Yep. To look at I would have said Sparaxia and Freesia.
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Yep. To look at I would have said Sparaxia and Freesia.
BREAKING: A federal judge reverses the Trump administration's cut of billions of dollars to Harvard University.
Putin lauds 'brave' North Korean soldiers who fought against Ukraine during talks with Kim #Ukraine
Why couldn’t the Coast Guard just board the boat leaving Venezuela, arrest the people and get more information on who they’re working for? Why did they have to kill the people?
So our military just bombed a boat in international waters and extrajudicially killed suspected drug traffickers without so much as a conversation, let alone a trial? Then posted it on social media? And we’re all supposed to just trust their account?
"If we lose contact with our boats, even for just twenty minutes, we will shut down all of Europe." An Italian dockworker threatened that port workers across Europe would halt all shipments to Israel if contact is lost with any ship of the Global Sumud Flotilla, which set sail from Genoa to Gaza.
Just wrong.
Russian jamming forces Ursula von der Leyen plane to land without GPS The European Commission president’s aircraft had to use paper maps after ‘blatant’ sabotage by the Kremlin during her tour of eastern EU states
And it continues
“America’s public health apparatus appears to be on fire,” said host Joanna Coles, “and the arsonist is RFK Jr.”
Days of confusion over the fate of one of the leaders of the Houthi rebel movement in Yemen ended when the militia said its prime minister had been killed in an Israeli airstrike.
"The impulse behind honoring Ashli Babbitt...blurs the line between lawful sacrifice and unlawful violence. It tells those who gave their lives in defense of the Constitution that their oath was no more meaningful than the motivations of the mob that attacked the Constitution."
@nealkatyal.bsky.social: “You’ve got the president who's imposed the largest tax increase on American consumers since 1993 … and he did it without Congress saying one word. That is not our constitutional structure.”
Again? ( I mean if he has not gone to God yet)
❗️French President Macron: If Putin does not confirm his agreement to meet with Zelensky by Monday, it will mean that the Russian president has outplayed the US leader.
I'm always interested in the numbers. How many want prayer removed?
Sounds like a sociopath.
As America's best Christian, you may not fully appreciate how much I value your posts Mrs Bowers. And I have for over a decade when you used to worship at Landover Baptist Church. So many deeply helpful spiritual posts on that Landover website. I can't find it any more sadly.
I know. But people are allowed to HOPE.
The truly sad thing is that if THAT rumour is true, we would never see President Trump and his enablers tried before a court.
Isn't Ron de Santis the governor there?
Um- I think you'll find that the Curie's may have been the first couple? Pierre and Marie Curie? But I suppose facts don't matter to MAGA (and I don't mean "Make America Gavin Again")
Huh? www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
At last - but too late - that Tim Wilson’s pattern of “shameful and abhorrent” misconduct during the recent federal election has been called out. Thank you, Mark Dreyfus. theaimn.net/what-mark-dr...
Speaker Mike Johnson on the Minnesota shooting: "At the end of the day the problem is not guns. Ok, Jen Psaki? The problem is the human heart. It's mental health."
"It's further eroding...the credibility of those who are in leadership positions in our military, that they would allow full military honors to someone who lost their life while committing the act of sedition." Michael Fanone discusses Ashli Babbitt with JVL:
Disgraceful.
there is no question in my mind that rfk jr is the most dangerous person in this administration and that his eugenicist ideology threatens the lives of millions of people www.advocate.com/politics/dem...
“The last person who asserted the authority to use military personnel for routine law enforcement anywhere in the country for any reason was King George.” #PrayForAmerica religionnews.com/2025/08/28/l...
This, by @jasonhickel.bsky.social, is the clearest explanation I have yet read of why the US and UK governments continue to support the Israeli government, regardless of its great crimes against humanity. jasonhickel.substack.com/p/why-does-t...
