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She rescued me #NationalRescueDogDay

People worry too much about who or what created the Earth and not enough about who or what is destroying it.

There is no gender war. Men have been abusive, domineering and controlling for generations and women are no longer tolerating it. Period.

@timthielmann @thesovereignceo I call bull Dare you to read 'We Were Not the Savages' by Daniel Paul He's right, we were

@thesovereignceo Canadians were the most peaceful and collaborative colonizers. Better than the Americans, Australians and the Spanish. We can be proud of that.

Did Canadian settlers disturb a peaceful First Nations utopia? Or does the real history of colonialism show that they arrived to find slavery, cannibalism and death? Seems like the history isn’t as black and white as what we’ve been told. @timthielmann

Se os israelitas gravam e divulgam vídeos de violações de direitos humanos a cidadãos europeus, com todo o impacto que daí decorre, imagine-se o que não farão em Gaza, na Cisjordânia, no Líbano e aos detidos palestinianos nas suas prisões.

Princess Alice opened her front door to find the Gestapo waiting. It was October 1943 in Athens, Greece. The Nazis controlled the city and were actively rounding up Jewish citizens, sending them to Auschwitz. The officer asked her sharp questions about who lived in her house and about the persistent rumors that she was hiding people. Princess Alice was 58 years old—a British royal living in Greece, and a mother of five. She was also completely deaf. She simply smiled, pointed to her ears, and made hand gestures. The officer raised his voice. She raised her hands in return, pretending she couldn't read his lips. Eventually, he gave up and walked away. Up on the third floor of her house, a Jewish widow and her children sat perfectly still, listening through the floorboards. They would stay hidden there for another full year. Here is how she got to that moment. She was born on February 25, 1885, at Windsor Castle in England. Her great-grandmother, Queen Victoria, was present at her birth. Alice was born deaf, but her mother patiently taught her to read lips in English, German, and French. In 1903, she married Prince Andrew of Greece and moved to Athens. They had four daughters, followed by a son in 1921 whom they named Philip. Then, Greece fell apart. The royal family was overthrown in 1922, her husband was nearly executed, and the family fled into exile. By 1930, Alice suffered a complete mental breakdown. She began hearing religious voices and believed Christ was speaking to her. Her panicked family sent her to a clinic in Switzerland, where Sigmund Freud examined her and diagnosed her with schizophrenia. Doctors subjected her to experimental treatments, including X-rays aimed at suppressing her hormones, mistakenly believing her religious visions stemmed from sexual frustration. She was locked away in institutions for two years. During this time, her husband moved to France with his mistress, her four daughters married, and her nine-year-old son, Philip, was sent away to a boarding school in Britain. Alice didn't see her son for years. She left the institution in 1932 and eventually moved back to Athens to start rebuilding her life. Then, the war arrived. In 1941, the Germans invaded Greece, and by 1943, they occupied Athens. Alice’s life was deeply complicated. Her son, Philip, was fighting the Germans in the British Royal Navy. Meanwhile, two of her four daughters had married German princes, and some of her grandsons were serving in the Wehrmacht. Her own family was split on both sides of the war. Alice chose to stay in Athens. She worked tirelessly with the Red Cross, ran soup kitchens, and set up shelters for orphaned children. Then, the deportations of Greek Jews began. The Nazis sent 60,000 Greek Jews to Auschwitz—nearly 80 percent of the country's Jewish population. In Athens, the roundups started in September 1943. That was when the Cohen family reached out to her. Haimaki Cohen had been a Greek member of parliament and a close friend of the royal family for decades. He had passed away earlier that year, leaving his widow, Rachel, alone with their four sons and a young daughter. The Gestapo was hunting them. The four sons planned to escape to Egypt to join the Greek resistance, but Rachel and her young daughter, Tilde, couldn't make the perilous journey. When Alice heard about their plight, she sent a simple message: Come to me. I'll hide you. Rachel and Tilde moved into the third floor of Alice's house, hidden away from the