Hellebore

“U.S. proposes recognizing Crimea as Russian as peace talks ramp up…..”

NO FUCKING WAY! Crimea is Ukraine.

Reality check

Governor Newson is reading the room.

The paparazzi on Bernie is why we lose elections.

State tells employees to report on one another for ‘anti-Christian bias’ “It’s very ‘Handmaid’s Tale’-esque,” one official said.

Denounce thy neighbor
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I’d rather be woke than broke too, my point is that the “my way or no way” folks who used their votes to protest the “mainstream” cost Harris the election.

Burn it all down. The far left and pro-Palestine voters might actually wake the fuck up, to name a couple of easy targets.

🇱🇸 for years has been hailed as a model of 🇺🇸-Africa relations, HIV/AIDS prevention efforts + benefits of 🇺🇸 soft power

First an insult. Now tariffs. Trump has made it a tough month for Lesotho.

Lesotho 🇱🇸 is 1/3 sovereign enclaves on the planet — nations entirely surrounded by other nations. That and a long-standing friendship with the 🇺🇸 have made it an unlikely target for 🇺🇸 aggression.

Ted Cruz warns of midterm ‘bloodbath’ if Trump tariffs cause a recession

3-2-1 - go …..
Republicans start blaming Democrats for the tariffs…… 🤦‍♀️

Bellingham Washington State USA 🇺🇸

Just found out the owner of The Atlantic is a woman and now it makes sense why they are not afraid to stand up to trump!

President says ‘there are methods’ for seeking third term in White House

☝🏻if this is true - bring back President Obama!!!! 🇺🇸

Twenty Lessons, read by John Lithgow Key selections from On Tyranny, for viewing and sharing

Here is my best guidance for action, rendered beautifully by the great John Lithgow. I first published these lessons more than eight years ago, in late 2016. They open the twenty chapters of "On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century."
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For Europeans, Signal chat gives unfiltered view of Trump team’s disdain

“In the amazing story of the Signal group coordinating Yemen air strikes, Vice President JD Vance once again comes out as driven by deep anti-European resentment,” former Swedish prime minister Carl Bildt posted

Goldberg said the level of detail in the targeting package that he received via Signal was down to the *names of individuals* to be killed.

That’s the good stuff that includes all kinds of sources and methods and never should have been outside a SCIF.

I’d be in prison if I fucked up that bad.

Any member of the military who did what they did on signal would be kicked out or arrested.

Putin’s one and only route to victory is through Trump’s head.

Autocrats roll back rights and rule of law — and cite Trump’s example

Orban noted Biden’s ambassador to 🇭🇺 David Pressman, a fierce Orban critic directly challenged the democratic backsliding — and made a point of participating in Budapest Pride, an event w/ 35K people to 🇭🇺 capital, to protect it.

Amid ceasefire talks, Russian strike kills family in Zaporizhzhia, Ukraine

Never never trust Russia…..

US blocking Canadian access to historical library on Quebec-Vermont border Haskell Free Library denounces ‘unilateral’ US move amid tensions over Donald Trump’s continued threats against Canada.

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“And then [she] crossed the line and said, ‘The 51st state’,” Bishop said, in reference to Trump’s continued push to make Canada into a US state.

Then USA chair Debra Bishop did this three more times.

#StopTheRhetoricNow

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Bellingham waterfront 😆

I had to compose myself before posting—because this breaks a part of my soul.

If you’re a contractor with a segregation policy, say it loud—so non-white dollars don’t fund your business. It won’t go how you think.

And if anyone uncovers businesses doing this, put them on blast.
#NAACP #BlackSky

FUBAR

“For too long 🇷🇺 was seen through a kaleidoscope of fakes…the 2nd-best army in the world, the nuclear power…”. “We 🇺🇦 showed the emperor had no clothes.”  Perhaps Mr Trump, too will realize… “What we need is one emperor to see an important truth about the other. But we need it to happen fast.”

Ukraine’s army escapes from Kursk by the skin of its teeth Ukraine will have less Russian land than it hoped to trade for peace

Ukraine’s army escapes from Kursk by the skin of its teeth
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from The Economist

Agree - it’s all so cryptic

Just throwing out some possibilities.
1) Blue states declare a state of emergency
2) Enact the title 2 of the Emergency Banking Act of 1933
3) Restrict moneys transferred out of state specifically targeting transfers to the IRS
4) Redirect those transfers to a state escrow account.
5) Sue me

This is so tragic. The boy’s mother does NOT want him used like this. She does NOT want him on social media. She is heart broken!

Grimes (Clair Boucher) is also a victim of this evil, as is her son.

😔😢

Musk cuts the team finding Ukrainian children stolen by Russia Trump’s federal cost-cutting - led by Elon Musk's Doge – has now hit the unit helping rescue Ukrainian children taken by Russia

Russia has kidnapped tens of thousands of Ukrainian children. Putin was indicted for this crime. Yale has a unit searching for them. Musk eliminated the funding.
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