Pat Ryan

Today marks Nakba Day, an annual day of remembrance to commemorate the expulsion of more than 700,000 Palestinians between 1947 and 1949 during the creation of the State of Israel and the year that followed. Inea is a New Yorker and a Nakba survivor. She shared her story with us — one of home, tradition and memory over generations.

In 1947, the partition of British India displaced more than 14 million people and left millions dead in one of the bloodiest upheavals of the twentieth century. Families were butchered, women abducted, entire communities wiped out almost overnight. Likewise, when Idi Amin expelled roughly 80,000 Asians from Uganda in 1972, including families like Zohran Mamdani’s own, they lost homes, businesses, property, and entire lives in an instant. What both have in common, the people who survived partition and Idi Amin's expulsion, is that they did not build permanent political identities around inherited victimhood. Their children and grandchildren were encouraged to rebuild, integrate, and move forward, not inherit grievance as a lifelong political identity.

C-22 is looking like a huge mistake. It worries me a great deal. There is so much nonsense in there that It may well end up dealing a death blow to Canadian tech viability.

Ho Lee Shit! Trump flew all the way to China to inform Chinese people that Chinese restaurants exist in America. Sweet & Sour Jesus, this fucking wonton is one egg roll short of a combo platter.

Xi: "The whole world is watching our meeting. The world is at a new crossroads: Can China and the US overcome the Thucydides Trap and create a new paradigm to meet global challenges together." It's remarkable that Xi is invoking the Thucydides Trap, the same framework Mark Carney referenced in his famous Davos speech about the breakdown of the old order and the emergence of a new one. The difference is Carney was talking about how middle powers can react to this changing world, where Xi is speaking as the leader of one of two global hegemons. The implication is the era of unquestioned American primacy established after the end of the Cold War is ending, and the central challenge is no longer whether China rises, but whether the existing order can adapt to that rise.

Marco Rubio was very impressed with the ceiling and light fixatures inside the Great Hall of the People.

President Obama on Iran: “We pulled it off without firing a missile. We got 97% of their enriched uranium out. There’s no dispute that it worked and we didn’t have to kill a whole bunch of people or shut down the Strait of Hormuz”

BREAKING: The White House has published a full list of business leaders who are joining President Trump on his trip to China: 1. Elon Musk, Tesla and SpaceX CEO 2. Tim Cook, Apple CEO 3. Larry Fink, BlackRock CEO 4. Stephen Schwarzman, Blackstone CEO 5. David Solomon, Goldman Sachs CEO 6. Jane Fraser, Citigroup CEO 7. Kelly Ortberg, Boeing CEO 8. Michael Miebach, Mastercard CEO 9. Ryan McInerney, Visa CEO 10. Larry Culp, GE CEO 11. Sanjay Mehrotra, Micron CEO 12. Cristiano Amon, Qualcomm CEO 13. Brian Sikes, Cargill CEO 14. Dina Powell McCormick, Meta Executive 15. Jacob Thaysen, Illumina CEO 16. Jim Anderson, Coherent CEO There may be additional CEOs who join the trip that are not yet named. We continue to believe the market is underestimating the potential outcomes of the US-China summit.