Reporter: Do any of you have a favorite animal? Child: My favorite one is a gold snake that can move. It has gold eyes, and it has a super-duper tail… Reporter: Mr. Mamdani, the second question for you. Mamdani: Yes. It’s also the golden snake.

Just because good news is worth celebrating: There is now a Prep medication that is an *every six month* injection. HIV has, effectively, a vaccination.

Fausses nouvelles : Au moins sept pages Facebook désinforment les partisans du Tricolore. Et ce n'est que la pointe de l'iceberg. ici.radio-canada.ca/nouvelle/222...

Coupures d’électricité et pénuries: mise en garde pour les Canadiens en voyage à Cuba www.noovo.info/nouvelles/so...

Scoop: Federal agents were told this week that they have broader power to arrest people without a warrant, according to an internal Immigration and Customs Enforcement memo reviewed by The New York Times. www.nytimes.com/2026/01/30/u...

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I very much appreciate my colleague Adrian Florido bearing witness to a terrible loss from his neighborhood. I did not want to listen to this, because I knew it would be heartbreaking, but I’m glad I did.

Des employés de VIA Rail se demandent «si le train va fonctionner cette fois-ci»: les nouveaux trains Siemens qui ont coûté 1 G$ tombent souvent en panne

it's still perfect. www.youtube.com/watch?v=mGgM...

Sky News: Danish PM Mette Freideriksen’s note in the visitors book when she visited UK today

Hello from Portland Maine, where 88 of about 550 kids were absent from my youngest’s middle school yesterday, hiding from ICE.

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Greenlandic politician Tillie Martinussen on the sovereignty of Greenlanders, the greed in the US, and how they view their land. Also comments on how the US treated Natives, as a very good reason to not want to be a part of the US. youtu.be/xs53IESxz80?...

There are a number of efforts to preserve old footage and stories from the Chicago hardcore, emo and punk scenes of the 90s and early 2000s that are very exciting. One is The Fireside Tapes Youtube channel with early Midwest emo shows from the Fireside Bowl. www.youtube.com/@thefireside...

CAQ minister Geneviève Guilbault leaving politics at the end of her term montrealgazette.com/news/provinc...

I wrote about my experiences being sexually exploited as a child, and what we need to do to make sure AI doesn’t make that a reality for millions of children. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

At least 16,500 protesters have died, and 330,000 have been injured, in the most brutal crackdown by the clerical regime in its 47-year existence.

Photo by Pierre Lavie. Yes this is me. And I threw my Leica. It landed on the bass plate with hardly a scratch. Another Photographer grabbed it along with my phone and I was able to track him later. I was held face down tear gas deployed right in front of me and pepper sprayed directly into the eye.

New from me: There's some context missing from all of the conversation about Lynn Jones Turpin, the Black journalist who went viral for her words to the Jacksonville Jaguars head coach

New Zealand’s Whanganui River is officially a living being and legal person. Māori leaders explain how Indigenous knowledge and persistence made it happen.

Mamdani: For too long, those fluent in the good grammar of civility have deployed decorum to mask agendas of cruelty

CBS didn't run the 60 Minutes segment on CECOT, but over here at @propublica.org we've been working on the story since March, including finding out who each and every man sent to that maximum security prison was. You can see our reporting here: www.propublica.org/series/depor...

Again, from Michael Grynbaum, here is Sharyn Alfonsi's full email. It must be read:

if you try to serve me a ‘woman-sized dinner’ i’m going to bury one of my ‘woman-sized fists’ in your eye socket

I do love a Christmas ritual , and making these Edible Christmas Tree Decorations, which are #RecipeOfTheDay – is one of them. I say edible, but when my kids were little, I cruelly mixed in a load of pepper so that they wouldn’t pull them off the tree to eat them all! www.nigella.com/recipes/edib...

‘They can’t take away your imagination and creativity’: Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe on how sewing helped her in Iran jail

Heatwave warning for large parts of Australia as temperatures expected to reach low 40s www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

Pedestrian crash? A car hit a pedestrian. That is not a pedestrian crash. Eesh

HBOMax has started showing a 'remastered' 4K Mad Men and they’ve messed things up so during Roger’s oyster vomit scene you can now see the crew men with the vomit hose on the right

Pas question d’utiliser les surplus du Fonds vert pour faire baisser l’impôt ou le prix de l’essence, selon lui. #polqc #économie

LIVRE - Passagères de nuit de Yanick Lahens «La voix des femmes et surtout les femmes qui ont été mises en esclavage… Elles sont du voyage, mais elles sont des passagères de nuit. Elles sont invisibilisées. Ce livre, c’est une manière de les sortir de l’ombre.»👇 ici.radio-canada.ca/ohdio/premie...

Vertières: key Haitian Revolution battle Mary-Two-Axe-Early: Kanien'kehá:ka, from Kahnawà:ke, fought to end Indian Act gender-based discrimination, (it stripped status from Indigenous women who married non-Indig. men) Césira-Parisotto: QC via Italy nun Madeleine Parent: labour activist, feminist

Les noms des nouvelles stations de la ligne Bleue : Vertières Station Mary-Two-Axe-Earley Césira-Parisotto Madeleine-Parent Anjou www.stm.info/fr/projet-li...

A key difference here is that while either can be incorrect, the structure of Wikipedia *creates context* and the structure of LLMs *destroys context* Wikipedia has linked sources and an edit history showing where information came from and who added it when An LLM just generates text

Human Al calling out not human AI.

Canada, New Zealand and Ireland have been named among the safest countries in the world for LGBTQ+ travellers.

Using advanced DNA-analysis techniques researchers in New York City identified three more victims of the 9/11 terror attacks that occurred nearly 24 years ago.

And the Caribbean better stop sending their cat 5 hurricanes toward us! #ClimateDenial #Hypocrisy

Tjanpi Desert Weavers at 30: how 400 Indigenous women in remote Australia took the art world by storm www.theguardian.com/artanddesign...

Buckle up.

New: A few weeks ago, when my father-in-law died, the funeral home asked if we wanted to use AI to write his obituary. So I dug into it and found that it's the biggest new trend in "death care." Tens of thousands of AI obits have been made already. Often the families don't even know wapo.st/4okuxIg

Can confirm. It's smoky and smelly en ville aujourd'hui. www.montrealgazette.com/news/weather...

Montreal ranks as most-polluted city in world Saturday as wildfire smoke chokes Quebec

She is also "aggressively early." Didn't think I could Jamie Lee Curtis more until now.

+ 1000000 👉 «I believe we have wiped out a generation or two of natural human [appearance]. The concept that you can alter the way you look through chemicals, surgical procedures, fillers – there’s a disfigurement of generations of predominantly women who are altering their appearances.»

Une augmentation de 60% des ventes de vins locaux a été enregistrée

WAKE UP EVERYONE!!!!!!!! WAKE UP!!!

#NonbinaryAwarenessWeek shout out to Paul Westerberg, for this 1984 gem. Now, something meets boy, and something meets girl They both look the same They're overjoyed in this world Same hair, revolution Unisex, evolution Tomorrow who's gonna fuss www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZR6m...