Deb L

Always a fav!

Congratulations! 👏

In Vancouver and Whistler we welcome Invictus Games 2025 competitors from 23 nations, with a special shout out to Team America.

Our soldiers have served side by side for decades, and whenever you need us, we will be there. And we know that you also have our back.

YouTube video by Judy Small - Topic You Don't Speak For Me

We need more Judy Small

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No they don’t. Canada and Mexico want none of this. They want the president of the United States to respect and abide by the trade treaty he negotiated with them - and not make up bogus pretexts for plunging us all into a gratuitous no win economic debacle.

do you have any idea just how badly you have to fuck up to get Canada mad at you

Trump launches trade war against Canada with a 25% tariff on most goods | CBC News President Donald Trump launched a trade war against Canada on Saturday by imposing a 25 per cent tariff on virtually all goods from the U.S.'s neighbour — an unprecedented strike against a longstandin...

The war begins…
🇨🇦🇲🇽🇨🇳 vs 🇺🇸

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If I were Canadian PM I would immediately:

1. Create a new $15B science fund

2. Offer any credentialed US scientist funding for lab startup and replacement of NIH grants if they move to Canada

3. Immediate permanent residency

4. Citizenship after 2 years

Overnight a science superpower

I honestly believe our most powerful position in a toxic time that feeds on cynicism, apathy,& despair is to genuinely care and act for a better world.

Cynicism is our enemy. We should check it, incl. on the left. It’s not intellectually superior. It’s the virus they’re trying to infect us with. NO

A bird's-eye view of a former Auschwitz II-Birkenau camp showing a wide dirt pathway flanked by parallel rows of barbed-wire fences. Groups of visitors walk along the path, surrounded by the remnants of brick structures and barracks, now reduced to foundations. Green grass contrasts with the somber history of the site, as the path leads toward a guard tower in the distance.

Auschwitz was at the end of a long process. It did not start from gas chambers.

This hatred was gradually developed by humans. From ideas, words, stereotypes & prejudice through legal exclusion, dehumanization & escalating violence... to systematic and industrial murder.

Auschwitz took time.

As ICE targets undocumented people in and around my city, I am proud of Chicago organizers and community members who are working to protect our neighbors. If you are discouraged in these times, remember that people of conscience are taking action and that there are many ways you can join them.

YouTube video by CBC News Is Trump right about the U.S. 'subsidizing' Canada? | About That

IMPORTANT: If you live in the United States or Canada, you’ve probably heard Trump‘s constant claim that the United States is “subsidizing” Canada. It’s wrong of course, but here’s the best explanation I’ve seen about how & why it’s wrong. PLEASE WATCH & SHARE IT A LOT. Kudos to Andrew Chang & CBC.

Vast Trove of Arnold Schoenberg’s Music Is Destroyed in Fire An estimated 100,000 scores by Schoenberg, the groundbreaking 20th-century composer, were destroyed when the publishing company his heirs founded burned down.

So many layers of loss
#LAfires

Fabulous photos! Banteay Srei is another great site

Wishing you all a 2025 of free of f*ckery as possible.

Good morning from Vancouver. Thank you for the #AlphabetChallenge — it’s a bright spot in my week

Close up of tall building in foreground with misty background and silhouette of a skyscraper

Petronas Towers, Kuala Lumpur
#AlphabetChallenge #WeekAforAngles

Vancouver-based artist and activist Joe Average dies at age 67 - BC | Globalnews.ca Joe Average, a Vancouver-based artist and activist whose works have been featured on murals, coins, banners and stamps, died on Christmas Eve at the age of 67.

I'm very sad to hear that Joe Average is no longer with us
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Happy 5th birthday White Sands National Park 😎

Mural of the backs of two seated people snuggled together with 3D white Christmas lights and green garland decorations and red bench

#AlphabetChallenge #WeekXforXmas
#KualaLumpur

Springtime flowers, esp cherry blossoms #VancouverLove

It's true 😁

#food #NewMexico #chilelovers #foodie #spicy

Blue sky, white clouds on the horizon, long expanse of rolling hills of white gypsum sand

White Sands National Park

#AlphabetChallenge
#WeekWforWhite

Anna Banana - Wikipedia

RIP Anna Banana
#Canadian #artists

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“Don’t feed the trolls” also extends to bad opinion pieces in papers of record.

They run them bc people react to them the most.

If we stop linking to bad columns and instead post thinkers we find valuable (& generate convo around it), incentives change.

It’s not easy and takes constant practice!

Since pardons are on topic right now, here is a brief bit of info about Canadian pardons.
The Prime Minister of Canada cannot pardon someone. They can only recommend pardons to the Parole Board of Canada or Governor General.

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Night time, outside. Person in black walking in front of illuminated sign reading “SHAKE IT OFF”. Ferris wheel, bottom half of decorated tree, building in background

Shake it off #Vancouver
#taylorswift

3D glasses in front of multi coloured poster with words, The Vibrant Vine

The Vibrant Vine poster of their 3-D wine label.
Kelowna, BC. Okanagan Valley
#AlphabetChallenge
#WeekVforVibrant

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