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Jan Rosenow @janrosenow.bsky.social · 9h

China ≠ just coal plants and solar exports. The deeper shift: electrifying everything it can. Strategic, because China relies on imported fossil fuels. Coal is still king in the power mix—for now. But the balance is changing year by year.

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Working Class History @workingclasshistory.com · 9h

#OtD 10 Oct 1900 Umberto Marzocchi, Italian anarchist shipyard worker who fought Mussolini's fascists in Italy, Franco's fascists in Spain and Hitler's fascists in France, was born stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/1261...

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Keith Olbermann @olbermann.bsky.social · 12h

Beauty Pageant "Miss Uncongeniality" winner screws up again #LindseyHalligan #BrooklynAintInNewJersey 🤦🏼‍♂️

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Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 13h

He was definitely hired *because* he's this kind of person, not in spite of it.

Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 13h

"30-year-old conservative lawyer and activist who is Trump’s nominee to lead the Office of Special Counsel, which deals with federal employee whistleblower complaints and discrimination" cancelled his colleague's hotel room so she would be forced to stay with him.
www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

In late July, Paul Ingrassia, the White House liaison for the Department of Homeland Security, arrived at a Ritz-Carlton in Orlando with a lower-ranking female colleague and others from their department. When the group reached the front desk, the woman learned she didn’t have a hotel room.

Ingrassia then informed her that she would be staying with him, according to five administration officials familiar with the episode. Eventually the woman discovered that Ingrassia had arranged ahead of time to have her hotel room canceled so she would have to stay with him, three of those officials said.

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RexLibris @rexlibris.bsky.social · 18h

Impossible allegations! We already know from the Stormy Daniels case that he likes to be on the receiving end and a corpse can't spank you with a rolled up People magazine.

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Jess Piper @piperformissouri.bsky.social · 20h

I feel like a broken record, but I have to keep saying it over and over again: a farmer bailout won’t do much of anything because the market is gone. There will be no incentive to plant next year.

The bailout will help payoff farmer debt to the banks. That’s all.

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MondoAB @mondoab.bsky.social · 18h

Hat tip to @mitchellab.bsky.social

Dani: "Maybe every independent school needs to be fully funded and we need to phase out every government-run, union-controlled public school more interested in indoctrinating students than teaching them critical-thinking skills."

www.ctvnews.ca/calgary/arti...

Alberta education minister concerned about private school funding petition

Alberta’s education minister says cutting government funding to private schools would only escalate the pressure faced by the province’s strained public school system.

www.ctvnews.ca

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The Hind Rajab Foundation @hindrajabfoundation.be · 1d

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RexLibris @rexlibris.bsky.social · 18h

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RexLibris @rexlibris.bsky.social · 21h

It is entirely within the scope (albeit the outer edge) of the established range of insanity demonstrated by the Trump administration that RFK Jr will propose eating foreskins to cure autism.

Justin Baragona @justinbaragona.bsky.social · 22h

Besides linking Tylenol in pregnant women to autism, RFK Jr. now says circumcision is part of the reason why kids are autistic.

"Children who are circumcised early have double the rate of autism, and it's highly likely because they're given Tylenol. None of this is positive..."

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Jacob Shamsian @jayshams.bsky.social · 20h

I've been wondering why Dominion Voting Systems suddenly reached settlements with Rudy Giuliani, Sidney Powell, and One America News.

Turns out, it's been purchased by a Republican-owned election tech firm that insisted on it, per Axios.

www.axios.com/2025/10/09/d...

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RexLibris @rexlibris.bsky.social · 19h

She would be more deserving than Trump, but I would suggest if we're looking for world leaders as candidates Macron would have the more compelling case by leading the European response in supporting Ukraine and working to cobble together a Canadian/European recognition of Palestine.

Mira of Kyiv 🇺🇦 @reshetz.bsky.social · 20h

I want an unprecedented meltdown on the right so I want Greta Thunberg to get the Nobel Peace Prize this year

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Free Łink - Matthew R Francis @bowlerhatscience.org · 19h

I'm an amateur historian of science at best, but one thing you find is that *all* of these horribly antiscientific positions (flat earthism, creationism, antivaxx) are rejections of modernity, and therefore are themselves relative newcomers.

Matt Gabriele @profgabriele.com · 19h

not gonna link to it but calling RFK Jr's nonsense "dark ages mentality" is doing a lot of work that actually exculpates his horrific idiocy!

you know what medieval people would've loved? vaccines! not being sick!

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RexLibris @rexlibris.bsky.social · 19h

The sense of isolation made possible by social media customization is leading people to imagine that their own private little epiphanies are actually broad societal movements.

bendwalsh.bsky.social @bendwalsh.bsky.social · 20h

wtaf are you talking about

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Ryan @charminggrump.bsky.social · 19h

Fun fact: you can pay off your health inspectors to never come see you in this province. I have no idea how much it costs, but I KNOW it happens.

