Spot on.

“With the LNG drought pushing up electricity prices… a boom in rooftop solar is far more likely than a return to coal. Don’t look under the ground for the solution to the LNG crisis. The answer is in the skies.” Great piece by @justinmikulka.bsky.social powering-the-planet.ghost.io/the-simple-m...

They have voice! Comms are back and trajectory is good. 🎉🥳🙌

ICE pulled over a man in Patterson, CA + shot him 6 times, hitting his face. ICE now says he is part of a gang in LA – a city he has no connection to. Carlos Mendoza Hernandez, 36, now in ICU, says he's "never ever been in a gang" + was shot without justification www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

Swalwell is done. He needs to drop out of the governor race and should also resign from congress. Tom Steyer is my guy now.

hey kids you may want to tune into the NASA livestream for the Artemis 2 mission it's rapidly approaching home and the earth is getting *big* they're set to splashdown at 8:07 pm tonight www.youtube.com/live/6RwfNBt...

GOOD NEWS! Researchers at Stanford University have developed a UNIVERSAL vaccine known as GLA-3M-052-LS+OVA, that protects against a wide range of respiratory viruses, bacteria AND even allergens. The vaccine is delivered intranasally AND provides broad protection in the lungs for several MONTHS.

Hey New York- for day 100, we’re talking scaffolding with one of our greatest living documentarians, the one and only John Wilson. 1/2 homage to Wilson’s own style as we walk you through the policy, 1/2 Wilson’s own spectacular interview with the Mayor. One of my very favorites.

The AER's mandate is to "provide safe, orderly, and environmentally responsible energy development." They didn't notify Indigenous communities about a toxic spill for NINE months & now they're trying to dodge ALL accountability. www.nationalobserver.com/2026/04/09/n... #ABLeg #ABPoli #CDNPoli

David Shepherd, ABNDP MLA, is exactly right. To try to eliminate Lethbridge's NDP-held riding, UCP is merging Lethbridge with rural ridings (affecting 4 ridings). This was the subject of my Alberta Views (Jan/Feb) column. You can check it out at albertaviews.ca.

open.substack.com/pub/abresist... As if Danielle Smith and her UCP criminals weren’t corrupt enough, now they are demanding more power over judicial appointments. Alberta Deserves Better STOP VOTING UCP

15/ Tech oligarch Elon Musk calls Spain’s socialist Prime Minisfer Sanchez a “a true fascist totalitarian” tech oligarchs trying to interfere in Spains elections… www.politico.eu/article/spai... bsky.app/profile/did:...

"Indigo, Canada’s largest bookstore, is controlled by CEO Heather Reisman and her husband Gerald Schwartz. The two are the main funders of their HESEG Foundation, a charity that donates millions in scholarships which encourage foreigners (or “lone soldiers”) to join the Israeli military."

Beautiful

American aid has dried up. Europe's aid is being held up by a Putin stooge. Canada has the power to finance Ukraine's self-defense: so let's do it. www.thestar.com/opinion/star... (Posting again because the link didn't unfurl properly the first time.)

Saab dangles sovereign data centre in Montreal to undercut F-35 fighter contract #Canada #Cdnpoli Swedish firm pitches centre as means to keep mission-critical data out of U.S. hands www.cbc.ca/news/politic...

#abpoli #ableg #UCPFail

Ongoing BS in Alberta How can this be stopped? #ableg # abpoli #cdnpoli www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

This is your future Alberta. Worlds biggest planned datacenter but somehow... won't cause any of these issues. They straight up lied to your faces in those info briefings. #cndpoli #abpoli #YEG #YYC

An investigation by ProPublica and @texastribune.org found more than 60 instances of nepotism, self-dealing and conflicts of interest among 27 private schools that likely would have violated state laws had the schools been public. (Published Aug. 2025)

Sir John A. Macdonald was Prime Minister when Edith Monture was born. Jean Chretien was Prime Minister the year she died. In her 106 years, she led a fascinating life, and was a savior to many soldiers during the First World War. This is her story. 🧵 1/11

Keep your eyes on this #Alberta this is where Dani wants to take our public school system. #ableg #abpoli @naheednenshi.bsky.social

For the late/west coast crowd, my @xtramagazine.com column on Danielle Smith cribbing from the Orbán playbook as she is turning Alberta into a similar illiberal democracy, complete with attacking queer and trans people #canqueer #cdnpoli

Without Canada, this is a floating army, not durable defense architecture. A real alliance needs both depth and width. And the threat is not just Russia — it is the Russia–North Korea–China–Iran axis. China’s path to dominance runs through the Arctic. Canada is essential. Respectfully.

