sonly 1 in 500 teachers will die, October 2020
YouTube video by Jonathan Howard
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T. Ryan Gregory 🇨🇦 @tryangregory.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
That's the plan for Smith and Carney. www.nationalobserver.com/2026/09/14/n...
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Alberta could spend billions on public gas pipelines to fuel data centre boom, leaked document suggests
The document was presented at a Sept. 10 cabinet meeting by Energy Minister Brian Jean. It lays out an expansive plan to expand the province's natural gas network by bringing it under public ownership...
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Resist 🕎🍉 @antizionistjew.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
#BREAKING | Israel’s Biggest Human Rights Organisation "B’Tselem" Releases A Comprehensive Report Into The Israeli Occupation Of The West Bank "The Elimination Project" "Israel’s Systematic Dismantling of Palestinian Collective Life in the West Bank"
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Native Calgarian Podcast 🪶🧡>🇨🇦 @nativecalgarian.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Everyone here is getting their special ballot? www.elections.ab.ca/request-a-sp... photocopy your id while you wait for it in the mail so you’re ready to send it back as soon as you get it.
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Request a Special Ballot - Elections Alberta
Electors who are unable to vote in person may vote by mail by applying for a Special Ballot. You may choose to: Mail the ballot to your home address, Mail the ballot to an alternate address (e.g. for ...
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Heba Gowayed هبة جويد @hebagowayed.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
9/11/2001 I was a freshman in high school in Alabama, I wore a hijab. In gym class my teacher wheeled in a screen. Something horrible was happening. I watched, mouth agape as the second tower hit. We were silent. As that period reached an end, my name was announced on the loud speaker. 1/
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Mondoweiss @mondoweiss.net · 09/09/2026
In the pediatrics department at Nasser Hospital in Gaza, doctors are seeing a surge in stunted growth among children. This lasting mark of Israel's engineered famine may affect cognition, hormones, and health for generations to come. mondoweiss.net/2026/09/isra...
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Israel starved Gaza. Now doctors fear it has permanently damaged a generation.
In the pediatrics department at Nasser Hospital in Gaza, doctors are seeing a surge in stunted growth among children. This lasting mark of Israel’s engineered famine may affect cognition, hormones,…
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Jeremy Appel 🍉 @readtheorchard.org · 09/09/2026
This is a good story, but it's odd that the CBC refers vaguely to "a media report" near the end of the story rather than giving credit to @nationalobserver.com for its significant scoop to which this is quite clearly a followup. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
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‘Environmental racism’: Fort Chipewyan residents protest proposed treat-and-release plan for tailings water | CBC News
Suncor packed up its mobile information display a day and a half early during a recent community engagement session in Fort Chipewyan, Alta., after area residents protested a plan to release treated t...
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Jeremy Appel 🍉 @readtheorchard.org · 08/09/2026
NEW: A group of rural Alberta landowners is teaming up with environmental law charity Ecojustice to challenge the Alberta Energy Regulator's underfunded orphan well levy in court. open.substack.com/pub/theorcha...
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Landowners take AER to court for underfunded orphan well cleanup
The regulator increased its orphan well levy to almost $155 million this year, which represents just a fraction of the nearly $1.7 billion and growing cost of closing the wells.
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Kim Siever @kimsiever.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
The latest news story I wrote for @abworker.bsky.social
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T. Ryan Gregory 🇨🇦 @tryangregory.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Satire, but...
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Night of the Abigail @popeguilty.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Narratives without any sex scenes? You mean non-friction?
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🇬🇾🗽Sydette The Dreaded Gorgon🗽🇬🇾 @blackamazon.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
We can’t just “take the tech bros out” to solve certain fundamental problems Because the tech bro entitlement .. is also in church ladies. And leftist organizers College professors Moderators Queer polycules What changed was the lack of isolation on multiple visibilities
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Alex Hanna @alexhanna.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
This replicates the way that people talk about "AI" and cancer, or AlphaFold and materials engineering. This is narrative work, and researchers are embroiled in jurisdictional and resourcing battles. It is helpful to obscure at times, and sometimes it puts you in interest alignment w AI labs.
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Pookleblinky @pookleblinky.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Elizabeth Holmes, her eyes enormous and unblinking: we have such sights to show you Pinhead: goddamn that is creepy as shit, I'm outta here
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Jeremy Appel 🍉 @readtheorchard.org · 04/09/2026
Absolutely criminal www.nationalobserver.com/2026/09/04/n...
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Alberta exempts Suncor's tailings pond dump from review, angering downstream communities
The oil giant won't need an environmental impact assessment before treating and dumping millions of litres of tar sand tailings into the Athabasca River.
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Native Calgarian Podcast 🪶🧡>🇨🇦 @nativecalgarian.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
www.theconfluence.ca/hotdogsandho... What does Alberta separatism look like when we stop looking at Alberta only through a colonial lens? Dive into deeper conversations about Treaty 7, settler relationships with member of Kainai Nation and Assistant Professor at U of L Ryan Crosschild.
