Explained to my sons that war is actually horrible, but boys think it's exciting because they imagine it's like their lion-cubs-wrestling version of fighting writ large, and no one wants to give them nightmares by telling them what it's really like.

Kurt Vonnegut tells his wife he’s going to buy a single envelope and his explanation sums up the current state of the world.

Fun to study. Just 3 are mysteries to me:

Parahawking [📹 Uru_Fly]

Palestinian Christian leader Munther Isaac منذر اسحق, pastor of the Evangelical Lutheran Christmas Church in Bethlehem, is in the U.S. to push faith leaders to oppose U.S. support for Israel's war on Gaza. "If you're silent knowing how your money is being spent, that means you approve."

France’s Jean-Luc Mélenchon: “Right now, Lebanon is being bombed, and genocide in Gaza has been ongoing for nearly a year. Yet the world looks away. We are morally responsible for what is happening, and whether you like it or not, we are complicit.”

65 doctors, nurses, and paramedics told the New York Times what they saw in Gaza. What they saw was a pattern of children being shot in the head.

A very wise elder, Ryan Crocker, former US Ambassador who understands dynamics & 2nd order stuff. Israel is more threatened today than it was 42 years ago when it started the "Peace for Galilee". "Decapitating" an insurgency group does not work. politico.com/news/magazine/…

In 1958, Hannah Arendt warned about dangerous technologists. Does any of this sound familiar?

New book! I was told this will be a romp, David McWilliams

Ok, now I get why pro-Israel lobby groups (and the Canadian government) are so fearful of Francesca Albanese. She speaks persuasively and with complete moral clarity about Israel's gross human rights violations against Palestinians.

Disgusting- I repeat, no one from the Mediterranean destroys olive trees. It’s part of our cultural heritage.

When I was in high school, I joined the percussion section of my school’s band because of the influence Roy Ayers had on me. To say this one hurts is an understatement.

Stop what you’re doing and watch this immediately. Canadian doctors returned from Gaza and are sharing what they witnessed and lived. They are demanding action from Mark Carney. Their testimony is our failure.

My father Stephen Lewis is spectacularly uninterested in social media, so I’m posting this myself (though he has read it and is prepared to suffer the indignity of all I'm about to reveal). When he was Canada’s ambassador to the UN from 1984-88, Dad was truly shocked by the

President of Refugees International ⬇️

Bassem Youssef cooked Nelk boys, the guys who interviewed Benjamin Netanyahu recently on their podcast.

Nothing but love for Trey Yesavage in the Blue Jays' dugout 💙 #WorldSeries

Today is Neil Young’s 80th birthday! Stereogum asked 80 musicians to discuss a favorite song of his, and here’s Tom Morello on “My My, Hey Hey.” Check out everyone’s picks at stereogum.com/neil.

There's Actually Still A Little Bit of History Left by Francis Fukuyama