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Twitter refugee in 🇨🇦. Fan of dogs, storytelling, gardening, libraries, political criticism, anthropology, community building, resistance & rabble rousing. Would be GREEN if it was feasible in Cowtown. #UBI #abpoli #ableg #cdnpoli #DavidGraeber #DeGrowth
So far the war on Iran has cost $9.4 billion.
That's $1 billion per day.
$41,666,667 per hour.
$11,574 per second.
Thousands of lives lost.
People don't want this. They want a living wage. They want healthcare. They want to be able to afford a home. They want their basic needs met.
me paying $30 in gas to buy imported things that have been hit with tariffs bc joe rogan is learning about politics at age 58
Technically we elected him, then elected someone else, he staged a coup, the coup failed, he faced no consequences, then we elected him again after he vowed revenge on us.
Trump's decision to bomb Iran is now the greatest windfall to the Russian war effort on record. If it continues, it might save the Russian war economy.
Wow! Great find!!!
From Tehran: "It’s catastrophic. The smoke has entered our homes, the flames are still rising and it feels like the sun is shining… The flames are so bright the highways look like it’s day time. So bright but doesn’t feel right... Help please!”
Dear future generations: Please accept our apologies. We were rolling drunk on petroleum. - Kurt Vonnegut —
When asked about healthcare premiums...
On the same episode that Smith talked about her referendum questions that blame immigrants for driving up the cost of healthcare...
Smith said that healthcare doesn't actually need more money.
No.
Really.
#abpoli #ableg #cdnpoli
Worth remembering
It's like they only think of improving their own lifespan. I am going to have a hard time explaining to my grandkids why Alberta is a wasteland. Eastern slopes headwaters polluted, northern basins polluted, central bone dry due to datacenters , and that's all before we drink or eat.
The Oil and gas industry are environmental terrorists.
This is what Syrias looked like in Tehran today. It is raining oil. The street cats are covered in it. This is a colossal crime against humanity.
The Iranian Red Crescent has sent a request to the International Criminal Court calling for a criminal investigation based on the US/Israel's systematic attacks against civilians and civilian objects including:
6,668 civilian structures
5,535 homes
14 hospitals
65 schools
Vladimir Putin comes out as a huge winner as a result of Trump's decision to go to war in Iran. Here's how that works. www.wsj.com/finance/comm...
International Women’s Day in Canada, 2026.
Don’t forget one of the first things Mark Carney chose to do as Prime Minister.
Just sayin’
Also - you may want to research Ireland & the history before you go thinking you can avoid discussing politics in a pub…
You just know he loves every minute of this shit…
It's because men...
The U.S. economy lost 92,000 jobs in February.
A record number of Americans are withdrawing from their 401ks to cover expenses.
Americans owe $18.5 trillion in debt — an historic high.
Meanwhile, the wealth of America's 935 billionaires soared by $1.5 trillion in 2025.
“Golden Age” for whom?
Close up photo of a group of Cladonia podetia. Each podetium is light grey in colour and shaped roughly like a golf tee. The top/bowl of each podetium is ringed with numerous small, roundish bright red blobs. These blobs are called apothecia - they are reproductive, spore producing structures.
Cladonia lichens. NWT, Canada.
#lichen #fungi #fungifriends #mushroom adjacent:) Photo covers about 4cm, left to right.
🇺🇦President Zelenskyy: Over the past week, Russia has attacked our country thousands of times – the enemy used nearly 1,750 attack drones, 1,530 guided aerial bombs, and 39 missiles against our people.
“All the President’s Men” was a warning
Nearly 50 years later, the film feels less like a triumphant ode to journalism than a warning about media decay
www.salon.com/2026/03/07/a...
Pope Leo XIV: “War is never holy!”
Apparently, the original 2007 fan video that married Arcade Fire's song and Sergio Leone's images was taken down for copyright reasons, but someone was good enough to recreate the magic.
🚨 NEW: The drone that hit the UK's air base in Cyprus was equipped with Russian military hardware
@covie93.bsky.social
As someone whose household lost 60% of our income two years ago, I feel Matt’s pain. His bookstore is wonderful. Here’s a particularly good haul from @mzspress.bsky.social
Chicago Cardinal Cupich on the White House video mashup celebrating the Iran bombings:
“A real war with real death and real suffering being treated like it’s a video game — it’s sickening. Hundreds of people are dead…”
www.archchicago.org/statement/-/...
There's something deeply obscene and broken about the fact that Donald Trump and Pete Hegseth are bombing elementary schools in an illegal war of aggression, and there's still a sense among the opposition that it has to be explained in terms of gas prices in order to get American voters to care.
