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Lynette Shultz, PhD Professor University of Alberta

@lynetteshultz.bsky.social

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We all need to tell and tell until all our stories of death and near-death and gratuitous life are standing with us to face the challenges of the present. Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing, On the possibility of life in capitalist ruins .. more

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Jared Wesley @jaredwesley.ca · Sep 3

Guys, I know it's not the point, but I gotta know:

When it comes to porn, what does the premier consider "classic"?

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The New Yorker @newyorker.com · Jul 19

Globally, roughly a third more power is being generated from the sun this spring than last. If this exponential rate of growth can continue, we will soon live in a very different world, @billmckibben.bsky.social‬ writes.

4.6 Billion Years On, the Sun Is Having a Moment

In the past two years, without much notice, solar power has begun to truly transform the world’s energy system.

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Truthout @truthout.org · Jul 19

Slovenia has declared two top Israeli ministers personae non grata over “genocidal statements” and other violations of Palestinian human rights, barring them from entering the country.

Slovenia Becomes First EU Country to Declare Israeli Ministers Personae Non Grata Slovenia Bans Israeli Ministers Smotrich and Ben-Gvir for “Genocidal Statements”

Ben-Gvir and Smotrich incite “serious violations of the human rights of Palestinians,” the government said.

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Naheed Nenshi @naheednenshi.bsky.social · Jul 18

The Jasper Wildfire review is damningly clear about one thing: the UCP government exploited a life-and-death moment to play political games.

And in their response to this report, rather than accepting responsibility and promising to do better, they lash out, insult others, and refuse any blame.

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The Breakdown AB @thebreakdownab.bsky.social · Jul 18

“Danielle Smith says a policy introduced by Hungary’s ultranationalist leader Viktor Orbán is an “interesting” idea & thinks it would be worth taking a “closer look” to see if the policy could be effective”

Policy advice from Orban now?

#abpoli #cdnpoli

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Alberta Premier Danielle Smith Floats Tax Discounts to Motivate Women to Produce More Babies

Danielle Smith tells Sherwood Park town hall that Hungarian far-right leader Viktor Orbán has an 'interesting' idea to reduce immigration

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Institute for Policy Studies @ips-dc.org · Jul 17

“Climate is a multiplier of the cost of living crisis,” points out @jbozuwa.bsky.social of @cplusc.bsky.social.

“We actually can build an alternative — in state rent control, green affordable housing. It’s not a climate movement, it’s a working class movement of which climate is a part.”

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Doccy B 🌿🌿🐝🌿🦔🌿 @merylbatchelder.bsky.social · Jul 17

Great case study on #DoughnutEconomics that's useful for KS4/5 Social studies, Economics, Business or Politics. It's also relevant to Science and Geography.
Getting young people excited about the possibilities of other ways of doing things is incredibly rewarding!
www.theguardian.com/environment/...

‘It feels cool to be a cog in change’: how doughnut economics is reshaping a Swedish town

A casual mention of Kate Raworth’s theory has grown into the basis for decision making in Tomelilla

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The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · Jun 29

Priscilla Chan’s decision to stop funding the school she opened to help struggling families shows the risks for communities reliant on wealthy private donors.

The Chan-Zuckerbergs stopped funding social causes. 400 kids lost their school.

Priscilla Chan and Mark Zuckerberg’s retreat from funding social issues forced the closure of a school Chan opened for disadvantaged families in Silicon Valley.

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Rick Perlstein @rickperlstein.bsky.social · Jun 29

The Big Beautiful Gulags Bill. www.eschatonblog.com/2025/06/step...

Stephen Miller's Personal Domestic Military

I know all they want to do is talk about Medicaid - and they should! - but "putting it on the record that I was against this" is something I...

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Jason Markusoff @markusoff.bsky.social · Jun 28

Every proposal Danielle Smith’s “Alberta Next” project is floating would either be vastly expensive or require backing from other provinces and Ottawa. By me:
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

ANALYSIS | Which 'next' is Danielle Smith's Ottawa-affairs panel steering Alberta toward? | CBC News

New provincial surveys propose either massively expensive Alberta agencies, or huge reforms that impact federal government and other provinces.

www.cbc.ca

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Olivia 💙 4thTransformer /#ReleaseTheFiles‼️ #FreePalestine‼️ @olivia4t.bsky.social · Jun 28

🚨BREAKING: #MitchMcConnell was just publicly confronted in the Senate hallway by young people for GUTTING #Medicaid and green jobs while accepting $3M from Big Oil.

He looks like a deer in headlights!

We need more of this‼️

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Adam Keiper @adamkeiper.com · Jun 27

Monstrous:

"They were crying in fear. One of the agents at one point lifted up his shirt, which displayed the gun that he was carrying....The 6-year-old boy was terrified to see the gun. He urinated on himself and wet all his clothing. No one offered him a change of clothing for many hours."

ICE arrested a 6-year-old boy with leukemia at immigration court. His family is suing.

A Honduran mother and her two children — ages 6 and 9 — sued the Trump administration over their arrest at Los Angeles Immigration Court, the first lawsuit challenging the arrests of children under a ...

