"I want to see the creation of a plan for my country b/c I'm scared for what my and the future for future generations will look like. we are all, at the end of the day, kids wanting to hold our governments accountable to be able to make our future safer and better for everyone to come after us."
www.townandcountrytoday.com/alberta-deci...
"These referendum questions are not responsible policy. They are attempts to blame the “other” for our collective mistakes... everyone who is in AB today is welcome — w the possible exception of those who would vote yes to these bigoted questions."
“Migrants did not create these crises. Govt choices that put corp profits ahead of public services & workers' rights did. Taking away migrants' rights will not build a single home, hire a single nurse or improve a single school.”
pledge to defend migrant neighbours: migrantrights.ca/pledge?sourc...
Remember this. We are weaker now. “Trump has groomed us.” Try to hold and speak and advocate what you know is right and true. We’ve already moved so far. Don’t change your standards to accommodate their shameless incompetence & cruelty.
JUST IN: The police shooting that killed 1-year-old Kohen Wiley as he sat in his mother’s lap in a Walmart parking lot in Senatobia, Miss., in June “was justified,” Mississippi Attorney General Lynn Fitch’s office said on Monday.
Her office will not charge the white officer who shot the child.
Some corporate Democrats and pundits think the party has gone too far "left" and needs to readjust towards the “center.”
Rubbish.
Where’s the center between democracy and oligarchy, and why would Democrats want to be there?
Dear Trump voters, You wanted mass deportations.
Well, hundreds of thousands of people have been deported.
NOW WHAT?
• Did you get that job they supposedly took from you?
• Did grocery prices drop?
• Is rent cheaper?
• Did your health insurance premiums drop?
#TrumpsAbuseOfPower
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A Prime Day reminder that Amazon...
-Helps fuel ICE's deportations
-Gave $1M to Trump's inauguration
-Scrapped plans to display tariff costs after pressure from Trump
-Shelled out $75M for the Melania doc
-Donated to Trump's ballroom
-Wants to reboot The Apprentice w/ Don Jr
I don't think we'll ever be done with the "I fucking told you so's."
The Food Research & Action Center reported that these changes would weaken safety nets and worsen food insecurity for low-income families:
frac.org/blog/project...
A year ago, @propublica.org told you immigration agents had detained more than 170 U.S. citizens.
We’ve updated our count, and we’ve got all the receipts.
The tally: At least 506 citizens detained. Sometimes held at gunpoint, handcuffed, or even deported.
projects.propublica.org/american-cit...
It’s been way beyond “He’s just kidding” far too long. Let’s see how #MSM reports this & if there’s pushback when this is the response again. (Not holding my breath.)
#fightfascism
Not my president. Clearly, not a president for all Americans.
“Let them (Iran) take out Los Angeles. Let them take out San Diego.”
Then Trump called it a “small price to pay.”
Millions of us dead. And his audience laughed.
Reporting from my local news…
Black Women are 40% more likely to Die from Breast Cancer Yet Trump Admin’s 2025 cuts to NIH DEI Initiatives Defunded>$317M in Health Disparity Research
This Disrupts Critical Clinical Trials& Slows Decades of Progress Towards Closing Deadly Survival Gaps
#DemsUnited#SheShed
calgaryherald.com/opinion/colu...
AB's plan is also a blatant violation of the Canada Health Act. Legal opinions publicly released over the summer have reinforced this ... There is no ambiguity here: what Alberta is doing goes against the very idea of universal public healthcare.
#abhealth#ableg
Recommended reading!
"...85 % of Canadians agree that universal health care based on a person’s need, not how much money they have, is a core Canadian value. And 91 per cent say they’re feeling concerned about the future of public health care." Chris Galloway, ED @friendsofmedicare.bsky.social
We deserve action to protect our sovereignty, our public health care systems, and patient care from the impacts of Bill 11 and the imposition of two-tier health care — before it's too late!
📢Tell the Feds to enforce the Canada Health Act: friendsofmedicare.org/EnforceTheCHA
Such an important piece:
thewalrus.ca/alberta-sepa...
"The alternative is division. It is annexation. It is populist authoritarianism. It is the end of Canada as we know and understand it. If we fail now to defend our country, we may be pulled into the far-right vortex engulfing the United States."
Smith is a con artist that's ALWAYS been a separatist. Great video by Claus Kellerman with old clips of who she's always been.
Thanks for talking action to support Alberta and plans to help get her out of office next year! #CanadaStrong 💪♥️🇨🇦
youtu.be/YzlZXOiSaZc?...
fightbacknow.civicdeeds.com/actions/calg...
Let's raise our voices & make some noise for a brighter and more hopeful Alberta for everyone!
Meet at Calgary City Hall. We’ll march to the rally site at McDougall Centre (455 6 St. SW).
Bring a friend, signs, water, snacks, and a noisemaker!
Please spread the word ... Albertans need to speak out loudly about this injustice & cruelty.
@migrantsrights.bsky.social#Elducation4Al#abed#abpoli#ableg
albertaworkers.org/ed4all
Some children in Alberta are being denied access to education. They are blocked from registering in school because of their parents’ precarious immigration status.
This is a grassroots campaign led by International Migrants Alliance - Alberta & supported by AWARE.
If you’re in town please join the screening of this film which discusses the story of a 12 year old girl from Mexico who has taken the responsibility of educating her younger brother because Alberta schools refuse to take him due to the parents immigration status!
09/29
heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/september-...
So Schmitt got his right-wing media hit from a completely fabricated storyline. One newscaster noted: “When a witness lies under oath before Congress, he can face prison. When a senator gets it wrong, he says he was just ‘asking questions’.”
⚠️WOKE CONTENT⚠️™️
🧵On Feb. 26, 1931, the INS under the orders of Herbert Hoover deported up to 1.8 million people to Mexico. An investigation in 2004 revealed 60% were U.S. citizens.
Pull up a seat🪑. (cont)
#ProudBlue#ResistanceRoots#USDemocracy#Voices4Victorywww.history.com/articles/the...
Two American teens were on their way to enlist in the Marines and serve their country, only to have their basic human rights violated. They were pepper sprayed, physically assaulted, and detained for 8 hours for the “crime” of filming ICE agents as they detained parents outside of a school.
A data center in New Jersey spilled 5,000 gallons of diesel fuel into a local creek, putting the area’s entire river system at risk.
Is it any wonder nearly 70 percent of Americans don’t want a data center in their community?
⚠️WOKE CONTENT⚠️™️
🧵 In the 1930s Great Depression, a violent splinter group broke away from the Ku Klux Klan. They called themselves The Black Legion — America’s hidden white supremacist army.
Pull up a seat🪑 my friends.(cont)
#ProudBlue#ResistanceRoots#USDemocracy#Voices4Victory
Of course Trump’s promise to pay American adults $5,000-but only if Republicans win-will never happen. Has anyone gotten a DOGE check? Or the tariff money?
Even if he weren’t lying (I know, but hear me out), it would cost about $1.375 TRILLION-on top of the current $40 trillion debt
Ludicrous
Deliberately crashing the American economy—costing American families well over $5,000 each—and then promising to pay those families back $5,000 but *only if* they keep letting him abuse them and the country for two more years...
...is some *seriously* dark, domestic-abuser shit.