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Winnipeg-based journalist, broadcaster, podcaster, etc. 📻 “Knowledge is never innocent or neutral” Aileen Moreton-Robinson. 🎙️ Host, APTN News Brief https://podfollow.com/aptn-news-brief 🎙️ Host/producer, MEDIA INDIGENA https://podfollow.com/mediaindigena
Farm workers harvesting romaine lettuce
"Guillermo" is harvesting romaine lettuce in Maricopa CA. "This is a very difficult job. You need to work fast while you are continuously bending down and getting up and using a sharp knife to cut the lettuce." #WeFeedYou
Long-time buddies Timothy McVeigh and Terry Nichols were out for a pleasant van drive in Oklahoma when, all of a sudden, their lives would change.
It was always a political appointment. What else could it be? Bari Weiss did not qualify for the job of running CBS News, except ideologically. Her appointment as Editor-in-Chief thus required conflict with the newsroom. Scott Macfarlane, I think, saw all of this, and drew the obvious conculsions.
I've encountered this kind of BS when fundraising in the past, and it's enraging. Let's just support people, y'all. Their lives are not for our consumption.
in case you've never seen it, this is Roger Ebert on The Mummy
Jury finds Jamie Felix guilty of second-degree murder in connection with the fatal shootings of five people in November 2023.
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This IWD sign up to Bad + Bitchy! @badandbitchy.com posted abt women in anti-imperialist struggle and how resistance movements are birthed by women for this International Women’s Day. Perfect listen as we enter another week of war with Iran, Israel and the U.S.
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The cost of everything is going up again and they aren’t going to lower it when oil prices come back down to earth
Some version of this is absolutely happening in the WH tonight.
The WSJ calls it “the most severe energy crisis since the 1970s.” ⛽️
@wsj.com
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A massive data center that would’ve been powered by a 1.4GW natural gas plant was rejected in Alberta over a lack of public consultation and significant problems with its application.
“Even masks are becoming difficult to find. This is a huge mistake. I ask those who have the ability, especially foreign media, to reflect on this situation. What are people supposed to do under these conditions? This is truly a crime against humanity.”
Very much so: first play seems the only (painful) way to really learn
UPDATE: Despite my playing companion and I imperilling the planet in short order, I loved it! Nice mechanics that set up trade-offs at every turn.
shot of a table set with all the elements of Daybreak, a game about climate change by inventor of Pandemic, Matt Leacock!
Time to try Daybreak, a board game about climate change
CNN gas tracker: $3.41
vibe check: CNN now has a gas tracker on their front page
Staff at the nation’s largest Immigration and Customs Enforcement detention facility have placed bets on which detainee will be the next to die by suicide, according to new reporting from the Associated Press based on 911 calls and detainee accounts.
China leads the world in solar deployment. Even parking lots and rooftops are being turned into solar power plants — generating electricity while using space that’s already paved.
China also exceeded its 2030 wind + solar capacity target (1.2 TW) in 2024 — about six years early. #Bettrification
don’t forget to destroy your clocks tonight, walk away from your mortgage, just start driving, you’re free
I've made 7 free online courses to help you read Karl Marx
Reading Marx's Capital v1 (2019 & 2007 eds)
Reading Marx's Capital v2
Reading Marx's Grundrisse (2023 & 2020 eds)
Marx, Capital, & the Madness of Economic Reason
The ABC of Contemporary Capital
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“Trump doesn’t like bad [poll] numbers. He still has a lawsuit against an Iowa pollster whose pre-election numbers he didn’t like. And Gallup has extensive contracts w/ the federal gov't. It’s a no-brainer to infer [why it'd] re-evaluate the utility of continuing to report numbers that Trump hates”📉
A shot of Toronto's downtown sky, showing the top of CN Tower seemingly floating in mid-air due to the fog
Quite the foggy sky in Toronna today
Have you seen the commercial that brought down Kristi Noem?
It’s even more bizarre than I expected.
Feat. @wkamaubell.bsky.social
My brother, we had to explain a 1/3 pound burger was bigger than a quarter pound burger and still failed
Had to doublecheck the date on this
We need to open completely car-free safe streets around a lot more than just schools
An adequately trained, attentive driver should easily be able to avoid killing a 4-year-old pedestrian
Our city’s parents should not have to fear a child’s “breaking away” being a death sentence
My entire journalistic career, editors & owners & bosses told me again & again that my stuff was too long, too in-depth, too wonky, no one would read it.
Again & again, readers flocked to the longer, wonkier pieces, passed them around, wrote me to thank me for them, cited them years later.
Well, gas is expensive, and food is expensive, and we’re doing a war nobody wants, but at least there are no jobs
📣 BOOK ANNOUNCEMENT! 📣
In THE EDGE OF SPACE-TIME, @chanda.bsky.social blends physics, post-colonial history & Black feminist thought to show why “the edge” is the best place to see the big picture. On sale 4/7/26!
Cover designer: Tyler Comrie
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