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Shane Burley (Blue Sky Edition) @shaneburley.bsky.social · 15d

New from me: Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s seething attacks on medicine are a part of a longstanding fascist fear of modernity, which has now gained traction due to the real failures of the medical and food systems. And all the while, anti-science arguments help justify mass austerity that hurts us all.

MAHA and the End of American Modernity

Dressed up as a health crusade, MAHA is a proxy for a larger right-wing revolt against science, technology, and public institutions. It fuses lifestyle rebellion with policy agendas that hollow out th...

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The Sadie Collective @sadiecollective.bsky.social · 1d

October 12th is World Economist Day!

From guiding policy to studying the forces behind growth, economists help us make sense of complex systems and improve lives.

Today we ask you to donate to The Sadie Collective to empower the next generation of economists: tinyurl.com/sadie-wed

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Seth Langner @sethlangner.bsky.social · 24d

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Glass Half Empty 🇨🇦 @yulnative.bsky.social · 1d

Hey, @mark-carney.bsky.social kind of important if Canada hopes to stand a chance.

Laurie Prange @prangemartin.bsky.social · 1d

We’re no better in Canada. Post-secondary institutions have been defunded so much that in the last 10 months, 12,000 permanent faculty members have lost their jobs, plus countless, unreported adjunct and non-permanent faculty members.

www.linkedin.com/posts/kenste...

#cdnpse | Ken Steele

Over the past month, #CdnPSE has reported more than 1,000 more jobs lost (through attrition, layoff, or early retirement), bringing my total to 12,034. I'm trying to capture all full-time or part-time...

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Laurie Prange @prangemartin.bsky.social · 1d

Back to practicing my French every day would be so nice to be back to being bilingual.

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UC Berkeley Labor Center @ucblaborcenter.bsky.social · 1d

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Kent Wong, a champion of nonviolent resistance in the L.A. labor movement, dies at 69

Kent Wong, who spent decades teaching a doctrine of nonviolent resistance, died Wednesday at a hospital in Los Angeles at the age of 69.

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Laurie Prange @prangemartin.bsky.social · 1d

There’s been a massive defunding of post-secondary education and institutions.
In the last 10 months, more than 12,000 permanent faculty members have lost their jobs and this doesn’t include all the adjunct or non-permanent faculty members. www.linkedin.com/posts/kenste...

#cdnpse | Ken Steele

Over the past month, #CdnPSE has reported more than 1,000 more jobs lost (through attrition, layoff, or early retirement), bringing my total to 12,034. I'm trying to capture all full-time or part-time...

www.linkedin.com

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Laurie Prange @prangemartin.bsky.social · 1d

We’re no better in Canada. Post-secondary institutions have been defunded so much that in the last 10 months, 12,000 permanent faculty members have lost their jobs, plus countless, unreported adjunct and non-permanent faculty members.

www.linkedin.com/posts/kenste...

#cdnpse | Ken Steele

Over the past month, #CdnPSE has reported more than 1,000 more jobs lost (through attrition, layoff, or early retirement), bringing my total to 12,034. I'm trying to capture all full-time or part-time...

www.linkedin.com

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Laurie Prange @prangemartin.bsky.social · 1d

There’s been a massive defunding of post-secondary education and institutions.
In the last 10 months, more than 12,000 permanent faculty members have lost their jobs and this doesn’t include all the adjunct or non-permanent faculty members. www.linkedin.com/posts/kenste...

#cdnpse | Ken Steele

Over the past month, #CdnPSE has reported more than 1,000 more jobs lost (through attrition, layoff, or early retirement), bringing my total to 12,034. I'm trying to capture all full-time or part-time...

www.linkedin.com

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Cathy Gellis @cathygellis.bsky.social · 1d

Not the first time a tyrant has been plagued by frogs.

Reverend Jesus "H" Christ @reverendjesus.com · 2d

Blessed are the frogs, for they keep making authoritarians look incredibly stupid

Three persons in inflatable frog costumes. One of them is holding a nicely painted sign with two little cartoon frogs holding hands, below the text "FROGS TOGETHER STRONG"

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Nico Mara-McKay 🦇 (they/iel) @nicomaramckay.com · 4d

Canadians: The federal government is seeking public input on how AI should be developed and used in business, research, and the military.

