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@kinsellawarren Delusion

Canadian Politics: Carney Government Approval and Liberal Lead Reach New Highs as Optimism About Canada Improves - Abacus Data abacusdata.ca/canadian-polit…

@lady_valor_07 Lion

How would you describe JK Rowling in one word?

@Martina You cannot be serious …

Holy shit. And it all can be traced back to canceling USAID

@Eyalo365 Who made the film?

I'm still trembling with excitement. While waiting for President Trump’s decision on Iran, I began watching a documentary about 1948 and the Nakba. It is a rare film—genuinely objective, unflinching in its portrayal of the brutal truths on both sides. What struck me most deeply was how history keeps folding back on itself: the Arabs pressuring America through the weapon of oil, the Jews responding to direct attacks on their lives, and historians choosing to begin the narrative not with those attacks, but with the Jewish response that followed. This pattern felt painfully familiar. My father, who passed away years ago, once told me his story. In 1938, at just seventeen, he escaped Nazi Germany with his family after antisemitism cost his father his job. They arrived in Palestine as refugees only months before the British, buckling under Arab pressure during the Great Revolt of 1936–1938, issued the White Paper of 1939. That infamous policy effectively sealed the gates of Palestine to Jewish refugees fleeing for their lives—after Arab terrorists, including the forces inspired by the Syrian fighter Izz ad-Din al-Qassam (whose name Hamas later adopted for its military wing), had killed 262 British soldiers and roughly five hundred Jewish civilians. My father described what happened the day after the United Nations voted on November 29, 1947, to partition Palestine and establish a Jewish state: Arab forces attacked a bus just outside their home in Petah Tikva, murdering seven Jewish passengers—including a pregnant woman. The very next morning, my father, still a teenager, joined the Haganah to defend his parents’ home and his people. Watching the documentary, I suddenly saw it with my own eyes. There, in archival footage of Haganah fighters standing in formation in early 1948—before Israel had even declared independence—the camera slowly pans across rows of young men with wild, shoulder-length hair that would have looked more at home in the musical *Hair*. And there, in the second row, unmistakably, was my father. It is one of the most detailed and honest historical films I have seen on the subject. I recommend it to anyone who truly wants to understand what happened—not the slogans, but the layered, painful reality. Here is the link: youtu.be/uGrS9c0V2_U?si… Some stories are not just history. They are blood memory.

@festinaboy Ah no.

Vingegaard ne bourrine pas en vue du Tour de France se permet de calculer son temps pour laisser le maillot rose à Eulalio en gérant à la cool son contre-la-montre... A moins qu'il n'ait pas eu de moteur comme en 2023 ?

The leader of the Lib Dems, and the leader and deputy leader of the Green party, think some women have penises. In itself, it seems like a relatively unimportant matter. But it is symptomatic of a contempt for science and evidence-based truth. Could you vote for a flat-Earther?

@benonwine I was a big fan in the 60s but I rarely listen to them today. Bob Marley on the other hand I listen to frequently.

Be honest… does anybody else think The Beatles were actually a bit overrated? 🎵

@CTVNews Suicidal empathy.

Canadians, in crucial moment, must decide on equality for all: LGBTQ advocate ctvnews.ca/canada/article…

@KonstantinKisin @JChimirie66677 To the left everything different is far right.

Calling everyone you disagree with “far right” has destroyed the meaning of the term. I’m sick of seeing serious labels abused to smear ordinary people with legitimate concerns. In 2015, before Brexit, over 50% of the country was concerned about immigration. Does that make half the country “far right”? Throwing these labels around is reckless, dishonest, and damaging to public debate.

🩷 Unbelievable. Afonso Eulalio keeps the Maglia Rosa, against the odds. 📺 Follow the #Giroditalia on TV, and on socials, wherever you are 🌐

55km/h for 42 kilometres! 😱 Filippo Ganna goes fastest with a crazy average speed at the Giro.

@elikowaz @EylonALevy Happy Nakba.

The word “Nakba” was coined in 1948 by Syrian historian Constantin Zureiq to describe the Arab states’ failure to destroy Israel. The disaster, in his telling, was that Israel survived — not the displacement of Palestinians. kowaz.substack.com/p/acknowledge-…

이거 듣고도 슈베르트 안 좋아하면 진심 문제 있음… 펄만세레나데어케참는데

Amazing 😱 Kookaburra, Australian native bird. 🐦

@LottoIntermarch @DanDeakins 🥲

Jilke Michielsen will always be remembered as an admirable example of courage. Diagnosed with terminal cancer, she kept looking forward, pursuing a biomedical sciences program at the University of Antwerp while facing the hardest battle of her life at 19 years old. Rest in peace, Jilke 🌟

@DavidColetto It’s no consolation.

Trump helped create the conditions for Carney’s rise. But the data suggests this is now bigger than simply anti-Trump sentiment. Many Canadians see Carney as the safer option in an uncertain world. That’s the core argument in my latest long read: davidcoletto.substack.com/p/long-read-th…

@dagodubnos Von Karajan always conducted with his eyes shut.

Ludwig van Beethoven - Coriolan Overture, Op. 62 (1807) Berliner Philharmoniker | Herbert von Karajan "All the wavering and raging of the inner self coalesces into one great resolve; the self-sacrifice is decided..." Richard Wagner

This reminds me of the Carney Liberals because once people buy the “expert adult in the room” story, they start rejecting evidence that the story isn’t working. Credentials become camouflage. Failure becomes “complexity.” Criticism becomes “misinformation.” That’s the bamboozle Sagan warned about: not just being fooled, but defending the people who fooled you.

@elicalebon @QuantumFlux36 That deserves a follow.

“Jihad” means “struggle.” “Mein Kampf” also means “my struggle.” Imagine falling for it twice.