Scott Haggett
@scotthaggett.bsky.social
Energy, hockey, politics -- pretty much in that order. Ex-Reuters, Bloomberg, Postmedia. I don't have a podcast. 😔. #GoHabsGo
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I've quietly watched Brynn go through this for the past year. It's absolutely heartbreaking. I'm glad she can share her story now but it's rough. She gave her life to helping people and doing medivac rescues with the California national guard and she's being tossed out line trash because she's trans
I told my story. It's behind a paywall, but here it is. www.sfchronicle.com/california/a...
A California National Guard pilot warned about Trump for years. Now she’s being forced out
Brynn Tannehill is a Navy-trained helicopter pilot who joined the California Air National Guard in 2023. She says she’s being kicked out for being transgender.
www.sfchronicle.com
December 27, 2025 at 11:33 PM
I've quietly watched Brynn go through this for the past year. It's absolutely heartbreaking. I'm glad she can share her story now but it's rough. She gave her life to helping people and doing medivac rescues with the California national guard and she's being tossed out line trash because she's trans
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Washington National Opera may move out of Kennedy Center due to Trump ‘takeover’
Ticket sales at about 40% unsold compared with before president made himself chair of US performing arts center
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Ticket sales at about 40% unsold compared with before president made himself chair of US performing arts center
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Washington National Opera may move out of Kennedy Center due to Trump ‘takeover’
Ticket sales at about 40% unsold compared with before president made himself chair of US performing arts center
www.theguardian.com
December 27, 2025 at 11:19 PM
Washington National Opera may move out of Kennedy Center due to Trump ‘takeover’
Ticket sales at about 40% unsold compared with before president made himself chair of US performing arts center
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Ticket sales at about 40% unsold compared with before president made himself chair of US performing arts center
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
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The UCP govt has ordered a review of the case of the 44 yr old having a heart attack in the #yeg ER, who died after waiting 8hrs to be seen. Danielle Smith wants to know what went wrong. What went wrong was her, strangling funding to the healthcare system to benefit her friends. #ableg
December 27, 2025 at 8:06 PM
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The UCP foot soldiers did what they do best, threatening the owner of Bowmart all morning via phone calls.
If you live in the area, please stop in to thank the new owner for trying to make space for democracy.
RecallNicolaides.ca #RecallThemAll
If you live in the area, please stop in to thank the new owner for trying to make space for democracy.
RecallNicolaides.ca #RecallThemAll
December 27, 2025 at 6:43 PM
The UCP foot soldiers did what they do best, threatening the owner of Bowmart all morning via phone calls.
If you live in the area, please stop in to thank the new owner for trying to make space for democracy.
RecallNicolaides.ca #RecallThemAll
If you live in the area, please stop in to thank the new owner for trying to make space for democracy.
RecallNicolaides.ca #RecallThemAll
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Annette Dionne, the last surviving Dionne quintuplet and a champion of children's rights, has died. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
Annette Dionne, last of the famed Canadian quintuplets, dies at 91 | CBC News
After she and her siblings were taken from their parents in the 1930s and put on display for tourists, Annette Dionne became a champion of children's rights. She died on Christmas Eve, according to Th...
www.cbc.ca
December 27, 2025 at 2:26 PM
Annette Dionne, the last surviving Dionne quintuplet and a champion of children's rights, has died. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
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I spoke to her attorney yesterday; she is still in the country as far as they know bsky.app/profile/aila...
"Her family has now been told she has been deported, despite US District Judge Brendan Hurson ruling Thursday that she could not be deported pending a hearing...attorneys said Monday that they have...confirm[ed] with the hospital she was born in Maryland." https://bit.ly/3MMdJvz
ICE detains woman whose lawyer insists is US citizen. DHS says she isn't
Federal agents arrested Dulce Consuelo Diaz Morales on her way home in Baltimore, Maryland.
bit.ly
December 27, 2025 at 1:15 PM
I spoke to her attorney yesterday; she is still in the country as far as they know bsky.app/profile/aila...
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Has anyone ever done a toilet made entirely of diamonds before? No? Not even Putin? Beautiful. Okay, let's go ahead and do the diamond toilets then. And what about the velvet toilet paper? Have you ordered the velvet toilet paper yet?
December 27, 2025 at 4:11 PM
Has anyone ever done a toilet made entirely of diamonds before? No? Not even Putin? Beautiful. Okay, let's go ahead and do the diamond toilets then. And what about the velvet toilet paper? Have you ordered the velvet toilet paper yet?
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An ongoing pandemic that many are ignoring, a provincial government cutting public health funding, pushing private and discouraging vaccinations, all of these things are related for a collapsing healthcare system that healthcare workers have been warning us about for years.
December 27, 2025 at 4:25 PM
An ongoing pandemic that many are ignoring, a provincial government cutting public health funding, pushing private and discouraging vaccinations, all of these things are related for a collapsing healthcare system that healthcare workers have been warning us about for years.
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This headline demonstrates why I have a problem with #cdnmedia
"Alberta's Smith says notwithstanding clause increasingly likely amid unpopular court rulings"
Unpopular with whom? The bigots
Smith's use of the Notwithstanding clause is a boot on our necks
#ableg
edmontonjournal.com/news/local-n...
"Alberta's Smith says notwithstanding clause increasingly likely amid unpopular court rulings"
Unpopular with whom? The bigots
Smith's use of the Notwithstanding clause is a boot on our necks
#ableg
edmontonjournal.com/news/local-n...
Alberta's Smith says notwithstanding clause increasingly likely amid unpopular court rulings
Alberta Premier Danielle Smith said in a year-end interview she's increasingly willing to use the notwithstanding clause.
edmontonjournal.com
December 27, 2025 at 2:49 PM
This headline demonstrates why I have a problem with #cdnmedia
"Alberta's Smith says notwithstanding clause increasingly likely amid unpopular court rulings"
Unpopular with whom? The bigots
Smith's use of the Notwithstanding clause is a boot on our necks
#ableg
edmontonjournal.com/news/local-n...
"Alberta's Smith says notwithstanding clause increasingly likely amid unpopular court rulings"
Unpopular with whom? The bigots
Smith's use of the Notwithstanding clause is a boot on our necks
#ableg
edmontonjournal.com/news/local-n...
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Why is this currently on the front page of nytimes.com? (For me, at least. Placement might be different for you...)
December 27, 2025 at 4:24 PM
Why is this currently on the front page of nytimes.com? (For me, at least. Placement might be different for you...)
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They’re not sending their best.
Update. The ICE supervisor, who is 47, was arrested for domestic violence against his non-citizen partner who he started a relationship when she was 18 and he was 40.
www.fox19.com/2025/12/22/i...
www.fox19.com/2025/12/22/i...
December 27, 2025 at 3:25 PM
They’re not sending their best.
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Impressive how he becomes noticeably more devout with each new rape charge
December 26, 2025 at 11:46 PM
Impressive how he becomes noticeably more devout with each new rape charge
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Dean Martin, born Dino Paul Crocetti, son of Italian immigrant Gaetano Crocetti
Frank Sinatra, son of Italian immigrants Antonino Sinatra and Natalina Garavanta
Merry Christmas to everyone except Stephen Miller and his enablers and handlers
Frank Sinatra, son of Italian immigrants Antonino Sinatra and Natalina Garavanta
Merry Christmas to everyone except Stephen Miller and his enablers and handlers
December 26, 2025 at 6:49 PM
Dean Martin, born Dino Paul Crocetti, son of Italian immigrant Gaetano Crocetti
Frank Sinatra, son of Italian immigrants Antonino Sinatra and Natalina Garavanta
Merry Christmas to everyone except Stephen Miller and his enablers and handlers
Frank Sinatra, son of Italian immigrants Antonino Sinatra and Natalina Garavanta
Merry Christmas to everyone except Stephen Miller and his enablers and handlers
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how many billions will be transferred over the next year to members of ICE/CBP, their wives, and the girlfriends they met in their previous jobs as school resource officers
ICE detain father shopping on Christmas Eve—then steal his family's groceries.
Then 3 agents divvy up his paid for food—taking what they want for themselves.
"Can I just get the wife's number to call and let her know?" woman asks.
"No, guess he should've complied," agent says.
Yakima, Washington
Then 3 agents divvy up his paid for food—taking what they want for themselves.
"Can I just get the wife's number to call and let her know?" woman asks.
"No, guess he should've complied," agent says.
