A very good article explaining why sex is not gender is the one from the National Institutes of Health - belib.org/jfI3O93
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A very good article explaining why sex is not gender is the one from the National Institutes of Health - belib.org/jfI3O93
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Appeasement Never Works—Not in 1938, Not in 2025 In 1938 Chamberlain sacrificed Czechoslovakia. In 1939, Poland fought alone while Britain and France waged a “Phoney War.” Appeasement didn’t buy peace then. Some urge the same mistake with Putin and Ukraine. History is blunt: appeasement never works
Outrage! Trump finds a new way to betray America’s defenders. belib.org/i8Crks8
If only there is karma in this world...
You can’t make this shit up.🤦🏼 In an executive order entitled “Making Federal Architecture Beautiful Again” Trump urges architects and engineers who will design federal buildings from now on, to make them using as a blueprint the monumental ancient architecture. .belib.org/L99bDEm
Facepalm...
A few days ago I re-watched Gangs of New York, and it brought home to me something relevant to our present political situation: America’s divisions on immigration, race, class, religion, and ‘foreign influences’ have always been with us. belib.org/ePxiCQ7
Trump’s approval rating has cratered to 38 percent — a nine-point drop since February and the lowest mark of his second presidency — according to a Pew Research Center poll of 3,554 U.S. adults conducted this month. belib.org/DQOLk1d
Attention to detail matters.
$245B of Russian money. “It looks like the war in Ukraine will continue, Putin is not honouring his commitments, even to the US president, which means we need to find financing for the coming years, and this could be financing from the aggressor’s frozen funds.” belib.org/yTZAliw
The truth about Red States
After 6 months of "death by a thousand cuts" -- including layoffs, rescinded grant funding, and content censorship -- the CDC descended into chaos on Wednesday. First, CDC Director Susan Monarez, PhD, was fired after refusing to resign. belib.org/Kl5mOX8?
Christian Patriots are neither.
VOTE: With your dollars, every day. This new list reveals 10 brands that are fighting for progress. belib.org/U8lQkzo
This is worth reminding everyday!
When you live within a society and government that looks after you, you are happier. Another words: when you live in a country where people care enough about one another to institutionalize that caring, you’re happier, but Americans dream to be rich, not to be happy. Right? belib.org/qQA05Mq
NEW: Republican congressman hints that a U.S. attack on Venezuela is imminent.. "Can't have an election if we're at war...."
Can't believe it's 20 years since #HurricaneKatrina ! The deadliest hurricanes in American history are less indictments of the weather than of ourselves. The lesson is simple, though rarely heeded: the storm is merciless, but the greater danger is our refusal to listen, to prepare...
Scientists say ‘shocking’ discovery shows rapid cuts in carbon emissions are needed to avoid catastrophic fallout 🔗👉 belib.org/l9ILojM
“The estate is actually going to actually now get us that book and a bunch of other documents that they have that’s actually not been reported yet,” Garcia said. He added they expect the items on Sept. 8, which will “continue our investigation.” - Translation: buckle up. belib.org/FNf5cAo
Thanks to technology, our lives have never been more convenient. But is it worth the price we are paying? Here, a writer makes the case for taking the scenic route: belib.org/A2oxBK7
We are with Sen. Tina Smith - RFK Jr. must shut up.
"Malicious compliance is my love language." What's yours? H/T John J.
Trump is dishonoring ALL the veterans.
Trump called it a witch hunt. The judge called it an abuse of power. Letitia James called it Friday.
Soooo true!
“The Death of Trump will not be the end of an era — it will be the beginning of the wake, and America will discover that the corpse has more heirs than the kingdom has crowns.” The Obituarist -
Hate to say I told you so, but I told you so. Five months ago. None of this is a surprise. None of this was inevitable. None of it can't be stopped. It must be stopped. Make it. Stop. #Rubio #Palestine #UN #GeneralAssembly #Trump
Rumors are swirling that the Department of Homeland Security and President Donald Trump are mobilizing up to 1,700 National Guard troops in 19 states to crack down on immigration and combat “rising” crime. - belib.org/VlN0T18
Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Idaho, Indiana, Iowa, Louisiana, Nebraska, Nevada, New Mexico, Ohio, South Carolina, South Dakota, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, Virginia, and Wyoming. Read more in comments below
Trump inherited an economy that was the envy of the developed world, one Biden's team navigated through post-pandemic inflation better than almost anyone. In just a few months, Trump has torched it—simply because he takes pleasure in destroying his predecessor’s accomplishments. belib.org/ZqBtts4
“The Death of Trump will not be the end of an era — it will be the beginning of the wake, and America will discover that the corpse has more heirs than the kingdom has crowns.” - belib.org/VA6elRB
"The Death of Trump will not be the end of an era — it will be the beginning of the wake, and America will discover that the corpse has more heirs than the kingdom has crowns.” The Obituarist - belib.org/How-This-Ends
"The Death of Trump will not be the end of an era — it will be the beginning of the wake, and America will discover that the corpse has more heirs than the kingdom has crowns.” The Obituarist - belib.org/How-This-Ends
“The Death of Trump will not be the end of an era — it will be the beginning of the wake, and America will discover that the corpse has more heirs than the kingdom has crowns.” The Obituarist - belib.org/How-This-Ends
“The Death of Trump will not be the end of an era — it will be the beginning of the wake, and America will discover that the corpse has more heirs than the kingdom has crowns.” The Obituarist - belib.org/How-This-Ends
Where’s Trump?
