Glenn Jeffery

[Cian McCarthy @arealmofwonder]

Lord Byron with another winner...

[NOBUNAGA🇯🇵🏯_夏樹蒼依 @japan_nobunaga]

i hope the end is like the last day of school. you didn't finish the test. nobody finished. and it doesn't matter anymore, because everyone spills out into the sunlight, laughing at everything we got wrong. and somewhere in the crowd, your mother is calling your name, the way only she says it.

[Asher Honickman @Honickman]

John A. Macdonald acknowledged the U.S. Constitution was not perfect, but he still called it “one of the most wonderful works of human intellect—one of the most marvellous efforts of skill and organization that ever governed a free people”

[British Embassy Washington @UKinUSA]

The greatest ex we ever had 😢

[Burton Cummings @burtoncummings]

Happy Canada Day! In the 1970s, while touring as The Guess Who, we carried the Canadian flag with us wherever we went. It often served as our backdrop on stage. I’m proud to have been born in Canada and proud to live full-time in the Prairies of Saskatchewan. 🇨🇦

[Asad🗽🍎 @AsadFromNYC]

Recalling When Lower Manhattan Was New Amsterdam: "An exhibition at the New York Historical focuses on the city’s 17th-century roots as a Dutch settlement." https://t.co/GhuBMjMWqT

[Yuan Yi Zhu @yuanyi_z]

For my @EngelsbergIdeas debut I review a collection about William Lyon Mackenzie King, warlord, premier, pervert.

[Dimitris Soudas 🇨🇦⚜️🇬🇷☦️ 13.12.1943 @DimitrisSoudas]

Canada’s Somali community has made remarkable contributions to our country and continues to enrich every aspect of Canadian life.

From entrepreneurs creating jobs, to healthcare professionals caring for our families, to teachers, public servants, community leaders, athletes, artists, and small business owners, Somali Canadians have helped build stronger communities from coast to coast.

Their story is also a Canadian success story, one of hard work, resilience, family values, and a commitment to giving back.

We see that success in businesses founded and led by Somali Canadians, including Karma Food Co., known for its healthy food products, The Village Grocer Inc., which has become a well known grocery retailer, and numerous transportation, logistics, technology, real estate, and financial services businesses that contribute millions of dollars to the Canadian economy and create jobs in communities across the country.

We also see it in the achievements of prominent Somali Canadians such as Ahmed Hussen, who arrived in Canada as a refugee and went on to serve as a federal cabinet minister; Hodan Nalayeh, the celebrated journalist and storyteller who helped share the stories of Somalis around the world; Faisal Hassan, one of the first Somali Canadian Members of Provincial Parliament in Ontario; and Mustafa Farah, whose community leadership and advocacy have helped strengthen opportunities for young Canadians.

Canada is stronger because of the diversity, talent, and contributions of Somali Canadians. Today, we celebrate a community that continues to help shape the future of our country for the better.

Thank you for all that you do.

[Acyn @Acyn]

Shaheen: How does insulting our closest ally and neighbor help the businesses in my state and states all across this country who are hurting because of the loss of Canadian business and tourism?

Lutnick: Canada's economy leans on the incredible $30 trillion economy of America.

Shaheen: We have all those Canadian visitors who are not coming because of your comments and comments by the administration. How does that help our economy?

Lutnick: It is outrageous that Canada will not put U.S. Spirits on the shelf.

Shaheen: And they won't do it because of the insults from this president and comments like yours.

[Jason Kenney 🇨🇦🇺🇦🇮🇱 @jkenney]

Brilliant and fascinating!

When my ancestors left Ireland during the Famine, it was only natural that they would relocate to another part of the Empire: British North America (BNA.)

When the Fenians invaded BNA and then Canada (1866-69,) my Irish Catholic Famine emigré g-g-grandfather Thomas Kenny enlisted to defend Queen Victoria’s Northern Dominion. His loyalty was automatic and instinctive.

Another great grandfather was an Ulster Protestant who settled in Alberta with his Catholic wife from Cork and their ten kids following his career in the British Imperial Army, including service in the Boer War. When the Great War broke out, the entire family packed up and returned to Ireland as he and two of his sons had enlisted to defend the Empire.

The great martyr of Canadian Confederation, Thomas D’Arcy McGee, was originally a Fenian sentenced to death for his involvement in the Young Ireland movement. His sentence was commuted, and he eventually ended up living in Montreal, where he concluded that Irish Catholics could live freely and with dignity within the Empire, at least in the Canadian context. He was assassinated by a Fenian as revenge for his leadership in bringing the Irish into the Canadian Confederation compact.

There are countless stories like these of Irish who very much regarded themselves as sons and daughters of the Empire, something that today’s manichean view of history refuses to acknowledge.

[Nicola Burkinshaw @NABurkinshaw]

Nick Cave responding to a grieving mother who worries that she forsaw, or perhaps even willed, the death of her young child is one of the most beautiful things you will read today.

[Morgan Cameron Ross @Morgan_C_Ross]

“Mark and I message each other pretty much every day, whether about hockey, the Blue Jays.. but mostly about NATO.. and trying to save the world.” - Finnish President Alexander Stubb

[Reid Wiseman @astro_reid]

On the helicopter leaving the ship right now. This planet is impossibly beautiful from every altitude I’ve seen it…surface to 250,000 miles

[Sohrab Ahmari 🇺🇸 @SohrabAhmari]

I love him so much.

[Jeremy @ManaByte]

This is one of the greatest photos ever taken by a human…so far.

[Acyn @Acyn]

Reporter: What do you think of Sid Rosenberg using the term cockroach?

Mamdani: So Muslims in this city, for almost as long as we have been in this city, have had to deal with those with power and platform dehumanizing us — to be called animals, insects, to be called a jihadist mayor….

This language is both painfully familiar to me as a Muslim New Yorker, but also as someone who was born in East Africa, and it is difficult to hear. There’s also a reminder that the silence that often greets this kind of bigotry, this kind of Islamophobia, is what allows it to fester — the temptation to treat it as politics as usual.

And I want to be very clear that I have far more urgent work in front of me than indulging the provocations of a man who trades in outrage and, frankly, fears the city that we are looking to build — one where every single New Yorker who lives here can call it their home.

I am not ashamed of who I am. I am not ashamed of my faith. I am not ashamed of being the first Muslim mayor in the history of our city. And there’s no amount of racism that will change the way in which I lead or the commitment that I hold to each and every New Yorker in this city.

[🝫 ✹ ᴰʳᵉᵃᵐ ᴶᵒᵘʳⁿᵃˡⁱˢᵗ @mike_boreas]

Blessing of the Maples, Marc-Aurèle de Foy Suzor-Coté. 1915.

[Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @NYCMayor]

It’s your city, from the sidewalk to the skyline. The David Dinkins Municipal Building’s rooftop is open & free to everyone, starting this June.

[Ed Davey @EdwardJDavey]

My dad wrote me a letter weeks before he died when I was four. “Mummy will give you all my kisses.”

It wasn’t until I became a dad myself that I thought how it must feel to say goodbye to your young children.