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Mitchell Plitnick @mjplitnick.bsky.social · 13h

This is about the Arab NATO that was being promoted in Trump's first term and was a priority during the Biden's.
What's important is that it seems to have rolled along, business as usual, throughout the #Gaza genocide. The Arab dictators never stop stabbing #Palestinians in the back

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Arab states expanded cooperation with Israeli military during Gaza war, files show

Documents from U.S. Central Command show a series of meetings over the past three years between Israeli and Arab military officials to coordinate on regional threats.

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David Kahane @davidkahane.bsky.social · 13h

Thread.

Jeff Doctor @jeff.doctor · 14h

I am once again asking Canadian journalists to ask the most basic-ass question of "on whose land will these be built?" How is it that every other major industry must consider Indigenous rights but with tech it's like "meh".
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ANALYSIS | Why OpenAI wants to help Canada build homegrown artificial intelligence | CBC News

OpenAI wants to help Canada build a sovereign digital infrastructure for artificial intelligence, putting the country in a tough spot as it tries to distance itself from overreliance on U.S. tech comp...

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Jeremy Appel 🍉 @readtheorchard.org · 13h

Mega lolz

The Times & Sunday Times @thetimes.com · 13h

Ian Watkins, the disgraced rock star jailed for child sex offences, has been killed in prison

Ian Watkins: paedophile Lostprophets singer stabbed to death in prison

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The Times & Sunday Times @thetimes.com · 13h

Ian Watkins, the disgraced rock star jailed for child sex offences, has been killed in prison

Ian Watkins: paedophile Lostprophets singer stabbed to death in prison

www.thetimes.com

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Bruce Arthur @brucearthur.bsky.social · 1d

Here’s the thing with sports: when you’re in the high-pressure playoff spaces, it might feel like hell. But that’s the greatest thing about sports fandom: you get to feel it. You get to live and die. Feel it, live it, embrace it. You might never forget it, and how many things are like that?

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Mark @tolecover.bsky.social · 1d

Tigers-Mariners Game 5:

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Paris Marx @parismarx.com · 1d

every couple months, carney starts pulling the legs out from under yet another important climate policy

'It depends': Carney shifts stance on maintaining emissions cap | CBC News

Prime Minister Mark Carney said Friday the fate of the emissions cap on oil and gas producers depends on other efforts to lower emissions, suggesting his government might be open to scrapping the poli...

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Jeremy Appel 🍉 @readtheorchard.org · 1d

Are you cheering for the Jays or the Mariners?

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Jeremy Appel 🍉 @readtheorchard.org · 1d

a man is giving a peace sign in front of a sign that says honey has now live

ALT: a man is giving a peace sign in front of a sign that says honey has now live

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Dr Lindsay Tedds @lindsaytedds.bsky.social · 1d

Post secondary revenue in Alberta open.alberta.ca/dataset/0fc4...

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Carrie Tait @carrietait.bsky.social · 2d

Blacklisting reporters is not an effective way to prevent reporters from reporting.

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Emissary Of Night | ليلى @diplomatofnight.com · 2d

Three former Secretaries of State who all share the same opinion make for a pretty boring roundtable. Seems they didn't call John Kerry because he is the only one who has called Israel's regime of control over Palestinians an apartheid system.

max tani @maxtani.bsky.social · 2d

New: Bari Weiss booked Hillary Clinton, Mike Pompeo, and Antony Blinken for a roundtable on Gaza, her first major move at CBS.

Notably on a CBS call today in which the panel was floated, one producer also repeatedly emphasized the need to hear from Palestinians in Gaza (Weiss did not respond).

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APTN News @aptnnews.bsky.social · 2d

Edmonton police held a news conference Thursday in an area where they believe the remains of Samuel Bird are located.

Edmonton police narrow search area for missing teen Samuel Bird

Edmonton police held a news conference Thursday in an area where they believe the remains of Samuel Bird are located.

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Negro Frolics @desmondcole.bsky.social · 2d

Until a few years ago, it was a criminal offence in Canada to scare the Queen of England

The Carney government's new hate crime proposals have a similar aim—to protect the ruling classes from discomfort and political dissent

My latest for @breachmedia.ca

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New hate crime law is a cover for suppressing Palestine protests ⋆ The Breach

The proposed 'Combatting Hate Act' is built on the idea that protests inspire hateful violence, and gives police the tools to crack down on expression

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T. Ryan Gregory 🇨🇦 @tryangregory.bsky.social · 2d

No one could have foreseen this.

(Actually, Indigenous folks and climate advocates totally foresaw this.)

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Major Projects Office CEO hopes to make decision on pipeline to B.C. coast 4-5 months after submission | CBC News

The CEO of Canada’s newly formed Major Projects Office says she hopes that it would take between four and five months to issue a decision on a bitumen pipeline to the West Coast.

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NPR @npr.org · 2d

For the first time on record, renewable energy generated more electricity for the planet than coal, a new report says. n.pr/47hcegr

Renewable energy outpaces coal for electricity generation in historic first, report says

For the first time on record, renewable energy generated more electricity for the planet than coal, a new report says.

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Mark Bray @mark-bray.bsky.social · 3d

“Someone” cancelled my family’s flight out of the country at the last second.

We got our boarding passes. We checked our bags. Went through security. Then at our gate our reservation ‘disappeared.’

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Don Hughes @donaldhughes.ca · 3d

Congratulations to the Toronto Blue Jays and lol to the New York Yankees.

Vladimir Guerrero, Jr., a Toronto Blue Jays player, looking cool.

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James G @orth.ca · 3d

Vladdy: "DAAAAAA YANKEES LOSE!"

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John Horrigan Antique Maps @jhmaps.bsky.social · 4d

If Kenney lost power in any of those countries in the spectacular way he did in Alberta, he'd probably be in a hole in the desert today.

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Jeremy Appel 🍉 @readtheorchard.org · 4d

As Rahim Jaffer told me, it’s not enough for Jason Kenney to be the smartest person in the room, you have to know he’s the smartest person in the room.

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Jeremy Appel 🍉 @readtheorchard.org · 4d

Not his first rodeo

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Carl Meyer @meyer.bsky.social · 4d

A decade ago, Mark Carney gave a speech pointing out how biz and political leaders had no day-to-day incentive to address climate change, yet it was up to governments. Today, Carney is leading one, but finds himself consumed with responding to the many crises of the day thenarwhal.ca/mark-carney-...

How Mark Carney is complicating Canada’s climate progress | The Narwhal

From cancelling the carbon tax to pausing the EV mandate, Mark Carney’s government is making sweeping changes to Canada’s environmental rules

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Bookshop.org @bookshop.org · 4d

Can’t decide what to buy on Prime Day?

Try: absolutely nothing, and then go support indie bookstores instead 📚

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Jeremy Appel 🍉 @readtheorchard.org · 4d

In which Jason Kenney freely admits that he sees Saudi Arabia, Egypt and the UAE as models for suppressing dissent.

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