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Lindsay Gibson @lsgibson.bsky.social · 15h

The US government is at war with the American people.

John Pfaff @johnpfaff.bsky.social · 18h

To be clear:

LA County has declared a state of emergency BECAUSE OF the federal government.

The Feds, LA County is (correctly) saying, have CAUSED the emergency.

This is a striking political moment of internal collapse. Local govts feeling compelled to protect their ppl from … their own govt.

Los Angeles County declares state of emergency over immigration raids

Los Angeles County officials voted on Tuesday to declare a state of emergency over ongoing federal immigration raids.

abcnews.go.com

Lindsay Gibson @lsgibson.bsky.social · 1d

Now do his mental age

Reuters @reuters.com · 4d

Trump, 79, has "cardiac age" of 65-year-old, doctor says reut.rs/4mZNZbu

Trump, 79, has "cardiac age" of 65-year-old, doctor says

Donald Trump was found to be in "exceptional health" in a medical evaluation, the U.S. president's doctor said in a memo released by the White House on Friday, with his "cardiac age" 14 years younger than in "chronological age."

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Drew Meehan @drewdraws2.bsky.social · 22d

I am the consummate car guy. I dedicated my life to creating and adoring them. But I have also learned that life is better when you don’t need one. I’d rather take the bike and/or the train and I love living in a walkable city. It’s not about “taking away your car”, it’s about giving you a choice.

Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · 22d

You can be a “car guy” and not like car dependency. You can be a “car guy” and get that too many cars in cities is bad for everyone, including drivers. You can be a “car guy” and be tired of lies & manipulations like “the war on cars.” You can be a “car guy” and know more choice means more freedom.

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Lindsay Gibson @lsgibson.bsky.social · 7d

Cannot wait for the #BetaBand in Vancouver on Sunday night.

Tour sounds like a triumph so far.
louderthanwar.com/the-beta-ban...

The Beta Band: Roundhouse, London - Live Review

The Beta Band Roundhouse, London 3rd October 2025 Back after an absence of 21 years, The Beta Band remain one of the live arena's most beguiling and The Beta Band - 21 years away - throw their hata in...

louderthanwar.com

Lindsay Gibson @lsgibson.bsky.social · 13d

Next up after the Chretien/Harper debate. Arthur Meighen vs Mackenzie King

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Lindsay Gibson @lsgibson.bsky.social · 13d

Residential schools denialism has consequences.

The deplorable LS shamelessly uses her pregnancy and young children to elicit sympathy while denying the harms that Indigenous children experienced.

"More to come" suggests that she's currently strategizing about how to turn this into a grift.

Jen St. Denis @jenstden.bsky.social · 13d

Update: Lindsay Shepherd says the B.C. Conservatives have fired her.

An X post that reads: Today, BC Conservative Leader John Rustad fired me from my position as Comms Officer with the Conservative Party of BC Caucus. It was because of this tweet.

I am a mother of two young children, and I am 32 weeks pregnant -- I was about to go on maternity leave.

More to come.

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Lindsay Gibson @lsgibson.bsky.social · 14d

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Lindsay Gibson @lsgibson.bsky.social · 14d

This dude represents all of us who watched this shitshow.

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Lindsay Gibson @lsgibson.bsky.social · 14d

I’m heartened by the fact that even high ranking military officials including the hawkish ones don’t appear to like Trump or Cringey Pete

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Lindsay Gibson @lsgibson.bsky.social · 14d

My 5th year BEd students were talking about learning resources for teaching about Residential Schools and one student brought up Gord Downie and the Chanie Wenjack resources. I was amazed that only one student knew about Gord Downie or the Tragically Hip.

I'm officially old.

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Lindsay Gibson @lsgibson.bsky.social · 15d

In her interminable quest for attention, Lindsay Shepherd continues to be a blight on Canadian society and espouse vile, malicious views, in this case residential schools denialism. She should be fired. Free speech does not equal speech without consequences.
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

UBCIC calls for firing of B.C. Conservative Party staffer after comments on orange shirts | CBC News

B.C. Conservative leader John Rustad is facing calls to denounce a statement by a caucus staffer who called the Survivors' flag – which commemorates the deaths at residential schools – a “disgrace” an...

www.cbc.ca

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Lindsay Gibson @lsgibson.bsky.social · 15d

No idea? I've never seen that before.

