Jessica Theodor
@jmtheodor.bsky.social
Ungulate paleobiologist, fibre nerd. Professor @UCalgary in Canada. Opinions mine. Born in the traditional territory of the Anishinaabeg and Haudenosaunee, living on Treaty 7 land. She/her.
Pinned
My new band will be called Vicious Compliance.
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2/🧵 First, take a moment to reflect. If you, as an adult, feel threatened by the UCP using the clause against teachers, imagine you are a child having it used not once, but THREE times against you, because this govt does not want you to continue existing. Find your empathy and let yourself be moved.
November 16, 2025 at 3:54 PM
2/🧵 First, take a moment to reflect. If you, as an adult, feel threatened by the UCP using the clause against teachers, imagine you are a child having it used not once, but THREE times against you, because this govt does not want you to continue existing. Find your empathy and let yourself be moved.
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1/🧵As mom to a trans kid in Alberta I am seeing the awareness grow that the notwithstanding clause is coming for our kids. I’m grateful to those who genuienely care, and some have asked me what they can do to help. I can only speak for myself but here are my thoughts. #abpoli
November 16, 2025 at 3:49 PM
1/🧵As mom to a trans kid in Alberta I am seeing the awareness grow that the notwithstanding clause is coming for our kids. I’m grateful to those who genuienely care, and some have asked me what they can do to help. I can only speak for myself but here are my thoughts. #abpoli
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Shorter Scott:
Importers get paid back.
You get nothing.
Importers get paid back.
You get nothing.
BESSENT: “THE $2,000 DIVIDEND COULD COME IN LOTS OF FORMS… IT COULD BE JUST THE TAX DECREASES. IT COULD BE NO TAX ON TIPS.”
November 17, 2025 at 12:29 AM
Shorter Scott:
Importers get paid back.
You get nothing.
Importers get paid back.
You get nothing.
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Like it or not this technology is here to stay and if you don’t use it you’ll fall behind in your industry
November 16, 2025 at 11:49 PM
Like it or not this technology is here to stay and if you don’t use it you’ll fall behind in your industry
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"There are about a thousand of us"
NEW: Epstein survivors release the most powerful PSA I have ever seen.
Make this go viral so every member of the House of Representatives sees it.
Make this go viral so every member of the House of Representatives sees it.
November 16, 2025 at 11:59 PM
"There are about a thousand of us"
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How DARE they name any of their attacks on human beings after anything connected with that book?!!!!
It's true, E.B. White's _One Man's Meat_ is full of his musings on the rise of fascism (and the challenges of being an egg farmer).
It's true, E.B. White's _One Man's Meat_ is full of his musings on the rise of fascism (and the challenges of being an egg farmer).
NEW: Gregory Bovino is exactly who E.B. White — author of 'Charlotte's Web' — warned us about.
DHS named its North Carolina anti-immigrant effort "Operation Charlotte's Web." In 1940, White wrote of the "smell" that "rises" from those who "adjust to fascism" over freedom.
Tonight, at Law Dork:
DHS named its North Carolina anti-immigrant effort "Operation Charlotte's Web." In 1940, White wrote of the "smell" that "rises" from those who "adjust to fascism" over freedom.
Tonight, at Law Dork:
Gregory Bovino is exactly who E.B. White — author of 'Charlotte's Web' — warned us about
DHS named its North Carolina anti-immigrant effort "Operation Charlotte's Web." In 1940, White wrote of the "smell" that "rises" from those who "adjust to fascism" over freedom.
www.lawdork.com
November 17, 2025 at 12:36 AM
How DARE they name any of their attacks on human beings after anything connected with that book?!!!!
It's true, E.B. White's _One Man's Meat_ is full of his musings on the rise of fascism (and the challenges of being an egg farmer).
It's true, E.B. White's _One Man's Meat_ is full of his musings on the rise of fascism (and the challenges of being an egg farmer).
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“While the AI industry claims its models can “think,” “reason,” and “learn,” their supposed achievements rest on marketing hype and stolen intellectual labor. In reality, AI erodes academic freedom, weakens critical reading, and subordinates the pursuit of knowledge to corporate interests.”
AI Is Hollowing Out Higher Education
Olivia Guest & Iris van Rooij urge teachers and scholars to reject tools that commodify learning, deskill students, and promote illiteracy.
www.project-syndicate.org
November 15, 2025 at 5:24 PM
“While the AI industry claims its models can “think,” “reason,” and “learn,” their supposed achievements rest on marketing hype and stolen intellectual labor. In reality, AI erodes academic freedom, weakens critical reading, and subordinates the pursuit of knowledge to corporate interests.”
