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No Israelis... No Brits Archly left-wing, has Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez lost the plot when it comes to Israelis as well as visiting and property-buying Brits.

This is a very good post from John Matthews (scribejohn.bsky.social) on housing problems in Spain, esp. social housing, & how the present Spanish govt & the Spanish 'left-wing' are only making it all worse, by attacking Brits, Israelis, & tourism in general.

scribejohn.substack.com/p/no-israeli...

A colorful illustration showing a man in an extravagant blue cape with a makeshift mask over his face.

This 1830s illustration depicts "Cholera Prevention Man" covered from head to toe in protective layers in an attempt to safeguard himself from the oncoming cholera epidemic. One for @brunostrasser.bsky.social, whose new book THE MASK looks at a history of breathing bad air: shorturl.at/yKhGK

A happy Fourth of July to all Americans here!
{this is a photo of me on a walk in the woods with a bald eagle on my arm, because that's how I roll}

Thanks. I've now blocked her

who was it you tackled?

Indeed

OPINION: The Corbyn years shows what’s coming. New York’s Jews should take note - Jewish News Jews in NYC should understand what happened across the Atlantic when preparing for the coming months

So @danielsugarman.bsky.social has written a very good post on what Jews, and anyone who supports them and Israel against racism, in NYC and further afield in the USA can expect, given the experience in the Corbyn years in Britain:
cc. @lauferlaw.bsky.social ::
www.jewishnews.co.uk/comment-i-ex...

From the other day. This thing is the young red squirrel, up in the cypress tree

Seriously annoyed bird, squirrel playing dog-in-the-manger

The birds were very annoyed by the squirrel hogging the bird-feeder

The very young squirrel*, in the bird-feeder today.
*European red squirrel

A happy birthday and all the best to @the-ashb.bsky.social !

Nutzlich. Danke

#BookSky

No way.... 😂😂😂😂😂

Keep an eye on the "asphalt".

Confirmed. US bombing of the Fordow, Natanz and Esfahan sites now confirmed.

Apparently POTUS has just announced on Truth Social that there have been American bombing strikes on the Iranian nuclear development sites in Fordow, Natanz, and Esfahan.

Today in Duesseldorf, Germany, my photo. Mutual demonstration supporting Israel, Ukraine, and regime change in Iran

Years back, I was pointing out that the covid pandemic hit rural healthcare in the States especially hard. The pressures have never let up

The drums are OK, but there seems something very futile about skeletons trying to blow trumpet & horn instruments

A big round flower bud. An ant crawls on one side. A beautiful ladybug - but no, all ladybugs are beautiful - is posing on top of the bud.

I met a ladybug on my daily walk. She says hi. 👋🐞

(The ant was too busy to chat.)

#NaturePhotography

Cartoon aus wenigen schwarzen Tuschestrichen in zwei Bildern. Erstes Bild: ein Kranich, der im Wasser steht, sagt zu zwei anderen Kranichen: „Gravitation wird eines Tages über uns siegen.“ Zweites Bild: die drei Kraniche Fliegen. Einer sagt: „aber heute nicht.“

"In a survey conducted in August 2020, most Americans said that as soon as health-care workers were inoculated with the coronavirus vaccine, we should have started vaccinating the highest-risk groups in order of their vulnerability: seniors first, then immunocompromised people, then other essential workers. Instead of adopting this sensible plan, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention advisory committee decided to inoculate essential workers ahead of seniors, even though its own modeling suggested this would increase deaths by up to 7 percent. Why did they do this? Social justice. The word “equity” came up over and over in the discussion — essential workers, you see, were more likely than seniors to come from “marginalized communities.” Only after a backlash did sanity prevail."

Megan McArdle on, "How one meeting in 2020 and a GOP senator helped create RFK Jr.’s vaccine wreck: liberal ideology & Republican politics laid groundwork for Kennedy’s remaking of the CDC’s vaccine panel":
archive.ph/4WeNd

Cartoon aus wenigen schwarzen Tuschestrichen. Ein Pinguin denkt: „den unterschied zwischen Einsamkeit und allein-sein regelt ein einzelnes Enzym.“ er fügt in Gedanken hinzu: „Wie es dem Wohl dabei geht?“

True, but it's also a far less popular theology than many claim. The days of Hal Lindsey are long over, and the majority of American evangelicals have matured. This was also never a major movement anywhere else.

Wishing all your family in Iran all the best in these very difficult times.

Today, in Duesseldorf, Germany.
#RunForTheirLives is a worldwide loose movement championing the hostages held by the terrorist Hamas in Gaza. By the way, it was a Run For Their Lives protest that was attacked by the homicidal Islamist in Boulder, Colorado.

same red squirrel (and this one is very young, perhaps only born early this year), photographed through the kitchen window this morning

Through the kitchen window this morning. European red squirrel, Sciurus vulgaris, which is smaller and more timid than its American cousins