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Susan Kiddie 🍉
@susankiddie.bsky.social
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Pro-humanity. Anti-fascist. Anti-genocide. Human Rights. Covid conscious, history, social justice, disability rights. She/Her. Keep your mental health stigma off my feed. Dystopian living is not as much fun as people led me to believe.
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Susan Kiddie 🍉 @susankiddie.bsky.social · 3d
"There was a feast once, and it became the Last Supper of my people.
And the world, indifferent, learned, self-satisfied, did not attend.
But it must remember. Because if it does not, then we, the living, will have died for nothing, and the dead will have died twice."

#GazaGenocide
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Anjali Enjeti @anjalienjeti.bsky.social · 3d
This is the kind of poetry that should never have had to be written. Tweet from Gaza doctor Dr. Ezzideen (@ezzinggaza).
Two years ago, on a Friday that now stands outside of time, my father prepared a feast. It was meant to honor life, my graduation, my return, the promise of a future. The table was full, not only with food, but with faith: the quiet, unspoken faith that tomorrow would exist. How easily we believe in continuity, in the mercy of another morning. We gathered as one family, laughing, speaking over one another, breaking bread with careless joy, pouring juice into glasses as though it were the wine of peace itself. Each gesture was a prayer, though none of us knew it. My father’s hands moved as Christ’s once did, blessing the bread, dividing it among those he loved. And somewhere, though no one could name it, there hung in the air that same fragile foreboding that filled the upper room in Jerusalem, when love spoke its last words before betrayal. The air trembled with that kind of happiness which only later reveals itself as farewell. And then, silence. The silence that only the dead can teach. When I look now at the photographs, I see the faces of the condemned, though they did not know it. More than half of them are gone, devoured by what men call war and what truth calls murder. The homes that once contained our breathing, our prayers, our smallest tenderness, crushed. The gardens that smelled of oranges and evening, erased. I walk in memory as one walks through ruins, touching the stones of vanished laughter. October 7 was not the birth of a war; it was the death of illusion. On that day, history tore itself open, and the wound has not closed. It bleeds through every surviving soul. And in that blood I see not only the crime of one nation against another, but the crime of humanity against itself, the old, endless betrayal that men repeat while invoking God. If justice still exists, it must weep. If God still looks upon this earth, He must avert His eyes. This day should be marked forever, not as an event of politics, but as a revelation of the human abyss. Let every flag descend into silence. Let every tongue fall still. Because what was taken from us was not only life, but the very rhythm of being alive, the rustle of bread torn by a father’s hand, the sound of a child laughing before she learns what grief is. They took from us the ordinary, and left us with eternity. And yet, I remain. I, who ate with them, who still taste that bread in my mouth as though it were guilt itself. I live, and I do not know why. Perhaps only to remember. Perhaps only to tell the world that history is not written in treaties or speeches, but in the trembling of hands that once passed a dish across a table, in the laughter that did not know it was bidding farewell to the world. There was a feast once, and it became the Last Supper of my people. And the world, indifferent, learned, self-satisfied, did not attend. But it must remember. Because if it does not, then we, the living, will have died for nothing, and the dead will have died twice. #GazaGenocide
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Doctors Without Borders / Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) @msf.ca · 11h
“There's been a responsibility for world leaders including Canada to uphold International Humanitarian Law and that doesn't simply go away at the flip of a switch or the announcement of a peace agreement,” says @sana.msf.ca, Executive Director of MSF.
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Susan Kiddie 🍉 @susankiddie.bsky.social · 9h
JFC, will you look at this 💩

#MedicalGaslighting
Therapy may be the most effective way to ease irritable bowel syndrome
People with irritable bowel syndrome are often only given treatments like cognitive behavioural therapy after others have failed, but research suggests this approach is more effective than we thought
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Drop Site @dropsitenews.com · 10h
⚡️NEW from Drop Site News: “We may have survived physically, but we haven't survived mentally.”

Five Gaza journalists reflect on the toll of the genocide as the ceasefire takes effect.

www.dropsitenews.com/p/gaza-journ...
“We may have survived physically, but we haven't survived mentally.”
Five Gaza journalists reflect on the toll of the genocide as the ceasefire takes effect.
www.dropsitenews.com
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Susan Kiddie 🍉 @susankiddie.bsky.social · 11h
I hope that Adham and his family will be able to return to the north and begin to rebuild.

