Brandee
@bcontroversial.bsky.social
Working towards a better world, one kindness at a time. Probably going to get political. Definitely going to post pics of my dog.
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The darkness descends.
If this wasn't so deadly, it would almost be comical. How much worse can it get? Every day brings a new head-shaking horror.
Louisiana health official who halted state vaccine campaign tapped as CDC’s No. 2 wapo.st/4pvW7C8
If this wasn't so deadly, it would almost be comical. How much worse can it get? Every day brings a new head-shaking horror.
Louisiana health official who halted state vaccine campaign tapped as CDC’s No. 2 wapo.st/4pvW7C8
Louisiana health official who halted state vaccine campaign tapped as CDC’s No. 2
Ralph Abraham, a Louisiana health official who stopped promoting mass vaccination vaccines, has been appointed as the CDC's principal deputy director
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November 25, 2025 at 6:04 PM
The darkness descends.
If this wasn't so deadly, it would almost be comical. How much worse can it get? Every day brings a new head-shaking horror.
Louisiana health official who halted state vaccine campaign tapped as CDC’s No. 2 wapo.st/4pvW7C8
If this wasn't so deadly, it would almost be comical. How much worse can it get? Every day brings a new head-shaking horror.
Louisiana health official who halted state vaccine campaign tapped as CDC’s No. 2 wapo.st/4pvW7C8
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Chief in Alberta teams up with environmental groups to try and stop carbon capture project
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Cold Lake First Nation wants to stop a tarsands project
Chief Kelsey Jacko says that bills are being passed without First Nation consent or knowledge contrary to talk of reconciliation.
www.aptnnews.ca
November 25, 2025 at 3:32 PM
Chief in Alberta teams up with environmental groups to try and stop carbon capture project
www.aptnnews.ca/national-new...
www.aptnnews.ca/national-new...
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Creating Freedom Movements made a beautiful post honoring Alice Wong, whose impact on our lives, communities, spirits, & Disability Justice is as powerful as it is immeasurable
as co-founder of Crips for eSims for Gaza, she asked for support here: chuffed.org/project/crip...
rest in power, alice ✊
as co-founder of Crips for eSims for Gaza, she asked for support here: chuffed.org/project/crip...
rest in power, alice ✊
November 24, 2025 at 9:46 PM
Creating Freedom Movements made a beautiful post honoring Alice Wong, whose impact on our lives, communities, spirits, & Disability Justice is as powerful as it is immeasurable
as co-founder of Crips for eSims for Gaza, she asked for support here: chuffed.org/project/crip...
rest in power, alice ✊
as co-founder of Crips for eSims for Gaza, she asked for support here: chuffed.org/project/crip...
rest in power, alice ✊
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I’ve thought about this a lot and it is not my place to say but I’ve always found these words to be neutered by the “phobic” - hate is not a phobia. Phobia implies something that is out of a person’s control. Hate is evil and insidious and shouldn’t be watered down by mental health implications.
good call @erinbiba.bsky.social and can we replace “transphobic” and “homophobic” with anti-Trans and anti-Gay?
Given the way that the term antisemitism has been corrupted and denatured by the right (and the left frankly) to meet their own ends I’m considering replacing the term in my own vernacular with anti-Jewish.
November 24, 2025 at 2:45 AM
I’ve thought about this a lot and it is not my place to say but I’ve always found these words to be neutered by the “phobic” - hate is not a phobia. Phobia implies something that is out of a person’s control. Hate is evil and insidious and shouldn’t be watered down by mental health implications.
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It’s blowing my mind that schools, universities, public services would run headlong into this. We spent 15 years documenting black boxes. This is a black box in a black hole!
I don't understand how anyone can watch how blatantly Grok is manipulated to answer the way ownership desires it to and then act like the other LLM chatbots couldn't possibly be similarly but less obviously compromised to produce responses in whatever way corporate interests and priorities dictate.
November 23, 2025 at 11:16 PM
It’s blowing my mind that schools, universities, public services would run headlong into this. We spent 15 years documenting black boxes. This is a black box in a black hole!
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This is great! Very informative, I was not aware of some of this.
Ahahahaha 🤣 Elizabeth May explaining the tanker ban “especially to the attention of slow learners; Andrew Sheer, Danielle Smith, take note.”
