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Aden Murphy retweeted
On this day in 1917, the Mont-Blanc exploded in Halifax Harbour, releasing a 2.9 kiloton explosion.
The largest human-made explosion in history to that point, it killed nearly 2,000 people and injured 9,000.
Let's learn about this dark day.
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ALT The image depicts a massive explosion column. The plume of smoke and ash rises high into the sky, indicating a powerful explosion.
Aden Murphy retweeted
This is a real headline. In 2024.
Israeli drones shooting children in Gaza deliberately 'day after day', UK surgeon tells MPs
middleeasteye.net/news/gaza-…
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When Save the Children, one of the world’s most respected and trusted charities calls it a “war on children”, listen and act. When UNICEF, the children’s agency, we all grew up supporting, reports from the scene on the daily, massive maiming and killing of children, listen & act.
UNICEF says more than 50 children have been killed in Gaza’s Jabalia refugee camp in the past 48 hours, with Save the Children saying the high number shows “the intensity of this conflict and this war on children” aje.io/r0xs72
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From @wallissnow: Alberta Mountie disciplined for telling colleague she was 'trash' for reporting a sexual assault. Will keep his job. cbc.ca/news/canada/edmonton/…
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Doctors without Borders is outraged by the repeated killings of our staff in #Gaza and calls for an immediate halt on attacks of medical personnel, humanitarian workers and civilians.
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Maybe the most powerful figure I’ve seen this year: the racial gap in tickets from speed cameras vs. officer stops.
pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.24…
Aden Murphy retweeted
This story is absolutely sickening.
SUV driver drives into cycle lane and runs over cyclist's foot. Cyclist bangs on bonnet. SUV driver runs over cyclist, reverses, and runs over him again. He's got his teenage daughter in the car.
And you ask why we want protected cycle lanes?
Driver charged with murder after cyclist’s road rage death, in Paris
road.cc/content/news/france-…
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An urgent cry from 38 aid groups: "The Israeli assault on Gaza has escalated to a horrifying level of atrocity. Northern Gaza is being wiped off the map. This is not evacuation—this is forced displacement under gunfire. Civilians are being starved." oxfam.org/en/press-releases/…
Aden Murphy retweeted
Rezoning in Garneau will improve housing options for everyone.
As enrollment at the University increases and Edmonton grows at a breakneck pace, we will need to upzone more land for housing around the U of A.
Read my and @adenmurphy's op-ed 👇
edmontonjournal.com/opinion/…
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It’s basically impossible to understand how expensive climate change is and is going to be.
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So Higgins (R-LA) has apparently deleted this tweet, but it sure seems relevant to note that this is some seriously racist bile and the sort of promise of retaliatory, racialized state violence on which fascist regimes are built.
Resign-and-leave-public-life kind of stuff.
Aden Murphy retweeted
Leaked docs: While Gaza starved, USAID and State's refugees bureau came to a legally explosive conclusion — Israel had deliberately prevented food & medicine from getting in
But Blinken told congress the exact opposite, so the arms could keep flowing. propublica.org/article/gaza-…
Aden Murphy retweeted
BREAKING
The Israel Defense Forces said Tuesday it was “very likely” that US citizen Aysenur Eygi had been hit “unintentionally” by one of its soldiers and that the incident occurred during a “violent riot.”
But a Washington Post investigation has found that Eygi was shot more than a half-hour after the height of confrontations in Beita, and some 20 minutes after protesters had moved down the main road — more than 200 yards away from Israeli forces.
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I asked Stephen Miller, one of Donald Trump's top advisors, what is the evidence for saying that Caracas and Venezuela are safer than the United States. He began by answering that it is the government's numbers. I asked him if he trusted Maduro's numbers. And this was his reaction.👇
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(1/4) “Two Nice Jewish Boys” bills itself as Israel’s “longest-running English-language podcast”. Here hosts Naor Meningher & Eytan Weinstein discuss their desire to exterminate 5 million Palestinian civilians in Gaza and the West Bank — to “erase every living being”, (Meningher)
Aden Murphy retweeted
Inviting Roger Waters/Aaron Maté to this event is a stain on the Palestinian movement
These 2 claim to defend the children of Gaza while actively covering up Assad's mass-murder of Syrians & Palestinians
You cannot do both, only the ignorant can believe this, but they are many.
