Welcome back to Canada, President Obama. Thank you for joining us in Toronto for important conversations on how we can build a better and more just future — and empower more people to build with us.

How to Be a Good Citizen When Your Country Does Bad Things www.nytimes.com/2025/11/03/o...

Why racism is really really stupid www.youtube.com/watch?v=sRKB...

Celebrating the extraordinary legacy of Sir David Attenborough through this beautiful #Nature immersive tribute. A lifetime devoted to bringing the wonders of our planet into our homes—and inspiring generations to protect it. 🌍🩵🌐🧪 👉 www.nature.com/immersive/d4... #DavidAttenborough #Conservation

A varied and full day, as always, at @longpointbirds.bsky.social! A new eBird record count of Red-throated Divers for Norfolk County (ebird.org/checklist/S3...) and 40 km travelled for the Ontario Shorebird Survey, with two trailer loads of debris removed from the beach. 🇨🇦🌎🪶

Louisiana v. Callais will “probably go down in the history book as one of three of the worst Supreme Court decisions in the history of this nation,” said NAACP President and CEO Derrick Johnson. From @jonshorman.bsky.social.

MacFarlane: People in Virginia voted by the millions. Their voices were heard and now have been silenced. And you want to talk about what starts a political wave in a year like this: a mass of people who think their voices have been silenced. That doesn't stop a wave that fuels one.

"I need my devices back to do my job." wapo.st/4jUxQEe

Heading to @globalfreemedia.bsky.social's #IPIWoCo25 in Vienna? Don't miss this must-see Pulitzer on the Road panel featuring Administrator Marjorie Miller, 2019 International Reporting winner Nariman El-Mofty and Enric Martí, director of photography at Associated Press.

Congratulations to Julie Pace and @vijayiyer.bsky.social, the latest members of the Pulitzer Prize Board! (And don't forget tonight's 2026 Journalism entry deadline.) www.pulitzer.org/news/22884

The hardcore cult still won't get it.

World Donkey Day is celebrated annually on May 8 to recognize these intelligent, hardworking animals and raise awareness about their welfare.

A Georgia couple who terrorized a Black family at a child's birthday party with Confederate flags, racial slurs, guns, and death threats were sentenced for a hate crime. Joe Torres got 20 years; Kyla Norton got 15.

Just so we understand.

This is depressing mostly because it shows how powerful pop culture is compared to education. The Flintstones helped normalize the image of humans living alongside dinosaurs, and if someone grows up with that as a “default mental picture,” it can stick even if they later learn otherwise.

ABC Accuses Government of Violating First Amendment www.nytimes.com/2026/05/08/b...

Zelensky issued an official presidential decree authorizing Russia to hold its Victory Day parade in Moscow tomorrow. He included the exact coordinates of Red Square. That's it. A+ trolling.

‘The New World of Work’ — joint event of Horizon Europe sister projects 🌍 On 6 May, together with FUTOURWORK, EGRUiEN and INTEGRATE-DIALOGUE, we co-organised an international webinar on the future of platform work, workers’ rights, and the EU Platform Work Directive.

🪴By connecting the DigiAgro dataspace of the University of Thessaly with the AgroScience dataspace of CROWNEST, #DS2 is building a secure, federated data-sharing infrastructure to transform #PrecisionAgriculture. 📒 Read more: www.dataspace2.eu/post/bringin... #DataSpaces #HorizonEurope

📱 Advancing Wildlife Monitoring in Slovenia: The SRNA Citizen Science App Our PRO-Coast partners, who lead the Slovenian case study, published pilot study evaluates SRNA – a nationwide citizen science application designed to collect wildlife observation data on terrestrial vertebrates in Slovenia.

We signed an EU-backed guarantee with Ameria Bank expected to unlock more than €106 million in financing for small businesses in Armenia. This initiative will benefit around 900 businesses and support over 5,000 jobs across the country. ➡️ go.eib.org/AmeriaBank

Weekly respiratory viruses update - week 18 Most respiratory virus activity remains low overall across Europe: ➡️ #RSV: 𝗟𝗢𝗪 activity, seasonal peak largely passed. ➡️ #Influenza: 𝗜𝗡𝗧𝗘𝗥-𝗦𝗘𝗔𝗦𝗢𝗡𝗔𝗟 𝗟𝗘𝗩𝗘𝗟𝗦. ➡️ #COVID19: 𝗩𝗘𝗥𝗬 𝗟𝗢𝗪 activity; signs of sustained transmission in primary care. More: erviss.org

SG @alain-berset.coe.int welcomed North Macedonia’s signature of the Convention on #AI. Talks also underscored democratic resilience, stability in the Western Balkans, and the importance of strong institutions & independent justice. www.coe.int/en/web/porta...

