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Trump cancels signing of bipartisan US housing bill
WASHINGTON, June 24 (Reuters) - U.S. President Donald Trump on Wednesday canceled a planned signing of bipartisan legislation aimed at speeding up the construction and availability of more affordable housing.
"Today's Housing News Conference and Signing is hereby cancelled until such time as we pass the desperately needed SAVE AMERICA ACT, which I consider to be a National Emergency," Trump said in a post on Truth Social.
The bill was passed by the U.S. House of Representatives on Tuesday in a 358-32 vote, after being passed by the Senate on Monday by a vote of 85-5. Passage of such major legislation in the deeply divided Congress has been rare.
Djehuty was an Egyptian general and senior official who lived during the reign of King Thutmose III. As a reward for a successful military campaign, Djehuty was appointed governor of the conquered areas, a position that led to his immortalization in the ancient tale, "The Taking of Joppa". The story details his ingenious tactic of using baskets to smuggle soldiers into the city of Joppa, a strategy that predates the Trojan Horse by centuries.
New Kingdom, mid-18th Dynasty, ca. 1458-1425 BC.
From the Tomb of Djehuty, Saqqara necropolis.
Now in the Louvre. N 1958
my moroccan friend is stuck in the deportation center (hard to talk abt so dont ask me) and we're trying 2 get them out but at the same time theyre trying to organize help for a libyan queer person they met in there lol i really admire this kind of person like using their limited time on the phone to also try to arrange help for someone else. id like to think i would act the same way if i were ever imprisoned but who knows. hoping to not find out but you know how life is
Anyway we are trying 2 collect a legal fund for our friend Siman, they need it for a good lawyer who can prevent deportation to a country where they'll be persecuted and imprisoned likely, and for other expenses, this is the text from their other friends:
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Innu Nation cancels cultural exhibit, alleging executives of The Rooms provincial museum told them to remove reference to Innu presence in L
The Government of Newfoundland and Labrador is contradicting accepted historical knowledge and oral history that Innu have lived in Labrador for thousands of years.
In response, the Innu Nation, which represents Innu in the two First Nations communities of Natuashish and Sheshatshiu, has cancelled a much-anticipated cultural exhibit that was set to open at the Labrador Interpretation Centre in North West River on June 21, National Indigenous Peoples’ Day.
Innu Nation Cultural Guardian Jodie Ashini, a lead organizer of the planned public display, says she was instructed by executives of The Rooms provincial museum and archives to change the historical timeline and artifact details slated for presentation as part of the Innu Pakassiun exhibit.
Ashini says Innu and staff from the Labrador Interpretation Centre were unpacking artifacts on Tuesday, June 16 when she was asked to join a call with executives from The Rooms, a crown corporation which operates as a museum, art gallery and archives in St. John’s and runs satellite museums in other parts of the province, including the Labrador Interpretation Centre.
“We developed an Innu timeline to go with the exhibit and they told us that we can’t use it, that it’s not what the province believes is archeologically correct,” Ashini recalls.
Ashini says she was told the Government of Newfoundland and Labrador believes Innu were not present in Labrador prior to the 1700s and had only been on the land for 300 years. All the stone tools found on traditional Innu sites weren’t allowed to be labelled as related to Innu, Ashini says, adding she was told the new timeline is accepted by the Government of Newfoundland and Labrador and could not be changed.
“We were just really taken aback and heartbroken,” she says. “This is their stance — that it’s not allowed to be presented, and they really said, ‘You can show whatever you want in your own building on your own land, but not in ours’ — and that was their words.”
Ashini says this was going to be the first ever Innu-led exhibit, and that the staff at The Rooms and Labrador Interpretation Centre worked incredibly hard to help Innu hold consultations and prepare the exhibit.
So this is a thing that is happening here in Newfoundland.
The provincial government has decided, contrary to both oral history and archaeological evidence, that the Innu people have only been in Labrador for a few hundred years.
"She says the province said the changing tools over thousands of years are evidence they belonged to different Indigenous groups. Ashini says Innu tools evolved and changed over time as her ancestors learned new methods and refined their technologies."
This is their evidence. Changes to stone tools over time, as though that is not a thing that happens kind of everywhere.
Clearly these were made by different cultures.
So why is the province doing this? Well, not to don my tin foil hat here, but there is a lot of potential wealth in Labrador, of the resource extraction kind. By undermining the innu's claim to the land, the provincial government might be trying to do an end run around Indigenous consultation and rights. How can they claim a historic connection to the land when they've been here for less time than Europeans? Which given this is the same government that is merrily approving oil and gas development while ignoring the very real effects of climate change, is entirely possible.
Oh I am already primed to be pissed as hell right now - specifically about local governments blatantly trampling Indigenous rights for financial gain - and wow does this make me angry on so many levels.
At least the article included an absolutely wonderful photograph that I need everyone one to see because just looking at it makes me smile. Look at this Innu kids!! They look so happy!!
Mona Khalil, who had refused to leave the beach she had spent years protecting, died from her injuries after the Israeli strike.
Headline: Lebanese turtle conservationist Mona Khalil killed by Israeli strike
Publisher: BBC
Date published: 20 June 2026
Selected text from article:
Lebanese environmental activist Mona Khalil, whose work helped turn a stretch of coastline in southern Lebanon into one of the eastern Mediterranean's most important nesting sites for endangered sea turtles, has died after being wounded in an Israeli strike.
Khalil, 76, was injured when her house on Mansouri beach, near the southern city of Tyre, was hit during Israeli attacks in southern Lebanon two weeks ago.
She died on Friday after several days in hospital, according to a local environmental group.
[...]
For more than 25 years, Khalil dedicated herself to protecting endangered loggerhead and green sea turtles that nest along Lebanon's southern coast.
Her conservation work began after what her loved ones described as a life-changing encounter with a turtle laying eggs on Mansouri beach in 1999.
A refugee of the Lebanese civil war, Khalil was living in the Netherlands but had returned to visit her family's seaside home.
She was on the beach one night and saw a green turtle laying eggs on the beach.
After learning that sea turtle populations in Lebanon were under threat, she committed herself to protecting them and later returned permanently to the country.
Fast forward a year to 2000, and she helped establish the Orange House Project, an eco-tourism and conservation initiative overlooking Mansouri beach.
[...]
Her home had previously been damaged during the 2006 war between Israel and Hezbollah, but she refused to leave the beach she had spent years protecting.
"Mona barricaded herself inside her house, receiving no visitors and believing she was safe because she is a civilian," environmental activist and friend of Khalil, Maha Joumaa, told local media.
Joumaa said Khalil's decision to stay was consistent with her character.
"She absolutely refused to be displaced, which was fitting for someone so determined," she said.
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