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MondoAB @mondoab.bsky.social · 1h

How long has this been going on you ask?

February 10, 2020

"The cuts come at a time when school boards are also dealing with 13,000 additional students. The ATA said it breaks down to $441 less per student."

globalnews.ca/news/6533781...

Documents prove United Conservative Party cut education funding, Alberta teachers say | Globalnews.ca

"Every school board in this province, except for four, have seen a cut to their funding," said ATA president Jason Schilling.

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Taylor Noakes @taylornoakes.com · 1h

What we need to remember is that the oil is good for the environment, but only when Liberals pump it

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FWIW pitching articles to the MSM about climate change, #Canada’s role in making it worse, or the inevitable collapse of the fossil fuel sector is futile

They do not care

#cdnmedia #cdnpoli

Canada's National Observer @nationalobserver.com · 7h

Dawn Farrell, the former CEO of Trans Mountain who now leads the federal government's Major Projects Office was asked whether the oil pipeline contributes to the fight against climate change.

“The answer is yes,” she replied.

Head of Carney’s Major Projects Office thinks Trans Mountain is good for climate

Dawn Farrell, the former CEO of Trans Mountain who now leads the federal government's Major Projects Office told the House of Commons environment committee that the oil pipeline helps fight climate ch...

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Dwight Williams 🇨🇦 @dewline.bsky.social · 1h

With the current balance of power at the state level?

Seriously?

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Hedley Lamar's fugly sister @endora-laduce.bsky.social · 2h

HOLDING ALL CITIZENS HOSTAGE?

If that Veteran gets what HE NEEDS, then the rest of us get screwed on OUR health care?
SOMEBODY IS BOUND TO LOSE IN THIS WILD LEGISLATIVE GAMBLE!

DEMOCRATS- THEY'RE USING THE "APPEAL TO PREJUDICE" TO MAKE THEMSELVES SOUND REASONABLE!

FIGHT SMARTER

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Dwight Williams 🇨🇦 @dewline.bsky.social · 1h

I wanted to work with them ever since I learned they were a thing that people make.

Dwight Williams 🇨🇦 @dewline.bsky.social · 1h

I consider this wise:

Sterling Gates @sterlinggates.bsky.social · 7d

Letterers are incredible artists and should be treated/paid better.

Liam McGuire @liammcguire.bsky.social · 8d

Anyone have a particularly hot comic take?

Dwight Williams 🇨🇦 @dewline.bsky.social · 1h

Eeeeek.

Dwight Williams 🇨🇦 @dewline.bsky.social · 1h

ACLU published a map, one that still needs to account for those inland ports of entry.

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Dwight Williams 🇨🇦 @dewline.bsky.social · 1h

Yes, we are, Greg. Would that it were otherwise in ways we can celebrate.

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Will Saletan @saletan.bsky.social · 2h

Here's a neat trick they teach in authoritarianism school: If you purge the people who measure the effects of your policies (BLS, MMWR), you can just claim everything's great, and nobody can prove how much damage you're doing.

Sheryl Gay Stolberg @sherylnyt.bsky.social · 3h

BREAKING: Friday night massacre underway at CDC. Doznes of "disease detectives," high-level scientists, entire Washington staff and editors of the MMWR (Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report) have all been RIFed and received the following notice:

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Dwight Williams 🇨🇦 @dewline.bsky.social · 1h

Yes, it will be deranged.

Reconstructionist @unavaleable.bsky.social · 1h

the day that it finally happens is gonna be surreal because the way they report it will be fucking deranged

Reuters @reuters.com · 3h

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

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Dwight Williams 🇨🇦 @dewline.bsky.social · 1h

The efficiency of enshittification.

I never thought to expect a word like that to be acceptable either.

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Kelly @broadwaybabyto.bsky.social · 1h

There are measles outbreaks across the country.

Covid is still surging and prompting many healthcare facilities to reinstate mask policies.

There’s misinformation about vaccines, Tylenol, autism and chronic illness.

Public health is in shambles… and now they’re firing dozens of CDC staff.

Sheryl Gay Stolberg @sherylnyt.bsky.social · 3h

BREAKING: Friday night massacre underway at CDC. Doznes of "disease detectives," high-level scientists, entire Washington staff and editors of the MMWR (Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report) have all been RIFed and received the following notice:

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Dwight Williams 🇨🇦 @dewline.bsky.social · 1h

Exactly.

Back to 1750 is their goal.

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Dwight Williams 🇨🇦 @dewline.bsky.social · 1h

The need to enslave.

Dwight Williams 🇨🇦 @dewline.bsky.social · 1h

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Dwight Williams 🇨🇦 @dewline.bsky.social · 1h

Yes, he should. Without doubt.

Dwight Williams 🇨🇦 @dewline.bsky.social · 1h

Understandable.

Under the present international circumstances, Canadians and Canadian-adjacents gotta side with Toronto.

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John Skiles Skinner @skiles.blue · 2h

I don't know if there's such a thing as a "world cyberwar" but I think we are in one? and the US is determined to lose it. 🧵

Today the admin is mass-firing the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), the nation's cybersecurity protection across all levels of government.

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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 4h

No one is covering the GOP's scheme to rig congressional maps for 2026 as closely as Democracy Docket. It is providing gavel to gavel coverage of the ongoing hearing over whether the Texas gerrymander will be in place for the midterms.

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Dwight Williams 🇨🇦 @dewline.bsky.social · 2h

Sabotage in progress.

Sheryl Gay Stolberg @sherylnyt.bsky.social · 3h

BREAKING: Friday night massacre underway at CDC. Doznes of "disease detectives," high-level scientists, entire Washington staff and editors of the MMWR (Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report) have all been RIFed and received the following notice:

Dwight Williams 🇨🇦 @dewline.bsky.social · 2h

Clearly, Thune puts party before country.

Dwight Williams 🇨🇦 @dewline.bsky.social · 2h

Assuming that the Trumpists want that provision to happen at all.

And CDC's been similarly attacked tonight.

Yonah Freemark @yonahfreemark.com · 2h

Appears the Trump admin’s reduction in force has hit housing hard this evening.

Reports that all CDFI fund staff have been let go. HUD appears to have lost 442 staff.

Yet another federal cut that will make providing affordable housing in the US all the more challenging.

Reports that all staff of CDFI Fund have been let go

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 2h

RIFs can’t be done without agency leadership so this is RFK Jr extending his purge of CDC scientists to help Vought’s shutdown agenda. Genuine public health risks created by aggrieved men.

Sheryl Gay Stolberg @sherylnyt.bsky.social · 3h

BREAKING: Friday night massacre underway at CDC. Doznes of "disease detectives," high-level scientists, entire Washington staff and editors of the MMWR (Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report) have all been RIFed and received the following notice:

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Dwight Williams 🇨🇦 @dewline.bsky.social · 2h

Vought doesn't care. Neither does Kennedy, I expect.

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