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[Danny Boy @Care2much18]

Quote: "This is how USAID spent your tax dollars"

I think people have lost the will to try fact-check this guy due to the volume of lies he spreads.

Also it's actually pretty difficult with this image and quite time consuming.

It just happens I had nothing better to do. /1

[Paul Graham @paulg]

Explained to my sons that war is actually horrible, but boys think it's exciting because they imagine it's like their lion-cubs-wrestling version of fighting writ large, and no one wants to give them nightmares by telling them what it's really like.

[Kyle 🚄 @KyleTrainEmoji]

There's Actually Still A Little Bit of History Left by Francis Fukuyama

[Mike @mjcheatley]

@mattwiebe @automattic Awesome. Best of luck getting everything set up! Will follow along online.

[Mike @mjcheatley]

@KeeganMatheson Pairs nicely with that Alastair Macleod book...

[Stereogum @stereogum]

Today is Neil Young’s 80th birthday! Stereogum asked 80 musicians to discuss a favorite song of his, and here’s Tom Morello on “My My, Hey Hey.”

Check out everyone’s picks at https://t.co/swr6gLxcRd.

[Sportsnet @Sportsnet]

Nothing but love for Trey Yesavage in the Blue Jays' dugout 💙 #WorldSeries

[Mike @mjcheatley]

@doctorow Has Kenji ever disappointed? I look forward to randomly bumping into him somewhere in this world and politely thank him for improving my quality of life.

[Mukhtar @I_amMukhtar]

Bassem Youssef cooked Nelk boys, the guys who interviewed Benjamin Netanyahu recently on their podcast.

[Carole Cadwalladr @carolecadwalla]

President of Refugees International ⬇️

[Avi Lewis @avilewis]

My father Stephen Lewis is spectacularly uninterested in social media, so I’m posting this myself (though he has read it and is prepared to suffer the indignity of all I'm about to reveal).

When he was Canada’s ambassador to the UN from 1984-88, Dad was truly shocked by the regularity of open, vitriolic antisemitism in the cocktail parties and ambassadorial receptions that surround that crucial but flawed institution.

For this reason (among others) he’s always been the one in our family with the deepest atavistic fear of antisemitism. He was sympathetic to the idea of Israel as a refuge longer than the rest of us.

This is no longer the case. Like so many Jews who for decades adopted the dominant narratives of Zionism, he can no longer defend the current actions of the state of Israel.

He now regards Israel as a rogue state, committing genocide and other crimes against humankind, which ought to be opposed by every tool and tactic in Canada's diplomatic arsenal.

To return to the personal, seven years ago my Dad was diagnosed with a vicious cancer and was given as little as 3 months to live. It’s a sublime understatement to say that he’s a fighter - but he has persevered in life with a tenacity familiar from his political, diplomatic and humanitarian pursuits.

Which brings us to this morning, when at 87 years old, he spent an hour standing at the side of the road in his old riding of Scarborough West. Standing up as a Jew against genocide. Standing up for justice for Palestine. Standing up on the right side of history, where the vast majority of humanity currently stands.

I’ve never been prouder, never more humble before the stubborn principle and insistent moral clarity of the guy I’m so lucky to call Dad.

People of Canada: don’t stop talking about Palestine.
Starvation as collective punishment can never be forgiven.
Burning and burying children alive can never be defended.
Stand up against genocide until we make it stop!

Thanks Dad.

And special thanks to @CharlieAngusNDP for shining his spotlight on Ted Schmidt and the other excellent folks who gather every Thursday at 8 am at the corner of Victoria Park and Kingston Road in Scarborough.

[Rachel Gilmore @atRachelGilmore]

Stop what you’re doing and watch this immediately.

Canadian doctors returned from Gaza and are sharing what they witnessed and lived.

They are demanding action from Mark Carney.

Their testimony is our failure.

[nosa ! @nosaputyouon]

When I was in high school, I joined the percussion section of my school’s band because of the influence Roy Ayers had on me.
To say this one hurts is an understatement.

[Mike @mjcheatley]

@doctorow keeps writing at an impressive pace. I shall do my best to keep up!

[Cory Doctorow NO LONGER ON TWIT TER @doctorow]

*Picks and Shovels* is a new, standalone technothriller starring Marty Hench, my two-fisted, hard-fighting, tech-scam-busting forensic accountant. You can pre-order it on my latest Kickstarter, which features a brilliant audiobook read by Wil Wheaton:

https://t.co/i2rWuyouNs

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[Meral Hussein-Ece @meralhece]

Disgusting- I repeat, no one from the Mediterranean destroys olive trees. It’s part of our cultural heritage.

[Kjell Anderson @Kjell_Anderson]

Ok, now I get why pro-Israel lobby groups (and the Canadian government) are so fearful of Francesca Albanese. She speaks persuasively and with complete moral clarity about Israel's gross human rights violations against Palestinians.

[Mike @mjcheatley]

New book! I was told this will be a romp, @davidmcw

[Ted Gioia @tedgioia]

In 1958, Hannah Arendt warned about dangerous technologists.

Does any of this sound familiar?

[Nassim Nicholas Taleb @nntaleb]

A very wise elder, Ryan Crocker, former US Ambassador who understands dynamics & 2nd order stuff.
Israel is more threatened today than it was 42 years ago when it started the "Peace for Galilee".
"Decapitating" an insurgency group does not work.

https://t.co/405Zav9Eo3