Lori Lee Oates
@drlorileeoates.bsky.social
Assistant Professor @MUNSociology. @SSHRC_CRSH IDG Project Lead for Cursed: How the Resource Curse Manifests in Newfoundland and Labrador.
I was like I think it’s great that the company really got its footing in a lot of ways from Google Maps and now they’re just ruining them for funzies. Shocking how we’re just running with AI bullshit with absolutely no guardrails or thoughts about possible consequences.
The people who vouched for Mueller, and then for Garland, are professional propagandists -- no different than Loomer, just handling a different audience. Folks should stay clear of them and their partners.
Seriously, think about it…👇 The. GOP. Is. Toxic. 😎✨
On this day in 1956, to undermine the local bus boycott against segregation, the City Commission in Tallahassee, Florida, ordered a crackdown on drivers who volunteered to carpool Black residents.
Jul. 17, 1956 | Tallahassee City Commission Cracks Down on Carpooling for Black Residents
Learn more about our history of racial injustice.
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Since the pandemic began, elite panic at the realization that public health exists/that their lives might actually be changed by the goals of a functioning public health has produced this peculiar individualist-at-best-actively-cruel-at-worst politics and discourse....
Avery supplementary@cake-teleporter.bsky.social · 3w agoOsters describing a form of panic, it's just unintentionally her own elite panic.
"After boarding a handful of boats — stuffed to the brim with people and pets — community members drove across the lake as their entire First Nation burned to the ground behind them. " www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
'It's a miracle': First Nation members escape northwestern Ontario wildfire as community burns to the ground | CBC News
Namaygoosisagagun First Nation, also known as Collins First Nation, has been destroyed by a wildfire that spans over 350,000 hectares in northwestern Ontario. Community leaders spoke to CBC News about...
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Johnnie Jae@johnniejae.bsky.social · 3w agoI want people to understand the full impact of the devastation that First Nations in Canada are facing. It's NOT just that people and wildlife are losing their homes...it's the history that is being lost for generations to come.
The latest on our site from @drlorileeoates.bsky.social is "Mark Carney Claims Fossil Fuels Are Good for the Economy: This is Shock Doctrine Level Gaslighting" niche-canada.org/2026/07/07/m...
Mark Carney Claims Fossil Fuels Are Good for the Economy: This is Shock Doctrine Level Gaslighting
Prime Minister Mark Carney abandoned Canada's climate goals, funding an oil pipeline and centralizing federal power under crisis pretexts.
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I have a new post out with @nichecanada.bsky.social. It's concerning the Carney government pullback from Canada's committments to reducing emissions and the public funding of a pipeline when we're still paying for the last one. niche-canada.org/2026/07/07/m...
Mark Carney Claims Fossil Fuels Are Good for the Economy: This is Shock Doctrine Level Gaslighting
Prime Minister Mark Carney abandoned Canada's climate goals, funding an oil pipeline and centralizing federal power under crisis pretexts.
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.@niigaanwewidam.bsky.social and I joined CBC's Front Burner to talk about what's fuelling residential school denialism and what we can do to confront it: www.cbc.ca/listen/cbc-p...
What’s fuelling residential school denialism? | Front Burner | CBC Podcasts | CBC Listen
A warning: this episode discusses the trauma and harms surrounding Canada's residential school history. Please listen with care. So much of what we know about Canada's residential schools has been ...
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This looks interesting! I'll have to see about getting this into the syllabi.
Sean Carleton@seancarleton.bsky.social · last mo.Proofs ✅ Truth Before Reconciliation: Confronting Residential School Denialism will be available wherever you buy books, September 9. You can pre-order now: uofmpress.ca/books/truth-.... Royalties going to the Indian Residential School Survivors Society.
Why would I read a book by a court stenographer for a mafia state bsky.app/profile/sara...
Sarah Kendzior@sarahkendzior.bsky.social · last mo.I swear I did this interview before I knew about the new book by Maggie Haberman, whose mother worked for the Trump/Epstein/Kushner PR firm Rubenstein and who is a life-long family friend of Roger Stone…
This is the episode of CBC Radios's The Signal last week in which we discussed the future of oil. 19% of provincial revenues this year are projected to come from royalty revenue. There's no plan to replace that as the world moves towards peak oil. www.youtube.com/watch?v=S0xd...
The Signal | What's the outlook for N.L. oil royalties?
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ICYMI this is the podcast of CBC Radio's The Signal last week in which we discussed the need to replace oil royalty revenue in Newfoundland and Labrador -- 19% of 2026-2027 projected provincial revenues. The world is racing towards peak oil, possibly as soon as 2030. www.cbc.ca/listen/live-...
