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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 2h

Florida’s surgeon general’s anti-vax beliefs are only the tip of a very deeply weird iceberg.

Joseph Ladapo’s guiding voice? His wife, who believes she can talk to “Archangel Michael, Mary Magdalene, and many other beings of light.”

From medicine to mysticism: the radicalization of Florida's top doc

Joseph Ladapo was a normie—until he met his wife and a guru into levitating and communicating with spirits.

www.motherjones.com

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Robin Mandelwald @robinmandelwald.bsky.social · 21h

Homecoming.
#Gaza
Photo: Abood Abusalama / MEI

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Jonathan Lemire @jonlemire.bsky.social · 1d

First James Comey. Now Letitia James.

Trump’s retribution is here www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...

Retribution Is Here

The president’s threats of revenge are no longer bluster.

www.theatlantic.com

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Mark MacKinnon @markmackinnon.bsky.social · 1d

If China’s smart, they’ll resurrect the “Confucius Peace Prize” and give it to Trump to salve his wounded ego.

Previous winners include Vladimir Putin, Robert Mugabe and Hun Sen…

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Confuci...

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Toronto Star @thestar.com · 22h

Stop hoping that Donald Trump doesn’t mean what he says about Canada.

The real game, as we all know deep down, is making Canada more resilient and less dependent on the U.S. #Opinion

Andrew Phillips: Stop hoping that Donald Trump doesn’t mean what he says about Canada

When it comes to Mark Carney, Donald Trump and the White House meeting that swallowed much of this week, I’m with John Cleese — or at least the character he

www.thestar.com

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Mark MacKinnon @markmackinnon.bsky.social · 1d

Trump’s Gaza ceasefire deal may prove to be either his signature diplomatic achievement - or just one more false dawn in the long Israeli-Palestinian conflict.

My take

Trump’s Gaza deal is brimming with hope but short on details and long-term solutions

Both sides agree it’s a first step toward peace, but only the beginning of the path toward resolving the broader Israeli-Palestinian conflict

www.theglobeandmail.com

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Andrea Woo @andreawoo.bsky.social · 1d

‘Everlasting peace’ not guaranteed:
Palestinians and Israelis, poring through Trump’s Gaza peace deal, find reasons for hope but few details on their future, writes @markmackinnon.bsky.social
www.theglobeandmail.com/world/articl...

Trump’s Gaza deal is brimming with hope but short on details and long-term solutions

Both sides agree it’s a first step toward peace, but only the beginning of the path toward resolving the broader Israeli-Palestinian conflict

www.theglobeandmail.com

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realdougpetepiece.bsky.social @realdougpetepiece.bsky.social · 21h

Dear Mark what an awful story! It reminds me of a story from my Fathers 6 years of WWII.
Major Petepiece had his troops drop rocks (instead of grenades)down a dyke in Holland to scare young Hitler youth attackers.Dad was sick of the killing as war was winding down.

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Mark MacKinnon @markmackinnon.bsky.social · 21h

“As the ceasefire approached, the Israeli bombardment of the Gaza Strip continued until the last moment, targeting homes and refugee camps, like a war machine insisting on leaving its final mark before a long silence”

Our Hasan Jaber reports from the Bureij refugee camp

A cautious calm settles over Gaza as the ceasefire takes hold

After two years of devastating war, Palestinians in Gaza celebrate a possible end to the Israel-Hamas war while grieving what they have lost

www.theglobeandmail.com

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realdougpetepiece.bsky.social @realdougpetepiece.bsky.social · 21h

Please join the 11th Annual James Foley Freedom Run #IRunForJim and the #FoleyFamily including Diane/John and Martha who have become like family to me and my Son.
@foleydi @reflextv.bsky.social @markmackinnon.bsky.social @kathygannon.bsky.social secure.qgiv.com/event/2025ja...

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realdougpetepiece.bsky.social @realdougpetepiece.bsky.social · 3d

He was also shot in the head with some kind of projectile at minute 4:04 of this video www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddo...

ICE violence caught on camera featured among evidence in new lawsuit

Rachel Maddow relays reports of a brutal, militaristic raid on an apartment building in Chicago, and shares video included as exhibits in a new lawsuit showing ICE agents violently attacking a Presbyt...

www.msnbc.com

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Emmanuelle Chaze @emmanuellechaze.com · 4d

🔴🇺🇦 Russia targets the city of Kharkiv tonight, for the past half hour we have been under attack, over twenty explosions have already been heard.

Authorities say several fires already broke out in the city, with more drones approaching.

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David Rider @dmrider.bsky.social · 5d

I sat down with Toronto Hydro's CEO to talk about her first year in the important-but-often-invisible-to-the-public role, Hydro's increased efforts to fight climate change & what the utility changed after people lost power during June's record scorcher www.thestar.com/news/gta/wha...

