Kale
@kalesandsticks.bsky.social
Librarian (MLIS) 📚 left-center Canadian 🍁 passionate about history (MA) and politics. Just worried about our political climate, and trying not to unalive my plants. 🌱 Vegan.
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"The titular feminist is a young man who’s done his homework—gender studies homework, that is." This in, sort of, the setup for a joke, but the joke might be on us. ICYMI Adam Fleming Petty reviews "Rejection" by Tony Tulathimutte:
Hilarious Stories of Humiliation and Sadness
Even while exploring how the internet warps us, Tony Tulathimutte’s ‘Rejection’ never loses its humanistic sensibility.
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August 5, 2025 at 11:00 PM
"The titular feminist is a young man who’s done his homework—gender studies homework, that is." This in, sort of, the setup for a joke, but the joke might be on us. ICYMI Adam Fleming Petty reviews "Rejection" by Tony Tulathimutte:
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UCP doesn't care if we get sick or die.
“This policy is so bad that it’s actually worse than their usual failure to plan properly,” said James Talbot, the province’s former chief medical officer of health. “In fact, it is so bad it looks like they are actually planning to fail.”
“This policy is so bad that it’s actually worse than their usual failure to plan properly,” said James Talbot, the province’s former chief medical officer of health. “In fact, it is so bad it looks like they are actually planning to fail.”
Alberta Premier Danielle Smith, who revived her ailing political career by peddling conspiratorial COVID theories, has designed a program that is not only punitive but discriminatory, bureaucratic and Soviet in nature, writes Andrew Nikiforuk.
#abcovid #abpoli
#abcovid #abpoli
Alberta’s Perverse New Barriers to COVID Vaccines | The Tyee
The virus hits the old and poor hardest. The province is erecting hurdles for granting them protection.
thetyee.ca
August 5, 2025 at 7:31 PM
UCP doesn't care if we get sick or die.
“This policy is so bad that it’s actually worse than their usual failure to plan properly,” said James Talbot, the province’s former chief medical officer of health. “In fact, it is so bad it looks like they are actually planning to fail.”
“This policy is so bad that it’s actually worse than their usual failure to plan properly,” said James Talbot, the province’s former chief medical officer of health. “In fact, it is so bad it looks like they are actually planning to fail.”
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President Trump is casting the Bureau of Labor Statistics as broken and corrupt.
Lawmakers on both sides of the aisle have criticized his decision to fire the head of the agency following a bleak jobs report it published last week.
Lawmakers on both sides of the aisle have criticized his decision to fire the head of the agency following a bleak jobs report it published last week.
Trump redoubles attack on federal jobs data, calls numbers political
Trump defended his decision to fire Erika McEntarfer, the official overseeing jobs statistics, telling CNBC that data showing a hiring slowdown was political.
wapo.st
August 5, 2025 at 9:42 PM
President Trump is casting the Bureau of Labor Statistics as broken and corrupt.
Lawmakers on both sides of the aisle have criticized his decision to fire the head of the agency following a bleak jobs report it published last week.
Lawmakers on both sides of the aisle have criticized his decision to fire the head of the agency following a bleak jobs report it published last week.
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The White House has instructed NASA to terminate two major, climate change-focused satellite missions. They've been collecting widely-used data, providing both oil and gas companies and farmers with detailed information about the distribution of carbon dioxide and how it can affect crop health.
White House Orders NASA to Destroy Important Satellite
The White House has instructed NASA employees to destroy two major, climate change-focused satellite missions.
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August 5, 2025 at 12:22 AM
The White House has instructed NASA to terminate two major, climate change-focused satellite missions. They've been collecting widely-used data, providing both oil and gas companies and farmers with detailed information about the distribution of carbon dioxide and how it can affect crop health.
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The new books arrived, looking great! @michaelemann.bsky.social @peterhotezmdphd.bsky.social @publicaffairs1796.bsky.social
August 5, 2025 at 8:23 PM
The new books arrived, looking great! @michaelemann.bsky.social @peterhotezmdphd.bsky.social @publicaffairs1796.bsky.social
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These are the victim impact statements submitted at Ghislaine Maxwell's sentencing.
It's the official DOJ document.
