Who could have predicted this?

ICE fought every legal effort by Guevara’s lawyers to release him from the Folkston ICE Processing Center, a GEO Group facility located 247 miles from Atlanta near the Florida border. He was held there for over 100 days until he was transported to Louisiana and then put on a plane to El Salvador.

My boss: so how's our fourth quarter looking? Me, the sales manager at the company that makes inflatable frog suits: well, you're never going to believe this, but

She wants a fight with Ottawa, not a pipeline. And she’ll do almost anything — including damaging the prospects of a new pipeline — to make it happen.

The Trump administration has been spreading anti-vaccine propaganda for months. Tonight, Trump's physician announced he just received a flu shot and a COVID booster.

Well done, Canada 🇨🇦

It really can't be said enough: the goal of the "anti-woke" movement was always to destroy social norms against bigotry. And it worked. And there's a whole lot of purportedly "left" thinkers & commentators who helped it -- indeed, it couldn't have been done without them. They should feel bad.

Useful comparison

So apparently the jet wasn't actually free. Shocker.

Danielle Smith announces plans to hold her breath until she gets what she wants

In a nutshell.

Please enjoy my cartoon in today's Toronto Star

I feel like this photo of masked, armed men pepper spraying a pastor protecting his community is going to be a defining picture of this moment in America for a long, long time.

The Premier of AB thinks that the feds have no power to act in the national interest when it comes to EIAs, GHG emissions & plastics, but that the feds have not just the power but the duty to afford AB access to BC's tidewater? I have news for Ms Smith. There is no such duty. #abpoli #cdnpoli

Love this

"I just wish they could feel a tiny modicum of shame for censoring themselves at the behest of people who oppose everything these supposed truth-tellers have claimed to believe in." @sonnybunch.bsky.social on the comedians in Riyadh: www.thebulwark.com/p/saudi-arab...

⚡️Ukraine investigating execution of 322 POWs by Russia, prosecutors say. According to the statement, 263 Ukrainian soldiers were executed on the battlefield, while 59 others were killed in the 2022 Olenivka prison explosion in the occupied part of Donetsk Oblast.

It literally rewards neglect: “If adopted, it is hard to see how any remaining O&G producer would ever take their closure obligations seriously...” ICYMI, our analysis of #Ableg’s so-called Mature Asset Strategy (MAS).

Former PC deputy premier’s ‘Forever Canadian’ petition success a big potential problem for UCP. albertapolitics.ca/2025/10/form... #ableg #abpoli

TERRORISM EXPERT HERE: This statement is a clear example of what is known as “State Terrorism”: When the dictatorship will order all instruments of its state security & intelligence apparatus against its own citizens to terrorize the population.

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...

this is wild: while Stephen Miller's guy was in Minnesota for his uncle's funeral, somebody was able to see his entire phone and take pictures of his Signal group chats talking about military deployments to Portland, and brought them to the Strib (gift link: www.startribune.com/trump-offici...)

Precisely this. Unless and until industry and Alberta put a real offer on the table -- full support for industrial carbon pricing and a decision to proceed with the Pathways project -- this conversation is over and the ball is in *their* court.

There should be no concessions to O&G until they clean up their shit with their own money. Any plan to clean up tailings ponds, emissions, or orphan/abandoned wells that require taxpayer funds is no plan at all.

I am just so fucking proud of her.

🧵 1/8 COVID Vaccine Appt Alberta: Got my #COVID19 vaccine today in St. Albert. As a Phase 1 eligible Albertan, I pre-booked via text/online—20 clicks, but got it done! Sharing my experience at the public health clinic, which highlights the absurdity of the "Vax Tax" policy. #ableg #UCP #ABpoli

Some of us were talking about both subjects before it was cool.

