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  haven't been to #Winnipeg since the 90s despite my long roster of cousins living there, so I've never visited the Canadian Museum for Human Rights. But knowing what I do about its political trajectory, I'm actually pleased & impressed that they are doing a Nakba exhibit. https://www.theglobeandmail.com/culture/article-canadian-museum-for-human-rights-nakba-palestine-exhibit/ #museum #Nakba #OralHistory #Palestine

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  first half to boil your blood and second half is quite an interesting read https://www.worseonpurpose.com/p/your-cookware-got-worse-on-purpose #cookware

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  Can anyone suggest funding I could apply for with Dutch and Indonesian colleagues to work on a historical commemoration project about the Dutch internment camp in Papua, for the 100th anniversary of its opening next year? We found some likely partial NL funding but not sure where else to look.🤔

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  RE: https://glammr.us/@carkner/115583641608449219 the amount of hot air and right wing rage content about this museum exhibit is so out of control. they act like it's one of the main problems in Canada in 2026!! look at all the real problems, this is just a history exhibition at a museum, not a problem at all.

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  a lot of people have complained about the quality of pronunciation in the audiobook version of Molly Crabapple's Here Where We Live is Our Country😬 to the point she announced she is going to re-record it herself. (I have a paper copy, so haven't experienced Chaia as "Tshaya" and so on) https://bsky.app/profile/mollycrabapple.bsky.social/post/3mlqwd6vcws2k #Yiddish

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  fuckin' eh https://apnews.com/article/trump-doge-humanities-funding-cuts-dda1383436c41be08da3bbf7cc08818e #DOGE #NEH #uspol

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  😪 "At the University of Washington, a group of faculty who felt the campus had grown too “anti-Israel” set out to build a new academic center to tackle what they view as antisemitism. [...] The center is led by a co-chair of a university antisemitism task force – but she is a public health professor, not a scholar of Jewish studies. Other members come from the university’s law and business schools. The center is not formally affiliated with the University of Washington" https:/...

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  sometime after my current projects I was thinking I should research & write a #wikipedia article about the 1926 communist uprising in the Dutch East Indies. for some reason, despite significantly changing the course of politics there for decades, it doesn't have an article in EN or ID wikipedia🤔 #Indonesia #history

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  At this point I generally find Piker to be a blowhard, but liking him is not relevant in this excellent points being made here. "This echoes a problem that arose during last year’s New York City mayoral race. Some Jewish groups discounted now-Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s substantial efforts at Jewish outreach, instead focusing wholly on his criticism of Israel." [...] https://forward.com/opinion/821020/hasan-piker-anti-zionism-antisemitism/ #antisemitism #uspol

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  My periodic sharing of my favourite John Donne poem lol🫣 https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/48688/pg48688-images.html#pagei.77 #poetry #JohnDonne #English

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  still one of the biggest stains on Vancouver's reputation. the people can just murder someone in broad daylight and lie about it. #ACAB https://www.nationalobserver.com/2026/04/27/news/vpd-officers-have-yet-testify-myles-gray-death-hearing-heres-what-exhibits-say #vanpoli #VPD #PoliceViolence

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  rare time I agree with VPD lol they want the Dubai/Monaco level treatment but this is not a Dubai/Monaco level city https://www.independent.co.uk/sport/football/fifa-gianni-infantino-motorcade-vancouver-world-cup-b2966376.html

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  this is rough. my neighborhood community college too. I wonder if it's a cry for help to a province that so far does not seem to give a shit that everything outside of UBC and SFU are being burned to the ground https://www.ctvnews.ca/vancouver/article/very-short-sighted-vancouver-college-cancels-fall-nursing-program-amid-health-care-staffing-crisis/ #HigherEd #VCC #Vancouver

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  Ugh, bunch of new nazi graffiti in South Vancouver, not at all subtle (runes, anti Jewish, in some cases trying to tie it to Gaza war but saying it in a nazi way). Some barely legible on half-torn communist wheat pasted posters but others on bus stops etc I reported to 311.

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  RE: https://mstdn.ca/@thetyee/116442809725584619 good luck to them / to us lol. we need to be rid of Ken Sim #Vanpoli #COPE #OneCity #GreenParty

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  nice https://www.advocate.com/politics/states/mamdani-appoints-records-commissioner

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  Sad to say I'm not convinced #DaredevilBornAgain is actually a good show. I really like the characters and actors and intentions, but it's just not coming together for me. I think part of the problem is that they assume you have watched the old Netflix series and don't need to spend any time with the characters to understand their motivations, that having them show up on screen is enough. It isn't...

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  My MLA. hope things turn around for her soon https://globalnews.ca/news/11813137/bc-premier-mla-joan-phillip-very-ill-prayers/ #BCpoli #Vancouver #EastVan

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  I learned from the talk that there was a long-standing rumour that peretz centre had a portrait of Stalin on the wall because mainstream ppl didn't know what IL Peretz looks like😐

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  "The governing Liberals will obviously accept whichever warm body comes its way on its slow march to a majority. But accepting someone like Ms. Gladu into its caucus perpetuates the Liberals’ reputation as a party without foundational principles: as one where the desire to govern is, in fact, its primary ideological driver." https://www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/article-marilyn-gladu-what-does-liberal-party-actually-stand-for/ #CanPoli #CdnPoli #Carney #Gladu

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  Shameful that our city is passing the buck on this to score political points with the worst of the worst https://thetyee.ca/News/2026/04/02/Vancouver-Keeps-New-Supportive-Housing-Pause/ #vanpoli #KenSim

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  Don't know why I randomly thought of this while watching an unrelated play just now, but next spring (March 2027) is the 100 year anniversary of the Dutch opening their concentration camp at Boven Digul in Papua. I wonder if it's going to be commemorated anywhere and in what context. (Indonesia? Netherlands?) nothing coming up when I try googling it in English and Indonesian but it's still a way off... #Indonesia #Papua #ColonialCrimes

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  so much for my plan of mild-manneredly looking at ducks at piper spit tomorrow on my birthday 🫣🦆 https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/strong-winds-b-c-9.7153739

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  me at 44 also the rare time I drink beer in my 40s

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  this is demented even for him threatening genocide is part of the crime of genocide, it's not just military bluster https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/livestory/u-s-israel-iran-war-trump-deadline-9.7154523 #USpol #Trump #Genocide

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  Good interview “Rejecting the self-determination of the Jewish people on the Palestinian land in itself is not antisemitism, you are denying other people’s rights in the land.” https://forward.com/news/817276/mahmoud-khalil-hamas-zionism-antisemitism-israel/ #MahmoudKhalil #palestine #uspol

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  "It is just so obvious, and it so obviously violates the standards of, just, basic humanism. There's no need for a Palestinian exception here, you know. You just have to be a humanist." https://www.thekeymagazine.com/p/ta-nehisi-coates-palestine-israel-the-message-election-interview

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  good writeup of this shitshow by one of the journalists targeted in it @llebrun https://pressprogress.ca/jesse-brown-insists-hes-done-nothing-wrong/ #Canadaland

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  one of my family members worked at this campus for a semester in the late 2010s. provincial and federal government are just gonna let higher ed outside of cities wither and die eh? https://www.castanetkamloops.net/news/Kamloops/605657/TRU-proposes-closing-Williams-Lake-campus-to-save-up-to-4-million-annually #bcpoli #WilliamsLake #TRU #HigherEd

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  Lady kitty #caturday #TuxedoCat #najma #katertag #smartCat