Linda Fraser
@lfraser0.bsky.social
Retired/Recovering Architectural Archivist (yes that’s a thing). 🇨🇦 Calgary, Alberta
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U.S. Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor suggested that billionaire Elon Musk had a "quid pro quo" relationship with President Donald Trump after donating millions to get him re-elected.
Sonia Sotomayor hits Elon Musk with 'quid pro quo' accusation
U.S. Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor suggested that billionaire Elon Musk had a "quid pro quo" relationship with President Donald Trump after donating millions to get him re-elected.During a Tuesday hearing on campaign finance laws, Sotomayor made the suggestion to an attorney for the National...
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December 9, 2025 at 10:40 PM
U.S. Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor suggested that billionaire Elon Musk had a "quid pro quo" relationship with President Donald Trump after donating millions to get him re-elected.
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A simply stunning timelapse of the Sun created using 40,000 photos captured over 3 hours with a solar telescope.🧡🧡🧡
📽: Shannon Norton
📽: Shannon Norton
December 9, 2025 at 11:13 PM
A simply stunning timelapse of the Sun created using 40,000 photos captured over 3 hours with a solar telescope.🧡🧡🧡
📽: Shannon Norton
📽: Shannon Norton
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Bill 14 is a declaration of intent.
Justice Minister defends his bill to shield Alberta justice ministers from Law Society complaints. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/... by @joeldryden.bsky.social
Immunity for Alberta attorney general necessary to ward off ‘political activism,’ attorney general says | CBC News
Alberta’s justice minister, who is also the attorney general, says new rules that would grant anyone who’s in his job general immunity from law society sanctions are necessary to ward off “political a...
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December 9, 2025 at 9:00 PM
Bill 14 is a declaration of intent.
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#CorruptCare #AHS
#Alberta
#FullPublicInquiryAB
#AbLeg #AbPoli
#FullSubpoenaPower
#PublicInquiryAB
#PublicInquiryNowAB
#Alberta
#FullPublicInquiryAB
#AbLeg #AbPoli
#FullSubpoenaPower
#PublicInquiryAB
#PublicInquiryNowAB
We can’t allow our public healthcare system to be dismantled by corruption.
Albertans deserve a full public inquiry!
Albertans deserve a full public inquiry!
New details continue to emerge as to the extent of UCP corruption. The carefully constrained Wyant Report left more questions than answers. Albertans need & deserve a full public inquiry into CorruptCare.
#abpoli #ableg #CorruptCare #CallAPublicInquiry
#abpoli #ableg #CorruptCare #CallAPublicInquiry
December 9, 2025 at 7:48 PM
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The Times obituary included all of his most famous buildings but Frank Gehry also designed something big that moves. Because he loved sailing, Frank designed the most beautiful sailboat in the world. One day he let me take the helm in a Pacific wind so perfect it seemed he designed the wind too.
December 8, 2025 at 9:07 PM
The Times obituary included all of his most famous buildings but Frank Gehry also designed something big that moves. Because he loved sailing, Frank designed the most beautiful sailboat in the world. One day he let me take the helm in a Pacific wind so perfect it seemed he designed the wind too.
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Because Sunday.
December 7, 2025 at 4:01 PM
Because Sunday.
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I suspect we will get little that's new and of interest from this. What we really need to see are the financial records, and any videos or pictures.
newrepublic.com/post/204045/...
newrepublic.com/post/204045/...
Federal Judge Orders Release of Epstein Grand Jury Documents
More Epstein documents are on their way.
newrepublic.com
December 5, 2025 at 9:25 PM
I suspect we will get little that's new and of interest from this. What we really need to see are the financial records, and any videos or pictures.
newrepublic.com/post/204045/...
newrepublic.com/post/204045/...
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The MAGA Alberta machine gets hammered by an Alberta judge.
"Alberta’s cavalier disregard for court resources and lack of consideration for the parties and First Nations intervenors who participated in this proceeding in good faith is disappointing to say the least."
