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Sweet. Thanks for cross posting.

It’s Time Canada Recognized Palestine | The Tyee By charting a foreign policy independent of the US, we can affirm our values and sovereignty.

For Canada to assert its sovereignty in the face of U.S. President Trump’s threats of potentially devastating tariffs and annexation, it must chart an independent foreign policy.

The boldest way to do this: address the humanitarian disaster in the Gaza Strip. @stevenzzhou.bsky.social writes.

Standing apart from Trump: It’s time Canada recognized Palestine Canada must recognize Palestinian statehood to uphold its values, defend human rights, and assert independence from Trump's foreign policy.

It’s time for Canada to take a stand and recognize the state of Palestine.

In this important piece, @stevenzzhou.bsky.social explains how Canada has the chance to set a global example to defend human rights. 👇

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A Syrian Village Fights To Save Aramaic, the Language of Jesus Life in Maaloula is dwindling thanks to war and emigration, and so too is the ancient tongue of its Christian residents

"The fate of an ancient language, once spoken by the prophets and revered by millions, may now hinge on a single individual and a small group of determined souls. Aramaic is more than just words, it is the lifeblood of a people and a civilization."

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Norwegian tall ship Statsraad Lehmkuhl: this remarkable vessel is home to ESA’s six-week Advanced Ocean Training Course, which involves a transformative journey from Norway to France where next-generation researchers have been immersed in the world of ocean science.

Part of the feature-rich Deuteronilus Cavus depression on Mars. Evidence of glacial activity is apparent around much of the inner crater walls as rock-covered ice has flowed downslope. At the bottom a channel with several branches breaches the crater wall; it likely once contained flowing water.

Bright and dark streaks covering the slopes of the Olympus Mons aureole, as seen by the Colour and Stereo Surface Imaging System (CaSSIS) on board ESA's ExoMars Trace Gas Orbiter.

A spiral galaxy in space. It is seen tilted at an angle, as a stormy disc filled with clouds of stars and dust. It is coloured more yellowish in the centre, and bluer out to the edge of the disc, where the ends of curved spiral arms break away from the disc. Spots of red light scattered through the galaxy mark where stars are actively forming. The galaxy is on a black background

This was our #WeekInImages for 19-23 May 2025 👇

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Journalism isn’t quite dead, but sports journalism is just about there. Team sports with large fan bases and demand for access or inside stories is still somewhat in place, but that isn’t much longer for the world and nearly everything else is erased.

Pete Hegseth is pictured wearing a blue suit, looking to his left. A headline reads: "Pete Hegseth Said to Have Shared Sensitive Attack Details in Second Signal Chat." Photo by Eric Lee/The New York Times

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth shared detailed information about strikes in Yemen to a second unclassified Signal group chat that included his wife and brother, people familiar with the matter said. nyti.ms/4jBQ1wV

Oof. We’ve fallen so far, so fast.

The GFL Never Really Existed In the history of mixed martial arts, it's hard to find any entity or event that's been vaporware as much as the GFL.

I've been watching combat sports a long time and it's genuinely difficult to think of another entity or effort that's been vaporware as much as the GFL: lthomas.substack.com/p/gfl-never-...

Ovi breaks Gretzky’s record

Alexander the Great and the Fates, by Bernardino Mei, 1667, 📸 by Sarah Stier

The memes will get us through these four years.

Utterly irrelevant person trying his best to stick around.

Zero policy legacies, tho tbf the GOP stifled him at every turn.

He still exemplifies the airheaded liberalism that heralded forth our revanchist, populist age.

Opinion: The chilling case of Mahmoud Khalil should enrage anyone who purports to support freedom The former Columbia University student’s case is a chilling sign of U.S.’s slide into autocracy and those on all sides of the Israel-Palestine debate should resist it

"The fact is...Mr. Khalil has been detained for participating in legal – but wrong, as determined by the state – activities. It thus must be resisted on principle by anyone who purports to value free speech, freedom of assembly, and democracy."

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Insiders say Pierre Poilievre called Doug Ford for ‘advice’ — but the premier said he’ll be ‘staying out’ of the election Ontario Premier Doug Ford told Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre he would be too busy governing Ontario to help in the upcoming federal election campaign.

Ford is hoping Poilievre loses so he can run for CPC leader & PM himself.

Ford stole Poilievre's thunder by calling for an election and taking advantage of the anti-tax zeitgeist in Ontario and canada.

Now a CPC majority in ON looks unlikely in late April. #cdnpoli
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How Billionaire Li Ka-Shing’s Panama Deal Raised the Ire of China Billionaire Hong Kong tycoon Li Ka-shing has found himself in the middle of the China-US geopolitical tussle after announcing a deal to sell his Panama Canal port assets.

For sure Xi was going to use control over Panama Canal as a major bargaining chip against Trump.

He won't forget this betrayal.

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Orange and pink tendrils across a deepening blue sky

Tonight's clouds at dusk

State of Siege: Israel is conducting its largest mass expulsion campaign in the West Bank since 1967 More than 40,000 Palestinians have been forced from their homes in a violent Israeli rampage that at times has been aided by the Palestinian Authority

A powerful report from @mariambarghouti.bsky.social chronicling Israel's largest mass expulsion campaign in the West Bank since 1967. Mariam accompanied Palestinians braving sniper fire in an effort to retrieve what they could from their homes. @dropsitenews.com
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Not easy finding this consistency these days. Or in the last decade.

‘Not something we would comment on’: Buckingham Palace on Trump threats to annex Canada Buckingham Palace is refusing to weigh in on U.S. President Donald Trump’s persistent attacks on Canadian sovereignty.

Bruh.

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PKK declares ceasefire with Turkey after more than 40 years of conflict Kurdish militant group responds to call from its jailed leader Abdullah Öcalan to lay down arms

Wow. There was a similar call for disarming 12 years ago, but this seems more final. Turkey cashing in on uncertain times.

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GFL announced one of the more ghoulish and sad permutations their roster can produce.

This cuts deep.

HANG IT IN THE NATIONAL GALLERY OF CANADA!!!!

Returning to Devastation in South Lebanon Displaced residents have found their homes destroyed and the Israeli army still present

 “I am exhausted now. We have lost so much, but finally we are able to return to our land. This is the only thing that matters. We are still free.”

After days of occupation, residents of south Lebanon have returned home to devastation.

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Dude is not quite Putin.

UFC is making billionaires. It's just that none of them are athletes.

Iran and Israel’s Covert Pragmatic Friendship For years after the 1979 revolution that brought Ayatollah Khomeini to power, the two supposedly enemy states maintained a mutually beneficial relationship

For a decade after the Islamic Revolution of 1979, Israel’s relationship with Iran remained mutually beneficial despite public animosity.
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Brigid, Ireland’s Antiestablishment Saint Played down by the Catholic Church and resurrected by modern acolytes as a pagan fire goddess, her shifting cultural meanings conceal the remarkable life of a real early medieval abbess

Brigid’s ambiguity has always been her greatest superpower, seeing her celebrated as a druid priestess and fire goddess, a cloistered saint and a gay abbess.

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His very first game as a Maverick.

Nico is going to get assassinated.