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The Last Canadian Politician I’d Trust to Police the Internet ✍️ @jonkay Marc Miller spread misinformation about unmarked graves and supports the criminal prosecution of residential-school ‘denialists.’ Why would Mark Carney use him to front his new plan for regulating online
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The Last Canadian Politician I’d Trust to Police the Internet
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"While the Christian worldview was fundamentally different from Indigenous faith traditions, the Jesuits' description of God as a protective father-like figure, and their pronouncements on the supposed universal brotherhood of Christendom, still must have seemed attractive to
A Tale of Two Settlements
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The UN is facing what its own outgoing Secretary-General calls an "imminent financial collapse." By the end of 2026, it will have a new leader. The question is whether anyone can rescue the institution from irrelevance, writes @BenCohenOpinion 🧵
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The two leading candidates to replace Guterres have starkly different visions. Argentina's Rafael Grossi calls for structural reform — "improve coordination, eliminate duplication, digitise operations." Chile's Michele Bachelet wants an activist Secretary-General pushing
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"The next UN Secretary-General would be well-advised to focus on improving the organisation's relationship with the world's most powerful and geopolitically influential nation. Otherwise, he or she may be remembered by history as just another placeholder in a line of UN officials
Can US Engagement Rescue the United Nations From Irrelevance?
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Maarten Boudry
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Can you imagine a fawning biopic about Jeffrey Epstein's philanthropic work playing in mainstream cinemas around the world? Or a hagiography celebrating Harvey Weinstein's many accomplishments in the movie industry—Pulp Fiction, The English Patient, Good Will Hunting, Gangs of
Why Epstein, But Not Jackson?
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Netanyahu helped enable the initial Hamas assault by proactively facilitating Qatari funding of Gaza. His reputation as Mr. Security is now in tatters, writes Benny Morris.
An Electoral Reckoning at Last?
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“High wokeism belonged to Twitter: quote-tweets, cancellations, and open letters. Post-wokeness belongs to a compressed feed of TikTok, Telegram and Discord. Wars are reduced to clips of bombed infrastructure or suffering children. Healthcare to denied insurance claims.
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The Destructivists: Wokeism Turns to System Destruction
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Claire Lehmann
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What comes after wokism? Here @aziz0nomics argues that Russia's invasion of Ukraine, the re-election of Trump, hatred towards Israel, & the fear of AI have all contributed to a hardening of progressive politics into something more destructive
The Destructivists: Wokeism Turns to System Destruction
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All independent surveys conducted since the Hamas assault on southern Israel on 7 October 2023 have predicted that Netanyahu, who has governed Israel since 2009 (bar eighteen months in 2021–2), will lose. ✍️ Benny Morris
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An Electoral Reckoning at Last?
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Flemish public broadcaster @VRT ran wall-to-wall coverage on youth intolerance — blaming the manosphere. What they didn't report: respondents from the MENA region scored more than fifteen percentage points lower on gender tolerance than native Belgians.
The Data a Flemish TV Network Didn't Want You to See
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"Last Wednesday, 3 June, was surely one of the most shameful days in the Knesset’s 77-year history. Michael Rabello, the personal attorney of Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu, was elected the country’s next state comptroller—the official who inspects, reviews, and audits
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