Barbara Whitehead

Canadian living in uk.

[Claire McConnell ⭐️⭐️ @ClaireChelsea8]

This is our beautiful Lake ONTARIO, which will never be known by any other name

[Barack Obama @BarackObama]

It was great reconnecting with our alumni tonight!

Michelle and I will always be grateful for the chance to work side-by-side with so many brilliant, selfless people who believed in something bigger than themselves.

[Meidas_Charise Lee @charise_lee]

Omg SNL so accurate‼️

[Olena Rohoza @OlenaRohoza]

🇮🇹 The speech that all of Italy heard. And that the world must hear.
In a country that will host the Olympic Games, Italian Senator and Vice President of the Human Rights Commission Filippo Sensi took the floor and said what should have been said out loud long ago.
He called it a disgrace that the International Olympic Committee disqualified Ukrainian skeleton athlete Vladyslav Heraskevych.
Not for doping.
Not for violating fair play.
But for… memory.
For a helmet bearing the faces of Ukrainian athletes — his friends, colleagues, champions — killed by Russia.
The IOC stated that the helmet “did not comply with regulations.”
And then Sensi asked a question that brought silence to the chamber:
Does aggressive war comply with regulations?
Is there a separate technical protocol for it?
The correct angle of a missile strike?
The permissible size of a crater?
An athlete prepares for the Olympics for years.
A Ukrainian athlete trains between air raid sirens, in shelters, under news of the dead.
He overcomes fear, exhaustion, and loss.
And he steps to the start line not only for a medal — but for the right to exist.
And he is suspended… for remembering.
Because memory is the most dangerous substance. It is hard to add to a prohibited list. But apparently, someone would very much like to.
The senator named names. Just a few among more than 650 Ukrainian athletes killed by Russia:
▪️ Yevhenii Malyshev, 19, biathlete — killed in Kharkiv.
▪️ Mariia Lebid, 15 — missile strike in Dnipro.
▪️ Dmytro Sharpar, 25, figure skater — killed in Bakhmut.
▪️ Volodymyr Androsiuk, 22, track and field athlete — also Bakhmut.
▪️ Daria Kurdel, 20 — missile strike in Kharkiv.
▪️ Alina Perehutova, 14 — standing in line for water with her mother in Mariupol.
▪️ Maksym Halinichev, 22, boxer — killed defending Luhansk region.
▪️ Viktoriia Ivashko, 9, judoka — missile strike in Kyiv.
▪️ Kateryna Diachenko, 11, gymnast — airstrike on Mariupol.
▪️ Karina Bakur, 17, world kickboxing champion — shielded her father with her body.
These were the faces Heraskevych wanted to carry with him to the start line.
So that they would “compete” alongside him.
So that their dream would not die with them.
And for that, he was punished.
Because it turns out that the faces of murdered athletes violate regulations.
But their absence on the track does not.
In his speech, Sensi said the most important thing:
The Olympic Committee did not lose an athlete.
It lost its most valuable medal — its conscience.
Sport without memory is just a show.
Sport without humanity is just decoration.
Sport that fears truth is not about peace.
The Olympic movement was born from the ideals of honor, dignity, and unity.
Yet today Ukrainian athletes must prove not only their strength — but their right to remember their fallen.
And if memory becomes a violation of regulations — then the problem is not the helmet.
The world must hear this.
Because silence is also a position.
And indifference is also a choice.
Memory cannot be disqualified.
And conscience cannot be added to a prohibited list.
🇺🇦 We remember every one of them.
And we will not allow their names to be erased.

[Protect Kamala Harris ✊ @DisavowTrump20]

Nothing scares Donald Trump more than a smart, accomplished, and beloved Black family.

RETWEET if you are proud to stand with the Obamas!

[Maca Iglesias @rotterdamvvg]

No wonder the toddler is unhinged once again.

The Obamas are competent, classy, loving, Harvard and Princeton graduates, loved by many, not on the Epstein files, got the Nobel Peace Prize, and gave us a steady economy to boot!

Repost this if you agree they are AMAZING!

[Claude Taylor @TrueFactsStated]

Watch this!

[Steve Martin @UnrealBluegrass]

“The Party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command.” —George Orwell (1984)

More and more we witness this implemented as policy from Trump.

[Marco Foster @MarcoFoster_]

Al Green calls for Donald Trump’s impeachment from the steps of the Lincoln Memorial: “There will be articles of impeachment filed. My conscience tells me that I must vote to impeach a President who disrespects the Constitution. A President who wants to be an authoritarian who is devolving our democracy into a dictatorship. He must be impeached. He must be convicted. He must be removed.”

[Meesh Beer 🇨🇦🤬⚾️🏁♍️ @whatimthinking]

Don’t know who you are Sarah, but thank you. YES! 💯👏👏 to all of this!

[Vancouver Canucks @Canucks]

Let’s go @BlueJays - bring it home! 🇨🇦

[We don't deserve cats 😺 @catsareblessing]

First-time cat moms are the cutest mix of confused, caring, and slightly overwhelmed 🙀

[politic@l spinner @Justabogan]

So well written.. Oliver you rock

[Have I Got News For You @haveigotnews]

President Trump tells the UN he deserves to get the Nobel Peace Prize – and if he doesn’t, he’s fully prepared to invade Nobelia and just take one himself

[Cory Booker @CoryBooker]

We must guard our freedoms.

[Victor Shi @Victorshi2020]

What a cover. The New Yorker’s September magazine cover.

[Democratic Wins Media @DemocraticWins]

BREAKING: Stephen Colbert just had the best clap back at Donald Trump’s silencing of Jimmy Kimmel we’ve seen yet. This is amazing.

[Micky Dolenz @TheMickyDolenz1]

Hard to believe it’s been 59 years since The Monkees first aired on September 12, 1966. We were just four kids with guitars and energy, and the world watched us. Grateful for the memories and your support in keeping our spirit alive. Here’s to more!

#TheMonkees #TVHistory

[Margaret E Atwood @MargaretAtwood]

Here's a piece of literature by me, suitable for seventeen-year-olds in Alberta schools, unlike -- we are told -- The Handmaid's Tale. (Sorry, kids; your Minister of Education thinks you are stupid babies.)

John and Mary were both very, very good children. They never picked their noses or had bowel movements or zits. They grew up and married each other, and produced five perfect children without ever having sex. Although they claimed to be Christian, they paid no attention to what Jesus actually said about the poor and the Good Samaritan and forgiving your enemies and such; instead, they practised selfish rapacious capitalism, because they worshipped Ayn Rand. (Though they ignored the scene in The Fountainhead where “welcomed rape” is advocated, because who wants to dwell, and also that would have involved sex and would de facto be pornographic. Well, it kind of is, eh?) Oh, and they never died, because who wants to dwell on, you know, death and corpses and yuk? So they lived happily ever after. But while they were doing that The Handmaid’s Tale came true and Danielle Smith found herself with a nice new blue dress but no job. The end.

[Ursula von der Leyen @vonderleyen]

The EU welcomes @POTUS effort for a just & lasting peace in Ukraine.

One respecting international law, sovereignty & territorial integrity.

Negotiations require a ceasefire or a reduction of hostilities.

The EU will continue to support Ukraine’s right to decide its own future.