Jenny Owen

Ugh.

Grok seems to me like a perfect reflection of its owner.

UK Home Office tells parents their children should return to Brazil alone While Ana Luiza Cabral Gouveia and Hugo Barbosa can remain, letter says sons, 11 and eight, must go back to Brazil

Who can make sense of this mindless cruelty? www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

Kidnapping.

Capturing a person against their will without due process is called kidnapping.

Transporting them to another country without due process is called human trafficking.

A squalid extrajudicial prison for people found guilty of no crime is called a concentration camp.

An American flag flies above a street in Vilnius as police outriders surround hearses transporting the bodies of the US servicemen. 100s of locals are seen lining the street.

Incredibly moving. 1000s of Lithuanians lined the streets of the capital Vilnius yesterday to honor the four US soldiers killed on their soil.

As their bodies are repatriated to the US, their President will be nowhere to be seen, except on a Florida golf course.

(📸 Gedinimas Varvuolis)

Penguin flying off an iceberg

Effective immediately: Heard Island will be canceling our contract with Spacex for ALL future space travel. Dr. Amelia Sealhart and CPT Charles Icebergh will be leading our charge to adapt all flightless birds to flight capability. This will supplement our already extensive Albatross Space Force

More heartbreak from Labour.

March 17, 2025 From 1942 to 1945, the Code Talkers were key to every major operation of the Marine Corps in the Pacific Theater.

March 17, 2025

Ssshhhhh...!

That is both messed up and disgraceful! You can’t just delete history!

Arlington National Cemetery has removed information about prominent Black, Hispanic, and female service members, as well as topics such as the Civil War, from its website.

A picture says more...

YouTube video by MSNBC House Republicans literally alter time to avoid responsibility for Trump wrecking the economy

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Beware. DJT's track record on honouring agreements is terrible. You have to try this but neither the US nor Putin will play fair. Increasing European & Canadian support will help.

Antisemitism in the Oval Office A confrontation seen with a historian's eye

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

OF THE EMPIRE We will be known as a culture that feared death and adored power, that tried to vanquish insecurity for the few and cared little for the penury of the many. We will be known as a culture that taught and rewarded the amassing of things, that spoke little if at all about the quality of life for people (other people), for dogs, for rivers. All the world, in our eyes, they will say, was a commodity. And they will say that this structure was held together politically, which it was, and they will say also that our politics was no more than an apparatus to accommodate the feelings of the heart, and that the heart, in those days, was small, and hard, and full of meanness.

From a poetry collection by Mary Oliver, where after a hundred poems showcasing gentle observations on nature and animals, she hits you with this

Curious that all the places Trump wants to annex would be geographically convenient for a Russian partner in annexation.

Hawes (@dr.smrtmouth) on Threads Judith Butler: Why Do People Believe Trump’s Lies? TT📼: robinsonerhardt Judith Butler is Distinguished Professor in the Graduate School and formerly the Maxine Elliot Chair in the Department of C...

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Solidarity hugs to you too. Times are very hard now. But I still hope that European countries will be able to fill the gap left by Trump, now that he has decided to be Putin's ally. Putin must not win.

That meeting between Zelenskyy, Trump & Vance contained so many shifts in relational boundaries. It is easy to have missed them, amidst the drama & the bluster. I want to highlight them because they provide signals as to how international relations will be tested in coming weeks. THREAD

I like this. A lot. The CO2 reading before the weather center gets shut down is pretty accurate too. Nicely done!

What would a trauma-informed analysis of the Trump-Zelenskyy meeting look like? I think it would pay attention to body language. It would consider what was happening biologically. Here's my THREAD tracking changes over the 50 mins.
Here's the link I'm working with:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=kEOv...

I think the king's diary might suddenly become very full.

Yes! However, bullies will always be bullies it seems. Which is why we all have to stand with Zelenskyy.

Those words "camp" and "deportation"... the GOP has no shame.

I feel sick.

From Comedy to Brutality | Fintan O’Toole In the 2020 disaster movie Greenland, the hero John Garrity (played by Gerard Butler), his wife (Morena Baccarin), and their young son are in a truck

“With his designs on Greenland and Gaza, Trump has signaled that his first term’s outlandish gestures are the second term’s savage demands.”

www.nybooks.com/articles/202...

I think this has always been a key strand in the Musk/Trump strategy. As ever... follow the money.

From @michaelrosenyes

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