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Governments love limiting strikes because strikes challenge employer and government power. It is tiring, but a truism that continues through the ages. ccla.org/fundamental-...

submitted 1 hour ago • 1 comment

If road deaths were a virus, we’d call it a pandemic. Safer transport helps us all – and we need it urgently. Deaths on the road costs countries up to 5% of GDP. Centring transport around people, not cars, can propel development. www.theguardian.com/global-devel... via @theguardian.com @who.int

submitted 3 hours ago • 1 comment

Elon Musk is a bandit. And Doug Ford just signed $100 million deal with him. Meanwhile he and Trump are trying to crush the people of Ukraine. Doug Ford says it's the "best bang for the buck." No Doug, this is what vichy collaborators do. Slava Ukraini

submitted 5 hours ago • 133 comments

Doug Ford will do anything to avoid talking to Ontario voters and media, even if it means doing fake negotiations with a junior file clerk and the White House parking attendant. You called this unnecessary election, Doug. Get back here and defend your record. #OnPoli www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

submitted 3 hours ago • 1 comment

Imagine watching billionaires take over and thinking capitalism is still good. 🤦‍♀️

submitted 2 days ago • 1 comment

Can someone explain to Doug Ford that Elon Musk controls the functioning of Starlink and Musk can deactivate it any time he wants? You know, like, say, as part of an economic bullying strategy?

submitted 8 hours ago • 0 comments

Pleading with people to understand exactly this:

submitted 20 hours ago • 8 comments

“If you had to guess the leading cause of death for children and young people around the world, what would you say? Malaria perhaps? Pneumonia? Suicide? They’re all high up there, but no, it’s road accidents.”

submitted 7 hours ago • 7 comments

A Tesla story in two parts: 1) Tesla recalls 375k cars after probe by National Highway Traffic Safety Administration apnews.com/article/tesl... 2) DOGE employee cuts fall heavily on agency that regulates Musk’s Tesla (NHTSA) www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...

submitted 21 hours ago • 2 comments

So the President not only fired the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs. He also fired the top JAGs at the Army, Navy and Air Force. Those are the lead people who determine what is a legal order and what is not. So if you're planning to do things that are illegal they're the most obvious obstacle.

submitted 14 hours ago • 148 comments

Danielle Smith went to the Vancouver game with tickets gifted to her by an Invest Alberta board member. Somehow, Sam Mraiche and another executive from MHCare ended up there, too. Not in the photo: AHS executives. #ableg #abpoli

submitted 13 hours ago • 5 comments

I've often insisted that we need to keep our eyes on Trump's actions more than his words (because so many of the words are bluster & lies). Now we have a genuinely dangerous action: a purge at the Pentagon, notably a purge of the top figures who can decide if Trump's commands are unconstitutional.

submitted 12 hours ago • 21 comments

Civil-rights lawyer here. In my business, this is called prima facie evidence of invidious race & gender discrimination. And the other chiefs—all white men—are comparators. The evidence in support of the discrimination claim includes Trump‘s own “DEI” statements admitting to discriminatory motive.

submitted 12 hours ago • 9 comments

Canada needs to ban Starlink NOW. I've been pushing this for so damn long, and people are finally waking up to the terrifying idea that Elon Musk having full control of your ACCESS TO INFORMATION is actually dangerous as fuck. Everything Elon is involved with needs to be banned in Canada.

submitted 12 hours ago • 11 comments

Of the Chiefs of Staff, vice chiefs of staff, and judge advocates general of the three branches, Trump fired all the women and Black people.

submitted 14 hours ago • 190 comments

Just look at these paragraphs from the AP story. Hegseth called Brown unqualified solely because he's Black. Then they fired him... and replaced him with a white guy so indisputably unqualified that he requires a Presidential waiver. This is what "merit" means to them. apnews.com/article/trum...

submitted 15 hours ago • 411 comments

Hello We can get off this ghastly hamster wheel to dystopia. What are the options? Check it out tomorrow

submitted 14 hours ago • 0 comments

Every single Ontarian needs to demand an answer to this question: which candidate for Premier in the upcoming election will rip up the Starlink contract with Musk? It’s a risk Ontario should not take. #onpoli

submitted 15 hours ago • 14 comments

This alone should be grounds for terminating Ontario’s contract with Starlink immediately.

submitted 16 hours ago • 20 comments

yeah let's put starlink into our community instead of building locally controlled infrastructure what could possibly go wrong

submitted 16 hours ago • 2 comments

This idea alone should have every Ontario voter running away from voting conservative. This absurd hare-brained fever dream is so ridiculous they can't even come up with shitty CGI for it like every other grifter. Visionaries my ass. #cdnpoli www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

submitted 17 hours ago • 2 comments

This is climate arson, yes, but also the entire value proposition of Tesla, the reason for its insane stock price, is that it would end up the Amazon of electric cars: the only real game in town. Killing off non-Tesla electric car infrastructure is a gift to Musk.

