Don Beaton
@beatenwords.bsky.social
"Take responsibility for the face of the world. Stand out. Believe in truth. Be calm when the unthinkable arrives. Be as courageous as you can." -Timothy Snyder, "On Tyranny"
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Don Beaton
@beatenwords.bsky.social
· Dec 1
Being neurodivergent and highly sensitive is disabling in academia in many ways, but I don't see people often talk about the way you can be hit with sudden descriptions of sexual violence, death, child abuse etc in scholarship & while some people just glaze over it, for others it haunts us for days
Twice failed Academic here for exactly this reason. Add a bunch of all-or-nothing thinking, a pound of perfectionism & a whole lot of obsessive rumination, baby you got a stew going.
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I think Morgan's in the bad bird sin bin for talking about Palantir, so let me recreate that post.
Avi Lewis posted "Is Canada getting DOGEd" and she reposted...
*I will put the screenshots from this in the replies.*
Avi Lewis posted "Is Canada getting DOGEd" and she reposted...
*I will put the screenshots from this in the replies.*
December 20, 2025 at 6:15 PM
I think Morgan's in the bad bird sin bin for talking about Palantir, so let me recreate that post.
Avi Lewis posted "Is Canada getting DOGEd" and she reposted...
*I will put the screenshots from this in the replies.*
Avi Lewis posted "Is Canada getting DOGEd" and she reposted...
*I will put the screenshots from this in the replies.*
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Let these honest words reverberate in Alberta.
@mcbride.house.gov is right. It’s hard enough being a kid — and politicians don’t need to make it harder.
Thank you, Congresswoman, for speaking out against the cruel Republican attacks on health care for trans youth.
Thank you, Congresswoman, for speaking out against the cruel Republican attacks on health care for trans youth.
December 18, 2025 at 12:10 AM
Let these honest words reverberate in Alberta.
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This is my cyclical reminder that there's really only one consistently reliable source of info in the public record that isn't owned by right wing billionaires, who really want to put an end to it.
Please give at least the $2.75 minimum they request if you can.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page
Please give at least the $2.75 minimum they request if you can.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page
Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
en.wikipedia.org
December 17, 2025 at 5:05 AM
This is my cyclical reminder that there's really only one consistently reliable source of info in the public record that isn't owned by right wing billionaires, who really want to put an end to it.
Please give at least the $2.75 minimum they request if you can.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page
Please give at least the $2.75 minimum they request if you can.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page
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NEW: This week on The North State, journalists/industry leaders laughed and joked about the policies that have real world impact. @rachelgilmore.bsky.social joins me to explain how the Parliamentary Press Gallery Dinner shows damaging policies are just a big game to Canada’s media elite. #cdnpoli
Killjoys Ruin Parliamentary Press Gallery Dinner ft. Rachel Gilmore (Podcast)
Metaphorically crashing the black tie affair
readthecatch.ca
December 9, 2025 at 2:59 PM
NEW: This week on The North State, journalists/industry leaders laughed and joked about the policies that have real world impact. @rachelgilmore.bsky.social joins me to explain how the Parliamentary Press Gallery Dinner shows damaging policies are just a big game to Canada’s media elite. #cdnpoli
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People often ask: what can ordinary people do to stop populists like Trump and Smith from running roughshod over democratic norms?
Populists rely on the widespread perception that their actions are supported by "the majority" and "common people."
Anything that punctures that myth helps. +
Populists rely on the widespread perception that their actions are supported by "the majority" and "common people."
Anything that punctures that myth helps. +
December 7, 2025 at 9:58 PM
People often ask: what can ordinary people do to stop populists like Trump and Smith from running roughshod over democratic norms?
Populists rely on the widespread perception that their actions are supported by "the majority" and "common people."
Anything that punctures that myth helps. +
Populists rely on the widespread perception that their actions are supported by "the majority" and "common people."
Anything that punctures that myth helps. +
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If you read nothing else I write, read this.
Canadians outside Alberta, pay particular attention. If Smith succeeds, she will infect other provinces with "ungoverning."
markhamhislop.substack.com/p/danielle-s...
Canadians outside Alberta, pay particular attention. If Smith succeeds, she will infect other provinces with "ungoverning."
markhamhislop.substack.com/p/danielle-s...
Danielle Smith is "Ungoverning" Alberta
And trying to break the very idea of Canada
markhamhislop.substack.com
December 7, 2025 at 3:34 AM
If you read nothing else I write, read this.
Canadians outside Alberta, pay particular attention. If Smith succeeds, she will infect other provinces with "ungoverning."
markhamhislop.substack.com/p/danielle-s...
Canadians outside Alberta, pay particular attention. If Smith succeeds, she will infect other provinces with "ungoverning."
markhamhislop.substack.com/p/danielle-s...
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“Look, you have be complicit in death if you wanna grow the economy.”
Maybe the perfect encapsulation of the immorality of capital.
This sucks.