After cancelling 11 gigawatts of wind, solar and energy storage projects which would have resulted in thousands of clean energy jobs, Danielle Smith decides they should sink public money into another oil pipeline to the coast. This will surely fail as there is no social license in #bc for […]

"Maybe, for all of her rhetorical crusading, she might actually prefer to see these new pipelines stay on the drawing board. Being able to blame Ottawa for the lack of progress is a useful political cudgel, one she deploys at almost every available opportunity" #abpoli

Robert Morris "served as a faith adviser to President Donald Trump."

Danielle Smith won't raise the minimum wage - the lowest in Canada- fearing it will further hurt youth employment in Alberta But economist Jim Stanford notes other provinces have better employment rates and higher minimum wage, saying her argument doesn't wash podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/s...

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.

“An Albertan has died from complications due to measles. There are currently 152 people in hospital and 15 Albertans in the ICU because of the illness.” #abpoli #ableg #cdnpoli www.ctvnews.ca/calgary/arti...

So sad. So preventable

From Edgewood, BC to Embrun, Ontario, the way these convoy people overwhelm small rural communities and intimidate local residents into silence is a familiar story: pressprogress.ca/the-convoy-i...

A 72-year-old woman who lives next to that ostrich farm where a group of convoy people are camping out was doused in gasoline and physically assaulted by a man in a balaclava who may have been trying to light her in fire She says she survived the attack by kicking the man in the nuts and biting him

Whether it's Tylenol causing autism or puberty blockers leading to permanent sterilization, populist leaders like Trump and Smith have zero qualms about spreading medical disinformation. The lack of humility is only surpassed by the lack of compassion for those in need of proven treatments.

For anyone not in Alberta or not paying attention, girls playing sports in school now have to prove they were born female to play sports. And can be challenged by anyone at anytime and must prove they are female to keep playing. This doesn’t apply to boys. What a dystopian hellscape

Trans bans are always about policing women. Always.

A fascinating (in the details) & depressing post about just how ineffective & captured-by-industry the Alberta Energy Regulator is. Another overwhelming pattern of regulatory failure in the oil & gas sector revealed, failure that Albertans will pay for with their wallets & health for generations.

New Post: The Mature Asset Strategy for Alberta’s Oil and Gas Closure Liability Crisis: Where there is Smoke [and Mirrors], there is Fire. ablawg.ca/2025/09/30...…rs-there-is-fire/

I can't see with all the smoke that this scandal is giving off. At what point does the Premier, finally, announce a public inquiry? This is not about restructuring health care in Alberta, it is corruption.

Utter contempt and disrespect from Bruce McAllister. Cutting off the kid's mic and limiting his freedom of expression is one thing, but saying he should be spanked is a fireable offense from a supposedly neutral moderator. Bruce needs to be removed immediately.

By way of context… In May, 22,300 teacher voted against the UCP’s offer at 61.99% Today, 38,113 voted no at 89.5%. In May, 13,517 voted to accept. Today? Only 4,479. The UCP managed to find a way to actually make things worse. #abpoli #ableg #cdnpoli #abed

And @carrietait.bsky.social has unearthed more evidence of procurement irregularities at AHS

SCOOP: Two senior Alberta Health Services procurement officials were also briefly directors in a numbered company linked to MHCare, a supplier that has been awarded $$$ in business, The Globe and Mail has found By @tomcardoso.bsky.social, @hoserlibrarian.bsky.social and friend

Oilers 50/50 raffle has paid $81M to company owned by hockey group over 4 years, documents reveal www.stalbertgazette.com/beyond-local... Quite the scoop from @brettmckay.bsky.social

“It's not 50/50. It's 50 per cent to the winner, 27.7 per cent to the private company, Win50, and the charity at the end of the day gets around 20 per cent.” www.stalbertgazette.com/beyond-local...

“A report by CBC revealed Poilievre hired the team behind Canada Proud to ‘boost his messages online.’ The org has been caught running disinformation campaigns targeting Mark Carney. Canadians deserve to know every last detail about Poilievre‘s ties to Canada Proud. cultmtl.com/2025/09/obse...