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‘We’ll run out of food this week’: Israel’s Iran war brings new Gaza siege Israel has closed all crossings into Gaza, threatening to plunge 2 million people into a new hunger crisis

Israel launches a war in Iran and uses it as a pretext to continue the mass starvation of the people of Gaza.
We are in the age of monsters.
www.theguardian.com/world/2026/m...

“& now — we are using military force to take the side of precisely the countries who have enriched Trump & his family. This backdrop must at the very least be stated in the reporting of the war. Along with the subversion of democracy, personal corruption provides a second interpretive framework.” /4

“The Saudis have provided numerous de facto gifts. And sometimes the gifts have been simply gifts. The Qataris gave Trump a jet. The list is very long.”3/

“Gulf Arab states who oppose Iranian power have generated extremely generous packages of compensation for companies associated with Trump personally and with members of his family. The United Arab Emirates invested in a family firm.”2/

Why Attack Iran? Our Authoritarianism and Our Corruption

“It leads to personal politics or rather personal gain. Given the stupefyingly overt corruption of the Trump administration, one must ask whether the United States armed forces are now being used on a per-hire basis.”1/
~Dr. Timothy Snyder~

open.substack.com/pub/snyder/p...

Reddish Egret on the hunt (4 pics and video). In the video it loos like it actually stabbed the fish and had trouble getting it off it's beak.🪶

Black Skimmer and Reflection-love to watch them glide over some calm water.🪶

Northern Harrier Hawk cruising over the marsh at sunrise.🪶

Northern Harrier Hawk cruising over the marsh at sunrise.🪶

A turquoise colored river bordered by evergreen tree flows through the Canadian Rockies. Mountains can be seen in the distance and the sky is filled with white clouds with patches of blue sky.

Eventually, all things merge into one, and a river runs through it…🇨🇦
-Norman Maclean

#BowRiver #Banff #Alberta #Canada #mountains

Donald Trump just started a war and is plotting to steal the 2026 election. Meanwhile, his buddy David Ellison just won control of CNN.

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Tucker Carlson would be much worse, including who he’d bring with him. For so many reasons.

Everything seems awful and chaotic and powerless, so I am left to do what I can only do: share some beauty with the world. I have no wise words or platitudes, but I do have a camera and empathy. A shot from my first global geomagnetic storm (2024) 💛

#iceland #northernlights #aurora
#peace

🇺🇸They wonder why nations continue to boycott the US🫩. I’d guess the tech-bros are handing over all North American’s data.

Though 🇨🇦 I’ll never travel to the US again, who would knowing this fascist gestapo will/has put most sane people on a watch list…eff that. Enjoy your Pariah State America.

Vibrant pink cherry blossom coming in to flower

Day 1339 of #IansDailyPhotoChallenge and a miserable, wet end to February
Lucky I found this stunning cherry blossom then isn't it? 🤗❤️🌸🍒 #inspiringnature #wildlife #naturephotography #MentalHealthMatters
#365DaysWild

The Celtic Cross in the garden of St John's Kirk at the Wend of Princes St.

This beautiful Granite cross is inlaid with bronze relief and was built in 1879 to honour Dean Ramsay - a very philanthropic minister of the kirk.

I loved the castle's blue matching the gloaming sky

I can’t wait to greet these little harbingers of Spring…in another 2+ months ☺️🪻🇨🇦

SCOTUS just ruled against his illegal tariffs. He hasn’t completely captured all of the Justices.

They don't get it. At all. This column makes it clear why going to the White House wasn't the brightest thing for those men to do. They still think it's just about the misogyny they displayed when it's much deeper than that. Much.

“Studies of over 300 non-violent campaigns from 1900-2006 found that no campaigns failed once they reached 3.5% level of participation. Examples include the 1986 People Power movement in the Philippines and the Singing Revolution in the Baltic states.”

www.hks.harvard.edu/centers/carr...

I feel it’s higher as daily there’s more evidence revealed from the Epstein files that’s knocking very rich implicated people down from their pedestals across the globe…& some of that evidence incriminates dear leader to his core. This close to elections, Republicans might start growing a spine.

There are fights being won Americans aren’t hearing enough about. His Administration is losing in the lower courts daily (even some against this Admin by his appointed Judges).

The fight Minnesotans, Chicago, Nashville & California waged against the gestapo slowed them down including their plans💪🏼.

It would take 16 Republicans to vote with Dems to stop this now, if they wanted to. 16 Republicans to end this madness. It would take 23 Republicans to impeach and remove Trump. Y’all need to bombard Republican senators and give them the courage to do the right thing! Send emails, make calls.

YouTube video by Heather Cox Richardson You Have an Obligation to Pick Up Your Torch

You all have an obligation to pick up your torch. Nobody can carry it for you.
Dr. Heather Cox Richardson lists ways everyday people can do to push back and win back your democracy.

youtube.com/shorts/GK8ON...

You have the Constitution, Congress, SCOTUS, the National Guard, 2A and it's supporters (e.g. NRA), 280m people who didn't vote for Trump. You have everything you need to sort it out yourselves. Except, apparently, the will to do so. The problem is not just the government. It's the American people.

I’m not alone in believing Americans will vote in a worse Christo-fascist Regime if we all bail them out - they voted this nightmare in twice now.🫤

Democracy is every generation’s fight, & I guess now’s the time Americans will fight for and hopefully keep it (for another 250 yrs🤞🏼💪🏼💙🇺🇸💙).

I believe the “soft power” action the world is currently taking by untangling ourselves from our trade, defence & alliance with the US is strategic. Nations will defend ourselves if needed, but we can’t oust a democratically elected dictator who’s still supported by too many Americans.

In any healthy constitutional order, Congress would impeach and remove the president for an illegal unconstitutional war that usurps their own authority to make war.

Instead we'll be lucky if they don't order him a parade instead