“The Death of Trump will not be the end of an era — it will be the beginning of the wake, and America will discover that the corpse has more heirs than the kingdom has crowns.” The Obituarist - belib.org/How-This-Ends
In the era when everybody snaps pictures it's important to recognize why professional photojournalists are crucial media assets. 2025 ©Richard Tsong-Taatarii - belib.org/quVSWBP 2016 ©Jonathan Bachman - belib.org/7QUOiYa
“The Death of Trump will not be the end of an era — it will be the beginning of the wake, and America will discover that the corpse has more heirs than the kingdom has crowns.” The Obituarist belib.org/HiTfzbM
See the 2017 film "Death Of Stalin". Laugh at the chaos. Then look again — and recognize that the comedy is a dress rehearsal. When Trump finally goes, America will learn that the death of a strongman is not the end of the nightmare. It is the beginning of the brawl over his bones. “The Death of Tr
WTF is wrong with this generation of parents? They are taking over dorm-room furnishing—and, in the process, robbing their kids of an opportunity to practice independence. And it's more than just the rooms, they hover all the time over campuses... READ: belib.org/SsOgjbR 🎨: Liana Finck
Just weeks ago, career prosecutors had insisted that Chakraverty should be held accountable for the alleged fraud. But in a sharp reversal, Thomas Albus, the newly appointed U.S. attorney and a Trump pick, notified the court that the charges were being dropped.belib.org/Rp6XXol
— especially the ones whose access to the ballot you pretend isn’t under threat...I belong anywhere decisions are being made about our democracy — including right here, next to you.” 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥
@jasmineforus.bsky.social responds to JD Vance saying she didn’t belong in the room: “You say I don’t belong in this room, but I sit here because the people of Texas sent me. I earned every vote, and every second I speak here, I carry their voices —
Follow Dr. Andrea Love - @immunologic on belib.org/ujDB83M
One of @TheOatmeal comics that were rejected by the New Yorker. For more check: belib.org/Rhhg3lc
Move over, Trump—Newsom’s trolling game just left Kristi Noem scrambling for a comeback, and it’s a masterclass in political ridicule. belib.org/ElyzZWt
Could Taylor Swift Really Have a Larger Economic Impact Than Most Economists Who Have Ever Lived? How a Twitter post send this doubting Swiftie on a factchecking spree... belib.org/pDw49Ez
Olivia Johnson: " If you hate Taylor Swift, I need you to understand something clearly… You are not edgy. You are not a critical thinker. You are not some brave soul standing up to the masses. You are simply on the wrong side of history... " MORE: belib.org/sbwacjR
If you’re American, you might not realize that England’s national flag—the red cross on white, called the St. George’s Cross—has become controversial. Not because of the design itself, but because of who waves it and what it has come to represent. belib.org/4DO5FKL
A group of 19 Democratic governors on Thursday condemned President Trump’s threat to send National Guard troops into major cities like Chicago, Baltimore and New York as an “alarming abuse of power.” belib.org/3tlIEaw
By law, Kari Lake must have the explicit backing of an advisory panel set up by Congress to help insulate the international broadcaster and its sister networks from political pressure. belib.org/erAjf4K
Do with these facts as you will.
"The next Democratic Congress should recreate the Corporation for Public Broadcasting with not just political but financial autonomy." www.liberalcurrents.com/a-renewal-of...
The Good Liars — prankster duo Davram Stiefler and Jason Selvig — who just released a new supercut video compiling their encounters with Trump supporters over the years. belib.org/xQ0vLdt
Gavin Newsom reenacted Trump's cabinet meeting at it's hilarious, including a simplified MAGA level "presidential" English. 🤣
On TikTok, Gates has built an audience of nearly 300K followers — a number that frankly should be in the millions given how brilliantly he lampoons the former president. His specialty? Lip-syncing Trump’s speeches with such uncanny timing and flair ... belib.org/1NMdY8X
Elon Musk has been ordered to stand trial over allegations that he misled voters with a dubious “lottery” scheme orchestrated by his America PAC ahead of the 2024 election. At a rally in Pennsylvania last October, Musk promised a crowd, “We are going to be awarding $1 million randomly to people who.
Giorgia Meloni proposes a NATO-light guarantee for Ukraine. If Russia attacks again, allies must decide within 24 hours on military and economic aid, reports Bloomberg. Modeled on NATO’s Article 5, but without membership, belib.org/wmpFj1L
White House blames handshaking and aspirin, but physicians say another cause is more likely
One upon a time, 20 years ago he told truth about himself.
Maine deserves a better Senator.
