MPower 🇨🇦
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MPower 🇨🇦
@MarlenePower
PhD student | International Education & Cooperation | Fanon fan | Books, travel, and a dash of Star Wars.
Newfoundland Katılım Eylül 2012
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A new poll commissioned by @readthemaple finds that:
- 55% of Canadians agree it should be illegal for Canadians to serve in the U.S. military;
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- 54% agree it should be illegal for Canadians to serve in the Israeli military.
readthemaple.com/54-of-canadian…
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@chaoticmulaney This scene - experiencing the sublime, confronting our significance and our insignificance, as close as we.can come to the infinite.
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i’m genuinely sad for the people who will watch project hail mary at home when it gets a digital release because this is exactly the kind of movie you NEED to experience in a movie theater. this is what they’re made for. this was breathtaking
ellie williams supremacy@joelmillerrs
im sorry but THIS SCENE?! this is what cinema and humanity was made for
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@BOWIEB0X entire theater was silent. nobody coughing. nobody reaching for a snack. nothing
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@heyitsrosexx @ThirdWayLib As Oscar Wilde said, all things in moderation including moderation
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@ThirdWayLib if cutting out chocolate makes you look this tired then i am staying away from that. moderation is a real thing that some people desperately need to learn
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We know why you’re on this diet
ThePersistence@ScottPresler
I’m almost there. In 4 more days, I’ll have gone 1 entire year w/o chocolate, bread, or pasta. Chicken, cottage cheese, Greek yogurt, avocados, blueberries, tomatoes, bell peppers, protein powder, & hearts of palm have completely transformed my life for the better.
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@snwy_me @lesbianacrobat I was thinking of Leonard with the mom from Arrested Development 😂
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Had a fwb with a 65 yr old semiretired professor and we only ever communicated via email and one morning after she made me breakfast I was on the bus going home and she sent me an email with the subject “I’d like to end our relationship” with no body text but her professional sig
𓇢 𓆸@kyuetsi
what’s your first wlw breakup story?
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@MarkJCarney Is it to defend us? Or to support empire in attacking others?
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We’ve hit the NATO 2% spending target — so that our women and men in uniform have the resources they need to keep Canadians safe.
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@RhondaGarad @AR_Salimii @MarkJCarney Bullshit. There's enough to be mad about without clouding the facts with this nonsense.
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@AR_Salimii @MarkJCarney Carney is part of the Epstein class.
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I deeply regret my vote. You offered no condolences for the 168 Iranian schoolchildren slaughtered by U.S. and Israeli missiles, yet you were quick to mourn 2 people killed in the UAE. You reward child-killers and sanction the victims of aggression. @MarkJCarney, you are not the leader this peace-loving, humanitarian country deserves.
Mark Carney@MarkJCarney
Canada shares its condolences with the UAE following the latest Iranian attack that took the lives of two civilians in Abu Dhabi. We strongly condemn Iran’s unprovoked attacks on the UAE and across the region, and reiterate the importance of opening secure access through the Strait of Hormuz. Canada supports efforts to safeguard international shipping and ensure freedom of navigation.
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@AR_Salimii @mispentyouth99 @far_var_din @v_nearandfar @MarkJCarney We need a stronger NDP that can keep the cons out. I will never vote Liberal again but also shiver at the thought of how much worse the other right wingers would be.
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Carney failed to realize that people only voted for him because the Conservative leader was too aligned with Trump and his policies. Canadians wanted to maintain our independence and stand on the right side of history. If we had known that Carney and his party would just become the executors of Trump and Netanyahu’s policies, we would never have voted for him.
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BREAKING: The United Nations has voted 123-3 in favor to condemn the enslavement of millions of Africans and the trans-Atlantic slave trade.
The three countries voting against it?
🇺🇸 USA
🇮🇱Israel
🇦🇷 Argentina
Nearly all of Europe abstained.
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MPower 🇨🇦 retweetledi
While the world celebrates Eid, here in Gaza, fathers place new Eid clothes on the graves of their children.
Here, we live in a world cut off from the rest of the world, a forgotten, oppressed people subjected to genocide and ethnic cleansing for the third year, with no one stopping it.
This is what Eid looks like in Gaza.
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A San Diego cop fatally shot a Black teen running for his life from an active shooter, without ever giving him a chance to ID himself.
atlantablackstar.com/2025/02/25/san…
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@AlexZheLin @RnaudBertrand So you admit it was a build up as a deterrent. And since when is being outspoken a reason to bomb someone?
