Um, no. Put this Christian supremacist stuff aside. American warmongers have always quoted New Testament, and Hegseth’s Reconstructionism is particularly invested in it. Matthew 11:12, Matthew 10:34, Matthew 5:29, Romans 13, and, tho not so much for Hegseth, pretty much all of Revelation.

There is something deeply gratifying about leaving your local community and arriving in another by bike. This will lead to more café and service engagement and promote bike/ebike sales and rentals. It also offers an alternative commute option in the age of ebikes. calgaryherald.com/news/calgary...

Thank you for your leadership, Cllr. @yuleloveyyc.bsky.social and Mayor @jeromyyyc.bsky.social. Thank you for the hard work, planning, and advocacy, @matticusssss.bsky.social (re: Calgary-Airdrie) as well as proponents and supporters of The Trail project (Calgary-Cochrane).

@drmarinacano.bsky.social I never win anything but 🤞🤞🤞

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We’re joined by @michaelemann.bsky.social discussing Trump’s payoff to the fossil fuel industry in which he has delivered a death sentence to our children and grandchildren and the planet by ending efforts to deal with global warming. soundcloud.com/user-8304426...

Join me and @peterhotezmdphd.bsky.social on March 26, 2026 from 10 AM - 5 PM at the BRB Gaulton Auditorium in Philadelphia for a joint symposium on climate and emerging diseases. More information and event registration can be found here: web.sas.upenn.edu/pcssm/calend...

Leaving some @sprawlcalgary.bsky.social Olympic zines in Parkdale today!

A truly magnificent sight (slightly ruined by Windsor Castle). #WorldBollardAssociation

SB6045, a bill to allow farm worker collective bargaining in WA state, will soon be voted on in WAs Senate. This bill is critical for WA farm workers like those at Windmill mushroom who have been fighting to get a contract since 2022. Take action today: act.seiu.org/a/waorganizi...

Reading and writing can lower dementia risk by almost 40%, study suggests www.theguardian.com/society/2026... Love this. Association study. Still, #TeamReading! Keep reading, writing and learning! 📚📖❤️

Hey Calgary Winter bike day! Have you dropped by to see the new lanes in Sunnyside? #Calgary #WinterBikeDay #yycBike

Imagine if wellness influencers put as much effort into pushing covid precautions and explaining the severity of issues caused by multiple infections as they did into selling the latest snake oil supplements.

😂😂😂 What does this even mean?!? "Our primary focus is on brownfield in-corridor expansions that leverage our existing footprint to primarily serve investment-grade utility customers, particularly in regions where we hold long-standing incumbent positions." www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

This sounds totally plausible and not like satire.

This is REALLY important. #Paris

Well-installed heat pumps installed in the UK today achieve on average a 64% higher efficiency than those during the early trials 15 years ago. It is testament to the brilliant installers and to the technology getting better. More in our recent paper: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Notice how the popular media narrative has moved on, while people on the ground in Minneapolis are still struggling and crying out that things are as bad as ever. This is how fascist regimes operate — overreach, recalibration, normalization. Get louder, not quieter.

February 2026 - the BMJ publishes a piece called "Why covid-19 is “a vascular disease masquerading as a respiratory one” Some of us have been screaming this for years www.bmj.com/content/392/...

Such an important story: ProPublica went inside the immigrant detention center for families in Dilley, Texas. Children held there told us about the anguish of being ripped from their lives in the U.S. and the fear of what comes next. @micarosenberg.bsky.social

in their walkout speech, Nathalie told their classmates, "We’re being dehumanized and there’s nothing we can really do about it because we’re high schoolers... Not only are our parents being hunted, taken and kidnapped, but it’s also our little siblings being used as bait and then being taken."

for my latest @us.theguardian.com talked to teens leading and joining anti-ICE walkouts from TX to MD to WI. one NYC teen: "I feel scared [of ICE] every day... But I’m not going to let that stop me, because bravery is just the positive way to say you’re scared, and I’d rather be brave than scared."

Remember this when eating strawberries.

For months, people engaged in nonviolent protests have been hit and sprayed by chemical munitions from federal agents, the ACLU of Oregon argued during a hearing Friday and in court filings earlier in the week.

Albertans here, you should also read this 🔥 “Every day, we decide who we are in relation to this wickedness. And we recognize that the answer to that question is lived, rather than merely asserted.”

I was supposed to speak at a neighborhood assembly tomorrow, but I'm still sick and can't risk exposing my neighbors. So I wrote up my remarks and put them in my newsletter. Now, back to bed.

Alberta has been quietly removing books from school libraries, but not listing which ones. Turns out most titles have themes related to 2SLGBTQ+ people A great scoop by @readtheorchard.org www.readtheorchard.org/p/here-are-t...

“I don’t recall hearing a lot of stories in my career of people coming in and saying that being told ‘I don’t fit,’ or, ‘What I think is wrong,’ has somehow benefited them or built them into the people they want to be.” globalnews.ca/news/1164053...