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Angus: You know, every article I’ve read about the tourism numbers talks about “Canada’s uncertainty with the tariff wars.” No. Canadians hate Donald Trump. They see not going to the US as an act of patriotism.
November 16, 2025 at 8:06 PM
Angus: You know, every article I’ve read about the tourism numbers talks about “Canada’s uncertainty with the tariff wars.” No. Canadians hate Donald Trump. They see not going to the US as an act of patriotism.
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Anything that limits access to the vote is suppression. Here in Alberta, the current conservative govt did their level best to suppress the vote by banning tabulators. Their next move is to try and get citizenship added to our driver's license bc that will be an expensive pain in the ass for people.
After the Supreme Court announced it would consider a case that could eliminate mail-in ballot grace periods, key Republican players immediately jumped at the chance to lay the groundwork for their next target: early, in-person voting.
The GOP Attack on Mail-Ballot Grace Periods Is Also an Attack on Early Voting
Read more here.
www.democracydocket.com
November 16, 2025 at 10:53 PM
Anything that limits access to the vote is suppression. Here in Alberta, the current conservative govt did their level best to suppress the vote by banning tabulators. Their next move is to try and get citizenship added to our driver's license bc that will be an expensive pain in the ass for people.
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We can have a sober national conversation about how much immigration is suitable to meet our social and economic goals. But scapegoating immigrants for the state of housing and health care obscures the real causes of these crises and stokes resentment against vulnerable members of our communities.
The myth of the immigrant threat
Anti-immigrant sentiment is surging in Canada, with politicians and pundits blaming newcomers for crises like housing, health care, and unemployment. But these problems stem from policy failure and in...
canadiandimension.com
November 7, 2025 at 3:51 PM
We can have a sober national conversation about how much immigration is suitable to meet our social and economic goals. But scapegoating immigrants for the state of housing and health care obscures the real causes of these crises and stokes resentment against vulnerable members of our communities.
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This is just a real tiring time to know things about history.
November 16, 2025 at 10:55 PM
This is just a real tiring time to know things about history.
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I just don’t see how we can pretend even for a moment that anything involving our federal government is remotely normal when the president is covering up his involvement in a child sex trafficking ring. Like, what are we doing here
November 15, 2025 at 1:14 AM
I just don’t see how we can pretend even for a moment that anything involving our federal government is remotely normal when the president is covering up his involvement in a child sex trafficking ring. Like, what are we doing here
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This is a very dangerous moment for the country and the world. A cornered rat will do anything to escape.
November 14, 2025 at 11:27 PM
This is a very dangerous moment for the country and the world. A cornered rat will do anything to escape.
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It's quite unusual www.bbc.com/news/article...
Tom Bones: Sir Tom Jones chuffed after museum mammoth named after him
More than 18,000 visitors to the National Museum Cardiff voted to name the mammoth "Tom Bones".
www.bbc.com
November 15, 2025 at 8:41 AM
It's quite unusual www.bbc.com/news/article...
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FACT CHECK: TRUE
November 15, 2025 at 8:08 AM
FACT CHECK: TRUE
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It's trucks. You can't see shit over 5 foot hoods.
November 14, 2025 at 9:03 AM
It's trucks. You can't see shit over 5 foot hoods.
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Same in Calgary.
"We’ve seen a 225% increase in pedestrian deaths over the past decade."
www.calgary.ca/roads/safety...
#Calgary #yyc #Alberta
"We’ve seen a 225% increase in pedestrian deaths over the past decade."
www.calgary.ca/roads/safety...
#Calgary #yyc #Alberta
The number of people dying on Edmonton roads is rising, reaching its highest point since 2015. edmonton.citynews.ca/2025/11/13/t...
Traffic deaths rising in Edmonton
The number of people dying on Edmonton roads is rising, reaching its highest point since 2015. New data from the Edmonton Police Service shows 29 traffic fatalities in 2025 as of Nov. 6, higher than ...
edmonton.citynews.ca
November 14, 2025 at 4:38 AM
Same in Calgary.
"We’ve seen a 225% increase in pedestrian deaths over the past decade."
www.calgary.ca/roads/safety...
#Calgary #yyc #Alberta
"We’ve seen a 225% increase in pedestrian deaths over the past decade."
www.calgary.ca/roads/safety...
#Calgary #yyc #Alberta
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Nor children.
My main takeaway of the whole Epstein thing is that women, on a very fundamental level, still don‘t really matter.
