Suzanne Wood

[Pope Leo XIV @Pontifex]

We continue to follow with concern the events unfolding in various countries torn apart by war and violence. Let us not forget those who are suffering and dying because of these conflicts, and let us add our constant prayers to the generous efforts for #peace.

[FactPost @factpostnews]

Shapiro: I was Pennsylvania AG in 2020 when Trump's enablers took me to court 43 times to try and throw out votes. Every single time they went to court, they lost. They went 0-43, and I went 43-0, because they could never produce the evidence to back up the president's BS.

[Suzanne Wood @WoodAstarte]

@DjCheshier Thank you for the excellent explanation of our wonderful & complex country!

[DJ @DjCheshier]

Canada’s boreal forest — the source of much of the wildfire smoke drifting into the U.S. — isn’t like our managed forests in the lower 48.
It’s the largest intact forest ecosystem on Earth: roughly 1.3 billion acres (about 78 times larger than Alaska’s Tongass, our biggest national forest, and 7 times larger than all 154 U.S. National Forests combined). It stretches in an almost continuous belt from the Yukon to Newfoundland.
Why can’t they just do controlled burns like we do here?
Because most of it is remote, roadless wilderness.
• Less than 9% of Canada’s population lives in the boreal region.
• Less than 1% of the forest itself is developed.
• Vast areas have no roads and are only accessible by aircraft or winter roads.
You can’t send crews in to do prescribed burns across a billion+ acres of inaccessible terrain the way we can in populated areas near roads and communities in the U.S. Wildfire has been nature’s primary management tool in these ecosystems for thousands of years.
Smoke reaching the Northeast isn’t new either. It happened in 1950, 1988, 1995, 2002, 2017, 2021, 2023, 2025, and now 2026. Weather (especially upper-level wind patterns) determines where the smoke goes, not just where the fires are burning.
Blaming Canada’s government for “not controlling” these fires is political theater. The scale and inaccessibility make large-scale suppression or prevention across that wilderness fundamentally different — and in many places, practically impossible — from managing forests near U.S. population centers.
Nature runs that forest. Politicians don’t. Let’s stop pretending otherwise.

[David Attenborough @fandom_david]

We keep waiting for someone to invent a machine that cleans the air, stores carbon, produces oxygen and grows food.

We already did.

It’s called a tree.

[Amelia @amelia_tweetz]

I don’t care how “efficient” the private sector is.

Some services should never be run as businesses.

Health care. Water. Electricity. Gas. Prisons.

If a company makes more money when people get sicker, stay locked up longer, or have no choice but to pay, that’s a system built on conflicting interests.

[Boze Herrington, Library Owl 😴🧙‍♀️ @SketchesbyBoze]

In the Frasier series finale, Kelsey Grammer recites the entire final stanza of Alfred Tennyson’s Victorian-era poem “Ulysses,” about the last voyage of Odysseus, in an episode that was seen by twenty-five million people.

[Mark Carney @MarkJCarney]

Extreme heat waves and record-breaking dry conditions are resulting in one of the most intense wildfire seasons in Canadian history. The fires are especially devastating in Northwestern Ontario, where more than 10 communities have already been evacuated.

In response to the devastating fires, Canada is taking an all-hands-on-deck approach.

More than 5,300 firefighting personnel have been deployed across the country. Nearly 300 aircraft are in the field — from waterbombers and helicopters to evacuation aircraft. We are leveraging data, drones, new technology, and advanced thermal imaging to support real-time detection and mitigation efforts.

On behalf of Canadians, I extend my gratitude to the first responders and volunteers who are on the frontlines. We will mobilise every resource needed to keep Canadians safe.

[Chris Hadfield @Cmdr_Hadfield]

Chocolate tastes good, no matter where you are.
We keep a chocolate wall on the International Space Station, a variety of types velcroed there for handy grabbing as we float by. Great energy snack & treat - delicious & doesn't spoil.
Especially nice when it's chocolate from home.
(chocolate selfie taken inside the cupola, Earth below)

[MeidasTouch @MeidasTouch]

Reminder: When fires ravaged southern California, Canada sent firefighting crews to help battle the blazes.