He still needs our help. Please share and, if you can, contribute. 🙏🏽🍉💜
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Adv Adham Madi 🍉🇵🇸 @mr-adham.bsky.social · 4d
From southern Gaza
I send you my heartfelt gratitude despite the pain we endure

After a long journey of suffering we were finally able to rent a simple place to shelter us and protect us from the cold and harshness of the open air

we still desperately need your support🙏🏼
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MEDIA INDIGENA @mediaindigena.bsky.social · 23h
"[Manitoba] provincial court Judge Heather Pullan noted [the late Darren Wood's] sister Sophie, whose first language was Oji-Cree, 'struggled with English literacy' and was without representation... after the justice department turned down the family’s request for funds to cover legal costs"
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Winnipeg Free Press @winnipegfreepress.com · 1d
An inquest judge took it upon herself to secure legal representation for the family of a man who died in the Winnipeg Remand Centre when the province denied their funding request four days before hearings were to begin.
Inquest judge finds legal counsel for dead inmate’s family after province denies funding
An inquest judge took it upon herself to secure legal representation for the family of a man who died in the Winnipeg Remand Centre when the province denied their funding request four days before hearings were to begin.
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Susan Kiddie 🍉 @susankiddie.bsky.social · 11h
1) the RCMP are incompetent

2) it is not the cop's job to hold the powerful accountable. This "inquiry" is performative.
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Pete Quily @pqpolitics.bsky.social · 21h
Time for multimillionaire Carney to tax his fellow multimillionaires

“Income gap is at ‘record high’ amid weakening economy, StatCan say”

The wealthiest households continue to hold the vast majority of all wealth in Canada, and that trend continues to grow.

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Income gap is at ‘record high’ amid weakening economy, StatCan says - National | Globalnews.ca
Canada's income divide remains at record high levels, according to Statistics Canada, which adds that the top 20 per cent hold the majority of household net worth in Canada.
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Susan Kiddie 🍉 @susankiddie.bsky.social · 12h
"The real war is now. The war of healing. Of remembering. Of refusing to forget. Of restarting. Of chasing our dreams."
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Jack Mirkinson @jackmirkinson.bsky.social · 16h
This extraordinary piece from Gaza by Ali Skaik about the ceasefire made me cry. It contains so much—joy, grief, determination, love, sorrow, hope. Very proud to run it in @thenation.com today. Please read it. www.thenation.com/article/worl...
Then my sister Huda, 21, was awakened by a phone call. Her friend told her the ceasefire would begin at 12 PM. "A ceasefire! A ceasefire!" she shouted, her voice shaking with disbelief. The whole house erupted— some of us laughed, some of us cried, and all of us dared to hope, if only for a moment. My 10-year-old brother Abedrahim jumped from his mattress and danced around the room shouting, "The genocide is over! We'll finally eat chicken!" I walked through the ruins of Al-Rimal to find a cafe with internet so I could submit my exam. The streets were unrecognizable. Shops were flattened. Homes were piles of ash and steel. I ran into my friend Khaled Al-Saqqa, 27, the sole survivor of his entire family. When I told him about the ceasefire, his eyes filled with tears. “Why was I left to suffer alone?!” he asked. I had no answer. I simply hugged him and whispered, “God gives you strength.” We’ll welcome back loved ones who fled to the south—but not all will return. The IOF killed many who sought safety in so-called “safe zones.” Among them was the family of my father’s cousin Yusuf. A midnight strike on September 28, 2025, hit the apartment next to theirs as they prepared to pitch a tent. His wife Nidaa, daughter Ruaa, 18, and son Hamoud, 11, with curly yellow hair, were killed. Yusuf survived, along with his daughter Aya, 21, who suffered a broken leg and pelvis, and Aboud, 17, who remembers hearing his mother’s last breath. We will remember the martyrs—those who died teaching, reporting, healing, mothering, surviving. We will carry their memory like fire in our hearts. And we will begin again. The real war is now. The war of healing. Of remembering. Of refusing to forget. Of restarting. Of chasing our dreams.
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Al Jazeera English @aljazeera.com · 17h
Tens of thousands of Palestinians are walking back to Gaza City as the Israeli military begins its withdrawal from the area following the ceasefire agreement.