Keith Gerein @keithgerein.bsky.social · 22h

On our second day of coverage looking into concerns with Alberta's restaurant inspection system, industry workers share their horror stories. edmontonjournal.com/news/local-n... #yeg #yegfood #ableg

'We can certainly make people sick': Edmonton restaurant workers sound alarm on food safety risks

Edmonton restaurant workers sound the alarm on unsafe food handling practices, insufficient training and how the system is failing diners

edmontonjournal.com

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ThinlyVeiledPanda @thinlyveiledpanda.bsky.social · Aug 28

Be the reason someone has to look up the word ‘palimpsest’ today

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 19h

The Rutgers TPUSA chapter — whose characterization of a historian there as a “outspoken, well-known antifa member” led to death threats and moving his family to Europe — think *other* people are being “blatantly defamatory.”

Not them, though. They’re doing politics the right way.

Rutgers TPUSA officers slam petition to shut down chapter, ‘Blatantly defamatory’

Alexander Di Filippo accuses Turning Point USA of inciting violence against Antifa handbook author Mark Bray.

www.foxnews.com

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Julian Sanchez @normative.bsky.social · 19h

Brett Kavanaugh assures me this is the sort of minor inconvenience that shouldn't disturb anyone.

CollinCountyDems @collincountydems.bsky.social · 20h

This is terrifying!

ICE breaks into this woman’s car in the pick-up line at West Loop Elementary school in Chicago and detains her before she can pick her kids up from school. (They were eventually let go after showing their documents)

This is Trump’s America.

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RexLibris @rexlibris.bsky.social · 19h

I had a neighbour who was a pathological liar. Incapable of telling the truth. They couldn't tell you honestly what they did for work and if you saw them walking home with groceries they were almost compelled to make up a lie about why they bought milk.

Trump is cut from the same cloth.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 19h

Trump: "I also did a cognitive exam. Which is always very risky because if I didn't do well, you'd be the first to be blaring it and I had a perfect score. And one of the doctors said he's almost never seen a perfect score. I had a perfect score. That made me well good ... not the easiest test."

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RexLibris @rexlibris.bsky.social · 19h

Sometimes I think about how Hitler was a frustrated artist doomed to mediocrity and then I see how AI would appeal to an entire generation of frustrated mediocrities with fascistic furies bubbling under their paper-thin personalities.

Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 19h

Do not, my friends, become addicted to water.

‘Mad Max’ Director George Miller Says ‘AI Is Here to Stay and Change Things’: ‘It’s Way More Egalitarian’ and Will Make Filmmaking ‘Available to Anyone Who Has a Calling to It’

'Mad Max' director George Miller says that "AI is here to stay and change things" and praises the potential to make filmmaking "more egalitarian."

variety.com

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Charlie Angus @charlieangus104.bsky.social · 1d

MAGA Alberta troll site begs Trump to ban me. Little wonder that MAGA Alberta looks to a foreign adversary for help.
I have been blacklisted by Putin, being banned by Trump would be a source of honour.
And I remain proudly Canadian - true, north, strong, free and never a quisling traitor.

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Keith Gerein @keithgerein.bsky.social · 22h

On our second day of coverage looking into concerns with Alberta's restaurant inspection system, industry workers share their horror stories. edmontonjournal.com/news/local-n... #yeg #yegfood #ableg

'We can certainly make people sick': Edmonton restaurant workers sound alarm on food safety risks

Edmonton restaurant workers sound the alarm on unsafe food handling practices, insufficient training and how the system is failing diners

edmontonjournal.com

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RexLibris @rexlibris.bsky.social · 19h

They'll trip over themselves to give prizes to machines before women get their due.

Prof Anna Watts @profannawatts.bsky.social · 20h

Lol the Nobels can't even acknowledge women's contribution to discovery. But sure let's acknowledge The Machines.

Headline from an article in Nature this week that states "Prizes must recognize machine contributions to discovery. The future of science will be written by humans and machines together. Awards should reflect that reality."

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RexLibris @rexlibris.bsky.social · 19h

Spiked water dispenser with THC.

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Zachary J. Smith @vocabulist.bsky.social · 1d

In case anyone thinks this is paranoid, Trump’s junta has defined terrorism to include trespass, naming ICE agents on the internet, and whatever “civil disorder” is.

politically motivated terrorist acts such as organized doxing campaigns, swatting, rioting, looting, trespass, assault, destruction of property, threats of violence, and civil disorder

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GHOULLIKEHELLMACHINE @golikehellmachine.com · 19h

the fun part here is that it’s political corruption because millei is a trump toad, but it’s also personal corruption because it bails out bessent’s hedge fund compatriots, and at the end of the day, doesn’t really help argentina very much at all.

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