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[Human Progress @HumanProgress]

In 1920, tires only lasted around 1,000 to 2,000 miles.

Today's tires last upwards of 50,000.
https://t.co/xH2rvdUFrH

[Hillel Neuer @HillelNeuer]

.@UNESCO Is he another one of your journalists?
🔗 https://t.co/btP1xawkXk

[Eyal Yakoby @EYakoby]

The anti-war crowd is extremely pro-Russia.

Weird.

[Eva Chipiuk, BSc, LLB, LLM @echipiuk]

We are living in an upside-down world.

Ordinary citizens, particularly those challenging the government, are scrutinized, investigated, regulated, and punished, while those who hold public office and lead public institutions avoid accountability for their own failed decisions and illegal actions while in positions of power.

Public service was never supposed to work that way.

In a healthy democracy, the greatest scrutiny should be directed toward those who exercise public power, not those who are subject to it. Public institutions exist to serve the public, not the other way around.

Former Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is now travelling the world like a D rate celebrity, while former Alberta Premier Jason Kenney receives honours for leadership.

Yet neither were held to account for decisions made while in office that affected the lives and freedoms of millions. Instead of taking responsibility, acknowledging mistakes, or rebuilding public trust, like a strong and credible leader would, they hope people will forget.

Leadership requires accountability. It requires humility. It requires the courage to stand before the public and answer for the decisions made, supposedly in the public interest no less!

Those unwilling to accept responsibility for the consequences of their decisions should not be held up as examples of leadership.

Is it really any surprise that people are calling for significant reform, or an entirely new system, when the priorities of public service appear to have been reversed?

If governments and public institutions want to restore public trust, accountability cannot flow in only one direction. And it starts with holding public officers and institutions that failed the public to account.

[Leviathan @l3v1at4an]

Oh look it’s @HMcPhersonNDP approving & promoting throwing a tantrum at a pancake breakfast.

[Eyal Yakoby @EYakoby]

UN Women hasn’t said a word.

[Lauren Southern @Lauren_Southern]

@pearlythingz @michaeljknowles Pearl where is my lawsuit from Tate that he promised? It’s been over a year and not so much as a cease and desist 🥲

I tried to remind his lawyer @McBrideLawNYC and he blocked me for reminding him!

Please tell them to sue me! I’m waiting patiently!

[David Staples @DavidStaplesYEG]

Kinsella is a controversial figure. But I don’t care.

I care that he stands up for a now vulnerable group of Canadians, people who have done nothing but build our country and added richly to our culture.

It’s a terrible thing that we are witnessing but Kinsella, at least, is documenting the wrong and fighting back.

He is a hero of the nation for this, deserving of the Order of Canada in my books.

[Eyal Yakoby @EYakoby]

Social media accounts behind 250,000 posts just about Scottish independence went dark after Iranian internet blackout.

As with most of X, foreign intelligence agencies have hijacked them to foment division in the West.

[Mor Edge Insight @MorEdge_Insight]

Over 350 Christians, including up to 60 children, were massacred and burned alive by Islamists in Nigeria between the 5th and 6th of July. Entire communities were slaughtered, churches burned and destroyed.

And yet complete silence from the world, and no word from the UN.

[The Food Professor @FoodProfessor]

About the Gordie Howe Bridge, let’s keep it simple.

Trump won—again.

Carney lost.

Any questions?

[Lucy Biggers @LLBiggers]

@ChrisGloninger I never said the climate calmed down. The fact that we have out adapted any climate impacts is exactly the point. We’re great at adapting despite a mild 1.3 degrees of warming in 150 years and more CO2. Where is the crisis if we’re safer than ever?

[Vivian Bercovici @VivianBercovici]

@VividProwess I say glue her and leave here there.

[Ben O'Hara-Byrne @Ben_oharabyrne]

Lecturing and threatening Canada on managing nearly 1.3 billion acres of boreal forest when you can’t properly renovate a 2000ft long reflecting pool in your capital is peak MAGA.

[Shuv Majumdar @shuvmajumdar]

Sixteen months. Prime Minister @MarkJCarney’s negotiation debut. No transparency, only capitulation. Release the deal.

[Leviathan @l3v1at4an]

When Janis Irwin or the NDP serves pancakes, it’s “regular” ones.

When it’s anyone else, the NDP do in fact believe they are “fascist pancakes” 🤡

[Iran International English @IranIntl_En]

Anita, a young Iranian singer known online as “Anita Popist,” said she had been sentenced to 74 lashes on a charge of “offending public decency,” after reports that female rapper Roody had already been flogged.
Anita also said authorities had seized her passport and blocked her SIM card.
Women are banned from singing solo in public before mixed-gender audiences in Iran.

[Eyal Yakoby @EYakoby]

A Nigerian Christian gives his testimony after the Islamist massacre of his village:

“All the houses were set on fire and all our grain was burned. This morning we buried 29 people". Why is no one protesting for them?”

[Jonathan Kay @jonkay]

@thewalrus @AlexSilasPSAC A little background on the “arson” claim contained in this article

https://t.co/m9Go3cAh7s

[cbcwatcher @cbcwatcher]

"I've dealt with Trump in the past... he respects strength"

But Carney always caves and shows weakness!