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The 2025 Nobel Peace Prize winner (announcement tomorrow, Oct 10) will receive a gold medal, a personalized diploma, and a cash award of 11 million Swedish kronor (~ $1.17 million USD). Here's @Grok's bold picks for Peace Prize heroes - fighting oppression, famine, and fake news.

⌛ Clawed backwards, the future trembles.

From the cradle of logic sprang legends and heresy - but none dared defy. A 1000% discount is not of Samos. It is the brass-bold mysticism of a world unhinged.

We.Are.Broken.

Of "Shell" Formations

Cryptic shell codes stealing the day.
Grown-ups - MIA.
All at war with GIFs for sport,
No sober minds, just idle cheer.
Cringing at collapse, drawing near.
Our children watching - take care.

Hard, cold rage,
Shadow of the soul?
Reverse! Reverse!
Must we sink -
Abyss, of our making.

*** Crowning provocateurs - can you hear the algorithms gorging on division? Today, you feed. Tomorrow...

🇺🇸 Does freedom now wear a mic,
Permission - Absolute?
Dissent - Inconvenient.
Left, Right, Left, Right...

🇺🇸 Does truth need permission?
They told us to speak freely.
Then they turned down the volume.
Teachers. Professors. Journalists. Comedians. Pastors. Authors. Activists. Scientists. Musicians. Judges. Parents. Students. Workers. Veterans...
The 1st Amendment wasn’t a suggestion.

🇺🇸 DEPOLARIZE. Before division becomes destruction.

"Pit race against race, religion against religion, prejudice against prejudice. Divide and conquer! We must not let that happen here." - Eleanor Roosevelt

B E A U T I F U L !!!!

Wikimedia: Carol M. Highsmith's America, July 4th fireworks, Washington, D.C., The National Mall

07.04.2025 …barbecues, parades, fireworks, celebration, and a quiet, gnawing question: human to human, human to nation - what have we made of the freedom we inherited, on this land we borrowed?

The sun sets over Gaza, as seen from Israel. REUTERS/Amir Cohen

Haunting image...weighed heavy, as if even the sun, bearing witness, felt scarred by the devastation of humanity. There's symbolism there!

The sun sets over Gaza, as seen from Israel. REUTERS/Amir Cohen

A security officer walks down stairs on the tarmac (not attached to aircraft), on the day world leaders arrive for the G7 leaders' summit, at Calgary International Airport in Calgary, Alberta, Canada. REUTERS/Amber Bracken

G7 Summit: Power vs. Representation

G7 nations represent less than 10% of the world's population while humanity's struggle for equality remains on a staircase to nowhere. Billions unheard/ignored.

Reuters: Security officer inspects stairs on tarmac ahead of G7, Calgary Intl Airport, Canada.

"The fear to speak – in America!"

Xcerpta.bsky.social: Silhouette Of Young Child Naked ("Only the dead have seen the end of war.")

"Only the dead have seen the end of war."

A male Eastern Bluebird paroling the field for tasty things to eat.

What a great shot - just beautiful!

Bronze sculpture of mother and child by Chinese artist, Han Meilin.

Wishing all the wonderful mothers of this good earth, a Happy Mothers Day, filled with love, appreciation & joy!

I won the lottery of life with mine - a beautiful soul!

"All that I am, or hope to be, I owe to my angel mother."
– Abraham Lincoln

Hauntingly spooky - great shot!

https://en.wikipedia.org/ Great seal of the U.S.

There is no illusion greater than fear

James Madison: “The accumulation of all powers, legislative, executive, and judiciary, in the same hands, whether of one, a few, or many, and whether hereditary, self-appointed, or elective, may justly be pronounced the very definition of tyranny.”

View of a tree between former camp buildings on the 80th anniversary of the liberation of the Nazi German Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration and extermination camp in Oswiecim, Poland January 27, 2025. Agencja Wyborcza.pl/Grzegorz Celejewski via REUTERS

"Terrible things are happening outside. At any time of night and day, poor helpless people are being dragged out of their homes. Families are torn apart; men, women, and children are separated. Children come home from school to find that their parents have disappeared." - Anne Frank

And yet, ...

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/9d/Mark_Twain_1907.jpg Photographer: A.F. Bradley

"My kind of loyalty was loyalty to one's country, not to its institutions or its officeholders."

👆 Hank Morgan in Mark Twain's "A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court", mysteriously transported back in time to the early Middle Ages after a blow to the head.

Loved Tom Sawyer & Huckleberry Finn

Watch Cunk on Life | Netflix Official Site Deadpan documentarian Philomena Cunk confounds philosophers and academics in her quest to understand the meaning of life in this feature-length special.

Are you weighed down by all the recent political drama and dumb confidence - want a good laugh?

Watch 'Cunk on Life' for a healthy dose of wicked irreverence.

"They, them, you, me – it's all so confusing. Why can't we just call everyone 'thing' and be done with it?"

www.netflix.com/title/81730530

https://www.britannica.com/on-this-day

"Common sense will tell us, that the power which hath endeavored to subdue us, is of all others, the most improper to defend us"

"From the errors of other nations, let us learn wisdom"

Humanity first.
And they called 'you' a savage

"The warrior, for us, is one who sacrifices himself for the good of others. His task is to take care of the elderly, the defenseless, those who cannot provide for themselves, and above all, the children, the future of humanity.”

[historicalsnaps.com]