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@martinesumner2025.bsky.social

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I prefer 📚 & source materials to memes I’m bewildered by some on the.Left WHILE we’re living a climate 🌎 crisis AND the Far.right gains ascension More HATE solves NOTHING… (Just cuz I don’t follow you back does NOT mean i don’t ✅ in -suffering from TMI‼️)

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a bunch of candles are lit up in the dark

ALT: a bunch of candles are lit up in the dark

media.tenor.com

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DSP💙#🟦🎗️✡️ @drawstickpeople.bsky.social · 1d

the grocery has 🎃 spice flavor cereals & I'm embarrassed for them

Dawn made 🎃 scented dish soap & I'm embarrassed for them

Men's tushies can smell like 🎃 & I'm really very embarrassed for them

Your dog can have 🎃 souce breath & they are embarrassed as should you be if you buy this

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a bunch of candles are lit up in the dark

ALT: a bunch of candles are lit up in the dark

media.tenor.com

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Because the ill-educated can’t make the distinction …
what started in cities like Toronto (‘Bubble Zone’ Bylaw) secure.toronto.ca/council/agen... will soon be Canada-wide www.justice.gc.ca/eng/csj-sjc/...

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Arabs Ask
is apparently accessible only on META Social Media and this YouTube channel
Further information welcomed
www.youtube.com/@ArabsAsk #ArabsAsk

Arabs Ask

www.youtube.com

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Leonard Cohen 1973

Kristin Reid @kristinmreid.bsky.social · 4d

In 1973, Egypt attacked Israel on Yom Kippur. Leonard Cohen went to help however he could.
“Israel is not a luxury,” he said. “You’ve got to defend it.”
He understood that over a million Jewish refugees had a place to flee to because Israel was reestablished in a modern state.

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First Jail Sentence in Canada for Hate Crimes including Holocaust Denial on Social Media
North Bay is a small city in ‘central’ Ontario 3 1/2 hours north of Toronto
www.ctvnews.ca/northern-ont...

North Bay, Ont., man guilty of hate crimes for antisemitic posts, jailed for 9 months

A 51-year-old man from North Bay has been found guilty of hate crimes for anti-Semitic propaganda he posted on social media.

www.ctvnews.ca

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😭 everytime and forever … must exit again 😭

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www.thefreelibrary.com/Sweden+banni...

Sweden banning Islamic schools. - Free Online Library

Free Online Library: Sweden banning Islamic schools. by "Anadolu Agency Yes"; Bills, Legislative Legislative bills

www.thefreelibrary.com

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… haven’t been able to open linx (recently)

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I am so sorry you were subjected to this extreme ugliness; the only consolation I can offer is you’re far from alone … we know 😭
(✅ reported)

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THIS WEEK IN 🇬🇧 VIDEO
Farage bsky.app/profile/darr...
Song bsky.app/profile/read...

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USA #ICE 2025

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#Holocaust #History
🇵🇱 Poles at KL Auschwitz
#HolocaustDenial is a crime in
🇩🇪🇨🇦 /and❓
(the link WILL connect)
lekcja.auschwitz.org/en_2020_06_p... #Poland #Auschwitz #OnlineHistory

Eduexe Course

Enter an appropriate audioguide identifier and press the "Go!" button.

lekcja.auschwitz.org

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(hypothesis)
in this time of
🪖 #warS
🇩🇪 Germany &
🇯🇵 Japan offer some
least-biased reporting

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HAMAS RESPONDS
#JapanTimes

Hamas agrees to release Israeli hostages but sets conditions

The statement was a positive step that still raised questions about whether the promise would be sufficient to end the conflict.

www.japantimes.co.jp

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WAR &… REDEMPTION
This is not
an action #🎬🍿movie
The opening sequence is a
🇬🇧 Special Forces vet defending! other! #Homeless people from street thugs…
#warS FOR #SocialJustice & FIGHTING #Terrorism #PTSD #soldiers. www.youtube.com/watch?v=B4w6... #Redemption #LionsGate #movieS #war

Redemption (2013) - Jason Statham , Agata Buzek | Full English movie | Drama movie

YouTube video by One star Media

www.youtube.com

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Dear 🇺🇸 NeighboRs
From #🇨🇦Canada
It’s disturbing Up here
💻 watching
🪖👺MASKED Men! snatch!
YOUR neighboUrs
right in front of you
You’ve had millions out for Gaza and not NEARLY as many over
🐊 #ICE 🧊 …⁉️
PLEASE 🛑 Stop
making us watch‼️
* #CanadianBorder 🌎
‘Detention’ Centres

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TY - I refuse Meta (& X)
but… am I the only one not soothed by the guest Imam?
Maybe it’s b/c this ©️ 2007 book has haunted me… www.penguin.co.uk/books/56069/...

The Islamist

When I was sixteen I became an Islamic fundamentalist. Five years later, after much emotional turmoil, I rejected fundamentalist teachings and returned to normal life and my family. I tried to put m...

www.penguin.co.uk

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My pleasure…
Maybe so?
(weird cuz you’re in DC & I’m in Ontario 🇨🇦)
(I’m a nse who e-mails linx to other people who prefer footnotes [over endnotes!])

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NOT questioning Post
- link is for sceptics (the de-paywalled Times of London article @ www.thetimes.com/uk/religion/...) freerepublic.com/focus/f-news...

Jews Urged to Keep Doors Closed and Not Gather in Groups

freerepublic.com

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the LINK
#October7 FOOTAGE www.hamas-massacre.net

Hamas Massacre | October 7th Proof

On October 7, 2023, thousands of Hamas terrorists breached Israel’s security fence. Over 1,400 men, women, and children were brutally murdered in the ensuing attack. More than 250 men, women, children...

www.hamas-massacre.net

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Corey @coreysoper.bsky.social · 8d

If you're concerned about antisemitism and radicalisation in your school setting, you might want to attend this session with experts from the Centre for Countering Digital Hate on October 16th: holocausteducation.org.uk/courses/2025...

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& FAR too many in NORTH AMERICA too 😢 …

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The Michigan city of Hamtramck made the news in Canada earlier this month

Banning LGBTQ2S+ flags from public property does not violate U.S. Constitution, judge rules

A Detroit-area city that banned LGBTQ2S+ flags from publicly owned flagpoles did not violate the Constitution, a judge said.

www.ctvnews.ca

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Last WWII Tuskegee
Airman Dies
Watch “Double Victory”
a Lucasfilm Documentary
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qmcp...