David Rider
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politico.eu
🚨 BREAKING: French President Emmanuel Macron today reappointed Sébastien Lecornu as prime minister — less than a week after Lecornu’s stunning resignation as PM plunged France into a political crisis.

Full story:
Macron picks Lecornu as French PM again
The 39-year-old head of government abruptly resigned Monday, thrusting the country into crisis.
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thetimes.com
🗣 I screamed: ‘The war is over! My family is alive! None of them died!’

The journalist Amal Helles fled her native Gaza to the Netherlands where she and her family lived with nerves on edge until the ceasefire brought tears of relief
I screamed: ‘The war is over! My family is alive! None of them died!’
The journalist Amal Helles fled her native Gaza to the Netherlands where she and her family lived with nerves on edge until the ceasefire brought tears of relief
www.thetimes.com
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(I suggested visiting, if she hasn’t already, St Lawrence Market in the morning followed by a walk around the Esplanade)
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newsweek.com
Melania Trump said Putin responded to her letter and that they established an “open channel of communication."
Melania Trump Announces Response from Putin Over Missing Ukrainian Children
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propublica.org
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Our job is to hold people and institutions accountable. To do that, we need evidence.
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dmrider.bsky.social
Found this visitor take interesting, from Reddit yesterday. Lively dysfunction
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brenttoderian.bsky.social
“The transformation is astonishing. [Paris] has quietly—& quickly—become one of the most bike-friendly cities in the world. What started as a series of emergency “coronapistes” or pop-up bike lanes, built during the pandemic has evolved into a permanent bike network spanning hundreds of kilometres.”
New Study Shows How Paris Pedaled Its Way to a Cycling Revolution
Cycling through central Paris meant weaving between buses and scooters—a bold choice reserved for the fearless few.
momentummag.com
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shawnmicallef.bsky.social
Yesterday I took my students on a field trip to the mothership: the Thomas Fisher rare book library at U of T (the head of Roberts’ brutalist peacock). Cool open to the public display drawing from collection. Atwood’s original Handmaid’s draft et al.
Library Exhibition Exhibition Exhibition
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dannykpolitics.bsky.social
WATCH: ‘Portland Frog’ pepper balled by ICE agents
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arstechnica.com
His case was such a riddle that a master clinician with an expertise in clinical reasoning was called in to help unravel it.
Man gets drunk, wakes up with a medical mystery that nearly kills him
This one seems ready-made for a television medical drama.
arstechnica.com
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governorwalz.mn.gov
Can’t believe I have to say this, but in Minnesota you will continue to have the freedom to get your COVID and flu shots.
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darrigomelanie.bsky.social
I feel like this photo of masked, armed men pepper spraying a pastor protecting his community is going to be a defining picture of this moment in America for a long, long time.
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cnn.com
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The 2025 Nobel Prize in physics goes to three US-based scientists for groundbreaking experiments in the field of quantum mechanics https://cnn.it/46X4wqz
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reuters.com
Two years of warfare have brought death, misery and ruin to the 2 million inhabitants of Gaza. With a new ceasefire plan under discussion, Reuters looks at one family's story of terrible loss and fragile hope reut.rs/46Bp0X0
The Gaza twins whose whole lives have been war
Two years of warfare have brought death and ruin to the 2 million inhabitants of Gaza. Reuters looks at one family’s story of terrible loss and fragile hope.
reut.rs
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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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taylornoakes.com
It was the height of irony

At a meeting on Russian disinfo, a former cabinet minister accused a veteran journalist of being a spy

But the papers waved around as proof didn't say what was alleged

And now they appear to be forgeries

My latest @thewalrus.ca #cdnpoli

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Forged KGB Documents Used to Smear Journalist in Parliament | The Walrus
Ex-MP Chris Alexander accused David Pugliese of being a Russian spy. Forensic experts now say the evidence was fabricated
thewalrus.ca
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