Christel Libiot 🌊☮️🇺🇦🏳️‍🌈🌊💚🌎

Proud Liberal, Biodynamic Craniosacral Therapist, Community Herbalist, Wellness Coach, Earth Mama, Modern Day Priestess, #RememberWhoYouAre #Love&Peace

[Warren Gunnels @GunnelsWarren]

Can’t stop thinking about how Wall Street is celebrating Elon Musk becoming the world’s first trillionaire, while he single handedly eliminated humanitarian aid that will lead to the needless deaths of 4.5 million of the poorest children in the world in the next 4 years.

[Hali Rederer @its_outta_here]

@CNN Hell No to this dumb ass demented notion!

Impotent Lazy Republican Controlled Congress must get off their useless whimpering corrupt cowardly asses and stop this !

@HouseGOP @SenateGOP

[RobertFella 🇺🇸 🇺🇦 @Bonkavision5]

Too on point not to share. This is great, but too bad the Orange Felon’s enablers won’t let him see it.
This Australian's reply to #Trump's rant about “NATO not being there for America” is perfect.
"Mate. You run a country with 600,000 homeless people sleeping on the street tonight. A country where 40% of adults can't cover a $400 emergency without borrowing money. A country where insulin costs more than a car payment and people are rationing it to survive. A country where medical debt is the number 1 cause of bankruptcy. A country where women are dying in hospital car parks because doctors are too scared of abortion laws to treat a miscarriage.
You lock up more of your own citizens than any nation on earth. More than China. More than Russia. More than North Korea. The land of the free has 2 million people in cages, and a quarter of them haven't even been convicted of anything. They're just too poor to make bail.
Your life expectancy is going backwards. You're the only developed nation where that's happening. Your infant mortality rate is worse than Cuba's. Your kids do active shooter drills between maths and English while you sell the gunmaker's stock to your mates.
Your minimum wage hasn't moved in 15 years. You've got teachers working 2 jobs and veterans sleeping under bridges and you just spent a trillion dollars flattening a country that didn't attack you.
And you’ve got a convicted felon, adjudicating raping, paedophile protecting, porn star shagging insurrectionist running the biggest dumpster fire war campaign since the Taliban thanked you very much for losing again.
And you're calling Greenland poorly run?
Greenland has universal healthcare. Free education. One of the lowest incarceration rates in the world. Nobody goes bankrupt there because they got sick. Nobody dies in a waiting room because their insurance said no.
'NATO wasn't there when we needed them." When exactly was that, champ? September 11? Because NATO invoked Article 5 for the first and only time in history FOR YOU. Soldiers from dozens of countries deployed, fought, bled, and died in Afghanistan FOR YOU. Australia wasn't even in NATO and we still showed up. For 20 years.
And you pulled out at 2am without telling anyone and left them to deal with the mess.
So maybe before you start calling other countries poorly run, have a look at your own backyard, you spray-tanned aluminium siding salesman. The only thing poorly run in this picture is your f----- mouth."
- Tony Locke

[M.S @MalaakSafa]

There is no data center on Earth that's worth the bees, water, and trees.

[Brian Allen @allenanalysis]

Congress put $858 million in last year's budget for ICE signing bonuses; up to $50,000 per new agent.

ICE got nearly $30 billion total. Tripled its budget. Hit its 10,000 new-hire target in four months.

A separate program pays local police tens of thousands per officer to help ICE with arrests. The ACLU estimates that could hit $2 billion in 2026.

Meanwhile, beef just hit $7 a pound; a record.

Three out of four Americans say their pay isn't keeping up with inflation.

$250 million went to demolish the White House East Wing for a private ballroom.

$13.1 million went to painting the bottom of the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool blue.

The government found $50,000 for every ICE recruit and $2 billion for police bounties.

The same government says there's no money for healthcare. No money for housing. No money for disaster relief.

[Gandalv @Microinteracti1]

What happens when Europeans find out how poor they are? The Europoor?

Nothing. That’s what happens.

Americans ring the White House every morning to ask what the GDP is today, the way the rest of us check the weather. The trouble is that GDP is what you get when you stick Jeff Bezos and a man sleeping in a Walmart car park into a spreadsheet and take the average. It tells you the country is rich. It does not tell you that a hundred million people inside it are quietly not.
GDP measures how much money sloshes around. It does not measure whether any of it ever reaches you, or what sort of life you get to live once it does.

