mackieblu
banner
mackieblu.bsky.social
mackieblu
@mackieblu.bsky.social
Progressive Canadian. Albertan. (But not that kind) Twitter refugee. Trying to keep facts in circulation.
Pinned
Choose 20 paintings that have stayed with you or influenced you — one painting per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just paintings.
Reposted by mackieblu
Shut

This

Shit

Down

🤬

Not in our country, don’t go bringing hate into Canada, these people are domestic terrorists! These groups are on the terror watch lists.

www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
Growing white nationalist group behind broad daylight demonstration in London on Sunday | CBC News
An apparent white nationalist demonstration on a busy overpass near London, Ont.'s downtown on Sunday afternoon is concerning for witnesses and experts who track extremist behaviour.
www.cbc.ca
November 25, 2025 at 11:49 AM
Reposted by mackieblu
🤣🤣😁
Canada to the United States: Please stop drunk-texting us at 2 a.m.

November 25, 2025 at 11:50 AM
Reposted by mackieblu
THIS 👇 makes me sick!
November 25, 2025 at 11:59 AM
Reposted by mackieblu
Thread 🧵
1. A landmark study was just published in The Journal of Pediatrics.

It found a 68% reduction in suicidality for trans youth getting HRT.

It also found only 7 of more than 400 stopped taking HRT... and of those that did, 4 still identified as gender-diverse.

Transgender care saves lives.
Study In The Journal Of Pediatrics Finds Trans Youth Care Lowers Suicidality, Few Detransition
The groundbreaking study found that suicidality dropped for transgender youth receiving hormone therapy by nearly 70%, with only 7 patients of 432 discontinuing treatment.
www.erininthemorning.com
November 25, 2025 at 12:29 PM
Reposted by mackieblu
Oh good lord! Definitely crap…
November 25, 2025 at 12:39 PM
Reposted by mackieblu
It will die a slow death as BC and First Nations resist, oil markets decline and private investment fails to appear, but the blame will shift from the federal government. I don’t think it’s a particularly ennobling political calculation, but a lot of pigs will have to fly before this is real.
November 25, 2025 at 12:31 AM
Reposted by mackieblu
Today, after months of requests, I toured the Broadview ICE Processing Facility. I want to share what I saw.

The facility has no food vendor, no medical care, and detainees have to use toilets in the middle of shared cells. These are in no way suitable conditions to be holding anyone — period.
November 25, 2025 at 12:57 AM
Reposted by mackieblu
I’m still enjoying how MAGA Twitter will never live down that they’re all troll farms from Russia and Bangladesh. The whole MAGA ‘movement’ has been fake bullshit from top to bottom from the very beginning.
Musk Accidentally Proves Most MAGA Accounts On Twitter Live In Russia
Whoops!
www.thegodpodcast.com
November 25, 2025 at 1:16 AM
Reposted by mackieblu
Here I am at the iPolitics awards with my Alberta Senate colleague Patti LaBoucane-Benson. I won for best Senate speaker - but Patti won for Senator of the Year! Alberta girls getting things done! #SenateofCanada #Alberta #cdnpoli #abpoli @senindepend.bsky.social
November 25, 2025 at 1:22 AM
Reposted by mackieblu
Not to worry, batshit Smith didn't get anything of substance. She just thinks she did. No way she can force BC to accept the pipeline. Never happen
@mark-carney.bsky.social Convenient that you are out of the country when the announcement of your complete betrayal of an entire province is announced. YOur agreement with the fascist premier of Alberta (without any reference to David Eby) is a stab in our hearts. #BCBetrayal
November 25, 2025 at 1:47 AM
Reposted by mackieblu
Canadian COVID Forecast: Nov 22 - Dec 5, 2025

SEVERE: AB
VERY HIGH: MB, NB, North, NS, SK
HIGH: CAN, BC, NL, ON, PEI, QC
MODERATE: none

About 1 in 161 people in Canada are CURRENTLY infected.
November 25, 2025 at 2:02 AM
Reposted by mackieblu
Comey today after his case was dismissed. He had a stark warning. He made it clear: this wasn’t vindication, it was a reminder of how close we came to losing the rule of law.
Power abused once can be abused again. We’d better take that seriously.

#USDemocracy
#Pinks
November 25, 2025 at 2:13 AM
Reposted by mackieblu
How would an MLA know which constituents vote in a provincial elections? This information is privileged only to Elections Alberta.

Also, any elector can initiate a recall, irrelevant of whether they vote. UCP wrote this law.

#ableg
Wait WHAT?!?

