Athena for Science

(she/her) I’m just trying to make it through the apocalypse …

[Athena for Science @AthenaRising2]

@WestJet I support your flight attendants and want you to reach a fair agreement. My family has saved for years for our in upcoming travel, with no reasonable alternative routing. Please pay your employees fairly and settle this before workers and passengers are harmed

[Athena for Science @AthenaRising2]

@jojigrl @GlobalCalgary They can still check ID… health care records are digital. They take your photo at hospitals now when they check you in. All we wanted was a plastic card. This is a huge waste of time and resources in a collapsing system. Tell them to scan existing ID for anyone over 18, done.

[Athena for Science @AthenaRising2]

@jojigrl @GlobalCalgary There are about 1.5 million Albertans without a licence, add to that about 10,000 houseless folks who are often not counted in census data. Those are people entitled to healthcare under the Canada Health Act. Pretty sure this is like ‘dead people voting’, a made up problem.

[Athena for Science @AthenaRising2]

@jojigrl @GlobalCalgary Yes, but my children don’t need one. Additionally, vulnerable people (disabled, seniors, unhoused) are now at risk of losing health coverage because they can’t cough up 89$. It’s a cash grab and an excuse to exclude people.

[Athena for Science @AthenaRising2]

@allenanalysis No fucking thanks

[Athena for Science @AthenaRising2]

@BabyD1111229 AI reads cursive just fine.

[Athena for Science @AthenaRising2]

@BornFree_isms @RonFilipkowski

[Robert Reich @RBReich]

The first time Charlie Chaplin spoke onscreen, he implored the people of the world to resist the rising tide of fascism.

Nearly 90 years later, it remains a timely message.

[Roman Sheremeta 🇺🇸🇺🇦 @rshereme]

Most Christians in Germany in the 1930s either supported Hitler or did not openly oppose his imperial ambitions. Why? According to historians, there were at least five reasons:

1. Nationalism

After World War I and the humiliating Treaty of Versailles, many Germans felt deeply wounded and longed for restored national pride. Hitler promised to “make Germany great again,” which resonated with nationalists — including many Christians who saw patriotism as a moral duty.

2. Economic desperation

Hyperinflation in the early 1920s wiped out savings, and the Great Depression left millions jobless and hopeless. Hitler promised jobs, economic revival, and stability — and many were desperate enough to believe him.

3. Desire for social order and traditional values

Hitler promoted family, discipline, obedience, and traditional gender roles. Many conservative Christians saw these as aligned with their moral worldview and felt reassured rather than threatened.

4. Antisemitism and anti-immigration prejudice

Antisemitic and anti-immigrant attitudes were widespread in European society long before Hitler. Nazi propaganda exploited these prejudices, portraying Jews and immigrants as threats to the nation’s “purity” and stability.

5. Fear of communism and social chaos

The 1920s and early 1930s were marked by economic depression, mass unemployment, and violent clashes in the streets. Many Christians — especially in middle-class and rural communities — feared a communist revolution that would suppress religion and destroy private property. Hitler presented himself as a shield against “godless Bolshevism,” winning support even from conservative church circles.

“History doesn’t repeat itself, but it often rhymes.” — Mark Twain

[Barbara Larochelle 🇨🇦 🇨🇦 🇨🇦 🇨🇦 🇨🇦 🇨🇦 @BarbLarochelle]

Thinking of this part of Macbeth’s (I,vii) soliloquy that we often discussed in class:
“we but teach
 Bloody instructions, which, being taught, return
 To plague th’ inventor. This even-handed justice
 Commends th’ ingredience of our poisoned chalice
 To our own lips.”

[Athena for Science @AthenaRising2]

@Jason___YYC @Frazzling Her insurance company friends need an excuse to raise our rates even higher…

[Athena for Science @AthenaRising2]

@ABDanielleSmith I find it interesting that none of your propaganda reel has 35+ kids in a class… weird

[Unlearn16 @unlearn16tweet]

Using the notwithstanding is a sign of weakness masquerading as strength @ABDanielleSmith

[Athena for Science @AthenaRising2]

@sbizuns ATA: I’ve been shot
Gov: here is a bandaid
ATA: this will not help, the damange is too great, I need a doctor, most likely surgery.
Gov: why are you so unreasonable… stop bleeding on the 280,000$ carpet.

[Athena for Science @AthenaRising2]

@OWS1892 Tipping culture is so confusing. I have travelled and many places will get upset if you try to tip because it implys that you are a Dickensian employer that doesn’t properly pay his staff a living wage. Why business owners think people should subsidize their slave wages is 🫤

[Athena for Science @AthenaRising2]

@EastEndJoe It was 100% to see which troops to put behind him like props. If you want the impression that the military supports a draft dodging racist who calls POW losers, just put out some MAGA trash and see what slithers up to the booth.

[Athena for Science @AthenaRising2]

@RickBellwrites @calgaryherald I was not able to complete this survey… every time I tried it said the link was broken… blocking political opponents from voting sounds like her leadership review. They are so corrupt. #firetheucp

[John Collins @Logically_JC]

I hate that any of this needed to be said.