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Martha Crawford @whatashrinkthinks.com · 20h

No identification, no paper trails, no accountability

People lost and transferred all through the system.

None of these girls and women are protected from sexual violence from their policing abductors

Ever.

But especially as these men have wholly anonymized themselves.

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Martha Crawford @whatashrinkthinks.com · 20h

I'm sitting here thinking about having a 15 daughter being chased down and abducted by masked men while the local police watch and let them carry her away to god-knows where w/zero accountability

we have to understand that girls are in severe danger of sexual violence from anonymous ICE goons

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Justin Hendrix @justinhendrix.bsky.social · 18h

"Global policymakers and finance ministers will gather in Washington for the International Monetary Fund/World Bank fall meetings after a chorus of warnings that a stock bubble focused on artificial intelligence companies might burst before long."

Stock Bubble Dread Grips Central Bankers in Washington

Global policymakers and finance ministers will gather in Washington for the International Monetary Fund/World Bank fall meetings after a chorus of warnings that a stock bubble focused on artificial in...

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Jeff Doctor @jeff.doctor · 1d

I'm ranting now but I'm getting really irritated all this. Generative "AI" is the most obvious bubble ever that's gonna burst and wreck the economy yet Canadian "experts" who really should know better are hitting themselves in the face with every rake imaginable because OMG FOMO. It's pathetic

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The Beaverton @thebeaverton.com · 5d

Alberta government to ban the number 58,008 in schools

CALGARY — With the province's teachers on strike, Danielle Smith’s UCP government has tabled new legislation banning the use of the number 58,008, in order to “protect Alberta’s most precious resource...

www.thebeaverton.com

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Shawna Gawreluck @shawnagawreluck.bsky.social · 5d

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Parksy @pfparks.bsky.social · 3d

RURAL ED CLOSURES - REAL AB Case #1
- ABs are not aware of how frequently rural EDs are closed, and the impact on the people in these communities.
- the ever-worsening stats are meaningless
- it's important to put a human face on what's happening.

Anonymized Actual Case #1:
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Parksy @pfparks.bsky.social · 19h

RURAL ED CLOSURES - REAL AB Case #2

- Pt in their 40s, witnessed cardiac arrest
- EMS responds and begins resuscitation
- Only mins from nearest Hospital, but the ED is CLOSED
- Adjacent Hospital ED Closed too
- EMS crew NOT aware of ED closures
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Effin' Birds @effinbirds.com · 1d

A woodcut of a bird beside the text "THE SEASONS MAY CHANGE, BUT YOU WILL ALWAYS BE AN ASSHOLE"

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NPR @npr.org · 1d

Pope Leo XIV weighed in on U.S. politics, saying that Catholic politicians must be judged on the full range of their policy positions and suggesting that the country's immigration policy is "inhuman."

Pope Leo XIV says 'inhuman treatment of immigrants' in the U.S. isn't 'pro-life'

Pope Leo XIV weighed in on U.S. politics, saying that Catholic politicians must be judged on the full range of their policy positions and suggesting that the country's immigration policy is "inhuman."

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Sarah Dempster @dempster2000.bsky.social · 1d

7 reasons why The Thing (1982) is a Christmas film:

1) snow
2) bearded men concealing surprises
3) compulsory party games
4) introverts shunning group activities
5) digestive issues
6) revellers bursting open to reveal partially assimilated canine lifeforms
7) knitwear

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Abortion Rights Coalition of Canada @abortionrightscan.bsky.social · 1d

"All Canadians, regardless of where they live, deserve access to the contraception that they need to control and plan their reproductive health futures. Now is the time to implement universal, first-payer coverage for contraception for all Canadians."

The evidence is clear: National pharmacare for contraception can’t wait

National pharmacare is essential for equitable access to prescription contraception.

theconversation.com

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The Breakdown AB @thebreakdownab.bsky.social · 1d

“A leader of the Alberta separatist movement has been reprimanded by the Law Society of Alberta for a second time in four months, after he admitted to twice breaching professional standards.”

#abpoli #ableg #cdnpoli

edmontonjournal.com/news/politic...

Alberta separatist lawyer reprimanded for second time in four months

Jeffrey Rath represents the Alberta Prosperity Project and was reprimanded on Friday for his role in a near-decade old legal case.

edmontonjournal.com

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Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 1d

Huh: TikTok took down my 8-second video featuring this image of Debbie Brockman — the news producer just detained by Trump’s CBP agents — saying it violates the “joy of TikTok”

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MrsDrJim @mrsdrjim.bsky.social · 1d

If his family cared about him he'd be in a nice care facility.

Instead they let him be used as a political puppet for people who are scaring him with old, edited videos and AI bullshit.

Yes, he is a liar. But I also think there's genuine confusion he has about reality.

