Tony Jeglum

It’s not cowardice: it’s disdain. She’s not scared of teachers (or Albertans in general); she just thinks they don’t matter.

Treat her like the arrogant, entitled, disrespectful, petty tyrant that she it.

And when M. D. Smith is on her way back it’s time for air traffic controllers to walk off the job for 12 hours. Rotate strikes until this government blinks. Kids deserve reasonable class sizes. Do it for the kids.

Hey Albertans it’s time to strike. Hear me out: we all want reasonable class sizes, but the conservatives don’t care. Shut down your workplace for a day and put a sign on the door: “we are on strike today to support reasonable class sizes.”

“Terrible things are happening outside. Poor helpless people are being dragged out of their homes. Families are torn apart. Men, women, and children are separated. Children come home from school to find that their parents have disappeared.”

Diary of Anne Frank
January 13, 1943

those of y’all who have not caught up to the Jakarta Method might want to before we’re all swept up in it

The housing crisis in Canada can be traced back to Mulroney and Chrétien's policies that transformed the housing market from “human necessity” to an investment for the wealthy—an era that shifted Canada towards neoliberalism and near-permanent austerity.

Immigration is not the problem.

I am endlessly baffled by anti-immigration rhetoric.

I am the product of nearly 300 years of immigration into the Americas- what possible right do I have to say that new people can’t come?

Germany has a salt-and-air battery that could change renewable energy storage. Unlike lithium-ion batteries, which rely on expensive and limited resources, this new design uses common salt and oxygen to store energy. It can last for decades without losing capacity and is completely recyclable.

Thanks to @nolore.bsky.social for a brilliantly simple summation: Low union density, especially in the private sector is the flip side of record-breaking profits. #Unionisation #Unionization #ProLabour #ProLabor #Unite

I see people fearful to talk on social media. Posts are tightening up and people are being "careful." I refuse to do that. That...is obeying in advance. I would literally rather be dead...than submit.

Orange Tabby cat, Greg, standing tall on his hind toe beans with front paws stretched straight in the air trying to catch a catnip bubble floating above his head.

Here’s a photo of my cat trying to catch a bubble. You’re welcome.

Marxism isn’t reading Foucault, Marxism is pointing to a chart of 16th-century grain prices and telling someone “this is why your life sucks”

typically, what passes for “progressive politics” in the US is often just peaceful management of oppression.

When everything has been reduced to a business metric you end up losing your humanity.

Yes! Drums! Great call.

Can the shouting down of the fascists include a bagpipe lesson, @stuthefarmer.bsky.social ? Great opportunity to make some noise and learn a new skill.

we need a Vlad the Impaler of the left

To some degree, I think the Democrats ARE the bigger evil. The bigger evil is the alternative that doesn't alternate, it's the people selling hope of doing better only to crush it, and who will always prefer to fold before "the bigger evil" than lose their spot as its alternative.

The West changes its tune on Gaza just in time? Last week, consensus shifted within Canada’s opinion-makers (journalists, politicians, pundits).

Long live @nolore.bsky.social! The best (short) article I've read yet on the state of western global hegemony. The West changes its tune on Gaza just in time? open.substack.com/pub/noralore...

At least the Rhinoceros Party is honest when they say they don't keep their promises.

google is cooked. search for “hayley williams” and it doesn’t show her website as a result on the first page. append “website” to the query and it still doesn’t show up 🫠

We need Democratic leaders who are willing to cast America’s billionaires not as success stories of American capitalism, but as parasitic oligarchs robbing the people blind, dismantling the country, undermining western democracy, and burning the whole world just to keep their taxes low.

Many people have compared what is happening in America to what happened in 1930s Germany - and rightly so. But I want to remind everyone that the current situation is not a fait accompli, and I worry that these comparisons sometimes imply otherwise. The situation is dire, but not without hope.

Before the far right threatened democracy, neoliberalism stripped it down - CCPA Fears of the erosion of democracy pervade the headlines. The rise of authoritarian populists around the world, with Donald Trump being the most emblematic, has mobilized centrist pundits and politicia...

Read @simonenoch.bsky.social's full report here: www.policyalternatives.ca/news-researc...

Can someone just check that Minister LaGrange understands her mandate is “Preventative” not “Preventing” Health Services?

In all seriousness, these are backwards decisions all but guaranteed to not only hurt people, but cost us far more than they “save” in healthcare. #ableg

"He looked up at the empty clouds, and as he died he wondered, not for the first time but for the very last, why it should be that we are made for a bright world, but live in a dark one" Lev Grossman The Bright Sword
I have this thought almost every day now.