I giovani d’Europa illuminano Roma! 🇪🇺🇮🇹 #GiornatadellEuropa #EuropeDay

Trotz der ungelösten Krise im Nahen Osten legt der Earlybird-Frühindikator etwas zu. Auch weil positive Signale aus der Euro-Zone kommen.

Die AfD stellt sich als unbesiegbar dar, besonders im Osten. Doch dieses Jahr verlor sie dort bisher fast alle Kommunalwahlen. Was sich daraus lernen lässt.

WATCH: “HANDS OFF MEMPHIS! HANDS OFF MEMPHIS! SHAME! SHAME!” senate committee disrupted and adjourned as Republicans and @GovBillLee move to strip Memphis of representation with absurd, racist 9-0 maps no matter if they changed these words no matter what they do we still coming out

This little guy got adopted .. congrats hendrix ❤️ Original post

#Batteriespeicher wachsen rasant. Als wichtiger Baustein eines erneuerbaren Stromsystems sind sie technisch längst ausgereift. Was jedoch fehlt, ist der klare politische Wille, ihnen auch diese Rolle zu geben – stattdessen sollen sie im Kraftwerksgesetz benachteiligt werden. #Energiewende

The FBI has raided the office of Virginia Senate President Pro Tempore L Louise Lucas. This comes weeks after she spearheaded a redistricting effort in Virginia, netting up to four new blue seats.

It’s the way to go. Invest in solar energy.

Deep-Sea Sea Pigs: Scotoplanes, the Echinoderms that Walk the Abyss at 5,000m Depth

MacKenzie Scott Was A Success While Married To Bozos. Her Debut Novel Won The American Book Award in 2006,And Her 2nd Novel Followed in 2013.She Stepped Away From Amazon, to Raise 4 Children. In 2019, Bozos Announced They Were Divorcing. She's A Great American........

On this day in 1922, a Jewish woman was born in Vienna. Living in France, on the 14 Sep 1942 she was deported from Drancy to Auschwitz where she perished. Her name was Régine Strassberg

Mamie Phipps Clark, PhD 1917 - 1983 Psychologist Dr. Clark’s research on child development and racial trauma, and her expert testimony, were crucial in the landmark case Brown v. Board of Education (1954), which ended school segregation in the United States. #MentalHealthAwarenessMonth #SheShed

Bluejay. People hate them because they are bossy assholes, but I kind of love them. They’re pretty. #birds

Bruce Springsteen and the E-Street Band are telling us something important #USDemocracy

Historischer Moment in Santa Marta, #Kolumbien: 57 Länder gründen eine #Koalition für den Ausstieg aus fossilen Energien – ohne die üblichen Blockierer. Das Neue: Wissenschaftlerïnnen und Zivilgesellschaft sitzen gleichberechtigt mit am Verhandlungstisch. @latamreporter.bsky.social#Kolumbien#Koalitionerichtet:

94% of teachers have to dip into their own pockets to buy school supplies. 85% of teachers are working second jobs during the school year, often just to keep up with the cost of living. Meanwhile, the average Wall Street employee got a bonus of $246,900 in 2025. Something has gone terribly wrong.

Cuttlefish have a stunning ability to mimic ocean plants, changing color and texture in seconds to evade predators and catch prey. Nature’s illusionists at work!

Sorry I didn’t post video on May Day- but I was busy arguing for press rights with an -out of control LAPD. Earlier in the day they cuffed both Alexis & William. After arresting LA Press Club attorney Weston Rowland- they arrested my colleague Nick Stern and refused to let me take his cameras.

Two national EO missions were launched yesterday onboard a Falcon-9 rocket: Italy's Iride Spazio & Greece's Hellenic Fire System 1/5

Seeds are heavier in Portugal than in Spain! 🤔🤔 global-traits.projects.earthengine.app/view/global-... 🧪🌍🪴🌳 🧮➕📏 🌾🌐 #traits

Tierney Thys, marine biologist and interpreter of the sunfish news.mongabay.com/2026/05/tier... “Tierney M. Thys, who died in March at 59, spent much of her life asking those questions, and then finding ways to share them” 🦑🌎🧪

New paper in Nature Reviews Biodiversity! We describe how colonial mismanagement has compounded into cumulative injustices for Salmon Peoples & what transformative justice in salmon governance could look like. rdcu.be/fgU5Y Art: movement74.ca @ubcoceans.bsky.social @salmonscience.bsky.social 🐟🧪🌎🦤