choug.bsky.social

choug.bsky.social

@choug.bsky.social

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After the White House complained about an unflattering photo of Karoline Leavitt, it was removed from AFP and Getty’s systems. This is the photo in question. Please do not repost it. 👇

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“The office of the information and privacy commissioner is opening an inquiry into the Alberta government’s refusal to share documents related to a 2024 land deal involving health care entrepreneur Sam Mraiche” #abpoli #ableg #cdnpoli edmontonjournal.com/news/politic...

edmontonjournal.comPrivacy watchdog opens inquiry into Alberta’s refusal to release records of Mraiche-linked land dealPostmedia sought records related to a 2024 land deal that netted a numbered company a $300K profit months after the initial sale.

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NEW: Guards have taken away crayons, colored pencils & paper during recent room searches at Dilley, according to detainees and others. After one inspection, the children just “cried and cried and cried,” a mother said. The facility denies the claims. By @mckenziefunk.com @micarosenberg.bsky.social

propublica.orgSeized Art, Eavesdropping Guards: Parents Describe a Clampdown at Dilley Detention Center as Kids Shared Their StoriesDetainees told ProPublica that art supplies have been removed in room searches, immigrants have lost access to Gmail and staff hover within earshot during video calls.

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Everyone in this province deserves timely access to quality public health care, not just those who can afford to pay for it. It's time to let this government know that Albertans value our public health care—& we're willing to fight for it! 🚨 TAKE ACTION 🚨 friendsofmedicare.org/notwotier

friendsofmedicare.orgNo Two-Tier Health Care!Every Albertan deserves timely, quality public health care based on need, NOT whether or not they can pay for it. Sign the petition: Say NO to two-tier health care in Alberta!
Friends of Medicare@friendsofmedicare.bsky.social

More than 400 people showed up in Edmonton today on our cross-province tour with @pfparks.bsky.social! The THOUSANDS of Albertans we've talked to at our townhalls these past few months have been resoundingly clear: we don't want two tier, Americanized health care! We need to repeal Bill 11 ASAP.

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In 2024, Premier Smith was demanding Trudeau allow 20,000+ additional immigrants to Alberta. But now with a huge budget deficit, she's scapegoating the immigrants she wanted to come to Alberta. #ableg #abpoli

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If even small, ruby-red towns can refuse to provide services to potential ICE concentration camps, yours can too! Write an email to or speak at a meeting for your local town/city council demanding that they refuse to provide utilities or permits to ICE detention centers.

Rachel Maddow@maddow.bsky.social

"The Social Circle city manager was contacted by ICE... “They asked me to turn on the water,” he said of a 1m sq ft warehouse nearby that the government plans to use for locking up as many as 10,000 detainees. “I told them I’m not going to do it,” he said... www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

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Do the real math, people. The problem is Danielle Smith’s UCP mismanaging Alberta’s finances. Not immigrants. Not Ottawa. #Alberta #ableg #abpoli #Canada #CanadaSky #cdnpoli

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"The Indiana state Senate’s vote against a new congressional map that President Donald Trump had pressured it to adopt is one of the most extraordinary examples to date of Republicans standing up to Trump. But it wasn’t even the only example Thursday." | Analysis https://cnn.it/4oNbB41

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Replying to @theglobeandmail.com

The Carney gov't has pretty significant overlap with the Progressive Conservatives of yore, so any non-Reform Tories would probably feel perfectly at home in the Liberal caucus. And potentially have lots of influence. It's that, or stay on as a backup singer in Poilievres MAGA cover band.

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Replying to @kathleenherald.bsky.social

Because, put simply, their voters, no matter how angry they've been, still kept voting R. It's like having a boss who yells at you but never fires you, you stop caring about the yelling. Until they start voting these guys out, nothing will change.

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Replying to @propublica.org

They are selecting unqualified white supremacists types that want to hate. This is scary -very anti Christian and American. This is so much like Germany in the 1940s who selected certain types of cruel people for the job of hunting down and capturing other human being for being different.

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Replying to @texasobserver.org

it's not up to teachers to solve this problem, but this is completely by design. the christian right has wanted to stop funding public schools and replace them all with private, christian, segregated schools since brown v. board of education. making teachers miserable is one step on that path.

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Replying to @nytimes.com

Recently, renewable energy has been more affordable than natural gas, oil or gasoline in America. It is not by a large margin, but it because the market doesn't want to pay higher costs just to speed up global warming. Since that is a GOOD thing for America and the world... TRUMP opposes it.

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🟥 Georgia’s unlawfully imprisoned journalist Mzia Amaglobeli has been named laureate of the 2025 Sakharov Prize for Freedom of Thought, shared with Andrzej Poczobut of #Belarus. 🔴“Imprisoned Journalists Fighting for Your Freedom and Ours" #RepressionInGeorgia