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[Polymarket @Polymarket]

JUST IN: Bill Gates warns AI could cause mass unemployment, mass cyberattacks, & mass bioterrorism.

[AF Post @AFpost]

Canada’s national broadcasting corporation, CBC, sent out memo instructing all its journalists and editors not to describe the September 11 attacks as “terrorist attacks” ahead of the 25th anniversary of 9/11.

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[The Globe and Mail @globeandmail]

Russia bombards nine Ukrainian cities overnight, calls strikes ‘massive’ https://t.co/vdnMQ6oFx8

[CBS News @CBSNews]

The purpose of CIA Director John Ratcliffe's visit to Moscow this week was to warn Russia not to attack NATO member states, according to multiple people familiar with the matter.

CBS News was the first to report the secretive trip, which came to light on Tuesday, after a U.S. Air Force jet was spotted flying into a Moscow airport.

The trip, which is Ratcliffe's first known visit to Russia as CIA director, comes amid U.S. intelligence assessments that Russia could try to test NATO.

[CP24 @CP24]

Two Air Canada employees arrested in connection with drug trafficking https://t.co/p8fvUmok7Q

[العربية عاجل @AlArabiya_Brk]

بلومبرغ عن مصادر بالكرملين: بوتين قد يختار استخدام الأسلحة النووية التكتيكية ضد أوكرانيا #العربية_عاجل

[TCN @TCNetwork]

Legend.

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[AF Post @AFpost]

Canada’s retaliatory tariffs threaten to drive up US toilet paper prices, as American manufacturers rely heavily on Canadian paper and lumber.

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[The New Yorker @NewYorker]

Today’s Daily Cartoon, by Paul Noth.

[Sina Azodi @ProfSAzodi]

۸۵ سال پیش در چنین روزی - در ۳ شهریور ۱۳۲۰ - قوای متفقین از شمال و جنوب برای «کمک به مردم ایران» به «رژیم پهلوی» حمله کرد- شاه قانونی ایران را به تبعید فرستاد و برای مردم ایران قحطی، گرسنگی و بیماری به ارمغان آورد.

[Axios @axios]

Mark Carney's defiance of Trump has Canada cheering https://t.co/2bmk07FoEl

[The Hormuz Letter @HormuzLetter]

BREAKING: Canada threatens to cut off all electricity and critical minerals to the US, including high-grade nickel and uranium, if the Canada-US trade war worsens, per AP.

Ontario Premier Doug Ford says "I'll cut them off… You won’t get a grain of sand out of Ontario," adding "What would they do without the high-grade nickel?"

Ontario Premier Doug Ford says "everything is on the table" including power to 1.5 million American homes and high-grade nickel/uranium, after Trump announced new 50% tariffs on Canadian autos, parts and steel starting next year and 50% tariffs on $20 billion worth of Canadian goods Saturday.

[Mark Ruffalo @MarkRuffalo]

The accusation that I am antisemitic is appalling and fundamentally dishonest. Criticizing the actions of the Israeli prime minister, a military technology contract, or the executives who supply it is not the same as criticizing Jewish people. This critical and necessary dialogue is then dishonestly framed as being anti-Israel. To be clear, my views come from my own political convictions and should never be interpreted as hostility toward Jewish people, for whom I have deep love and respect.  Everything I know about acting, activism, and humanism has been profoundly shaped by the Jewish friends, colleagues, and loved ones who have been integral and family throughout every point of my life.

This merger has real consequences for real people, and for the entire country. Scrutinizing the Ellisons, including Oracle’s business built on data, surveillance technology and government contracts, and the serious threat to editorial freedom and the loss of a livelihood for thousands of families, is fair and necessary. The $111 billion deal would hand one family control over CNN, HBO and Warner Bros., backed in part by foreign money whose influence on editorial decisions has never been fully explained to the public. 

Lawmakers on both sides of the aisle have called for serious national security review, and regulators still haven’t given the public a real answer. Until they do, the merger shouldn’t move forward. Now is the time to dive boldly into all these issues, not step back or concede.

[Bloomberg @business]

EXCLUSIVE: Canada sees little chance of resuming talks with the US before the midterms and is preparing to ride out Donald Trump's term https://t.co/LgWpWyKXuG

[sahar @Saharinsocal]

ایلان ماسک میدونه که همتای ایرانیش کافه قنادی زده؟!:)))

[kira 👾 @kirawontmiss]

our healthcare system is a joke

[CP24 @CP24]

A list of some of the items the U.S. is slapping with a 50 per cent tariff https://t.co/U5B2fm2HGF

[قهوه‌چی @masoudjfri]

کافه بیکری بابک زنجانی هم افتتاح شد، خداروشکر خیلیاتونم رفتین یه دمی تکون دادین برای یه قرون دوزار!
واقعا آدمی یه‌یوث یه‌یوث دیوث‌ میشه :)))

[Reuters @Reuters]

Hit by Trump tariffs, Quebec loses appetite for quick separation from Canada https://t.co/tmmaaVqN9v https://t.co/tmmaaVqN9v

[Bloomberg @business]

Prime Minister Mark Carney said the retaliatory import taxes will be concentrated in steel, dairy, appliances, agricultural equipment, pulp and paper, and electronics. https://t.co/9tiaAPXmbC