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In solidarity with of Fall Of Freedom, Monroe Gallery presents a Pop Up exhibit now Online and in the Gallery November 18 - 23 of photographs documenting people struggling for their freedom; their right to live without fear, their right to speak and the right to protest inequities.
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November 20, 2025 at 5:19 PM

Alex Benjamin

@opus110.bsky.social

😍😍😍

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Haïti contre le Nicaragua : « un vent d’espoir » haïtien

Le 18 novembre, Haïti affronte le Nicaragua en qualification pour la Coupe du monde de soccer, un moment chargé d'histoire pour la diaspora.

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November 19, 2025 at 7:16 PM

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Yanik Dumont Baron

@yanikdb.bsky.social

Le Québec veut accueillir des centres de données et leur offrir de l’électricité propre.

Réflexions mexicaines pour ces nombreux politiciens qui espèrent profiter de l’engouement.

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Les centres de données qui dérangent : le cas du Mexique | OHdio | Radio-Canada

Écoutez gratuitement l’épisode du balado Ça s'explique : Les centres de données qui dérangent : le cas du Mexique

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November 18, 2025 at 1:25 PM

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Espaces autochtones

@espacesautochtones.bsky.social

Des Autochtones conservent désormais un marais salé au Nouveau-Brunswick

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25 hectares de marais salé désormais protégés

La Première Nation de Fort Folly (Amlamgog) se voit confier la conservation d’une terre marécageuse dans le sud-est du Nouveau-Brunswick.

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November 17, 2025 at 7:01 PM

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Radio-Canada Info

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Des ONG dénoncent la présence de nombreux lobbyistes des énergies fossiles à la COP30

Près d'un participant sur 25 aurait des liens avec les secteurs du pétrole, du gaz et du charbon.

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November 15, 2025 at 2:07 AM

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Rebecca Brückmann

@historleans.bsky.social

Sixty-five years ago today, four first-graders desegregated New Orleans's public schools: Ruby Bridges at William Frantz Elementary School, and Leona Tate, Tessie Provost, and Gail Etienne at McDonogh 19 Elementary School. They faced violent mobs and threats to their lives. They were 6 years old. 🗃

Black and white photograph of six-year-old Ruby Bridges, wearing a dark dress and white cardigan and carrying a School bag, accompanied by three FBI agents in dark suits.

November 14, 2025 at 1:51 PM

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FCactu

@fcactu.bsky.social

Le rap américain est-il vraiment en déclin ?
Pour la première fois depuis 1990, aucun titre de rap américain n'était fin octobre dans les 40 premières places du classement du Bilboard Hot 100, référence des classements musicaux américains.
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Le rap américain est-il vraiment en déclin ?

Pour la première fois depuis 1990, aucun titre de rap américain n'était fin octobre dans les 40 premières places du classement du Bilboard Hot 100, référence des classements musicaux américains. Dans ...

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November 14, 2025 at 4:08 PM

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jamelle

@jamellebouie.net

you could fact check this — there aren’t 30 million illegal immigrants and there is no evidence that the presence of an immigrant in say houston has any impact on housing in madison, wisconsin — or you could note straightforwardly that this is just nazi rhetoric

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 6d

JD Vance: "A lot of young people are saying housing is way too expensive. Why is that? Because we flooded the country with 30 million illegal immigrants who were taking houses that ought by right go to American citizens."

November 13, 2025 at 10:12 PM

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Toula Drimonis

@mtltoula.bsky.social

“Political experts confirm that authoritarianism is rising globally and the number of liberal democracies is shrinking.”
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Democracy, you in danger, girl

According to the Global State of Democracy 2025 report, 2024 was the 9th consecutive year in which more countries experienced democratic decline than improvement.

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November 13, 2025 at 10:37 PM

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The New Yorker

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“The Brothers Karamazov” asks what we are living for, and it “seeks the answer in the little life, among the small people, in the frail, the fragile, the fallible, the failed,” Karl Ove Knausgaard writes. http://nyer.cm/za7cz5U

The Light of “The Brothers Karamazov”

Although Fyodor Dostoyevsky wrote with wildness and urgency, he patiently insisted on asking an essential question: What are we living for?

