Wade Smart

The Alberta independence question is here, but the path forward is more complicated than many expected. The instinct is to move directly to a clear independence vote. But the Sylvestre decision has changed the legal landscape and created a serious risk that an immediate up-or-down vote could be challenged before Albertans ever get a final say. The goal has not changed. Alberta still needs a clear vote on a clear question. What has changed is the route to get there. A two-step process may now be the most realistic way to protect the vote, build support, and give the independence movement time to organize properly. The fight is not over. It is becoming more serious.

OK, this slaps 🙌

Long before I knew what the Office of Renewable Energy Siting (ORES) was, I agreed to go to a town hearing where my farm resides and speak about pollinators and what I was doing for them at my farm. Along the way, I learned that nearly every hayfield, small farm, and "open space" owner near my farm had been approached, on average, 4-6 times to lease their land to solar companies. We are witnessing a disturbing decline in pollinators countrywide, yes from pesticides, but also from habitat loss. They are losing the land, soils, and host plants they need to survive. When I realized the land around my farm could turn into a solar complex, I knew I needed to learn more about what was happening. I went to this meeting in my town to speak in support of a Solar Facilities Law. A man around my age was there as well, dispatched out of Santa Monica, California to speak out against our law. This was a very small Town Board meeting that, maybe, 8 people were at. What on EARTH was a man from California doing in my little town? When he approached me in the parking lot after the meeting to try and tell me why I was wrong (he picked the wrong person to do this to lol), I will never forget what he said to me. "We are pursuing farmland and open space for the panels because it comes with the least amount of impediments," he said. He told me the companies can make more money at scale by using land that's already cleared. He also told me it's easier to "ram their agenda through small town boards" than it was to take it to city councils. Not ONCE did he mention the environment, the wildlife, the people of our towns, our history or culture, or lowering our electric bills. The entire "solar" concept was one of money. He didn't even deny it to me. That's what caught my attention. I'd like to think it would catch anyone else's attention, too. The largest wealth transfer of our lifetimes is happening right before our very eyes. Generational farmland that's been stewarded by American citizens since the Revolutionary War is changing hands to foreign solar and wind corporations. That was always the plan.

🚨 BREAKING: Alberta’s independence referendum question has been released. “Should Alberta remain a province of Canada or should the Government of Alberta commence the legal process required under the Canadian Constitution to hold a binding provincial referendum on whether or not Alberta should separate from Canada?” Many wanted a direct vote on independence. Instead, the question asks whether Alberta should begin the legal process required to hold a binding referendum on separation.

Need prayers that everyone’s favorite 20 yr old Dictator Cat, Yoko aka Kim Jong Un, aka Cookie Monster, aka Small Basketball Enthusiast, makes it to 2027 and I will have the first 35 yr old cat trust me.

@TheLaurenChen She is one of those who will have to keep spinning and spinning because she probably doesnt have much else going on. Her identity is jumping party to party ranting about .. things! and doing old school makeup shows. One day she'll mature but for right now - just a troubled person

Apparently Ashley St. Clair saw I was covering her accusations that Elon Musk rigged the election and is not happy! Reminder that not only have I never been indicted, I've never even been taken to court... I don't think Ashley can say the same 😘

@Sassafrass_84 Common sense

Morals, values, brains, common sense, to name a few. What about you?

Trump Supporter Beaten to Within an Inch of His Life — and the Left Pretends Rhetoric Has No Consequences redstate.com/bobhoge/2026/0…

LA is total hell hole!! This is 3rd world country actions!🤬🤬🤬

Texas Ground Zero... Chip Roy Battles Jihad - As Qatar-Backed ‘Conservatives’ and Islam-Friendly RINOs Pile On Can anyone name even ONE other American politician confronting the Islamic threat - and Sharia itself - with the same courage and force as Congressman Chip Roy? Not one! Texas is ground zero in this fight - the epicenter of the Muslim Brotherhood’s decades-long infiltration into America. It’s no coincidence that the GOP political leaders who have spent years courting the Islamic vote are now coming out swinging against him. Equally revealing: the so-called “conservative” political operatives with documented ties to Qatar are piling on too. America - the GOP is compromised - we are selling out our country to the highest Islamic bidder! Qatar, Pakistan, Turkey, Saudi Arabia. etc....are laughing at us! I have been one of the ONLY MAGA conservatives fighting this battle for years and years....so please spare me the attacks on Chip.

Elon Musk Accused of Election Meddling By Ashley St Clair, Chud The Builder Update | ANATHEMA Ep 13 x.com/i/broadcasts/1…

@askaya They just throw out words when they dont agree with you - or anyone.

Normal, traditional people with basic human wants and desires are considered “Nazis” nowadays. The word has lost all meaning. Who here is a “Nazi”?

🚨IMPORTANT UPDATE: Danielle Smith will address Albertans tonight at 6:45 p.m. She is expected to announce the Alberta Independence referendum question for October 19.

🦔Microsoft canceled its internal Claude Code licenses this week after token-based billing made the cost untenable, even for a company with effectively infinite cloud resources. Uber's CTO sent an internal memo warning the company burned through its entire 2026 AI budget in just four months. American AI software prices have jumped 20% to 37%, and GitHub (owned by Microsoft) is dropping flat-rate plans for usage-based billing across its products. My Take The AI subsidy era is ending in real time. The same company that put $13 billion into OpenAI and built the Azure infrastructure powering most of Anthropic's compute just looked at the bill from a competitor's coding tool and decided it was not worth paying. That is not a productivity failure on Anthropic's end. Token-based pricing is forcing every enterprise customer to confront the actual cost of running these models at scale, and the number turns out to be far higher than the flat-rate experiments suggested. This ties directly to my Gemini Flash post yesterday. Anthropic, OpenAI, and Google all raised effective prices in the last six months. Enterprises that built workflows assuming AI costs would keep falling are now watching annual budgets evaporate in months. Two outcomes look likely from here. Either enterprises scale back AI usage to fit budgets, which slows the revenue ramp the labs need to justify their valuations ahead of IPOs, or the labs cut prices and absorb the losses, which makes the unit economics worse at exactly the wrong moment. Both paths land in the same place, the numbers stop working, and somebody has to take the writedown. Hedgie🤗

The land under these panels will never be farmed again. Potato growing associations nationwide will not buy potatoes grown on ex-solar sites. Why? The panels leach heavy metals, as well as drop glass shards and microplastics onto the soil below them. In a mass commercial arrangement, vegetation below the panels is soaked in herbicides. The fertile farmland is gone forever.

Facts are funny!😂

Shameless self promotion. New album has just been released in honor of Shavuot 💖 open.spotify.com/album/2LSOh4FR…

"All of our social programs were built for a high-trust society… That social trust has become diminished." From the DOJ's $90M fraud bust in MN:

We must hold parents accountable for the teen mob violence disrupting our communities. I fully support strict liability for parents to help end this lawlessness and protect our neighbors. It’s time for our leaders to step up and restore the rule of law.

🚨 LIBERALS IN FULL PROJECTION MODE: For 9 years you screamed “Trump is Hitler” while doing EVERYTHING you accused him of: • Censored free speech • Weaponized the media • Threatened to take guns • Pushed re-education camps for dissenters You did it all. Take a long look in the mirror before you point fingers!