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And people are whining that a list of principled candidates in #vanpoli signed the Vote Palestine pledge? In an ongoing genocide?
I'd prefer to see a list of everyone who didn't sign, so I know who not to vote for.
Israeli occupation forces are tightening their grip on more areas of Gaza despite the US-mediated ceasefire, issuing fresh evacuation orders that threaten to uproot Palestinians already forced from their homes by the war.
Nearly two-thirds of the Strip now falls beyond the so-called “yellow line,” drawn under US President Donald Trump’s 20-point peace proposal.
Al Jazeera's Ibrahim Al-Khalili reports from Gaza City, where Israel’s expanding military presence is fueling fears of further displacement.
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Absolutely diabolical. National Post puts a bullseye on Avi Lewis through the rabid ramblings of Yoni Goldstein who invokes Halakhah and Leviticus on how to deal with Jews. Writing Lewis “presents a clear and present danger to the Jewish community” & other Jews are “duty-bound to step in.” This is so irresponsible. The National Post should be stripped of any government funding it receives from Canada. This is wholly negligent and irresponsible.
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You know who was pretty quiet today regarding the masked white supremacists mobilizing in Kamloops with residential school denialism on the eve of the National Day for Truth and Reconciliation? @PierrePoilievre. Here he is posing with the group's founder.
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Seeing actor Josh Hartnett back on screen made me wonder what he’d been doing all these years. Then I came across his comments about Palestine from 2001 (peak Hartnett era) and was surprised by how outspoken he was. I wonder if he was cancelled.
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The remaining mayoral candidates are:
Pete Fry, Vancouver Greens
Ken Sim, ABC
Kareem Allam, ex ABC campaign manager
Rebecca Bligh, ex ABC councillor
Colleen Hardwick, ex Ken Sim running mate (NPA 2018)
Why is the right always so divided?
thetyee.ca/News/2026/09/10/V…
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EXPOSED: The Secret Israel Plot to Ban Palestine Action
“This is the story of how Israel got a protest group based in another country proscribed a Terrorist organisation”
@Lowkey0nline
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Israeli lawyer Ben Marmarelli says Palestinian prisoners he represents beg him not to visit because they're raped each time he is due to meet them.
This is a scene from Al Jazeera's shocking new documentary on Israel's systematic use of rape.
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Cork City Council to consider tiny statue honouring mosquito linked to Oliver Cromwell’s death irishexaminer.com/news/munst…
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🎬 Gelin size Hollywood filmlerinde kamera ne zaman Meksika’ya, 'Ortadoğu’ya', Güney Asya’ya ya da Afrika’ya dönse ekranın neden aniden tozlu bir sarı tona büründüğünü anlatayım:
Sinema literatüründe "Yellow Filter" (Sarı Filtre) olarak bilinen bu uygulama, aslında sadece sanatsal bir tercih değil, modern bir oryantalizm ve sömürgeci bakış açısıdır. Breaking Bad ve Traffic’te Meksika’yı, Extraction ve Slumdog Millionaire’de Hindistan’ı, Black Hawk Down’da Afrika’yı ya da pek çok ajan filminde İstanbul’u ve “Ortadoğu’yu” sanki üzerine sarı bir sis çökmüş gibi görmemiz tesadüf değildir.
Bu görsel manipülasyon, Edward Said’in bahsettiği "Öteki"ni inşa etme sürecinin en kestirme yoludur: Batı dünyası parlak ve "soğuk mavi" tonlarla rasyonelliğin, ilerlemenin ve medeniyetin merkezi olarak sunulurken; "Küresel Güney" olarak adlandırılan ve tarih boyunca sömürgeciliğe maruz kalmış coğrafyalar sarı filtreyle boğularak "kaotik, tehlikeli ve durağan" birer suç mahalline indirgenir.
Bu durum, kolonyalizmin kurduğu o üstenci görsel hiyerarşiyi her karede yeniden üretir. Sarı ton; kuraklığı, fakirliği ve "eskiyi" sembolize ederek izleyiciye bu bölgelerin modern zamana ait olmadığı ve "ıslah edilmesi gereken, kirli bir geçmişte takılı kaldığı" mesajını bilinçaltından fısıldar.
Hikaye anlatma biçimi olarak bu filtreyi seçmek, o coğrafyanın gerçek renklerini ve modern dokusunu yok edip Batılı izleyicinin zihnindeki stereotipleri beslemektir. Sonuçta sinematografi, burada bir sanat dalı olmaktan çıkıp dünyayı "medeni merkez" ve "egzotik/vahşi çevre" olarak ikiye bölen politik bir araca, yani sömürgeci zihniyetin görsel bir mührüne dönüşür.
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Only one chance in this lifetime…
Like watching sunset at the beach from the most foreign seat in the cosmos, I couldn’t resist a cell phone video of Earthset. You can hear the shutter on the Nikon as @Astro_Christina is hammering away on 3-shot brackets and capturing those exceptional Earthset photos through the 400mm lens. @AstroVicGlover was in window 3 watching with @Astro_Jeremy next to him.
I could barely see the Moon through the docking hatch window but the iPhone was the perfect size to catch the view…this is uncropped, uncut with 8x zoom which is quite comparable to the view of the human eye. Enjoy.
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If Facebook is full of stodgy old boomers, the Bay Area ones are an unusual subset.
These are responses to @MLNow's story on the Molotov cocktail incident at Sam Altman's house.
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I'm headed to Baku, Azerbaijan for @UNHabitat World Urban Forum to speak on UN Habitat's famous founding conference, which was held in Vancouver in 1976.
It's the 50th anniversary of Habitat I this year!
wuf.unhabitat.org/ #unhabitat #cities #WUF13Azerbaijan
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A far-right party in Canada is imploding over a 22-year-old staffer’s extreme posting online.
I got my hands on audio from @antihateca that might leave Canadians asking how the hell someone like this got into politics at all.
It involves Diagolon, "remigration" and some trojan-horse-style plots:
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I don’t live in NYC, but the abject terror that politicians who also don’t live in NYC have of #Mamdani winning is laugh out loud funny.
Are kids going to trick-or-treat in this rain?
(Also I cannot *believe* that major league baseball would do something as rude as a key game smack at trick-or-treat time. Way to wreck Hallowe'en for kids!)
Anyway, I'll be doing #TreatCount2025
See next tweet for how to report
At the end of trick-or-treating you can input your #treatcount2025 number on the CBC's page here:
cbc.ca/news/canada/british-c…






