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
"Alberta’s cavalier disregard for court resources and lack of consideration for the parties and First Nations intervenors who participated in this proceeding in good faith is disappointing to say the least."
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
Judge says proposed referendum on Alberta independence would be unconstitutional | CBC News
An Alberta judge says a referendum proposal on Alberta separating from Canada goes against Charter and and Treaty rights, in a decision given less than 24 hours after the provincial government introdu...
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December 5, 2025 at 9:49 PM
The MAGA Alberta machine gets hammered by an Alberta judge.
"Alberta’s cavalier disregard for court resources and lack of consideration for the parties and First Nations intervenors who participated in this proceeding in good faith is disappointing to say the least."
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
"Alberta’s cavalier disregard for court resources and lack of consideration for the parties and First Nations intervenors who participated in this proceeding in good faith is disappointing to say the least."
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
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A 6-year-old boy is missing after ICE arrested him and his dad in NYC last week and shipped them off to separate facilities. www.thecity.nyc/2025/12/02/i... @thecity.nyc @gwynnefitz.bsky.social
ICE Arrested and Separated Chinese Father From 6-Year-Old Son, Advocates Say
The father and son were detained at an ICE check-in on Nov. 26, advocates say. The son’s location is currently unknown, while the father is being held at an upstate ICE facility.
www.thecity.nyc
December 2, 2025 at 5:42 PM
A 6-year-old boy is missing after ICE arrested him and his dad in NYC last week and shipped them off to separate facilities. www.thecity.nyc/2025/12/02/i... @thecity.nyc @gwynnefitz.bsky.social
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If his team were out of playoff contention, they'd have caught him by now.
You think Epstein was a fluke?
You think Epstein was a fluke?
December 3, 2025 at 4:21 PM
If his team were out of playoff contention, they'd have caught him by now.
You think Epstein was a fluke?
You think Epstein was a fluke?
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Your search for the perfect Christmas present is over - the #sophiefromromania calendar is just £9.99 with all profits going to Cure Parkinson’s
Your search for the perfect Christmas present is over - the #sophiefromromania calendar is just £9.99 with all profits going to Cure Parkinson’s
December 2, 2025 at 2:00 PM
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Your search for the perfect Christmas present is over - the #sophiefromromania calendar is just £9.99 with all profits going to Cure Parkinson’s
Your search for the perfect Christmas present is over - the #sophiefromromania calendar is just £9.99 with all profits going to Cure Parkinson’s
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How can Danielle Smith claim to barely know the man at the center of the CorruptCare scandal when she's had dinner at his house, met with him multiple times, and her closest advisors include five members of his family?
youtube.com/shorts/pvkgA...
youtube.com/shorts/pvkgA...
Danielle Smith claims she doesn't know the man at the centre of the CorruptCare scandal...
YouTube video by Naheed Nenshi
youtube.com
December 2, 2025 at 10:56 PM
How can Danielle Smith claim to barely know the man at the center of the CorruptCare scandal when she's had dinner at his house, met with him multiple times, and her closest advisors include five members of his family?
youtube.com/shorts/pvkgA...
youtube.com/shorts/pvkgA...
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A lot of stopping and starting whenever #sophiefromromania heard distant cries from a school playground, but still had a nice walk with Juno and her trainer Gonçalo
December 1, 2025 at 11:51 AM
A lot of stopping and starting whenever #sophiefromromania heard distant cries from a school playground, but still had a nice walk with Juno and her trainer Gonçalo
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To follow up this story, I submitted a FOIP request in June 2024 asking for all strategy documents produced by the Alberta Association of Chiefs of Police that were circulated within Calgary police.
Seventeen months later, CPS hasn’t even acknowledged the request, let alone completed it.
Seventeen months later, CPS hasn’t even acknowledged the request, let alone completed it.