[Rev. Benjamin Cremer @Brcremer]

One of the most successful deceptions of our time was getting many Christians to fear diversity more than racism, equality more than misogyny, democracy more than fascism, immigrants more than authoritarians, the poor more than corrupt billionaires and empathy more than cruelty.

[Sen. Bernie Sanders @SenSanders]

Sergey Brin is worth $276 billion.

He could save healthcare for 3 million people.

Instead, he’s spending $82 million against California’s 5% billionaire wealth tax.

He’d rather see low-income Americans die & suffer than pay his fair share of taxes.

That is a moral obscenity.

[Hunter Biden @HunterBiden]

I spent the last few months talking to people across the political spectrum, and to people who want nothing to do with politics at all. Here is what I learned.

We are not a divided country. We are a country being divided, on purpose, by an American oligarchy that profits from the fight. They’ve captured our government, denied our healthcare, looted our treasury, and saddled us with crippling debt.

I believe in a New New Deal. Healthcare as a human right. The right of every family to a decent home, and an end to endless wars.

And a dividend paid to every American from the AI economy, because these machines were built on the whole of human inheritance. That inheritance belongs to all of us, and not just to the handful of men playing God with our very existence.

And none of it happens if we just move on. Donald Trump, his family, and his administration are robbing us blind, not just of our money, but of our faith in one another, and they have to answer for it. Truth and reconciliation, not revenge. Then we break the system that let them do it.

The question is not whether we will lose our democracy. The question is whether we will fight to take back what has already been stolen.

I learned in recovery that you can’t heal what you won’t name. Neither can a country.

[🇨🇦Jenn🇨🇦 @LJ_Gilmour]

To every American bitching about the smoke from the wildfires.
Learn this name.
Nicholas Dale. A Canadian pilot who lost his life assisting with a wildfire in Colorado.

[Cheri DiNovo @CheriDiNovo]

FACT: Doug Ford slashed the budget for fighting northern wildfires
and now even Toronto can't breathe safely

[Team Talarico @TeamTalaricoHQ]

The small border town of Eagle Pass, TX showed up for James Talarico’s townhall where he took questions directly from Texans.

Trump won this county by 18 points.

[Mikel Jollett @Mikel_Jollett]

Hey not to be too out of touch with the times or whatever but the fucking President paid a $5.6 million settlement this week because he fucking raped someone and I think it should be a way bigger deal.

[Mark Carney @MarkJCarney]

We’re building one, strong Canadian economy.

[Historic Vids @historyinmemes]

Erling Haaland paid $134,000 for a 430-year-old Viking kings manuscript, then gifted it to his hometown. He said: “I’ve never been a big reader, but I want people to read about those who came from my area.”

Erling Haaland and his father, Alf-Inge Haaland, quietly acquired one of Norway’s greatest literary treasures at auction: a 1594 edition of Snorri Sturluson’s Kongesagaer. Translated by Mattis Størssøn from Old Norse into Danish, it was the first printed history of Norway and helped preserve the stories of the nation’s medieval kings for generations.

Widely regarded as one of the most significant works in Norwegian literary history, the copy purchased by the Haalands was the only complete edition still in private ownership. It sold for 1.3 million Norwegian kroner (about $134,000), setting the record as the most expensive Norwegian book ever sold at auction.

Instead of keeping the rare volume in a private collection, the Haalands donated it to the library in Time Municipality, where Erling grew up. The book is now on public display, and the donation also funded a reading competition to inspire local children and young people to discover Norway’s history and literary heritage.

[Boze Herrington, Library Owl 😴🧙‍♀️ @SketchesbyBoze]

At a certain point we will simply have to decide, collectively, that being entertained all the time is unhealthy, that some things should only be done by humans, that the artistic and intellectual life is worth pursuing and defending, otherwise we’re not going to make it.