world. Later, when one of the sons was unable to escape to Egypt and returned to Athens, Alice took him in as well. For over a year, she hid them. She knew perfectly well that if the Gestapo found out, she would be executed. She did it anyway. She brought them food, kept her staff quiet, and visited Rachel every day. She sat with her, talked to her in Greek, and held her hand when she cried. And when the Gestapo came knocking, she used her deafness as a shield, pretending she couldn't understand a word they said until they finally left. The Cohens remained hidden until December 1944, three weeks after Athens was liberated. When they finally came down from that third floor, they were alive. All of them. Afterward, Alice told absolutely no one what she had done. Not her son Philip, not her daughters, and not her friends. The story stayed hidden for almost fifty years. What makes her story so poignant is what followed. After the war, Alice’s life took another unique turn. She founded a religious order of Greek Orthodox nursing nuns, selling her own jewelry to fund it. She put on a nun's habit and lived as a nun for the rest of her life. In 1947, her son Philip married Princess Elizabeth, the future Queen of England. Alice attended the ceremony at Westminster Abbey in her simple nun's habit—the only nun at one of the most famous royal weddings in history. In 1967, following a military coup in Greece, Queen Elizabeth sent for Alice and brought her to live at Buckingham Palace. She spent the last two years of her life there—a nun-princess living in the heart of the British monarchy. She told her son Philip that she wished to be buried in Jerusalem, beside her aunt who rested there. She passed away on December 5, 1969, at the age of 84. Initially, her remains were placed in the Royal Crypt at Windsor. But nineteen years later, in 1988, Prince Philip finally honored her last request, and her remains were moved to the Mount of Olives in Jerusalem. In the early 1990s, the story finally came to light. Michel Cohen, one of Rachel's sons, was 78 years old when he decided to share what had happened. He went to Yad Vashem and told them about Princess Alice—how she had hidden his family for over a year and risked her life every single day. In March 1993, Yad Vashem posthumously named her "Righteous Among the Nations," Israel's highest honor for non-Jews who saved Jewish lives during the Holocaust. She had been gone for 24 years. In October 1994, Prince Philip flew to Jerusalem for the ceremony at Yad Vashem. It marked the first time a member of the British royal family had officially traveled to Israel. During his speech, Philip noted, "We did not know, and as far as we know, she never mentioned to anyone, that she had given refuge to the Cohen family." He added, "I suspect it never occurred to her that her action was in any way special. She would have considered it a perfectly natural human reaction to fellow beings in distress." The surviving members of the Cohen family traveled from France to attend, publicly thanking Prince Philip for his mother's incredible bravery. Princess Alice. Born deaf, diagnosed with schizophrenia, locked away by her family, left by her husband, and separated from her young son. Yet, she saved a Jewish family from the Holocaust and never breathed a word about it for the rest of her life. Her legacy lives on in a grave on the Mount of Olives, a dedicated tree at Yad Vashem, a grandson who became King, and a Jewish family whose grandchildren still light candles for her every single year. She believed that saving lives was simply what it meant to be human. That is what makes her remarkable. And she was absolutely right. Share this story. She deserves to be remembered.

There is no data center on Earth that's worth the bees, water, and trees.

Farmers have figured out that the cheapest pesticide is a strip of flowers. When you plant wildflowers through a crop field, not just around the edge but in strips running through the middle, you get ladybugs, lacewings, hoverflies, and parasitic wasps living in the field instead of visiting it. They eat the aphids, the caterpillars, and the mites for free, all summer long. In controlled trials, fields with tailored flower strips had leaf-beetle numbers 40 to 50% lower and crop damage cut by around 60%, enough to drop below the threshold where spraying was even considered worth it. The flowers attract a standing army to our fields. We spent decades engineering chemicals to kill the insects eating the crop, when the insects that eat those insects would have worked for the price of seed.