If this scares the shit out of you, please let them know:

Help define the next chapter of Canada's AI leadership

Current status: Open from October 1 to October 31, 2025 Canada helped invent modern AI. To stay a leader—and protect our digital sovereignty—we're running a 30-day national sprint to shape a renewed...

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Laurie Prange @prangemartin.bsky.social · 1d

I get you. I’ve gone through periods of crappy health and my husband also rode it out with me.
May other women find the good guys. And may the losers stop tricking women into marrying them. 🔥

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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 2d

Lawyers have been publicizing a new term to describe ICE's racially targeted detainments: a “Kavanaugh stop.”

Mother Jones reporter Pema Levy explains in this new video:

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Laurie Prange @prangemartin.bsky.social · 1d

I agree. It seems like it’s only after their multi-decade plans come to fruition that it’s been possible to look back and realize what they did to shape the world to suit them.

Laurie Prange @prangemartin.bsky.social · 1d

So, how do we get the word out to fellow Canadians that the rules are setup so much to favour the 1% and harm us?

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Laurie Prange @prangemartin.bsky.social · 1d

The 1% also don’t agree with borders for themselves, that’s why so many countries including Canada have paths to citizenship through financial investments.

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Laurie Prange @prangemartin.bsky.social · 1d

Me too!!! As a Christian, I’m absolutely in the favour of all life over made-up things like borders.

As a bus prof, I think this way because the only groups who actually benefit from borders are the 1% who benefit from folks’ lack of mobility, lack of equal rights, jobs being moved overseas, etc.

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Laurie Prange @prangemartin.bsky.social · 1d

Yup! I’m fully convinced that the extremists against immigration (especially in USA) are acting the ways they are now because they know that soon there will be waves of climate change refugees.
They’re trying to scare people away now to prevent arrivals later.

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Laurie Prange @prangemartin.bsky.social · 1d

Every time I hear someone arguing against any form of immigration, I can feel my ancestors getting offended.
The reality is that much of the conflict and climate change around the world is the fault of the West, and so we need to be more compassionate when folks must migrate.

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Laurie Prange @prangemartin.bsky.social · 1d

Me too 😢
I teach a lot of international students and they are some of the loveliest people you’ll ever meet.
Many of them are trying to immigrate here because India is too hot because of climate change. It cuts my heart to see them demonized. 😢

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Laurie Prange @prangemartin.bsky.social · 1d

I don’t know why the jobs in tree planting were excluded from the eligible industries for the specific TFW program for agriculture, the Seasonal Agricultural Worker Program. My guess is because it’s seen as a job for univ students so law makers protected it for their kids, but that’s just a guess.

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Laurie Prange @prangemartin.bsky.social · 1d

I’m very pro-immigration, and so I’m always going to say that if work needs to be done than the worker deserves the right to have a path to citizenship. Thus, I’m 100% against the TFW program. That it also suppresses wages adds to my being against it.

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Laurie Prange @prangemartin.bsky.social · 1d

Through the use of the Temporary Foreign Worker’s program, wages to do this work have been suppressed so low that it’s not worth it. Lots of Canadians work as tree planters, which is equally tough work, because it’s a fair wage.

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Matthew Claxton @matthewclaxton.bsky.social · 1d

As a recreational cyclist, I got pretty excited when I realized that ebikes basically eliminate the "Ugh, I can't ride up hills!" barrier for casual/starting commuter cyclists. In many areas, it's one of the biggest barriers to adoption.

Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · 1d

“The big advantage of bikes is that they go directly from where you start to where you finish, when you need to go. The advantage over cars is that they need perhaps 1/10th of the amount of space. Roads that jam up quickly with cars can carry effectively unlimited numbers of people by bicycle.”

Why e-bikes are more important the EVs

Bikes can actually transform cities in the way driverless cars promise

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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 1d

At a time when so many people feel “really powerless, Michelle’s work is a reminder that it’s still possible to be powerful, and she’s done it through art.”

One woman’s quest to reclaim the ugly history of Black maternal health

One woman's quest to reclaim the ugly history of Black maternal health

Artist Michelle Browder's Mothers of Gynecology project is an act of resistance.

www.motherjones.com

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