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jmtheodor.bsky.social
Ungulate paleobiologist, fibre nerd. Professor @UCalgary in Canada. Opinions mine. Born in the traditional territory of the Anishinaabeg and Haudenosaunee, living on Treaty 7 land. She/her.
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This is it, folks. Far larger than Harvard itself, as large as Harvard is. Every nonprofit from the center leftward is on notice for potential destruction.

The Build Canada folks are floating reforms to the immigration system that include conditioning the treatment of refugees based on their economic contributions. This is gross.

Told you so.

In Canada, we would call them the Southern Rockies. ⚒️🧪

My take on the “we need to hear more right wing opinions” thing is the people saying it believes that everyone is as right wing as they are but they just don’t say it because they’re afraid people will get mad, but if we hit a saturation point everyone will suddenly drop the mask and agree with them

Turn your ridings "RED" Alberta, vote for Canada's sovereignty and freedom. Look what's happening in the US, it must never happen to us. #VoteLiberal #CarneyForCanada #ElbowsUp Vote Liberal Everywhere

i keep thinking about the gender breakdowns in the contemporary canadian election (Nanos Research)

Died This Day: Rosalind Franklin (July 25, 1920 - Apr. 16, 1958) contributed to the discovery of DNA. She never received the recognition she deserved for her independent work having died of cancer four years before the Nobel Prize was awarded to Crick and Watson.

Danielle Smith’s house of cards is crumbling around her… 🃏 Today I asked THREE separate UCP cabinet ministers if they would stand up and support our call for a full public inquiry into the shady CorruptCare scandal. Not one would. If they’ve got nothing to hide, why wouldn’t they say yes? 🤔

We knew it. 👇 #cdnpoli

Hey #CalgaryCentre, don't like #DanielleSmith betraying #Canada in your name? Ask yourself if @gregmcleanyyc.bsky.social has ever showed a lick of leadership & spoke up about it for you. We need send to parliament people that CARE about this country, not quisling sellouts. Vote him out. #abpoli #yyc

Reminder that misogyny, ageism and fatphobia are not appropriate responses to transphobia and are in no way useful activism or allyship

It is really bothering me (understatement) that the message is “bring back that one innocent guy” and not “WHAT THE ACTUAL FUCK SHUT DOWN THIS WHOLE OPERATION IMMEDIATELY.”

This would be nice, but academia isn't ever going to give up it's belief that PhDs expire approximately 3 years after they're granted. We're already seeing it ratchet down to about 18 months for some things....

The White House science advisor might be a big fan of Christopher Nolan movies but those are not (yet) reality The only technologies the US has that can manipulate time and space are hallucinogenic agents; and those are not limited to the US.

Again, every single day I discover a new reason to hate this soulless fuck.

While Trumpism has it own origins, it is unquestionably true that it is the conservative legal movement/FedSoc etc. which imported foreign ideas into the fabric of American law and created the idea, now pervasive in the American judiciary that the President is presumptively able to violate ...

That’s right… Bill Kristol?

NEW: Alliance Defending Freedom is urging Trump to cut ties with the American College of Obstetricians & Gynecologists, org that helps recommend which women's preventive services to cover—including birth control. Letter cites "items that can prevent the implantation of embryos after conception"

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

i can’t believe i have to say this but DO NOT FEED OTHER PEOPLE’S WORK INTO AI. this is awful and heartbreaking.

Alberta MLA Peter Guthrie, representing Airdrie-Cochrane, has been removed from the United Conservative Party caucus by those MLAs. This is days after he voted in favour of an NDP motion in the legislature supporting a public inquiry into procurement and contracting allegations. #AbLeg

“A woman is defined as someone who can be bred” is the unspoken part under all of this, very damning for Western conceptions of reproductive rights — womanhood as it pertains to various sex & reproductive formations

Arson suspect called Josh Shapiro a ‘monster’ and cited governor’s ‘plans’ for Palestinian people, warrant says www.inquirer.com/news/pennsyl... via @phillyinquirer

Ultimately, we argue, it begs the quintessential question in Canadian politics today: #AreWeStupidToo #cdnpoli #Poilievre #Trump #Russia

This is where we are headed. If you don’t believe me, ask what basis the government had to send me and my family to a prison camp in Arkansas. We “looked like the people who bombed Pearl Harbor.”

MLA Peter Guthrie has been expelled from the UCP caucus.

I am intrigued (and I guess heartened) by the fact that The Hollywood Reporter is both running this story and the media sponsor of the event. Had it broken elsewhere or were they getting out ahead of it?

I cannot repeat enough that EVERYONE sent to El Salvador was sent without due process and we should not be focusing on just the one guy.

Ahead of this evening's critical — and chaotic — Canadian election leaders' debate, the debate commission has given right-wing conspiracy news outlet Rebel News *five times* as many spots for its (fake) journalists as actual news outlets. www.thestar.com/politics/fed...

Beyond the horrifying "look at us doing tourist shit in a foreign concentration camp," nature of the photos, doesn't this totally undermine the claim that it's somehow impossible to get the people that were illegally shipped over here.

👇👇👇👇

Is it possible defining 'woman' is, in and of itself, a reactionary liberal move that allows power to police boundaries of abjection, control and social positioning

Still avoiding a plague, but the plague is fascism instead of a virus

the UK press runs an average of three stories - almost universally negative - about trans people *a day*

if you are a cis person it costs you nothing to just say today that you see & hear your trans sisters & brothers & others over in the UK today -- and around the world, too, knowing that rulings like today's ripple out in ugly ways.

At the same time he halts Black Lung protections for miners. Trump supports the coal companies but screws the miners--leaving them to die. @vegasexpats.bsky.social gizmodo.com/coal-miners-...

JUST IN: Judge Boasberg finds probable cause to hold administration in contempt of court for defying his order to turn around planes, demands new details in order for officials to “purge” their contempt. Details TK

Canadian right-wing media, which is largely American-owned, keeps praising Pierre Poilievre. Convicted criminal Conrad Black, who was pardoned by Donald Trump, keeps praising Pierre Poilievre. PP is MAGA to the core and a traitor to Canada.

NEW: North Carolina officials say that the number of contested military/overseas ballots cast in the state Supreme Court race is 1,409, 4k fewer than previously reported. These ballots, plus 266 "never resided" voters, are still at risk of disenfranchisement. From: @mattdcohen.bsky.social

“Voting against $10/day daycare, dental care, school meal programs and minimum wage increases doesn’t help more Canadians become parents. Poilievre’s interest in women’s breeding abilities reeks of alt-right natalism without the social programs to support it.” An editorial by @mtltoula.bsky.social.