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Dr. Sandra Steingraber 🏳️‍🌈 @ssteingraber1.bsky.social · Jun 15

I just need you to look at these graphs, remember that fascism runs on fossil fuels, and come to some conclusions that involve collective action items:

Mark Z. Jacobson @mzjacobson.bsky.social · Jun 15

2 years ago year to date, fossil gas output on California's main grid was 93% higher than solar output

In 2025, solar output is 32% higher than gas output

Gas output has dropped 41.4% and solar output has risen 50% in 2 years

Battery output has also risen 215%

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Deirdre Mitchell-MacLean @mitchellab.bsky.social · Jun 13

“Although Smith will sue Ottawa at the drop of a hat, she apparently can’t lift a legal finger to defend the Rockies, Alberta’s iconic backbone.” 💥
#ableg #abpoli
@thetyee.ca thetyee.ca/Opinion/2025...

The Stink of BS at Premier Smith’s Coal Town Hall | The Tyee

The rowdy meeting’s air reeked of government deception. Locals were having none of it.

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Dale Smith @journodale.bsky.social · Jun 13

"Let's just hide our toxic mess, so that we can increase production and make even more."
Absolutely ridiculous.

Alberta to explore injecting oilsands tailings underground as one management option

EDMONTON - The Alberta government says it is considering letting oil companies inject wastewater deep underground as a way to manage the toxic tailings that are accumulating in the oilsands.

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Truthout @truthout.org · Jun 11

There are now more troops carrying out Trump’s anti-protest crackdown in southern California than in both Iraq and Syria, regions where the U.S. has executed some of its most intense and inhumane military campaigns in recent decades, according to official counts.

Pentagon Now Has More Troops in LA Than in Syria and Iraq Combined, According to Public Figures

The figures are a show of the administration’s willingness to use extreme military force on its own population.

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Alberta NDP @albertandp.ca · Jun 11

Would someone please tell Danielle Smith that a driver’s license is not an economic plan?

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Charles Rusnell @charlesrusnell.bsky.social · Jun 11

Bombshell story via @brettmckay.bsky.social about how Airdrie mayor Peter Brown and staff worked in secret with a developer and the premier's office to get a private hospital using money earmarked for upgrading a public hospital.

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Controversial Alberta private health centre helped behind the scenes by Airdrie mayor, documents reveal

Internal emails show how the mayor and city staff helped draft and pitch a proposal for a publicly funded, privately delivered urgent care centre in Airdrie, Alta.

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Charles Rusnell @charlesrusnell.bsky.social · Jun 3

Via Andrew Nikiforuk. Remember how Alberta Premier Danielle Smith has complained about free speech restrictions? The govt scientist who produced the report is not allowed to speak to the media.

Old Coal Mines Near Crowsnest Pass Are Still Killing Fish via @thetyee.ca thetyee.ca/News/2025/06...

Old Coal Mines Near Crowsnest Pass Are Still Killing Fish | The Tyee

A new study warns against new mines in the area, finding toxic selenium pollution persists for decades.

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Melaine Le Roy @subfossilguy.bsky.social · May 28

INCREDIBLE !!

Here we are... 😱😱😱

After days of overloading and cracks propagating, Birch Glacier collapsed today at 3.24 pm over Blatten and the dammed Lonza river...

Devastating! 😭

www.letemps.ch/suisse/valai...

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Lynette Shultz, PhD Professor University of Alberta @lynetteshultz.bsky.social · May 25

Good grief. Is there a Republican policy they don't meet or exceed?

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Jared Wesley @jaredwesley.ca · May 15

In the dead of night, the UCP passed the most comprehensive set of anti democratic reforms in Alberta history.

No public consultation. No meaningful debate.

How bad is Bill 54?

Not horrible if you like Trump-style democracy.

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Danielle Smith's Electoral Reforms Are Straight from the Trump Playbook

And it's no accident they were released today.

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The Breakdown AB @thebreakdownab.bsky.social · May 1

Sturgeon Lake Cree Nation ain’t having the separatists rhetoric from Smith or her ilk…

#abpoli #ableg #cdnpoli

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Jared Wesley @jaredwesley.ca · Apr 30

A government under seven (7) different investigations for corruption just introduced a bill that would bring more corporate money into politics.

This is not normal.

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Alberta overhauls election laws to allow corporate donations, change referendum thresholds | CBC News

The Alberta government wants to bring back corporate and union political donations, eliminate vouching for a voter’s identity at election polling stations, and lower the threshold for recalls and refe...

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Ghouly Hoye 🇨🇦 👻 @hollyhoye.bsky.social · Apr 11

What Wab Kinew sorcery is this?

**stares blankly in Albertan**😶

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CTV News Calgary @ctvnewscalgary.bsky.social · Apr 9

Banff’s famous grizzly, ‘The Boss,’ makes first appearance of spring
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Banff’s famous grizzly, ‘The Boss,’ makes first appearance of spring

One of Banff’s most well-known bears was spotted out and about this week, prompting a reminder from Parks Canada to be safe and aware while in the wild this spring and summer.

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Andrew Lawrence @ndrew.bsky.social · Apr 7

lol come on

A screenshot from Fox News' The Five

Co-host Harold Ford Jr is looking at the camera

The chyron reads "Trump's manly tariffs -- pundit believes it could reverse crisis in masculinity"

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Lynette Shultz, PhD Professor University of Alberta @lynetteshultz.bsky.social · Apr 2

We can count on the UCP to act against anyone in the working or middle classes.

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Truthout @truthout.org · Apr 1

More journalists have been killed in Israel’s genocide in Gaza than in the past seven major U.S.-involved wars combined, marking the “worst ever conflict” for reporters in history.

Israel’s Genocide Has Reportedly Killed More Journalists Than WWI and WWII Combined

At least 232 journalists have been killed amid the genocide, a new Costs of War report finds.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · Mar 28

Vance on Canada: "They just don't have the cards. There is no way that Canada can win a trade war with the United States."

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