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K a s s i e D e e @kassiedee.bsky.social · 2d

If Canadians wanted PoiLIEvre involved in trade deals, they would have elected Conservatives to lead Canada.

They didn't.

If Conservative voters had wanted PoiLIEvre in charge of anything, they would have elected him in Carleton.

They didn't.

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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 2d

Rep. Ted Lieu is so good at this.

The image is an X post by Rep. Ted Lieu (@RepTedLieu
) from 3 hours ago, with the caption "Hmmm... weird." The post includes a meme with three panels. The first panel, labeled "Republicans when they have to vote on the Epstein files," shows an empty hallway with an American flag. The second panel, labeled "Republicans when there's a government shutdown," shows an empty conference room. The third panel, labeled "Republicans when it's time to cut taxes for billionaires," shows a group of people clapping and cheering.

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JavaBen.bsky.social @javaben.bsky.social · 3d

Yup, Smith pushed away billions of dollars in renewable energy projects. Another indicator of her cozy relationship with oil &gas higher ups. The same ones who have gone silent carbon capture.
But hey, lets give away $14M of taxpayer money for a study of a pipeline to work with billion dollar comp.🤯

🇨🇦Joe Vipond🇨🇦 @jvipondmd.bsky.social · 4d

“It’s economically perverse that the provincial government will spend public money on a project the private sector has balked at, while simultaneously sabotaging private investment in renewable energy projects the market is demanding.”
www.theenergymix.com/albertas-new...

Alberta’s New Pipeline Pitch: Bad for Business, Disastrous for Climate, Analysts Say

Climate advocates and at least one policy analyst are taking Alberta Premier Danielle Smith back to business school after she promised to pitch a new westbound oil pipeline to the federal Major Projec...

www.theenergymix.com

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 3d

Trump hates to be the object of humor. He understands that humor can be a more powerful antidote to tyranny than any other form of criticism.

I'm sure he'd hate it if you shared this cartoon. [Cartoon by Jon Adams/The New Yorker]

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JavaBen.bsky.social @javaben.bsky.social · 3d

Completely deplorable behaviour. The aggressors hide behind masks because they know their behaviours are 💯 illegal.

Ann Telnaes @anntelnaes.bsky.social · 3d

JavaBen.bsky.social @javaben.bsky.social · 4d

I honestly believe that we should put aside 25 & 50 year weather trends and focus more on a shorter period. I'll suggest 2015 because wildfires began to increase dramatically a few years later. Here in Canada that briefer timeline would resonate better with those keeping an eye on weather trends.

🇨🇦Joe Vipond🇨🇦 @jvipondmd.bsky.social · 4d

Global weirding is weirding up Calgary's weather.
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

Calgary experiences hottest September on record, driest in 140 years | CBC News

Summer 2025 has come to an end in Calgary — a season that might be remembered for its soggy start and prolonged warm and dry end.

www.cbc.ca

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JavaBen.bsky.social @javaben.bsky.social · 4d

The 14M dollars Smith has committed to a pipeline going nowhere would cover the entire cost of COVID vaccines.
Smith likes to day "saving taxpayer dollars" to justify her decision yet she never hesitate to spend huge amounts on pet projects: multiple panels, Dynalife fiasco, bloated govt, etc.

🇨🇦Joe Vipond🇨🇦 @jvipondmd.bsky.social · 4d

“It’s economically perverse that the provincial government will spend public money on a project the private sector has balked at, while simultaneously sabotaging private investment in renewable energy projects the market is demanding.”
www.theenergymix.com/albertas-new...

Alberta’s New Pipeline Pitch: Bad for Business, Disastrous for Climate, Analysts Say

Climate advocates and at least one policy analyst are taking Alberta Premier Danielle Smith back to business school after she promised to pitch a new westbound oil pipeline to the federal Major Projec...

www.theenergymix.com

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JavaBen.bsky.social @javaben.bsky.social · 5d

Poster pinpoints the reality of Republicans in office.

John Cusack @johncusack.bsky.social · 6d

JavaBen.bsky.social @javaben.bsky.social · 5d

Someone needs to Smith about that total cost of all the panels she has set in the first two years of her term.
Then ask ask her the total amount paid in salaries for her bloated govt.
Add that to the $16M for design work on a pipeline that will never be built.
Smith says "to save money" often. 🤔

NigelBankes @nigelb.bsky.social · 6d

If Alberta is the proponent (as the GoA press release promises) then our at risk $$ won't be just a few millions they will be in the billions.
The pipeline companies & producers have called Premier Smith's bluff and she's gambling with our money, not hers.
An easy game to play.
#abpoli #cdnpoli

Merlin Ca @merlinofcanada.bsky.social · 6d

Danielle Smith says Alberta can not afford free Covid shots for everyone. Meanwhile she is shelling millions on a study of a new pipeline that the private sector should be paying for. Screw you Smith.
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

JavaBen.bsky.social @javaben.bsky.social · 7d

Assuming this info is accurate, it only underlines the fact that just about all shooters in the U.S. are Caucasians. No talk from the govt about who the real criminals are. Certainly no talk about ICE agents or their equivalent searching out these people.
Gun culture rules again.

PEIPolitical 🇨🇦 @peipolitical.bsky.social · 8d

Acyn -
Jessica: The guy who drove up to the Mormon church… was a Trump supporter. He had a Trump-Vance flag in his backyard…
When the shoe is on the other foot and you can't demonize the left for this one, they say nothing. #cdnpoli

JavaBen.bsky.social @javaben.bsky.social · 8d

Can you say 'boycot'?

George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 8d

This feels wildly unethical.

'MAGA Dentist' Slammed After She's Caught On Video Joking About Providing Worse Care For Liberal Patients

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JavaBen.bsky.social @javaben.bsky.social · 8d

The U.S. is quickly reaching the point where the every day working American will not have enough money to purchase goods produced by companies owned by top 10%.

Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 8d

The biggest divide is not between “right” and “left." It’s between democracy and oligarchy. The billionaires who control our economy and democracy seek to divide us. They want us to turn on each other so we don't look up and see that they have all the wealth and power.

More Perfect Union @moreperfectunion.bsky.social · 9d

The top 10% now hold 67.4% of all the wealth in the US.

The bottom 50% hold 2.5%.

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Drew Harwell @drewharwell.com · 8d

"In an interview, one woman who identified herself as the wife of one of the dead men said that her husband was a fisherman with four children who left one day for work and never came back."

www.nytimes.com/2025/09/28/w...

Fear and Hope in Venezuela as U.S. Warships Lurk

www.nytimes.com

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JavaBen.bsky.social @javaben.bsky.social · 9d

I learned a lot while reading the findings from your Common Ground research.
Thanks for sharing on @bsky.app.

Jared Wesley @jaredwesley.ca · 12d

Separatism is now in the Overton window in Alberta. Our latest research confirms the debate has entered the realm of acceptable discourse in the province.

cground.substack.com/p/is-separat...

Is Separatism Mainstream in Alberta?

We spent the summer with hundreds of Albertans to find out.

cground.substack.com

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JavaBen.bsky.social @javaben.bsky.social · 10d

Doesn't this political cartoon capture key elements of the current state of the American federal govt.
Even sadder, this spineless congress allows this to happen.

Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 11d

Pat Bagley, Salt Lake Tribune

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JavaBen.bsky.social @javaben.bsky.social · 13d

Everyone associated with Republicans plays the victim card. Pathetic all around.

George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 13d

This regime with its masked agents terrorizing whole communities is the problem, not “Democrats.”

JavaBen.bsky.social @javaben.bsky.social · 14d

Here in AB transportation minister banned radar cameras. Speeding now off the charts on highways and main feeders in Calgary region.
Even though accident rate has increased not a word from minister Dreeshen, or any other govt officials.
Govt killed the "cash cow" & replaced it with exp health care.🤯

Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · 14d

This is another Doug Ford political stunt & wedge issue, like removing safe & successful bike-infrastructure in Toronto, THAT WILL KILL PEOPLE. He and his Ministers and MPPs will be undeniably responsible for kids, families, people dying.

