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[Friends of Medicare @FriendsMedicare]

🎯Re: Bill 11:

"Alberta is not following an established international model. It is conducting a policy experiment with well-documented harms and unproven benefits."

Albertans aren't this government's lab rats. We deserve evidence-based health care!

https://t.co/nBu5aU3cuD

[Naheed Nenshi @nenshi]

There is a very real risk of foreign interference in Danielle Smith’s referendum this fall. I wrote to CSIS earlier this year and just received the reply. I’m happy they’re taking it seriously and I encourage anyone with evidence of foreign interference to contact them.

And don’t forget that this is all happening in the context of the massive data breach that the Premier and her government keep waving off, even though we now know that your data was stored and available on websites of super-right Trumpian organizations for months.

We need to know how this government is protecting the integrity of this referendum if they are at all.

[aisha says ✨fuck ai & free palestine✨ @ManicPixieCurse]

saying it's ableist to be anti ai like Beethoven wasn't deaf, Stevie Wonder isn't blind, & Frida Kahlo didn't start painting bcuz of being bed bound for 3 months + used a brace for her spine after that. disabled artists have always been here & your chatgpt ass can't compete

[Jamison Daniel @AntiquarianMuse]

A fully masked ICE agent pepper sprayed a woman in New York yesterday merely for videotaping
He approached her. She was standing still. That guy needs jail time.

If this goes viral, the city will seek charges.

[goma @soigomaa]

Maturing is realizing they never burned witches. They burned midwives, healers, herbalists, and knowledgeable women.
Women who understood medicine, nature, and their own autonomy. Women whose knowledge threatened patriarchal control. The "witch hunts" were never about magic, they were about silencing women who couldn't be controlled.

[The Autistic Coach @AutisticCoach_]

I don’t believe autistic liberation begins when society accepts us.

It begins when autistic people stop seeing ourselves as lifelong self-improvement projects.

That’s exactly what industries built around “fixing” us don’t want.

[Timothy Caulfield @CaulfieldTim]

‼️ ZERO evidence to support this move! ‼️

Eg, likely to:
> costs to healthcare system
> overdiagnosis, anxiety, iatrogenic injury
> confusion & inequities
> wait times for public

Alberta out-of-pocket payments for private medical testing https://t.co/BSf9x9EKI2

[J.M. Hamilton @jmhamiltonblog]

Dani campaigned on private healthcare.

Dani almost lost the last election because of privatized healthcare.

Dani backpeddled and said she backed public healthcare.

Once in office, Dani lied and pivoted to the fraudulent US model.

Will rural voters be fooled again?

[Naheed Nenshi @nenshi]

People won't be able to pay their rent, buy groceries, or pick up prescriptions because of the ineptness of this government. The AISH to ADAP transition is cruel, and this is just another example of this government's ineptness and incompetence.

AISH has been around for nearly 50 years. Yes, it needs improvement, but this government is not going about it the right way. ADAP is a disaster. It was built on the back of a napkin, and people are being harmed.

[SweetReunion22🌱🐝🐾💚 @SweetReunion22]

I saw someone post that “separatists will crawl over broken glass” to vote…..remember that!!!
Do not get complacent!!
SHOW UP & VOTE ❌ TO THE NINE!!
#ForeverCanadian ❤️🇨🇦

[Jim Stewartson, Decelerationist 🇨🇦🇺🇦🇺🇸 @jimstewartson]

TL;DR: If you’re afraid to exercise your rights, you’ve already lost them.

Six years ago, I started looking into QAnon because it was using game techniques and psychological tactics that I was familiar with because I had helped design them decades before. And what I saw was not normal. It was not a natural outgrowth of the internet. It was a death cult.

And so I tracked it for six months until I saw that it was organizing to attack the Capitol. So I warned about it. I yelled about it online. Other people did as well. No one listened. Sure enough, on January 6th, the worst political crime in American history happened.