November 30, 2025 at 8:23 PM
To follow up this story, I submitted a FOIP request in June 2024 asking for all strategy documents produced by the Alberta Association of Chiefs of Police that were circulated within Calgary police.
Seventeen months later, CPS hasn’t even acknowledged the request, let alone completed it.
Seventeen months later, CPS hasn’t even acknowledged the request, let alone completed it.
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I wonder how many overdoses and deaths Juan Orlando Hernández’s 400 tons of cocaine were directly responsible for in the US.
November 29, 2025 at 4:58 AM
I wonder how many overdoses and deaths Juan Orlando Hernández’s 400 tons of cocaine were directly responsible for in the US.
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The new Vanity Fair editor sought to make his magazine less woke and some of his first moves were hiring Olivia Nuzzi, publishing an abstract nude of Nuzzi by a person now alleged to have made illegal recordings on her behalf, and putting only men in the Hollywood issue
November 26, 2025 at 10:17 PM
The new Vanity Fair editor sought to make his magazine less woke and some of his first moves were hiring Olivia Nuzzi, publishing an abstract nude of Nuzzi by a person now alleged to have made illegal recordings on her behalf, and putting only men in the Hollywood issue
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It happened! The @nytimes.com profiled Paulina!
The Writer Who Dared Criticize Silicon Valley
Paulina Borsook’s “Cyberselfish,” which offered dire predictions about the tech world’s love for libertarianism, is finding fans. It only took 25 years.
Gift Link:
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/27/t...
The Writer Who Dared Criticize Silicon Valley
Paulina Borsook’s “Cyberselfish,” which offered dire predictions about the tech world’s love for libertarianism, is finding fans. It only took 25 years.
Gift Link:
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/27/t...
November 27, 2025 at 4:39 PM
It happened! The @nytimes.com profiled Paulina!
The Writer Who Dared Criticize Silicon Valley
Paulina Borsook’s “Cyberselfish,” which offered dire predictions about the tech world’s love for libertarianism, is finding fans. It only took 25 years.
Gift Link:
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/27/t...
The Writer Who Dared Criticize Silicon Valley
Paulina Borsook’s “Cyberselfish,” which offered dire predictions about the tech world’s love for libertarianism, is finding fans. It only took 25 years.
Gift Link:
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/27/t...
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Everyone knows data centers use a lot of water. What’s less known is how they can poison the drinking water that remains.
It’s already happening in eastern Oregon, according to a new bombshell investigation from Rolling Stone and the Food and Env Reporting Network.
heated.world/p/data-cente...
It’s already happening in eastern Oregon, according to a new bombshell investigation from Rolling Stone and the Food and Env Reporting Network.
heated.world/p/data-cente...
AI’s water problem is worse than we thought
A new investigation reveals how Amazon is amplifying Oregon’s nitrate pollution crisis.
heated.world
November 25, 2025 at 8:48 PM
Everyone knows data centers use a lot of water. What’s less known is how they can poison the drinking water that remains.
It’s already happening in eastern Oregon, according to a new bombshell investigation from Rolling Stone and the Food and Env Reporting Network.
heated.world/p/data-cente...
It’s already happening in eastern Oregon, according to a new bombshell investigation from Rolling Stone and the Food and Env Reporting Network.
heated.world/p/data-cente...
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Please watch this.
The Senate killed a bill to ban state regulation of AI by a vote of 99-1 this spring. Now the industry - eager to stay unregulated - and Trump are scheming to shove the provision in the national defense bill.
You need to know this, so you can help stop it.
The Senate killed a bill to ban state regulation of AI by a vote of 99-1 this spring. Now the industry - eager to stay unregulated - and Trump are scheming to shove the provision in the national defense bill.
You need to know this, so you can help stop it.
November 24, 2025 at 6:52 PM
Please watch this.
The Senate killed a bill to ban state regulation of AI by a vote of 99-1 this spring. Now the industry - eager to stay unregulated - and Trump are scheming to shove the provision in the national defense bill.