Let’s finally put this tired MAGA fantasy to rest: the U.S. has never militarily protected Canada — not once, not ever. Canada has never been invaded by a foreign power in modern history, and we have certainly never asked the U.S. to ride in like some self-appointed saviour. In fact, the only time American troops showed up on our soil in force was during the War of 1812 (Confederation wasn't even born yet) — when they tried to invade and conquer us and got their asses handed to them by a militia, First Nations warriors, and British forces. The colonies defended themselves. And, furthermore to facts, NORAD is a joint defense partnership, NOT American charity. Yet the MAGA base keeps repeating this crap that “if it wasn’t for us, Canada would be gone.” No. We never begged for your protection, we never needed it, and we sure as hell don’t owe you for a fantasy scenario that exists only in your heads. Canada stands on its own. Always has. 🇨🇦 #canpoli

The only difference between your family sleeping in peace and my family waking up to bombs is your geographical luck

Protesting against a genocide is not antisemitism

78% of abortions occur before 9 weeks 92% of abortions occur before 13 weeks 6% of abortions occur between 14–20 weeks 100% are none of your fucking business

Shortest answer: relentless propaganda, ceaseless flood of misinformation, fear-mongering, dividing the population through skillfully managed “culture wars.” If you think that it was just T***p, you are likely mistaken. The same well-funded apparatus that put him in office will probably put their next candidate in office too.

Sorry ,Pierre, but I was there during the Harper years in Ottawa, and you were not part of the inner circle of power. You had little incidence on what Harper and his close team decided. You were, however, always in search of the media spotlight and you were asking journalists-myself included- to be quoted in their report. You spoke French very well and I, working for French TV (TVA Nouvelles), was always happy to find bilingual politicians. I would have used a clip of you in my reports but what you said always stopped me. Even then, you were all about personal attacks and superficial comments. You never discussed /analyzed THE POLICY, always the party. Ad Hominem rather than Ad Rem. And those politicians ( from all parties ) I tended to exclude in favour of those who examined the substance. " No fighting with the other party " in my reports was my motto. Explaining factually why you are against x or y decision, yes. But otherwise, it's just empty political attacks and the citizens of Canada deserve better. You haven't changed, Pierre, despite the responsibilities that are now upon your shoulders. @PierrePoilievre #cdnpoli @PolQC

My patient stuck in ER for 4 days with no hospital bed to accept them is more important than: -landing more jets in Toronto -an Austrian spa -a new Science Center -a new jet -rebate cheques before an election -accelerated expanded alcohol sales

Watching Carney and Poilievre go at it in Parliament is starting to feel uncomfortable. Not in a dramatic way, just in the way it feels when someone is clearly out of their depth and keeps pressing anyway. Carney knows the file. When he answers, he answers the actual question. He doesn’t need to perform outrage or repeat a catchphrase three times and call it a rebuttal. He just explains things, clearly, because he understands them. Poilievre comes in loud and confident, same as always, and that works great on a campaign trail or a Facebook video. But in a room where the other guy actually knows what he’s talking about? The gap shows. Every time. The frustrating part isn’t even the politics. It’s watching someone confuse intensity for competence and expect nobody to notice the difference. People notice. This stopped being a left vs right thing a while ago. Now it just looks like one guy who did the reading and one guy who thinks he doesn’t have to.

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@Kristinartz Hell, yes

Be honest, should violence against pets be punished as severely as violence against people?

@woofknight 🤣

@Joseph_Fasano_ What a wonderful tribute to a favorite teacher. Congrats

The best thing my students ever gave me. One semester I thought they were just *really* focused on taking notes. Turns out they were compiling a book of all the slightly unhinged things I'd said. It's 152 pages long.

"Enemy from within." "Communists, Marxists, fascists, radical left thugs, vermin." "Garbage" Somalis, "low IQ people." "She's an evil, sick, crazy, b..." Republicans want the left to tone down the rhetoric. Erm, have they listened to Donald Trump?? Zeteo put together a montage: