aaand we are officially in the hide-your-neighbors stage

Wow! Interesting Nothing to see here for sure

You gotta think that Mr Nobel would probably be a little peeved that his peace prize is being given mostly to mass murderers and their supporters

👀 Breaking the ATA and making membership in the union optional for teachers are actual official UCP policies that were enthusiastically passed by delegates at the party’s convention last year in Red Deer. daveberta.substack.com/p/teachers-o...

Our choices for mayor in this Calgary municipal election all fuckin blow. Normally I’ve already done the advance vote and been done with it. This year I’m pretty close to voting Larry Heather just for the lolz.

Uniparty. Captured by O&G. Same as it ever was. PMJT was 'not so bad' compared to this. Minority government with NDP holding sway was a bonus.

WOW! Alberta just got another approved referendum petition! And this one calls for the practice of funding private schools with public money to be put to an end! During the teachers strike! Strap in Alberta, we’re going on a ride! #abpoli #ableg #cdnpoli

The reviews are coming in on the UCP's American lesson plans they're offering parents while teachers are on strike... From this Grade 1 teacher, not only do they not align with the UCP's curriculum... They aren't even based in what most Grade 1 kids can do. #abpoli #cdnpoli

🧵 1/5 #abed #ATA Alberta's per student funding is the lowest in Canada. A whopping 27% less than PEI. But it's even worse than that...

“If a new pipeline promised to be really profitable and had a really strong business case, there would be a private sector proposal in development and this point.” Janetta McKenzie tells BNN Bloomberg why a new pipeline is bad for taxpayers and the climate.

I really hope one of the big things we all take from this is that the cops and feds lie through their teeth and the mainstream news prints those lies as truth. Keep that in mind for the future.

Larry Ellison: —Second‑richest man on Earth —Gave $16.6 million to Friends of the IDF —Hosted Netanyahu on his private island —Trump plan makes him co-own TikTok —Son, David, just spent $150 million to buy The Free Press & make Bari Weiss Editor-in-Chief of CBS —Wants Warner Bros (CNN, HBO)

Remember when they used to blur out the person's face when they were interviewing someone who wanted to be anonymous? This is all theater. It's Fox, so of course it is, but this is just silly

Better headline: "CBS elevates troll to new TV post as editor in chief" share.google/Qswn6MOVkUEb...

NEW inside CBS— Staff are insulted executives will spend $150 million to buy The Free Press & make self-proclaimed “Zionist fanatic” Bari Weiss Editor-in-Chief, while many of them are set to be laid off. “If I wrote 90 percent of what’s on The Free Press, I would get flagged and fired,” one says.

the US killed as many as 5 million Vietnamese and still lost. Apricot Adolph is complaining that the genocide should have been bigger

Tired of being taken advantage of. I'm supposed to support a (presumedly) taxpayer funded pipeline from @naheednenshi.bsky.social because he's not a monster on as many other issues as #DanielleSmith. Meanwhile the wildfires get bigger & #YYC breathes more smoke every year than ever before. #abpoli

Pretty funny America, 250 years of rules and pledges and decorum and all it took was for one guy to say “nope, not gonna do any of that” and the whole thing falls completely apart. Great job everybody.

On one hand, the inevitable AI bubble burst will crater computer parts prices, and we'll be able to grab graphics cards from dead data centers for pennies on the dollar. On the other, it's 17x larger than the dotcom bubble, and according to Deutsche Bank, the only thing propping up the US economy.

“David Parker is supremely confident that he will never pay $112,500 in fines levied by Elections Alberta against himself and Take Back Alberta, the political activist organization he leads.” #abpoli #ableg #cdnpoli thetyee.ca/News/2025/10...

From the DM’s… As Danielle Smith spends $14 million of taxpayers money on a pipeline with no business case… The healthcare system is apparently cutting back on water. #abpoli #ableg #cdnpoli

ICYMI - Parker owe $112,500 in fines and should be prosecuted for failing to file financial statements two Elections Alberta. But it appears nothing is being done. Why not? They won't say. Parker Vows He and Take Back Alberta Will Escape Punishment via @thetyee.ca thetyee.ca/News/2025/10...

