Maryann A

🇨🇦 abroad. Politics, Music, Culture. Views are my own.

[ian bremmer @ianbremmer]

us-canada relations and us-europe relations have been permanently damaged. much can still be done to limit the scope of that damage, but it’s impossible to return to the trust and alignment of the previous alliances.

china is the principal beneficiary.

[Pod Save America @PodSaveAmerica]

Share this so Elon can't pretend children didn't die when he destroyed USAID.

[derek guy @dieworkwear]

i just had andrew and tristan tate arrested in miami for wearing these outfits

[Shaiel Ben-Ephraim @academic_la]

Netanyahu turned down a fully formed plan to normalize with Saudi Arabia in 2024 because he refused to commit to a future Palestinian state. Israeli journalist Nadav Eyal reveals this in a new column. The terms Biden and MBS offered Israel were incredibly generous and would have ended the genocide too:

1) A hostage deal ending the Gaza war, with Israel keeping a security perimeter inside the Strip. MBS even told the administration, "I'm willing to send Saudi soldiers to manage Gaza."

2) On the Palestinian question, the Saudis accepted a relatively soft formula: an Israeli commitment to a Palestinian state within 5–7 years. They even reassured Israel that if statehood stalled, they'd blame Abu Mazen (Mahmoud Abbas) rather than blow up the agreement in 2034.

3) Since Ben Gvir and Smotrich would have toppled the government over such a deal, the Biden administration arranged a political "safety net": opposition leader Yair Lapid agreed to support Netanyahu's government for several months to complete the process.

4) A senior American official told an Israeli counterpart that Iran is about to "switch sides" toward the West — a historic shift, a "perestroika," with Mojtaba Khamenei becoming the Gorbachev of Shiite fundamentalism.

The US and Saudi Arabia offered Israel a way to get its hostages back, normalize with Saudi Arabia and begin rapprochement with Iran. All in exchange for some recognition of a Palestinian right to a state. Israel refused and chose genocide, war with Iran, death to many of the hostages and a continued coalition with Ben-Gvir. All to avoid giving Palestinians hope.

[Liam Gallagher @liamgallagher]

Respect to the lads it’s nobody’s GOD given right to win the WC congratulations to Argentina best team won onwards n sideways LG x

[NUFC HQ @NUFC_HQ]

Two headers making it beyond the half way line 🤣

Dan Burn 👏🏻🧱

[Matt Turck @mattturck]

Chills - Thierry Henry on growing up playing in the suburbs of Paris (and why 54 World Cup players are from there)

[ian bremmer @ianbremmer]

the world needs the strait of hormuz reopened. should have happened months ago, but today’s outcome is the best option available.

having said that, iran war has been a disaster. no agreement on nukes, ballistic missiles, support for proxies…and one of the world’s most brutal regimes remains in place…and is getting paid off.

biggest foreign policy failure of trump administration by a long margin.

[Luc Bernard @LucBernard]

Everyone in the region trying to kill each other.

Meanwhile deaf Israelis and Palestinians:

[Ihab Hassan @IhabHassane]

Every victim of sexual violence must be believed and protected — regardless of nationality, and regardless of who the perpetrator is.

This principle applies equally to Palestinian and Israeli victims, whether the perpetrators are Hamas militants, Israeli settlers, or Israeli soldiers.

Human rights are universal. They do not change based on politics or identity.

[ian bremmer @ianbremmer]

king charles bringing the most deft diplomacy—by a long margin—that we’ve seen visiting the trump administration this term.

[John Fugelsang @JohnFugelsang]

Tucker Carlson is not repenting; he’s re-branding.

He’s running for POTUS; and making sure he’s ahead of Vance on opposing war & dropping Trump.

Tucker’s hated Trump for years. Tucker still only cares about Tucker; Trump is no longer useful.

Not much has changed here.

