This book is really interesting: What would happen if we returned to the original Athenian idea of democracy--citizen rule? Seems outlandish, but the system we have now is broken. The people who want to lead are usually those who shouldn't. politicalscience.yale.edu/publications...

Wildfires Rage Across 2 Continents as Shell Posts ‘Scandalous’ $9.8B Quarterly Profit www.theenergymix.com/wildfires-ra...

Wildfires Rage Across 2 Continents as Shell Posts ‘Scandalous’ $9.8B Quarterly Profit

As devastating wildfires continue to burn across swaths of Canada, the United States, and Europe, oil major Shell posted $9.8 billion in second quarter profits, more than double its earnings from this...

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The wildfire smoke reached us last night, and I gazed up at an angry orange moon. This morning I looked directly at the neon pink-red sun and breathed in air that stung. And our prime minister works to push ever more pipelines through. "Build Canada Strong" as it burns to ash around us.

Chad Linton | Photography@feelslikelife.bsky.social · 24h ago

Neuromancer needs a summer release date so people can relate to the opening “the sky above the port was the colour of television tuned to a dead channel” as the forests burn and ash covers the sun. Vancouver, this morning, and now.

Deliberately worsening the global climate crisis that's raging ever further out of control to temporarily benefit foreign oil industry shareholders is Mark Carney's personal definition of "in the national interest." This is ecocidal anti-leadership. 1/ environmentaldefence.ca/2026/08/04/p...

So infuriating. What will it take for the politicians to stop burning the world just to line their pockets (and those of their friends)? They have children, too. How can they not care?

Julia Levin@jflevin.bsky.social · yesterday

1/ Over the weekend -- while Canadians across the country were dealing with raging wildfires and the aftermath of severe flooding and heatwaves -- PM Carney quietly accelerated the timeline on his taxpayer funded pipeline. environmentaldefence.ca/2026/08/04/p...

Thread here connecting Carney directly with an oil and gas CEO - there are only three links needed to do it, too. Build Canada is m/billionaire funded and Carney is totally taking their policy suggestions and putting them into action. Including trying to raid our pensions for Canadian ventures.

🍁 Christine 🍁@204queenb0574.bsky.social · last wk.

Carney interviewed for and was offered a job at Shopify before he opted for Brookfield. He's all in with these tech bros and no one is covering it. I first found out about Build Canada from DeSmog, actually. Because it's not just tech bros. It's also big oil.

Mark Carney has: -scrapped consumer carbon tax -scrapped oil/gas emissions cap -cut $1.3B from environment Canada -weakened industrial carbon pricing -axed 2 billion trees program -approved 1M barrels/day pipeline -weakened greenwashing laws While this is happening:

This is a super important petition regarding climate change, if you are Canadian and have 30 seconds to spare please sign and repost.

Mike@brechinbrae220031.bsky.social · 4d ago

HOC Petition e-7522 - Canadians call on Government of Canada to stop fast-tracking environmentally catastrophic fossil fuel projects, protect health & wellbeing of all impacted by climate change & invest in worker, community & Indigenous-led green energy transition www.ourcommons.ca/petitions/en...

Spend a bit of time in nonprofits and you’ll notice that the nonprofit industrial complex is largely uninterested in changing much - it exists to feed the people at the top and the food is prestige. They want to attend galas and play act that they care. They don’t.

There’s a reason that nonprofits and philanthropy are most prevalent in the US vs real democracies such as much of Northern Europe. Philanthropy is reputation washing for the rich. It’s not designed to fix things. Its core function is making people feel change is occurring while doing nothing.

This is for all the folks who are okay with surveillance because, "I'm not doing anything wrong."

Qasim Rashid, Esq.@qasimrashid.com · last wk.

TX police searched 83K cameras across state lines to hunt a woman down. Not a missing kid. Not a violent offender. A woman, weeks after a legal abortion, turned in by her own partner. Let’s Address TX State Director @saadia---m.bsky.social covers how cops are using Flock cameras to stalk women.

“…fossil fuel assets have underperformed the returns of the non-energy S&P 500 equities for the past decade... non-fossil fuel assets have performed 4x better than coal, oil + gas assets. Since 2022 the stock market… has nearly doubled (92%) while the value of fossil fuel assets has risen only 17%.”

WA pension plans should divest from fossil fuel companies | Op-Ed

The Washington State Investment Board, which manages pension funds, should follow state Democratic Party guidance and divest from fossil fuel holdings.

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www.desmog.com/2025/12/16/m...

Mark Carney Claims Fossil Fuel Expansion Is ‘Canada Strong,’ but U.S. Investors Get the Profits

New data show American capital now controls most of Canada’s oil and gas sector while jobs vanish, royalties lag, and billions flow south.

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Mr. Carney is willing to sacrifice southern resident orcas for a pipeline with no business case and with falling global oil demand, will probably operate for less than 15 years when 30 years are needed to pay the capital costs. Mr. Carney, you will wear their extinction. 🐋 www.cbc.ca/news/politic...

75 of these whales remain. A new West Coast pipeline would be 'devastating' for them, experts say | CBC News

Multiple environmental groups are concerned the Alberta government's proposed oil pipeline route poses a risk to southern resident killer whales. They are protected under the Species At Risk Act, but ...

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What a week. Amidst the blur of World Cup shenanigans and Canada Day festivities, politicians dropped not one, not two, but three massive pipeline announcements. If pipelines such an economic boon, why are taxpayers footing the bill? thenarwhal.ca/three-pipeli...