November 22, 2025 at 12:12 AM
This is great! Very informative, I was not aware of some of this.
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Ok palate cleanse time. In case you missed it, here's my most popular post ever
4 yrs ago today, a family member managed a truly spectacular own goal, splintered his domestic bliss, & in the process, united the world for a day.
On popular request, I shall now recreate the livetweet thread from that day
So gather around children, for this is the tale of The Rice Truck Saga
On popular request, I shall now recreate the livetweet thread from that day
So gather around children, for this is the tale of The Rice Truck Saga
November 23, 2025 at 11:48 AM
Ok palate cleanse time. In case you missed it, here's my most popular post ever
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It's about time
November 23, 2025 at 3:18 PM
It's about time
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The women that brought him to power might be raising their collective eyebrows.
Canada's view on Africa also bears reporting.
Important coverage from the G20 @geoffreyyork.bsky.social
Canada's view on Africa also bears reporting.
Important coverage from the G20 @geoffreyyork.bsky.social
November 23, 2025 at 1:09 PM
The women that brought him to power might be raising their collective eyebrows.
Canada's view on Africa also bears reporting.
Important coverage from the G20 @geoffreyyork.bsky.social
Canada's view on Africa also bears reporting.
Important coverage from the G20 @geoffreyyork.bsky.social
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Since February, according to my latest analysis, almost 600,000 Black women have been economically sidelined. The November 20, 2025, Jobs Report makes clear this isn’t a blip. It’s a structural crisis. That is not a recovery. It is a redistribution of opportunity.
The exit economy is here. Black Women are paying the highest price | Fortune
This isn’t a blip. It’s a structural crisis. And it's not a recovery, it's a redistribution of opportunity.
fortune.com
November 23, 2025 at 12:49 PM
Since February, according to my latest analysis, almost 600,000 Black women have been economically sidelined. The November 20, 2025, Jobs Report makes clear this isn’t a blip. It’s a structural crisis. That is not a recovery. It is a redistribution of opportunity.
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How Vaccines Work 🧬🧫🧪🔬💉🥽
November 18, 2025 at 5:00 PM
How Vaccines Work 🧬🧫🧪🔬💉🥽
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In fact, as I discuss in ON REPENTANCE AND REPAIR, it's a *feature*, not a bug of white supremacy.
White Northern pastors started preaching Jesus' "unconditional" forgiveness* re: the South just as their supremacy was at risk. For them, white unity > accountability, Black equality.
*see next skeet
White Northern pastors started preaching Jesus' "unconditional" forgiveness* re: the South just as their supremacy was at risk. For them, white unity > accountability, Black equality.
*see next skeet
Reconciliation without reparation is one of supremacy's greatest sabotages of the act of repair. Whenever abuse is exposed, it offers free exoneration to the abuser at the expense of the abused, and calls it redemption. It's the traditional and popular response to abuse in our supremacist society.
Leaders of a Minnesota church community didn’t report a parishioner they knew had sexually abused girls for year.
They told his victims that once sins were “washed away in the blood of reconciliation,” they could never speak of them again.
Truly chilling, from @jlussenhop.bsky.social & Andy Mannix
They told his victims that once sins were “washed away in the blood of reconciliation,” they could never speak of them again.
Truly chilling, from @jlussenhop.bsky.social & Andy Mannix
November 21, 2025 at 3:08 PM
In fact, as I discuss in ON REPENTANCE AND REPAIR, it's a *feature*, not a bug of white supremacy.
White Northern pastors started preaching Jesus' "unconditional" forgiveness* re: the South just as their supremacy was at risk. For them, white unity > accountability, Black equality.
*see next skeet
White Northern pastors started preaching Jesus' "unconditional" forgiveness* re: the South just as their supremacy was at risk. For them, white unity > accountability, Black equality.
*see next skeet
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History is full of cautionary tales about this moment. A plan which rewards the aggressor only emboldens them further.
A massive moment for European allies now.
Key details of Zelensky’s address below👇
A massive moment for European allies now.
Key details of Zelensky’s address below👇
President Zelenskyy addressed the nation. Key points from his address:
1/ Ukraine may face a very difficult choice: either loss of dignity or risk of losing a key partner, either difficult 28 points or an extremely hard winter, the hardest one, and further risks, Zelenskyy said.
