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Sister, Singer, Scholar

Joined May 2017
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Eleanor Gebrou retweeted
Calling those who disagree with official narrative of Tigray war "TPLF lobbyists" is cheap. Citing TPLF crimes as pretext to destroy an entire nation, decapitate its leadership, starve millions, displace 000s is callous Kind of logic that stems from very dark nihilistic place.
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Eleanor Gebrou retweeted
I find boasting about non-attachment very odd. We’re communal creatures. Wanting to keep connections and prioritizing them doesn’t make you weak.
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House Mormont— The unsung heroes of GoT. Lyanna and Jorrah need statues erected or something, the north better damn-well remember.#GameofThrones #GameofThronesseason8episode3 #HouseMormont
I hate outrage culture— it diminishes the severity of situations that actually warrant our anger.
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Eleanor Gebrou retweeted
How do we reduce low-value care? Talking about the dynamics influencing the ongoing use of low-impact healthcare for ⁦@ConversationCA⁩ theconversation.com/the-new-…
I'm convinced that if people spoke/tweeted half as much, our society would be a much healthier place.
The smart way to keep people passive and obedient is to strictly limit the spectrum of acceptable opinion, but allow very lively debate within that spectrum—even encourage the more critical and dissident views. - Noam Chompsky
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Ideological diversity is more valuable to me than most other kinds of diversity... fight me.
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Yes please.
Weed is legal at midnight in Canada, should people with pot convictions get amnesty? [Tap to expand] bbc.in/2CRSPWy
Tenable?
Toronto has become the most expensive city in Canada to rent. Housing prices are beyond the reach of most people. My Rent-to-Own program will give people a real path to owning a place they can call home in the city they love. Read more: jenniferkeesmaat.com/renttoo… #Keesmaat4Mayor
Eleanor Gebrou retweeted
Police just scaled a #Brampton apartment in dramatic takedown bit.ly/2EpEjah
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Powerful
Broadcast journalist Connie Chung reads a letter to Christine Blasey Ford, acknowledging publicly for the first time that she was sexually abused as a college student by her doctor. youtube.com/watch?v=lsev6s04…
Thoughts?
Social media are increasingly employed as a tool both for direct censorship and for strengthening the pressures to self-censor. chroni.cl/2Ous4Ne
Jeff Flake says politics have become too partisan. I agree — time to reach across the aisle and have tough conversations like: “Kids in cages: good or bad?”
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Eleanor Gebrou retweeted
A professor mistakenly played porn in a packed U of T lecture hall bit.ly/2ztEjRY #Toronto
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