You can disagree with someone without putting them down.
You can listen to understand instead of listen to refute.
Build bridges of understanding not chasms of divide.
So check you bias, your assumptions & your fear/hate/ignorance at the door.
Lead w/ empathy & love.
💚🤗🙏
We started Warrior Nun season two and I was thinking “oh man I don’t wanna get involved with drama and intrigue again”. Then I heard it got 100% on rotten tomatoes so my wife
@anandaumar
and I started watching. Already hooked by episode two.
#WarriorNun
#WarriorNunS2
ONTARIO ELECTION THREAD: I've never liked majority gov'ts. When 25% of the electorate vote 38% for a party who gets 100% control, geez that's frustrating. What’s even more disappointing is that so many are still voting to re-elect our current provincial gov't to a majority. 1/19
HAHAHA this video is BRILLIANT‼️😂👏🏾💯
The long overdue concession speech we are all waiting for, but will never happen. 🤦🏽♂️🤷🏽♂️
#TrumpConcede
#humor
#ConcedeAlready
Can't wait for
@Such_App
to go live! I look forward to participating in the upcoming
#SuchApp
token sale.
Learn more here:
It’s a new realtime messaging
#app
that incorporates a ton of really cool features - including an integrated
#cryptocurrency
Please stop blaming the
#TorontoAttack
on immigration, the PM, or any narrative that justifies your anger/fear/hate/ignorance
FAR more people are united in expressing sorrow & offering support vs. those who wish to divide us
My heart is
#TorontoStrong
❤️✊
#cdnpoli
#TOPoli
Why are so many NOT holding Doug Ford accountable for all the bungling, buffoonery and cruelty? In the past 4 years, they have failed to listen, failed to plan, and failed to care. There are so many reasons to vote them out. 2/19
I love tennis &
#SerenaWilliams
but she, the USTA & fans blew it 👎🏽
“I’m sorry,” Osaka said. “I know that everyone was cheering for her and I’m sorry it had to end like this.”
It's shameful what US Open did to Naomi Osaka
#USOpen2018
#USOpenTennis
HUGE shock and upset that Glenn Close, a 1/20 bet, loses best Actress to Olivia Colman. Very happy for Colman and absolutely loved her speech. But truly sad for Close’s historical & monumental career, 7 nominations and never won an
#Oscar
.
#AcademyAwards
#Oscar2019
It's not a "forced" vaccination. It's public safety. You can choose to not wear a seatbelt, but you get a fine. You can also choose not to get a vaccine, but you’ll be denied access to public spaces for everyone's safety. You're free to choose, not free from consequence.
1) PANDEMIC HANDLING The sad rollercoaster and flip-flop of acting too late, then not having enough support during lockdowns, then easing things too early, ignoring science and then going back into lockdowns. The province’s vaccine rollout was chaotic. 3/19
If Twitter ceases to function soon, here are some ways to stay connected with me. I'm not going anywhere, but some of you are. Please stay & fight. 1/2
Mastodon:
IG:
FB:
LinkedIn:
6) NO ACCOUNTABILITY: What does it say when our Premier refuses to do interviews, hides mandate letters for 4 years, PC party MPPs are encouraged not to show up to debates, and people like
@CarymaRules
get arrested for no reason or nurses get assaulted by his entourage? 10/19
@jennaortega
Woohoo my 12-year old daughter Ryah is a HUGE fan and was supper excited by the news‼️ You were so excellent in it. She also loves her new Wednesday gear. [SEE PHOTO] 🥰👏🏾🔥
I sincerely hope we don’t get another majority gov’t w/ 100% power w/ no accountability. The 62% who oppose Ford must vote strategically per riding.
Get out and vote tomorrow. Let's avoid a Ford majority again.
Fool us twice, shame on us.
19/19
#onpoli
#OntarioVotes
2) LONG-TERM CARE CRISIS: an LTC Commission concluded that the Ford gov't was slow & reactive when responding to COVID-19, failing to learn the lessons of the 1st wave, leading to a greater loss of life during the 2nd wave. Nearly 4,000 residents died. He offered no apology. 5/19
After issuing a stay-at-home order, Ford skipped off for a holiday at his Muskoka cottage. He tried to close children’s playground w/o knowing the science. So much damage could have been avoided and could've had less impact on lost lives, illnesses, & small businesses. 4/19
3) SCHOOL SAFETY: They sat on billions of unspent funding for schools. lowering safety while saying they were doing everything. They wouldn't give proper testing, masks, or ventilation. This led to many school lockdowns, a huge source of stress for kids & parents. 6/19
In Canada, the Gov’t gave a max of $2,000 per month for 7 months & now $900 every 2 weeks.
Since the US only gave $1200 ONE TIME, this $600
#StimulusCheck
is WAY beneath what folks need dealing w/
#COVID19
TY
@AOC
for getting the message out. But seriously, more is needed.
4) AUTISM RECORD: They implemented a plan w/ age caps vs. needs based. They still haven’t spent the full budget it has for kids with autism. Wait list for needs-based therapy doubled to more than 53k. It takes an estimated 8 years for a child diagnosed today to get services. 7/19
5) CLIMATE IMPACT: Ford attacked & undermined Ontario’s environmental protections. He ripped up the province’s cap-and-trade program w/o public consultation, plowed ahead w/ plans to build new highways through protected Greenbelt areas, and ignored key environmental laws. 8/19
BEST
#QUOTE
!
“It’s possible to be both pro-gun & pro-
#guncontrol
.
As a gun owner w/ a clean bkgd & sound mind, why would I be against legislation that has NO effect on me whatsoever BUT has the potential to keep guns out of the hands of those who pose a threat?”
#NeverAgain
7) DEFICIT & DEBT: I remember this being one of the key issues cited to voting Ford in. Yet most know what happened: The deficit became 5x the size of what Wynne had and the debt has never been addressed. 11/19
OTHER THINGS (so many!)
- cancelling a minimum-wage increase
- delaying sick day benefits
- delaying the implementation of pay transparency legislation,
- leaving disability benefit rates at rock-bottom levels,
- silence on the 3-week Ottawa occupation
13/19
THIS is great.
@MollyJongFast
nails it. I’m staying.
“Some celebrities, journalists, and others have made grand pronouncements about leaving Twitter, or publicly considered leaving, and I respect the hell out of it. But here’s the problem: There’s no comparable place to go.”
“Watching Musk melt down feels like watching Kanye West melt down feels like watching Trump melt down. We are trapped in a Möbius strip of narcissistic autocrat.”
So the BIG question is this... WHY will you vote him back in or still support him?
There’s a whole other convo about how Horvath & Del Duca haven’t done enough to change public opinion. But Ford avoiding everyone, hoping for status quo or voter fatigue is discouraging.
18/19
Yet they still made cuts to disabled workers, social services, transit, seniors, legal aid, housing, etc, but then this was offset by billions in tax cuts for corporations. And he gave back our already paid vehicle registration (at a $1.1B cost). 12/19
Parents are stuck btwn a rock/hard place. I want my kids back in school: it’s so rough/stressful at home for all & we can’t get work done. But I want safer schools & to slow the spread. The provincial Gov’t does nothing to alleviate. WTF do we do?
#onted
#onpoli
#onlinelearning
The climate crisis is affecting our communities, as southern Ontario warms twice as rapidly as the rest of the world. In 2021, the province had its worst wildfire season on record, displacing several Indigenous communities and darkening the sky. 9/19
- helped Ontario’s wealthiest line their pockets by doling out tax cuts and subsidies for big businesses like Loblaws and Amazon.
- Nurses are still coping with Ford's Bill 124 that limits their wage increases to 1% a year.
16/19
- left low-income communities behind by slashing programs like the basic income pilot that helped Ontarians buy food, find and keep jobs and pay their bills.
- scrapped planned increases to social assistance and cut protections for precarious workers.
15/19
THIS is my nephew Asif, who married Maryam last year during the pandemic. But finally on Friday night we were able to have a larger, safer family wedding. So happy for them. 🙏🥰👏🏾
#family
#nephew
#TeamUmar
#marriage
Right now in America there are Republicans who received millions of dollars from the NRA accusing CHILDREN who survived a massacre of being PAID to speak out on guns.
- botching a redesign of the province’s license plates,
- failing to procure provincially mandated anti-carbon tax gas pump stickers that actually stick to things (incidentally, they were also illegal)
14/19
- Cancelling the cap & trade program; breaking the tribunal sector; privatizing the conservation demand management program
- used Nothwithstanding clause to cut Toronto City Council in half against the findings of an independent report
- what else? Add in replies & RTs!
17/19
OVERHEARD: “Ukranians get deadpan humor like Monty Python. Today their IRS put out a press release to let citizens know that if they capture a tank or other Russian equipment, they’re allowed to keep it & are not required to declare it as income on their tax returns." 😲👏🏾
@StephenKing
It’s very simple. Once it’s small and light enough, I attach it to a new bar of soap, used about 2-3 times, by using both then squishing the smaller piece down on the larger bar. It then disappears after a few more uses.
#QUOTE
: “Some Republicans wanna move to Canada⁉️
Hate to break it to you but our taxes are higher, our PM is a feminist, cannabis is legal everywhere, abortion is legal, we don’t have guns handed out at birth, we’ve socialized medicine & a large number are atheists or agnostic.”
“Years ago in Africa we had to have Yellow fever passports to travel to certain destinations. It was that or no travel. We got them and nobody said a word. We also had vaccine passports for our children against polio without any drama. That or they could not go to school.”
Irony. 🤓
#MarchForOurLives
#NeverAgain
‘a pile of rulers & sticks taken off people’s signs by state patrol b/4 they enter the Capitol’
CONCEPT: take things away for public safety, even when perfectly legal & no one intends to do anything wrong w/ them.
@nowthisnews
#gunlaws
@SunnyArizona1
@Kaepernick7
So what you are saying above is that you think it is idiotic to"Believe in something, even if it means sacrificing everything."
I know many
#Veterans
who would disagree with that sentiment.
Or maybe you let your anger make you say something like that?
#veteransforkaepernick
Normally I don’t post selfies of myself only, but I did like this look after losing 25 lbs. Wearing my new European clothes for the fancy Shaadi (wedding) dinner party. 🤓💪🏽🤓
#ketolife
#fitinmylife
#HealthyEating
#fitness
I gave up sugar
I gave up caffeine
I gave up rice
I gave up bread
I gave up pasta
I gave up fried foods
I gave up unhealthy snacks
I gave up late nights
I gave up binges
I gave up 20 lbs...
All in 29 days. Which was best thing to give up?
#FitInMyLife
#ketolife
#healthyliving
EPIC FIRST HUG‼️ I hadn’t hugged my Mom in over 15 months. Today I surprised her. We made this sweet video. (I hugged Dad too, lol)
So thankful for vaccines, proud of her diligence & patience to
#StaySafe
. More pics later. Love you Ammi‼️🥰🙏❤️
#onpoli
#vaccinated
#cdnpoli
7‼️ Happy birthday to
@JeriLRyan
one of my favourite Star Trek characters, now working with my other favourite, Picard. Thanks for showing my daughter how to be a baddass hero who embraces diversity and explores humanity. Also… celeb crush. 🙌🏽🥰🙏💜💪🏽
#PicardSeason3
#JeriRyan