“They had been abusing young females for many, many, many years. This is the longest-running sex trafficking scheme in history that I've ever come across."
It's the official DOJ document.
“They had been abusing young females for many, many, many years. This is the longest-running sex trafficking scheme in history that I've ever come across."
www.courthousenews.com
August 4, 2025 at 10:07 PM
These are the victim impact statements submitted at Ghislaine Maxwell's sentencing.
It's the official DOJ document.
“They had been abusing young females for many, many, many years. This is the longest-running sex trafficking scheme in history that I've ever come across."
It's the official DOJ document.
“They had been abusing young females for many, many, many years. This is the longest-running sex trafficking scheme in history that I've ever come across."
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Eleven more libraries will reopen on Sundays, thanks to the leadership of the City Council. They never should've been closed in the first place.
As Mayor, I'll end this absurd budget dance that keeps our beloved libraries in limbo year after year.
As Mayor, I'll end this absurd budget dance that keeps our beloved libraries in limbo year after year.
11 more NYC libraries will soon open on Sundays
A $2 million City Council deal will expand seven-day service to more than 30 branches citywide.
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August 5, 2025 at 2:03 PM
Eleven more libraries will reopen on Sundays, thanks to the leadership of the City Council. They never should've been closed in the first place.
As Mayor, I'll end this absurd budget dance that keeps our beloved libraries in limbo year after year.
As Mayor, I'll end this absurd budget dance that keeps our beloved libraries in limbo year after year.
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What the Fuck Dougie! Telling us “Buy Canadian “ and then fucking us over!
August 5, 2025 at 8:19 PM
What the Fuck Dougie! Telling us “Buy Canadian “ and then fucking us over!
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Meet our reporter on Cybercrime, Alexandra Posadzki.
Get to know her by watching the video below and tuning into her latest coverage at tgam.ca/AlexandraPosadzki
Get to know her by watching the video below and tuning into her latest coverage at tgam.ca/AlexandraPosadzki
August 5, 2025 at 5:47 PM
Meet our reporter on Cybercrime, Alexandra Posadzki.
Get to know her by watching the video below and tuning into her latest coverage at tgam.ca/AlexandraPosadzki
Get to know her by watching the video below and tuning into her latest coverage at tgam.ca/AlexandraPosadzki
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SK's crown corps have benefited family budgets for generations.
Critical resources shld primarily benefit citizens of province they're extracted from.
I still consider food a critical resource. We need to remedy that w stores supplying low cost basic nutritional food.
#milk
#fruit&vegs
#protein
Critical resources shld primarily benefit citizens of province they're extracted from.
I still consider food a critical resource. We need to remedy that w stores supplying low cost basic nutritional food.
#milk
#fruit&vegs
#protein
August 4, 2025 at 9:21 PM
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My latest, about the fall of my alma mater: Columbia University Conquered: Don't Let It Happen Here via @thetyee.ca thetyee.ca/Analysis/202...
Columbia University Conquered: Don’t Let It Happen Here | The Tyee
Trump’s defeat of New York’s great institution is a warning for higher ed across North America.
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August 5, 2025 at 4:58 AM
My latest, about the fall of my alma mater: Columbia University Conquered: Don't Let It Happen Here via @thetyee.ca thetyee.ca/Analysis/202...
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Taken literally, the nation’s top intelligence official announced — on a right-wing podcast — that my decision to stop posting on Twitter is evidence that I am not “innocent” and am therefore being reviewed by the DOJ, with the aim of holding me “accountable.” www.democracydocket.com/opinion/im-n...
I’m Not Panicking. I’m Outraged.
Read more here.
www.democracydocket.com
August 4, 2025 at 11:37 PM
Taken literally, the nation’s top intelligence official announced — on a right-wing podcast — that my decision to stop posting on Twitter is evidence that I am not “innocent” and am therefore being reviewed by the DOJ, with the aim of holding me “accountable.” www.democracydocket.com/opinion/im-n...
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In the 1970s, we not only had a thriving subgenre in country music that was all about how working people get screwed over by people in power, but they turned some of the songs into movies.