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Hot Dogs & Hot Takes on History — The Confluence
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The Palestine Project @palestineproject.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Itamar Ben-Gvir claims proposal for illegal forced displacement of 2 million people is ‘realistic’ and ‘concrete’
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Far-right Israeli minister outlines plan for removal of all Palestinians from Gaza
Itamar Ben-Gvir claims proposal for illegal forced displacement of 2 million people is ‘realistic’ and ‘concrete’
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Mondoweiss @mondoweiss.net · 02/09/2026
Israel regards any kite flown in Gaza as an "act of war" and has ordered the army to treat them like drones. "I don't know what we can do that won't anger Israel," says Muhammad Owais, 13, who struggles to understand the rules of this new reality. mondoweiss.net/2026/08/chil...
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Children in Gaza are afraid flying their kites will get them killed
Israel regards any kite flown in Gaza as an “act of war” and has ordered the army to treat them like drones. “I don’t know what we can do that won’t anger Israel,” says Muhammad Owais, 13, who…
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Goldstein (still not a pseudonym) @goldstein.latinsky.app · 01/09/2026
HOLY FUCK. So, not only has China banned Windows, which itself was a huge bifurcation of the software ecosystem, but now even a NATO member (and fellow P5er)? I mean, I get that this is Gaullism (love it, btw) but damn. The Tower of Babel has fallen.
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Resist 🕎🍉 @antizionistjew.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
I’ve experienced a lot throughout my life in Israel. But in the last two weeks, I’ve been targeted by the settlers themselves, and I’ve never experienced anything like that in my life. Just to be clear: I’m not giving up. They’re not going to win, but my recent (1/3)
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King Algamemnon @adamrothman.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
I wanted to say something witty about this but couldn't come up with the perfect bon marmot. www.wsj.com/lifestyle/tr...
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Marmots Are Terrorizing California Hikers and Stealing Their Shoes
The cute but destructive rodents are criminal masterminds, easily circumventing humans’ meager defenses.
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Hoodlum 🇺🇸 @nothoodlum.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
Peter Thiel is getting a very cold reception outside his new mansion in the exclusive Barrio Parque neighborhood in Buenos Aires, Argentina. Argentinians are chanting: “Out, out, Peter out.”
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Innsmouth Looksmaxxing @gonebabygone.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
One time while he was on tour in Australia Sinatra called a woman journalist a whore and her union got all the others to sympathy strike so he couldn't stay in his hotel, travel anywhere or leave the country until he apologized, I can't remember why I thought of this
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Resist 🕎🍉 @antizionistjew.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
A settler sent me a DM.. "[My name], you are rebelling against the entire Jewish people in favor of the Amalekite Islam and its helpers. You will pay with your freedom for this, according to the laws of the Jewish state and its democracy, for treason; you are >
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404 Media @404media.co · 30/08/2026
We placed a tracking device in a shipment of rare books to see which AI company was buying it, and found an Amazon facility where Amazon scans and destroys books. www.404media.co/we-tracked-a...
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We Tracked a Shipment of Rare Books. It Ended at an Amazon AI Training Facility
We placed a tracking device in a shipment of rare books to see which AI company was buying it, and found an Amazon facility where Amazon scans and destroys books.
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Dr. Hilary Agro, PhD 🍄 @hilaryagro.com · 30/08/2026
Holy shit. If you're a man, listen to this as soon as you have undivided attention to give. Thank me later
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Bronze Age Reset: De- and Re-Mythologizing the Manosphere
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T. Ryan Gregory 🇨🇦 @tryangregory.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
www.thecanadianpressnews.ca/prairies_bc/...
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Alberta's Smith to meet with U.S. officials next week amid trade war
EDMONTON - Alberta Premier Danielle Smith is set to meet with U.S. officials next week, after recently saying she wants to see Canada double down on diplomacy and avoid any
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Colorado Springs Anti-Fascists @cosantifascists.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
Our webhost is under attack.
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Native Calgarian Podcast 🪶🧡>🇨🇦 @nativecalgarian.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
ASIRT says smashing a 12yr old autistic child’s head, causing a skull fracture is totally fine in Calgary #MentalHealth #bellLetsTalk
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Native Calgarian Podcast 🪶🧡>🇨🇦 @nativecalgarian.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
This whole piece is a banger. “It’s a philosophy of impoverishment, intellectually and morally. Under such a belief system, any victory for Indigenous people—no matter how little it affects the actual lives of Canadians—is intolerable.” thewalrus.ca/why-is-anti-...
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Why Is Anti-Indigenous Racism on the Rise? | The Walrus
The new “Indian problem”
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David at FOIAball @foiaball.com · 26/08/2026
Wanna know something I think would be crazy? It would be crazy if XX-XY Athletics, the apparel firm stoking outrage against the WNBA, had a secret, Koch brothers-aligned, oil rich family fortune behind it. But that would be crazy, right??? www.foiaball.com/p/xx-xy-athl...
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The oil money lurking behind the WNBA outrage
XX-XY Athletics has an interesting paper trail.
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Ryan Hoffman @somati-ca.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
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Paris Marx @parismarx.com · 26/08/2026
The United States is taking aim at Canada once again, with a crushing new set of tariffs. Ultimately, government will need to solve this. But in the same way Canadians are avoiding US alcohol, produce, and other goods, they should get off US tech products too. Luckily, I have a guide for that.
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Getting off US tech: a guide
I’m in the process of dropping US tech services. Here’s how I did it, and options you should consider.
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