Republicans are trying to redraw congressional district lines to keep their grip on Congress in the midterms and beyond. Voters should pick their politicians, not the other way around. Get involved with the @democraticredistricting.com as they fight back: bit.ly/3HJ1ayW
In Atlanta, staff at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention gathered to applaud colleagues who resigned following the firing of Director Susan Monarez. With four top officials stepping down, many now feel that the CDC is effectively finished.
A couple of months ago, the Navy dishonored civil rights hero Harvey Milk by removing his name from a ship. Now, the Air Force is dishonoring itself by celebrating a domestic terrorist called Ashli Babbitt.
"Ashli Babbitt was a grown ass adult who made a series of conscious, ill-advised decisions to engage in treasonous behavior, and she got exactly what she deserved. She was a traitor. She was a threat to national security. There is no nuance needed here."
Republicans: the Party of Pedophiles, Rapists & Perverts ===========================
Dr. William Foege, 89, who helped end smallpox in the 1970s, recently wrote: RFK Jr.’s “words can be as lethal as the smallpox virus.” And his actions are more lethal still. He’s waging war on America. That’s an impeachable offense. He must be removed from office. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/27/h...
It's possible ... hear me out, here …. It may well be that these people lie their asses off whenever they exhale
Oh! So reassuring to know it was not guns, but antidepressants. I really hope RFK ends up in gaol.
RFK Jr on the mass shooting in Minnesota: "We're launching studies on the potential contribution of some of the SSRI drugs and some of the other psychiatric drugs that might be contributing to violence."
Susan Monarez, the CDC director, was fired just shy of a month into her role. At least four other top CDC officials have also submitted their resignations, with one of them writing, “I am not able to serve in this role any longer because of the ongoing weaponizing of public health.”
A former CDC staffer adds: “This is the work of a death cult.”
Breaking - Whistleblowers ATO whistleblower escapes jail time and conviction Former debt collection officer Richard Boyle exposed allegations of aggressive debt collection practices at the government agency seven years ago. www.smh.com.au/politics/fed...
BBC: "We're just reporting what the Israeli Defence Forces have said..." Exactly.
This cleric sure looks and sounds like a schizoaffective disorder. Just saying.
A lot happened for a Monday. But there’s a common theme: Trump’s increasing openness about his power grab. open.substack.com/pub/joycevan...
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My current favorite bit of right-wing Christian hypocrisy is Ken Paxton, a man whose wife is divorcing him for adultery, forcing Texas schools to unconstitutionally post "Thou Shalt Not Commit Adultery." www.houstonchronicle.com/news/houston...
Trump on deploying the National Guard to Chicago: "I have the right to do anything I want to do. I'm the president of the United States."
I was worried they were starting to get it. It doesn’t appear that will happen anytime soon though.
53 cities in Louisiana, Mississippi, Ohio, South Carolina, Tennessee and West Virginia had higher crime rates than D.C. in 2024. Despite this, these states deployed their own National Guard troops to help address D.C.'s newly declared "crime emergency."
"The Agriculture Department will not require poultry companies to limit salmonella bacteria in their products, halting a Biden Administration effort to prevent food poisoning from contaminated meat." www.seattletimes.com/business/usd...
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Postal services around the world suspend deliveries to US: how will it affect you?
THIS…is the mindset. THIS…is the attitude. THIS…is the fire in the gut….that we are going to ALL have to adopt. I have. Have you? We can’t have people sit this one out…and still prevail.
Japan Post just announced they will no longer deliver mail to the United States, joining Germany, Austria, Denmark, Italy, France, and Sweden.
The precise moment when and where in recent weeks America crossed that invisible line from democracy into authoritarianism can and will be debated by future historians, but it’s clear that the line itself has been crossed. www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/america-ti...
Pritzker: Trump looked at the cameras and asked for me personally to say, Mr. President, can you do us the honor of protecting our city? Instead, I say, Mr. President, do not come to Chicago. Your remarks about this effort have betrayed a continuing slip in your mental faculties
“They’re going to kill me here,” Neri Alvarado thought. Alvarado was allegedly targeted by the Trump administration because of his tattoo of an autism awareness ribbon. Now, free from El Salvador's notorious CECOT prison, Alvarado wants the world to know what they lived through.
