Evan Sprout

Web developer, video game enthusiast, Oilers fan, and goofy goober. he/him

[Naheed Nenshi @nenshi]

Yesterday, the UCP caucus confirmed that one of the Premier’s own staff members did, in fact, attend the Centurion Project meeting on April 16.

That meeting provided volunteers with training on how to use the separatist project database at the centre of the breach of three million Albertans’ electoral data.

[Jason Gregor @JasonGregor]

Subban saying Edmonton has never been that close to winning… They lost by one goal in Game 7 of the Stanley Cup final. You literally can’t get closer than that.

Is it too much to ask that National broadcasters know basic facts about teams in the league?

[Ed Krassenstein @EdKrassen]

While you watch what took place in Minneapolis, Minnesota, remember that when the Nazis and Hitler’s Gestapo killed innocent people in Germany, they too gaslit the public into believing those people were criminals.

The only way a government can get away with killing people is by selling the narrative that that killing was justified.

Believe what you see with your own eyes, not what Donald Trump is telling you you saw.

[cm @cmcalgary]

Alberta should ban online banking. Let's all have to go back in to a branch and have a sit down meeting with a teller to get anything done. Can't trust those computer machines don't ya know.

#yycvote #yegvote #Alberta #abpoli

[Gavin Newsom @GavinNewsom]

Trump’s teleprompter broke.

He told every other nation they are going to hell.

He bragged about violating international law.

He blamed climate change on immigrants.

He complained about the wind not blowing enough.

And made a plug for his campaign hats.

What a disgrace.

[Kevin McCurdy @KevinMcCurdy]

Here lies Bruce McCurdy, forever loyal to the Oil. His essence encased in the Oil Drop, drifting among the stars forever. #neverindoubt lives on.

[Sid 🇨🇦 @NHL_Sid]

I will always die on the hill that if the Oilers had an actual nine million dollar defenceman in place of Nurse, they would be going for a three-peat this season.

[🫥 @oilygifs]

MCDRAI OVERTIME WINNER!!!!

[Jen Horsburgh @jenatlionra]

I’m seeing a long, conservative rant being shared around and it’s got a lot of misinformation in it. Let’s break it down using open data and statistics.

[Bricktop_NAFO @Bricktop_NAFO]

Holy Mother Of Cheetos

[James Tate @JamesTate121]

Jessica Aber’s death feels like one of those stories that’s meant to fade quietly into the background — a tragic headline that people are supposed to forget. But when a career prosecutor who spent her life chasing Russian cybercriminals, CIA leaks, and war criminals turns up dead just weeks after resigning, forgetting isn’t an option.
Aber, the former U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia, was found dead at her home in Alexandria on March 22. She was 43 years old. Police haven’t said how she died, but the timing — and her unfinished business — makes it impossible to ignore.
THE PROSECUTOR WHO WOULDN’T BACK DOWN
Jessica Aber wasn’t just a lawyer — she was the person you sent in when things got messy.
In January, just before her resignation, Aber helped put Asif Rahman, a former CIA analyst, behind bars for leaking top-secret information about Israeli military plans against Iran. The information ended up splashed across social media in October 2024.
Aber didn’t mince words when Rahman pleaded guilty. She warned that his leak had “placed lives at risk” and “compromised our ability to collect vital intelligence in the future.” That’s prosecutor-speak for this guy seriously screwed things up. Whatever Rahman leaked, it wasn’t just embarrassing — it was dangerous.
BIG CASES, BIGGER ENEMIES
Aber’s cases didn’t stop there. In November 2024, her office prosecuted a Virginia-based company accused of funneling sensitive U.S. technology to a Russian telecom firm with Kremlin ties. It wasn’t exactly an accident — the company allegedly disguised shipments and played fast and loose with American tech that Russia wasn’t supposed to have.
Then there was the war crimes indictment. Aber’s office charged four Russian-linked individuals with torturing and unlawfully detaining a U.S. national in Ukraine. She wasn’t just making legal noise — she was putting serious pressure on powerful figures with deep connections.
Aber’s career was a parade of people you wouldn’t want showing up at your funeral — oligarchs, cybercriminals, and corrupt players with resources to make problems disappear.
A SUSPICIOUS EXIT
Aber resigned in January 2025, just after Donald Trump returned to power. Nobody’s said she was forced out, but resigning from one of the country’s most powerful U.S. Attorney’s offices weeks after jailing a rogue CIA analyst feels a little too clean.
It’s not hard to imagine why someone like Aber might suddenly find herself in a tight spot. Trump’s return came with a wave of loyalty tests and DOJ shakeups — and Aber’s aggressive pursuit of Russian networks and CIA leaks doesn’t exactly scream “team player” in this new political climate.
If she was pressured to resign, what cases got quietly buried when she left?
A SYSTEM THAT’S GONE SOFT ON POWER
The Supreme Court’s ruling in July 2024 handed Trump near-total immunity for “core presidential powers,” including military command. Justice Sonia Sotomayor warned that this decision could allow a president to order an assassination — and face no legal consequences.
By the time Aber resigned, that ruling had already cast a long shadow over the Department of Justice. Prosecutors like Aber — the kind who took on powerful players with foreign connections — were now working in an environment where accountability had been gutted.
If Aber’s investigations had exposed something that threatened powerful interests, the court’s ruling would have made it easier for those interests to apply pressure — or worse — without consequence.
Her resignation may have been voluntary. It may not have been. But by the time Aber walked away from her post, the guardrails protecting prosecutors like her were already crumbling.
WHAT DID ABER KNOW?
Jessica Aber knew things that mattered — things that powerful people wanted buried. She chased down Russian cybercriminals, locked up a CIA leaker who compromised military intelligence, and tangled with foreign operatives who wouldn’t hesitate to make problems disappear.
Now she’s gone, and the timing stinks.
Maybe her death was just an awful coincidence. Maybe it wasn’t. But when the people investigating corruption start turning up dead, there’s only one responsible thing to do:
Start asking louder questions. Via MSNBC{News Junkies}

[Fifty Shades of Whey @davenewworld_2]

A scientist explains what changes her conservative father's mind on climate change

[Dimitri Filipovic @DimFilipovic]

Leon Draisaitl's game last night. So sick

[Brian Krassenstein @krassenstein]

Dictators in History:

- Hitler – “The good of the state stands above the law.”
- Mussolini – “Everything within the state, nothing outside the state, nothing against the state.”
- Napoleon Bonaparte – “I am the revolution.”
- Francisco Franco – “I am responsible only to God and to history.”

Trump:
"He who saves his country does not violate any law"

[Jonathan Willis @JonathanWillis]

2022-present, this is the entire list of NHL defencemen (min. 1,000 minutes) with a higher xGF% than Evan Bouchard at 5v5:

This is why I have so little time for the constant nitpicking of his game. It's what you create vs. what you give up, and by that he's a massive positive.

[Tristan Snell @TristanSnell]

plutocracy - rule by the wealthy
kleptocracy - rule by corrupt thieves
kakistocracy - rule by the worst, least qualified

But what if it's all 3 -- what's the word for that?

[Alex Cole @acnewsitics]

This didn't age very well.

[Edmonton Oilers @EdmontonOilers]

A player for the ages 9️⃣7️⃣ #LetsGoOilers