The Pope wishes Asalaamo Alaikum to the children of Lebanon. Beautiful and a powerful reminder of why we must stand united for justice and peace. ❤️✊🏽

https://youtube.com/shorts/9d9jZgfwvRQ?si=_xT58Jav6uTaqks7

In a surprise twist, the Epstein files released the attorney general.

cr: @jonlovett

Martin Wolf (FT) on how the world see the USA (right now):

'What is far clearer now... is that the US is no longer a credible world leader. If it can elect this man twice, it has lost the plot. Why would it not elect someone even worse? Such a country is incapable of providing reliable global hegemony. What it provides instead is an unpredictable wrecking ball'...

and hence, as I've remarked before, the slow but sure pivot away from the USA as an economic partner is well underway!

#politics

Remember when a “legitimate argument” peddled against #EVs was the power grid would fail? Too much strain? Oh WOE be to the power lines! Grandma will DIE in her home in August because YOU plugged in!

Yet suddenly we are full steam ahead building #datacenters the size of Manhattan to make banana pics. #AI #slop. And the electric demand will be colossal and constant.

Society and the world needs to stop being fooled and corralled by interests that don’t care about you.

#politics #environment

RE: https://mastodon.social/@courtcan/116308754616387000

I don’t make enough money to burn it, but I might start stopping by the bank and demanding a replacement. Enough people rejecting it might make a statement that’s heard

Your Cherokee words for today.
The top word is English followed by how it is written in the Cherokee language followed by how it is spelled in English then how to pronounce it phonetically. "tlah oohleeskawleeyah tlah oohguhweeyoohee"

There once was a family that declared themselves above all others. They had more wealth and used it to gain power and special privilege over the people. Everyone held them in awe and regarded them a mystical unattainable body above even religion.