#usPoli

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Trump: "Portland, I mean -- every time I look at that place it's burning down. There are fires all over the place. When a store -- there are very few of them left -- but when a store owner rebuilds a store they build it out of plywood. They don't put up storefronts anymore. They just put wood up."

MrsDrJim @mrsdrjim.bsky.social · 1d

Lying with numbers. Most people do NOT have thousands of dollars to send their own kids to a private school, yet we're all supposed to feel sympathy for those that do AND help them pay for it?

GTFO

If you want to send your child to their own fancy country club you alone should pay for it.

#abPoli

Robson Fletcher @robsonfletcher.com · 1d

Oof I'm down a rabbit hole trying to parse this line in this article:

"According to a 2017 Fraser Institute report, the average after-tax income for a significant majority of independent school families is comparable to, or even slightly less than, the average income for public school families"

🧵

Opinion: Setting the record straight on Alberta’s independent school funding

Independent school association takes issue with Don Braid column on government funding.

calgaryherald.com

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MrsDrJim @mrsdrjim.bsky.social · 1d

He's one of those P3 guys. If managed would likely end like how a lot of those projects end: cost overruns and the taxpayer stuck footing the bill anyway. When the taxpayer is also just city residents, you can see your property taxes suddenly skyrocket.

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Michael E. Mann @michaelemann.bsky.social · 6d

“The Party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command.”

― George Orwell, 1984

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 6d

Mike Johnson: "Let me look right into the camera and tell you very clearly: Republicans are the ones concerned about healthcare. Republicans are the party working around the clock everyday to fix healthcare. This is not talking points for us: we've done it."

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Emmett Macfarlane 🇨🇦 @emmettmacfarlane.com · 2d

Quebec's new 'Constitution Bill' doubles down on the absurd idea that a province can directly amend the national constitution. It purports to directly change the text of provisions of the Constitution Act, 1867, and repeal others.

Emmett Macfarlane 🇨🇦 @emmettmacfarlane.com · 2d

Uhh, what is this unconstitutional horseshit?
"The constitution bill would also have the Quebec premier recommend who should be appointed the province's lieutenant-governor. ...
The new legislation would also rename the lieutenant-governor the "officer of Quebec.""
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

Quebec tables draft constitution to affirm its 'distinct national character,' premier says | CBC News

The constitution, filed at the National Assembly on Thursday and lambasted by opposition parties as a piece of political theatre filed without proper consultation, includes language asserting Quebec’s...

www.cbc.ca

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Zoë “Baddie Proctor” Quinn @unburntwitch.com · 2d

Never forget the core thing funding the sheer scale of the spending spree of AI investments is primarily due to the turborich wanting to solve the “problem” of having to pay wages.

Alan Baxter @alanbaxter.bsky.social · 2d

"Put simply, only the extremely wealthy appear to be benefiting from all of this."

Bank of England Warns of Impending AI Disaster

The Bank of England has sounded the alarm, warning of an intensifying risk of a "sudden correction" due to an AI spending frenzy.

futurism.com

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The Beaverton @thebeaverton.com · 2d

Creators of AI-generated actress unsure if coolest part is the creepiness or the stealing

PALO ALTO, CA - The inventors of Tilly Norwood, a computer generated character built using artificial intelligence, enthusiastically insist their creation is both unsettlingly lifeless and built on ou...

www.thebeaverton.com

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The Breakdown AB @thebreakdownab.bsky.social · 2d

“A pipeline rupture that sparked a 2024 wildfire in west-central Alberta was caused by a crack, says a report released Thursday.”

If we’re debating what can cause a wildfire still…

#abpoli #ableg #cdnpoli

www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

TSB releases findings on Alberta pipeline rupture that caused explosion, wildfire | CBC News

The Transportation Safety Board of Canada published its findings on the causes of the rupture of a natural gas pipeline near Edson, Alta.

www.cbc.ca

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MrsDrJim @mrsdrjim.bsky.social · 2d

Go on...

#usPoli

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2d

Melania Trump: "President Putin and I have had an open channel of communication."

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Max Fawcett @maxfawcett.bsky.social · 2d

In which I debunk some very common (and popular) myths about renewable energy and hte energy transition.

Warning: It's long, pedantic, and full of charts.

maxfawcett.substack.com/p/when-blind...

When "blindingly obvious" facts about the energy transition are anything but

Debunking Don Wright's well-meaning interventions on the subject

maxfawcett.substack.com

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Lisa Johnson @reportrix.bsky.social · 2d

Maren Aukerman, an education professor at the University of Calgary, says the Alberta government's nearly 200-page "tool kit" hops from one topic to another without context and barely aligns with the provincial curriculum.

"It is incoherent." www.thecanadianpressnews.ca/prairies_bc/...

'A big mess': Expert, parents criticize Alberta tool kit for students during strike

EDMONTON - An education expert is criticizing online lessons the Alberta government has curated for students during a provincewide teachers strike as "incoherent."

www.thecanadianpressnews.ca

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