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Sarah Baxter @sarahbaxterstm.bsky.social · 1d

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Emmanuelle Chaze @emmanuellechaze.com · 1d

🔴🇺🇦 Four UN-OCHA trucks carrying humanitarian aid came under Russian drone & artillery fire in Bilozerka, Kherson region, this morning.

One vehicle burned down, one was heavily damaged. Nobody was injured, which Kherson governor Oleksandr Prokudin calls a miracle.

Source: Kherson Administration

A burning World Food Program truck on fire, dark smoke, on the foreground a tree.

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Emmanuelle Chaze @emmanuellechaze.com · 1d

🔴 Last night, Russia bombed a hospital in Kharkiv, Ukraine's 2nd biggest city (1.3M inhabitants, incl. one sixth of IDPs according to the latest figures).

Seven patients were injured, over 50 suffered from stress following the strikes. 30000 were left without power, since restored.

📸 Suspilne

A charred ambulance. rubble from a nearby building has crushed the rooftop

People clearing up debris within the hospital corridor.

A destroyed hospital room, glass shards everywhere and wooden panels already put up where the window used to be.

People clearing up debris in the hospital corridor

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realdougpetepiece.bsky.social @realdougpetepiece.bsky.social · 2d

FEB 2025 "The Peace President"
U.S. ‘will take over the Gaza Strip’ and ‘own it,’ Trump says at White House
www.youtube.com/watch?v=tzAY...

WATCH: U.S. ‘will take over the Gaza Strip’ and ‘own it,’ Trump says at White House

YouTube video by PBS NewsHour

www.youtube.com

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Mark MacKinnon @markmackinnon.bsky.social · 2d

Marco Rubio, attending Trump-Sisi meeting in Sharm el-Sheikh, claims today "might be one of the most important days for world peace in 50 years."

Trump interjects: "Only 50?"

Rubio, quickly replies: "Maybe 100."

Laughter in the room. End scene.

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Mark MacKinnon @markmackinnon.bsky.social · 2d

A reporter asks Trump whether Sisi will be on the "Board of Peace" governing post-war Gaza.

"I'd like that," Trump replies, before adding "we'd need a translator, but that's ok."

So... Trump's vision had Gaza being governed by a "board" speaking only in English?

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Joshua Coe @joshuacoe.bsky.social · 2d

"What you’re potentially looking at here is ... the loss of a generation of Indigenous Greenlandic Inuit children."

A Danish historian who studied Denmark’s IUD program in Greenland told @theworld.org how the campaign impacted an entire generation of Indigenous people: theworld.org/stories/2025...

A discussion about Denmark's forced IUD program for Greenlandic Inuit women and girls - The World from PRX

The World's Host Carolyn Beeler speaks with Victoria Pihl Sørensen, a Danish historian who has studied Denmark's IUD program in Greenland, to understand how the policy took shape and the impacts on an...

theworld.org

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realdougpetepiece.bsky.social @realdougpetepiece.bsky.social · 3d

I like Kramatorsk. After the polished charm of Kyiv, there’s grit here — a kind of hard-edged strength. The Russians are eighteen miles away and closing, but no one’s giving an inch. If they want it, they’ll have to fight for every metre.
For now, Kramatorsk holds the line

realdougpetepiece.bsky.social @realdougpetepiece.bsky.social · 3d

After Alaska, Trump blinked into the wreckage of his own vanity. Humiliated. Outplayed. Ukraine — abandoned, traded, forgotten. The peace deal? Dead before it drew breath. Putin flew home smirking. Trump slouched back to Mar-a-Lago, muttering about Nobels

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Paul Conroy @reflextv.bsky.social · 4d

paulconroy.substack.com/p/the-kramat...

#Ukraine #Donbas #Trump #PutinIsaWarCriminal

The Kramatorsk Diaries part 33

Relocating to Kramatorsk...

paulconroy.substack.com

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Mad Lamb 🇺🇦🇨🇦📎 @madmadlamb.bsky.social · 4d

“After the war, someone will write papers about them — the engineers who kept the lights on while the world looked away.”

Paul Conroy @reflextv.bsky.social · 4d

paulconroy.substack.com/p/the-kramat...

#Ukraine #Donbas #Trump #PutinIsaWarCriminal

The Kramatorsk Diaries part 33

Relocating to Kramatorsk...

paulconroy.substack.com

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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 4d

Florida’s surgeon general’s anti-vax beliefs are only the tip of a very deeply weird iceberg.

Joseph Ladapo’s guiding voice? His wife, who believes she can talk to “Archangel Michael, Mary Magdalene, and many other beings of light.”

From medicine to mysticism: the radicalization of Florida's top doc

Joseph Ladapo was a normie—until he met his wife and a guru into levitating and communicating with spirits.

www.motherjones.com

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Robin Mandelwald @robinmandelwald.bsky.social · 5d

Homecoming.
#Gaza
Photo: Abood Abusalama / MEI

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Jonathan Lemire @jonlemire.bsky.social · 6d

First James Comey. Now Letitia James.

