Philip on the south coast of Massachusetts🌊☮ 💙

'Europe's unity is our strength,' EIB chief Calviño tells Euronews European Investment Bank President Nadia Calviño told Euronews' morning show Europe Today that the EU should stick together after the US administration claimed the bloc was weak and in decline. She fu...

""I have never been prouder to be European," she told...Europe Today when asked about a controversial US government security strategy which described Europe as economically in decline, drowning under illegal migration and suffocating as a result of overregulation."

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I would like to be adopted, please 🥹

“It defies belief that with all of the threats facing our country, Pete Hegseth initiated this ridiculous process to try to intimidate Senator Kelly for saying something Pete Hegseth himself has said repeatedly,”

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We need to build up European military capabilities swiftly.

Strengthening European defence and supporting Ukraine are not separate tracks.
They are mutually reinforcing priorities.

Today’s call with E5 defence colleagues underscored our shared determination to move forward on both.

Magaziner: How many US military veterans have you deported?

Noem: We have not deported military veterans.

Magaziner: We are joined on zoom by a gentleman who is an army combat veteran who was shot twice while serving our country. You deported him to Korea.

Meet the kid who helped turn the anti-vaccine tide in California The Krawitt family fought the anti-vaccine movement long before the rise of MAHA.

“I don’t think we ever expected to be sort of thrown into the media spotlight,” Krawitt told SFGATE. “We felt like, well, we have the ability, maybe the responsibility, and therefore a bit of the obligation, to use our voice.”

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Coreopsis rosea ❤️ - a wildflower in the Cape Cod pine barren

Congress to withhold Pentagon travel funds until it sees boat strike videos Lawmakers quietly stuck the requirement into their must-pass annual defense policy bill.

Good

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Zelenskyy seeks backing in Rome and vows no land to be ceded to Russia Zelenskyy met Pope Leo XIV and Italian Premier Giorgia Meloni in Rome on Tuesday, meanwhile voicing his refusal to surrender territory to Moscow despite pressure from Washington for territorial conces...

"...Zelenskyy held talks in London with UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer, French President Emmanuel Macron and German Chancellor Friedrich Merz to discuss the latest version of a US-proposed peace plan to end Russia's all-out invasion, now well into its fourth year."

www.euronews.com/2025/12/09/z...

EU 'protects smaller states, not threatens them,' Dombrovskis says EU Economy Commissioner told Euronews' morning show Europe Today he disagreed "with many elements in the US National Security Strategy" in which the bloc is presented as lacking confidence, pushing fo...

"On Monday, Costa pushed back too, saying "allies do not threaten to interfere in the political life or the internal democratic choices of other allies" and defending Europe's autonomy to choose its own path when setting policy."

www.euronews.com/my-europe/20...

Haha - thank you for that!

These are called "Picotee" Cosmos

Trump was selected as the character to be symbolically burned with the devil as part of an annual Guatemalan tradition of casting off bad things before Christmas.

They also love tall phlox

🚨🚨🚨 I'm going to post this video every day so we never forget what the 34x convicted felon & adjudicated rapist Trump did. 🚨🚨🚨

Embassies are in the content industry now. Okay then.

US warns Europe of 'civilisational decline' Complaining of "unrealistic expectations" about the prospect of defeating Russia's invasion of Ukraine, the US government vows to "cultivate resistance to Europe’s current trajectory within European n...

"...the strategy warns that "should present trends continue, the continent will be unrecognisable in 20 years or less", an echo of rhetoric from various right-wing and far-right figures...in Europe who have put anti-migration ideas at the centre of their politics."

www.euronews.com/my-europe/20...

I love the "competition of needs" look in a garden. It's m y preferred gardening style. I have nicknamed it the "Garden Salad" style of gardening 😊

Sweet monarda & asclepias 😍

Beauty!

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I'm just hanging out here by the creek this afternoon

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🌱 Good morning, Gardeners 😊
Here are some pictures from the sunny border, out in front of the solar greenhouse, back at my old farm in South Halifax, Massachusetts. The green bees loved those tiger lilies! I personally love the phlox and irises.

No need for misogynistic comments

Ursula von der Leyen * @vonderle...• 9m I just spoke with President @GitanasNauseda. The situation at the border with Belarus is worsening, with the growing incursions of smuggling balloons into Lithuania's airspace. Such hybrid attack by the Lukashenka regime is completely unacceptable. Lithuania continues to have our full solidarity. We are preparing further measures under our sanctions regime.

Putin wants peace, huh?

@ptrask.bsky.social

🌱 Good morning, Gardeners 😊
Here's an archival vignette from a shady, northern alcove, in my garden, at my old farm, in South Halifax, Massachusetts. Circa 2008

Hot tubs and waterfalls forever! *high fives her*