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Dozens of settlers attacked Hamdan Ballal, co-director of the Oscar-winning film "No Other Land," wounding him and others, activists at the scene and Israeli co-director Yuval Abraham said. Witnesses also said Israeli soldiers took him from an ambulance

The election has just been called for April 28. If you are a Canadian living outside the country, get your mail-in ballot here ASAP: travel.gc.ca/travelling/l...

March Mammal Madness tournament action begins Monday with the WILD CARD! #2025MMM You can enjoy the play-by-play by following @mmmletsgo.bsky.social There is still time to get your bracket & play along! Players portal libguides.asu.edu/MarchMammalM... (use left panel for Educator & Student Portals)

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(1/3) It needs repeating: in 1994, Ukraine was persuaded to give up its nuclear weapons to Russia in return for the US, the UK, and Russia guaranteeing Ukraine’s sovereignty, security, and territorial integrity.

US-owned media pens editorial telling Canadians it is the PM's fault if Donald Trump broke the trade deal that Trump himself signed.

Here are a few riding polls from EKOS and Impact Strategies Thunder Bay-Superior: PC 33 - NDP 33 - LIB 29 - GRN 2 Thunder Bay-Atikokan: NDP 31 - PC 30 - LIB 30 - GRN 4 Sault Ste. Marie: NDP 37 - PC 34 - LIB 19 - OTH 10 - GRN 2 Windsor West: NDP 45 - PC 43 - OTH 10 - GRN 3

Tired of the poor representation of women and non-binary people, and their accomplishments in ocean sciences? Wondering what you can do about it? Ingenium, in partnership with Fisheries and Oceans Canada, and the Canadian Commission for UNESCO, is running a Wikipedia Edit-a-thon this Saturday! 1/3

Starry Night Octopus 🐙 🥺 So happy with how this sculpture turned out #Sculpture #ClayArt #Handmade #Art #Octopus #Invertebrates #Wildlife #Ocean 🐡🌊🦈🐙

If any parents of children with disabilities received similar emails like this, message me on Signal at emgarcia.85

I have read the entire statement of claim filed by Ms. Mentzelopoulos’ legal team. It’s a doozy. If you haven’t read it, you should. www.scribd.com/document/827... Of course, the government will respond, but Christ on a bike. A really long thread. 🧵 1/

NEW: My reporting on the 27 faith groups who sued the Department of Homeland Security today. “[Congregations are] put in this untenable position where they have to choose whether or not to continue to welcome and encourage undocumented people into their places of worship.” sojo.net/articles/new...

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this is a sequel to a short story that's also on Reactor, so if you haven't read either of them, you might start with St. Valentine, St. Abigail, St. Brigid

ok I (feel a bit weird about one of my ebooks being a featured title for Black History Month because I'm Black but the characters aren't) have a HUGE BILL for an infuriating reason & ETIKTE is $2.99 on evil river& I have other books please buy them I pass the hat at kofi.com/clpolk and at Patreon

Just finished editing the Mini Forest Guidebook for @calgaryclimatehub.ca and now I want to plant a mini forest in my back yard. Well, a micro-forest at least. #ClimateAction #DIY #yyc #PlantATree #Nature #ClimateSky 🇨🇦

Want to keep tabs on what's happening in Canada? Here's a starter pack on our primary national and regional news sources. Thank you @sarahsteinbacher.bsky.social for the prod!

Each day this week, I'm making a thread spotlighting and signal-boosting creators who are in different marginalized groups being targeted by jerks. Today, it's Trans creators. IF YOU ARE COMFORTABLE, please post below with links to your work if you can! Art, music, crafts, whatever! Show us!

#nytspellingbee I’ve no idea how I ended up with all of these but I do want to see the alt text.

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Charlie Angus - The Resistance is my new substack forum where I will take a deeper dive into the issues of resistance in this new dark age. substack.com/profile/2620...?

@wendywoodle.bsky.social Sending big hugs because I don’t know what else to do

My only time posting Wordle but this really made me laugh. Have a happy day #hivemind. Wordle 1,308 2/6* ⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

great time for everyone to read Bernd Brunner’s EXTREME NORTH: A CULTURAL HISTORY, a zippy & compulsively readable little book which takes you on a journey from narwhals to eugenics on the racist, antisemitic and colonialist myth-making of Western civilization’s fetishization of far northern places

Happy to announce I will be guest editing a special issue highlight PUI research! Please share axial.acs.org/cross-discip...

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Here's the sun setting in the smoke of up to 5 wildfires behind an island the fossil fuel industry built to hide their oil drilling derrick. If you're into symbolism. Taken at 4:52pm today in Long Beach, CA

✨ Fundraising goal! Poet Eduardo Corral has offered to match $1k for all donations through this @workshops4gaza.bsky.social bookshop page: open-books-a-poem-emporium.myshopify.com/products/w4g.... All funds will be sent to The Sameer Project's South Gaza campaign. Your $1k = $2k. Let's go! 🌿💞

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We're quick to point out when victims of respiratory infections were 'older' or had 'underlying medical conditions'. It's meant to be reassuring. But it should be just the opposite. It should be cause for concern, not reassurance, when we fail to protect people in more vulnerable circumstances.