Making sense of Canada’s pipeline flurry | The Narwhal

Politicians dropped three pipeline announcements this week. If they’re such an economic boon, why are taxpayers footing the bill?

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I think @readtheorchard.org nails it with this. To use the heuristic "The purpose of a system is what it does," the purpose of Carney's government is quite clearly to advance a nakedly corporate agenda at the expense of Canadians (and the environment). open.substack.com/pub/theorcha...

Journos please ask Carney about the cost of delaying emissions reductions. You know, since Canada can’t afford to.

Bremain in Spain@bremaininspain.com · 2w ago

The heatwave that swept across Europe in June is estimated to have cost the continent’s grain farmers €2bn (£1.7bn) in lost revenue and destroyed 9m tonnes of crops, sparking concern about the impact on the price of food. #TheContinentalBreakfast www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Human greed and selfishness is reaching another peak. Unfortunately, our latest downfall will take the whole planet with us unless we wrestle control away from those in power who answer to corporations. Even then, it may be too late.

Paul Eric@pauleric70.bsky.social · last wk.

If you still don't think climate change is making these fires worse, feel free to comment. It'll also be the last comment you ever make on one of my posts.💔😪💔😪💔😪🤬

The Canadian government at all levels and across parties, are dooming the planet to save some jobs (including their own) that are doomed anyway. We must think of the greater good instead of short-term economics.

Seth Klein@sethdklein.bsky.social · last wk.

Canada’s EV sales stuck in the ditch one year after policy breakdown www.nationalobserver.com/2026/07/27/a...

Amazon workers on federal aid nearly tripled between 2020 and 2025. During that time, Jeff Bezos saw his net worth jump by $139B as Amazon profits hit record highs. No corporation as profitable as Amazon should be paying its workers so little they must rely on food stamps and Medicaid to survive.

"Alberta’s Bill 11 opens the door to a large private health insurance market, including the U.S. insurance industry. If the federal government fails to defend the Canada Health Act, it will end public Medicare as we know it" @alonghurst.bsky.social: www.healthcoalition.ca/health-coali...

Health coalitions call on premiers to protect public health care in the face of two-tier threat

Defenders of public Medicare issue joint statement in Charlottetown

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This is kind of an incredible website: Why your stuff stopped lasting, who profited, and what's still built right.

Worse on Purpose

The brands you trusted quietly gutted quality to protect margins. Investigative essays on corporate enshittification. Free newsletter.

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Corporations spend more than $1.5 billion a year on union-busting. That’s $1.5 billion they could have spent on higher wages, better benefits, and improving workplace safety. Remember: if they weren’t so scared of worker power, they wouldn’t fight so hard against unions.

Fight For A Union@fightforaunion.bsky.social · 2w ago

Over 500,000 workers organized, stood up, and DEMANDED power in the last year alone. With 16.5 MILLION workers now backed by a union, a 16 year high, the modern labor movement is officially unstoppable. Collective power gets results. Every single worker deserves a UNION!

Canada is burning.Norway is breaking heat records.This isn’t a natural disaster;it’s a policy failure. While boreal forests turn to ash, policymakers continue to hand out billions in fossil fuel subsidies. We aren't just witnessing a tipping point,we are witnessing state-sanctioned climate collapse.

Tripling union membership would… -Raise the median worker’s wages by $7k+ annually -Reverse 1/3 of the increase in inequality since 1979 -Increase the number of people with health insurance And more. Unions are the key to taking on runaway corporate power. Every worker deserves one.

Economic Policy Institute@epi.org · 3w ago

🌟 NEW 🌟 First-of-its-kind analysis from @cmcnich.bsky.social, @jensherer.bsky.social, and @benzipperer.org measures how expanding union membership would boost wages, lower inequality, and benefit communities and democracy. A teaser of what that would mean for workers 🧵 1/

“Narcissists' desire for attention, affirmation and control makes them more likely to favour in-person work because it ‘offers richer channels for controlling and commanding reverence from employees.’”

Boss wants you back in the office full time? New research suggests there may be personal motives behind it | CBC News

As more employees are being ordered back into the office full time, new research suggests the rationale may be more about bosses' desire for power and status than productivity.

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Excellent thread. Carbon capture is not the way to fight climate change.

Dr Andrew Boswell #CarbonReckoning@drandrewboswell.bsky.social · 3w ago

1/7 After @georgemonbiot.bsky.social exposed deep flaws in carbon capture &storage—and the extraordinary sums this Govt is committing to it—CCS industry lobbyists and pro-CCS scientists responded. @sioldridge.bsky.social &I answer them here www.theguardian.com/environment/... 🧵

We are being advised not to go out due to smoke, whole communities are being wiped out by fire, Republicans complain about 'Canadian' smoke while taking money from the oil & tech industries that backed a convicted felon. The AI industry & the oil industry are not the future.

The Breach@breachmedia.ca · 4w ago

Mark Carney is overseeing a massive expansion of AI data centres in Canada, and it’s raising all kinds of concerns. Marcus Werner reports on the fast-growing movement that’s rising against the wave of planned data centre projects—and in some cases, already winning. breachmedia.ca/inside-the-r...

The creator of Roger Rabbit (who is 85 years old by the way) is a good sort Crossposted with @openvibe.social

For anyone who thinks increasing oil & gas production is the path to energy independence, you're dead wrong. While we continue to rely on fossil fuels, we're held hostage to global pricing. The real path to energy security is local production of renewables and grid-scale storage. #EnergyTransition