Al Jazeera’s Tareq Abu Azzoum is there, watching what he described as ‘an endless tide of humans’.
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Shawn's Socialist Slipstreaming（宇祥）- he/him/他/dia @shawnybantzy.bsky.social · 17h
Apparently our newest Nobel Peace Prize winner wrote to fucking Netanyahu for help in overthrowing the government of her own country dawg
The population of Venezuela needs international protection against the widespread and systematic attack to which the Venezuelan regime subjects it. This is demonstrated by the report dated May 29, 2018, submitted by the Organisation of American States to the International Criminal Court. This has served as the basis for nine states, including Argentina, to file complaints against the regime before that international body. We deeply appreciate this effort, which is decisive for the outcome of the Venezuelan tragedy. I am convinced that the international community, in accordance with the responsibility to protect doctrine, is called upon to provide Venezuelans with the necessary support to bring about the regime change that is urgently needed to restore national and international security. Therefore, I have recently sent letters to several of the world’s leading figures to promote before the United Nations Security Council the adoption of effective protection measures for Venezuela by fostering regime change, a step that necessarily entails strengthening international security. Today I want to ask Israel and Argentina to contribute their expertise and influence to advance a sound and urgent decision-making process in the Security Council. Such measures are imperative in the face of a hemispheric security hotspot like the one currently posed by the regime oppressing Venezuela. The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees and the International Organisation for Migration have certified that the current refugee crisis of people fleeing Venezuela is the largest in the history of the Americas. Argentina is an example of this crisis, having welcomed hundreds of thousands of our compatriots—a gesture for which Venezuelans will always be grateful. However, we must be aware that without a change of regime in our country, hemispheric and global security will be at risk.
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Democracy Now! @democracynow.org · 16h
“It's really quite repulsive that Palestinians have had to negotiate an end to their genocide,” says Palestinian human rights attorney Diana Buttu.
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Blayne Haggart @bhaggart.bsky.social · 18h
If Canada wishes to remain a sovereign country, our leaders need to stop thinking that “North America” exists. Now, there is only the US, Canada, and Mexico. We need to reject Carney’s appeasement strategy — there’s no other word for it—and fully reckon with the cost of independence.
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Transgender World @transgenderreport.com · 17h
Effective Oct. 14, 2025, U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) systems will only accept “M” (Male) or “F” (Female) in the sex field of APIS transmissions.

In other words: Trans people should not visit the US.

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#transgender #trans #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA
CBP Enforces Binary Sex Codes and Enhanced US Passport Validation in APIS
CBP enforces binary sex codes and stricter US passport validation in APIS effective October 2025. Key compliance updates for business travelers and airlines.
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Blayne Haggart @bhaggart.bsky.social · 18h
Mark Carney has chosen deeper integration with the United States. There can be no clearer sign than his decision to reject Canada’s longstanding anti-BMD position. Most worryingly, he is continuing to act as if a fascist US and Canada comprise a “we”.
www.theglobeandmail.com/politics/art...
Canada should seek central role for NORAD in Golden Dome or risk marginalization, MPs told
Ottawa and Washington are still working out how such a defensive system would function within the existing bilateral structure
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Blayne Haggart @bhaggart.bsky.social · 18h
Mark Carney sold himself as a pro-sovereignty, transformational leader, but he has acted like a defender of a status quo based on confined dependence on a Trumpist United States.
In any case, that’s not what Canadians voted for. But I’m not sure that Carney cares about that small point.
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daanis @daanis.ca · 16h
I pray that the war is over. But even so, the occupation is not and families need help rebuilding.
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M.O.T.A.Z @motaz-aarchitect.bsky.social · 18h
The war is over, yet it left us homeless & jobless😭

💔I need your support now more than ever

I must post every day to provide food & medicine for my family…
My campaign is our only source of income

Please Share my voice & encourage others to Donate🙏🏻
🔗 gofund.me/9bf36d5e3

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Molly Shah @mommunism.bsky.social · 20h
Also Gaza Verified is a new organization for me- but it’s the Fediverse verification service and Joy, whom I’ve shared before is working on it. They do video calls to verify and are connected with other people who have done extensive work on Gaza fundraisers ❤️
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Molly Shah @mommunism.bsky.social · 20h
I’m sharing a Palestinian account every day and today is Mahmoud. Mahmoud was a computer engineer doing web development before this. He’s lost his job and home (and many coworkers) and is in a tent with his family including his children Zeina, 6 and Zane, 2. His wife Malak is 7 months pregnant.
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UNRWA @unrwa.org · 16h
The #ceasefire in #Gaza “is an important first step, but it has to be sustainable,” our Jonathan Fowler tells TRT World.

