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[Toby Nwabuogor 🇺🇦 @Toby4WARD]

There are two brave groups of people in the world currently. The Ukrainians defending their right to independently exist & those in Russia protesting the invasion of a sovereign neighbor. Both are fighting Putin the dictator. This little compilation goes to them. #SlavaUkraini

[Rāma Śēṣan Chandraśēkaran @maa_bhaishiiH]

RSVP is French for “Répondez s'il vous plaît” which means “respond, please” and literally means “Respond, if it pleases you”. English uses lot of French phrases verbatim. Some of them are :

1. Faux pas (false step)
2. Quelle surprise (what a surprise)
3. À la carte (by the menu card)
4. Bon appétit (good appetite)
5. Résumé (summary)
6. Fait accompli (thing done / done deal)
7. En route (on the way)
8. déjà vu (I have already seen)
9. Au contraire (on the contrary)
10. Enfant terrible (disruptive child)
11. Touché (valid)
12. Voila (there it is)
13. C'est la vie (that is life)
14. Coup d'état (strikeout of the state)
15. Raison d'être (reason to be)
16. Tour de force (feat of strength)
17. Vis-a-vis (face to face)
18. M’aidez (help me) - distress mayday signal
19. Double entendre (double meaning)
20. laissez-faire (allow to do)

[Mark Carney @MarkJCarney]

44 years ago today, the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms was signed into law. It laid the foundation for a stronger, more just Canada.

It is up to us all to protect the values of freedom and equality enshrined in the Charter — to keep building a better Canada, for all.

[Anish Moonka @anishmoonka]

Your first meme was probably a Chuck Norris fact. Mine was. He died yesterday in Hawaii at 86, ten days after posting a video of himself throwing punches on his birthday. His caption: “I don’t age. I level up.” This is a little tribute.

The real Chuck Norris was wilder than any meme about him. He lost his first three karate tournaments, then went 65-5 over the next decade. Six-time undefeated world middleweight karate champion. Black belts in five different disciplines. First person ever inducted into the Black Belt Hall of Fame, and the only martial artist to be named to it three separate times.

His student Steve McQueen told him to try acting. That led to a fight scene opposite Bruce Lee in Way of the Dragon (1972), which became the highest-grossing film in Hong Kong that year. Then Walker, Texas Ranger ran 9 seasons on CBS, 194 episodes, broadcast in over 100 countries.

But his biggest cultural moment started with a college freshman’s joke. In 2005, a Brown University student named Ian Spector built a random fact generator on the Something Awful forums. It was originally about Vin Diesel. When the novelty faded, Spector ran a poll with 12 celebrity options. Chuck Norris wasn’t on the list. He won anyway, by write-in landslide.

By early 2006, the Chuck Norris Fact Generator was pulling 20 million pageviews a month. This was before Twitter existed, before Facebook was public, before YouTube had a single viral hit. A college kid’s joke website about a semi-retired action star became one of the most visited humor pages on the internet. It spawned six books (some hit the New York Times bestseller list), two video games, and a scene in The Expendables 2 where Sylvester Stallone’s character recites a Chuck Norris fact to Chuck Norris’s face.

When asked about his favorite fact, Norris said it was: “They tried to carve Chuck Norris’ face into Mount Rushmore, but the granite wasn’t hard enough for his beard.”

The meme ran for 21 years. Most memes last weeks. Chuck Norris Facts introduced more people to Chuck Norris than his movies ever did. For everyone born after 1995, he was never an aging action star or a karate champion. He was the guy who counted to infinity. Twice. The guy whose tears cure cancer, too bad he never cried.

The last thing the internet saw from Chuck Norris was him throwing punches on his 86th birthday. Which is, honestly, the most Chuck Norris fact of all.

[Mark Carney @MarkJCarney]

Happy Flag Day, Canada 🇨🇦

[Mackenzie Gray @Gray_Mackenzie]

The PM was choked up talking about the shooting in Tumbler Ridge, BC

“The nation mourns with you, Canada stands by you”

Carney thanks world leaders, including the King, for their condolences and says flags on government buildings will be at half-mast for a week #cdnpolj

[Brian Allen @allenanalysis]

🚨 THIS is America at its best.