submitted 17 hours ago • 436 comments

A year ago this month, Trump said he would encourage Russia to attack NATO allies and "do whatever the hell they want" unless allies paid up. We thought it was so important, we ran it on the front page of the @mississippifreepress.org at a time when the New York Times and others didn't.

submitted 1 day ago • 37 comments

This is what I keep saying. This is why we can’t have nice things. The biggest obstacle between us creating something akin to utopia is a bunch of billionaires and their stupid ego ideas and companies, their wealth didn’t come from nowhere it came from us we deserve real returns

submitted 20 hours ago • 0 comments

I've spent a lot of time rambling around Oregon's second district, which takes up two thirds of our state and is as rural and Republican as it gets... if they're shouting "tax the rich" and "tax Elon" in LaGrande, something is definitely happening here.

submitted 16 hours ago • 18 comments

Shutting down already-installed infrastructure in the name of government "efficiency" while also harming business competitors of a government official who just happens to have his own network of EV chargers.

submitted 17 hours ago • 14 comments

NEW: A couple days ago, Breakdown host Nate Pike announced that he was being court ordered to wipe the Alberta politics show from the web as part of a libel lawsuit from a well-connected Alberta businessman. This development should concern all journalists. open.substack.com/pub/theorcha...

submitted 3 days ago • 17 comments

Moe's government can't staff the hospitals we already have. The extra building will get his cronies paid and, I highly suspect, these largely unused spaces will also come pretty cheap to the privatized healthcare he wants to usher in. I think it's a setup. #Sask #SkPoli

submitted 19 hours ago • 3 comments

2 fucking headlines right next to each other

submitted 22 hours ago • 76 comments

Things hurting the US economy: -mass layoffs of federal workers -funding cuts to every federal dept -corporate layoffs -measles and tuberculosis outbreaks -high flu rates -$8/dozen eggs -new tariffs raising the cost of everything -Canada boycotts US travel and goods -concerns about airplane safety

submitted 17 hours ago • 20 comments

The USA isn't just on a path towards being universally hated around the world, it's also fast becoming irrelevant. I fear it will destroy a lot as it goes down but I also expect that w/in my lifetime it'll become dried out & forgettable like post-imperial Britain.

submitted 19 hours ago • 7 comments

This is astounding. It shows Albertans paid double - sometimes triple! - for surgeries at private surgical facilities connected to friends of the UCP than through AHS. And the Premier’s staff & Health Minister allegedly pressured & then fired the CEO of AHS when she asked questions about them.

submitted 19 hours ago • 21 comments

Beware the fat cat Conservative mob boss Doug Ford. Vote Liberal or NDP to defeat Cons across the Province.

submitted 21 hours ago • 0 comments

Remember when John Roberts gutted the Medicaid expansion because he said the offer of medicaid money was too coercive to the states bsky.app/profile/atru...

submitted 19 hours ago • 149 comments

Should I spoil the ending? It's a manpower issue? Having hope that a building will solve a manpower issue isn't the inspiring position he hopes it is. Check out how the UCC in #yqr predictably cut back hours right after the election.

submitted 19 hours ago • 2 comments

Do you worry about how Ontario will fare economically in the coming months? Do you wonder how different governments would avert economic decline/who you should vote for? Then go to the library/buy the Toronto Star tomorrow. I asked for interviews and read all the platforms so you wouldn't have to.

submitted 20 hours ago • 1 comment

BRAVO to Maine Governor Janet Mills for slapping petty tyrant trump in the face with her calmly defiant "see you in court." THIS IS HOW IT'S DONE. 🔥🔥🔥

submitted 21 hours ago • 1821 comments

it’s so funny to be like “we don’t need diverse spies”

submitted 21 hours ago • 94 comments

There's one day of early voting left, nobody has their voter cards, we're buried under more snow than we've had in years, Doug Ford is in Washington hobnobbing with the GOP, and nobody is pissed off about any of this. This is pathetic. Ontario is pathetic. #onpoli

submitted 23 hours ago • 2 comments

ny times, the most well financed, praised news source on the planet, able to influence govts, institutions, etc: "here's some lie, dont fact check it, just trust us" me, who failed high school geometry, googling while waiting for a burger: "yeah, that's not true." www.dailykos.com/stories/2025...

submitted 21 hours ago • 36 comments

A new @carrietait.bsky.social & @alannasmith.bsky.social story reveals that Alberta's Turkish meds importer had stakes in proposed private surgery co's tied up in AHS ex-CEO's allegations. So much in here: www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/alber...

submitted 21 hours ago • 10 comments