Israel has just arrested Greta Thunberg and many others. Statement from the Global Sumud Flotilla: “People of conscience have been abducted. The flotilla broke no laws. What is illegal is Israel’s genocide, Israel’s illegal blockade of Gaza, and Israel’s use of starvation as a weapon.” 1/3

Close to 65k watching the livefeed from the Global Sumud Flotilla off the coast of Gaza. Israel seems to be intercepting right now. All eyes needed. www.youtube.com/watch?v=uEN2...

Jane Goodall was a hero who used her life to make the world a better place. If the world uplifted and amplified people like her over fascists and billionaires, the world would be a very different place. #3E

When Jane Goodall visited Halifax in 2011, @rickconrad.bsky.social and I had the privilege of moderating her online public chat. She was a hero for her work on behalf of animals and the planet, a trailblazer for women in science and the loveliest of humans. I’m heartbroken that she’s gone.

"There is a war on children" A clarion call for action and accountability from Dr. Thaer Ahmad who served in Gaza. He reads the 'will' of a 10-year-old girl who Israel killed, as a way to honour her. open.substack.com/pub/zeteo/p/...

Wow, I have 999 followers! (Thank you all) 😊 Who wants to be lucky 1000? 😁🌱

NYT to Charlie Kirk (again):

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ICE is firing pellets and pepper balls at journalists in Broadview outside Chicago today, but they're local journalists so it feels like the national media will not care at all. I hope I'm wrong.

Breaking News: A London judge dismissed a terrorism charge against a member of Kneecap, the Irish-language rap group. The rapper had been charged over displaying a Hezbollah flag onstage.

MAGA’s been ready to start a war over the stopped escalator all day btw… Catch up on the latest 👉 www.meidasplus.com/p/today-in-p...

“In past years, images have circulated in Iran showing officials who were visiting New York loading up vehicles with goods, including a television and cereal boxes.”

Washington Post reporter Joe Heim confirms this Trump-Epstein “Friendship Month” statue has been placed on the National Mall

Cartoon by ArtandResponse.com.

It’s been sad this year watching how the White House press corps refuses to back each other up. Here a female journalist is insulted and denigrated and the next male reporter just moves on to a new question. You’re all in this together, folks. Time & again, they won’t stand up for their colleagues.

Literally you cannot make up this level of hypocrisy. What an endless chode.

Rep. Thomas Massie (R-Ky.) told the House Judiciary Committee that he thinks the FBI has the names of at least 20 ppl including “at least six billionaires, including a billionaire from Canada. We know these people exist in the FBI files …” Read more at: www.miamiherald.com/article31214...

A free and democratic society cannot silence comedians because the President doesn’t like what they say. This is an attack on free speech and cannot be allowed to stand. All elected officials need to speak up and push back on this undemocratic act.

Why flee/hide the rifle/change clothes if you plan to turn yourself in? Or confess to ur BAE over text, since it literally is the worst thing for your case if you’re caught, esp to establish pre-meditation? And the stilted wording: “if I am able to” (not, if I can); “going to attempt” (will try).

This should be the lead story on every Canadian newscast, with reaction from experts and ordinary Canadians who know how disgusting and dangerous this is. Not holding my breath though. Contact your MP and @mark-carney.bsky.social , folks

“How you die does not redeem how you lived.”

I just met a lovely woman from Oregon who drove across Canada with her husband, from B.C. to the Maritimes (we’re her favourite part of Canada). They’ll be in our country till October.

The anti-immigration protesters have taken over the cenotaph at the Grand Parade in Halifax and I’m not going to share a photo because it’s sickening. People - including my dad and granddad - fought in the Great Wars so everyone could live free and without fear.

I made it! Favourite sign so far at Davis Cup protest in Halifax is: The only court Israel belongs at is The Hague.

This middle-aged, ordinary, middle-class white woman who enjoys gardening and her cats will be joining the other “violent extremists” - a.k.a. humans with a beating heart - at the peaceful protest at the Halifax Oval at noon.

Reaching new heights in cringe never before contemplated.

“We’ve been hit!” Clip from live Instagram video from Yusuf Omar, directly in the aftermath of an apparent drone bombing of the Family vessel, one of the larger ships in the Sumud humanitarian flotilla heading to Gaza.

Media outlets have staged a front page protest to highlight the killings of more than 200 journalists in 22 months.

I daydream about being woken in the dead of night by the sound of shouts, cheers, and car horns.

From the Columbia Journalism Review: What Could We Be Doing in Gaza? Urgent ideas to defend press freedom in the world's deadliest place for journalists www.cjr.org/feature/urge...

Well, this is bad news. Almost 200 jobs. globalnews.ca/news/1135417...

“Unless news organizations have the courage to disrupt themselves faster than the marketplace is disrupting the industry, really important institutions that have existed for generations will cease to exist,” its publisher says www.nytimes.com/2025/08/28/b...

Behold the dog plum!

‘He loved his work deeply’: the five Palestinian journalists killed in Gaza airstrike

Pritzker: To the members of the press who are assembled here today and listening across the country, I am asking for your courage to tell it like it is. This is not a time to pretend here that there are two sides to this story.

And five hours after the very welcome rain started in Halifax, my little pond is full to its wee rocky shore. #shareyourwesther

A year ago today, a bunch of former SaltWire staff, including me, found out they were being laid off as part of Postmedia cost-cutting after the chain bought almost all the newspapers in Atlantic Canada. It wasn’t based on merit or seniority. I won’t ever forget and I think I’ll have a drink.

My tiny backyard pond in Halifax, soon after the rain started and just now, about 3.5 hours later. #nsweather

Mariam Dagga, a visual freelance journalist in Gaza for The Associated Press, was killed by an Israeli strike on a hospital. She was 33. During the war, Dagga regularly based herself at Nasser Hospital in Khan Younis. S

Any journalist who’s a practising human should refuse to cover the #DavisCup in Halifax, other than the protests, for the same reason you wouldn’t watch someone die if you could save them. Otherwise, you’re just an opportunistic vulture with a recording device Be slightly as brave as Gaza’s journos

Four more colleagues killed in Gaza. "Dagga... frequently based herself at Nasser, most recently reporting on the hospital’s doctors struggling to save children from starvation." Deliberately targeting journalists is a war crime. How can this still be happening?

BREAKING: Four journalists, including a freelancer who worked with AP, are among eight killed by an Israeli strike on southern Gaza's Nasser Hospital.

Arguably one of the greatest shortcomings of today's intellectual environment is the widespread failure to understand how digital power works. You can reclaim a bar/town hall/public square by showing up. You ABSOLUTELY CANNOT do that with a digital platform.

As we celebrate the 211th anniversary of the burning of the White House today, let’s remember that the raid’s leader, Major-Gen. Robert Ross, is buried in Halifax’s historic Old Burying Ground en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_...

I was on Global News in Toronto today talking about why athletic boycott of Israel is necessary. Spoiler: it is because they are committing genocide. globalnews.ca/video/113458...

Mayor Andy Fillmore and District 4 Coun. Trish Purdy are holding a town hall Monday night in Cole Harbour. facebook.com/events/s/com...

this iconic advertising copywriter named Kathy Hepinstall Parks died over the weekend and I wanted to share something from her website I thought Bluesky would like

After reaching a hospital in Turkiye, four-year-old Abdullah Abu Zerka died of malnutrition. His sister still fights on.

Does anyone remember the huge protest/riot against Israeli actions in Gaza at a Davis Cup qualifier, which ended up being played in an empty stadium, in 2009 in Sweden? I wonder if Hfx got the nod partly because we’re a smaller city so fewer potential protesters. en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/2009_Ma...