Walz: "It boggles my damn mind that in the midst of a military takeover of our cities, the flaunting of the rule of law, that the press finds the need to talk about, 'Oh, there's a division in the Dem Party.' There's a division in my damn house & we're still married and things are good. That's life"
Ahem
Did Donald Trump lie about bone spurs to avoid the Vietnam War draft?
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🤣🔊🆙 Repost please or quote. Just spread the truth 👍
What the fuck? “Saint John resident Angela Daigle says she was trying to cross into the U.S. to visit her fiancée when she was handcuffed and detained”
Go fu*k yourselves Trump and Hegseth. I hope Ukraine beats the hell out of Putin without your help so Zelensky can tell you both to go to hell!
LOL
www.nytimes.com/2025/08/24/o...
GORGEOUS!
Maxwell is a liar.
You do have a point.
O for GOD'S SAKE!!!!!!!
The AMERICAN SIDE??????!!!!!! LOL!!!!
Two of the IDF’s favourite things at once
BREAKING: Israeli strikes on Nasser Hospital in Gaza killed at least 15 people, including three journalists, one of whom worked for Reuters, Palestinian health officials said reut.rs/45OFPfr
Loving your work Mark.
BREAKING: Maryland Gov. Wes Moore just announced he refuses to authorize National Guard deployment in Maryland. 🧵
My name is Captain Dylan Blaha, and this message is for members of the National Guard across the USA. I've served in the Illinois Army National Guard for over 12 years, including a deployment to Afghanistan and three years on active duty in Europe. What's going on right now is not normal.
Epstein survivor Sarah Ransome on Ghislaine Maxwell: “I have spent the last 17 years in my own prison for what she, Jeffrey, and all the co-conspirators did to me. I was raped three times a day. Ghislaine must die in prison.”
🚨🇮🇱🇾🇪 Latest from the Israeli Air Force strikes on Yemeni Houthi capital of Sanaa: At least 600 Houthis including several top commanders have been eliminated.
A BIGLY dustbin. A BEAUTIFUL DUSTBIN. A bigger dustbin than has ever been seen before. And I know more about dustbins than any other human being.
Oh the dustbin of history is not far away....
Cartoon by DaveGranlund.com.
WATCH: Former DOJ pardon attorney says that Trump has pardoned rapists, murderers, and child sex offenders.
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-08...
The DOJ released the security video of Epstein's jail in parts so they could take out anything inconvenient. The DOJ released the Maxwell/Blanche transcript in parts so they could take out anything inconvenient. Such an obvious cover-up.
Andrew McCabe casts doubt on Ghislaine Maxwell’s interview with DOJ: “It‘s so suspicious. When you listen to the tapes, you get the sense that Ghislaine Maxwell went into that room knowing what information she had to deliver…to get some sort of benefit that she is pursuing from the administration.”
@rokhanna.bsky.social: “Only 3% of the documents given to the [House] Oversight Committee are new. The rest are already in the public domain. Less than 1% of files have been released. DOJ is stonewalling.” khanna.house.gov/media/press-...
There are few normal rules in USA government anymore abcnews.go.com/US/rep-jim-j...
Last year, in an address to the Society for the Rule of Law Institute (@chkbal.bsky.social), Ambassador John Bolton warned that, if elected to a second term, Trump would abuse and corrupt the Justice Department to carry out retribution. Watch. (ht: @greggnunziata.bsky.social)
In March of last year—eons ago—I interviewed John Bolton at a @chkbal event at the National Press Club about how "Trump would seek retribution … and there would be 'continuing crisis, turmoil, chaos—perhaps amounting to constitutional problems.'" And here we are. www.c-span.org/program/publ...
Lordy Jordon must think we rank and file public are STUPID.
