JM

Make peace. Not war.

This is a huge scandal. Ford is the worst premier ever.

this is a good time to remind the world that Israel is the only country in the world that consistently kidnaps children from their homes, imprisons them without charge or trial, tortures and sexually assaults them, while denying them contact with their parents or lawyers. child torture, rape, starvation, and killing is a political mainstay of the "Jewish state"--Epstein didn't invent it.

If you don't cut off Israel completely at this point when they're openly demonstrating the crimes against humanity they're about to perform then you'll never be able to pretend you didn't know

Forget "politics." Cultivating literacy --independent literacy, the ability to read and think and write and do it all in your own head and with your own two hands, so to speak -- is the great radical act now. Be a radical.

An Arabic proverb says; “Keep your house clean like you're expecting guests.Keep your heart clean like you're expecting death.” This hits deep, a reminder we often forget.

Jesus did not call his followers to defend a Christian nation; he called them to defend the poor, the marginalized, the oppressed, and the hurting (wherever those may be).

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"Ontario already has the lowest per-capita health spending in 🇨🇦, but that isn’t stopping the Ford gov't from funding fewer beds per person, even as demand is surging. "26 Budget guarantees longer waits, more hallway medicine & an Ontario where getting sick means getting in line"

"all records from the premier, cabinet ministers, parliamentary assistants and their offices will now be off-limits to FOI-ers. Thirty-eight years of access slammed shut."

🔴 They hang a Palestinian in their Synagogue "house of worship" and then complain all over the media about "Antisemitism". Thanks to and Follow @InsideWithSam

Pilate knew Jesus was innocent. He killed him anyway because the crowd was loud and his position was fragile. Men with fragile positions and loud crowds behind them are the most dangerous people in any era.

Cardinal Pizzaballa: "Christ is not absent from Gaza. He is there—crucified in the wounded."

“When you want to teach children to think, you begin by treating them seriously when they are little, giving them responsibilities, talking to them candidly, providing privacy and solitude for them, and making them readers and thinkers of significant thoughts from the beginning. That’s if you want to teach them to think.” — Bertrand Russell

My father Stephen Lewis is spectacularly uninterested in social media, so I’m posting this myself (though he has read it and is prepared to suffer the indignity of all I'm about to reveal). When he was Canada’s ambassador to the UN from 1984-88, Dad was truly shocked by the regularity of open, vitriolic antisemitism in the cocktail parties and ambassadorial receptions that surround that crucial but flawed institution. For this reason (among others) he’s always been the one in our family with the deepest atavistic fear of antisemitism. He was sympathetic to the idea of Israel as a refuge longer than the rest of us. This is no longer the case. Like so many Jews who for decades adopted the dominant narratives of Zionism, he can no longer defend the current actions of the state of Israel. He now regards Israel as a rogue state, committing genocide and other crimes against humankind, which ought to be opposed by every tool and tactic in Canada's diplomatic arsenal. To return to the personal, seven years ago my Dad was diagnosed with a vicious cancer and was given as little as 3 months to live. It’s a sublime understatement to say that he’s a fighter - but he has persevered in life with a tenacity familiar from his political, diplomatic and humanitarian pursuits. Which brings us to this morning, when at 87 years old, he spent an hour standing at the side of the road in his old riding of Scarborough West. Standing up as a Jew against genocide. Standing up for justice for Palestine. Standing up on the right side of history, where the vast majority of humanity currently stands. I’ve never been prouder, never more humble before the stubborn principle and insistent moral clarity of the guy I’m so lucky to call Dad. People of Canada: don’t stop talking about Palestine. Starvation as collective punishment can never be forgiven. Burning and burying children alive can never be defended. Stand up against genocide until we make it stop! Thanks Dad. And special thanks to @CharlieAngusNDP for shining his spotlight on Ted Schmidt and the other excellent folks who gather every Thursday at 8 am at the corner of Victoria Park and Kingston Road in Scarborough.

So Dimebag Doug is giving ANOTHER $300 million of TAX PAYER Dollars to his Developer Pals to build 61 new PRIVATE surgical & diagnostic clinics? Wtf Ontario? Get Mad People or its all over

Ah Samwise, what an incredibly beautiful character He was. He never wanted greatness, he never wanted more than what he had. He just wanted a home, a garden, and the people he loved. Which is why the ring never took hold of him. Every other character is fighting what the ring awakens in them. It finds your deepest desire and inflates it until it destroys you. Boromir wanted to save his people, so the Ring told him he could. Galadriel wanted to protect the elves, so the Ring offered her a throne. But Sam isn't fighting anything. He just genuinely doesn't want more than what he has. I think about that a lot. We're told our whole lives to want bigger, reach higher, never settle. And Tolkien wrote a story where the person who saves the world is the one who was already content with what he had. His smallness wasn't a weakness. In fact, it was the thing that made him untouchable. That little hobbit had it all figured out.

So unreal that the countries that openly station their soldiers in hotels and allow them to hide among civilians in bomb shelters justified a whole genocide on empty accusations of “human shields.”

Speaking to media @ 9:30 this morning about the Ford government’s sudden cancellation of International Language Programs. Families in my community are frustrated & confused about how a 50 year old heritage program vanished overnight. #onted #onpoli #tcdsb Share if you agree.

@christoaivalis 1% on the 1% - seems like a pretty solid idea. Their wealth is definitely earning way more than that. Honestly, it should be framed as a matter of national pride. Starship Troopers style - I'm doing my part!

Avi made this video during the leadership campaign

This is a great video by @avilewis: He goes to Bay Street to see how the rich and well-connected justify Canadian poverty while they and their bosses rake in millions But Avi makes it clear: Capitalism isn't working for Canadians