From the Damnthatsinteresting community on Reddit: Dozens of “Local” News Stations Reading the Exact Same Script Explore this post and more from the Damnthatsinteresting community

Local news shows corporate script consolidation #extremelydangeroustoourdemocracy www.reddit.com/r/Damnthatsi...

Love thy neighbour as you love yourself.

What you need to know about Trump’s Golden Dome threat A guide to Canada’s involvement in America's space weapons plan

“When one country builds a shield, others build better swords”

Golden Dome is an escalation of nuclear and space arms, and ends the stability of an unarmed space. Russia and China will escalate to build better swords.

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Creatures buried in soil for over a century burst back to life in Toronto waterfront — Guardian US A project to restore coastal wetland leads to astonishing discoveries of a host of life: seeds and plant scraps, as well as water fleas, worms, larvae and plankton

An amazing story! Renaturalizing the mouth of the Don River in Toronto in Ookwemin minising - or the place of rhe wild cherries - revealed century long buried plants and animals (single cell, worms and water fleas) came out of dauer and revived

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I knew shaking hands has been around forever, but just learned it was popularized by the Quakers in the 17th century as a more egalitarian alternative to bowing/curtsying

And somehow that turned into a business thing in the US. Which...is on brand, god I hate it here.

Today’s NYT story about Shirley Chisholm, 1st 🤵🏾‍♀️ elected to Congress, & white supremacist Wallace. His assassination attempt in 1972, left him paralyzed. She came to his bedside, stayed there for about 15 minutes. They prayed together,he wept. The hospital visit nearly cost her re-election.
#Quakers

Speaking up is a Quaker responsibility. An excellent essay by Ayishat Akambi contained the insight that self silencing removes “critiques grounded in care” leaving critique to those who will ground it in contempt.

International students allege private college made them campaign for Conservative candidate | CBC News Two international students formerly enrolled at Pacific Link College in Burnaby, B.C., allege their school compelled them to campaign for a federal Conservative candidate in a 2024 byelection. The col...

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A table of nutriotional values for wild game in Canada from 1979 publication

My mom is a retired home ec. Teacher in Canada. She has this treasure still in her possession- nutrient info on Walrus, seal, porcupine, polar bear and more! drive.google.com/file/d/1sw-3...

A gnome with a red hat sits on the branch of a tree at dusk with the words: true freedom is knowing you’re cringe and choosing to be yourself anyway.

Happily choosing cringe most of the time.

Thank you.

I get it. Any chance you were among Ohio conservative Friends?

May I ask what orthodox Quaker is? Is there an Eastern Orthodox element?

July 7, 2025 At about 10:30 this morning local time, heavily armed masked agents in trucks, armored vehicles, a helicopter, on foot, and on horseback, accompanied by a gun mounted on a truck raided the MacArthur P...

Theda Skocpol reference: Trump admin using immigration to establish a police state, as presidents control of “foreign affairs” is a work around the laws in place to prevent a dictatorship.

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Question Time: The History of Iran vs. the West Podcast Episode · The Rest Is Politics · 2025-06-25 · 44m

Know very little about Iran? Rory McLeod provides an incredible 2 minute explainer at minute two of this podcast

#therestispolitics
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Home We protect civilians in violent conflicts through unarmed strategies. We build peace side-by-side with local communities.

David came to my attention for his work at nonviolentpeaceforce.org Home Nonviolent Peaceforce | Home

David Hartsough on a bike in San Francisco

#Quaker peace activist David Hartsough (1940-2025):

“This is my faith—that we can be co-creators w God in helping to build a world of peace, justice, & human dignity for all people."

Waging Peace: Global Adventures of a Lifelong Activist

👇🏻👇🏻

This guy consistently posts songs with incredible lyrics mere hours after events unfurl. This was a good one.

I'm just glad one of these men has the nuclear codes and the other has all our personal data.

Collage of Trump and Elon.

Elon Musk says Trump is in the Epstein files:

“Time to drop the really big bomb: [Donald Trump] is in the Epstein files. That is the real reason they have not been made public. Have a nice day, DJT!”

Nah. Richard Bach turned out to be a semi guru narcissist with the beliefs of “kids can f*ck adults because their souls are old, too” sexual creepiness. The book’s morality was kid friendly vibes Ayn Rand.

King of the Hill Meme withJohn Redcorn being asked "Hey do your people even celebrate Thanksgiving?" and him responding "We did. Once."

Rest in peace Jonathan Joss

I had quite the moment at the Web Summit in Vancouver.

Today someone defined “cool” as “calmly audacious” and that delights me. I will now describe my #coolfriends as calmly audacious and see if it hangs together.

When making budget choices, increasing taxes on the top 1% has an outsized positive impact on GDP, second only to reducing healthcare costs.

Statement on Gaza by Tom Fletcher, Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs and Emergency Relief Coordinator | United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs - Occupied Pal... Two months ago, the Israeli authorities took a deliberate decision to block all aid to Gaza, and halt our efforts to save survivors of their military offensive. They have been bracingly honest that th...

60 days into the seige, 2 million people in Gaza are at risk of starvation. www.ochaopt.org/content/stat...

Skidegate Homes Demolished, Community Enforces Ban - Haida Gwaii News HAIDA GWAII - Following the tragic death of Luke Pearson, the community has united to enforce a ban on Skidegate homes demolished in recent events.

A tipping point w toxic drugs, dealing, the societal harms and broken systems. But cycles need to be broken.
Skidegate on Haida Gwaii went hardcore-Haida: shunning 7, pulling down the house of a drug dealing family, refusing service. haidagwaiinews.com/skidegate-ho...

👏🏻Quebec on the #cellphoneban

Quebec expanding its cell ban in schools to the entire school day to ⬆️ socialize & prevent cyberbullying.
“There will be more concentration, less distraction, less intimidation, more socialization – students talking to each other instead of being on their cell”

Devastating news about the car-based attack on peaceful people celebrating Lapu Lapu - a Filipino event in Vancouver BC. Police say the suspect was known to them. Details still coming in but even a child was killed. This is a mass murder.