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Toronto ||🇳🇵||

[SG @allkindsXO]

Anyways Raptors are 2019 NBA Champions so lets just remember that

[The Spectator Index @spectatorindex]

BREAKING: Nepal-China flood death toll reaches 1,325 with over 5,584 people missing.

[SG @allkindsXO]

@brxndonbrandoff Noo it was deffs Molson. I think for colouring book??

[The Spectator Index @spectatorindex]

BREAKING: Nepal flood death toll reaches 1,118 with over 3,900 people missing.

[The Spectator Index @spectatorindex]

BREAKING: Death toll from Nepal flood has risen to 1010, with 4599 people missing.

[Anup Kaphle 🐐 @AnupKaphle]

My friend and former Washington Post colleague @ishaantharoor has a piece in @NewYorker today that gets at something I've been trying to put into words all week: what happened this week isn't just a natural disaster story; it's a story about who pays for a crisis they didn't help create.

Ishaan traces how a catastrophic glacial collapse became a 500+ death toll, and threads it into everything else Nepal has been carrying in the past year: a Gen Z uprising, a new government trying to prove itself, and now a disaster that will likely set the country back a decade.

We spoke the other day about how my newsroom has been covering this and what this moment feels like from Nepal. Here's what I told him: a year ago the ground shook because of us -- our politics, our anger, our frustration. This week, it was the actual ground again. It’s as if Nepalis are having to alternate between the disasters we cause and the ones that just arrive.

Link to his piece: https://t.co/PwFXHe0tee

[Prabal Gurung @prabalgurung]

🇳🇵My heart is broken for Nepal. 🇳🇵

To witness villages erased, families searching for loved ones, and survivors amid the remains of homes built over generations is a grief beyond words.

On August 26, a catastrophic collapse of glacier, rock and ice near the Nepal–Tibet border sent a violent torrent through Himalayan river valleys. Entire communities were swept away. Hundreds have lost their lives, many more remain missing, and thousands are displaced or cut off from help.

These are not merely numbers.

Each number is a person.
A mother. A father. A child.
A pilgrim. A worker. A friend.
Someone loved. Someone expected home.

Nepal is breathtaking, and vulnerable to a rapidly warming planet. As glaciers retreat and permafrost thaws, the Himalayas become fragile. Nepal has contributed so little to the climate crisis, yet lives with some of its most devastating consequences.

The resilience of the Nepali people is ancient, extraordinary and humbling. But resilience should never become an excuse for indifference.

The people of Nepal should not have to prove their strength by repeatedly rebuilding from unimaginable loss. They deserve global attention, humanitarian assistance, climate justice, stronger early-warning systems and resources to protect vulnerable communities.

Even amid this heartbreak, I am deeply moved and immensely proud to see Nepal come together, neighbours helping neighbours, volunteers, rescuers, the Nepali Army and many others risking everything to find survivors and reach those cut off. This is resilience made visible: compassion, courage and love in action.

If you are able, please donate, share verified information and help keep Nepal in the world’s consciousness after the news cycle moves on.

The Prime Minister’s Disaster Relief Fund is accepting contributions. Verified details are in this post and at the link in my bio.

No contribution is too small. Collective compassion becomes collective power.

To everyone grieving, waiting for news, displaced from home or working through this devastation: you are not alone.

Nepal has always carried light through darkness.

Now, Nepal needs the world to carry some of that light back.

🙏🏾🇳🇵
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[a bb @chillguynp]

Nepal has had to rebuild more times than it has built

[Luca Rosano @lucarosano3]

It’s 2016 all over again:

Jays are coming off magical playoff run
Raptors lose to Cavs in playoffs
Leafs win the draft lottery
New Drake album dropping

[SG @allkindsXO]

@Mr_E_ous @RogersHelps Yes exactly!! I still have no service and they’re saying is nothing is wrong w their service.

[SG @allkindsXO]

@RogersHelps waited 2hrs w 100 people in queue bc issues with service (aka I have no service & your AI bot can’t fix it) & finally got to 3rd in line and you guys kicked me out. But guess what! I can’t call you bc I HAVE NO SERVICE!!! Explain how I’m supposed to access help🙃

[SG @allkindsXO]

@CGhembu @RogersHelps No solution

[SG @allkindsXO]

@Charlii_aBB @RogersHelps Is it your SIM as well?

[camy @sidnezcrosby]

last time canada didn't win gold with nhl players was also when the olympics were in italy so maybe we can just blame italy for this one yall

[SG @allkindsXO]

@brxndonbrandoff Bwn the thais???

[SG @allkindsXO]

@brxndonbrandoff Prime

[SG @allkindsXO]

@suckyaMuddah24 You do

[SG @allkindsXO]

@areublem As you should🥵🥵

[SG @allkindsXO]

@suckyaMuddah24 No

[SG @allkindsXO]

Everyone gotta apologize to Binnington omfg