Tulsi Gabbard released the names of CIA operatives! Their incompetence is mind blowing! “It could potentially put CIA cover procedures at risk. It could put relations with foreign governments at risk.” belib.org/Cc9Ofws
It isn’t one stumble or one slurred word. It’s a decade-long pattern. belib.org/0zZSBFi
The fish rots from the head down...
Three different federal grand juries declined to indict Sydney Reid for assaulting, resisting, or impeding officers, prosecutors disclosed in a court filing late on Monday. Prosecutors then downgraded the offense to a misdemeanor.
😭😭😭
Kennedy said Republican Gov. Patrick Morrisey's January executive orderopens in a new tab or window to allow parents to claim religious exemptions "upholds West Virginians' religious freedom and parental rights while keeping the state in full compliance with federal law."
Everyone knows Trump hit a rough patch during the 2008 crash—but fewer know how foreign buyers, especially Russians, stepped in with cash to keep his projects going. This article maps out just how crucial those deals were for the Trump brand.
It comes at a time when 'South Park' — long famed for refusing to be perceived as taking political sides and mocking all comers — has taken a decidedly strong and recurring stance this season against the current administration (at least, so far).
By the accounts of many experts, the U.S. military is not close to developing, much less deploying, the dizzying array of sophisticated drones mastered by the Ukrainians and Russians — including “kamikaze” drones used to destroy enemy tanks and vehicles... belib.org/ow3bKp6
"I have never experienced such radical non-transparency, nor have I seen such unskilled manipulation of data to achieve a political end rather than the good of the American people." ...
Ask yourself: "Is this the world as it is, or the world I already wanted to see?"
When you look into AI, you’re not peering into some objective oracle. You’re staring into a distorted mirror — one that reflects your worldview until it feels inevitable. That’s the danger. A personalized confirmation bias machine at global scale. So search — but search skeptically.
Every question you ask, every click you make, every preference you reveal — the machine learns it, feeds it back, and calls it knowledge. The algorithms don’t arrive neutral. They inherit the prejudices of their makers, then amplify the blind spots of their users.
Like a warning on every pack of cigarettes, a warning label should be displayed every time a person opens an #AI agent, ⚠️ Before You Ask the Machine Artificial Intelligence doesn’t hand you “the truth.” It hands you your truth, sharpened and polished by your own biases.
I am old enough to remember the CNN reports in the 1970s ridiculing the meetings of the Soviet Politburo... and I swear, they were way more sane than this. How all those people live with the aftertaste of Trump’s shit after all that asslicking? We will never get any respect from the world again.
Rivian CEO RJ Scaringe never thought he would see the United States turn back to gas-powered vehicle expansion. Then it did.
COMING SOON: belib.org/CCJluan — Subscribe Before It’s Too Late. All in the spirit of Mark Twain - famously (and humorously) associated with the quote, "I've never wished a man dead, but I have read some obituaries with great pleasure"
@calltoactivism.bsky.social got it right. 😢🖤🖤🖤
Seeking "safety" in the USA? In 2025? News reports indicate that Iryna Zarutska fled Ukraine following the escalation of the war in 2022. She had "recently arrived" in the US seeking safety and a new beginning. Tragically, her life ended on Friday, August 22, 2025, in Charlotte, North Carolina
“You don't have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them.” ~Ray Bradbury Keep reading, friends. 📚
Gates posted a compilation video of his best Trump lip-syncs. The clip quickly exploded, breaking out from TikTok to other social platforms where it’s now racking up views by the millions. Critics of Trump are reveling in it, calling it one of the funniest pieces of Trump satire to surface in years.
This!
Susan Collins apparently hasn’t held a town hall in ages…so protesters decided to show up at her ribbon-cutting ceremony, instead. I’m sure she found their response ‘concerning’. Video courtesy of @dabbs346.bsky.social and @ab21.bsky.social.
www.cnn.com/2025/08/26/p... AOC received the third-most small-dollar donations in the first half of the year on ActBlue.
Amen... this is a taboo topic but we MUST start talking about it... obligatory retirement for all elected position at 70. Period.
Amen... this is a taboo topic but we MUST start talking about it... obligatory retirement for all elected position at 70. Period.
August 26, 2025
Let’s call this what it is: a rant fueled by disgust, fear, and one last ounce of hope. belib.org/GxUiUjW
Release #EpsteinFiles
Denmark's foreign minister had the top US diplomat in the country summoned for talks after the main national broadcaster reported that at least three people with connections to President Donald Trump have been carrying out covert influence operations in Greenland. belib.org/E1rDbvp
“We are doing very well,” Kennedy said. “We will have announcements as promised in September, finding interventions, certain interventions, now that are clearly almost certainly causing autism. And we’re going to be able to address those in September.”
Health and Human Services Secretary RFK Jr ordered 46 states, five territories, and the District of Columbia to remove gender identity content from their sex education materials, saying that "Federal funds will not be used to poison the minds of the next generation." belib.org/wVtbX30
It isn’t one stumble or one slurred word. It’s a decade-long pattern. belib.org/yTOPvP7