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A Turning Point The post-American world is being created in front of our eyes, in real time, rapidly Substack by @snellarthur.bsky.social open.substack.com/pub/arthursn...
Adolf Hitler's Holocaust started with racist abuse in the streets and chants of "Get out" and "Go home" Then it moved onto racist attacks, graffiti and vandalism Then it was murder, arson and rape Then we had the Genocide carried out by the Government Notice any similarities?
Life of a Sherpa... ๐ซ๐ซก These men bear the weight of climbers ascending Everest. Without these brave and strong people, few would reach the summit โฐ๏ธ Studies have found that the Sherpa have developed 'superhuman' qualities as mountain climbers๐ earthlymission.com/sherpa-peopl...
Netflix: "We are introducing a bill to add Gavin Newsom's face to Mount Rushmore" bsky.app/profile/edhi...
They should do it anyway for the environmental benefits.
Our health system is fucked
68 yrs ago I was a child on a pilgrimage to the Holy Land. As we went in a bus from E Jerusalem to Bethlehem we passed a huge ramshackle refugee camp. I asked the Jordanian policeman I was sitting next to who were these people. He told me they were Palestinians, driven from their homes by Israelis
If you stop blaming immigrants you will start blaming billionaires. And they can't be having that.
How fragile we are!
Greta Thunberg is as much a terrorist as Joan of Arc was a witch. And as much a symbol and inspiration. She matters, whatever Netanyahu and his evil cronies do to her.
Israel has declared Greta Thunberg a terrorist and plans to detain her indefinately in one of their torture camps if she dares to come near Israel in her Freedom Flotilla. Do you stand with Greta Thunberg against the monsterous Israel?
The President of Portugal Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa called the orange felon a Russian asset in a live televised speech. Well done, this is how you do it. ๐
We should hold a sweepstake to guess how many people on DOJ will be working in backrooms to stop this event from happening (at the taxpayer's expense, of course).
I mean, COME ON!!! Where the hell are our Democrats? Why are they silent?
Not white enough?
Definitely worth reading, as despite being written in 1937 it is eerily prescient. Perhaps worrying to me, looking into the US from the outside, is the author, Sinclair Lewis, describes many of the undercurrents in the US that resonate even more loudly and disturbingly today. ISBN 978-0-241-31066-3
The American Experiment as we knew it was over the night Trump got inaugurated and pardoned the Jan 6th insurrectionists. Everything since is just varying levels of delusion and Act Blue fundraising. We are in a dictatorship now and the only way out is to fight like hell.
I agree, Gez. Some candles in the wind come from Fortnum and Mason's, others come from the Pound Shop down The Blue in Bermondsey. We all too often forget how ephemeral we all are ..... especially in this short attention-span world.
Happy Monday. I was so hoping for a 2๏ธโฃ but I made the wrong choice on a 50:50. Would have been nice, but I'm happy enough with a 3๏ธโฃ๐. I try not to overthink my rhymes, and let the RHS of my brain be creative..... so all too often they surprise me, as this one did. #wordle #poetry
Phew! A squeakybumdle on the daisies! Well saved!๐ฌ
You are not exactly correct. Jade's father was black & outside of the Big Brother spat with Shilpa Shetty, which was appalling, you'd be very hard pressed to find other racist utterances from her. It was more friction about class and privilege between Jade & Shilpa, and Jade being coarse & gobby.
#neverforget
People must stop kidding themselves that there are currently no sinister undertones to the flag of Saint George, now that it has been purloined by the far right and their political puppet-masters.
Look if people insist on electing 80 year olds with bad McDonalds habits as President, we will all have to play the very silly game of โdead or not deadโ on the regular.
Notices needed in every newsagent ... meme via Angie Stack
It was fun, and seemed to me to be continuing the tradition of British light comedy films going back to Ealing days.
THINGS THAT MAKE ME HAPPY: The Thursday Murder Club (Netflix). A wonderful movie with an outstanding cast playing great characters. The mysteries are intriguing and filled with twists. I dearly hope thereโs a sequel in the near future. 8-30-25.
What in the ever loving fuck is going on here
The tipping point was the nomination of fascist Supreme Court judges who gave the orange moron a free pass to erect a dictatorship by giving him complete immunity. THAT was the tipping point. And the fact that a convicted felon can become president in your country.
In the alternate universe that is Trumpworld, this was (of course) hailed as the greatest interview anyone has ever given on the economy ๐ซ
Sarah Ransome: โWe were raped by #Epstein & Ghislaine & the system raped us again. If the FBI & governmental institutions listened to Maria Farmer in 1996, I wouldnโt have been raped. Why has it taken this long to get one conviction? And who is responsible behind that? Who are the people covering?โ
Happy Sunday. There were two options by L2 and I went for what I believed was the more likely. As for the verse - occasionally I get a touch of the Attenboroughs. There are many much worse conditions!๐บ
OTD in 1939 Nazi Germany staged the Gleiwitz incident. After accusing Poland of ethnic cleansing against his countrymen, Hitler staged a false flag to justify invasion & genocide. Imagine such bullshit being tolerated today....
