Great day at Mount Royal University supporting progressive media @readtheorchard.org @kimsiever.bsky.social @katyanderson.bsky.social and others.

The Progress Report is in a lot of funding trouble this month and at risk of closing shop. If that's all you need to hear, we'll just give you the donation link right up top—it's www.theprogressreport.ca/patrons. But if you'd like to know more about us and the situation, please read this thread 🧵

Don't miss the 3rd edition of Unrigged's academia/journalism conference 📢PROGRESSIVE PUBLICS📢 happening next week in Calgary! Join @albertaadvantage.bsky.social @briarpatchmag.bsky.social @robrousseau.bsky.social @pressprogress.ca + more RSVP at ⬇️⬇️⬇️ www.eventbrite.ca/e/progressiv...

Absolutely incredible. CityNews and CBC were both present in the media segment, with the Chair offering them question time. Both declined to ask anything. 3/

Neufeld, who helped launch ASIRT, is now claiming concussions aren't serious injuries in response to @katyanderson.bsky.social, asking about her own concussion & other injuries. Because Commission keeps delaying its mtg videos, we screen-recorded. Well worth seeing Katy's exchange when it's up. 2/

@readtheorchard.org just got lit up by Chief Neufeld at Calgary Police Commission. (Appel was not present to respond.) Neufeld called Appel's story on UCP interference on the ASIRT investigation "an opinion piece, at best." Decide for yourself: 1/ www.readtheorchard.org/p/how-the-uc...

Alberta: more fake than Canada? You decide! Plus: separatist slam poetry! albertaadvantagepod.com/2025/03/02/i...

a functioning opposition party that represented the working class could spike this photo in the end zone basically forever

Look, there's no way for us to say what he was trying to do in that moment. It's about calling balls and strikes. Ultimately it's unknowable and we have to be responsible in our reporting All we know is that when college students protest relentless mass murder of Palestinians, that's antisemitism

prophetic

NEW EP: James Wilt on the Winnipeg Police albertaadvantagepod.com/2025/01/19/j...

"This is perhaps the final piece in the slow and inevitable political capture of Facebook -- but really all online speech platforms." "As Zuck foreshadowed, this is about a global geo-political war across a new frontier of control: tech companies, their platforms, and the internet."

Since we’re all talking about Greenland and Canada now would be a good time to remind people that Puerto Rico and Washington, DC actually should be added as the 51st and 52nd states.

One of my favorites in a while. Some good examples of why cars make your life worse even if you drive

It’s funny Zuck says “I started building social media to give people a voice” when in fact, he started building social media to publicly rate the hotness of undergrads.

HAPPY SOLSTICK - dashare.zone ADMIN

Last month to send blog pitches! We are receiving pitches in English, German, Portuguese, French, Russian and Kazakh: degrowth.info/en/blog/move...

welp, we had a good run

Vote Harder! Justice Warriors 2 w/ @mattbors.bsky.social and @benclarkson.bsky.social albertaadvantagepod.com/2024/12/07/v...

I don't know who needs to know this, but Pro Publica has an online thing that will format a letter to your US health insurance company to demand the records behind a claim denial. (which the insurance is then legally required to provide in most cases) projects.propublica.org/claimfile/

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Big news for people interested in the (mostly non-visual) senses: cfp deadline for Uncommon Senses V, happening May 7-10 @ Concordia, extended until January 20th. Full details in link. This is always a fun & diverse conf, consider throwing in! CC @crystaljjlee.com www.concordia.ca/cunews/artsc...

Regarding the Calgary Chief of Police, you don't under any circumstances "gotta hand it to him."

_Bike Battles_ is on the @thewaroncars.bsky.social Bookshop list, bookshop.org/lists/the-wa...? ; purchases benefit TWOC. Or, of course, I recommend your local public library, always a great choice...

Trucks have been getting bigger, more energy & space consuming, more polluting, and much deadlier to everyone around them including kids. Not because most of us actually need bigger vehicles, but as ego boosts, status symbols & “indicators of male virility.” Note the truck bed is basically the same.

Find out if EPS uses Palantir Gotham, like they do in Calgary. Truly evil software courtesy of Peter Theil. Originally developed for intelligence agencies and counter terrorism, It would be the ultimate endpoint of all they gathered on you. FOIP if you have to. citizenlab.ca/wp-content/u...

“Positive social change results mostly from connecting more deeply to the people around you than rising above them, from coordinated rather than solo action… Our largest problems won’t be solved by heroes. They’ll be solved, if they are, by movements, coalitions, civil society.”

The biggest argument against "people posting on the internet under their real names will improve civility" is the website where people will post the most ludicrous things right beside their CV.

this is fucking horrifying

Wildcats aren’t illegal if you win @albertaadvantage.bsky.social albertaadvantagepod.com/2024/11/28/c...

(Thinking about how to slowly break in my new followers to the fact that I’m a communist) do you guys like sharing

Media Coverage of the Canada Post Strike is Centering Business Interests, Not the Interests of Workers Canadian media coverage of the postal strike promotes anti-worker narratives pressprogress.ca/media-covera...

Treat your woman like a princess (marry her off to an inbred duke to secure a military alliance)

On a new 🌾 @albertaadvantage.bsky.social 🌾 @adamkingxv.bsky.social reflects on 2024 as a year of labour unrest, asks how the post-war labour “peace” is holding up & if the union movement should be planning beyond the Rand formula: albertaadvantagepod.com/2024/11/28/c... harbingermedianetwork.com 🔶

happy black friday everyone

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PIGEON RESCUE 😭 gb craig newmark

If you loved Hot Union Summer you're gonna love what (might) come next... feat. Adam D. K. King 💪💪💪 albertaadvantagepod.com/2024/11/28/c...

ads that interrupt chill non lyric music vids should be outlawed

If you work for a living, you're working class. Every working person needs and deserves a union—whether you're in a warehouse or at a desk.

Help us send 2,000 books to readers who are incarcerated this winter through our Books Not Bars program

UCP on minimum wage - “We have no intention on raising it, you work hard you’ll do fine” UCP on their raise - “Oh yeah we’re totes raising it! Getting an apartment close to Roger’s Place ain’t cheap!” #abpoli #ableg #cdnpoli

"Remember Kids, refugees aren't stealing Ireland's resources. Real estate investment companies are!" Sticker spotted in Rathmines, Ireland

Public library energy is the best energy. Like here is all the knowledge we could find, it's been meticulously organized and vetted and it will cost you nothing today, welcome to the absolute pinnacle of human civic evolution, feel free to pull up any bean bag chair you like

evergreen post

Musk deprioritizing links, Meta deplatforming news media, cable news outlets favoring talking head commentary over actual reporting, local journalism collapsing under market pressures -- all combines to degrade reliable news and to incentivize low-quality information. newrepublic.com/post/188794/...

The internet was better when the modem screamed.

Your bicycle is not surveilling you.