Unity. Diversity. People standing together.

Bad Bunny owned the Super Bowl halftime show and brought the whole country with him.

No hate. No division. Just culture, pride, and community. ✊🇺🇸

This is the America I want to live in.

[Access Bad Bunny @AccessBadBunny]

ALL THE LATIN AMERICAN COUNTRIES BEING MENTIONED BY BAD BUNNY IN THE HALFTIME SHOW. #SuperBowl

[Elmo @elmo]

That Bunny was AMAZING. Elmo thinks he should be called Good Bunny! Elmo loves you, Mr. Good Bunny! ❤️🎶🐰

[Dobber @DobberHockey]

Remember that John Hamm USA 🇺🇸 commercial?

Well, Canada has responded 👀🇨🇦

[unusual_whales @unusual_whales]

Buttigieg: In a country that amended its constitution so you could not purchase a beer and then realized it was a bad idea and amended it back, surely we can have an amendment clarifying that a corporation is not a person and money is not speech.

[Mark Carney @MarkJCarney]

The history of Black Canadians is one of relentless progress, earned through perseverance, and carried forward by opening doors for so many to follow. 

This week, we celebrated 30 years of Black History Month in Canada.

[Mark Carney @MarkJCarney]

Team Canada has officially arrived at the #Olympics2026

We’re ready to cheer you on from 🇨🇦

[Devin Nunes' Cattle Dog 🇺🇦 🇪🇺🇺🇸🇨🇦 @Kaos_Vs_Control]

It’s amazing how great actors can take text I don’t really understand, and make it so understandable. Shakespeare is so good when it’s done well.

Sir Gandalf delivers a masterclass and a poignant sentiment.

[Dr. M.F. Khan @Dr_TheHistories]

In August 1938, Captain Paul Grüninger stood at the Swiss border in St. Gallen, watching helplessly as the world unraveled and thousands of Jewish families poured in from Austria, desperate to outrun Nazi terror.

The Swiss government had just given a heartless order to close the borders and send everyone back, but Paul knew that following these instructions meant sending innocent people to their deaths. He chose to break the law to help others, starting a huge secret effort where he changed entry dates and faked signatures to make it look like these families had entered Switzerland when it was still allowed.

He often used his own money to buy coats and food for the refugees who arrived at the border with absolutely nothing. This wasn't a secret he kept alone, as he had to constantly navigate a police department where many of his own officers were ready to report him.

By the time the authorities finally caught him, he had successfully saved 3,600 lives. The scale of Paul’s actions in just a few months is staggering, especially when you realize he was operating within a rigid, rule-bound police force.

To save 3,600 people, there were days when he must have forged dozens of documents every few hours, all while juggling his regular duties as commander. He went far beyond paperwork, transforming community halls into makeshift shelters so families could find warmth and safety the moment they crossed the border. He built a hidden network of local allies: doctors who healed the sick for nothing, shopkeepers who quietly slipped food to those forbidden to be there.

As the months passed, the flood of refugees grew too large for the authorities in Bern to overlook, finally triggering an investigation into his office. Even as investigators crossed his threshold, Paul kept stamping passports and ushering families to safety, right up until he was pulled from his post.

Today, those 3,600 lives have blossomed into a living legacy: tens of thousands of descendants who exist because he refused to give up.

The Swiss government showed no mercy, stripping him of his rank, firing him, and erasing the pension he had earned through a lifetime of service. His wife and children bore the weight of his decision, enduring the same poverty and social exile that followed his dismissal.

For more than thirty years, he wandered the streets of St. Gallen as an outcast, invisible to those who should have celebrated his bravery. Paul scraped by on odd jobs, always struggling to pay rent, but never once seeking pity. Even when he could barely afford the basics, he insisted he would make the same choice all over again.

He died in 1972, and toward the end of his life, he famously said that he couldn't let "bureaucratic schemes" stand in the way of saving human beings.

Paul Grüninger’s life confronts us with an uncomfortable truth: legality and morality do not always align, and our real character is revealed when they clash. Anyone can follow a rulebook, but it takes a rare soul to meet a desperate gaze and decide that a human life outweighs a career, a pension, or a reputation.