You need to know this, so you can help stop it.
The Senate killed a bill to ban state regulation of AI by a vote of 99-1 this spring. Now the industry - eager to stay unregulated - and Trump are scheming to shove the provision in the national defense bill.
You need to know this, so you can help stop it.
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The HHS report on gender affirming care released it's updated report showing they stacked its authors with anti-trans hate-group affiliated members, several of whom aren't even doctors with any sort of clinical experience. They selected their own ideologically friendly peer reviewers.
It's a joke.
It's a joke.
November 19, 2025 at 8:45 PM
The HHS report on gender affirming care released it's updated report showing they stacked its authors with anti-trans hate-group affiliated members, several of whom aren't even doctors with any sort of clinical experience. They selected their own ideologically friendly peer reviewers.
It's a joke.
It's a joke.
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Alberta wasted more than $100M in lab privatization effort: Auditor general report
dynalifey
edmontonjournal.com
November 19, 2025 at 10:02 PM
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careful folks, don't scorch yourself on this take
In @nytopinion.nytimes.com
The excesses of America’s most powerful people “would end sooner if more Americans saw what Mr. Trump and Mr. Musk are doing: ushering in a new era of brazenness that will persist as long as people buy the hype and cheer the flexes,” William Cohan writes.
The excesses of America’s most powerful people “would end sooner if more Americans saw what Mr. Trump and Mr. Musk are doing: ushering in a new era of brazenness that will persist as long as people buy the hype and cheer the flexes,” William Cohan writes.
Opinion | Elon Musk Can’t Possibly Deserve His $1 Trillion Payday
In the face of shareholders, corporate boards and even judges, Tesla’s chief executive shows what he can get away with.
nyti.ms
November 18, 2025 at 8:59 PM
careful folks, don't scorch yourself on this take
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McDonald's completely re-branded for 1 full week. Instead of "McDonald's" on the big golden arches sign, it now said "McDavid's."
It's rumoured that Trader Joe's, the Calif-based grocery chain, is thinking about re-branding for 1 week in honour of Wayne Gretzky. The sign will say "Traitor Faux." 😉
It's rumoured that Trader Joe's, the Calif-based grocery chain, is thinking about re-branding for 1 week in honour of Wayne Gretzky. The sign will say "Traitor Faux." 😉
McDonald's changed its name – for one full week | CBC Radio
Canada's Four Nations Face-Off win prompted a patriotic rebrand for the fast food giant. Big Mac-David, anyone?
www.cbc.ca
November 18, 2025 at 9:47 PM
McDonald's completely re-branded for 1 full week. Instead of "McDonald's" on the big golden arches sign, it now said "McDavid's."
It's rumoured that Trader Joe's, the Calif-based grocery chain, is thinking about re-branding for 1 week in honour of Wayne Gretzky. The sign will say "Traitor Faux." 😉
It's rumoured that Trader Joe's, the Calif-based grocery chain, is thinking about re-branding for 1 week in honour of Wayne Gretzky. The sign will say "Traitor Faux." 😉
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53% of Americans believe billionaires are a threat to American democracy.
Meanwhile, just 100 billionaire families spent $2.6 billion on federal elections last year — a 160-fold increase since Citizens United.
The people know: billionaires should not be able to buy our elections.
Meanwhile, just 100 billionaire families spent $2.6 billion on federal elections last year — a 160-fold increase since Citizens United.
The people know: billionaires should not be able to buy our elections.
November 14, 2025 at 11:30 PM
53% of Americans believe billionaires are a threat to American democracy.
Meanwhile, just 100 billionaire families spent $2.6 billion on federal elections last year — a 160-fold increase since Citizens United.
The people know: billionaires should not be able to buy our elections.
Meanwhile, just 100 billionaire families spent $2.6 billion on federal elections last year — a 160-fold increase since Citizens United.
The people know: billionaires should not be able to buy our elections.