-23C is starting to feel normal, sigh #alberta. Brrr 🥶

This picture is so perfect. There's Susie in the middle, a confused and exhausted look on her face like she's a harried mom trying to keep a chaotic household in order...surrounded on her left by dead eyed psychopaths she hopes she won't have to bail out of jail and smarmy sycophants on her right.

The maître d at The Nazi Rainforest Cafe is looking for your reservation.

I wish I could retweet this 100 times over. Nobody is coming to save us. We have to save ourselves. #ableg #abpoli

Great to have Masai Ujiri in Ottawa yesterday. Through his work with Giants of Africa, the UN, and global partners, Masai is helping to strengthen Canada’s partnerships — while empowering and supporting Black communities across Canada.

Great read from @jack-farrell.bsky.social. Out of Alberta's 19 premiers, only Smith and Social Credit leader William Aberhart have faced a citizen recall. Aberhart blamed shadowy forces behind the scenes pulling strings to orchestrate his ouster. Weeks later, his government voted to repeal the act.

Q: Are you implying that these influencers take the vulnerability of young men to make money for themselves? GILMORE: Absolutely. All of this is a grift... There is a lot of money that you can make in telling people that you have all the answers.

This is a great thread about Alberta and Albertans. There are so many great people here, (like everywhere) but when good people are quiet, the loudest think they speak for us. They don’t.

Okay #ableg guys, it's the weekend Time to sign those recalls This is going to be a thread with all the recall websites I can find. These are small campaigns so please repost & help them out If I don't post the site you want, look for it on the Operation Recall website operationtotalrecall.ca

After the province tabled Bill 14 yesterday, which would have stopped the court proceedings on whether a proposed Alberta separation question contravenes the Constitution, the judge came out at a previously scheduled appearance today and just... dropped his decision. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

Just finished this fascinating book. I knew very little Russian history but kept captivated by the story telling through her family, other powerful and notable Russian women. A very humanizing book that gives a glimpse of Russian culture through a woman’s perspective.

Activist in Europe. Elsewhere not so much.

What struck me most on Europe wasn’t the focus on value, freedom of speech etc - again, very similar to Vance’s Munich speech - but how activist it is. This is about directly trying to influence what is going on in Europe:

American hegemony on the European continent benefitted the USA. It was never an act of altruism. It was very clear what would happen if the Americans pulled back.

Nobody is allowed agency, the world according to the US.

An entire room full of powerful old white people smiling and laughing as the president dehumanizes black immigrants and the first black president. Just fucking pathetic.

People used to say, with great confidence, that variable renewables could never safely provide more than 5% of grid power. That estimate has crept up ever since, though the "great confidence" part never wavers. Anyway, about China ...

The Raptors are halfway to a 10th straight win, and it should be said: Masai Ujiri built this, and while Bobby Webster is more than capable, the firing of Masai looks worse every day: www.thestar.com/sports/rapto...

Plenty of boobirds as Danielle Smith continues to make the pitch that Alberta and the feds are making progress on their partnership.

There seem to be 2 general opinions abt the MOU: AB conservatives: The MOU gives AB everything we wanted LPC supporters: MOU is great because Carney got pragmatic concessions from AB, but don't worry no pipeline will be built Anyone else: The MOU gives AB conservatives everything they wanted

The reality, of course, is that Miller and a significant portion of Trump’s base are the ones who failed to assimilate to America’s post-WWII culture of multi-racial democracy & religious pluralism…and they are now using their power to destroy that once dominant (and still popular) American culture.

- oil tanker ban dead - feds to ramp up subsidies for #CCUS - new non-emitting power to come from nuclear, not renewables - greenwashing regulations to be gutted (not entirely removed) - #CCUS and pipeline mutually contingent, so emissions won't come down before they go up

Lots to unpack here. A couple immediate takeaways: - oil and gas emissions cap is officially dead (after being only implicitly killed in #Budget2025) - clean electricity regulations potentially dead, following further negotiations - Alberta gov will be the proponent for new bitumen pipeline

Here's the Carney-Smith pipeline MOU: www.pm.gc.ca/en/news/back...

There’s Searle. I remember a few short years ago him standing on a pride sidewalk with one other UCP MLA, now he uses the NWC against people.