Paul showed that greatness is not measured by titles or medals, but by the quiet, frightening moments when we choose right simply because it is right. He proved that a single person, armed with a pen and a conscience, can defy a whole system of indifference and prevail, even if victory does not bring wealth or fame.

His story reminds us we are not just cogs in a machine or workers following a script. We are human first, and our greatest duty is to protect each other, regardless of what the paperwork demands.

In the end, his poverty became a badge of honor, proof that he could not be bought by a system that asked him to exchange his humanity for a paycheck.

We may never be called to save thousands, but every day we face a choice between convenience and kindness.

Paul’s legacy urges us to choose people over procedures, every single time.

© Reddit

#drthehistories

[Ananth Rupanagudi @Ananth_IRAS]

In 1943, in Nazi-occupied Paris, a teenager named Adolfo Kaminsky discovered that chemistry could be a weapon. He had learned the science of dyes in a small shop, studying how pigments bonded to paper and how solvents could break them apart. That knowledge became the difference between life and death.

The Nazis used paperwork as a weapon. On Jewish identity documents, the word JUIF was stamped in permanent blue ink. That single mark meant arrest, deportation, and death. The French Resistance asked Kaminsky if it could be erased. Most attempts ruined the paper. He remembered something else: lactic acid. It dissolved the dye without damaging the fibres. Under a single lamp, he watched the fatal word disappear.

But removing ink was only the beginning. He had to recreate entire identities birth certificates, ration cards, transit permits each detail perfect. A wrong shade of ink or a misaligned stamp could expose entire networks and send families to torture or execution. He worked in a hidden attic on the Left Bank, surrounded by chemical fumes that burned his eyes and stained his hands. Requests flooded in. Papers for children escaping to Switzerland. Ration cards for families in hiding. Transit passes for dangerous routes through Spain.

Then he made a calculation that would haunt him. Each document took about two minutes. In an hour, he could save thirty people. In an hour of sleep, thirty people could die. So he stopped sleeping.

When he learned that three hundred Jewish children in an orphanage were about to be raided, he locked himself in his lab and worked for two days without rest. His vision blurred. His hand cramped. He collapsed for an hour and woke in panic, furious at himself for the lives he imagined lost. He forced himself back to work. The children escaped.

It became a quiet war of precision. As Nazi security measures evolved, Kaminsky refined his methods. Success wasn’t measured in territory or headlines, but in families that survived and names that never appeared on transport lists. By the liberation of Paris in 1944, his forged documents had saved an estimated fourteen thousand people.

He never charged a cent. To him, putting a price on a life was unthinkable. After the war, he became a photographer and spoke little about what he had done. Even his children did not know for decades. The man who saved thousands disappeared back into ordinary life.

Only later did his story emerge, revealing a quieter truth about heroism. Courage does not always carry a weapon or wear a uniform. Sometimes it works under a dim bulb, with stained fingers and relentless focus, fighting an empire with knowledge and refusal to look away.

Adolfo Kaminsky died in 2023 at ninety-seven. His legacy is not in monuments or medals. It lives in the generations that exist because a teenager decided sleep could wait. #unknown #heroes #HistoryMakers

[This Hour Has 22 Minutes @22_Minutes]

Donald Trump scopes out Greenland.

[Transport Canada @Transport_gc]

✔ Sleigh inspected
✔ Reindeer equipment secured
✔ Flight plan approved

Santa’s list wasn’t the only one checked twice. The Minister of Transport has cleared Santa for travel just in time for #Christmas.🎅

Happy Holidays!🎄
https://t.co/hZLKf1FFSE

[Toby Nwabuogor 🇺🇦 @Toby4WARD]

@jrysana To really see this sorta play out, check out "Gate - Thus the JSDF Fought There!"
https://t.co/IcSAhsFCfi

[JΛKΣ @USMCLiberal]

I always felt like those calling for ICE to be abolished were going too far, and that the agency just needed to be overhauled.

I now believe that simply abolishing ICE is not enough.

Agents and section chiefs need to be investigated for civil rights violations and corruption.

[Global Edmonton @GlobalEdmonton]

Confirmed cases of measles in Alberta now at 326, continue to rise.
https://t.co/ikjcexiICX