Yakima, Washington
December 26, 2025 at 4:55 PM
how many billions will be transferred over the next year to members of ICE/CBP, their wives, and the girlfriends they met in their previous jobs as school resource officers
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And we'll do it again.
Kevin O’Leary blames U.S.-Canada tensions as Jim Beam distillery closes for year
Kevin O’Leary blames U.S.-Canada tensions as Jim Beam distillery closes for year
Kevin O’Leary blames U.S.-Canada tensions as Jim Beam distillery closes for year
www.independent.co.uk
December 24, 2025 at 4:00 AM
And we'll do it again.
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joining the "cybertruck owners only" group on fb is one of the best decisions i've ever made. every so often when i'm scrolling through fb getting pissed off, i get to see a little treat like this
December 26, 2025 at 4:11 PM
joining the "cybertruck owners only" group on fb is one of the best decisions i've ever made. every so often when i'm scrolling through fb getting pissed off, i get to see a little treat like this
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The lecturer in question is our colleague in children’s literature studies. She is a brilliant scholar and from all accounts a gifted teacher.
This ruling is infuriating… at the end of the day, it is our students’ education that will suffer.
This ruling is infuriating… at the end of the day, it is our students’ education that will suffer.
Texas A&M University will not reinstate a lecturer who was fired after a video of her teaching about gender identity in a children’s literature class went viral, despite a faculty appeals panel unanimously concluding that her dismissal was not justified.
Texas A&M won’t reinstate fired lecturer despite findings
A vice chancellor upheld the firing of Melissa McCoul, seen in a viral video being confronted by a student on her gender identity teachings, saying the termination was done with “good cause.”
www.texastribune.org
December 26, 2025 at 4:19 PM
The lecturer in question is our colleague in children’s literature studies. She is a brilliant scholar and from all accounts a gifted teacher.
This ruling is infuriating… at the end of the day, it is our students’ education that will suffer.
This ruling is infuriating… at the end of the day, it is our students’ education that will suffer.
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“Enjoy what may be your last Merry Christmas!” A) drama queen B) very Grinch-astounded-that-Whoville-is-enjoying-Christmas-anyway vibes.
December 26, 2025 at 2:41 AM
“Enjoy what may be your last Merry Christmas!” A) drama queen B) very Grinch-astounded-that-Whoville-is-enjoying-Christmas-anyway vibes.
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Kommersant claims the US discussed using the Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant for crypto mining and joint control without Ukraine, allegedly with Putin’s knowledge.
If true, it fits Trump’s playbook perfectly: profit over principles, deals over sovereignty, money made on anyone’s back.
If true, it fits Trump’s playbook perfectly: profit over principles, deals over sovereignty, money made on anyone’s back.
December 25, 2025 at 7:26 PM
Kommersant claims the US discussed using the Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant for crypto mining and joint control without Ukraine, allegedly with Putin’s knowledge.
If true, it fits Trump’s playbook perfectly: profit over principles, deals over sovereignty, money made on anyone’s back.
If true, it fits Trump’s playbook perfectly: profit over principles, deals over sovereignty, money made on anyone’s back.
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A government that can officially declare that Jesus is your savior can just as easily declare the opposite.
Here’s the U.S. government being officially religious in a country with no official religion.
December 25, 2025 at 7:09 PM
A government that can officially declare that Jesus is your savior can just as easily declare the opposite.
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I bring you tidings of great joy! Our neighbour to the south is about to reach Peak Trump. albertapolitics.ca/2025/12/i-br... #ableg #abpoli #geopolitics #MerryChristmas
I bring you tidings of great joy! Our neighbour to the south is about to reach Peak Trump - Alberta Politics
Merry Christmas, Dear Readers! I bring you tidings of great joy! Our neighbour to the south is about to reach Peak Trump, if it hasn’t occurred already. It’s all downhill for The Donald from there. F...
albertapolitics.ca
December 25, 2025 at 4:08 PM
I bring you tidings of great joy! Our neighbour to the south is about to reach Peak Trump. albertapolitics.ca/2025/12/i-br... #ableg #abpoli #geopolitics #MerryChristmas
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AI could never capture a billionaire's soul like this.
I'll never pass up an opportunity to share this stunningly accurate portrait of the Australian mining billionaire who's obsessed with opening a mine in Alberta.
December 24, 2025 at 4:59 PM
AI could never capture a billionaire's soul like this.