Arif Karmali
@arifkarmali.bsky.social
Building better cities & communities in Alberta, one basketball game at a time 🏀 | Political idealist still searching for my Bartlett | Architecture enthusiast | Pluralism > polarization | Still figuring out how to change the world, but starting with home
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National Library of France 🇨🇵
November 23, 2025 at 7:52 PM
National Library of France 🇨🇵
Looks like a scene from Interstellar. #fifthdimension
Biblioteca Vasconcelos with a matrix of suspended, expandable shelves designed by the Mexican architects Alberto Kalach and Juan Palomar, Buenavista, Cuauhtémoc, Mexico City, Mexico
November 19, 2025 at 10:05 PM
Looks like a scene from Interstellar. #fifthdimension
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New York is a-changin'.
November 3, 2025 at 9:59 PM
New York is a-changin'.
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"Fear is the tool of the tyrant, wielded to suppress independent thought"
Maurene Comey's goodbye note to SDNY colleagues:
July 18, 2025 at 1:00 AM
"Fear is the tool of the tyrant, wielded to suppress independent thought"
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At one of my favourite places tonight, the stunning Aga Khan garden, within the beautiful University of Alberta Botanic Garden - for the Pathways cultural series. What a perfect evening in a numinous space. #yeg #Edmonton #UniversityofAlberta #AgaKhan #yegarts #yegmusic #Ismaili
July 4, 2025 at 1:18 AM
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Tomorrow we kick off my mayoral campaign, and I would love if you could join me.
We're building a movement for Edmontonians. One for you and your family, not political parties or special interest groups.
Lets build an Edmonton we're proud to call HOME.
andrewknack.ca/launch-event
#yeg #yegcc
We're building a movement for Edmontonians. One for you and your family, not political parties or special interest groups.
Lets build an Edmonton we're proud to call HOME.
andrewknack.ca/launch-event
#yeg #yegcc
June 13, 2025 at 2:25 PM
Tomorrow we kick off my mayoral campaign, and I would love if you could join me.
We're building a movement for Edmontonians. One for you and your family, not political parties or special interest groups.
Lets build an Edmonton we're proud to call HOME.
andrewknack.ca/launch-event
#yeg #yegcc
We're building a movement for Edmontonians. One for you and your family, not political parties or special interest groups.
Lets build an Edmonton we're proud to call HOME.
andrewknack.ca/launch-event
#yeg #yegcc
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Photo of the week: Mont Saint-Michel at sunset | Normandy, France www.theatlantic.com/photo/2025/0...
#photography #landscape #nature #sunset @theatlantic.com
📷 Stephane Mahe
#photography #landscape #nature #sunset @theatlantic.com
📷 Stephane Mahe
April 6, 2025 at 4:59 PM
Photo of the week: Mont Saint-Michel at sunset | Normandy, France www.theatlantic.com/photo/2025/0...
#photography #landscape #nature #sunset @theatlantic.com
📷 Stephane Mahe
#photography #landscape #nature #sunset @theatlantic.com
📷 Stephane Mahe
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That's not how right-wing grievance populism works tho - you can't maintain the grievance charade by ever acknowledging basic facts or context that works against your desire to rile ignorant masses.
🤠🇨🇦 Mark Carney’s Alberta roots don’t fit into Danielle Smith’s political narrative but the fact that two people who grew up in Alberta are running the show in Ottawa should be celebrated by a Premier who constantly whinges about how alienated her government feels from the national capital.
Two Alberta boys go to Ottawa
Mark Carney and Pierre Poilievre grew up in Alberta. That's a big deal for our province.
daveberta.substack.com
March 17, 2025 at 1:31 PM
That's not how right-wing grievance populism works tho - you can't maintain the grievance charade by ever acknowledging basic facts or context that works against your desire to rile ignorant masses.
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As more and more Americans get their news from online shows and streamers, our analysis found that this expanding media ecosystem is overwhelmingly right-leaning. 🧵: www.mediamatters.org/google/right...