It also, rather conveniently, doesn’t mention the bill. Because the whole American miracle is being run on a credit card that has been on fire since the Reagan administration. The federal government owes nearly forty trillion dollars. The households owe another eighteen. Car loans, student loans, medical debt, a mortgage the size of a small principality, and a Visa bill that arrives in an envelope you have to open with tongs.

This is the country lecturing the rest of us about prosperity. This is a man pulling up to valet parking in a leased Lamborghini and calling himself rich because nobody at the table has yet asked to see his bank statement.

Run any household like that and the bailiffs would be through the door by Thursday. Run a country like that and apparently you get to be on the cover of The Economist.

And this is where the whole sermon falls apart. Because on every single thing that actually makes a life worth getting out of bed for, Europe wins. Not by a bit. By a humiliating distance. The food. The streets. The holidays. The pavements you can walk on without being flattened by a Dodge the size of a small barn. The cities built before the invention of the strip mall. The Tuesday afternoon that contains an actual lunch, rather than a protein bar eaten standing up over a keyboard. The summer that contains an actual summer.

Pick any parameter that matters to a human being who is alive and would like to remain so in reasonable spirits, and Europe is ahead. Often by a mile. Sometimes by an ocean.

So no. Europeans are not about to find out how poor they are. We found out years ago, had a long hard look at the alternative, the debt, the diabetes, the drive-thru funerals, and decided we’d really rather not.​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​

If you like what you read, follow Gandalv on X: @Microinteracti1

[Timothy Snyder @TimothyDSnyder]

“Superpower Suicide” is a concept to help understand the approach of the Trump regime to the rest of the world. We are fighting a war for no reason we can name, losing it, and covering our defeat with genocidal and apocalyptic propaganda.
https://t.co/m8iQvUGOlW

[Donna Brazile @donnabrazile]

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[Lazzyyyyyy @em_Lazzy]

Jewish trauma is real.
The Holocaust was real.
Antisemitism is real.

And none of that makes the genocide of the Palestinians any less real.

[Pope Leo XIV @Pontifex]

In these days of sorrow, fear, and unwavering hope in God, I feel closer than ever to the beloved people of Lebanon. The principle of humanity, inscribed in the conscience of every person and recognized in international law, entails a moral obligation to protect the civilian population from the horrific effects of war. I call on the parties in the conflict to declare a ceasefire and urgently seek a peaceful solution.

[Phillips P. OBrien @PhillipsPOBrien]

Watching Trump teeter on the edge of blowing up the world economy because of a combination of hubris, strategic incoherence, mendacity and outright stupidity, might be the most extraordinarily depressing thing I have observed in my entire life, or read about in any other period.

[Rick Wilson @TheRickWilson]

100000%

[Peter Beinart @PeterBeinart]

People who dislike Israel should not conflate it with American Jews -just as people should not conflate the PRC with Chinese Americans or ISIS with American Muslims.

And (not but) synagogues should not say "We stand with Israel" because it encourages that conflation. It makes congregants less safe but, more importantly, given what Israel is doing, it's morally indefensible.

It's like a Russian Orthodox church saying "We stand with Russia" after the invasion of Ukraine. https://t.co/dor0WJHbLj

[Earth Hippy 🌎🕊️💚 @hippyygoat]

International news is more accurate than US news.

[Ricky Davila @TheRickyDavila]

The orange felon is happily setting the world on fire whilst completely destroying the United States because he’s a vindictive racist depraved criminal pedophile tyrant with a vengeance.

Don’t blame me, I voted for Kamala Harris.

[Christel Libiot 🌊☮️🇺🇦🏳️‍🌈🌊💚🌎 @ChristelLibiot]

@LindseyGrahamSC @POTUS 🤮🤮🤮

[Bramm @BrammLindentree]

@theliamnissan

[Alex Taylor @AlexTaylorNews]

Amazing moment on French TV. A French judge explains how Trump sent people from the US Embassy basically trying to intimidate her during Le Pen's trial for embezzlement - something they've done to other judges around the world

My English sub-titles 👇

[Christel Libiot 🌊☮️🇺🇦🏳️‍🌈🌊💚🌎 @ChristelLibiot]

@GOP_is_Gutless @BraddrofliT Greenland is not for sale...

[Bernie Sanders @BernieSanders]

If Trump seizes Greenland from Denmark, does that mean that all Americans will be entitled to:

Free healthcare with no deductibles?

A free college education?

52 weeks of paid parental leave?

5 weeks of paid vacation?

Because that’s what everyone in Denmark and Greenland has.