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Barb's Story @barbstory1.bsky.social · 9h

🤔Soooooo, Dani is blaming Kenney's UCP administration. The same UCP members ....that are in her cabinet.

Did I get that right?
Side note to fellow AB'ns, we only have 1 year to go!

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📚Laura Weatherspoon🌳 @lauraweatherspoon.bsky.social · 8h

Reading about Ghislaine’s time in Club Fed reminds me a lot of Epstein’s first stint in jail. She is receiving unusual treatment that’s not offered to other prisoners. Like the entire prison being on lockdown when she sees visitors in private. Ghislaine, like Jeffery, has powerful friends in power.

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Yashar Ali 🐘 @yasharali.bsky.social · 8h

BREAKING

Jeffrey Epstein skied with, had dinners with a top Florida prosecutor on his case, docs show

Full Story: bit.ly/4nVTRUe

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Thomas Zimmer @thomaszimmer.bsky.social · 18h

I know you all know what deranged, vile, propaganda nonsense this is. But for the record:

Leaders of the regime are declaring the opposition party and all forms of political dissent as illegitimate - and large swaths of the population to be dangerous terrorists. This is incredibly dangerous.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 19h

Mike Johnson on No Kings: "We refer to it by its more accurate description -- the Hate America Rally. You're gonna bring together the Marxists, the socialists, the antifa advocates, the anarchists, and the pro-Hamas wing of the far left Democrat Party. That is the modern Democratic Party."

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Canada Healthwatch 🍁 @canadahealthwatch.ca · 7h

Wood burning and gas cooking hugely costly to healthcare systems, New Zealand study finds https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/oct/17/wood-burning-and-gas-cooking-hugely-costly-to-healthcare-systems-new-zealand-study-finds

𝗚𝗲𝘁 𝘄𝗲𝗲𝗸𝗹𝘆 𝘂𝗽𝗱𝗮𝘁𝗲𝘀 ⇢ CanadaHealthwatch.ca/newsletter

Breathing fumes from gas cooking in New Zealand created over 1,000 hospital admissions, 208 early deaths and over 3,000 new cases of childhood asthma each year, the study found.

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Harry Turtledove @hntdove.bsky.social · 9h

The fascist playbook. In 1963, Wallace was a Democrat, a Southern Democrat. The Great Realignment into Sane People and Fascists was just starting.

Eric Champnella @echamp.bsky.social · 16h

George Wallace on the 1963 civil rights March on Washington: It’s all a bunch of communists trying to destroy America.

Mike Johnson on the 2025 No Kings rally: It’s all a bunch of marxists/socialists/Antifa trying to destroy America.

The GOP playbook: Same as it ever was

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Paul Fairie @paulisci.bsky.social · 9h

From the editorial page of The Weekly Union, February 8, 1895:

NO MORE millilonaire presidents for America.

A MILLIONAIRE president is a tool of Wall Street.

WHAT can you expect of a millionaire president.

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Anil Dash @anildash.com · 10h

This is, by the way, a huge sign that Bluesky has the juice. And would be a great time for the team to make sure they’re focused on rock-solid moderation and enabling developers to have a good base for building. Journalists always use these accounts to justify still being on X/Twitter.

Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 12h

Yes, it does look like the government accounts joining Bluesky are real, including Homeland Security and the White House. They're tweeting about it on X.

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Chris Lennard @cklennard.bsky.social · 10h

"He who controls the present controls the past."

Fascinating article on how this mentality is a framework for ripping up legal precedent by the roots

www.publicnotice.co/p/trump-scot...

How the Supreme Court taught Trump to rewrite history

"He who controls the present controls the past."

www.publicnotice.co

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Ghouly Hoye 🇨🇦 👻 @hollyhoye.bsky.social · 10h

The thing is, Danielle is doing exactly what we would expect from her: cherry-pick a line from the report, deflect any responsibility, blame someone else (AHS), and wash her hands in public.

The woman can’t spell accountability. #NotALeader

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Duane Bratt @duanebratt.bsky.social · 10h

Former AHS CEO Athana Mentzelopoulos wrongful dismissal suit claims that she was fired for investigating conflict of interest in procurement decisions. Judge Wyant's report confirms much of her statement of claim.

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The Breakdown AB @thebreakdownab.bsky.social · 10h

When asked if she would take any responsibility for the Tylenot™️ scandal she created...

She blamed a former leader, a leadership race & a byelection.

Smith was elected leader in Oct 2022

She won her byelection in Nov 2022

The purchase was in Dec 2022

#abpoli #ableg #cdnpoli

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Shawna Gawreluck @shawnagawreluck.bsky.social · 10h

Premier Smith is insisting we can’t afford nice things because the price of oil is in the shitter.