You remember CONVOY. But I saw this in a theater:
You remember CONVOY. But I saw this in a theater:
Take This Job and Shove It (1981) Original Trailer [HD]
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August 5, 2025 at 12:49 AM
In the 1970s, we not only had a thriving subgenre in country music that was all about how working people get screwed over by people in power, but they turned some of the songs into movies.
You remember CONVOY. But I saw this in a theater:
You remember CONVOY. But I saw this in a theater:
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The photos of gloopy seastars is ☹️. Good article with lots of other great pics, though.
August 4, 2025 at 6:24 PM
The photos of gloopy seastars is ☹️. Good article with lots of other great pics, though.
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helluva commercial
There’s renewable energy ads and there’s mother**cking wind farm ads. This, blissfully, is the latter.
August 4, 2025 at 6:04 PM
helluva commercial
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Speaking of class warfare, they absolutely use the law and shit like this to keep people down. And if you are a minority, they try even harder to keep you down. Those who escape thru wealth - looking at you, Clarence - become useful idiots for the oligarchs. Another great John Oliver segment.
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Gang Databases: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO)
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August 3, 2025 at 5:25 PM
Speaking of class warfare, they absolutely use the law and shit like this to keep people down. And if you are a minority, they try even harder to keep you down. Those who escape thru wealth - looking at you, Clarence - become useful idiots for the oligarchs. Another great John Oliver segment.
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Sen. Booker’s speech was a substantive and moral account of this moment. He did not read the phone book. He did not babble.
For 24 hours @booker.senate.gov laid out a detailed, damning, and critical narrative of truth, history, politics, morality, humanity.
What will you do?
For 24 hours @booker.senate.gov laid out a detailed, damning, and critical narrative of truth, history, politics, morality, humanity.
What will you do?
April 1, 2025 at 11:46 PM
Sen. Booker’s speech was a substantive and moral account of this moment. He did not read the phone book. He did not babble.
For 24 hours @booker.senate.gov laid out a detailed, damning, and critical narrative of truth, history, politics, morality, humanity.
What will you do?
For 24 hours @booker.senate.gov laid out a detailed, damning, and critical narrative of truth, history, politics, morality, humanity.
What will you do?
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A solid discussion of fascism -- what it is, and what it is not, and how it fits into our mainstream narratives in North America and Europe. From my colleague, Lori Thorlakson. www.cbc.ca/listen/live-...
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March 10, 2025 at 4:22 PM
A solid discussion of fascism -- what it is, and what it is not, and how it fits into our mainstream narratives in North America and Europe. From my colleague, Lori Thorlakson. www.cbc.ca/listen/live-...
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Only in America could a Ketamine-infused South African oligarch call a navy captain, astronaut and sitting US senator "a traitor" for supporting our allies and standing up to Russia...
March 10, 2025 at 4:04 PM
Only in America could a Ketamine-infused South African oligarch call a navy captain, astronaut and sitting US senator "a traitor" for supporting our allies and standing up to Russia...
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The UCP is in the middle of a CorruptCare Scandal and the former Infrastructure Minister has alleged gross mismanagement across multiple ministries. This health budget won’t make life better… it’s full of cruel cuts.
February 28, 2025 at 1:05 AM
The UCP is in the middle of a CorruptCare Scandal and the former Infrastructure Minister has alleged gross mismanagement across multiple ministries. This health budget won’t make life better… it’s full of cruel cuts.
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Allegedly, Smith's staff pressured health officials to approve over half a billion dollars in private health care contracts to a businessman who bought them seats in NHL luxury boxes in return for the favour. Then Smith fired a CEO who tried to investigate.
February 7, 2025 at 12:22 AM
Allegedly, Smith's staff pressured health officials to approve over half a billion dollars in private health care contracts to a businessman who bought them seats in NHL luxury boxes in return for the favour. Then Smith fired a CEO who tried to investigate.
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The lies, games and strategy of rich and powerful people. What I learnt at Citibank
www.youtube.com/watch?v=m6lO...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=m6lO...
The lies, games and strategy of rich and powerful people. What I learnt at Citibank
YouTube video by Garys Economics
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January 30, 2025 at 6:38 PM
The lies, games and strategy of rich and powerful people. What I learnt at Citibank
www.youtube.com/watch?v=m6lO...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=m6lO...