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When you meet the Queen of Indian Cuisine, Actress, Author, Silver Bear winner, and a @beardfoundation Hall of Fame inductee, the one and only @madhurjaffrey at the @ROMtoronto and she recognizes you from your tweets, you are honoured. A moment of a lifetime! #AshMemories

If @Keir_Starmer does not do the same, @UKLabour must immediately find a new leader who has a spine France to recognise Palestinian state at UN general assembly, Macron says. French president said he hoped it would bring ‘lasting peace’ to Middle East theguardian.com/world/2025/jul…

Gaza is starving, and yes - Israel is responsible haaretz.com/opinion/editor…

100+ NGOs have called for the EU to suspend its treaty with Israel - because of Gaza. But the EU is divided - and the economic weight of this bloc of 450 million people is not translating to a coherent or unified voice. With @BrunoBoelpaep bbc.com/news/articles/…

What is this world coming to where people in Gaza are being forced into starvation? How can Israel continue this heinous act? This inter-generational trauma is deep, and will have consequences in the future. Western nations are complicit in this genocide.

Another incredibly disturbing report. Every aspect of this Alligator Alcatraz nonsense should be investigated, rigorously.

Victims testified under oath that Maxwell sexually abused them with Epstein. Victims testified under oath that she recruited them and schooled them on how to give sexualized massages to Epstein. Victims testified that she took their passports so that they became prisoners on the…

This message must reach the world: Gaza needs 1,000 food trucks to be delivered daily and distributed in an organized manner for an entire month in order for us to say that the famine has been broken and people are no longer hungry. Anything less than that is a lie and a…

Seeing the centrists only just NOW decide that Israel has gone too far is making me angry in a way I can't even articulate

Canada condemns the Israeli government’s failure to prevent the rapidly deteriorating humanitarian disaster in Gaza. Israel’s control of aid distribution must be replaced by comprehensive provision of humanitarian assistance led by international organizations. Many of these are…

Of course, since the US is aiding Israel in committing a genocide. The 'peace' you want requires that Palestinians be exterminated.

On the relationship between the manufacture of statelessness and mass atrocities see my book "Black Earth" thebulwark.com/p/can-trump-st…

BREAKING NEWS: Trump's government just approved Paramount's merger with Skydance. Sure looks like they paid Donald Trump $36 MILLION for this merger. Bribery is illegal no matter who is president.

Breaking News: President Emmanuel Macron said France would recognize the state of Palestine, making it the first of the G7 nations to do so. nyti.ms/3GVjhkQ

Israel says it has bigger jobs to do than look after foreign journalists in Gaza. I'm not asking them to look after me. I'm just asking them to let me in. I'll look after myself as I do in every war zone I visit. We have freer access to Sudan, Congo & Yemen than we have to Gaza.

Alberta might not be heaven, but you can see it from there.

UK PM issues a statement that appears to make recognition of Palestine contingent on a ceasefire that Israel would have to agree to. This would appear to give the Israeli government an effective veto on recognition, and also a new and additional reason to resist a ceasefire.

One reason we tolerate the evisceration of USAID is skepticism about aid's effectiveness. Yet aid can and does save lives. As @BillGates notes here, child deaths from diarrhea have fallen 72% since 2000. Diarrhea still kills too many children, but we know to solve these problems,…

July 1: Paramount agrees to pay $16 million to settle Trump's personal lawsuit against CBS. July 22: Trump and Paramount dismiss the case, formalizing the settlement. July 24: Trump-appointed FCC approves $8 billion Paramount merger. nytimes.com/2025/07/24/bus…