Maybe the perfect encapsulation of the immorality of capital.
This sucks.
I mean, the Americans were selling the Nazis stuff until ‘42 but not the point. My point, anyway, was twofold: you can’t have a defence industry and only sell to nice people; and you can’t grow the economy with unicorn farts and pixie dust. Governing in the real world is about least bad choices.
December 5, 2025 at 2:16 PM
“Look, you have be complicit in death if you wanna grow the economy.”
Maybe the perfect encapsulation of the immorality of capital.
This sucks.
Maybe the perfect encapsulation of the immorality of capital.
This sucks.
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This is the sort of thing that in any normal province would sink a government. The Sky Palace pales in comparison.
It's such overt corruption, but they're doing everything they can to change the rules so it's not illegal.
It's such overt corruption, but they're doing everything they can to change the rules so it's not illegal.
An exhaustive deep-dive into the rise of Sam Mraiche from bankruptcy to health care titan, with new wrinkles on his connections to the UCP and AHS dealings.
www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/artic...
www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/artic...
Who is Sam Mraiche? Inside Alberta’s health care controversy
A Globe investigation into the provincial health agency’s dealings with a company whose contracts have come under scrutiny
www.theglobeandmail.com
November 30, 2025 at 7:44 AM
This is the sort of thing that in any normal province would sink a government. The Sky Palace pales in comparison.
It's such overt corruption, but they're doing everything they can to change the rules so it's not illegal.
It's such overt corruption, but they're doing everything they can to change the rules so it's not illegal.
This video looks more like a jobs program for white nationalists. Poverty is sky rocketing & the Poor's are getting desperate, quick we better buy more boots for their necks.
Canadians deserve to be safe in your communities.
That’s why we’re hiring 1,000 more RCMP personnel and strengthening the Criminal Code — to help keep violent and repeat offenders off your streets.
That’s why we’re hiring 1,000 more RCMP personnel and strengthening the Criminal Code — to help keep violent and repeat offenders off your streets.
December 5, 2025 at 2:02 PM
This video looks more like a jobs program for white nationalists. Poverty is sky rocketing & the Poor's are getting desperate, quick we better buy more boots for their necks.
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One of the more obnoxious look back dunks Scottie has done lol
December 5, 2025 at 1:08 AM
One of the more obnoxious look back dunks Scottie has done lol
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As I've been saying since January, Carney's framing of the Trump administration as a bad trading partner instead of a fascist regime would lead to greater entanglement with fascism as we work to restore relations.
Elbows up: A leaked Liberal caucus briefing note shows the Mark Carney government fears that regulating arms exports to the USA might upset the Americans.
www.readthemaple.com/liberals-fea...
www.readthemaple.com/liberals-fea...
Liberals Fear Closing Arms Export Loophole Would Anger U.S.
A leaked briefing document gives the full picture behind the government’s talking points.
www.readthemaple.com
December 4, 2025 at 4:39 PM
As I've been saying since January, Carney's framing of the Trump administration as a bad trading partner instead of a fascist regime would lead to greater entanglement with fascism as we work to restore relations.
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this rocks (for anyone who doesnt know, CLAC is functionally a company union — it represents the interests of bosses but does so while *pretending* to represent workers)
albertaworker.ca/news/hundred...
albertaworker.ca/news/hundred...
Hundreds of workers vote to leave CLAC
This is the largest exodus from the Christian Labour Association of Canada in Canadian history.
albertaworker.ca
December 3, 2025 at 2:12 PM
this rocks (for anyone who doesnt know, CLAC is functionally a company union — it represents the interests of bosses but does so while *pretending* to represent workers)
albertaworker.ca/news/hundred...
albertaworker.ca/news/hundred...
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This is especially concerning because Edmonton police have likely already been harvesting identities from social media, linking people to criticism of police.
This means “known critics” could be first targets in any police action.
drugdatadecoded.ca/calgary-poli...
This means “known critics” could be first targets in any police action.
drugdatadecoded.ca/calgary-poli...
December 4, 2025 at 11:22 AM
This is especially concerning because Edmonton police have likely already been harvesting identities from social media, linking people to criticism of police.
This means “known critics” could be first targets in any police action.
drugdatadecoded.ca/calgary-poli...
This means “known critics” could be first targets in any police action.
drugdatadecoded.ca/calgary-poli...
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You would think Canadian news media would take advantage of using another social media platform considering their content is NOT shown on Facebook or instagram…
December 3, 2025 at 7:29 PM
You would think Canadian news media would take advantage of using another social media platform considering their content is NOT shown on Facebook or instagram…
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Very jealous that U.S. media made the jump to Bluesky from Twitter in a way that Canadian media never did.
It's annoying!
It's annoying!
December 3, 2025 at 7:23 PM
Very jealous that U.S. media made the jump to Bluesky from Twitter in a way that Canadian media never did.
It's annoying!
It's annoying!