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"Norway is imposing a near ban on the use of generative AI tools by elementary school pupils while also restricting their use in the education of older children to prevent a negative impact on learning" Sometimes, good policymaking is incredibly simple. www.reuters.com/technology/n...
Norway imposes near ban on AI in elementary school
Norway is imposing a near ban on the use of generative AI tools by elementary school pupils while also restricting their use in the education of older children to prevent a negative impact on learni...
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How Congress manipulates its own rules to make sure Israel still gets its weapons
This week offered a clear example of how elected officials in Washington, D.C., bend their own rules to keep weapons flowing to Israel. Political results outside Washington this week also showed us wh...
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The Trans Mountain pipeline is presented as a money maker for the country. In reality it lost $166 million during the first half of 2025. www.iisd.org/articles/dee....
Is a New Oil Pipeline in Canada’s National Interest?
Building a new oil pipeline would impose a significant economic and environmental cost on Alberta and Canada.
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ONE WEEK to get your proposals in to @drheathergreen.bsky.social on the environmental dimensions of the Indian Act at 150 for our collaboration with @activehist.bsky.social! niche-canada.org/2026/03/11/i... #envhist #cdnhist #indigenoushistory
Indian Act 150: Call for Submissions
NiCHE has partnered with Active History to provide some environmental focused histories of the Indian Act and its widespread implications to their Indian Act 150 series.
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Today marks the 150th anniversary of the Indian Act. Over on @activehist.bsky.social, we’re running a year-long series examining its controversial history. Here’s the series introduction I contributed to: activehistory.ca/blog/2026/01...
Indian Act 150: An Introduction
By Katie Carson, Sarah Kittilsen, and Sean Carleton Canada 150—the sesquicentennial celebration of the country’s confederation—was marked with pomp and circumstance, as the Federal Government encou…
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I believe @sarahkendzior.bsky.social has mentioned this fact for literally YEARS!
Bruce Feldman@brucerfeldman.bsky.social · last mo.We don’t have a government. We have a crime family posing as one.
Yep. Old Twitter has a trove of tweets like this.
“As with the Muskrat Falls project, governments failed to consider how hydroelectric development might impact Indigenous food sources. The reality that mega dams are in fact (neo)colonial structures is presented clearly.” - @drlorileeoates.bsky.social niche-canada.org/2022/10/14/m... #dams
Mega Dams Part Two: The global contexts and Canadian mega dam failures
Mega dams have been built with disastrous results for locals in many countries.
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Keir Starmer the Genocide Guy? Yes very mysterious why he was unpopular
Stanley Pignal@spignal.bsky.social · last mo.Seen from abroad it's hard to make sense of what happened to Starmer. Big majority, centrist, fairly united party, no obvious blunders -- and somehow it went off the rail in just a few years. Political scientists will have their work cut out on this one.
"When Trump is stuck in a mafia deal gone awry, his solution is usually a bribe and an NDA. That won't work in a war. Trump actually knew that and tried to avoid the Iran quagmire. That's why Israel and US hawks are trying to merge the Israeli and US militaries." www.youtube.com/watch?v=mtV5...
Trump Signals Dictatorship (feat. Sarah Kendzior)
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New interview! On the Iran War, America's lost leverage, and the “peace deal” I don't trust: www.youtube.com/watch?v=mtV5...
Trump Signals Dictatorship (feat. Sarah Kendzior)
YouTube video by The Mark Thompson Show
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Another new interview! This time with my old friend @jysexton.bsky.social who I met a decade ago when we both warned people about Trump. Thank God everyone heeded our warnings and nothing bad happened! jaredyatessexton.substack.com/p/a-conversa...
A Conversation with Sarah Kendzior
It’s been way too long since I sat down with my friend Sarah Kendzior and got a lay of the land.
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The Dems are like the GOP in 2016. Abandoning winning over the public and no longer keeping up the pretense of trying. They're solely focused on retaining the most immoral donors. There are exceptions -- and the Dem leadership gets angry at them for *winning*, which tells you all you need to know.
Parker Molloy@parkermolloy.com · last mo.McMorrow's campaign continues to baffle me. This tactic is not working. What are you doing?
AI lies and steals. It creates fake versions of real people and fake quotes and fake photos. This article details some of the problems but I’ve dealt with worse since. It’s dystopian to have to monitor a digital doppelgänger: sarahkendzior.substack.com/p/soul-strip...
Soul Stripping
Against AI, again.
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It’s the third of June, another sleepy dusty Delta day. Of course I’m republishing my Bobbie Gentry article! sarahkendzior.substack.com/p/searching-...
Searching for Bobbie Gentry
America’s culture of cruelty and those who dare to notice.
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