It should go without saying that diversifying Alberta’s exports would mean supporting any export besides oil and gas — and reducing emissions requires emitting less of them. My column on today's announcement for @nationalobserver.com

“This isn’t a call to violence. It’s a call to play hardball, fill the streets, and embrace ambitious and aggressive reform. Anything less is to miss the moment. It’s to stand flat-footed as history happens to us.” 🎯🎯🎯

This is how Rory Gilmore's story actually ends

“Oil Sands Alliance is committed to advancing the Pathways carbon capture and storage project provided the necessary regulatory and fiscal terms are in place.” As in, if there are no regulations and the governments pay for the whole thing.

Translation: "we're funded by foreign money". It's ALWAYS projection.

Trump is about to extract $1.7 billion to create a fund that would hand out money to all his buddies and Jan. 6th coup participants

here again we see this idea that american citizens do not have rights apart from what their states provide.

The honest version of this post would note that these are white Republicans trying to eliminate the district of the state's only Black US rep. You cannot tell this story properly without headlining the racism.

The President is telling the IRS to give him $10 billion rn

Eric Trump joining Donald Trump on an official state visit to China is much more corrupt than anything involving Joe and Hunter Biden, yet New York Times coverage indicates the opposite. I show the contrast here, and challenge anyone to explain how it isn’t media bias in Trump’s favor.

Everyone should watch this. How Trump is trying to blatantly steal billions of dollars from United States taxpayers.

And they will all clear the light on the next green. Efficient.

Good thing in our last election, we had the choice between a conservative PM...and a conservative PM.

Althia is, as ever, doing critically important work

Toronto Police never did catch the repeat criminal who kept showing up in the same spot, over and over, leading to Doug Ford bowing (leaning in) to vigilantism. What a city. What a province.

none of these people actually want to be doing the job. they want to be celebrities

this is grotesque, with the upside being that most republicans avoid making this argument this plainly because they know it’s utterly repellant to normal people, even if some of those normal people secretly sort of agree with part of it

Comedy writers must just look at this stuff and wonder if they should go into finance

The corruption is beyond anything we have ever seen.

"Presented, at long last, with the opportunity to replace the pieces of the culture they have been hating for years, all these guys can do is create lifeless facsimiles of what they despise." The line about the Bari Weissification of mainstream media made me laugh out loud, by the way

Shannon is *so good,* and this is beautiful, beautiful

If you don't understand that climate change IS THE pocketbook issue of our time, then you probably shouldn't be opining on climate change and newspapers definitely shouldn't be giving you a platform to do so. Insurance costs, healthcare costs, infrastructure costs, and energy costs are ALL impacted.

From Safe Parkside: look what happened on Parkside Drive after Premier Doug Ford banned speed cameras.

"We are experiencing a widespread GOP attempt to undo the Reconstruction Amendments that, along w/later civil rights reforms, form the constitutional foundation for our multiracial democracy." Good @aselrod.bsky.social intervention (cites my reporting on VA): www.liberalcurrents.com/democrats-ne...

And one in 14 in Ontario, which as a government doesn't care at all

I honestly do not understand how you make the country strong by selling critical infrastructure

keep voting in climate arsonists, keep finding out

bluesky — i am talking to you, all of you — need to internalize this and you need to tell everyone you know this. shampoo more expensive? republicans. burgers more expensive? republicans. beer more expensive? republicans.

Feeling overwhelmed with all of this. LISTEN. Another Louisiana resident (Marshawn is the only name we have) testifies against the state’s racial gerrymander, speaking truth to power up and down the hearing room and predicts how this story will end. Speak your truth, fight and believe.

Literally a heist from government coffers and/or de jure instead of de facto impunity for tax crimes. We fought a revolution to not be ruled by a king.

“Unfortunately for the vice president, there’s video” will be an increasingly common sentence.

Still. Too. High.

The court gave Danielle Smith an off-ramp for the referendum, and she is rejecting it. Of course she is. She is not fit for office. #PnPCBC

The only logical reason for Danielle Smith to react like this would be if she were a separatist. Therefore, either Danielle Smith is insane, or she is a separatist.

In other words, blame Jason Kenney. And stop trying to reincarnate him people. Looking at you, progressives

Her answer: People should be able to determine by petition what residents vote on. this denies voices of hundreds of thousands of Albertans. Judicial rulings on law and constitution are part of democracy too, but those aren't her words.

I think I'd ask what is "anti-democratic" about the ruling.

Profit for them, cost for you. Always.

gestured towards this in my column today but republicans seem to have adopted this idea that the partisan lean of a state represents some mystical General Will such that the south isn't just a place with republican voters It Is Republican and no democrat has a right to serve within its borders

literally no difference between what happened then to John Willis Menard, a Black man who overwhelmingly won New Orleans in 1868, and what's happening now to Calvin Duncan, a Black man who overwhelmingly won New Orleans in 2025 ballsandstrikes.org/law-politics...

The Lily White Republicans Red Summer Dixiecrats Jim Crow History, data and current events have shown us what would happen if Stephen A. Smith got his wish of black people voting for the GOP.

When white supremacists described the first black politicians winning elections in the South during Reconstruction, they too called it a "reign of terror" that innocent white people had to suffer under. Black leaders! Elected to federal office! Can you imagine the indignity?!

"Whatever Democrats do, they must do something. If the aim of our political system is fair and meaningful representation for all Americans, then we are far from the target and receding even further." – @jamellebouie.net (Gift link)

Black people saw the largest decline in financial stability for nearly every category compared to all other racial and ethnic groups, according to a new Federal Reserve survey.

"Athabasca Chipewyan FN & Blood Tribe saves Canada" would be quite a front page headline.

When Bari Weiss came to CBS she had almost no experience in broadcast news. It was a political hire, not journalism. "...By whom do you want to be interviewed on 60 Minutes, Mr. Prime Minister? Would Lesley Stahl with 35 years on the program suit, or would our Major Garrett be more to your liking?"

It's incredibly funny to watch a separatist leader who has nothing but contempt for Canada and its legal structures hide behind the Charter. These are not serious people.

"Last fall Calandra directed it to change its flag policy to fly orange flags on National Day of Truth And Reconciliation."

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