Ignoring First Nations and climate actions will be his kryptonite
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Ignoring First Nations and climate actions will be his kryptonite
The inevitable upshot of American Exceptionalism
Here's a premise for a new play. The old, unhealthy, current leader is compromised by a nasty foreign agent who is getting pretty much what ever he wants from the deal. The second in command is under thrall to a megalomaniacal Lex Luther type. Consider the power play when leader 1 dies.
It is never a good idea to insult brilliant writers who are still living.
Margaret Atwood is 🔥 #abpoli #Alberta
I like the idea of some of the richer states picking up decentralized centres.
Everyone knows that. That's why they've kept him around for as long as they have -- for the noise and the money. They want to secure the offices of power before he goes so that they don't need MAGA anymore.
I miss this. Fruit, we get. Veggies, not so much.
Trees can be replaced, but that takes time and effort. Dirtier air, soil erosion, habitat destruction … these are all irreversible in the short run, and cause lasting damage in the long run.
Not Trump, Project 2025 and the tech bros. And it isn't stolen; it is shared.
Looks like the white paint is permanently affected. :)
mitochondrial challenges
“This is my rake. There are many like it, but this one is mine.”
Everyone should be worried, well, except the black market in germ warfare agents. I'm sure they (whoever they are) are tickled pink.
Lush woodland timeline cleanse. Cawdor Woods, Scottish Highlands.
Holding it ransom.
RFK doesn't believe in germs. Wonder he thinks should be done with all those bugs.
Well, that and a bit of systemic racism.
data is irrelevant. They spew abstract projections and pretend that is truth. In reality, they are happy to have schools be a dangerous place as it increases fear, keeps kids away from school and undermines public education.
Ocean to human: now, come and pick it up with your bare hands.
faux science for eugenicists
🪬🧿 There is no amount of money, oil, or gold in the world that is worth more than having bees, trees, and clean water.
Mike Johnson makes clear that when Congress returns next week he's going to work tirelessly to cover up the Epstein files
extorted?
He did everything he could to avoid a turnout. Horrible timing, disallowed signage, all kinds of electoral shenanigans. And then he wrapped himself in the flag and smiled like a buffoon. Worked.
sounds more and more like Russia and Ukraine every day.
So Andrew Egger is on the side of those who think the Dems should talk "normal" which apparently means white, male, capitalist, colonial, and straight. Sure, Dems can sound like a bunch of arrogant nitwits but fix that by being more direct, not be giving it all up. sheesh.
Mother Earth is watching. Don't be complicit.
Southern mountain caribou are critically endangered, but the B.C. gov is approving logging in their habitat. These herds can still recover, but only if their forests are protected. Speak up today 👇 #BCPoli #Conservation
The politics of poll-tested messaging and focus-grouped policy is a politics of trying to assemble a governing vision from the scraps that are lying around on the floor, not a politics of making things, building things, bringing a new future into being.
I think he's being handled so that his successor inherits the chair with all the dictatorial trappings in place because he's really not well.
oh, that's funny. Is your new boiler in?
The oven might be.
She isn't gone yet. Hard for an uncharged, unadjudicated assertion of a potential minor administrative issue to stand as "cause" which is what he needs to remove her. And this SCOTUS likes the independence of the Fed. so winning isn't a given. I imagine her email is ugly, though.
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One day people may learn that they are not the most important thing on the planet. "Rights" is a human language, but it is the one we use to protect things, so applying it no non-human things is one way to bring those things inside the realm of protection.
“What’s that rock? It’s called leaverite. Leaverite? Yup, leave ’er right there!” Geology buff Bruce Downing weighs in on how legal personhood applies to the natural world, and who really has the rights for mineral deposits. 🪨 @amandafollett.bsky.social reports.
Miller needs more credit.
