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There's a lot here: Trump's historical illiteracy; his meanness in saying the wealth of the nation is being squandered on "transgender this, transgender that"; and the silence of his audience. Hmm. And there's the way journalism of the moment can live again to counter future lies about what was...

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A commandment Vasyl Sagaydak 1990 Never let a barbarian on your doorstep, my son – ... He will bury your language in vocabularies and graves, And everything you have right now, my son, He will reweave thread by thread, rewrite word by word, Rebuild stone by stone, and claim as his own.

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Alternately: Mr. Vance, a real estate developer, then declared that “there is no room for firewalls,” a reference to the practice among mainstream architects of including barriers between townhouse units to prevent or slow the spread of fire from one unit to the next.

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Winter Afternoon, City Street, Toronto or Sunday Morning, 1918 Artist: Lawren S. Harris (1885-1970) Medium: Oil painting The Thomson Collection at the Art Gallery of Ontario #lawrenharris #winter #snow #1910s #oilpainting #torontoart #art #artist #torontohistory #toronto #canada #jeremyhopkin

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200 million dollars of waste.

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Canadian military recruitment is up 42% more for the 1st quarter this year than in the same period last year.

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"I'll tell you as a politician that it doesn't matter what the politicians say." Now THAT is a real applause line. Worth watching it all the way through.

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Five years after detaining and threatening to arrest a Gitxsan reporter at a Wet’suwet’en land dispute, the RCMP apologizes | @karynpugliese.bsky.social

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RE trans school sports ban: ' (Maine Gov. Janet) Mills replied that she would comply with "state and federal law." "Well, we are the federal law," Trump said. "You better do it, because you're not going to get any federal funding at all if you don't." Mills then replied, "See you in court." '

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yesterday?

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"Ukraine’s previous biggest backer, by volume, is now its most determined extortionist, with demands that have been placed on Ukraine, which are almost as savage as those of Moscow,” said Keir Giles, a Russia expert...

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Elon Musk proposed closing Radio Liberty. Well, as a person who was thrown into a concentration camp and put through torture because of my writing for Radio Liberty, I can say that Europe is far from free. The work of the Ukrainian bureau of Radio Liberty is one of the main elements of ... 1/2

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Doctors and nurses stayed with them, with the missiles incoming...

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They are deliberately crossing the red lines, in order to make the unacceptable commonplace and, eventually, acceptable again.

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Canada's collective mood right now...

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HANG IT IN THE NATIONAL GALLERY OF CANADA!!!!

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Thank you, guys. Really means a lot. And thank you, Boston.

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“If you think I’m overreacting and sounding the alarm too soon, consider this: It took the Nazis one month, three weeks, two days, eight hours and forty minutes to dismantle a constitutional republic." #JBPritzker #PrayForAmerica

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Fifty-plus years ago, but exactly what we need to see today. Anything "public" is a target today, and those libelling public goods and government are so skilled and ruthless it seems dangerous to argue back ... but here's a brave man explaining why some things are just plain right to do together.

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