March 14, 2025 at 6:44 PM
As more and more Americans get their news from online shows and streamers, our analysis found that this expanding media ecosystem is overwhelmingly right-leaning. 🧵: www.mediamatters.org/google/right...
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you’re fired. wait you’re rehired. email us a list of things you’ve done today wait forget it you’re fired again. come back your job was important. you’re fired. or hired. come in to the office. wait the office has no computers go home. we are the department of government efficiency.
March 5, 2025 at 10:34 PM
you’re fired. wait you’re rehired. email us a list of things you’ve done today wait forget it you’re fired again. come back your job was important. you’re fired. or hired. come in to the office. wait the office has no computers go home. we are the department of government efficiency.
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Please explain to Vice President Trump as a nation we are in full DGAF mode.
March 4, 2025 at 5:52 PM
Please explain to Vice President Trump as a nation we are in full DGAF mode.
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Before he left office, we talked with U.S. Surgeon General Dr. Vivek Murthy, who, in his final advisory, detailed the growing body of research showing that drinking alcohol can increase the risk of at least seven types of cancer.
Surgeon General Highlights Link Between Alcohol And Cancer
In his final advisory, Surgeon General Dr. Vivek Murthy spotlights how alcohol increases the risk of developing certain cancers.
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February 27, 2025 at 11:56 PM
Before he left office, we talked with U.S. Surgeon General Dr. Vivek Murthy, who, in his final advisory, detailed the growing body of research showing that drinking alcohol can increase the risk of at least seven types of cancer.
Appreciate @keithgerein.bsky.social thoughtful take. Growing up with #99 as my hero, I'm disappointed seeing him w/ Trump, but his #yeg legacy matters. Powerful reminder from Aga Khan: "If there is empathy, things become possible that were not possible before." edmontonjournal.com/opinion/colu...
Keith Gerein: How much should Edmontonians care about Gretzky's silence on Trump?
For Edmontonians, it’s fair to feel disappointed with Wayne Gretzky's silence at a time of threats to Canada, but it shouldn't matter.
edmontonjournal.com
February 26, 2025 at 4:56 PM
Appreciate @keithgerein.bsky.social thoughtful take. Growing up with #99 as my hero, I'm disappointed seeing him w/ Trump, but his #yeg legacy matters. Powerful reminder from Aga Khan: "If there is empathy, things become possible that were not possible before." edmontonjournal.com/opinion/colu...
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Oh. The. Irony.
From @reuters.com: President Donald Trump's sweeping foreign aid freeze has stalled a United Nations program in Mexico aimed at stopping imported fentanyl chemicals from reaching the country's drug cartels, according to eight people familiar with the situation.
www.reuters.com/world/americ...
www.reuters.com/world/americ...
February 24, 2025 at 7:24 PM
Oh. The. Irony.
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An ad put up at a bus stop in London today.
February 24, 2025 at 6:56 PM
An ad put up at a bus stop in London today.
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"Kanye, Elon, Trump, and the Psyche of the American Right"
A phenomenal #mustread of a piece for Zeteo, from Peter Rothpletz, on the id, ego, and superego of the MAGA movement.
Read/share/subscribe:
A phenomenal #mustread of a piece for Zeteo, from Peter Rothpletz, on the id, ego, and superego of the MAGA movement.
Read/share/subscribe:
Kanye, Elon, Trump, and the Psyche of the American Right
The id, ego, and superego of the MAGA movement.
zeteo.com
February 21, 2025 at 7:36 PM
"Kanye, Elon, Trump, and the Psyche of the American Right"
A phenomenal #mustread of a piece for Zeteo, from Peter Rothpletz, on the id, ego, and superego of the MAGA movement.
Read/share/subscribe:
A phenomenal #mustread of a piece for Zeteo, from Peter Rothpletz, on the id, ego, and superego of the MAGA movement.
Read/share/subscribe:
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No pressure boys but, for your country, we're going to need you to wreck this team.