There must be an unimpeded flow of aid, including the lifesaving supplies waiting in UNRWA warehouses.

People in Gaza need everything.

Lift the siege.
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Middle East Eye (Unofficial) @middleeasteye-rss.bsky.social · 19h
Israel attacks displaced Palestinians’ return route in Gaza despite ceasefire - https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/israel-attacks-displaced-palestinians-return-route-gaza-despite
Israel attacks displaced Palestinians’ return route in Gaza despite ceasefire
<article data-history-node-id="429943" about="https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/israel-attacks-displaced-palestinians-return-route-gaza-despite" class="live-blog-update default clearfix"> <h2> <a href="https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/israel-attacks-displaced-palestinians-return-route-gaza-despite" rel="bookmark"> <span class="field field-title">Israel attacks displaced Palestinians’ return route in Gaza despite ceasefire</span> </a> </h2> <div class="content"> <div class="field field-field-text"><p>Israeli forces on Friday conducted strikes on the displaced Palestinians' return route in Gaza despite the ceasefire, Anadolu news agency reported.&nbsp;</p> <p>Thousands of displaced Palestinians headed towards Gaza City via Rashid Street after the ceasefire was announced.&nbsp;Israeli tanks were also filmed withdrawing from an area near the Jordanian Hospital in southern Gaza City.</p> <p>The interior ministry in Gaza on Friday said it will begin restoring order in the areas from which Israeli forces have withdrawn, urging citizens to be careful.&nbsp;</p> <p>In a statement, the ministry said that Israeli forces continue to block the road between the north and south of the Gaza Strip.</p> <p>"We call on citizens to be careful before the ceasefire comes into effect, to ensure their safety," the statement said.&nbsp;</p> </div> </div> </article>
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Democracy Now! @democracynow.org · 15h
“It should have been that the world put sanctions on Israel to stop the genocide, rather than forcing Palestinians to negotiate an end to it.”
After Gaza Ceasefire, “Massive Political Pressure” Needed to Prevent Israel from Restarting the War
A ceasefire came into effect in Gaza on Friday after the Israeli government approved the first phase of the U.S.-backed plan to end two years of war in the Palestinian territory. The deal calls for a ...
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Dr. Nick Posegay @nposegay.bsky.social · 15h
It's genuinely shocking how little of Rafah is left. An ancient city that had a pre-war population of ~200k, forced to take over 1,000,000 refugees from Gaza City and Khan Younis, then completely levelled for the crime of being the only city in Gaza with an escape route.
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Resist 🕎🍉 @antizionistjew.bsky.social · 1d
This is a GENOCIDE
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Rida Abu Rass @aburass.bsky.social · 15h
October marks the start of the olive harvest in Palestine, a culturally significant and, usually, joyous occasion.

Israeli settlers - backed by soldiers - have stolen crops, cut down trees, attacked, and in some cases severely injured, Palestinian olive-pickers - *every day* this week.
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Middle East Eye (Unofficial) @middleeasteye-rss.bsky.social · 15h
Gaza officials call for immediate war crimes probe - https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/gaza-officials-call-immediate-war-crimes-probe
Gaza officials call for immediate war crimes probe
<article data-history-node-id="429954" about="https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/gaza-officials-call-immediate-war-crimes-probe" class="live-blog-update default clearfix"> <h2> <a href="https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/gaza-officials-call-immediate-war-crimes-probe" rel="bookmark"> <span class="field field-title">Gaza officials call for immediate war crimes probe</span> </a> </h2> <div class="content"> <div class="field field-field-text"><p>Gaza’s Government Media Office has called for a war crimes probe to begin immediately in the wake of the announcement of the ceasefire.</p> <p>According to Al-Jazeera, they asked for "the international community, the United Nations, all international and legal organisations, and the International Criminal Court to hold the leaders of Israel accountable and to not grant them any political or legal immunity."</p> <p>They said they wanted: "The formation of an independent international committee to investigate war crimes and genocide and ensure the return and compensation of all displaced people."</p> </div> </div> </article>
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Marit Stiles @maritstilesndp.bsky.social · 17h
Two years ago, the RCMP launched a criminal investigation into Doug Ford’s Greenbelt Grab.

Two years later, it’s déjà vu — Labour Minister David Piccini admits he personally picked which of his friends got millions from the Skills Development Fund.
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