Trump’s retribution is here www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...

Retribution Is Here

The president’s threats of revenge are no longer bluster.

www.theatlantic.com

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Mark MacKinnon @markmackinnon.bsky.social · 5d

If China’s smart, they’ll resurrect the “Confucius Peace Prize” and give it to Trump to salve his wounded ego.

Previous winners include Vladimir Putin, Robert Mugabe and Hun Sen…

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Confuci...

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Toronto Star @thestar.com · 5d

Stop hoping that Donald Trump doesn’t mean what he says about Canada.

The real game, as we all know deep down, is making Canada more resilient and less dependent on the U.S. #Opinion

Andrew Phillips: Stop hoping that Donald Trump doesn’t mean what he says about Canada

When it comes to Mark Carney, Donald Trump and the White House meeting that swallowed much of this week, I’m with John Cleese — or at least the character he

www.thestar.com

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Mark MacKinnon @markmackinnon.bsky.social · 5d

Trump’s Gaza ceasefire deal may prove to be either his signature diplomatic achievement - or just one more false dawn in the long Israeli-Palestinian conflict.

My take

Trump’s Gaza deal is brimming with hope but short on details and long-term solutions

Both sides agree it’s a first step toward peace, but only the beginning of the path toward resolving the broader Israeli-Palestinian conflict

www.theglobeandmail.com

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Andrea Woo @andreawoo.bsky.social · 5d

‘Everlasting peace’ not guaranteed:
Palestinians and Israelis, poring through Trump’s Gaza peace deal, find reasons for hope but few details on their future, writes @markmackinnon.bsky.social
www.theglobeandmail.com/world/articl...

Trump’s Gaza deal is brimming with hope but short on details and long-term solutions

Both sides agree it’s a first step toward peace, but only the beginning of the path toward resolving the broader Israeli-Palestinian conflict

www.theglobeandmail.com

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realdougpetepiece.bsky.social @realdougpetepiece.bsky.social · 5d

Dear Mark what an awful story! It reminds me of a story from my Fathers 6 years of WWII.
Major Petepiece had his troops drop rocks (instead of grenades)down a dyke in Holland to scare young Hitler youth attackers.Dad was sick of the killing as war was winding down.

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Mark MacKinnon @markmackinnon.bsky.social · 5d

“As the ceasefire approached, the Israeli bombardment of the Gaza Strip continued until the last moment, targeting homes and refugee camps, like a war machine insisting on leaving its final mark before a long silence”

Our Hasan Jaber reports from the Bureij refugee camp

A cautious calm settles over Gaza as the ceasefire takes hold

After two years of devastating war, Palestinians in Gaza celebrate a possible end to the Israel-Hamas war while grieving what they have lost

www.theglobeandmail.com

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realdougpetepiece.bsky.social @realdougpetepiece.bsky.social · 5d

Please join the 11th Annual James Foley Freedom Run #IRunForJim and the #FoleyFamily including Diane/John and Martha who have become like family to me and my Son.
@foleydi @reflextv.bsky.social @markmackinnon.bsky.social @kathygannon.bsky.social secure.qgiv.com/event/2025ja...

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realdougpetepiece.bsky.social @realdougpetepiece.bsky.social · 7d

He was also shot in the head with some kind of projectile at minute 4:04 of this video www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddo...

ICE violence caught on camera featured among evidence in new lawsuit

Rachel Maddow relays reports of a brutal, militaristic raid on an apartment building in Chicago, and shares video included as exhibits in a new lawsuit showing ICE agents violently attacking a Presbyt...

www.msnbc.com

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Emmanuelle Chaze @emmanuellechaze.com · 9d

🔴🇺🇦 Russia targets the city of Kharkiv tonight, for the past half hour we have been under attack, over twenty explosions have already been heard.

Authorities say several fires already broke out in the city, with more drones approaching.

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David Rider @dmrider.bsky.social · 9d

I sat down with Toronto Hydro's CEO to talk about her first year in the important-but-often-invisible-to-the-public role, Hydro's increased efforts to fight climate change & what the utility changed after people lost power during June's record scorcher www.thestar.com/news/gta/wha...

What Toronto Hydro’s new CEO learned from the summer’s record-breaking heat wave

Jana Mosley, Toronto Hydro’s chief executive, says the city’s electrical grid can withstand a surge in demand and extreme weather that can damage equipment.

www.thestar.com

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Tom Harrington @cbctom.bsky.social · 11d

On the dog walk in the neighbourhood Friday night, ran into a couple & their dog. After the usual pet patter, found out they’d just moved into their new Toronto home that day after driving from San Francisco. The husband who’s in the green energy industry, joked “we’re defecting.” 🇨🇦

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