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I'll tell you this, though: if Cardinal Turkson gets elected Pope by his fellow cardinals, there are probably gonna be a lot of confused Turks out there. Just like there must have been with Volker Türk.

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The world lost a great man today. My condolences to all Catholics. He used his annual Urbi et Orbi speech on St. Peter's Square in the Vatican yesterday, on his last Easter and his last full day on earth, to call for peace in Burma, the DRC, Palestine, Sudan, Ukraine and elsewhere. 1/2

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Niagara Falls from the Canadian side last month: youtu.be/eYQKHWT4Nys

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Eid mubarak from Toronto!

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I have the distinct impression that most online anti-Putin Russians and my fellow anti-Lukashenka Belarusians only turned against Teump during the last few days, once he started unequivocally siding with Russia against Ukraine. 1/2

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Le discours de Macron contient deux parties clés qui peuvent changer la donne : l'idée que les pays membres de l'UE peuvent augmenter leurs dépenses militaires "sans que cela soit pris en compte dans leurs déficits". 1/ youtu.be/vPKrXti7c1A?...

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Winter rain in the late afternoon here in Toronto. 🌧️ The snow is melting; the water is flowing. youtu.be/WUSf75eq6ks

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Ramadan mubarak. 🌙🕌 رمضان مبارك. youtu.be/7kP29zrUMVc?...

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Your dignity honors the bravery of the Ukrainian people. Be strong, be brave, be fearless. You are never alone, dear President Zelenskyy. We will continue working with you for a just and lasting peace.

submitted 60 days ago • 1679 comments

For those who use social media as their sole form of advocacy—pls add methods that elected officials care about. They care about advocacy that requires effort. Calls, personal emails & showing up in person. Social media can be used as an organizing tool. But it is not effective as advocacy alone.

submitted 63 days ago • 19 comments

This seems bad

submitted 63 days ago • 2064 comments

estimated cost needed to rebuild ukraine’s economy after russia’s invasion: $524 billion (up 7% from last year) -report from world bank, un, european commission, ukrainian govt

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The Justice Department is not the president's personal law firm. You are not his lawyers. The free press should be exactly that — free. If the facts they report don’t align with the president’s propaganda, tough. And this statement is a disgrace to the DOJ and the rule of law.

submitted 64 days ago • 387 comments

[Silence.]

submitted 63 days ago • 308 comments

a dramatic about face from the united states of america

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Currently appearing at UK bus-stops. More of this pointed ridicule, please.

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BREAKING: Judge in our Treasury case vs. DOGE just raised profound "concerns about constitutionality of DOGE"! She follows Judge Chutkan who also raised questions last week We @sddaction.bsky.social will be in Md. Fed. Ct. Friday in our appointments clause case to prove DOGE is unconstitutional

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“ukraine is not the country you can conquer in three days. the russians couldn’t break us in 300 years – they tried, but they couldn’t.” - kyiv resident yevheniia bondini on the 3rd anniversary of the invasion

submitted 64 days ago • 2 comments

Trump’s attack on US institutions, even if fully expected, is dispiriting, discombobulating and dangerous. In this very difficult time, we have to remember one thing: This is not normal, and it should not be normalized.

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Bloomberg has seen the draft text of the imminent minerals deal between the US and Ukraine: the US will commit to a “free, sovereign and secure” Ukraine and a “lasting peace”. The US will also agree a “durable partnership” between Washington and Kyiv and will invest in Ukraine.

submitted 64 days ago • 26 comments

Not a great time for citizens who have chosen to serve their country by working in government, when the current leaders have nothing but contempt for your very existence. I have an idea, run for office against a Republican who is enabling it - which is all of them.

submitted 65 days ago • 167 comments

Went out for dumplings with lots of British expats and their families yesterday. Main conversation: what’s the red line that Trump crosses that will make you leave the country and how close are you to it. One month on we’re all 20-30% on our way to leaving.

submitted 65 days ago • 2 comments

Trump wants to defeat Ukraine, which Putin has failed to do, while he only wants to help Putin. The US has now exited the Western alliance. It no longer acknowledges that Russia is the aggressor. Europe & Ukraine need to defend themselves against Trump.

submitted 65 days ago • 10 comments

The only obvious beneficiaries of Trump's foreign policy seems to be Putin & Netanyahu, certainly not the US. Should this be the aim of US foreign policy? I don't think so...

submitted 64 days ago • 6 comments

Yikes.

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The first impression from the German elections is that Alternative for Germany's apparent rise stalled after JD Vance's objectionable public interference in their favor. Trump, Musk & Vance have become European hate objects & rightly so.

submitted 65 days ago • 11 comments

I don't think I'd realised previously that they were this young.

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Russia's economy has certainly weathered better 3y of war than most (all?) economists expected esp. given that $500b of its reserved were impounded. The LT problems however remain: self-exile of many educated people, human losses among the active male population.

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Yosemite National Park workers hang distress flag to protest Trump and Musk coming for their jobs.

submitted 65 days ago • 235 comments

McDonald’s looks like it went from being a happy kid to a depressed adult like many of us…

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YouGov MRP projections for tomorrow’s German elections.

submitted 66 days ago • 92 comments

What were the great revolutions I witnessed in my life? The first & really big was the Iranian revolution. I had many Iranian friends. They were all anti-Pahlavi. But quickly they split into two or three camps.

submitted 65 days ago • 1 comment

200 million dollars of waste.

submitted 66 days ago • 1372 comments

russia is a kleptocratic dictatorship, an economy and political system in decline under a government that stopped investing in human capital decades ago. the united states alliance with europe is far more valuable and should be treated as such by american leaders.

submitted 66 days ago • 26 comments

There's some truth to this, unfortunately.

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Stop mass deportations with this one simple trick: wapo.st/41apYFB (gift link)

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The Tesla Cybertruck is banned in Europe, due to its design not meeting European safety regulations, with its sharp edges & potential for pedestrian harm; it cannot be legally sold or registered in most European countries, including the UK.

submitted 66 days ago • 33 comments