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Gentle reminder!!! Don’t let Trump reframe this war as a campaign to “free” the Strait of Hormuz. The strait was open. It was open right up until the US and Israel attacked Iran. Trump didn’t ride in to open a closed strait. Trump’s war is the reason the strait is closed.
Trump: “I hereby fully authorize the toll free opening of the Strait of Hormuz…Let the oil flow!” A reminder: the Strait of Hormuz was open before Trump’s stupid and costly war. We achieved NOTHING.
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One year ago today, Minnesota Speaker Emerita Melissa Hortman and her husband Mark were senselessly murdered in an act of political violence. In their memory, we recommit ourselves to the values that Melissa and Mark exemplified: building a kinder, more just, and loving world.
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Jane Fonda: The government is routinely violating the First Amendment to silence artists, shuttering institutions like the Kennedy Center, defunding museums and the National Endowment of the Arts, banning books, and canceling TV hosts who speak out. And it's being allowed by cowardly corporations.
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Israel killed little Riyadh in Gaza. He died of his injuries today.
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Carney: Canada is a mosaic, not a melting pot. And this is the distinction that matters. Because a mosaic doesn't dissolve or blend its pieces. Each is stitched to each and all the pieces hold all. And the beauty is in the arrangement, not in the blending.
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Right now, as Russians continue to strike #Kyiv with over a dozen of ballistic missiles, the Dormition Cathedral of Kyiv‑Pechersk Lavra — a UNESCO World Heritage site and priceless cultural landmark — has been struck and is burning. A brutal assault on our people and our heritage. This is the true face of Russia’s Orthodox values.
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DON'T FORGET ABOUT JOYCE Rep. Joyce Beatty was the only Kennedy Center board member who tried to stop Trump's rebranding of the arts center. She then challenged the move in court, and won her case. She is the reason Trump's name came down! Thank you Joyce !!!
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Today is Donald Trump’s 80th birthday, representing eight decades of a man who has done more than anyone to hurt the West, elevate its enemies, and trap us in a post-truth nightmare. While he is certainly a symptom of a deeper political illness, he has actively made things much worse. Let us be clear that there is nothing to celebrate today, because Trump is the most traitorous, deeply corrupt, and overall worst president in the history of the US. He is a compromised, horrible human being who has lost the respect of anyone with half a brain. His deep ties as a best friend to Jeffrey Epstein prove he knew exactly what was going on behind closed doors. He is the lowest of the low. He has spent years threatening American allies, appeasing foreign enemies, and losing the reckless trade wars he started. His leadership has left Americans poorer, more stupid, more polarized, and trapped inside a decadent, ever more authoritarian joke of an administration that hurts the whole world. He is a traitor. His alignment with autocracy is clear in how he sides with Russia over Ukraine and China over Taiwan. He even systematically undermined domestic safety by installing a Russian asset as the Director of National Intelligence and an anti-science, anti-vaxx Russian asset as Health Secretary. No one is better than Trump at sabotaging the US. The only bright side to his birthday is that he is old, ensuring he will not be able to stay in power forever. He will never be missed by anyone with a brain and/or a heart, and if I believed in hell, I would seriously doubt it is bad enough for him
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To all the triggered Americans about the booing of the American flag at the World Cup - it wasn’t just Canadians in the stands. There were people from across the globe in the stands. I was there. And here’s the thing, you voted a president who shits on all his allies - TWICE. You reap what you sow. Cope.
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JFK gave best speech of his life, this week 1963, at American University: “If we cannot now end our differences, at least we can help make the world safe for diversity. . . .We all breathe the same air. We all cherish our children's future. And we are all mortal."
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Wouldn’t it be nice if the world’s first trillionaire wasn’t responsible for policies that led to the deaths of several hundred thousand people worldwide?
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In Canada, a person can receive up to 5 years in prison for producing and distributing non-consensual sexual imagery. CEOs should be held accountable for the actions of the companies they oversee.
Elon Musk’s Grok AI violated Canada’s privacy laws and, at one point, was generating more than 6,000 sexual deepfakes every hour, according to Canada’s privacy commissioner.
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The merger of Warner Bros and Paramount is not a done deal and remains under investigation by my office.
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In addition to gutting Alzheimer’s research, the Trump administration has pardoned multiple fraudsters who preyed on Alzheimer’s patients. The schemes included drugging, performing unnecessary medical procedures, and wiping out their retirement savings. Follow the money.
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Outrageous disinformation that is obviously meant to incite online rage & dehumanize Palestinian civilians in desperate need of humanitarian assistance. The humanitarian funding announced by Canada will be used by trusted partners to deliver aid. No money goes to Hamas.
Please, please tell me this is not true. We have begged Canada‘s Liberals to stop giving money which funnels to Hamas. “Minister Anand announces new funding for Palestinians amid crises in Gaza and the West Bank - Canada.ca canada.ca/en/global-affairs/…
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We took Erin Brockovich's map of every data center in America. Then we laid the nation's aquifers on top of it. We noticed they're not building data centers where the land is cheap. They're building them where the water is. Farmers near these facilities say their livestock have stopped falling pregnant. Residents say the humming never stops. And the projects arrive under NDAs, so most towns don't know until the ground is already broken. The question isn’t where they’re building anymore. It’s why they’re building where they’re building. Tonight, we think we can answer that question. We’ve been covering the data center issue in great detail on this broadcast, and for good reason. It’s a serious problem in America and worldwide, and it’s one that is uniting people from all sides of the political aisle because, guess what, whether you are a conservative or a liberal, you have human rights that enable you to have access to basic survival needs like water, which was given to us by God, not by the state or Big Tech, by the way. Erin Brockovich joined the data center fight recently. She launched a site including a map that shows data centers either completed, under construction, planned, or community reported, likely due to all those pesky NDAs in place stopping us from knowing they’re coming to our area. But the public isn’t stupid. So Maria thought she’d do something a little bit different. She created a series of maps using Erin Brockovich’s data center data, then superimposed aquifer maps onto those maps, then superimposed smart city locations onto those maps. What Maria found was pretty mind-blowing and, she says, lends credence to her theory that those in charge are purposely making rural areas unlivable for the purpose of pushing people into smart cities, where they will be under constant surveillance and on a short leash.
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This is what Elon Musk doesn't want you to see on this platform. This’s what your media won’t report. Lebanon is being ethnically cleansed in real time.
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He caused the deaths of hundreds of thousands of the poorest people in the world. Don’t tell me how to feel about that. hsph.harvard.edu/news/usaid-…
What a terrible take. You don’t have to agree with @elonmusk’s politics to recognize what he has accomplished. When we become incapable of admiring extraordinary achievement because we dislike someone’s politics, what message are we sending to every entrepreneur and innovator?
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