And then there were 9. 6 new recall petitions have been approved against UCP MLAs, with the information now posted to the Elections Alberta website Joining the mix are MLAs Myles McDougall, Ric McIver, Muhammad Yaseen, Rajan Sawhney, RJ Sigurdson + Dale Nally. www.elections.ab.ca/recall-initi...

In 2001, Alberta got 80% of its electricity from coal. In 2015, the province announced coal power would be phased out by 2030. In 2024, the last coal plant shut down, six years ahead of schedule. In 2025, Alberta's premier is musing about bringing coal power back. 🔗: youtu.be/WEgu3im_22I?...

He cites Danielle Smith as someone who could make trade more difficult, but surely she won’t. Ugh my premier has quite the reputation.

I’ll give Carney credit for making many new trade deals. That’s what Canada voted for, so I’m glad that part of his agenda is being followed through.

A fossil-fuel economy, concentrated in the hands of a few, rewards hierarchy. A clean-energy economy, distributed across regions and technologies, rewards democracy.” #cdnpoli #Canada #CanadaSky #Alberta #abpoli #ableg #yyc #yeg

America putting most of its eggs in the generative AI basket, China going hard into green tech. When history looks back on this period, someone is going to look awfully stupid.

Agreed on both points. This is a good lesson.

#Edmonton, #Alberta, Fight #Bill9!! #AlbertaLegislature, Edmonton Sunday, November 23rd 10:30 AM This is a moment for #Albertans to stand up, show up, and make it CLEAR that our #CharterRights are NOT OPTIONAL and they are NOT political bargaining chips, be there Sunday! #Democracy needs us 🇨🇦

On this Trans Day of Remembrance, I hope Albertans will remember that trans kids and teens are living breathing humans who just want to be themselves, without fear of hate and discrimination. Demonizing kids merely to score political points in some weird culture war is craven and cruel.

Swedish Deputy PM: Sweden needs to pick its friends wisely, and we are choosing Canada… So when we come to America, we come to Canada now.

And of course, there's zero evidence of any cases of 'sterilization of children', because that's not what's happening. This is nothing but an anti-trans moral panic propagated by evil, hateful scum.

NEW: Alberta's government has opted to use the notwithstanding clause to strip the Charter rights in sections 7 through 15 of transgender children, doctors, teachers, and sporting organizations as part of Bill 9.

This right here. Our healthcare system shouldn’t be divided between the haves and have nots. I’m done with this government that takes rights away using not withstanding clause,pushing the extremely unpopular Alberta pension plan, provincial police and separatist talk. Let’s have an election

The Grey Cup is on, so it's time, once again, to remember that Pierre Trudeau rolled up to Grey Cup in 1970 looking like this.

My takeaway from every new Epstein revelation is that some powerful people victimized many powerless young women, many more knew, some actively enabled it--and we're still being told that MeToo and accountability for sexual violence have gone too far

Made everything worse, and they're still blaming immigrants because the far right understands that the last thing anyone wants to do is bear the shame of their own mistakes bsky.app/profile/chri...

"At least three attendees wore the uniform of the recently formed Second Sons Canada ... Second Sons Canada is run by Jeremy MacKenzie, the founder of Diagolon, who this year filmed himself making a Hitler salute in a video shared on Telegram" www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

This is not surprising, especially when the provincial government removes photo radar so now more people are inclined to race through yellow lights. www.cbc.ca/player/play/...

!!!!! Public service announcement!

If I'm doing the math correctly, Musk's big pay packet yesterday could have made each of these now-dead people millionaires instead. He is among the sickest men the world has ever produced.

Hi Bluesky 👋 Small life update: I’m at the centre of a multimillion dollar lawsuit in Alberta launched by a failed candidate for Jason Kenney’s UCP It may be the longest and most expensive media trial in Canadian history I’m ready to go public about it and I want to share more details with you 🧵

Liberals literally recruiting Conservatives with their budget

Wow, he’s from my parents’ riding…. I am hoping NS Tories remain like how I remember them and not the reform conservatives of Alberta. Which makes this flip very reasonable as Carney has some progressive conservative vibes.

In Chicago, a woman was driving to get coffee when a DHS vehicle fleeing an angry crowd crashed into her car. Armed agents jumped out of the vehicle, yanked her door open, pulled her by the legs out of her car at gunpoint, held her incommunicado for hours, then released her with no charges.