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Confederation was worth it because it essentially guaranteed that every few months at least one province's political leaders would do something wild that everyone in the other provinces could enjoy purely as entertainment.
December 3, 2025 at 10:29 PM
Confederation was worth it because it essentially guaranteed that every few months at least one province's political leaders would do something wild that everyone in the other provinces could enjoy purely as entertainment.
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All I want for Christmas is for the worst people in the world to experience some consequences
December 3, 2025 at 8:03 PM
All I want for Christmas is for the worst people in the world to experience some consequences
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All super rich guys sound the same now. It’s all “I sleep four hours a night and spend the other twenty hours a day developing a product that’s going to bring us the best widespread poverty anyone’s ever seen.”
December 3, 2025 at 9:53 PM
All super rich guys sound the same now. It’s all “I sleep four hours a night and spend the other twenty hours a day developing a product that’s going to bring us the best widespread poverty anyone’s ever seen.”
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Canada to right-wing govs and parties:
December 3, 2025 at 10:13 PM
Canada to right-wing govs and parties:
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Today’s news story from @kimsiever.bsky.social
Hundreds of workers vote to leave CLAC
This is the largest exodus from the Christian Labour Association of Canada in Canadian history.
albertaworker.ca/news/hundred...
Hundreds of workers vote to leave CLAC
This is the largest exodus from the Christian Labour Association of Canada in Canadian history.
albertaworker.ca/news/hundred...
Hundreds of workers vote to leave CLAC
This is the largest exodus from the Christian Labour Association of Canada in Canadian history.
albertaworker.ca
December 3, 2025 at 12:05 PM
Today’s news story from @kimsiever.bsky.social
Hundreds of workers vote to leave CLAC
This is the largest exodus from the Christian Labour Association of Canada in Canadian history.
albertaworker.ca/news/hundred...
Hundreds of workers vote to leave CLAC
This is the largest exodus from the Christian Labour Association of Canada in Canadian history.
albertaworker.ca/news/hundred...
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Wait until the Globe and Mail reads the text of Alberta’s Compassionate Intervention Act. Patients do not have the right to refuse any medications prescribed. Irrespective of whether they are deemed to have decisional capacity.
December 2, 2025 at 4:27 PM
Wait until the Globe and Mail reads the text of Alberta’s Compassionate Intervention Act. Patients do not have the right to refuse any medications prescribed. Irrespective of whether they are deemed to have decisional capacity.
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"While the fight to re-stigmatize ethnic nationalism is an enormous one, we have to do everything we can to become engaged in the struggle."
A majority of this sessions' bills introduced by the CAQ target people, take away human rights, or make it impossible to challenge the government. Is Quebec experiencing its own fascist turn? My latest, on one of those attacks.
noraloreto.substack.com/p/quebecs-ne...
noraloreto.substack.com/p/quebecs-ne...
Quebec's new secularism bill expands the scope of who the government officially hates
Today, the Coalition Avenir Québec is introducing, An Act respecting the reinforcement of laicity in Québec (the name is better in French, surely).
noraloreto.substack.com
December 1, 2025 at 6:13 PM
"While the fight to re-stigmatize ethnic nationalism is an enormous one, we have to do everything we can to become engaged in the struggle."
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Not wanting to disappoint you so much that it lies is the last quality I want in a computer.
November 28, 2025 at 12:02 AM
Not wanting to disappoint you so much that it lies is the last quality I want in a computer.
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Greenland and Antarctic ice sheets are collapsing, locking in multi-meter sea level rise.
Coral reefs continue to die off.
Atlantic ocean current collapse means Europe could soon enjoy Edmonton winters.
Our boreal forest continues to burn every summer.
But at least we'll have a strong economy.
Coral reefs continue to die off.
Atlantic ocean current collapse means Europe could soon enjoy Edmonton winters.
Our boreal forest continues to burn every summer.
But at least we'll have a strong economy.
The new Canada-Alberta MOU is a positive step for our energy future.
Meaningful investments in Pathways, clear measures to reduce emissions, and a stronger industrial carbon price give Albertans the certainty we need to move forward. /1
Meaningful investments in Pathways, clear measures to reduce emissions, and a stronger industrial carbon price give Albertans the certainty we need to move forward. /1
November 28, 2025 at 12:14 AM
Greenland and Antarctic ice sheets are collapsing, locking in multi-meter sea level rise.
Coral reefs continue to die off.
Atlantic ocean current collapse means Europe could soon enjoy Edmonton winters.
Our boreal forest continues to burn every summer.
But at least we'll have a strong economy.
Coral reefs continue to die off.
Atlantic ocean current collapse means Europe could soon enjoy Edmonton winters.
Our boreal forest continues to burn every summer.
But at least we'll have a strong economy.
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Guilbeault should just show up at tonight's NDP leader's debate.
November 27, 2025 at 11:09 PM
Guilbeault should just show up at tonight's NDP leader's debate.