The person in complete control of setting a budget primarily based on this highly price fluctuating & volatile single resource is

*checks notes*

Premier Danielle Smith.

#ableg

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Bobby Kogan @bbkogan.bsky.social · 10h

Trump & Vought have been saying they’re firing federal workers because of the shutdown.

But today in a court filing they said the firings have nothing to do w/ the shutdown & they’ve been planning it for a while (duh).

Common Trump thing: say one thing publicly but say a different thing in court.

Rachel Borra, the department's chief human capital officer, said in the Friday filing that the department has stopped work on reductions in force.
"Interior had intended on imminently abolishing positions in 68 competitive areas that include plaintiff bargaining unit employees," she said.
"Among those streamlining efforts, Interior has been working on potential RIF plans since early this year," Borra wrote. "These planning efforts were begun long before the current lapse in appropriations and had nothing to do with the lapse in appropriations."

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Canadian Daddy. @comicallycanadian.bsky.social · 1d

Ain't it funny how conservatives cried about how kids need to be in school during covid because it's so important not to miss anything but here we are two weeks later with zero teacher strike resolve. HMMMMM #FUCKTHEUCP #Alberta #Teachers

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The Breakdown AB @thebreakdownab.bsky.social · 14h

Rakhi Pancholi came out swinging on the Wyant Report and highlighted all of its flaws and shortcomings…

It’s worth remembering she’s a lawyer as she takes Danielle Smith’s spin apart.

#abpoli #ableg #cdnpoli

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Andrew Kurjata @akurjata.ca · 11h

A Harper-era advisor and former Conservative Party executive director has gone to the Toronto Star (!) to criticize Poilievre's unwillingness to drop grievance politics and start acting like a PM-in-waiting
www.thestar.com/opinion/cont...

I’m a former senior aide to Stephen Harper. Pierre Poilievre is dismantling the principled, trustworthy Conservative Party we tried to build

Pierre Poilievre is dismantling the principled, serious Conservative Party Stephen Harper worked so hard to lead, writes his former advisor Dimitri Soudas.

www.thestar.com

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Peter Brannen @peterbrannen.bsky.social · 17h

www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

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Peter Brannen @peterbrannen.bsky.social · 17h

It can not be exaggerated just how wild the climate of the Pleistocene was in which we evolved. All of recorded history is in pixel at the very top of the very last zigzag, all the way to the right of this graph. From a new paper on sea level over past 4.5 million yrs www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 11h

Those Epstein files must be bad.

#KY04

FinTwitter @fintwitter.bsky.social · 11h

TRUMP: CONGRESSMAN THOMAS MASSIE MUST BE THROWN OUT OF OFFICE

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Kevin Elliott @kjephd.bsky.social · 15h

His apparent confusion of "asylum" in the sense a safe place of refuge for those escaping violence with "mental asylum" for those suffering mental health crises will never fail to scandalize me

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 15h

Trump: "I think the Democrats are mentally damaged. They want to take $1.5t and give it to people that invaded our country. They came into our country illegally from prisons, mental institutions, gang members. They want to give them healthcare and take it away from our citizens."

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Dr. Jessie Christiansen @aussiastronomer.bsky.social · 19h

I've received an 'exclusive' invite to try Nature's new 'research assistant', which will burn down a forest to provide a 'summary of the paper' I'm reading and I have SUCH exciting news for them, that's called an 'abstract' and the actual authors already wrote it for me, no forest-burning required.

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Jonathan Bernstein @jonathanbernstein.bsky.social · 13h

I continued to be baffled at this. It looks terrible for Johnson, for the GOP, and most of all for Trump - drawing extra attention to the Epstein story - while further energizing Dems. And for what? To postpone by a bit one moderately tough vote?

Jamie Dupree @jamiedupree.bsky.social · 14h

Rep. Johnny Olszewski D-MD (lower left) tried but failed to get recognized on the House floor today to get Rep.-elect Adelita Grijalva D-AZ sworn in. Speaker Johnson has refused to seat Grijalva for more than 3 weeks. "This is wrong and you know it Mr. Speaker."

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Rep. Jamie Raskin @raskin.house.gov · 17h

It’s painfully clear. By refusing to swear in Adelita Grijalva, Speaker Johnson’s covering up Jeffrey Epstein’s global sex-trafficking ring.

Hey GOP: Bring back the House, cancel your health care cuts, reopen the government and release the files.

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rusty54.bsky.social @rusty54.bsky.social · 13h

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