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November 13, 2025 at 3:30 AM

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The Associated Press

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Women are increasingly seen riding motorbikes in Iran's capital, where laws and religious mores once barred women from motorbikes.

Women riding the streets of Tehran on motorbikes is the latest sign of Iran's societal change

Women are increasingly seen riding motorbikes in Iran's capital, where laws and religious mores once barred women from motorbikes.

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November 12, 2025 at 9:10 AM

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The Guardian

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Female politicians such as Mexico’s Claudia Sheinbaum face ‘backlash driven by discrimination’

Assault on Mexican president highlights abuse faced by women in politics and ‘reinforces patriarchal boundaries’

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November 12, 2025 at 9:50 AM

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Tressie McMillan Cottom

@tressiemcphd.bsky.social

Is cultural bankruptcy a term yet?

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The No. 1 Country Song in America Is by a Non-Human Artist

A country tune currently sitting atop the Billboard charts was made by a machine.

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November 11, 2025 at 7:49 PM

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The Guardian

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The man who shot Al Capone: Jun Fujita’s Chicago – in pictures

Disasters, riots, gangsters and construction … early 20th-century Chicago is seen here through the lens of the pioneering Japanese-American photojournalist, poet and artist Jun Fujita

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November 9, 2025 at 7:33 AM

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Rebecca Solnit

@rebeccasolnit.bsky.social

Never read him. Never wrote about him. "Murakami, conversely, has faced accusations of emotional detachment and circular storytelling. Yet, writer Rebecca Solnit defends his approach...." Did AI write this? pakobserver.net/lawrence-and...

Lawrence and Haruki Embodiment and reflection - Pakistan Observer

IN the vast landscape of world literature, a few writers have explored the depths of human experience as vividly as D.H. Lawrence and Haruki

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November 8, 2025 at 6:46 AM

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NPR

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Meet Georgia South and Amy Love, the London rock duo known as the Nova Twins. These "massive pedal nerds" turn all the way up for Tiny Desk. n.pr/4nKv1G7

Nova Twins: Tiny Desk Concert

Meet Georgia South and Amy Love, the London rock duo known as the Nova Twins. These "massive pedal nerds" turn all the way up for Tiny Desk.

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November 7, 2025 at 11:55 PM

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The Tennessee Holler

@thetnholler.bsky.social

CARTOON OF THE DAY

(From @mluckovichajc)

November 7, 2025 at 2:01 AM

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Espaces autochtones

@espacesautochtones.bsky.social

Les gardiens de la langue se rassemblent pour préserver les langues autochtones

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Les gardiens de la langue se rassemblent à Saskatoon

Le rassemblement, réunit des professeurs, des universitaires et toutes celles et ceux qui œuvrent chaque jour à la préservation des langues autochtones.

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November 5, 2025 at 9:17 PM

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PEN International

@peninternational.bsky.social

#Georgia: We urge the immediate release of acclaimed poet and former president of PEN Georgia Paata Shamugia, who faces up to 15 days in prison for taking part in peaceful protests.

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Police arrest poet Paata Shamugia

Police have arrested Georgian poet Paata Shamugia during last night’s protest in Tbilisi. Reportedly, criminal police officers detained him near

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November 5, 2025 at 11:31 AM

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Annie Desrochers

@niedesrochers.bsky.social

"Pour l’année 2025, Montréal compte 4 des 10 compteurs de pistes cyclables montrant la plus grande affluence en Amérique du Nord. Si on prend un mois d’été typique, par exemple juin 2025, le REV Saint-Denis arrive au 2e rang en Amérique du Nord et au 6e rang en Europe."

Jean-François Rheault @jfrheault.bsky.social · 16d

Deux pistes cyclables à Montréal qui compétitionnent avec trois ponts de New York. Je pense que nous ne réalisons pas la chance que nous avons que le vélo prenne une aussi grande place dans notre mobilité collective à Montréal.

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