Arwen Smith

Bears. Beets. Britney Spears.

[Arwen Smith @ArwenAmanda]

Replicating @AOC’s iconic Met Gala look to spread the good word at the MB Legislature today. ✌🏼#taxtherich ⁣⁣
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Thx to my mom for recreating designer @AuroraJames’ masterpiece by changing the neckline on a dress I already owned, ironing on the letters + adding the tulle! 🙏🏼

[Wab Kinew @WabKinew]

Today, we named the new primary health-care clinic in The Pas the Amanda Lathlin Memorial Clinic- so her commitment to northern families will continue to make a difference for generations to come. 🦬

Amanda Lathlin was a trailblazer, a fighter for northern Manitoba, and a proud advocate for better health care close to home.

[Arwen Smith @ArwenAmanda]

@stevelambertwpg @ianfroese @MLAGoertzen @GregSelinger @WabKinew @DeanBeeby @Murray_Brewster @ChrisPurdyCP @KellyGerMalone Congrats!!! ✨✨✨✨

[Ian Kennedy @IanKennedyCK]

Today and every day, believe survivors.

The system is beyond flawed when several men tell several different stories and communicate they need to “get their stories straight” before an investigation and cannot be questioned on their own actions or reliability.

[Assal Rad @AssalRad]

Palestinians frantically searching for people buried alive after an Israeli strike on tents. Just unending horror from Gaza.

[Aditi @aditilrao]

Hijacking an aid boat is obviously a war crime. So is besieging 2.2 million civilians and manufacturing famine. So is firing 300 bullets into a child. So is bombing refugee camps. Every second of the past 600+ days, Israel has committed unimaginable crimes, every second.

[promise li @promise__li]

Genuinely losing my mind how is this not bigger news?? Hamas is literally proposing to give up power in Gaza in a ceasefire proposal and Israel and US keep specifically rejecting that part. This is how much the Zionists want an excuse to continue genocide.

[Sesame Street @sesamestreet]

On our street, everyone is welcome. Together, let’s build a world where every person and family feels loved and respected for who they are. Happy #PrideMonth!

[Avi Lewis @avilewis]

My father Stephen Lewis is spectacularly uninterested in social media, so I’m posting this myself (though he has read it and is prepared to suffer the indignity of all I'm about to reveal).

When he was Canada’s ambassador to the UN from 1984-88, Dad was truly shocked by the regularity of open, vitriolic antisemitism in the cocktail parties and ambassadorial receptions that surround that crucial but flawed institution.

For this reason (among others) he’s always been the one in our family with the deepest atavistic fear of antisemitism. He was sympathetic to the idea of Israel as a refuge longer than the rest of us.

This is no longer the case. Like so many Jews who for decades adopted the dominant narratives of Zionism, he can no longer defend the current actions of the state of Israel.

He now regards Israel as a rogue state, committing genocide and other crimes against humankind, which ought to be opposed by every tool and tactic in Canada's diplomatic arsenal.

To return to the personal, seven years ago my Dad was diagnosed with a vicious cancer and was given as little as 3 months to live. It’s a sublime understatement to say that he’s a fighter - but he has persevered in life with a tenacity familiar from his political, diplomatic and humanitarian pursuits.

Which brings us to this morning, when at 87 years old, he spent an hour standing at the side of the road in his old riding of Scarborough West. Standing up as a Jew against genocide. Standing up for justice for Palestine. Standing up on the right side of history, where the vast majority of humanity currently stands.

I’ve never been prouder, never more humble before the stubborn principle and insistent moral clarity of the guy I’m so lucky to call Dad.

People of Canada: don’t stop talking about Palestine.
Starvation as collective punishment can never be forgiven.
Burning and burying children alive can never be defended.
Stand up against genocide until we make it stop!

Thanks Dad.

And special thanks to @CharlieAngusNDP for shining his spotlight on Ted Schmidt and the other excellent folks who gather every Thursday at 8 am at the corner of Victoria Park and Kingston Road in Scarborough.

[Amnesty International @amnesty]

It is outrageous and morally reprehensible that it took the world nearly 80 days of broadcast starvation and cruelty amidst genocide to exert enough pressure on Israel to even slightly ease its total siege that has blocked the entry of all food, medicine, fuel and other vital goods since 2 March.

[Kathryn Marshall @Lawsome_]

The survivor in the Hockey Canada trial is so brave . Thinking about her.

[sarah @sahouraxo]

“More children have been killed in Gaza in 6 months than the total number of children killed in all other war zones worldwide over 3 years, multiplied by 4.”

“Do you hear what I’m saying?”

—Professor Norman Finkelstein

[Haymarket Books @haymarketbooks]

Free Mahmoud Khalil

[Variety @Variety]

"No Other Land" director Basel Adra: "We call on the world to take serious actions to stop the injustice and to stop the ethnic cleansing of Palestinian people." | #Oscars

[Blake Angeconeb @blakeangeconeb]

Go Jets Go! Such an honour to create artwork for my favourite team! This painting will be available for auction in June with all proceeds going towards charity. @NHLJets ✈️

[Khadija @khadljasays]

Sha’ban Ahmed. 19 years old. Burnt alive with his mother by an Israeli airstrike on the tent he was displaced in beside Al Aqsa martyr’s hospital last night. The IV drip still in his arm after recovering from an airstrike on a mosque he was sheltering in nearby just last week.

[Blake Angeconeb @blakeangeconeb]

We Are Still Here

[Dr Prital Patel 🍉 Prital.Bsky.social @prital_]

The first 14 pages are under 1 year olds.
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[vic @vicsssversion]

resources u can use to help palestine
daily click: https://t.co/mjUrwrA8Nt
donate esims: https://t.co/3A7yBk0ss9
care for gaza: https://t.co/hOHvPy2CHn
donate feminine hygiene kits: https://t.co/Wt9KI2i2r3
call for a ceasefire: https://t.co/7xyAO3XetZ