[ian bremmer @ianbremmer]

netanyahu survived oct. 7 and engineered one of the greatest political comebacks of the era. he hasn't resolved the central tension: what saved him politically may destroy israel's standing internationally. https://t.co/rGM2VCV5oR

[Elizabeth Tsurkov @LizHurra]

Rom Braslavski survived 498 days in Palestinian Islamic Jihad captivity. He was tortured, starved and sexually assaulted by his captors. Still, he saw elderly 48 Arab laborers toiling away near his home and bought them soft drinks and cigarettes. He shared about this on Instagram, criticizing the climate of hatred between Jews and Arabs.
He was flooded with hateful messages from Israeli right-wingers for this small gesture of humanity.
https://t.co/BIAK0VBrmQ
In the photos: his original post.

[The Sting @TheStingisBack]

All the President’s Men turns 50 today.

This famous “six‑minute shot” is a masterclass in phone acting and pure technical nerve.

Director Alan J. Pakula and cinematographer Gordon Willis pull off a single, unbroken slow zoom: from a wide, humming newsroom to a tight close-up on Redford. No cuts. No safety net. Tension builds in real time.

Redford carries it with typical quiet confidence. Six minutes of note-taking and talking into a phone, no flashy “Oscar clip.” He even flubs a name (“McGregor” for “Dahlberg”), corrects himself naturally, and Pakula keeps it because it feels authentic.

The background is part of the story. As Woodward hones in on his phone call, everyone behind him huddles around a TV watching Senator Tom Eagleton resign. The contrast is deliberate: they chase the “obvious” headline, while the camera drifts past them to Woodward, and the real story.

To hold Redford and the busy background in focus early on, they used a split‑diopter lens, then had to ease it out as the camera moves in. A technical tightrope. The timing of both actor and cinematographer is spot on.

As Woodward closes in on the truth, the world literally falls away: the newsroom blurs, the noise fades, and we lock into his obsession. It’s one of cinema’s great moments: Redford doing almost nothing—and somehow everything at the same time.

What makes this shot brilliant is the contrast it carves between Redford and the newsroom around him. The visual language does the talking: he’s locked in, disciplined, driven, all focus and fire. He stands apart because the work matters more than anything else.

[Rahm Emanuel @RahmEmanuel]

Wow. 16 for 16 on market moves. Truly incredible — either great instincts, sheer luck, or… door number three - insider trading. We all know the answer.

And the CFTC? Doing their best three monkeys impression: see no evil, hear no evil, speak no evil.

Corruption, now fully normalized under the Trump administration.

[Ihab Hassan @IhabHassane]

UNPRECEDENTED: Lebanese President Joseph Aoun accuses Hezbollah of working toward the collapse of the Lebanese state for the sake of Iran’s interests.

Hamas did the same in Gaza. These armed groups have no problem destroying their own countries and sacrificing their own people to serve the interests of the Islamic Republic.

Lebanon must decide: either it is a sovereign country with one army and one authority, or it allows armed militias like Hezbollah to determine its fate. Lebanon must disarm Hezbollah and restore the authority of the state.

[Crazy Fenak @CrazyFenaker]

"Watching Boebert question Hillary Clinton was like watching a squirrel trying to have a conversation with a super computer"

[Narinder Kaur @narindertweets]

The media are gunning for Mandelson (rightfully) but Today's question is -
Why are MSM protecting Nigel Farage who is mentioned FORTY 43 times and counting

£895,000 house paid for cash.
Nathan Gill
Russian bribes
32 former pupils say he's a racist bully
Epstein Files 43 mentions
Uk Church warden via khazakstan donor of £200k

Farage remains untouchable. Why?

[Joaquin Castro @JoaquinCastrotx]

Yesterday, five-year-old Liam and his dad Adrian were released from Dilley detention center. I picked them up last night and escorted them back to Minnesota this morning.

Liam is now home. With his hat and his backpack.

Thank you to everyone who demanded freedom for Liam. We won’t stop until all children and families are home.