Dale Nally somehow audited the voting records of Albertans and is using that as a metric for who can initiate recall?

And now all of the applicant statements and member statements have been removed from Elections Alberta?

#abpoli #ableg #cdnpoli
November 25, 2025 at 2:34 AM
Reposted by mackieblu
There is no low too low for a UCP MLA

IMO, they were chosen because they have no moral compass.
MLA's with a moral compass would NOT vote to use the Notwithstanding clause to squash our rights

#ableg #abpoli
Wait WHAT?!?

Dale Nally somehow audited the voting records of Albertans and is using that as a metric for who can initiate recall?

And now all of the applicant statements and member statements have been removed from Elections Alberta?

#abpoli #ableg #cdnpoli
November 25, 2025 at 3:03 AM
Reposted by mackieblu
Loewen has not hidden his connections to the hunters and trappers, international organizations that promote trophy hunts or the hunting of large predators. He's past owner of Red Willow Outfitters, which is now under the ownership of his wife and son.

albertawilderness.ca/news-release...
News Release: Call for Ethics Investigation into Minister Todd Loewen - Alberta Wilderness Association
November 24, 2025 Alberta Wilderness Association (AWA) and Exposed Wildlife Conservancy are asking the Ethics...
albertawilderness.ca
November 25, 2025 at 3:08 AM
Reposted by mackieblu
Great job, MAGAs... Turns out owning the Libs was costly.
November 25, 2025 at 3:27 AM
Reposted by mackieblu
New peer reviewed research confirms that gender affirmative care reduces the rate of suicide in gender diverse youth over time.

These findings published in the Journal of Pediatrics are consistent with other studies.

Access to timely care is critical.

www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Changes in Suicidality among Transgender Adolescents Following Hormone Therapy: An Extended Study
To examine changes in suicidality following hormone therapy (HT) among transgender and gender-diverse adolescents and young adults.A retrospective cha…
www.sciencedirect.com
November 25, 2025 at 5:48 AM
Reposted by mackieblu
Pardon my French, but this shit really pisses me off.
November 25, 2025 at 6:11 AM
Reposted by mackieblu
1/8
🇨🇦 #UCP #RECALL WAVE GROWS IN ALBERTA 🇨🇦

Elections Alberta approved petitions against 6 more UCP MLAs, bringing the total to 9.

With the government's majority mathematically on the line, a mechanism designed for accountability is becoming a political battleground.

#Alberta #UCP #CdnPoli #Recall
November 25, 2025 at 6:17 AM
Reposted by mackieblu
Alberta’s growing list of MLA recall petitions is a grassroots phenomenon that’s turning into a grassfire! albertapolitics.ca/2025/11/albe...
Alberta’s growing list of MLA recall petitions is a grassroots phenomenon that’s turning into a grassfire!  - Alberta Politics
Knowing that he’s almost certainly destined for the long jump, metaphorically speaking, it must be mildly satisfying for Chief Electoral Officer Gordon McClure to have to keep approving those MLA reca...
albertapolitics.ca
November 25, 2025 at 6:24 AM
Reposted by mackieblu
But but but, women were being hysterical and histrionic when we claimed the conservatives were going after abortion access.
November 24, 2025 at 12:17 AM
Reposted by mackieblu
This is leadership for Canada.
How he says it is just as important as what he says.
He waives it off and replies as if to say "Pffff who cares".
Meanwhile he signed deals worth many many $billions for Canada on this trip.
PM Carney was asked when he last spoke to Trump: "Who cares. It's a detail. I'll speak to him again when it matters. I don't have a burning issue to speak with the president about right now. When America wants to come back and have the discussions on the trade side we will have those discussions." 👏🏽
November 24, 2025 at 12:19 AM
Reposted by mackieblu
60 Minutes just reminded us that Putin is a war criminal and all I could think of while watching that is remembering how our president embraced him like a hero. It’s disgusting how far we have fallen.
November 24, 2025 at 12:22 AM
Reposted by mackieblu
President Lula and I are focused on increasing trade and deepening our strong partnership between Canada and Brazil.

We’re intensifying free trade negotiations with Mercosur — a bloc of South American nations with a GDP of over $4 trillion, and a massive new export market for Canadian businesses.
November 24, 2025 at 12:24 AM
Reposted by mackieblu
Danielle Smith lies again!

When asked about her abuse of the notwithstanding clause, Danielle Smith defended the decision by claiming the Supreme Court ruled that possession of child pornography was acceptable.

The Supreme Court never said that.

#abpoli #ableg #cdnpoli
November 24, 2025 at 12:55 AM