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Never Fight Alone Anyone who would denigrate the service of our NATO allies clearly never spent a day in uniform.

Anyone who would denigrate the service of our NATO allies clearly never spent a day in uniform.

By William H. McRaven
Gift 🎁 Link
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

“Nobody”😎
Orthodox #ToonieTuesday UPDATE

$4,908 ✅ $11,000🎯 - Let's hit 5k!

NOBODY sees danger first. NOBODY responds first. - Provide their rapid response missions with the equipment needed.
See our post below⤵️ for info

#NAFO #Ukraine #donatetoukraine #FNDRUA #StandWithUkraine

We’ll be starting a new series, “Debunk of the Day”, mini-soups or short videos debunking the most egregious vatnik BS point by point. Which Kremlin talking points do you see the most often? Which ones are the most annoying? Let us know and we’ll address the worst of them.

Orthodox #ToonieTuesday UPDATE - French Translation ⁉️💙💛

Administration Social Media Posts Echo White Supremacist Messaging

Administration “posts have referred to neo-Nazi literature, ethnic cleansing and QAnon conspiracies, mused about deporting nearly a third of the U.S. population, and promoted lyrics from an anthem bellowed by the far-right militants of the Proud Boys.”

www.nytimes.com/2026/01/27/u...

Trump warns Iran ‘time is running out’ for deal to avert US military action US president urges Islamic Republic to reach agreement that would include ‘no nuclear weapons’

Trump warning Iran: “Time is running out, it is truly of the essence! As I told Iran once before, MAKE A DEAL! They didn’t, and there was ‘Operation Midnight Hammer,’ a major destruction of Iran. The next attack will be far worse!” www.ft.com/content/070b...

Wait, why would Iran have to negotiate not to have nuclear weapons if Trump, as he boasted, "obliterated" Iran's nuclear program a few months ago.

Might it be that this was nonsense?

The defund ICE law should be named the “Pretti-Good Act.”

80 years later and they're still relying on the "just following orders" defence.

Videos Showing Aggressive ICE Tactics in Minnesota Fuel a Backlash (Gift Article) For weeks, residents have documented the impact of President Trump’s mass deportation campaign and captured many violent confrontations on camera.

A potent mix of cruelty and incompetence. (gift article)

www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

Orthodox #ToonieTuesday UPDATE ⁉️💙💛

This and all the money you save by eating $3 meals means you'll all soon be millionaires.

The museum plaque next to the painting.

Large bright painting, acrylic and spray paint on canvas NO, OW, WOW, GO, XXX, $$$$ Inspired by a white supremacist rally in Virginia. More info in comment on post

#WeekDforDramatic
#AlphabetChallenge

Nina Chanel Abney, artist
Hobson's Choice, 2017
Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University
Durham, NC

“Properly practiced, knitting soothes the troubled spirit, and it doesn't hurt the untroubled spirit either.”
― Elizabeth Zimmermann

This song is stuck in my head

Photograph of Zora Neale Hurston by Carl Van Vechten. She is sitting and wearing a top (dress?), belt, necklace of beads, and stylish hat. She is looking to the right away from the camera.

#OTD in 1960 Zora Neale Hurston died. She "was an American writer, anthropologist, folklorist, and documentary filmmaker."

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zora_Ne...

Books by Hurston at PG:

www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/73549

#books #literature

Marc Chagall's "Jacob's Dream" is a vivid representation of the biblical story where angels ascend and descend a ladder, symbolizing a divine connection between heaven and earth. The artwork is characterized by Chagall's signature use of vibrant colors and dreamlike imagery, blending mystical themes with a personal, emotional touch.

The Jacob's Dream https://www.wikiart.org/en/marc-chagall/the-jacob-s-dream-1966

Covered Bridge with Skaters
Maud Lewis
c. 1964

Snow tunnel

Be safe out there folks and have a great day

It's terrible what a lightsaber can do

hear, hear!

The President of the United States and one of the most prolific pedophiles to ever live should be two different people

I'm watching the Reith Lectures with Rutger Bregman.
By God, this man can talk me into doing anything what a inspiring set of talks!
Have you listened or seen the talks yet?

Taken thru the window. Sun and shadows and a big black bird facing a tree. Sunny days but too cold to melt this stuff!

One of my crows wondering when this stuff is going to melt. 🥶

You do a good job of sharing beauty and giving people a peaceful space! Your beautiful posts really hit the spot.❤️

Good morning! Just wanted to make a comment that I try to knowingly avoid posting any AI generated art. Thank you to those who bring it to my attention and I apologize if I do. Ultimately, I am trying to share beauty and give people a peaceful space from their timeline.

Austen’s second novel (after Sense and Sensibility), Pride and Prejudice was received well, with good reviews, but there are always critics. Charlotte Bronte was perhaps the novel’s most important detractor, saying Pride and Prejudice was a disappointment, with descriptions of its characters and their motivations that Bronte thought were superficial. Austen’s short life prevented the possibility of getting her response or her take on Bronte’s Jane Eyre, but there are so many readers who adore the work of both writers and many of us find Bronte’s critiques interesting but perhaps anachronistic.

For modern readers, Austen provides a deep sense of her characters’ inner lives, their hopes and the pains caused by misplaced or cooling affections amid the repressive social rules of the time. In Pride and Prejudice, Austen makes clear that marriage is the only opportunity most women had for even the slightest chance of a happy life. And that depended on marrying a good man. With the exception of Lizzy Bennet’s father and uncle, it’s hard to find any good men in the first two-thirds of the book.

These points refute another criticism of Pride and Prejudice: that it’s too much of a fairy tale. Lizzy’s mother comes across as a bumbling interloper, but there’s a very real fear gnawing at her: if she can’t arrange a marriage for at least one of her daughters, all five would have to work as governesses or depend on extended family, both would result in a meager, miserable existence.

Here is the short list of men in Pride and Prejudice whom the Bennet girls could potentially marry: Charles Bingley is very wealthy, but a bit of a man child whose wit, confidence, and abilities, if they exist, are inconsequential. Mr. Darcy is an Austen-era dude bro, who – at first – can only look beyond his narcissism to remind his friends, like Mr. Bingley, that being an entitled, clueless alpha male will protect them from girl cooties – or what a thoughtful person might call a bad marriage. George Wickham is a liar, cheat, and swindler. And Mr. Collins is Lady de Bourgh’s mama’s boy who is somehow also full of himself? Rounding out the five bachelors who could be matrimonial prospects for the five Bennet girls – who have no dowry, there’s Colonel Fitzwilliam who can only marry a woman who has a large dowry. The only fairy tale element in this whole novel is that Darcy took a deep inner dive and did the work to realize his faults and improve himself – all without going through years of therapy.

On this day in 1813, Jane Austen’s masterpiece "Pride and Prejudice" was published in the UK.

It was - and still is - a cry of the heart for rational thinking and for women's rights.
#WriterSky #BookSky #Women #History #OTD

Lies, violence and the American state Trump abhors democracy because it allows ordinary Americans to reject his lies. Even worse for Trump, it allows us to reject him.

the violence we are witnessing every day in Minneapolis and elsewhere has proven deeply unpopular. It is indecent, arbitrary and cruel. Its tactics violate our rights as Americans to protest our government. Its purpose violates our moral conscience as human beings.

I don't know how many times we will be told by the legacy media that Trump is moderating or backing off only to then see he is worse than ever. He is an authoritarian. He enjoys the cruelty. And the first thing he had Pam Bondi do after the shooting was to try to leverage it to get the voter files.