An mostly-empty plastic tray with a portion of meat and one folded tortilla

USA military food is worse than I imagined

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Yes!

Phyo Zeya Thaw - Wikipedia

Former rapper Phyo Zeya Thaw served as a member of Pyithu Hluttaw, the Lower House of the Burmese parliament. He was unfairly detained and executed.

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Former rappers who are currently politicians include:
🇳🇵 Nepal Prime Minister, Balen Shah
🇺🇸 Mayor of California City, Marquette "Marq" Hawkins
🇺🇸 New York Mayor Zohran, Mamdani
🇧🇬Bulgaria Member of the European Parliament, Hristo Petrov

Vance Says the Pope Should Be More Careful When Talking About Theology

Few have the confidence of this man, who adopted Catholicism in 2019.

www.nytimes.com/2026/04/14/u...

Vance Says the Pope Should Be More Careful When Talking About Theology

Few have the confidence of this man, who adopted Catholicism in 2019.

www.nytimes.com/2026/04/14/u...

Donate to 13 year old Sophia's Second Brain Surgery, organized by Aimee Van Vlack My name is Aimee and I'm fundraising for my dear friend, Kristy, and her bea… Aimee Van Vlack needs your support for 13 year old Sophia's Second Brain Surgery

Sophia is my friend's niece. She's had the worst of luck. Her family are trying to raise $2,200 for the expenses associated with her life-saving healthcare.

I've donated. They remain $500 short. Please, friends, if you can help out, they need the support.

www.gofundme.com/f/13-year-ol...?

Trump post that opens “A whole civilization will die tonight…”

Are people more outraged by Trump AI-playing Jesus than the “a whole civilization will die” threat?

BBC News headline: "French woman, 86, held by ICE after moving to US to reunite with long-lost love"

BBC News headline: "Spain approves plan to give around 500,000 undocumented migrants legal status"

A tale of two nations

Video ‘They didn’t even know what we did’: Former official on DOGE cuts that gutted USAID | Whistleblower Aid Congratulations to our client Nicholas Enrich on the publication of his new book, "Into the Wood Chipper"! In this interview with ABC News, Enrich, a former USAID Acting Assistant Administrator of Global Health, describes finally getting a chance to explain the 60-year-old agency's health work the day *after* his team was let go. “I just gave a high-level overview,” Enrich says. The top brass, he discovered, didn’t know what USAID did. “‘These are the infectious diseases we work on. Here's what we do in maternal and child health…’" he says he explained. "And the chief of staff looks at...

"I had no idea that USAID did this kind of work," USAID's chief of staff told our client, former USAID Global Health chief Nicholas Enrich, as he described the agency's life-saving programs. "I just assumed it was just abortions." Which USAID never funded. More:
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BBC News headline: "French woman, 86, held by ICE after moving to US to reunite with long-lost love"

BBC News headline: "Spain approves plan to give around 500,000 undocumented migrants legal status"

A tale of two nations

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Tehran Peace Museum Urges Global Action, Calls Iran War “Unlawful and Unprovoked” - my latest, via @counterpunchmedia.bsky.social

www.counterpunch.org/2026/04/10/t...

Tehran Peace Museum Urges Global Action, Calls Iran War “Unlawful and Unprovoked” - my latest, via @counterpunchmedia.bsky.social

www.counterpunch.org/2026/04/10/t...

Donald Trump: 'We will stop racing to topple foreign regimes' President-elect in Fayetteville declares focus on destroying Isis, hours after Barack Obama dismissed ‘false promises’ of bombing terrorists into surrender

“We will stop racing to topple foreign regimes that we know nothing about, that we shouldn’t be involved with" - Donald Trump (2016)

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Donald Trump said George W. Bush's Iraq invasion "may have been the worst decision" in presidential history

(2016)

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Iran War, my latest:

Tehran Peace Museum pleads for solidarity, justice, accountability.

Over 100 legal experts in USA raise concerns of the U.S. violating the UN charter and war crimes.

www.yorku.ca/dighr/tehran...

“WARNING” certainly implies danger rather than safety. Telling people to “smile” adds a strange vibe.

Thanks to @dighr-yorku.bsky.social for publishing my latest piece on the calls from the Tehran Peace Museum

www.yorku.ca/dighr/tehran...

I have two jobs, and you probably hear a lot more about the peace museum one. The other one is running @humanitarianassociates.org, and our biggest project just now is getting more incubators for neonates to places affected by conflict.

Here's the latest news on that:

Top Ten Priorities Initial Assessment Measles immunization Water & Sanitation Food & Nutrition Shelter and Site planning Curative health care Control of communicable diseases and epidemics Public health surveillance Human resources and training Coordination Médecins Sans Frontières

Dr Leslie Shanks presents the top 10 priorities for providing medical care to people who are forcibly displaced.

Tonight, we are teaching people about humanitarian emergencies at @utoronto.ca

I feel like I've missed something. Can you say more about the moon being rainbow? 😮

A map of parties to the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court Parties

The 125 Parties and 137 signatories of the Rome Statute

🟩 State party (e.g. Canada)
🟨 Signatory that has not ratified (e.g. Iran)
🟪 State party that subsequently withdrew its membership (e.g Philippines)
🟧 Signatory that subsequently withdrew its signature (e.g. USA)
🟥 Non-party, non-signatory

Peace Museum Event:

COMMUNICATION WORKSHOP FOR MEN
Sunday, April 12th; 1pm – 3:30 pm
No cost

Details on all future events: canadianpeacemuseum.ca/events

Canada’s new peace museum takes root in rural Ontario Community volunteers and global partners unite to create a space for justice and dialogue in Bancroft

As conflicts flare around the world, a beacon of hope shines in a small Canadian town. For two years, a group of volunteers in Bancroft have been hosting community events and telling stories online to inspire and educate people about peace & the values that sustain it

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Post-extractive juridification: Undoing the legal foundations of mining in El Salvador In 2017 El Salvador passed the world’s first and only blanket ban on metal mining. This article explores this unique exception to the neoextractive pa…

"Colonial Spanish America was founded on an extractivist agenda whereby the colonised territories served as deposits of riches appropriated and commodified by the colonisers."

"In 2017 El Salvador passed the world’s first and only blanket ban on metal mining."

www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Fake bank photo

Fake Australian police station

Fake Brasil police station desk

Fake Singapore police station

Cambodian scam centre has fake bank and police stations

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Space travel: scarey

Getting as far from most people as anyone ever went: yeah, I get that.

Canadian Minister of Foreign Affairs Lloyd Axworthy signing the Treaty. Looking on are Jody Williams, coordinator of the International Campaign to Ban Landmines (and winner of the 1997 Nobel prize); Cornelio Sommaruga, President of the International Committee of the Red Cross; UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan; and Prime Minister Jean Chrétien. Credit: Dave Chan.

Canadian Minister of Foreign Affairs Lloyd Axworthy signed the Ottawa Treaty on 3 Dec 1997

Currently 162 nations have ratified/acceded the treaty, to ban landmines

Today is International Day for Mine Awareness & Assistance in Mine Action

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📸 credit: Dave Chan

New York Times headline: "A North American Treaty Organization Without America?"

In case workplace errors keep you awake at night:

Yesterday, the New York Times got the name of NATO (The North Atlantic Treaty Organization) wrong.