Thank you, I needed a NAFO cartoon!

Yes, seriously, HEEEELP!

Me too. Interesting, no?

Ret. Major General warns Hegseth is "a clear and present danger" YouTube video by Fight For Progress

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Federal, provincial governments reducing public access to information Critics say reforms show governments embracing secrecy

This is not how #Canada should behave:

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John Lennon with a guitar - text: imagine all the people living life in peace. You may say I’m a dreamer but I’m not the only one.

Christmas in Kyiv would be lovely

Popular during Nam war

I remember these

Confirmed: Trump admin threatened to overthrow the papacy Pope Leo XIV chronicler Christopher Hale says he has confirmed that Trump’s Pentagon threatened to declare war on the Vatican. “In January, behind closed doors at the Pentagon, Under Secretary of War for Policy Elbridge Colby summoned Cardinal Christophe Pierre — Pope Leo XIV’s then-ambassador to the United States — and delivered a lecture,” said Hale. “America has the military power to do whatever it wants in the world,” Colby and his associates informed the cardinal. “The Catholic Church had better take its side.” As the room temperature grew, Hale said he confirmed that one U.S. official “reached for a fourteenth-century weapon and invoked the Avignon Papacy, the period when the French Crown used military force to bend the bishop of Rome to its will.” Hale said the report confirms that the Vatican had reason to decline the Trump-Vance White House’s invitation to host Pope Leo XIV for America’s 250th anniversary in 2026 two weeks after the confrontation. Citing a Free Press report, a writer obtained accounts from Vatican and U.S. officials briefed on the Pentagon meeting. According to his sources, Colby’s team picked apart the pope’s January state-of-the-world address line by line and read it as a hostile message aimed directly at President Donald Trump. Hale said what “enraged them most” was Leo’s declaration that “a diplomacy that promotes dialogue and seeks consensus among all parties is being replaced by a diplomacy based on force.” “The Pentagon read that sentence as a frontal challenge to the so-called ‘Donroe Doctrine’ — Trump’s update of Monroe, asserting unchallenged American dominion over the Western Hemisphere,” said Hale. Hale said the cardinal sat through the lecture in silence, but added that “The Holy See has not, since that day, given an inch.” The Trump administration's contentious relationship with the Catholic Church represents a significant departure from traditional Republican-Church alliances. While Trump secured substantial Catholic voter support in 2016 and 2024 by championing conservative social issues like abortion restrictions, his foreign policy approach and rhetoric have increasingly alienated Church leadership. Pope Leo XIV has positioned himself as a moral counterweight to Trump's geopolitical aggression, consistently advocating for dialogue-based diplomacy over military intervention. This philosophical clash intensified during Trump's second term, particularly as his administration pursued more hawkish positions on Iran, trade relations, and immigration — issues where Church teaching emphasizes compassion, dialogue, and respect for human dignity. The Vatican's traditionally neutral stance on secular governance has been tested by Trump's unilateral foreign policy decisions and inflammatory rhetoric. Church leaders have publicly questioned whether American military interventions align with Catholic doctrine on just war theory and the sanctity of human life. Additionally, Trump's administration's hardline immigration policies directly contradict papal messaging that emphasizes welcoming migrants and refugees. The Pentagon's January confrontation with Cardinal Pierre signals an unprecedented willingness by Trump officials to pressure religious institutions into alignment with administration goals. This represents a potential inflection point: where diplomatic courtesy once governed state-Church relations, coercion may now be replacing negotiation. The Vatican's refusal to participate in the 250th anniversary celebration underscores that even America's most prominent religious institution will not compromise its moral authority for political expediency.

Confirmed: Trump admin threatened to overthrow the papacy

Release the Epstein files!!!!!

E&E News: Environmentalists sue to stop sweeping Gulf ESA exemption Two lawsuits were filed to block the Trump administration’s carve-out of oil and gas production in the Gulf of Mexico from endangered species protections.

Earthjustice is suing the Trump admin over its decision to exempt all Gulf of Mexico oil-and-gas offshore drilling from the Endangered Species Act. The exemption which leaves imperiled marine life unprotected is "unnecessary, ineffective & dangerous," said Earthjustice VP of Litigation Drew Caputo.

During an MRI, while I was listening to jazz, and was interrupted by a commercial

And they don’t see color

In just 5 years, Trump has added $11 trillion in national debt ($3 trillion in 2025 alone) —more than any other president in history.

Where’s the outrage from fiscally conservative GOP about this?

Where?!

“UZA” was a gut punch, but you’re not wrong

Trump administration orders dismantling of the U.S. Forest Service Late Tuesday afternoon, with the subtlety of a wrecking ball and the morality of a foreclosure notice, the Trump administration announced the most devastating attack on the U.S. Forest Service in the ...

Amidst everything else, the Trump regime has quietly killed off the U.S. Forest Service 🌲

“One hundred and ninety-three million acres of your national forests… just handed, on a silver platter, to the people who’ve spent their entire careers trying to destroy it.”

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❗️Another 7 Ukrainian children aged 13 to 17 have been returned from the temporarily occupied territories, — Lubinets

According to the Ombudsman, the children endured difficult circumstances — the loss of parents, separation from relatives, and psychological pressure.

Thanks for the tip, Illia. Watched it, enjoyed it.

Goodbye and good riddance to Pam Bondi.

You were exceptionally terrible at your job.

As in the Mountain Meadows
Massacre….

Boyle: The situation is bad. It’s getting worse. And we have a president who, frankly, only cares about putting his signature on currency, illegally etching it onto the Kennedy Center, and building his big, beautiful ballroom—and frankly couldn’t give a shit about the American people.

So, the USA would be full of stateless people? Where are they supposed to go?

It's Trans Day of Visibility today. If you're trans and are raising money for something (I don't care what it is), reply to this thread and I will boost you.

If you are a cis person, take a look and find someone to support if you can.

Everyone give this a share after.

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Withholding lifesaving treatment from someone to the point they are terminal is murder.

A black-and-white street photograph on a Chicago sidewalk. A young child in a puffy dark coat with a fur-trimmed hood stands with head thrown fully back, mouth wide open, catching snowflakes from above. Beside her, a young woman — likely her mother — stands upright in a leather jacket and white leggings, head turned away, occupied with something else entirely. An ornate cast-iron lamp post anchors the right edge of the frame. Traffic and bare winter trees recede softly in the background. Two figures share the same sidewalk, the same falling snow, the same moment — and inhabit entirely different worlds. One has not yet learned indifference. The other has forgotten she ever knew wonder. The snow falls equally on both.​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​

“Wonder and Indifference”

A child catches snow on her tongue. The adult beside her has forgotten this is something worth doing.

#EastCoastKin #Photography #StreetPhotography #Chicago #ClassicMono #UrbanGaze #HumansofBlueSky

🚨"Trump is literally a tyrant, he's behaving like a madman, he's fundamentally a thief, he's a criminal trained by mobsters—he's psychotic!" -No Kings protester dressed as Tyrannosaurus rex tells our @jtcestkowski.bsky.social at Chicago protest. WE'RE LIVE NOW ⬇️