Lindsay Gibson @lsgibson.bsky.social · 15d

Do you know about this dissertation Kelly?

"No longer missionary" : the Sisters of Saint Ann and Vancouver's Catholic schools in the long 1960s open.library.ubc.ca/soa/cIRcle/c...

It's embargoed until 2026-07-31 for some reason.

"No longer missionary" : the Sisters of Saint Ann and Vancouver's Catholic schools in the long 1960s

The full abstract for this item is available in the body of the item, and will be available when the embargo expires.

open.library.ubc.ca

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Lindsay Gibson @lsgibson.bsky.social · 18d

Nice to see the Americans getting absolutely smoked by the Europeans in the #RyderCup.

American exceptionalism indeed. Exceptionally terrible performance.

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Kevin M. Levin @civilwarmemory.bsky.social · 20d

Someone needs to tell Trump that ordering the removal of a monument doesn't erase history. www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/202...

Statue of Trump and Epstein holding hands removed from National Mall

The statue, the latest installation by an anonymous group of artists critical of the president, was supposed to be on display until 8 p.m. Sunday.

www.washingtonpost.com

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Lindsay Gibson @lsgibson.bsky.social · 22d

Heavy sack beatings will continue until morale improves.

CRIMINAL SIMPSONS @criminalsimpsons.com · 22d

Lindsay Gibson @lsgibson.bsky.social · 24d

The "ultimate" symbol of the complete and utter degradation of the Presidency and the White House.

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Lindsay Gibson @lsgibson.bsky.social · 24d

Cynical actors. Waiting until a full blown genocide before taking action.

Lindsay Gibson @lsgibson.bsky.social · 24d

“I’m gonna be honest with you. Once you use ChatGPT, you don’t want to think for yourself anymore.”

Elizabeth Lopatto @lopatto.bsky.social · 26d

imagine relying on AI to write your bio and then having the nerve to say you're witty and full of personality

Anderson felt her bio was authentically her even if it was written by a chatbot. “My bio is 100 percent in alignment with my true personality,” she told me. “I don’t have a filter. I’m very witty. I’m full of personality.” Nor did she think using ChatGPT reflected the “bare minimum energy” she loathed. “It took me an hour and change to drill down my bio to be that good,” she explained. “I had to edit it, edit it, edit it down. I have to keep talking to it.” On the other hand, she admits that ChatGPT has sapped her motivation to write a first draft of anything herself, even though she minored in writing in college and described herself as a “wordsmith.” “I’m gonna be honest with you: Once you use ChatGPT, you don’t want to think for yourself anymore,” she said.

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Lindsay Gibson @lsgibson.bsky.social · 25d

"Now, I began to see, while the pen might be mightier than the sword, the wallet is mightier than the pen."

George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 25d

Power is the rock on which truth founders. The mainstream media, with a few exceptions, is a single-issue lobby group, whose purpose is to assert the rights of capital.
Here's what I've learnt about the industry in 40 years in journalism.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

I have now been a journalist for 40 years. The forces ranged against my profession have never been so powerful | George Monbiot

Once, I believed that humanity’s problem was an information deficit. Now, I know you can’t speak truth to power if power controls your words, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot

www.theguardian.com

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Lindsay Gibson @lsgibson.bsky.social · 25d

The claim that historians have retreated from political and diplomatic history and write jargon-laden texts that are inaccessible and unreadable is as old as it is tired.

Maybe focus on the historical reasons why the discipline of history is in steep decline at universities.

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Lindsay Gibson @lsgibson.bsky.social · 25d

History educators have also increasingly focused on the dispositions or habits of mind that teaching and learning history can nurture and foster. Curiosity, tolerance of ambiguity, fairmindedness, etc....

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Lindsay Gibson @lsgibson.bsky.social · 25d

Contingency is also a concept related to cause and consequence that history educators also regularly discuss.

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Lindsay Gibson @lsgibson.bsky.social · 25d

The horizontal axis focuses on what history educators have described as contextualization.

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Lindsay Gibson @lsgibson.bsky.social · 25d

The vertical access focuses on chronology and cause and consequence.

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