Santa Claus 🎄

Coming to town. ⛄

[Ricky Gervais @rickygervais]

The headline is true but I don’t remember this photo being taken 😂

[Open Source Intel @Osint613]

French FM Barrot: France will veto lifting UN Security Council sanctions on Iran until nuclear talks meet its expectations and address Tehran's ballistic missiles and proxy forces.

[Konstantin Kisin @KonstantinKisin]

The world after Western dominance won’t be neutral. It will belong to someone else.

The “multipolar world” is being sold as the end of Western hypocrisy and the solution to the failures of the current order.

But power never disappears, it shifts. And an unstable multipolar world will eventually produce a new dominant civilisation, with its own values imposed on everyone else.

The real question is: are those values better than ours? I don't think so.

[TSN @TSN_Sports]

Former Canadiens defenceman P.K. Subban has fulfilled the $10 million pledge that he made towards Montreal Children's Hospitals over a decade ago.

(via Montreal Gazzette)

[Garry Kasparov @Kasparov63]

Russia is losing one foreign ally, stronghold, and crony after another. Soon it won’t be able to hold itself together either, and the imperial virus will be truly dead.

[Bev 🇨🇦 @Garnet_2203]

20,000 years ago, HALF of all humans born were dead at the age of 30.

Fast forward to 1840… and guess what?
Half the population born was dead by the age of 35.

Twenty thousand years… and we gained five years.

That’s it.

So no this isn’t about people being “stronger,” “tougher,” or somehow more “natural” back then.

This is about SCIENCE.

Clean water.
Vaccines.
Medicine.
Sanitation.
Public health.

That’s what changed everything.

Stop romanticizing the past.
If you want to thank anything for longer, healthier lives thank science.

[Van Jones @VanJones68]

It's been more than 45 days since Iran's internet went dark. And the Iranian regime is burning through MILLIONS per day to keep 92 million people offline.

Why spend so much to silence your own country? Because when you control the internet, you control the story. When a government won't let its OWN PEOPLE speak, question the narrative the outside world is hearing.

[The Moderate Case @TheModerateCase]

One of the biggest crises facing young people today is the collapse of critical thinking.

An entire generation is being raised to react before thinking, repeat before questioning, and feel before understanding.

And then we wonder why so many people are so easily manipulated.

[Garry Kasparov @Kasparov63]

Seriously?! Doing this to poke Trump is not worth spitting on the graves of thousands of peaceful protesters!

[Alan Fryer 🇨🇦🇺🇦🇮🇱 @alanfryermedia]

And Canada voted yes. There are times I no longer recognize my country.

[John Spencer @SpencerGuard]

You have to marvel at all the takes on the situation in Iran. Personally I’ll let the dust settle for more than a few minutes to make judgments. I am not sure even the regime fully knows what happened and the extent of moving forward. Negotiations and forward movement continues. Important areas to watch in the near term:

- Nuclear material/program
- Function and status of the Strait of Hormuz

[Vatnik Soup @P_Kallioniemi]

"What do you call Crimea? I call it a part of Russian territory, bitch. That's what I call Crimea. I call it cry me a river. A Russian river."

- Hasan Piker, champagne socialist and so-called anti-imperialist

[Santa Claus 🎄 @keymark19]

@CBA_News So?

[Kate from Kharkiv @BohuslavskaKate]

ZELENSKYY to BBC: We went through difficult relations with Iran. We did nothing to them. They shot down our plane, killed our passengers and crew, didn’t admit it, and didn’t let experts in.

Then the full-scale war started. They handed Shahed drones to Russians to kill our civilians. I asked them to stop. They promised there would be only one batch. They lied and kept supplying weapons.

That’s why I consider them accomplices of Russia.

[el gato malo @boriquagato]

honest question:

what law was broken here?

[Konstantin Kisin @KonstantinKisin]

Far too many people appear to think that calling people names changes their opinion about foreign policy.

Not sure it's true.

[Elica Le Bon الیکا‌ ل بن @elicalebon]

Its surreal to watch your people disappear under a dictatorship that declares, “I have shut down the internet because I am the only voice of Iran”

Then to watch those who have known nothing but freedom take to glittering stages and announce, “stop the war on the dictators!” to the sound of thunderous applause.

This is not dystopian fiction. It is the disparity of realities. We live in a cultural bubble so disconnected from the outside world that it erases the cries of the suffering, then congratulates itself for its moral vanity.

[Genevieve Holl-Allen @genevieve_holl]

🚨EXC: Foreign Office staff attended an event at the Iranian embassy to celebrate the Islamic revolution weeks after the regime massacred thousands of its people

Civil servants heard a speech from the ambassador praising Iran’s “remarkable accomplishments”

@tweetsbyames Scoop

[Eyal Yakoby @EYakoby]

Afghanistan’s education minister has announced that women are permanently banned from schools.

UN Women has not said a word.

[Masih Alinejad @AlinejadMasih]

Hello Australia, this is your moment. We need your support.
Iran’s women’s football team refused to sing the regime’s anthem right after the killing of Ali Khamenei.
State TV called them “war-time traitors.”
Now they’re on a bus back to Iran, flashing the SOS hand signal through the window.
I call on Australian government to them. Don’t send them back to danger. Please give them protection.