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Taylor Noakes @taylornoakes.com · 5d

A former cabinet minister accused a veteran journalist of being a spy & provided only photocopies as evidence

None of the self-described disinfo experts questioned what they saw

Neither did any of the MPs

A career was nearly ruined

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A Veteran Reporter Was Branded as a Russian Spy. The Proof Didn’t Hold Up | The Walrus

Former MP Chris Alexander accused David Pugliese of treason. Experts now argue his evidence was fake

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Joe English @joe-english.bsky.social · 5d

In Nasser, the hospital corridors are lined with women who have just given birth.

In six missions to Gaza, I have never seen it like this.

New mothers and vulnerable newborns lying on the floor.

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Shoeless, starving, and nowhere to go: The brutal logic imposed on Gaza’s children

This is a summary of what was said by UNICEF spokesperson James Elder – to whom quoted text may be attributed – at today's press briefing at the Palais des Nations in Geneva

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Felicity Hannah @felicityhannah.bsky.social · 5d

This article manages to name her husband before it names… her.

Article reads:
Woman named as Archbishop of Canterbury in historic first

The 63-year-old archbishop-designate is married to Eamonn Mullally, with whom she has two children. Originally from Woking in Surrey, she was the UK's chief nursing officer from 1999 to 2004.

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Stephen West @stephenwest.bsky.social · 8d

Actual history teachers: um, no

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 8d

Hegseth: "As history teaches us, the only people who actually deserve peace and those who are willing to wage war to defend it. That's why pacifism is so naive and dangerous."

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Doctors Without Borders / Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) @msf.ca · 11d

@mark-carney.bsky.social, do you hear us yet? Today, our message fills Canada’s biggest newspapers: @theglobeandmail.com, @thestar.com and @lapresse.ca.

Doctors can’t stop genocide. World leaders can.

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Gillian Findlay @gillianjourno.bsky.social · 11d

Amazing work once again by @972mag.com. Important,
independent journalism by small group of Palestinian and Israeli reporters, led by Ghousoon Bisharat. Pls support if you can

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Gillian Findlay @gillianjourno.bsky.social · 16d

Blurring the lines? How about erasing them? wtf @globalnews.ca?

PressProgress @pressprogress.ca · 16d

Ben Mulroney is blurring the lines between journalism, business, lobbying and partisan politics

The new host of Global News’ national political news show also works for registered lobby groups, advises businesses and hosted election events for Pierre Poilievre’s Conservatives earlier this year

Ben Mulroney is Blurring the Lines Between Journalism, Business, Lobbying and Partisan Politics

New host of Global News’ politics show works for registered lobby groups, advises businesses and hosted events for Pierre Poilievre’s Conservatives

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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 17d

Breaking News: Britain, Canada and Australia formally recognized Palestinian statehood.

Britain, Australia and Canada Recognize a Palestinian State

The announcements came on the eve of the annual gathering of the U.N. General Assembly.

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Gillian Findlay @gillianjourno.bsky.social · 17d

We Can No Longer Tell Ourselves This Isn’t Really Happening www.nytimes.com/2025/09/19/o...

Opinion | We Can No Longer Tell Ourselves This Isn’t Really Happening

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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 18d

History teaches us that authoritarians use any excuse to seize power | Judith Levine

Nazis used the 1933 Reichstag blaze to justify snuffing out civil liberties. In the US, the calls for a crackdown have already begun

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Bill Grueskin @bgrueskin.bsky.social · 21d

I’m old enough to remember when Bob Iger, whose company recently paid $16 million to settle a meritless Trump lawsuit, and who just indefinitely suspended Jimmy Kimmel under pressure from the Trump administration, was a chair for the **Committee to Protect Journalists** dinner.

New York, November 22, 2006-The Committee to Protect Journalists marked its 25th anniversary
by honoring four journalists with its 2006 International Press Freedom Awards in a
ceremony Tuesday night which highlighted record-setting attacks on the press in Iraq.
More than 850 people attended the benefit dinner which raised $1.3 million. It was co-chaired by Robert A. Iger, president and chief executive officer of the Walt Disney Company, and John S.
Carroll, the Knight Visiting Lecturer at the Joan Shorenstein Center on the Press, Politics, and Public Policy at Harvard University. Christiane Amanpour, CNN's Chief International Correspondent and CPJ board member, hosted the dinner.

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onion person @junlper.beer · 21d

coates is genuinely a generational writer

What are we to make of a man who called for the execution of the American president, and then was executed himself? What are we to make of an NFL that, on one hand, encourages us to "End Racism," and, on the other, urges us to commemorate an unreconstructed white supremacist? And what of the writers, the thinkers, and the pundits who cannot separate the great crime of Kirk's death from the malignancy of his public life? Can they truly be so ignorant to the words of a man they have so rushed to memorialize? I don't know. But the most
telling detail in Klein's column was that, for all his praise, there was not a single word in the piece from Kirk himself.

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POLITICO Europe @politico.eu · 22d

Israel has committed genocide in the Gaza Strip, a United Nations independent commission concluded in a report published today.

Israel is committing genocide in Gaza, UN Commission says

“The responsibility for these atrocity crimes lies with Israeli authorities at the highest echelons,” says group’s chair.

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Karen Attiah @karenattiah.bsky.social · 23d

Some personal news:

I've been fired from the Washington Post in the aftermath of the Charlie Kirk shooting.

Thread incoming.

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The Washington Post Fired Me — But My Voice Will Not Be Silenced.

I spoke out against hatred and violence in America — and it cost me my job.

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Owen Jones @owenjones.bsky.social · 23d

“Their silence, because they’re afraid, is their support to the genocide.” 👏👏👏

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Gillian Findlay @gillianjourno.bsky.social · Sep 9

Hollywood Actors and Directors Pledge to Boycott Israeli Film Institutions www.nytimes.com/2025/09/08/m...

Hollywood Actors and Directors Pledge to Boycott Israeli Film Institutions

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Gillian Findlay @gillianjourno.bsky.social · Sep 5

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Former MP used fabricated documents to accuse reporter David Pugliese of being a Russian asset

A July report that solicited input from leading experts in typography and graphology determined that the the documents Chris Alexander submitted to a parliamentary committee are forgeries.

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Gillian Findlay @gillianjourno.bsky.social · Sep 4

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ANALYSIS | As hunger grows in Gaza, warnings that starvation hits the most vulnerable first | CBC News

Despite Israel’s denials of famine and a recent uptick in food delivery, starvation in Gaza is getting worse. Before his death, a 17-year-old described to CBC News how his body and life were shutting ...

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Al Jazeera English @aljazeera.com · Sep 2

BREAKING: 13 Palestinians in Gaza, including three children, have died “due to famine and malnutrition” in the past 24 hours, says Gaza’s Health Ministry.

🔴 LIVE updates: aje.io/nge6rr

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Gillian Findlay @gillianjourno.bsky.social · Aug 26

“The killing of journalists in Gaza should shock the world — not into stunned silence — but into action, demanding accountability and justice,” the spokeswoman for the United Nations human rights office, Ravina Shamdasani, said www.nytimes.com/2025/08/25/w...

20 Killed in Gaza Hospital Strikes. Netanyahu Claims ‘Tragic Mishap.’

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Winnipeg Free Press @winnipegfreepress.com · Aug 21

OTTAWA – Canada has taken the rare step of not signing onto a multi-country statement that demands Israel stop banning foreign journalists from entering Gaza and that local journalists be protected in the Palestinian territories.