“This is about the President of the United States and his complicit lackey, Stephen Miller, searching for ways to lay the groundwork to circumvent our democracy, militarize our cities, and end elections.” – Gov. J.B. Pritzker
I do not think that the Soviet Union or Mao's China shared their state owned profits as a shareholder units but I am unaware of the way they spend their social capital. Ineffectively, I would imagine. Nonetheless, calling either modern Russia or China "communist" is inaccurate.
You are correct; communist nations don't exist and they never have. It isn't a concept that scales to the size of a nation state. Calling the Soviet Union and China "communist" undersells the history of both those places and perpetrates an undeserved negative meaning for the word.
Indirect ecological interactions are everywhere in nature, with species influencing another through a third species or the environment. Such interactions are rarely connected to rapid evolutionary change. Here, aphid-driven herbivory of duckweed drove adaptive evolutionary change in Daphnia.
Anyone thinking this makes Dougie any more likeable forgets that he is still just as corrupt today as he was yesterday. Good for the critters, though.
For the evening crowd, my Loonie Politics column on why this year's drought crisis is the alarm bell sounding that we need to take faster climate action, while Carney keeps walking back measures #cdnpoli
Just an excuse to increase pressure, create economic hardship, provide another talking point to his base as he builds a "it's really ours anyway" argument for taking over Canada.
Is that what "woke" is? "Policing speech" seems to sell the concept short. So the term for book banning isn't going to be comparable since the practice is tactical, not theoretical. Call it what it is, project 2025 fascism.
Ask for government to be run by a business and you get state owned venture capitalism. And this isn't "communism" because it is unlikely the profits, such as they are, will be spread among the citizens according to need.
Miller needs to get more credit.
On this day in 1916, President Woodrow Wilson signed the Organic Act, officially creating the National Park Service to protect and preserve America’s natural wonders and historic treasures “for the enjoyment of this and future generations.”
Please don't let this scandal get lost amongst all the other outrages
We are going to get through this one way or another. And we are going to be standing in rubble, so it is IMPERATIVE we have blueprints ready and a line on how we are sourcing materials and how we are going to do that work together. Without that we will be sunk.
I would pay extra to have very simple apps that promise to never introduce AI assistants.
Or, they could take lessons from Mamdani -- move left, include others and meet people where they live.
sorry, I saw CA and MX. Twice. Must need new glasses.
I'm sorry, way what? I don't know about Mexico, but Canada doesn't do guns and violence. Where did you get that idea?
The last time states tried to secede the federal government replied with force. I doubt it would be different this time. Something tells me neither Canada nor Mexico wants a war with the trained and armed US military.
No, because when I don't want to read about politics I check out the other feeds. Gardens, flowers, cats, books. etc.
He doesn't believe it and he knows better. He's just spouting talking points for the dinner table arguments.
These guys can't even change the rhetoric when they use the Project 2025 playbook. Since when does a Province deport people? One wonders if they are writing their own stuff.
I think we are saying the same thing. He is not European, so his presence at the WH was not necessary. This is a show of solidarity that he can reasonable make along with a material contribution. Now, if he can do something similar in other parts of the world...
He didn't go to the White House meeting, so maybe this is his catch up.
Much of the ‘work’ we do exists to simply perpetuate an economic system that’s devouring nature & has made our world hotter than it’s been in 125,000 years. Workers are at risk. We are all at risk. How about a system where work means building a survivable future, not shareholder profit? #Degrowth
"There is no amount of money, oil, or gold that is worth more than having bees, trees, and clean water"
"and the Reader's Digest Collection of Big Band Sounds is in the corner, sir."
Washington Post: “Is fascism bad? The answer may surprise you” Teen Vogue: “Here are three fun tips you can use this summer to disable an armored personnel carrier”
One of the most remarkable and impactful transformations of all human technology and civilization in history is happening right now!
The craziest thing about this Cracker Barrel story is that Donald Trump was best friends with Jeffrey Epstein for decades and publicly admitted to trafficking young women to him out of Maralago.
