NEW: Canadian authorities detained Richard Falk while he and his wife, Hilal Elver, were en route to a Palestine conference in Ottawa last week. I sat down with professor Falk to discuss what happened and Canada's complicity in the genocide in Gaza. www.readthemaple.com/canada-detai...

Earlier this month, I met the indomitable Naledi Pandor, chair of the Nelson Mandela Foundation and former foreign minister of South Africa, who brought a genocide case against Israel to the International Court of Justice. Thank you @justiceforallcn.bsky.social for organizing the session.

Last week, I asked the Government Representative in the Senate, Pierre Moreau, why reports continue to show Canadian military exports to Israel despite an official ban. Canadians deserve clarity and accountability on how our export controls are being enforced. #cdnpoli #SenCA #Gaza

The Secretary of Defense, ladies and gentlemen

Funerals are being held in Gaza today after Israeli airstrikes killed at least 24 people on Saturday, despite the U.S.-brokered ceasefire that began on October 10. Gaza’s Government Media Office says Israel has violated the truce nearly 500 times in 44 days.

Fire. Waiting for Canada's Kat to manifest.

Why send them back when you can lock them up? #IOF

Perpetrated by Israel and US, with Canada and most western northern nations complicit. To our shame. Citizens' shame, as leaders have none.

Amer Awad

Drop Site @DropSiteNews · 22h Omar El Akkad spoke after winning the 2025 National Book Award for nonfiction for “One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This,” his book on the genocide of Palestinians in Gaza. He accepted the award at a gala in New York City this week.

Plestia Alaqad I بلستيا العقاد · Due to the ongoing genocide, more than twenty thousand children in Gaza are missing-between disappearance, detention, mass graves, or trapped under rubble. 80% of the children killed during the genocide were killed in their homes by Israeli strikes...

Gaza has revealed that the imperial colonial mask of Western powers pretending to bring freedom, democracy, and human rights to people has now been completely removed, exposing their true evil face by allowing and supporting this state-sponsored genocide to take place for geopolitical control.

Very sad, and it should terrify us all, and Canada is all in on doing the nothing the man describes.

Me: I want a panic room inside a panic room in case I panic in the panic room. Architect: You aren’t zoned for that. Me: *panics*

Donald J. Trump's week starts well.

Rich people always saying some bullshit. Goddamn, shut the fuck up!

How did Nature get along before we started raking??

The post-Maduro Venezuela plan:

As a Canadian, I don't have this issue.

Still smiling. This may be my favorite TL cleanse to date. 🥰

Freeze plus reduction.

Superbright commentator with a half-hour of hope for the crazy country south of me.

Some years ago, I read that generals told a US President who wanted to invade Venezuela that it was a very bad idea, that they would take many losses as Venezuela had armed and trained its villagers. So another Vietnam potentially or worse. That president was not a moron or Stephen Miller.

Blue Morpho butterflies are widespread in South American rainforests, from Venezuela to Brazil.

Genius

Haaretz reports that in its cease-fire with Lebanon, Israel has just killed Hezbollah's military chief, Haytham Abu Ali Tabatabai, and in its cease-fire with Hamas, Israel has just killed Hamas commander Alaa' Haddadeh.

9 minutes.

"This family has been erased from the civil registry in Gaza... Pray for them to find mercy." "هذه العائلة مُسحت من السجل المدني بغزة.. دعواتكم لهم بالرحمة" www.threads.com/@moein_gaza/...

I always love seeing and trying to capture hummingbird moths every summer. Didn't see as many as normal this year but I thought this one was beautiful. #BlueSkyArtShow #Small #BlueSkyPhotography #BlueSkyPhotographer #NatureLovers

Hind Rajab's mom.

This is great! Very informative, I was not aware of some of this.

"My Brother's Keeper" (not "Quiet, Piggy") by Watson Mere.

Here’s a Quiet Piggy song about the PIG.

MP News: "Beneath the Paradise in Bali Lurks a Genocide While Bali might seem like a paradise, the island's tourist infrastructure is built upon a legacy of genocide. In the 1960s, the Indonesian government slaughtered up to 1 million communists, in order to assert their control over the country.

the son he always wanted

Trump immediately after meeting with Zohran Mamdani:

Me on a gloomy trail through twisted trees at dusk: "This is too spooky for my liking." My companion: "You think this is scary? I have to walk back alone."

Why are people shocked a charismatic and handsome person got Trump to love him. That man surrounds himself with nothing but wet brains, grotesques, and personality voids on the daily. How would you react to Zohran if you had daily interactions with Stephen Miller?

Trump Day 305: Trump accuses six Democrats of sedition and shares “HANG THEM” message, Trump seeks to roll back Endangered Species Act, US accidentally invades Mexico, deployment of National Guard in DC deemed unlawful: reportersonline.eu/trump-day-30...

National Guard, too! Don’t give in, don’t give up

I’m starting to think your Nobel Peace Prize odds diminish when you’re making death threats to your political opponents. Quiet, piggy 🐽

Today I saw a woman saying you should appreciate a rapist calling a woman "piggy."

I suspect that when you have a moron in charge of anything, things aren't going to go well, or ultimately go the way the moron wants, no matter the extent of the bullying.

I've watched this countless times and never tire of it. It just occurred to me South Africa should challenge Israel to a dance-off to decide the ICJ case.

Do you really think a Department of Justice that lies to judges about grand jury indictments is going to be open and honest about the Epstein Files?

Me, leaning against the time machine; So - richest man ever, people keep piling money on him no matter how badly he fails BUT ALSO he's a laughing stock everywhere, everyone can see he's miserable; he has no love in his life, not even his kids Aesop: slow DOWN lady, my stylus can only go so fast