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TRUMP DID THIS: Trump tanks EU business travel to America. Large decreases in U.S. bookings were recorded from companies in Germany, France, the U.K., Canada and Mexico. www.politico.eu/article/dona...

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🟠's 🇺🇸 #ElbowsUp ... with a #Staycation 🇨🇦🙂

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Avoid the USA vm.tiktok.com/ZMSNw23GM/

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BREAKING: A Federal judge has just ordered the return of an in air plane carrying deported migrants to South Sudan. The Judge says if they fail to comply, he will jail all officials and the pilot, for Contempt of Court.

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#GVerse #TrueFacts Something to think about!

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The patent for insulin was sold to the University of Toronto for just $3. The drug's inventors wanted to ensure that it would remain affordable. #TEDGames

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Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas urged intensified international action to halt the war in Gaza at a UN event on Thursday marking the anniversary of the Nakba.

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if you put bike lanes off arterials - they need to be prioritized at the intersection of arterials. the problem? this is exactly the issue US cities don't want to deal with. just put the bike lanes on arterials. it's where the stuff is people are going to. www.theurbanist.org/2019/06/07/b...

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60% of American households can’t afford a minimal quality of life. Meanwhile, the 19 richest households saw their wealth increase by $1 trillion in 2024 — the biggest one-year increase ever. Our problem isn't a lack of resources. Our problem is ever-expanding inequality.

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If you’re from America, Canada, UK or Europe you should make sure you are following @neverevertory.bsky.social & @maxbrockbank.com Repost, share far and wide! #FBPE #ReJoinEU #BlueCrew #NeverTrump #NeverMAGA #NeverVoteTory #NeverVoteReform

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The United States is broken, and it's remarkable how quickly many universities across the country are staking democracy's corpse through the heart to make sure it stays dead.

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War crimes.

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No comment needed.

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"why can’t timid Democrats call for the abolition of Ice, which was created only in 2003 by George W Bush, making it even younger than Leonardo DiCaprio’s current girlfriend?" My latest for the Guardian: www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

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Avoid the USA www.cbc.ca/news/canada/... vm.tiktok.com/ZMSJXphk1/

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So if I am getting this right: Thursday the librarian of Congress was fired. Friday the copyright office rushed out a draft report suggesting genAI training on copyrighted works shouldn’t be legal. Saturday the head of the copyright office is fired.

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🥲 #TeslaTakedown

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If ICE agents in the US are ever held to account for their actions (seizing people without due process, etc.), “I was just following orders” didn’t work at the Nuremberg trials either.

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In case you wondered . . . Yes, Donald has always been a malicious sociopath and creepy looking.

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Such a SHAME…👇 Enjoy. 😎✨

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This study in The Lancet found that cuts to US spending on PEPFAR, the program to deliver H.I.V. and AIDS relief abroad, could cost the lives of 500,000 children by 2030. Half a million kids. Kids. www.ox.ac.uk/news/2025-04...

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Opinion from the FT's Editorial Board: 'The US and European countries that tout Israel as an ally that shares their values have issued barely a word of condemnation. They should be ashamed of their silence, and stop enabling Netanyahu to act with impunity.' www.ft.com/content/f5fd...

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Prime Minister Carney is in Washington. Already the head games have started A fog of disinformation is pumping from the White House. We have seen these tactics before. Canada is not dealing with an honest partner. I trust the PM will look to the long game in dealing with this hostile regime.

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The Top 1% of U.S. earners now have more wealth than the entire middle class

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On USMCA, Trump goes after the previous Canadian government. “I won’t say this about Mark, but I didn’t like his predecessor.” He then calls Freeland (not naming her) “terrible.” Carney responds that the U.S. has “taken advantage of existing aspects” of the deal. “It’s going to have to change.”

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While fascism achieved control through authoritarian means, neoliberalism pushed for the privatization of the arts, social programs, and higher education, leaving these areas under the oversight of corporate interests and the beliefs of the executives running them.

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The World Food Programme has "delivered its last remaining food stocks to hot meals kitchens in the Gaza Strip. These kitchens are expected to fully run out of food in the coming days,” the United Nations agency said Friday.

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‘Alarming’ increase in levels of forever chemical TFA found in European wines

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Kneecap say ‘statements aren’t aggressive’ after denouncing Israel at Coachella

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Campaigners have warned that Chinese slave labour is widespread throughout the renewables sector.

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An Israeli missile hit Gaza’s Durra Children’s Hospital, damaging the ICU and destroying its solar power system, according to the Health Ministry. 🔴 Follow our LIVE coverage: aje.io/iglroq

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Norway launches scheme to lure top researchers away from US universities

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Children in school shelter among 25 killed in wave of Israeli strikes on Gaza

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Much of the IT and cybersecurity infrastructure underpinning the US health system is in danger of a possible collapse following a purge of IT staff and leadership at the Dept. of Health and Human Services, four current and former agency workers tell WIRED.

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Last week, DOGE and a handful of Palantir representatives, along with dozens of career IRS engineers, have been collaborating to build a “mega API,” WIRED learned.

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1/4. On the White House’s theory, if they abduct you, get you on a helicopter, get to international waters, shoot you in the head, and drop your corpse into the ocean, that is legal, because it is the conduct of foreign affairs.

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