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[NowThis Impact @nowthisimpact]

This speech has been circulating in MAGA circles, and they’re absolutely horrified by it.

[Sahil Bloom @SahilBloom]

Major cheat code for life: Always assume things will work out, then do the work to make it true. It’s a mindset of active optimism. Earned faith. It creates a quiet confidence that allows you to tolerate the uncertainty of life better than anything else.

[Francesca Albanese, UN Special Rapporteur oPt @FranceskAlbs]

An ICC arrest warrant bears your name for war crimes and crimes against humanity, including the use of starvation as a weapon. Named at the ICJ for genocide. A fugitive from international justice.

Enjoy nothing, Mr. Genocide.

[𝑹𝒚𝒂𝒏 𝑺𝒂𝒓𝒂𝒊 @Ryansarai1981]

Americans are so exhausting…..

[ConsciousImpact @ConsciousAmit]

RT @JoshMatlow: Together, we saved our city’s waterfront and grounded Doug Ford’s reckless plans to bring jets to Billy Bishop Airport. Tha…

[Evan @daviddunn177]

This is the most accurate anyone has ever described Elon Musk.

[Theo Moudakis @TheoMoudakis]

Repost of a timely #ClassicCartoon

[ADAM @adamemedia1]

It’s not antisemitic to say Netanyahu is a war criminal by the way.

It’s a statement of fact.

[Clash Report @clashreport]

Zohran Mamdani on Gaza:

Yesterday I was on Staten Island for a meeting with faith leaders and a young man from Gaza attended that meeting as part of an organization that houses refugees on Staten Island. He did not have one of his arms.

He was one of the many children that have been maimed by this genocide. I think that is quite serious. I think there are tens of thousands, I do not think, I know there are tens of thousands of children who have been maimed, who have been forced to undergo operations without anesthesia.

And when we speak about the more than 70,000 Palestinians that have been killed, we know that likely that number is even higher, and yet we do not even know what it reaches.

And also we know that it is not a faraway issue. I have met Palestinian New Yorkers who have told me how they've spent decades in this city, building their lives, saving money to send it back home to build a home in the village they grew up in, only to see it obliterated in an instant with an Israeli airstrike.

And then that same older New Yorker tells me of how his son called him and begged him to send him money for food, that his grandchild was starving, and that he couldn't do anything about it.

And so I say that this is something that has not only offended the conscience, the morals, the mere humanity of so many New Yorkers, but it has also ripped apart the lives of many who have been personally affected by it as well.

[Robert Reich @RBReich]

Zohran Mamdani has appointed former FTC Chair @linamkhan to lead New York City's top economic development agency.

Her understanding of how corporate power undermines economic freedom, which she examines in the video below, make her a perfect fit. Watch.

[Glen Murray @Glen4Climate]

Dear @ScottJenningsKY
Let's talk cows.
Canada’s dairy system is not simply a tariff wall designed to keep American milk out. It is a supply-management system designed to keep production roughly aligned with demand, stabilize farm income and preserve a viable network of family-owned farms. Imports are allowed in significant negotiated quantities at low or zero tariffs; the very high tariffs people hear about generally apply only after those agreed import quotas have been filled.

The United States protects its farmers too, often much more extensively, but it uses different mechanisms. American taxpayers support agriculture through crop insurance subsidies, income and price-support programs, disaster payments, commodity programs and direct government payments. Dairy farmers have access to federally supported margin-protection and insurance programs. The U.S. also restricts imports in sensitive sectors. Sugar is an especially obvious example: the United States uses tariff-rate quotas that limit how much foreign sugar can enter at low tariffs, precisely to protect domestic producers and prices. USDA explicitly describes this system.

So there is a real hypocrisy in attacking Canada as a protectionist outlier. Canada essentially says to its dairy farmers: we will control production and imports so you can earn a reasonably predictable income from the market. The United States more often says to its farmers: we will expose you more directly to the market, but protect your income through subsidies, federally supported insurance, price and commodity programs, and, where politically important, import restrictions. In 2026 alone, USDA forecasts federal Dairy Margin Coverage payments, while its broader farm programs continue to provide income, commodity and insurance support.

Both countries protect agriculture. They just write the cheque differently.

And that matters to the family farm. Canada’s system was designed in part to prevent the boom-and-bust cycle in which oversupply collapses milk prices, smaller farmers fail, and increasingly large operations buy them out. Supply management gives a farmer greater certainty that producing milk efficiently can provide a viable living without having to become an enormous industrial-scale operation merely to survive the next price collapse.

That does not make Canada’s system perfect. Quota is expensive and can make it difficult for new farmers to enter. But portraying Canadian dairy protection as some extraordinary trade offence while the United States protects its own farmers with quotas, tariffs, subsidies, insurance and government support is fundamentally misleading.

Canada protects a relatively small number of agricultural sectors openly through supply management. The United States protects agriculture through an enormous, less visible architecture of federal programs and selective trade barriers. Calling one “protectionism” while pretending the other is “free trade” is the hypocrisy.
Hope next time you will fact check yourself.

Sincerely
Glen

[Rosé Bautista @DesmondCole]

Ontario is using AI in its jails, and assigning Black prisoners to maximum security more than others

The government knew its AI program would likely produce biased results, and used it anyway

Our latest @TheBreachMedia investigation

[Wab Kinew @WabKinew]

Taking 🇺🇸 booze off Liquor Mart shelves is having an impact. If Trump wants to negotiate an end to the trade war he started, we’re happy to get a fair deal. Until then, the US booze stays off the shelves. Thank you for buying 🇨🇦 and thank you for your attention to this message!!!

[Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @NYCMayor]

Benjamin Netanyahu is a war criminal.

[ConsciousImpact @ConsciousAmit]

Sign the petition: Have Your Voice Heard: Participate in the Official Billy Bishop Consultation https://t.co/OeL0QTlO5X

[Josh Matlow @JoshMatlow]

What if I told you a single decision being made right now could change Toronto's waterfront forever?

Doug Ford has proposed bringing jets to the Toronto Islands, impacting air quality, traffic congestion and housing targets. It would pave a massive runway extension on the lake, likely increase airfares from Billy Bishop, and cost at least $5 billion.

Toronto has a waterfront plan, and we’re already seeing it become a reality- balancing vibrant and healthy communities, beautiful parks, recreation with tourism, economic development and the environment.

The federal consultation closes on July 24. Please visit https://t.co/N2HXzgM5gz to make your voice heard!

Our waterfront needs you.