Doug Ford likes to talk tough about Trump, but he IS Trump.

Doug Ford will outlaw municipal speed cameras this fall: Sources

Sources say Ford's Progressive Conservatives will table legislation later this fall to outlaw the "automated speed enforcement" devices.

www.thestar.com

JavaBen.bsky.social @javaben.bsky.social · 14d

Ideal outcome: federal employees who were pushed out landed good paying jobs and can now say "over my dead body" it something more emphatic.

Note: no disrespect towards anyone accepting to return to previous govt position.

Jamie Gangel @jamiegangel.bsky.social · 14d

New - “Hundreds of federal employees who lost their jobs in Elon Musk’s cost-cutting blitz are being asked to return to work.”

www.cnn.com/2025/09/24/p...

Trump administration rehires hundreds of federal employees laid off by DOGE | CNN Politics

Hundreds of federal employees who lost their jobs in Elon Musk’s cost-cutting blitz are being asked to return to work.

www.cnn.com

JavaBen.bsky.social @javaben.bsky.social · 14d

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Jared Wesley @jaredwesley.ca · 15d

Pluralists engage the public to forge the public good.

Populists tell the public what's in the public interest and manufacture consent.

That's what makes the AlbertaNext process so unique compared to previous roadshows, like the Fair Deal Panel.

www.thestar.com/opinion/cont...

Gillian Steward: Danielle Smiths’s town hall roadshow is inventing a version of Alberta that doesn’t exist

Smith's town halls veer too close to misrepresenting Albertans' views.

www.thestar.com

JavaBen.bsky.social @javaben.bsky.social · 14d

💯 and I'll raise you another 💯.

George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 14d

On this we agree wholeheartedly.

JavaBen.bsky.social @javaben.bsky.social · 14d

Let's hope the same happens to Trump's two terms in office shortly after he is gone.

Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 14d

National Park Service officials have removed park signs referencing climate change, slavery, Japanese internment during World War II, and the nation’s treatment of Native Americans.

It’s the latest escalation of Trump’s attacks on our public lands. Watch: https://youtu.be/HS7IJaB5NDc?feature=shared

Donald Trump’s New Enemy? Our National Parks

Robert Reich

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JavaBen.bsky.social @javaben.bsky.social · 14d

CINOs. Christian In Name Only.

George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 14d

Christianity in much of America has lost its true meaning and teachings.

JavaBen.bsky.social @javaben.bsky.social · 14d

Let's remove the bulletproof glass protectors and Secret Service protection for Trump & Vance for a week. Just to see how bold they will be with their words.

George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 14d

What a country.

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JavaBen.bsky.social @javaben.bsky.social · 15d

Great song with an even greater message. I highly recommend that the pro-separatist group listen carefully to the lyrics.

Hon. Thomas A. Lukaszuk @lukaszukab.bsky.social · 16d

“One Land, One Heart” by Pixel Prairie Moon.

This song was created exclusively for #ForeverCanadian and it truly captures the passion that inspired me to start this movement.

Thank you, Lori Blatz, for sharing your talent and passion.

#CdnPoli #Ableg

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One Land, One Heart by Pixel Prairie Moon

YouTube video by Lori B

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JavaBen.bsky.social @javaben.bsky.social · 15d

I couldn't agree more, kids need the opportunity to explore on their own in a safe environment.
Unfortunately, there are so many crazies out there ( speeding drivers, pedophiles, ...) that parents simply won't take the risk of children being unsupervised. And rightly so.

yyc-david.bsky.social @yyc-david.bsky.social · 16d

I feel like kids are often left out of the discourse on bike lanes, especially in the media. Children have had enough of their independence stripped; there should be a focus on returning that. Bike lanes are a great tool.