Newfoundlanders join convoy trying to break Israel’s siege of Gaza theindependent.ca/news/lji/new...

Canada must act now @mark-carney.bsky.social www.alexneve.ca/blog/prime-m...

www.thestar.com/opinion/cont... yes, good for @mark-carney.bsky.social

The AI app, which MS has forced upon me, has “suggested” that a 17 page chapter “appears to be a long document” and that I should “save time by reading a summary.” Does this feeble instrument know they are talking to an academic trained to read 100+ pages/day?

The Group Behind Project 2025 Has a Plan to Crush the Pro-Palestinian Movement www.nytimes.com/2025/05/18/u...

Pope Leo IV is off to a good start: www.theglobeandmail.com/world/articl...

Keep this on hand: every vote really does count www.thestar.com/politics/fed...

There is suffering everywhere you look, says mother of emaciated baby girl trapped in Gaza www.theguardian.com/world/2025/m...

Judge Sessions also highlighted several of the declarations that were submitted in Ozturk's defense, attesting to her "peaceful and compassionate character." www.yahoo.com/news/judge-o...

Real Nazi stuff

Yes, more of this please.

@mark-carney.bsky.social @anitaoakvilleeast.bsky.social @kayabagaarielle.bsky.social It is past time to act. This grotesque act of starving Palestinian children must end now. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/04/w...

Wonderful profile of a great writer and a courage-inspiring woman ~

Israel has dropped more bombs in Gaza than fell on London, Dresden & Hamburg combined during WWII [𝘍𝘰𝘳𝘦𝘪𝘨𝘯 𝘈𝘧𝘧𝘢𝘪𝘳𝘴]. Read that & consider that Gaza is, on average, only 5 miles wide & 25 miles in length. Life expectancy has dropped from 75.5 years in 2023 to 40.6 years now [𝘓𝘢𝘯𝘤𝘦𝘵]. Genocide.

Badar never imagined that a country with a Scholars at Risk program would one day pose a risk to scholars, he told me.

Hmm yes, we all noticed that: www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...

Accused war criminal wants Canada’s PM to shut up? Nah. Elbows up, Canada, here too. @charlieangus104.bsky.social @mark-carney.bsky.social @jagmeetsingh.ca @melaniejolycan.bsky.social

Elizabeth Anscombe’s 1958 pamphlet, “Mr. Truman’s Degree” is a good read today.

So grateful for this reporting, to hear about the experience of those bombed by the US.

One of the signs held by a Sackets Harbor resident protesting the mother & three children being taken by ICE. Powerful. Important reporting on this story below, by Marisa Kabas. (📸 Ginger Storey-Welch)

Israel executes 15 medics, and it doesn't even ruffle the surface of our election conversation? Shame. Canadian-made arms reach Israel via the USA, despite Liberal promises to halt that. Enough is enough. We need a real arms embargo. End Canada's complicity in genocide.

The US promoted and funded the separation of South Sudan from Sudan and claimed it was necessary to give security for Sudanese Christians. Now they are shipping all South Sudanese back to the control of a regime they themselves consider unreliable. Everyone is just a pawn in their game.

“We can't take full advantage of a brain gain if we don't actually nurture the soil that is universities." @mark-carney.bsky.social www.thestar.com/news/more-u-...

Is your government elevating the interests of right-wing Israel above its own interests and constitutional rights? “Canary Mission, a right-wing website that says it aims to document people and groups who criticize Israel, also posted a profile and photo of Öztürk” www.chronicle.com/article/a-gr...

Fascism doesn’t just appear, writes Ben Ehrenreich. It must be invited in—and the bipartisan repression of the pro-Palestine movement did just that.

Yes, perfect

Hahahahahahah The government abducting students off the street and flying them thousands of miles to be locked up in detention centers because they advocated for international law without a Palestinian exception is concerned about free speech www.theguardian.com/media/2025/a...

Canada is not worth defending as an independent nation because there is something sacred in our borders. The ‘existential crisis’ is not primarily our economic viability, as important as that is. It our ethical commitments and what we will do to uphold them.

Never mind the Geneva Convention. Executing paramedics in a war zone breaches an international agreement that has been in place since the 1800s. Every nation silent in the face of Israel’s war crimes are complicit in them.

“pesticides, while primarily used in agricultural areas, can drift to natural ecosystems, killing insects”

@mark-carney.bsky.social if you become PM, how will respond to this? What do you say about this now? @kayabagaarielle.bsky.social you are my MP here in London and in Mr Carney’s cabinet. What is your response? www.theguardian.com/world/2025/m...

Critical investigative series on incarceration in Canada by @bkstar.bsky.social in @thestar.com. This story about an Ontario institution is horrifying and demands accountability www.thestar.com/news/investi...

"Powerlessness is an alibi. Hopelessness too. I want to ask, what specifically are you going to do? What’s your 'I am Spartacus' move to protect the more vulnerable?" writes Kaveh Akbar.

Eid mubarak 🎊 have a blessed and sweet holiday 🧁

Keep planting. Plant seeds. Plant ideas. Plant initiatives. That is all we can do. Many people before us have believed that the end was imminent. They were wrong. Keep going. No matter what, our job here on this earth is to keep planting and tending.

I think the appropriate thing to say here is, ‘Jesus’. www.thestar.com/news/insight...

Finally some leadership

“Every single day, I think the chances are growing that we will not have a free and fair election in 2026.” In a new interview, the Connecticut senator Chris Murphy talks about Donald Trump, the Democrats’ “broken brand,” and the fate of the nation.

@kayabagaarielle.bsky.social @mark-carney.bsky.social the Trump administration is sending ICE to seize students who have spoken up for Palestinians rights from a hit list compiled by Canary Mission. How will a Liberal government protect freedom of speech & conscience?

I don’t understand how you can watch a video like the Tufts one and not view ICE as an irredeemable agency that is attractive for violent white supremacists to work at.