Orphan Well Costs Shifted to Alberta Taxpayers RStar was hugely unpopular with Albertans, so @ABDanielleSmith brought it back with a different name, the Mature Asset Strategy. Just another name for having taxpayers fund oil and gas well cleanup. #ABleg youtu.be/HLluYsC2X2E

There is no Saskatchewan potash or uranium or O&G, it is Canada's potash, uranium and O&G. There is no Alberta O&G, it is Canadian O&G. And exactly what pipeline are they talking about? There is no private $ support for a new pipeline. Political theatre. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

Say what you will about Labour but it’s the laser focus on the big issues that really earns my respect

This piece about @nenshi raised plenty of hackles, as I knew it would. But consider this: it's not my job to cheerlead for politicians. Nenshi's energy positions are very weak. He's had plenty of time to remedy that. Someone has to say it. youtu.be/Va6hFk_T-P8

The messages show high-level officials in the Trump administration discussing the possible deployment of the Army’s 82nd Airborne Division, an infantry force that has dropped into combat zones in both World Wars, Vietnam and Afghanistan.

Aaahhh I see the Alberta NDP is sticking with the ‘we’re better at building pipelines’ narrative. Third time’s a charm, I guess

Finally, a lifetime of having asthma is paying off. Saved me a cool $100 on the covid vaccine! For anyone in Alberta who might also be interested in saving $100, the skill testing question asked at the vaccination clinic was ‘have you read the phase 1 qualifications and do you qualify?’

We looked back on the "backlash" against American Eagle ads featuring Sydney Sweeney and her "great jeans." Right-wing media declared that liberals were outraged and thought the ads were racist -- even the White House joined in. If you thought that story reeked, you'll want to see what we found.

Only in Alberta... Does the mandate letter for the minister of environment include... - Increase the use of plastic products - Decrease protections for endangered species - Fight for looser emissions controls - Build an argument that Alberta's burning forests are Carbon sinks.

Remembering how the media reported that the Trump campaign not only denied intent to follow Project 2025, but insisted that anyone associated would be barred from the administration. @politico.com had a big piece about it.

“Look! We put something on paper and now we can blame someone else if our idea is declined!”

it’s funny to see another publicly funded pipeline being proposed for the oil industry, but danielle smith is effectively using public money to demand the federal government roll back even more hard-won climate legislation. she can’t be allowed to win this fight.

Jane Goodall, one of the most influential environmental figures in human history, has died at 91 while touring the country to deliver an urgent message about nature and human existence. “We’re destroying the planet,” she said last week during the Forbes Sustainability Leaders Summit in NYC.

Do not doubt that he means for the military to kill Black and brown people as “training”

“We are marching toward an uninsurable future in this country and across the globe, marching into the abyss.”

Addendum: This is a crucial part of our fight. And that's also why they're fighting like wounded animals: they know the writing is on the wall.

It’s funny how life works. Right about the time you think it should be getting easier, as now you’re old enough to think you have a pretty good handle on things, that’s when mortality starts becoming more and more conspicuous to remind you that it never actually does get easier.

He…served courageously and authentically as mayor?? Are you fucking kidding me lol

Smith & Affordability & Utilities Neudorf lied & got away with it. The Soft Ban is designed to secure #ProfitablePolluters place as Alberta’s primary energy industry & hurts everyone but O&G. Renewables are cheaper & electrification WILL displace fossil fuels. #AbPoli thenarwhal.ca/alberta-rene...

Strange that so handsomely rewarding willful ignorance for decades would result in a population completely devoid of intellectual curiosity or sense of the greater good.

This shit is scary.

It’s getting very dark very fast. 🇺🇸 www.kenklippenstein.com/p/trumps-nsp...

Yet more fatuous, constitutional nonsense from Alberta. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

There’s a lot of reasons conservative media is hateful garbage but one really important one is that it’s pathetically easy to jerk them around because they don’t care about doing the basic work of journalism