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@MarlenePower @RnaudBertrand To build up more and make it more and more costly to cross them in the future.
They were already exercising their power regionally and were pretty outspoken about saying they would continue.
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Iran seems to be following a strategy of unveiling more and more impressive military capabilities as the war goes on.
They just fired long-range ballistic missiles at Diego Garcia, one of the most strategically significant U.S. military bases in the world (hosting B-52 bombers, nuclear subs, etc.), nearly 5,000km away from them in the middle of the Indian ocean 👇.
Diego Garcia has never been hit before in any war in its 5 decades of existence, and no-one knew Iran had these types of capabilities (Iran themselves said their ballistic missile range was limited to 2,000 kilometers).
Two days ago, they also took down an "unkillable" F-35 fifth-generation fighter jet, something which has never happened before (militarywatchmagazine.com/article/footag…).
They've also managed to take control of the world's most strategic oil chokepoint, and have proven they can hit any strategic target in the wider Middle-East, even the most protected ones (such as Israel's Haifa oil refinery: aljazeera.com/news/2026/3/19…).
All in all, it sounds almost unbelievable but Iran appears to have a genuine form of escalation dominance over the United States military, with its trillion dollar budget.
In a very real way, it's even more impressive than Vietnam or Afghanistan: those countries resisted a superpower, Iran appears to be competing with one.
It also makes you think: what comes next? And that's exactly what escalation dominance is all about: keep raising the stakes until the other side blinks. It's about making Trump think "wait, I thought I was picking a fight with the skinny kid and turns out he's Bruce Lee."
The Spectator Index@spectatorindex
BREAKING: Iran fired two ballistic missiles at US-UK base at Diego Garcia in the Indian Ocean, according to Wall Street Journal report.
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@AlexZheLin @RnaudBertrand If they were a threat, why had they not used their capabilities until attacked?
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@RnaudBertrand This type of event kind of legitimatizes the attack by the US/Israel IMO.
It can't be said that Iran wasn't a serious threat.
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MPower 🇨🇦 retweetledi
We are appalled by the selective humanity, the double standards, and the selective outrage that continue to shape and define Canadian foreign policy.
As Canadian citizens, we refuse to accept a system where human lives are valued differently based on geography, politics, or identity. Citizenship is not passive it carries a responsibility to speak, to question, and to hold our government accountable.
Justice cannot be conditional. Compassion cannot be selective.
When silence is chosen for some victims and outrage for others, it exposes not only hypocrisy but a profound moral failure.
Canada must uphold the principles it claims to stand for. A foreign policy rooted in selective human rights is not principled it is complicit.
As citizens, we reject this hierarchy of human worth. We stand for equal dignity, consistent justice, and accountability for all people, everywhere without exception.
#CanPoli #IranWar
Anita Anand@AnitaAnandMP
Canada is appalled by the Iranian Government’s execution of a Swedish citizen in Iran. We offer our deepest condolences to the family and express our full solidarity with Sweden. Canada continues to call on the Iranian regime to respect human rights and uphold their responsibilities under international law.
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@MarlenePower @briebriejoy Multi layered??? Lmfao a 7 year old could figure that movie out cause it lacked a lot of depth but it was entertaining for a pop corn flick
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I haven’t seen a single critique say they didn’t like the movie because the characters were “bad people.” But I have read lengthy criticisms, many by Black women, that offer substantive political, racial, and narrative analysis. Interesting what people are choosing to read and engage with.
Laura Robinson@LauraRbnsn
It wasn't even my favorite movie of the year but I genuinely do not understand disliking OBAA. Every criticism I've heard of it makes me feel like the critic and I just don't even agree what a movie is. "The characters are bad people." Yeah, it's not a moral treatise. "It's
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@BillMorr257820 @OliKloz @JenniferSey I dont thinit was that deep, honestly. Or the director also failed to see the irony
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@OliKloz @JenniferSey It's hilarious because the main character was old and out of touch and it was poking fun at aged resistance fighters. I can't believe that went over this reviewers head
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It's hard to describe how much I hated this movie.
The whole thing makes Hollywood egomaniacs feel like they are the resistance when in reality they are the rich people, wearing single use $20,000 outfits, talking down to staff, OD’ing on Ozempic and generally being the most resource-consuming, selfish, narcissistic people on the planet. But ok, sure, you’re revolutionaries in Chanel and Balenciaga with a face full of filler and Botox!
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