UPDATE: Bari Weiss hilariously tells CBS News(Max) staff she yanked the story (without even discussing it with the team) to “win back the trust” of Americans. (P.S. She means of Trump) variety.com/2025/tv/news...

bluesky developers, please let us add more than one video to a post 😔

Economic genius Donald Trump explains how he comes up with tariff rates

This👇 "So the patient is discharged with gauze, antibiotics, and a bus ticket. It’s not neglect by individuals — it’s a failure of design. The system treats the symptoms of cold but never the coldness of the system itself." chaneldabell123.medi... 1/3

ICYMI: Albertans spoke—and we didn't care what they said! This summer, we used heavily biased push-poll surveys and town halls to manipulate Albertans into agreeing with our recommendations for the direction we want to take Alberta. 🧵 Read the results: open.alberta.ca/publications...

FYI, if you're outside the US, you can come here and just collect $3,000

🔥WOW— Sharyn Alfonsi to her @60Minutes colleagues: “Bari Weiss spiked it without a call to discuss… a political decision… we have effectively handed Trump a kill switch… we go from an investigative powerhouse to a STENOGRAPHER FOR THE STATE… corporate censorship…”

Govt just WASTED $2M of taxpayer money on the "Alberta Next" panel. www.cbc.ca/news/cana... While our EDs and Hosps are struggling and Schools are overflowing, they're playing political games. Here is the single most insulting contradiction in that report:. 🧵 1/10

Just a reminder… The CEO of the Calgary Food Bank is Melissa From, who is the wife of Derek From, Rob Anderson’s work bud and one of the other authors of the separatist Free Alberta Strategy. #abpoli #ableg #cdnpoli

Looks like it’s a good thing me and my UCP appointed former UCP candidate, Shawn McLeod, as Alberta’s Ethics Commissioner. He’s doing a fantastic job at killing ethics investigations to hold our corrupt MLAs accountable. www.stalbertgazette.com/local-news/a... #abpoli #ableg

I started reviewing the Alberta Next report by looking at their polling results. The numbers in the sample table don't add up. Can anyone make it make sense? If not, I'm not sure how we take the analysis seriously. 🔗 open.alberta.ca/dataset/2919...

CHAPELLE: “F*ck Bill Maher. I’m so tired of his little smug, cracker-ass commentary… These motherf*ckers act like because I did a comedy festival in Saudi Arabia I betrayed my principles — RIP Khashoggi, but 🇮🇱 killed 240 journalists. I didn’t know y’all were still counting.”

An important note… Smith isn’t just overriding the federal Charter… She’s also overriding the Alberta Human Rights Act AND the Alberta Bill of Rights she just rewrote. #abpoli #ableg #cdnpoli

“What we are seeing in Alberta is as extreme as we’ve seen in the southern United States and other centers of book banning” www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...

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BREAKING: Calif. GOP Rep. Kiley to introduce legislation to prohibit mid-decade redistricting nationwide

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Wait. The Bureau of Prisons waived Maxwell as a Sex Offender in order to move her?!?! I still don’t understand why the President’s move to deal specially with a rapist and child sex offender and potentially pardon her isn’t a huge huge story. It shows how much the weight of Fox matters.

And yes; he did say that about a year ago, lots of videos of it online.

KRUGMAN: “Official economic data starting to confirm what mainstream economists have been saying — Erratic policy that creates uncertainty depresses growth and job creation; tariffs raise prices… Trump faces massive public disapproval on every issue…” open.substack.com/pub/paulkrug...

OLIVER: "Gaza is starving is a sentence that's objectively true, but it's also slightly misleading because it's too passive — Gaza is being starved by Israel."

