Johnny Cash venting some frustration during a soundcheck at San Quentin State Prison on February 24, 1969. Renowned photographer Jim Marshall caught this incredible moment when he told John to take a photo for the warden. Cash was actually annoyed at the television camera crews blocking his view of the inmates, and he flipped this gesture directly to Marshall's camera.
I keep thinking about this photo taken yesterday.
Prime Minister of Canada, @MarkJCarney, stands in front of an Israeli flag speaking about how hate against any group of peoples is wrong. While, the International Court of Justice has ruled that Israel is committing the crime of apartheid and illegal occupation in the West Bank and genocide in Gaza against Palestinians. This is hate and discrimination translated into systematic legal injustice and mass death and slaughter.
There is an obligation for Canada as a third party state to not be complicit in Israel’s crimes against humanity and violations of international law.
Standing in front of a flag of a state committing apartheid and genocide, while still sending weapons to Israel to commit these crimes, should demonstrate to all humanity and peace loving people in Canada to seriously question our politicians and confront this current reality for what it truly is.
Canada is deeply committed and embedded in the structural oppression against Palestinians, entrenching the systematic colonial rule of Western settler colonial states in a world where the rich and powerful can choose to continue to break all the international laws and obligations because they know consequences are beneath them.
I know so many good and decent people who refuse such a world and reality where impunity is enjoyed by the war criminals. Rather we fight for a world where human rights for all is defended without exception. Where our obligations to international law and the global community actually means something.
MADELEINE DEAN: How many people were killed simply trying to access food sites in Gaza?
RUBIO: Well, since Hamas killed them, you should ask what their role was
DEAN: IDF soldiers shot some of them. Propaganda ain't gonna work with me
The autistic obsession with trying to figure out why they did what they did 'cause your brain just can't fathom that someone would be cruel for no reason.
Māori barrister and solicitor Valmaine Toki said Canada "bears legal, moral and political responsibility" for its actions and omissions, which the tribunal identified as part of a systemic effort to destroy #Indigenous people.'
https://t.co/YeEzgiOO7c
BREAKING: Canada exported $14.6 million worth of military goods to Israel last year, writes @AlexCosh_.
The goods were shipped despite Canada pausing approvals of new military export permits in 2024 and suspending many existing permits.
https://t.co/2XEqdabsqd
3 cuts can save a life.
Avoid single-use plastic if you can, but if you wind up with one of these: those 3 cuts take about 5 seconds and can prevent a slow death for wildlife.
Universal & Sony just asked permission from the court to add more than 61,000 songs to their copyright lawsuit against Suno.
At the statutory $150k per work, that could make Suno’s maximum potential damages, if they lose the case, over $9 billion.
https://t.co/boXd5BSh8l
Generative AI doesn’t run on magic. It runs on massive data pipelines built on privacy violations by design.
Our new @Amnesty report exposes how big tech’s AI systems are powered by surveillance, data extraction, and abuse of people’s rights, at scale.
We researched the models powering some of the most popular publicly available standalone generative AI tools, including GPT 3 by Open AI, Google’s Gemini, Meta’s Llama, DeepSeek and tools by Midjourney and Stable Diffusion.
This is not innovation at any cost. It comes at a high price: our human rights.
Read the report: https://t.co/MGRonqai7o