jim storrie
@jimstr.bsky.social
edmonton-based poster, video game and hamburger enthusiast, and depending on your standards, journalist. writing about alberta politics at www.theprogressreport.ca. if we are partisans of liberty, it is our duty to escape
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I've been studying the history of US, and indeed, global policing my whole career and I can't make it more clear to law makers that this isn't a bastardization of policing, it is its purest form and logical conclusion. The impunity, militarization, deference, legitimacy, racial targeting, etc.
January 25, 2026 at 2:20 AM
I've been studying the history of US, and indeed, global policing my whole career and I can't make it more clear to law makers that this isn't a bastardization of policing, it is its purest form and logical conclusion. The impunity, militarization, deference, legitimacy, racial targeting, etc.
a point of pedantry: they're not Trump's gestapo, they're Trump's SA (the sturmabteilung, a.k.a. the stormtroopers or brownshirts)
January 25, 2026 at 1:47 AM
a point of pedantry: they're not Trump's gestapo, they're Trump's SA (the sturmabteilung, a.k.a. the stormtroopers or brownshirts)
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Imagine what’s happening in the camps.
Imagine how much they’d be lying about what happened without all the videos showing it from multiple angles.
January 24, 2026 at 11:29 PM
Imagine what’s happening in the camps.
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The long tail of the fund the police movement is killing free society.
Most of this year's ICE budget comes from last year's reconciliation bill. House Democratic leaders discouraged its members from offering amendments eliminating that funding. Didn't want the party to come across as anti-ICE.
www.stephensemler.com/p/ice-budget...
www.stephensemler.com/p/ice-budget...
January 24, 2026 at 10:45 PM
The long tail of the fund the police movement is killing free society.
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SLUGGO’S SATURDAY
January 24, 2026 at 7:36 AM
SLUGGO’S SATURDAY
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My loose info so far is that the Minneapolis General Strike today had about 80 unions sign on, and it might be one of the biggest labor actions in decades depending on your definition
January 23, 2026 at 11:16 PM
My loose info so far is that the Minneapolis General Strike today had about 80 unions sign on, and it might be one of the biggest labor actions in decades depending on your definition
while i do think yves has been acting like a clown around the ndp leadership race, and i would not like him to win that, this case against him is absurd. a police detective claimed he was intimidating her because his supporters sent her e-mails through an online petition: absolute horseshit
Yves Engler found guilty of harassment over mass e-mail campaign directed at detective
Left-wing activist, who was barred from running in NDP race, was also convicted of obstruction of justice
www.theglobeandmail.com
January 23, 2026 at 10:41 PM
while i do think yves has been acting like a clown around the ndp leadership race, and i would not like him to win that, this case against him is absurd. a police detective claimed he was intimidating her because his supporters sent her e-mails through an online petition: absolute horseshit
wild that everyone's into the pitt now. if you ask me none of those fallout 3 dlcs were very good
January 23, 2026 at 7:12 AM
wild that everyone's into the pitt now. if you ask me none of those fallout 3 dlcs were very good
hope our boy gil is taking some detailed notes this week
Congress passed the Taft-Hartley Act in 1947 (over Truman's veto) to make general strikes so incredibly difficult to organize that there hasn't been one since.
That there is a general strike happening in a major US city on such short notice is nothing short of a miracle.
That there is a general strike happening in a major US city on such short notice is nothing short of a miracle.
National media should really be covering the fact thay every major school, museum, and arts institution in the Twin Cities, and hundreds of local businesses are closed tomorrow to protest federal occupation.
Nothing like this at this scale has happened anywhere in America anytime in living memory.
Nothing like this at this scale has happened anywhere in America anytime in living memory.
January 23, 2026 at 2:38 AM
hope our boy gil is taking some detailed notes this week
this headline is bizarre to me because i have always felt that Ontario was the most Olive Garden of the provinces
Olive Garden is returning to Ontario after more than 20 years. Here’s where
Olive Garden Returns to Ontario: A Nostalgic Taste of Italian Dining
The Canadian company behind chains like Swiss Chalet and The Keg will open two new Olive Garden locations this summer.
www.thestar.com
January 20, 2026 at 9:51 PM
this headline is bizarre to me because i have always felt that Ontario was the most Olive Garden of the provinces
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“Oxfam’s study…argues that the wealth boom is being matched by a dramatic concentration of political clout, with billionaires 4,000 times more likely than ordinary citizens to hold political office.”
In a report timed for the opening of the World Economic Forum, anti-poverty group Oxfam said billionaire wealth surged at three times its recent pace last year to reach its highest level on record, deepening economic and political divides that threaten democratic stability reut.rs/4b8PEcw
Billionaires' wealth hits new peak as their clout grows, Oxfam says
Billionaire wealth surged at three times its recent pace last year to reach its highest level on record, deepening economic and political divides that threaten democratic stability, anti-poverty group...
reut.rs
January 19, 2026 at 4:18 PM
“Oxfam’s study…argues that the wealth boom is being matched by a dramatic concentration of political clout, with billionaires 4,000 times more likely than ordinary citizens to hold political office.”
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what i find particularly funny (?) about the anti-infill campaigning is the cross-pollination with people slamming city hall for edmonton's snow-clearing struggles this year. a significant driver of each just seems to be conservatives jumping on any excuse to campaign against council
In the latest episode of their video program 'Oh The Urbanity!', @ohtheurbanity.bsky.social call out Edmonton's city admin and councilors for signaling that they may compromise their densification plan in an upcoming vote in February that would cap infill residences to six units.
This City Tried to Fix Housing. The Backlash Was Intense.