November 14, 2025 at 5:16 AM
Nor children.
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Remembering how Biden revived the practice of releasing visitors logs and was rewarded by the press for his transparency with a front page story at his weakest possible moment about how he had Parkinson's based on a Parkinson's expert visiting the WH.
(Turns out, Biden did not have Parkinson's)
(Turns out, Biden did not have Parkinson's)
Would we? www.courthousenews.com/white-house-...
White House, Mar-a-Lago Visitor Logs Off-Limits for Public
The Second Circuit upheld a ruling Monday that records of who has visited President Donald Trump’s White House and private Florida resort are exempt from government watchdog groups’ Freedom of Informa...
www.courthousenews.com
November 14, 2025 at 4:32 AM
Remembering how Biden revived the practice of releasing visitors logs and was rewarded by the press for his transparency with a front page story at his weakest possible moment about how he had Parkinson's based on a Parkinson's expert visiting the WH.
(Turns out, Biden did not have Parkinson's)
(Turns out, Biden did not have Parkinson's)
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it's so funny that alex jones was totally right about everything, the government is a bunch of drug-addled pedophiles and masked regime thugs are grabbing people off the streets, and now he has to pretend it's all a hoax
November 13, 2025 at 9:44 PM
it's so funny that alex jones was totally right about everything, the government is a bunch of drug-addled pedophiles and masked regime thugs are grabbing people off the streets, and now he has to pretend it's all a hoax
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www.bbc.com/news/article...
Canadian Snowbirds’ trips to the U.S. down 66% from last year.
Canadian Snowbirds’ trips to the U.S. down 66% from last year.
Canadian boycott of US travel shows no sign of slowing
October marked the 10th month of decreased Canadian travel to the US, with many staying away over political and trade tensions.
www.bbc.com
November 14, 2025 at 7:11 AM
www.bbc.com/news/article...
Canadian Snowbirds’ trips to the U.S. down 66% from last year.
Canadian Snowbirds’ trips to the U.S. down 66% from last year.
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Danielle Smith’s anti-science anti-vaxxer base: “Bring back polio!” probably.
#Canada #CanadaSky #Alberta #cdnpoli #abhealth #ableg #abpoli #yyc #yeg
#Canada #CanadaSky #Alberta #cdnpoli #abhealth #ableg #abpoli #yyc #yeg
Ok who had Tuberculosis on their bingo card for Edmonton? First Covid19 then measles now TB what the heck is next?
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
Tuberculosis outbreak declared in inner-city Edmonton: Primary Care Alberta
#abpoli #ableg #Alberta #Tuberculosis #yeg #Edmonton
#outbreak #TB
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
Tuberculosis outbreak declared in inner-city Edmonton: Primary Care Alberta
#abpoli #ableg #Alberta #Tuberculosis #yeg #Edmonton
#outbreak #TB
Tuberculosis outbreak declared in inner-city Edmonton: Primary Care Alberta | CBC News
Provincial health officials have declared an outbreak of tuberculosis in Edmonton's core, after lab tests confirmed two inner-city residents had the same strain of the infectious disease.
www.cbc.ca
November 14, 2025 at 6:05 AM
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People in the audience looking at the y-axis labels
November 14, 2025 at 7:21 AM
People in the audience looking at the y-axis labels
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Republicans are bracing for a significant chunk of the conference to vote for Khanna and Massie’s Epstein file disclosure bill once it lands on the House floor.
Republicans expecting mass defections on Epstein vote
Democrats pushing the discharge petition predicted that Republicans would rush to support the measure once it hit the floor.
www.politico.com
November 12, 2025 at 11:12 PM
Republicans are bracing for a significant chunk of the conference to vote for Khanna and Massie’s Epstein file disclosure bill once it lands on the House floor.
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Part of the problem is the way We have treated scientific discovery as if it is made by brilliant men.
All science is built on the science that came before. It is collaborative in multiple ways.
All attempts to credit a single scientist with THE crucial discovery are flawed.
All science is built on the science that came before. It is collaborative in multiple ways.
All attempts to credit a single scientist with THE crucial discovery are flawed.
November 8, 2025 at 1:00 PM
Part of the problem is the way We have treated scientific discovery as if it is made by brilliant men.
All science is built on the science that came before. It is collaborative in multiple ways.
All attempts to credit a single scientist with THE crucial discovery are flawed.
All science is built on the science that came before. It is collaborative in multiple ways.
All attempts to credit a single scientist with THE crucial discovery are flawed.