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Ottawa announces $8M to Cuba amid growing humanitarian crisis | CBC News Global Affairs Canada has announced $8 million in funding for Cuba as the country grapples with U.S. President Donald Trump's oil blockade.

Good they’re doing it, but feels like far too little to help a people being crushed by the United States simply because it doesn’t like their government.

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Definitely not wrong.

Did you think you could never be marginalized?

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Shout out to all the people for whom this run-up to possible war with Iran is triggering flashbacks to the run-up to the US invasion of Iraq.

A horrible, powerless feeling.

Extremely weird that we don’t have this here.

I’m not naive enough to think Canada and India should stay perpetual rivals but you’d think literally any accountability for their targeted attacks would be pursued before Carney decided money was more important. But hey he’s not the one targeted with violence.

Jake Guentzel among 5 US men's hockey players not at State of the Union Jake Guentzel of the Tampa Bay Lightning is among five players from the gold-medal winning U.S. men's hockey team not in Washington, D.C.

5 Team USA players declined Trump invite

Jake Guentzel of the Tampa Bay Lightning, Colorado Avalanche forward Brock Nelson, Winnipeg Jets forward Kyle Connor, Dallas Stars goalie Jake Oettinger and Anaheim Ducks defenseman Jackson LaCombe

www.usatoday.com/story/sports...

When your whole life you've been taught that American Capitalism will defeat Communist Authoritarianism when the world is at stake, it's just a real unlearning process for the world to actually be at stake and Chinese Capitalism is just beating the pants off of American Authoritarianism

NHL FRONT OFFICES: Our boys are back on home soil with gold medals around their necks! This must be PR gold!

NHL SOCIAL MEDIA MANAGERS: (panicking in front of a console that's blinking red and letting out a siren like the USS Enterprise under Klingon attack) SIR I CANNOT HOLD HER FOR MUCH LONGER

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Athletes aren't politicians but at this point if you allow your victories to be co-opted by these guys, there's a level of complicity. Respect to the ones who've spoken out against it

If you're in the USA this'll take about 30 seconds of work 👀🤝🏼

Please read this entire thread and stop sharing misinformation about Kyle Bassinga.

Too many people have rushed to speak over Kyle's family (and according to this thread, even created fake gofundmes and an AI-generated video about Kyle interacting with the police before his death). #KyleBassinga

Text explaining how there isn’t a war on cars, with all the benefits of reallocating street space to move a lot more people with a lot less space and other consequences, including life and death, pollution/emissions, public and personal costs, etc. Providing more choices works better for everyone, including drivers. And more transportation choices support the economic competitiveness of cities, as smart cities know.

I’m not a fan of politicians trying to make people angry for votes by claiming there actually IS a “war on cars” (there isn’t — if anything there’s been a war on every OTHER way of getting around since the 1960s).

A politician just made the claim on LinkedIn. Here’s the reply I posted. #UrbanTruth

Miyazaki didn't even found Studio Ghibli until he was 44. He won his first (US) Academy Award (for Spirited Away) at 60.

Toni Morrison published Sula at age 39 and Beloved at age 56

Gabriel García Márquez was 40 when 100 Years Of Solitude dropped

but go off big dog

It never ceases to confound me just how many folks think the point of essays is to provide teachers with essays. That teachers just like, collect them, or need them for sustenance or something. Rather than the point of them being the *actual fucking act of learning how to think about shit*

BAFTA and BBC Let the N-Word Air on Tape Delay — Michael B. Jordan, Delroy Lindo, the Tourette’s Community and Viewers Deserve an Apology A Tourette’s-related outburst of the N-word aired during the BAFTAs despite tape delay. Michael B. Jordan and Delroy Lindo are owed an apology.

I think this article (from a black man and a father to a child with similar disabilities) is a good take on the incident.
variety.com/2026/film/aw...

For real 🫠

The ableism in that comment section was gruesome.

I really appreciate this TikToker with Tourette syndrome, Shay, for taking the time to educate so many of us (including me) about her disability and coprolalia in light of what happened at the BAFTAs with John Davidson when Michael B. Jordan and Delroy Lindo were on stage.

I learned a lot.

A tic is not an "accident" or error on anyone's part. A better comparison would be if someone fell into you because they have Ataxia. If someone fell in me because of a neurological disorder, I would insist they have no reason to apologize to me. It is not their fault. It's called basic empathy.

Minneapolis isn't an especially sweary place but there are so many houses that have homemade "FUCK ICE" signs and I've had multiple conversations with parents about how we're okay with our kids using that word in this context because sometimes it IS okay to swear and this is one of those times.

I still wear masks whenever I go out, and tbh at first the glares and weird condescending tones bothered me but I've gotten to a point at which I have no problem giving those people my best, flattest "fuck off" Auntie stare. It's weird to me that the assumption is always that I do it for myself ...

I am a physician who will be wearing an N95 in all clinical encounters for the rest of my life because I don’t want to commit the harm of passing on a respiratory pathogen to a patient. This seems like a minimum duty, like handwashing, but I am unfortunately in a vanishingly small minority.

The cool thing is…

It’s not too late to start wearing a K/N95 again.

Or to normalize “please don’t come over if you’re sick”

Or to demand indoor air quality investments (ventilation, filtration, ASHRAE 241 etc) in schools.

Or to gift air cleaners to friends.

Or lobby for health facility masking

I was thinking about that today because I remember when the hospital ship was docked in the Hudson River because NYC hospitals were overflowing. Morgue trucks were stacked up behind every hospital. Everyone seemed to know someone who died of COVID.

We seem to have memory-holed ALL OF IT.