WELKER: Does the administration have any evidence that the jobs numbers were rigged? HASSETT: The evidence is that there have been a bunch of revisions WELKER: But hard evidence? HASSETT: The revisions are hard evidence (They are not "hard evidence")

BREAKING: “We’re leaving Texas to fight for Texans.” TX Democrats are walking out to block Trump’s gerrymander and stop a rigged system in its tracks. This isn’t normal. This isn’t democracy. We must stand up and call it what it is: an assault on every American’s rights. #BlueSky #MedSky #NewsSky

Biden was asked to stand down from office for much less.

some of you spend too much time on facebook when you need to face books 😔

CEO pay is up 1,085% since 1978, while typical worker pay is up just 24%.  Why do we always hear "we can't afford to pay our workers more" but never "we can't afford to pay our CEO more"?

He straight up, deliberately lies about demonstrable facts (the jobs revision happened before not after the election and Trump called it out at the time!) and no reporter challenges him on it. No Sunday show host challenged his officials about his lies. He gets away with it.

Prime Minister Mark Carney attends Vancouver Pride parade after meeting with premier nationalnewswatch.com/2025/08/03/p...

still thinking about the Montana knife maker who said you don't have to worry about tariffs if you buy american. and then three months later, he realized he imports swedish steel and german equipment. and even MiUSA equipment costs $100k more now because of tariffs

Larry Summers: "This is way beyond anything Nixon ever did ... this is the stuff of democracies giving way to authoritarianism. Firing statisticians goes with threatening the heads of newspapers, launching assaults on universities, launching assaults on law firms. This is really scary stuff."

🔔 SUPERCUT: Trump liking the BLS jobs numbers when they were good 🤔👇🏽 WELKER: “So is he prepared to fire anyone who reports data he disagrees with?” HASSETT: “Absolutely not.” REALITY: ABSOLUTELY, YES.

We are at the Old Strathcona farmers’ market in Edmonton. Crowd gathering before we managed to set up. Thank you!!! We will be here until 3 pm. Come and sign the #ForeverCanadian petition. #Yeg

“This shift comes days after Ben-Ami appeared on Pod Save the World in a debate with journalist Mehdi Hasan, during which he repeatedly refused to call Israel's actions in Gaza genocide – despite Hasan's pressing and citations of international law.” www.haaretz.com/israel-news/...

Danielle Smith’s UCP government continues to fail Albertans. From pushing separatism to anti-Canada tax grabs to a measles outbreak worse than the U.S., they continue to cause chaos and ignore the needs of the people they are supposed to serve. You deserve better.

In Edmonton today (Sunday), you can sign the #ForeverCanadian petition by the Old Strathcona farmers’ market, at the gazebo, from 10 am to 3 pm. Bring friends along. I’ll be there to greet you. The clock is ticking. Canada needs you! #Yeg #Ableg

I am being asked if municipal election candidates can include collecting #ForeverCanadian signatures as part of their campaign. Yes, why wouldn’t you? 90% of Albertans will appreciate it. All candidates, MLAs, MPs and their teams can be signature collectors. #ableg #cdnpoli

Why is the headline "Trump: Job Numbers Were Not Honest?" Firstly, it's FOX, but the headlines are pretty much the same on CNN and elsewhere. The headline should be "Trump Fires Head of Labour Stats For Doing Her Job and Being Honest."

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“The St. Paul hospital will be without onsite physician coverage in the emergency department from 4 p.m. Friday, Aug. 1 until 7 a.m. Saturday Aug. 2 and then again on Aug. 5 from 7 a.m. to 2 p.m.” BUT THE BIKE LANES! #abpoli #ableg #cdnpoli www.lakelandtoday.ca/st-paul-news...

The scheduled congressional deposition of Ghislaine Maxwell is indefinitely postponed.

A cover-up in plain sight. www.axios.com/2025/08/01/v...

Off the rails.

This kind of stuff is very unhelpful but that’s why Dan Williams was put in the role. He’s the guy you bring in to break stuff and start culture war fights. calgaryherald.com/opinion/colu...

Horny, Anti-Woke GOP Defends Sydney Sweeney Amid Denim Ad Backlash youtu.be/LWnHWbeeFxA

Fascism is here. You can say you don’t care, but you can’t say you don’t know.