1/ Ukraine may face a very difficult choice: either loss of dignity or risk of losing a key partner, either difficult 28 points or an extremely hard winter, the hardest one, and further risks, Zelenskyy said.
November 21, 2025 at 3:21 PM
History is full of cautionary tales about this moment. A plan which rewards the aggressor only emboldens them further.
A massive moment for European allies now.
Key details of Zelensky’s address below👇
A massive moment for European allies now.
Key details of Zelensky’s address below👇
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Here in Canada, our Prime Minister still believes in this fantasy.
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This carbon policy has been a spectacular failure. Let's put this zombie in the ground for good
Like a reanimated corpse from The Walking Dead, carbon capture and storage (CCS) is the boondoggle "technology" that just wont die. As a way for governments to piss public money up the wall, CCS is in...
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November 21, 2025 at 12:16 PM
Here in Canada, our Prime Minister still believes in this fantasy.
australiainstitute.org.au/post/this-ca...
australiainstitute.org.au/post/this-ca...
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My latest with @simondonner.bsky.social: "As Canada scrambles to diversify its exports, fossil fuels are an increasingly risky bet, not least with taxpayers’ money. And we should not kid ourselves: it is also a bet on global failure to address climate change"
www.nationalobserver.com/2025/11/21/o...
www.nationalobserver.com/2025/11/21/o...
Canada’s proposed oil and gas expansion is a risky bet – for the planet and our economy
Updated pledges before this year’s COP30 meeting in Brazil fell well short of what’s needed to achieve net-zero emissions by 2050.
www.nationalobserver.com
November 21, 2025 at 12:14 PM
My latest with @simondonner.bsky.social: "As Canada scrambles to diversify its exports, fossil fuels are an increasingly risky bet, not least with taxpayers’ money. And we should not kid ourselves: it is also a bet on global failure to address climate change"
www.nationalobserver.com/2025/11/21/o...
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Great use of time and resources. Let assholes be assholes bill.
But let’s remove rights for trans kids and privatize health care while treating teachers and healthcare workers like shit.
Oh, and let foreign companies ruin our environment.
CALL YOUR MLA!!!
But let’s remove rights for trans kids and privatize health care while treating teachers and healthcare workers like shit.
Oh, and let foreign companies ruin our environment.
CALL YOUR MLA!!!
"(Premier) Smith is calling it Alberta's "Peterson law," after the Ontario psychologist and social media personality Jordan Peterson, who was sanctioned by his province's professional regulator for controversial public statements.
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Alberta tables bill to limit oversight power of regulatory powers on member behaviour
EDMONTON — Alberta Premier Danielle Smith's government is limiting what behaviour professional regulators can police in the name of strengthening freedom of expression.
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November 20, 2025 at 10:13 PM
Great use of time and resources. Let assholes be assholes bill.
But let’s remove rights for trans kids and privatize health care while treating teachers and healthcare workers like shit.
Oh, and let foreign companies ruin our environment.
CALL YOUR MLA!!!
But let’s remove rights for trans kids and privatize health care while treating teachers and healthcare workers like shit.
Oh, and let foreign companies ruin our environment.
CALL YOUR MLA!!!
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Carney is blowing up his own coalition with this pipeline stuff. You can tell from the Liberal MPs comments they're not happy, their constituents aren't happy, and if Carney pursues this path he'll ignite way more opposition than he's bargaining for.
Liberal MPs express surprise and opposition to reports of pipeline deal
Even if the Carney government and Alberta Premier Danielle Smith come to an agreement, opposition from First Nations and the BC government — as well as existing legislation — create substantial legal ...
www.nationalobserver.com
November 20, 2025 at 2:56 PM
Carney is blowing up his own coalition with this pipeline stuff. You can tell from the Liberal MPs comments they're not happy, their constituents aren't happy, and if Carney pursues this path he'll ignite way more opposition than he's bargaining for.
"Smith and her government are weaponizing a little-used piece of the Charter and a pile of debunked science and outright lies about trans people to make the case that their laws, which make up Canada’s harshest anti-trans legislation, are actually about protecting kids."