61 years ago today Mrs. Fannie Lou Hamer one of the most courageous activists of the Civil Rights Movement posed the question that echoes today with every migrant round-up by masked officers, as federal troops converge on D.C.,as institutions are threatened: “IS THIS AMERICA?” youtu.be/DFC1nc3IXBM
I get that everyone is trying to drive a wedge between Trump and his supporters by calling this communism, but it is really just old fashioned corruption which will prop up the ruling fascists. But, hey, if it works....
So Uganda will only take persons without a conviction and then they imprison them? I presume to enslave them. No words.
Here’s what was NOT released today: - the proffer agreement between Maxwell and the DoJ - the agreement transferring Maxwell to club fed - communications showing who waived Maxwell’s sex offender status allowing her transfer and possible work assignments outside prison - the Epstein files
While the headline is misleading, the article gets it right. Climate change and development are the primary causes of increased fire; response agencies are poorly funded and sometimes, you should just let it burn.
Any institution that is running a 40% deficit has probably run the course on "efficiencies." What they need is funding to do their job.
Ghislaine Maxwell and Jeffrey Epstein could not have sold women and girls for sex without wealthy men buying women and girls for sex. I feel like more people should mention that.
Maybe just a good old company town.
Wasn't there a court case that gave the panhandle back to the indigenous people? Or was that just a dream?
Flight Attendants changed history… it’s now Prime Minister Mark Carney’s job to change the law. Update the labour code to ensure flight attendants are paid in FULL for every hour they are at work. Abolish section 107 of the labour code. Screen shot this picture and email Mark.Carney@parl.gc.ca
Good morning with good news: Solar was 75.3% and wind 15.6% for a combined 91% of new utility-scale generation added in US from Jan-May 2025! “High probability” additions of large solar (89.5 GW) and wind (23 GW) total 113 GW from June 2025 to May 2028. electrek.co/2025/08/21/f... #energysky
A couple of interesting things about the Ghislaine Maxwell/Todd Blanche audio recording: it's not one continuous recording. It's broken up into 7 parts on day one, and 4 parts on day two. Further, Todd Blanche says he spoke to Maxwell off the record for several minutes before the recording. 1/
We spent decades fearing artificial intelligence, thinking it would take over & destroy us. Turns out it’s just another tool by which we can waste huge amounts of energy & resources producing meaningless nonsense as we accelerate ever faster along the path to destroy ourselves.
Which is why they are going to deport him to Uganda as quickly as they can.
Follow her money trail.
Well, state owned business anyway. Tik Tok is likely to be the next and then we shall watch all those people who wanted govt to be run like a business FAFO.
Albertans who don't qualify for free COVID-19 vaccinations in their home province can get one in British Columbia. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/... #Alberta #abpoli #cdnpoli
Casually grabbing breakfast Tatshenshini-Alsek Provincial Park, B.C. 🇨🇦
Fixed
“The death of human empathy is one of the earliest and most telling signs of a culture about to fall into barbarism.” Hannah Arendt
Wikipedia will give you the whole story, but he founded Focus on the Family, developed the "family value" rhetoric, encouraged corporal punishment for children and a few other heinous things.
This is my mind saving image -- that when they meet their maker, she asks, them, with great disdain, just who they think they are and then consigns them eternally to a space where their greatest desire remains just out of reach and their greatest fear realized.
Yes. But the figure should be in colonial garb. There's nothing new about the mindset, unfortunately.
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In the small town where I grew up the cops mostly differed from the other guys by color and by the amount of force they were willing to use. The most "attention" I got as a teenager was from my father's friend, the State Patrol man. Maybe not all cops, but it isn't always easy to tell which cop
"Nothing about Epstein. Not gonna talk about Epstein!" - Pam Bondi
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Watch our planet warm - and especially tune into the last decade... 100 years of January-July temperature compared to average over land areas through this year. Data provided by NOAAGlobalTemp v6.0.0: www.ncei.noaa.gov/products/lan...
Pump up the volume 