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Pete Hegseth's view of 21st Century warfare is about as up-to-date as his Crusader tattoo.

GOP Leaders Silent After State Lawmaker Called for Rep. Jayapal to Be 'Hanged' | Common Dreams Top Republicans have claimed that calling Trump “fascist” or “authoritarian” is an incitement to “terrorism." But party leaders have said nothing about an explicit call for violence from one of their ...

Republicans are noisy when they get called "authoritarians" or "fascists" for behaving like you-know-whats, but dead silent when one of their colleagues says a leading congressional progressive should be hanged. Her crime? Calling for nonviolent resistance. www.commondreams.org/news/congres...

Climate action is emerging as a wedge that may increasingly separate China from the petrostate alliance of Russia, Saudi Arabia and U.S. (under Trump)

"6. Journalism that holds both American political parties to equal scrutiny."

Journalism that fits this description has not existed in the US for decades now and is effectively impossible within the informal social & economic constraints in which US journalism works.

Protest this. 💥

I feel like this photo of masked, armed men pepper spraying a pastor protecting his community is going to be a defining picture of this moment in America for a long, long time.

Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, German (1880-1938), Porträt des Kindermodells Lina Franziska Fehrmann (Portrait of Child Model Lina Franziska Fehrmann), 1910, photograph

Kananginak Pootoogook, Inuk (Nunavut, Canada) (1935-2010), Caribou Family, 2001, lithograph, 48.4 x 62.2 cm, edition: 50

Michael Ancher, Danish (1849-1927),
Redningsbåden går ud (The Lifeboat Is Leaving), 1920, oil on canvas, 128 x 165 cm, Panbo Museum, Aabenraa, Denmark

Lotte Laserstein, German-Swedish, 1898-1993), Abendunterhaltung (Evening Conversation), 1948, private collection

Very atmospheric.

Édouard Cortès, French (1882-1969), Rue Du Temple And Place De La Republique, Paris, oil on canvas, 66 x 92.5 cm, private collection

Kawase Hasui, Japanese (1883-1957), Tsuruoka Hachimangu Shrine, 1931, color woodblock print on paper, double oban, sheet: 51.0 x 35.6 cm, image: 49.0 x 32.7 cm

I know y’all are as pissed off as I am.

I need to ask a favor.

Do something kind for a stranger today.

Hear me out please.

Can be simple as complimenting the person at the check out counter. A smile at a stranger on the street. Anything.

We need more smiles.

Painting with a view of trees with orange leaves and twisted branches in a landscape

Autumn painting by US modern impressionist Erin Hanson #WomensArt

These are some of the things that make the day worth it. Peace! #sunset #sundown #endofday #ahhh #relax #breathe #peace

A shot I got from June in the Yukon. A Canada Lynx up close and personal. It’s a picture of her looking at me looking at her. She’s obviously sizing me up here. #wildlifephotography #naturephotography #canadalynx #wildcats #nikonD850 #nikon #wildlife

Happy Thursday! We’re almost through the week! We had overcast clouds today so here is one of the runner-up photos from Tuesday. Tap for full size. I hope you have a great day!

Landlords don't provide housing.

Builders provide housing, what Landlords do is take housing and keep it so people can't buy it while constantly hiking their rents so people will never be able to buy it.

Bamburgh Castle Flowers, by north-east artist Emily Ward. #WomensArt #NorthernArt

Mural on an industrial chimney of the upper half of a woman hugging another woman or child

Loretta Lizzio, muralist from Melbourne, Australia #WomensArt

Michelle Kingdom, fine artist based in Los Angeles, California, specializing in embroidery #WomensArt

Janet Echelman, US sculptor and fiber artist, known for her large-scale floating fiber sculptures and site-specific installations #WomensArt

Woodhouse Mill, painting by Yorkshire artist Kate Lycett. #WomensArt #NorthernArt

Nick Turse: The National Priorities Project finds that if our Outlaw Prez deployed 3,000 Nat'l Guard troops to Chicago it'd cost taxpayers around $1.6 million per day, four times what it would cost to house the city's homeless.

theintercept.com/2025/09/03/t...

I will not be buying any books for a while (I am still sorting out all my books - several thousand of them) but I will look at your books when possible.

Spanish minister says Israeli cycling team should be expelled from Vuelta after protest Spain’s foreign minister says that he would support the expulsion of Israel Premier Tech from the Spanish Vuelta cycling race after the team was targeted by a pro-Palestinian protest that disrupted th...

Brava Espana - “We have to send a message to #Israel and the Israeli society that Europe and Israel can only have normal relations when human rights are respected" - FM Albares
apnews.com/article/span... #BDS #StopIsrael #GazaGenocide

Remember the Royal Commission into the Protection and Detention of Children in the Northern Territory?

Recommendations were handed down 8 years ago.

Today's NT government is essentially doing the exact opposite.

The NT 'corrections' system for children is fundamentally broken.

And racist.

I have a copy of the book on the left.

US special forces killed N Korean civilians during botched mission: Report US special forces killed several North Korean fishermen diving for shellfish after encountering them by accident.

US special forces killed several North Korean fishermen diving for shellfish after encountering them by accident.