Trump is a monster
Dear Americans, welcome to the thrilling game of โDid this dictator die or just disappear for a day?โ Weโve been playing it with Putin and Lukashenko for decades. Enjoy the suspense.
Still, nicely solved, and a wordlehole avoided ๐
A magnificent 2๏ธโฃ - in awe of you ๐คฉ๐๐๐!
Happy Saturday. I tried to keep today's clue-rhyme really simple, relying on single words and meter. I hope it's worked!
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I've had a couple of friends who stopped being bankers and lawyers to become landscape gardeners, but they didn't have to become military reservists first. I guess it's a novel career path.
National Guardner? National Park Service workers laid off, and now the National Guard is doing landscaping in DC. Felon Trump really turned soldiers into gardeners.
www.devonlive.com/news/devon-n... โFollowing the painting of a St George's cross in Tiverton, locals took it upon themselves to add a rainbow flag and a peace symbolโโ๐ฅฐ๐โบ๏ธ Love this
Happy Friday. The first signs that wordle is running out of words are beginning to show, which seems to be saving me a line and reducing the risk of wordleholes, as the alternatives are slowly, surely and once-relentlessly are drying up. The word itself has a number of meanings - I've gone gruesome!
Why, you might ask, do the BBC and Sky News, casting their editorial guidelines to the wind, keep giving massive airtime to the far right, while shutting out leftwing voices? Don't their bosses understand the likely consequences? Only one explanation now remains. They do. And it is what they want.
Happy Thursday. Came down to two possible words and I chose what I thought was the most likely one. As for the verse, I'm sure many of us have been in this predicament. I certainly have!๐ฌ๐
The phone number for the U.S. Capitol switchboard is (202) 224-3121.
Still standing thanks to British engineering ingenuity!๐๐๐๐
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Farageโs โprobity and judgment were sold as the product called Brexit. It turned out to be a piece of shit.โ And, unbelievably, this Labour govt finds itself trapped because it has refused to call this out. What a profound - and now dangerous - political failure. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
The NYT editorial board criticized the Supreme Court for enabling Trumpโs power grab in firing Fed governor Lisa Cook, saying it undermines the rule of law and Fed independence without any evidence of wrongdoing. www.rawstory.com/supreme-cour...
Happy Wednesday. One of my better wordledays - getting it in 2๏ธโฃ and a rhyme that came in my sleep.
#EpsteinFiles โค๏ธ
Oh, the versatility of the US armed services. Rolling out red carpets, loitering aimlessly around DC, picking up litter ...... is there anything they cannot do?
For me the wordle puzzle's about working the left side of the brain. The verse tests the right. The word is the trigger for the rhyme. I really like your photos.
broadcasters are letting Reform set agenda during summer. Theyโre not calling up LibDems Greens,Tories SNP. Theyโve decided Farage gives them toxic goodies to fill airtime. Hereโs what the LibDems say on latest Farage mantra. But Daisyโs not being covered ad nauseam by networks!?Fair coverage now!
"There's a lot of money in wars, except in the war on poverty. Can't make any bread helping the poor." Lenny Bruce
So nicely done and great to share a 3๏ธโฃ with another weaver of words ๐๐! My rhymes are always clues.
๐จ NEW: Nigel Farage has unveiled his plan for the mass deportation of small boat arrivals: To achieve it, Farage says the UK would leave the ECHR and other treaties (including the UN torture convention), And people say Labour is the same as Reform! This is what you get if you split the vote!
Does Trump make all his bad decisions on his own, or does he take orders from Vladimir Putin? In either case, it means America is being governed by a morally corrupt, power-crazed lunatic working on Russiaโs behalf.
We somehow have stop giving credence to someone who blurts out the first thing that enters his head. No reflection. No way of rationalising the pathway there. Just spewing out whatever stream of consciousness is happening to pass its way through at any given moment.
Reform UK, which has a grand total of four MPs, was just given an uninterrupted platform for an hour and a half on the BBC and Sky News channels, in order to talk about its plans for mass deportations When was the last time the Greens (with four MPs) or the Lib Dems (with 72) were given the same?
Happy Tuesday. Getting two letters together gets the average wordler a long way. As for the verse - in the circumstances I think a rhyme about a conservatory would have been a wasted opportunity.
On this day in 1916, President Woodrow Wilson signed the Organic Act, officially creating the National Park Service to protect and preserve Americaโs natural wonders and historic treasures โfor the enjoyment of this and future generations.โ
Happy Monday. Not too tricky today and I never expected to find a word with so many rhyming synonyms.
Happy Sunday. Pleased with a 3๏ธโฃ but it took longer than I expected to figure it out. The verse had to have a natural theme and it's perhaps remiss of me not to have a couple of lines on allergies.
The question I keep on asking time and time again, when it comes to the US under its current administration..... It's also pretty much a clue to America's primary policy position.