The age of the consumerist arts. Cuisine, fashion. These are deeplye valuable artes, but thei are also extremelye easye for the megarich to buy their waye into. Museums, theatre, literature are out of favor wyth oligarches who prefer art that doth placidly decorate their tables and eventes.

The world has lost one of its most courageous and passionate advocates for people + science. Back in the days of Twitter, I saw her regularly send encouragement to people she’d never met. That was who she was: a model of joy, perseverance, courage, and kindness. Kirsty, you will be so missed. 💔

Taekwondoin Tina Sugandh and her black belt kids, who always compete in their masks, warn about #LongCOVID— why they support #MaskTogetherAmerica and @publichealthaction.bsky.social. “This is for all that say you can't compete to your fullest potential at athletic events with a mask on.”

Even as COVID-19 spreads at high rates, some businesses are trying to force workers to unmask. The Sick Times spoke with 5 workers affected by anti-mask attitudes in their workplaces, as well as organizers and a disability law expert, about how to push back against these policies. bit.ly/3WEZOcb

Regarding the ongoing signature collection in Alberta for a referendum on separation, @piosmo.bsky.social writes in Le Monde: "The MAGA ecosystem has seized on this political moment – the signature drive is scheduled to continue until early May – in an attempt to destabilize Canada."

“The speed, the scope and the severity of the attacks on science are beyond anything we’ve ever seen,” says @gretchentg.bsky.social. My @nature.com story on the human toll of the 2nd Trump presidency. Thx to @dochfroehlich.bsky.social, @briannosek.bsky.social, @katharinehayhoe.com & others.

Like so many, I’ve been affected by the new US federal stance against science. As a result of this and seeking a better life balance, I have accepted a new Full Prof position at the University Helsinki, Finland 🇫🇮🤩 I will miss CA deeply, but a new adventure awaits 🐟 www.nature.com/articles/d41...

“Early this morning, Israeli forces stormed the UNRWA Headquarters, a United Nations site, in East Jerusalem.” Statement by UNRWA Commissioner-General Philippe Lazzarini: www.unrwa.org/newsroom/off...

Mamdani: "I am in support of abolishing ICE. What we see is an entity that has no interest in fulfilling its stated reason to exist. We're seeing a government agency that is supposed to be enforcing some kind of immigration law, but instead what it's doing is terrorizing people."

Library workers are burned out, and they're clear on what's creating some of the worst mental health conditions both inside and outside the library. Here's what they had to say, as well as ways and means by which library worker mental health can be improved. This is a call to action.

We've already been saying this for months: Alberta’s hospitals and emergency rooms are in crisis. Doctors and patients have been sounding the alarm. Danielle Smith and the UCP government must take urgent action to fix the health care chaos they have created.

In which the case is made that a new pipeline is unnecessary given the market. #cdnpoli

Devastating cyclones, crippling drought, torrential rain... this is #ClimateChange 🌍 #Mozambique apple.news/AWzQFQ46nRDq...

True. It’s gross. Petroculture.

Why American cars are so big www.economist.com/the-economis... In general, trucks & SUVs = fashion. They were cheaper to build & > profitable, so marketed as "embodying freedom, strength & adventurousness." For most, no sig utility, safety, or size benefit. Not great for roads, environment...

Owners of BIG vehicles more likely to vote Republican (usa.streetsblog.org/2021/04/21/s...), which has nothing to do with a height need (but is assoc with obesity journals.plos.org/plosone/arti...) The strong political identity link highlights degree to which more about fashion than utility.

Yep, debunking works. Data from 28,000 people reveals which conspiracy debunking strategies tend to work best www.psypost.org/data-from-28... "...fact-checking of specific conspiracy claims tended to be more effective than other approaches..." Small impact. But still needed!

Yikes! 👇 Nearly a third of social media research has undisclosed ties to industry, preprint claims www.science.org/content/arti... via @science.org From study (preprint): "...industry influence in social media research is extensive, impactful, and often opaque."

This!! I know very educated people who are falling for BS from social media influencers who are health professionals.

How do vaccine cutbacks affect public health? Ask Japan www.nature.com/articles/d41... by @heidiledford.bsky.social "...flu and pneumonia deaths spike after the Japanese government stopped..." HPV scaremongering "...is responsible for nearly all cases of cervical cancer." #VaccinesWork

Great interview with @caulfieldtim.bsky.social on CBC Calgary Eyeopener: Media literacy in Alberta's education curriculum. Finland's battle against "fake news" begins in pre-school classrooms. www.cbc.ca/listen/live-...

*gloatily* V. pleased to have written two entire books about how terrible empires are (THE SIEGE OF BURNING GRASS, containing two extremely stupid and self-destructive empires, and ONE MESSAGE REMAINS, containing, mostly, one, but in active acquisition mode)