Doocy: Does President Trump have a bet with this USA-Canada game tonight?
Leavitt: We look forward to the United States beating our soon to be 51st state, Canada
Leavitt: We look forward to the United States beating our soon to be 51st state, Canada
February 20, 2025 at 8:24 PM
No pressure boys but, for your country, we're going to need you to wreck this team.
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If you're trying to figure out what to do right now, my advice is to just pick a thing that you think might be useful in some way, however small, and do it. Doing a thing leads you to doing another, bigger thing, and prepares you for that next thing.
February 20, 2025 at 8:45 PM
If you're trying to figure out what to do right now, my advice is to just pick a thing that you think might be useful in some way, however small, and do it. Doing a thing leads you to doing another, bigger thing, and prepares you for that next thing.
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Here is a 114 room hostel in Paris (for students and young workers) with shared facilities built above a tunnel
By Hardel and Le Bihan Architects
By Hardel and Le Bihan Architects
February 19, 2025 at 3:02 PM
Here is a 114 room hostel in Paris (for students and young workers) with shared facilities built above a tunnel
By Hardel and Le Bihan Architects
By Hardel and Le Bihan Architects
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This take just keeps on being accurate.
February 11, 2025 at 7:44 PM
This take just keeps on being accurate.
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When I talk to kids today and they ask me what I would do if I were 12 today, my answer is always the same, read books and learn how to use AI in every way shape and form you can. It is a living library that gives you responses and can help no matter who you are or where you live.
February 17, 2025 at 11:52 PM
When I talk to kids today and they ask me what I would do if I were 12 today, my answer is always the same, read books and learn how to use AI in every way shape and form you can. It is a living library that gives you responses and can help no matter who you are or where you live.
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Amazing years long reporting and beautiful feature writing here via Susan Freinkel.
Her job is to remove homeless people from SF’s parks. Her methods are extraordinary sfstandard.com/2025/02/08/g...
Her job is to remove homeless people from SF’s parks. Her methods are extraordinary sfstandard.com/2025/02/08/g...
Her job is to remove homeless people from SF's parks. Her methods are extraordinary
Instead of forcing people out of Golden Gate Park, ranger Amanda Barrows helps them find housing.
sfstandard.com
February 16, 2025 at 9:18 PM
Amazing years long reporting and beautiful feature writing here via Susan Freinkel.
Her job is to remove homeless people from SF’s parks. Her methods are extraordinary sfstandard.com/2025/02/08/g...
Her job is to remove homeless people from SF’s parks. Her methods are extraordinary sfstandard.com/2025/02/08/g...
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Upon the death of the Aga Khan IV, spiritual leader of Ismaili Muslims, leading pluralist Eboo Patel points to the Iman's teachings about civil society as a bulwark against the "frightful despotism” that George Washington warned about.
phlnthrp.com/4gAGJQ9
#TheCommons
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#TheCommons
February 13, 2025 at 7:06 PM
Upon the death of the Aga Khan IV, spiritual leader of Ismaili Muslims, leading pluralist Eboo Patel points to the Iman's teachings about civil society as a bulwark against the "frightful despotism” that George Washington warned about.
phlnthrp.com/4gAGJQ9
#TheCommons
phlnthrp.com/4gAGJQ9
#TheCommons
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On this “brisk” winter day in #Edmonton, thinking about the late Aga Khan’s generous gift to the University of Alberta Botanic Garden. The world’s Ismaili community is mourning. But know that the Aga Khan’s memory will be a blessing here for decades. #yeg #UniversityofAlberta #ualberta #AgaKhan
February 5, 2025 at 6:46 PM
On this “brisk” winter day in #Edmonton, thinking about the late Aga Khan’s generous gift to the University of Alberta Botanic Garden. The world’s Ismaili community is mourning. But know that the Aga Khan’s memory will be a blessing here for decades. #yeg #UniversityofAlberta #ualberta #AgaKhan