It’s like the entire country is being held captive in an abusive relationship.

Translation: they are doing it.

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The President of the United States is a madman.

Trump: ‘A Whole Civilization Will Die Tonight’ … Maybe Go Big or Go TACO I long ago moved away from leading...

Over the last 48 hours, President Trump has become especially unhinged, erratic, and cartoonishly bombastic about an ongoing regional war in one of the cradles of civilization.

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Trump Threatens to Destroy an Entire Nation Trump’s position is that if he wants to wipe out a "whole civilization," then that is his decision to make.

Donald Trump’s threatening message to the Iranians shows that he believes he is completely unconstrained by American law, international law, Congress, or public opinion, @dgraham.bsky.social argues:

THIS IS NOT AMERICA! Somebody better grab the wheel.

Trump says 'a whole civilization will die tonight' ahead of deadline for Iran Trump's threat is among his most extreme rhetoric toward Iran since the war started.

President Trump threatens in a Truth Social post, that "a whole civilization will die tonight" if a deal with Iran is not reached and the Strait of Hormuz is not reopened by his deadline at 8 p.m. ET.

Iran's PR to UN Iravani: "Iran will not stand idle in the face of such egregious war crimes. It will exercise, without hesitation, its inherent right of self-defense and will take immediate proportionate reciprocal measures.”

He urged int community to call out Trump's rhetoric before it's too late.

Perhaps because the sane people of Texas pointed out this was the voter's decision to make...NOT HIS. Something about states controlling elections...not the feds.

Anyone who believes that, raise your hand. Anyone? Anyone?

Trump feels like my cousin leaning on the truck hood
twirling the revolver. And instead of me standing there watching it’s the whole world.
Will the revolver go off? Will anyone get hit? Or will we get lucky like I did that day and watch him drive off into the sunset?
Held hostage to madness.

I love this!

A Nursing Home Owner Got a Trump Pardon. The Families of His Patients Got Nothing. At least three families won multimillion-dollar wrongful death suits against former Skyline Healthcare owner Joseph Schwartz. They haven’t collected a cent.

Nursing home owner Joseph Schwartz:
• paid himself $5M as a “ghost employee”
• diverted tens of millions owed to taxpayers & employees
• failed to pay at least 3 multimillion-dollar judgments awarded to grieving families

He also received a Trump pardon.

Your regular reminder that dehumanizing the people who are dehumanizing others isn’t how we’re gonna get to liberation.

We have to live into the world we want to create.

Maggie Vandewalle - Strata.
#Watercolour

Spring
#Art #AIart #Nature

Second U.S. Air Force Plane Reportedly Crashes In Persian Gulf (Live) Iranian state media posted pictures of what it says is wreckage of a U.S. fighter jet it shot down over central Iran.

TRUMP YESTERDAY: "Their anti-aircraft weapons are gone. They have no air force. They have no air defense."

IRAN TODAY: *Shoots down two US jets* (an A-10 Warthog and an F-15 Eagle.)
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Hegseth must go.

Photo featuring six painted eggs with neat floral patterns and other motifs in black and gold, orange and gray, all on a white surface

Folk-Inspired hand painted eggs by Dinara Mirtalipova, self taught illustrator and designer, born in Tashkent, Uzbekistan #womensart #Easter

Small rabbit sculpture made from brass cogs sitting on the palm of a white hand

'Steampunk bunny' by US artist Sue Beatrice who creates sculptures and jewellery out of watch parts #womensart

Nearly two weeks after Trump’s sudden declaration of “productive” talks with Iran sent a premature jolt of optimism through the oil markets, energy analysts and traders say the president’s attempts to jawbone investors into lowering prices have cost him his credibility. https://cnn.it/4s7UStB

A deadly bacterial disease is returning, doctors warn, as vaccination rates fall Hib once killed 1,000 children a year, permanently disabling many more. Doctors who've never seen the disease say the comeback is changing the way they practice medicine.

“The last night I was a pediatric resident, a child came in with Hib and promptly died by the next day. I didn’t work for 50 years to have everything destroyed by one man.”

-Dr. Kathryn Edwards, Vanderbilt University

This is what RFK Jr. and the anti-vaxxers have wrought.

No honor among thieves.

A foot being washed, with water being splashed over it. Text: Your example, even more than your words, will be an eloquent lesson to the world. Quote from St Madeleine Sophie Barat RSCJ

'I have given you an example...' Jesus speaking to his followers, not just then, 2000 years ago, but now, too, wherever and however in the world we might be
(John 13: 15)

#MaundyThursday #Mandatum #Triduum #RSCJQOTD

Painting of tulip plants wirh pink and yellow blossoms

Pink and Yellow Tulips 1925 by Georgia O'Keeffe #WomensArt #April

Just reupping this image from my newsletter last week, that I hope people will feel free to save and liberally spred around the interwebs. open.substack.com/pub/joycevan...

I admire your grit and perseverance. No Thin Mint left behind. 😁