YouTube video by Oh The Urbanity!
www.youtube.com
January 19, 2026 at 2:39 AM
what i find particularly funny (?) about the anti-infill campaigning is the cross-pollination with people slamming city hall for edmonton's snow-clearing struggles this year. a significant driver of each just seems to be conservatives jumping on any excuse to campaign against council
I think it's funny that Stephen Miller wants Bill Shatner to have creative control over Star Trek because Bill Shatner had creative control over TekWar
I just think it's funny that Stephen Miller wants Bill Shatner to have creative control over Star Trek because there was a time when he did and he made a delightfully camp 80s sci-fi romp about three confirmed bachelors and their journey to the center of the galaxy to question God to his face.
January 16, 2026 at 10:47 PM
I think it's funny that Stephen Miller wants Bill Shatner to have creative control over Star Trek because Bill Shatner had creative control over TekWar
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Canadian social media management firm Hootsuite is providing monitoring tech to the US government's immigration enforcement agency. Via @betakit.com reporter Josh Scott and myself. betakit.com/hootsuite-dh...
Hootsuite could receive up to $2.8 million USD for contract with US immigration enforcement | BetaKit
Years after scrapping a contract with ICE, Hootsuite is providing monitoring technology to DHS.
betakit.com
January 16, 2026 at 10:41 PM
Canadian social media management firm Hootsuite is providing monitoring tech to the US government's immigration enforcement agency. Via @betakit.com reporter Josh Scott and myself. betakit.com/hootsuite-dh...
the genocide cheerleaders over at CIJA are running a petition campaign to demand the feds block Hasan Piker from entering Canada
Stop Hasan Piker's Hate from Crossing into Canada
www.cija.ca
January 16, 2026 at 4:48 AM
the genocide cheerleaders over at CIJA are running a petition campaign to demand the feds block Hasan Piker from entering Canada
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After what we watched and experienced around campus Palestine protests, university administrations accommodating fascists should be expected. Here’s how to nail their asses. 🧵
So this is unbelievably vile. From someone I consider a very trusted source.
January 16, 2026 at 1:05 AM
After what we watched and experienced around campus Palestine protests, university administrations accommodating fascists should be expected. Here’s how to nail their asses. 🧵
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Minneapolis residents are painting tunnels onto brick walls and ICE agents are running into them. This is not funny.
Naaaaaaailed it
January 15, 2026 at 11:58 PM
Minneapolis residents are painting tunnels onto brick walls and ICE agents are running into them. This is not funny.
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Quite frankly, it’s outrageous that Mark Carney is cutting Statistics Canada. If he was Stephen Harper or Pierre Poilievre, I feel like this would be getting a lot more backlash.
Carney of all people should know the importance of high-quality data and information about the country.
Carney of all people should know the importance of high-quality data and information about the country.
Statistics Canada to cut 850 jobs in 'dark time' for public service, union says
Federal statistics agency entered its workforce adjustment period Monday, sending notices to thousands of employees.
ottawacitizen.com
January 15, 2026 at 12:35 AM
Quite frankly, it’s outrageous that Mark Carney is cutting Statistics Canada. If he was Stephen Harper or Pierre Poilievre, I feel like this would be getting a lot more backlash.
Carney of all people should know the importance of high-quality data and information about the country.
Carney of all people should know the importance of high-quality data and information about the country.
he will be once i finish building this chronosphere
A significant difference between Hitler and Trump? Hitler doesn’t appear in the Epstein files.
January 15, 2026 at 12:02 AM
he will be once i finish building this chronosphere
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The X situation is an excellent example of the perils of neoliberalism. The state has become so beholden to a private service provider for public service announcements, they're resorting to equivocation on responsibility for CSAM and violent misogyny on that platform rather than risk losing it.
January 11, 2026 at 4:59 PM
The X situation is an excellent example of the perils of neoliberalism. The state has become so beholden to a private service provider for public service announcements, they're resorting to equivocation on responsibility for CSAM and violent misogyny on that platform rather than risk losing it.
if there's a silver lining here it's that ubisoft hasn't published a good game since assassin's creed 2 so they're going to be pretty easy for you to boycott
January 14, 2026 at 12:51 AM
if there's a silver lining here it's that ubisoft hasn't published a good game since assassin's creed 2 so they're going to be pretty easy for you to boycott
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I keep seeing people trying to draw delineations between ICE (bad) and Real Officers of the Law (good) and y'all, there may be some distinctions but every argument ICE is using to justify their murder and destruction came from Real Officers of the Law.
January 13, 2026 at 5:44 PM
I keep seeing people trying to draw delineations between ICE (bad) and Real Officers of the Law (good) and y'all, there may be some distinctions but every argument ICE is using to justify their murder and destruction came from Real Officers of the Law.
another display of clown behavior has hit the federal ndp leadership race
NDP leadership candidate apologizes for using AI to respond to Reddit questions | CBC News
Despite being concerned artificial intelligence is replacing workers, NDP leadership candidate and union leader Rob Ashton used AI in his campaign messaging during an "ask me anything" event on Reddit...
www.cbc.ca
January 13, 2026 at 8:34 PM
another display of clown behavior has hit the federal ndp leadership race
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We're fighting for our members at Ubisoft Halifax!
Union files Labour Board complaint over Ubisoft Halifax Shutdown
HALIFAX (Jan. 13, 2026) – CWA Canada has filed a legal complaint accusing video game giant Ubisoft of shutting down its Halifax studio to keep out the union. Today’s complaint to the…
cwacanada.ca
January 13, 2026 at 8:13 PM
We're fighting for our members at Ubisoft Halifax!