@melwoods.me: We must not overcomplicate what’s going on here.
This is the Alberta government saying the rights of trans kids to receive life-saving health care, go by their own pronouns at school or play on sport teams don’t matter as much as the Smith government’s right to dictate their lives.
This is the Alberta government saying the rights of trans kids to receive life-saving health care, go by their own pronouns at school or play on sport teams don’t matter as much as the Smith government’s right to dictate their lives.
Danielle Smith Goes Nuclear on Trans Rights | The Tyee
Alberta’s premier is overriding Charter protections. Here’s a fact check on her claims.
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November 20, 2025 at 3:21 PM
"Smith and her government are weaponizing a little-used piece of the Charter and a pile of debunked science and outright lies about trans people to make the case that their laws, which make up Canada’s harshest anti-trans legislation, are actually about protecting kids."
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My most woke opinion is that the whole point of society is to collectively help each other. My taxes should be going towards housing and feeding everyone. No one should be without food or shelter. Rich people should be contributing more towards this. It shouldn't even be controversial!
November 20, 2025 at 12:58 PM
My most woke opinion is that the whole point of society is to collectively help each other. My taxes should be going towards housing and feeding everyone. No one should be without food or shelter. Rich people should be contributing more towards this. It shouldn't even be controversial!
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“[Our] community is being actively targeted on an ongoing basis by a foreign government ... and our government ignores all of that and says, ‘Ah well, we’re going to start rebuilding ties.’”
November 18, 2025 at 6:41 PM
“[Our] community is being actively targeted on an ongoing basis by a foreign government ... and our government ignores all of that and says, ‘Ah well, we’re going to start rebuilding ties.’”
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One of the most liberating truths I’ve learned, and the one that white folx, particularly white men, still struggle to face, is this:
The myth of white supremacy explains your behavior.
It does not, and has never, determined my value.
The myth of white supremacy explains your behavior.
It does not, and has never, determined my value.
November 19, 2025 at 10:50 AM
One of the most liberating truths I’ve learned, and the one that white folx, particularly white men, still struggle to face, is this:
The myth of white supremacy explains your behavior.
It does not, and has never, determined my value.
The myth of white supremacy explains your behavior.
It does not, and has never, determined my value.
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"Khashoggi was injected with a sedative, suffocated with a plastic bag and cut into pieces. His remains were taken to Saudi consul-general’s residence. Saudi Arabia conducted a forensic cleaning of the consulate before Turkish officials were allowed inside."
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November 18, 2025 at 6:39 PM
"Khashoggi was injected with a sedative, suffocated with a plastic bag and cut into pieces. His remains were taken to Saudi consul-general’s residence. Saudi Arabia conducted a forensic cleaning of the consulate before Turkish officials were allowed inside."
www.theglobeandmail.com/world/us-pol...
www.theglobeandmail.com/world/us-pol...
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Ever since someone on here brought up the fact that the media literally just interviews rich people to get their thoughts on random shit, even though there’s absolutely no need to do that, it’s all that I can see everywhere
November 17, 2025 at 7:38 PM
Ever since someone on here brought up the fact that the media literally just interviews rich people to get their thoughts on random shit, even though there’s absolutely no need to do that, it’s all that I can see everywhere
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My latest investigation for @thetyee.ca details what the UCP government doesn't want the public to know about their private surgery push.
Insiders Detail Ways Alberta's For-Profit Surgery Push Is Failing via @thetyee.ca thetyee.ca/News/2025/11...
Insiders Detail Ways Alberta's For-Profit Surgery Push Is Failing via @thetyee.ca thetyee.ca/News/2025/11...
Insiders Detail Ways Alberta’s For-Profit Surgery Push Is Failing | The Tyee
The shift strong-arms doctors but hasn’t saved money or shortened waits for critical operations, sources say. A Tyee investigation.
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November 17, 2025 at 5:18 AM
My latest investigation for @thetyee.ca details what the UCP government doesn't want the public to know about their private surgery push.
Insiders Detail Ways Alberta's For-Profit Surgery Push Is Failing via @thetyee.ca thetyee.ca/News/2025/11...
Insiders Detail Ways Alberta's For-Profit Surgery Push Is Failing via @thetyee.ca thetyee.ca/News/2025/11...