I wrote and posted this to Instagram a couple of days ago and it became my most-read poem ever. I’m honored I get to feel big feelings alongside you all. I’m posting it here too and want to use this space more consistently. Hello friends ❤️

Special Envoy for Picking Up Eastern European Models bsky.app/profile/donm...

Food Banks Canada and Put Food Banks Out of Business have long supported a guaranteed income in Canada. Why? Because food insecurity can strike anyone and we are all better off for addressing it. www.dailybread.ca/blog/what-su...

This is Capitu. She has always wanted to be in a band. Had no idea joining one would be this easy. 13/10 (TT: capitucao)

🧵Missed diagnoses, delayed treatment and poor medical care are driving record deaths in ICE custody. @kolyncheang.bsky.social and I spent months investigating the deaths of ICE detainees across the US. Over and over again, we found lapses in treatment that proved fatal.

Thought this was pretty astute.

I spent my Local News Day talking to past and present employees of the Roseburg News Review about the closure of that paper, announced yesterday. I can't emphasize enough how much local news is becoming a thing of the past.

The truest thing I’ve read today….🤣

You know something has gone terribly wrong when 94% of teachers have to dip into their own pockets to buy school supplies while the average Wall Street employee got a bonus of $246,900 in 2025. Hello?

Pope to Olympic Athletes: “It is possible to win without humiliating. One can lose without losing oneself. And this also applies beyond sport. It applies in social life, in politics, in relationships between peoples, because sport, if lived well, becomes a workshop for a reconciled humanity.”

Learned a lot reporting on this short feature for the ambitious new Canadian media outlet @be-giant.bsky.social

Amazon reportedly failed to create any new jobs at its HQ2 in Virginia last year, despite millions of state tax incentives. The company has cut 30,000 jobs since last October — while saving $4 billion in taxes under Trump's Big Ugly Bill. Trickle-down economics is a hoax.

In honor of National Poetry month, we think you should read Michael Ondaatje’s “To a Sad Daughter.”

A documentary about the First Lady that costs Amazon $75,000,000 and barely makes a dent at the box office is not a smart investment on its own. But what if that same company secures a $580,000,000 Pentagon contract around the same time? Suddenly, the math starts to look different.

the pope is not woke. american conservative christianity has spent the last few decades mutating into an evil doppelgänger of itself such that any conservative christian leader who says things like “it’s wrong to incinerate schoolchildren” scans as a titan of superhuman moral fiber.

As aside, this is one speech Melania didn’t plagiarize from Michelle Obama.

#Gaza Watch how our teams use 3D-printed physiotherapy masks to treat patients with severe facial burns. They apply steady pressure to healing burns and help prevent scarring and stiffness that could make breathing, moving or even facial expressions difficult.

The Uncomfortable Energy Truth Canada Must Stop Ignoring Iran war is accelerating the transition from combustion of oil/gas to electrification as the foundation of the global energy system. #cdnpoli #abpoli #bcpoli markhamhislop.substack.com/p/the-uncomf...

#ableg #abpoli Great - now Elon is replying to Parker who I’m sure has rushed off to have this framed 🖼️

Elon Musk advocating for Alberta separation last night

The Lebanese civilians killed in Israel's massacre - https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/lebanese-civilians-killed-israel-massacre

@david-farrier.bsky.social revisits “Briggflatts,” Basil Bunting’s presicent poem warning us all of the loss of the world’s precious soundscapes.

Hate the word "detox" (red flag for bunk!), but here...? 👍 2025 study finds 2 week break from smartphone = big benefits www.washingtonpost.com/health/2026/... "...participants had improvements in sustained attention, mental health as well as self-reported well-being."

The staff of @literaryhub.bsky.social is recommending you a poem a day for National Poetry Month and today I am excited to share a poem from @havehashad.com (and to potentially introduce a lot of people to @havehashad.com) — this one's for the Kirk-lovers, the space kids. lithub.com/one-great-po...