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I was trying to come up with an analogy and the best I could think of was "imagine if you were sick and the government denied access to modern medicine and forced you to rely on outdated 19th century stuff" and, oh

Hey Grande Prairie! 📢 Me & some UCP MLAs are finally having a Town Hall which ISN'T solely for UCP CA members! Which is why we're giving limited notice, because we don't want a lot of haters coming and booing me. Register here: unitedconservative.ca/events/town-... #abpoli #UCPCorruption

The final days of the Alberta Legislature’s Spring 2025 session pissed me off. I rolled up my sleeves right after and started a research project. I present to you all an #ableg 🧵: Danielle Smith’s Legislative Wrecking Ball: Part One

Thank you for this. So well said and echoes my sense of dread at our “no-obligations complete absence of a single sincere concern”

Jen Gerson sends the bat signal to all knife-and-fork conservatives in Alberta. Will they heed the call? A very incisive piece of writing. open.substack.com/pub/theline/...

This piece - about the consequences of coming out as autistic- is very important to me, and pretty damn personal. I hope people find it useful. observer.co.uk/news/first-p...

The election is over but the MAGA onslaught against Prime Minister Carney and Canadian unity has only just started. In the gangster world of Putin, Trump and trolls, Canada is a threat because we are a democratic nation. My reflection on the coming storm. charlieangus.substack.com/p/the-coming...

You want to know what #climate scientists got wrong about #climatechange? We were too cautious. It's happening faster than we anticipated and the impacts are going to be worse.

"If you or any other Canadians are not happy living on Treaty lands, they are free to apply for citizenship elsewhere." Sturgeon Lake Cree Nation issues a scathing rebuke of Danielle Smith's talks on a national unity crisis.

www.thelastamericanroadtrip.com

JUST VOTE

I don’t support the Liberal party. I don’t really support Carney; at best, he is a Red Tory. Good gawd, I hope he and the Liberals win the election. In an ideal world, there would be a viable party that’s actually socialist. In case you missed it, this isn’t an ideal world.

I don’t want to state the obvious, but the timing of the Premier suggesting a referendum on Alberta separation is BEYOND suspect & concerning. This comes after her several & frequent trips to the USA to media frolic with the far right, & at the same time Trump is threatening our sovereignty. #ableg

Great recap of the UCP/Alberta government procurement scandal, including some important pieces that haven't been discussed much. You should read it. There's NO WAY Smith and her corrupt cabal of grifters should be allowed to slither out of this: threadreaderapp.com/thread/19030... #ableg #cdnpoli

Some key takeaways 🧵(do read the full statement!) - govt has taken over direct operational control of HC - if premier/MoH tells any HC leader to do something they CANNOT say no - consequence of doing so is loss of their job and livelihood (& maybe even a permanent ban from AB!)

Yes, the high ranking Democrats are in on it. Yes, this was obvious many years ago: sarahkendzior.substack.com/p/ten-articl...

Green Party co-leader Jonathan Pedneault has a plan to protect Canadian sovereignty -- and it's worth thinking seriously about. www.davidmoscrop.com/p/interview-...

This is good. Real good eh www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Lzh...

So... A UCP Minister stepped down because of conerns on government procurement, a train wreck of a budget with at least 1 UCP MLA condemning it... What else did we miss? Also, see you at noon for a special episode/update! #abpoli #ableg #cdnpoli

As promised, here are the slides I shared with students to convince them to NOT use chatGPT and other artificial stupidity. TL;DR? AI is evil, unsustainable and stupid, and I'd much rather they use their own brains, make their own mistakes, and actually learn something. 🪄

Catching up on my homework, I finally had the chance to review Mentzelopoulos's statement of claim re the Alberta healthcare scandal. It really is a wide-ranging series of accusations. Here are my takeaways. 🧵https://www.scribd.com/document/827797277/Statement-of-Claim-Mentzelopoulos

Remember the true reasons for the season (family day) today, cocaine arrests. #abpoli

Danielle Smith, who knew??? Hockey can be watched from regular seats, without $70,000,000 organized crime kickbacks. Weird! #Ableg

If the allegations surrounding the UCP and AHS are true, it means they had a vested interest in not hiring surgeons in the public health care system. Hiring surgeons and expanding capacity in the public system would be competition, taking money and cases from the private CSFs.

Just saw a farmer say, "you don't have to admit you were wrong, you have to admit you were lied to, " and idk that seems like a good framing to call people in

I’m so tired of them. I’m tired of their lies. I’m tired of their disgusting amorality. I’m tired of their faces, their voices, their smirks. I’m tired of their inability to say — let alone do — even one thing remotely kind or humble or appropriate, ever. So tired.

Could be

Protestors outside the US treasury shout "lock him up" as calls for Elon Musk's arrest increase nationwide. #3E #USprotests #DOGE #UStreasury

The LA fires are the most costly disaster in US History. The climate crisis caused the LA fires. Fossil fuels have caused the climate crisis. Ergo, climate criminals should pay for the damage they inflict. This should not be controversial. https://buff.ly/3CxCabg

I appreciate all the people recommending the Shock Doctrine. I've been thinking about what makes Trump's use of these tactics a little different. In recent decades, shock tactics were used mainly to rapidly impose neoliberal economic policies. But what Trump is doing goes way beyond that. a 🧵

Wow

Poetry Foundation not fucking around with today's poem of the day www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/89897/...

Annoy a Nazi youtu.be/ALH0l2CbjCk?...

Socialist Wednesday. ✊

physics of climate impacts 101: - Stuff gets hot (worse heatwaves) - Hot air holds more water vapor (heavier rainfall) - Hot air is thirstier air (higher drought risk) - Warm water is hurricane food (stronger storms) - Hot water expands and hot ice melts (sea level rise)

Mark Cherrington @MarkCherrington A very good article on how this government is destroying our parks and natural habitats. An election is less than three years away. I hope some of the UCP in the closer fought #yyc ridings appreciate this fact. #abpoli edmontonjournal.com/opinion/colu...

Climate scientist Michael Mann explaining to @channel4news.bsky.social host how the 1.5 C degree rise in global temperatures is driving the extreme weather events we're seeing all over the world. c: @michaelemann.bsky.social #LosAngelesWildfires #ClimateCrisis #ExtremeWeather #GlobalWarming

I am sending around "Oligarchs’ Island" again, in the immodest conviction that this little satire will have more analytic and predictive power than most of what you read or watch this coming year. snyder.substack.com/p/oligarchs-...

15 years old, but still completely relevent — and if we had acted 15 years ago, the “better world” we could be creating today would be a LOT better and easier to reach. There are real consequences we’re just starting to see to not heeding this cartoon a lot sooner. Heed it now. #ClimateCrisis

Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. #BookSky #Books #BookChallenge Day 20

Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. #BookSky #Books #BookChallenge Day 19

Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. #BookSky #Books #BookChallenge Day 18

Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. #BookSky #Books #BookChallenge Day 17