What Toronto Hydro’s new CEO learned from the summer’s record-breaking heat wave

Jana Mosley, Toronto Hydro’s chief executive, says the city’s electrical grid can withstand a surge in demand and extreme weather that can damage equipment.

www.thestar.com

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Tom Harrington @cbctom.bsky.social · 7d

On the dog walk in the neighbourhood Friday night, ran into a couple & their dog. After the usual pet patter, found out they’d just moved into their new Toronto home that day after driving from San Francisco. The husband who’s in the green energy industry, joked “we’re defecting.” 🇨🇦

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OPB @opb.org · 6d

Breaking News: Protesters who gathered at Elizabeth Caruthers Park in Portland for a planned demonstration at noon marched to the nearby ICE detention facility and blocked the road in front of the building. Soon after, federal law enforcement fired tear gas to disperse the crowd.

Federal agents fire tear gas, make multiple arrests during protest outside Portland ICE facility

Hundreds of protesters marched to facility from nearby Elizabeth Carruthers Park in Southwest Portland.

www.opb.org

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David Rider @dmrider.bsky.social · 6d

Mahdis worked *very* hard to reveal that speed cameras in most GTA municipalities don’t ticket drivers unless they are speeding at least 11 km-h over the limit, debunking @fordnation’s claims that people get dinged at 2 or 3 over t.co/k8GhfqY9O9

https://www.thestar.com/news/gta/what-s-the-threshold-to-get-a-ticket-from-torontos-speed-camera-program-here-s/article_fa176fce-2817-4d0f-9d7f-2b593550efc3.html

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Eric Robert Reguly @ereguly.bsky.social · 7d

A people without a home: My piece on the thousands of Palestinians from #Gaza trying to build a new life in #Egypt
www.theglobeandmail.com/world/articl...

Fearing permanent exile, displaced Palestinians struggle to rebuild their lives in Egypt

Separated from their homeland and unsure whether they will ever be able to return, tens of thousands of Palestinian refugees rely on each other

www.theglobeandmail.com

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realdougpetepiece.bsky.social @realdougpetepiece.bsky.social · 7d

Seems Donald Trump can even get Israeli to stop the bombing.Airstrikes against the occupied Palestinian territory are reported to have killed twenty people since last night, CNN reported

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Mark MacKinnon @markmackinnon.bsky.social · 7d

"As usual, Trump has declared an all-out war on facts. He describes the partial assent – with many caveats – to the cease-fire he proposed earlier this week as good news, while marching on with the hostage deal and assuming that no one will dare stop him."

Trump, ignoring Hamas and Israel's reservations, seeks to bend Gaza's reality to his will

Since Trump Declared an Imminent Cease-fire Agreement, Both Netanyahu and Hamas Are Making Sure They're Not Seen as the Side That Causes the Plan to Fail. But Signing a Hostage Release Deal Would Hurt...

www.haaretz.com

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realdougpetepiece.bsky.social @realdougpetepiece.bsky.social · 7d

@reflextv.bsky.social #Ukraine #Kherson

realdougpetepiece.bsky.social @realdougpetepiece.bsky.social · 8d

Armed Only With A Camera: The Life and Death of Brent Renaud is a powerful tribute to a war photojournalist who risked everything on the front lines. Premieres October 21 on ‪@hbomax‬.#Ukraine #PutinisaWarCriminal
www.youtube.com/watch?v=bcee...

Armed Only With A Camera: The Life and Death of Brent Renaud | Official Trailer | HBO

YouTube video by HBO

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realdougpetepiece.bsky.social @realdougpetepiece.bsky.social · 8d

The situation – Russian drones in the sky, and the front line of the war now less than 70 kilometres away from Pavlohrad – was not exactly how Tetyana Kotenko would have planned to have her first child, but she was excited nonetheless.

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realdougpetepiece.bsky.social @realdougpetepiece.bsky.social · 8d

Sixteen hours before Sasha Kotenko was born, his mother was pacing the floor of her hospital room, trying to ignore the air-raid siren that sounded over the central Ukrainian city of Pavlohrad almost as soon as she had gone into labour.

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Mark MacKinnon @markmackinnon.bsky.social · 8d

Privately hoping that someone in Canada's vast Ukrainian diaspora will read about the need for Ukrainian-language Harry Potter books in at the school library in Pavlohrad, and decide to fill that gap...

Mark MacKinnon @markmackinnon.bsky.social · 8d

Life, death - and just carrying on - in a Ukrainian city as the war gets closer.

A week in the life of Pavlohrad, a city bracing for its turn on the frontline if Pokrovsk, an hour's drive to the east, falls.

My report, with amazing photography by @olgaivashchenko.bsky.social

This Ukrainian city isn’t on the front lines yet. If that changes, everything changes

Pavlohrad is bracing for the day it turns into another Mariupol or Bakhmut. The Globe went there to see how locals feel – and what hard choices they might face if the Russians come

www.theglobeandmail.com

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Jonathan Lemire @jonlemire.bsky.social · 8d

NEW: A government shutdown, weaponized

Projects slashed. Layoffs threatened. Russ Vought looming

It took President Trump fewer than 24 hours to turn a shutdown into a weapon wielded against the civil servants and opposing party he has long derided www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...

A Government Shutdown, Weaponized

The president is boasting about doing things to Democrats that are “bad for them and irreversible by them.”

www.theatlantic.com

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