The seat of our democracy was attacked. And I identified who did it, who conspired to do it, including Mike Flynn as the leader of QAnon and the cheerleader of the Proud Boys and the Oath Keepers, who was cheering for his digital soldiers to be ready to die on January 6th.

And Kash Patel in the Pentagon, ensuring through a memo, through Chris Miller, through Mike Flynn’s brother Charles, that the National Guard could not help, could not prevent that crowd of violent QAnon, Proud Boys and Oath Keepers from trying to murder Mike Pence and Nancy Pelosi—and cops.

So I’ve spent seven days a week for six years trying to unravel why it happened, how it happened, and how we can build a system that will not allow it to happen again. 38 months ago, Mike Flynn and Kash Patel decided it was going to be a good idea to sue me, somebody who was tweeting about them, who was blogging about them. Not because I defamed them, but because I was right about them. I could have made it go away.

I could have deleted my posts or going crying away and tried to settle. This is America. It is my right to speak about people, especially when it involves crimes against my government.

So if I can be any inspiration or model to anyone, it’s all been worth it. I don’t like the attention. I am not somebody who enjoys being in the spotlight. But if you come at me, an American citizen exercising my rights, I am going to defend them.

And if there’s one message I have for people, it’s that if you are afraid to exercise your rights, you have already lost them. Fight for them. We can and will get through this. We can and will build something better. But we can’t do it if we’re cowards, if we appease them, if we let them rule us.

Not here, not in America. I want to thank everybody who has helped me along the way. There are far too many to mention. You know who you are. And I am so grateful. Thank you. We’ll get through it.

[Meidas_Charise Lee @charise_lee]

If MAGA hates on you, then you're doing something right.

[𐌁𐌉Ᏽ 𐌕𐌉𐌌𐌉 @OrevaZSN]

No, I do not want AI helping me with anything I do. Not replying to my messages. Not creating pictures. Not writing for me. Nothing. My imagination is a clear river. It doesn’t need artificial tributaries. Do not muddy my waters.

[Andries (Andy) Sytsema, I Stand With Canada!🍁 @sytsema_andy]

Alberta—there is no room for voter apathy. The facts show that two things need to happen: Albertans must get out and vote in record numbers on October 19, 2026, and we must never take our eyes off the real reasons behind the separation distractions. #FireTheUCP #Alberta #ForeverCanadian

[‏ً @omgsidewalks]

I DO NOT think people fully understand how much 1 billion is. If your salary was $100k with no tax, it would take you 10 years to become a millionaire, but 10,000 years to reach a billion. It is unethical for one person to be hoarding this much wealth while others cannot eat.

[tern @1goodtern]

🚨HOLY SHIT.
They actually mention that Covid infection can make you vulnerable to Shingles.

In passing.
In tiny writing.
And they blame other stuff first and pretend it's a mystery.

But they still mention the actual cause for the increase:
COVID INFECTIONS

[Emma Mitchell 💙 @silverpebble]

A few more gorgeous collective nouns for you…
A group of:
🐞-ladybirds is called a ‘loveliness’
🪶-long tailed tits is called a ‘zephyr’
🪶-wrens (many often squish together in nestboxes to roost at night) is called a ‘chime’
📷: @suffolkwildlife
🦋-butterflies is called a ‘kaleidoscope’
Might you have a favourite?

[Emma Mitchell 💙 @silverpebble]

I had 3-4 weeks off Twitter with autistic burnout recently & my engagement is right down (also due to standing up to a vile group of trolls on here-they reported me lots, restricting my reach). If you see this photo it would be so ace if you could RT it or drop me a quick hello if you have a moment, both of which help an account get back on track. I also hope these little violas ping some floral dopamine in your meat computer & give you a small lift 🌿

[‏ً @omgsidewalks]

I can’t wrap my head around an economy where nursing homes cost enough to bankrupt families, yet the aides caring for our grandparents still rely on food banks. Or where daycare can consume an entire parent’s paycheck, while the people providing that care still can’t earn a living wage and need a second job. Something about that math just doesn’t add up.