Eric Grolimund 🇨🇭

Harley & Indian rider, runner, diver, golfer, skier / German Shepherd lover / Anti-tRump / First Nation supporter / Atheist / Moderna 💉4/4
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[Señor Don ˈPerədē @scaredketchup]

Presidente Trumpito sings "Make Algae Great Again" as America 250 drowns in the reflecting pool swamp

[么 ꜱ ᴀ ᴍ ꪜ, @___TheGOOdWitch]

The greatest insult to human intelligence is the idea that an infinite being is personally offended by what you do in your bedroom,but entirely unmoved by children dying of bone cancer.

[Native American History @_nativeamerica]

More than 400 Blackfeet people, from small children to respected elders, stood together on sacred ground and formed the shape of a grizzly bear — not for attention, not for fame, but for something much bigger than themselves.

They stood for the land.

For generations, Indigenous people have protected mountains, rivers, forests, and animals long before the world started talking about conservation. To them, nature is not a resource to be owned. It is family. It is spirit. It is life itself.

The grizzly bear is sacred in many Native traditions. It represents strength, wisdom, survival, and protection. So when hundreds of people joined together in this powerful formation at Badger-Two Medicine, they were sending a message the world could not ignore:

“Our land is not empty. Our culture is not forgotten. Our voices still matter.”

In a time when so much of the natural world is being destroyed for profit, moments like this remind us that there are still people willing to stand shoulder to shoulder to protect what is sacred for future generations.

No violence.
No hatred.
Just unity, culture, respect, and love for the Earth.

The image is powerful because it shows something many people have forgotten:
When humans work together with the land instead of against it, something beautiful happens.

Maybe that’s why this photo touches so many hearts across America. It is more than a protest.
It is a prayer.
A reminder.
A warning.
And a symbol of hope.

Respect Indigenous land.
Protect nature.
Listen to Native voices before more sacred places disappear forever.

If you could send ONE message to future generations about protecting the Earth, what would you say?

[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

[Eric Grolimund 🇨🇭 @EGrolimund]

Farewell my lovely companion, 13 years of happiness together, miss you so much💔

[Gandalv @Microinteracti1]

The President of the United States is asleep at his desk. Again.

Behind him stand seven grown adults in expensive suits, and not one of them is doing anything about it. One is mid-sentence. Another is gazing sideways with the haunted look of a man whose pension depends on never acknowledging what he can see in his peripheral vision.

The rest of the world is watching, and the rest of the world has noticed something. Americans are terrified of authority. That fear has settled over this administration like a fog, and it turns otherwise functional adults into warm furniture. Nobody moves. Nobody speaks. The paralysis is total.

In any European parliament, in any boardroom from Oslo to Ljubljana, someone would have leaned over by now. Tapped a shoulder. Said, quietly but clearly, that perhaps this isn’t the moment. Somebody would have done something, because the alternative, pretending a sleeping man is running a meeting, would have been too absurd to sustain.

Not here. Here, seven men have collectively decided that the correct professional response to the President losing consciousness in the Oval Office is to carry on as though he were a particularly demanding houseplant.

[Gandalv @Microinteracti1]

🇺🇸🤡 The Retreat of the weakest Superpower in history.

Putin did not defeat the United States militarily. He did not need to. He simply looked Trump in the eye, and Trump tucked his tail and trotted home.

On June 3rd, U.S. European Command confirmed it. A third of America’s fighter jets assigned to NATO, gone. Half its strategic bombers, gone. Submarine commitments, eliminated entirely. The Financial Times reported the cuts were more sweeping than anyone had expected.

European capitals are not panicking. They are seething. The reaction across the continent is not fear, it is contempt. Cold, quiet, lasting contempt for a man they have watched perform weakness for years and are now watching formalise it in writing. Europeans despise weakness. They have a long memory for it. And they will not forget this.

Trump is described across Europe, by serious people in serious rooms, as the most cowardly president America has ever produced. Not dangerous. Not unpredictable. Cowardly. A man who mistakes grovelling for diplomacy and calls it a deal. In Warsaw, Tallinn, Paris and Berlin the verdict is the same: America turned out to be considerably smaller than advertised. The paper tiger accusation Washington spent decades throwing at its rivals has come home. It fits perfectly.

Russia and China are not hiding their amusement. Putin did not fire a shot. He just needed Trump to perceive strength and respond the way Trump always responds to strength: with immediate, grateful submission.

American generals and admirals are furious and humiliated. Officers who spent careers building the structures that kept the peace are watching it get packed into boxes by a man who flinches when Putin clears his throat. The word used in private, repeatedly, is embarrassing.

Every soldier, sailor and general in the United States Armed Forces knows exactly what has happened here. They just cannot say it out loud. Because the man who gave the order is still in the building.

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[Michael T. Lester @MichaelTLester]

I had almost 300 responses to my Cuba post.

The most common reply was: "Because communism."

Okay. Let's accept that as true. Communism is a failed economic system. Cuba's government is repressive. Castro was a dictator.

Now answer the question: Why does punishing ordinary Cubans with a 67-year embargo serve American interests?

If the goal is freedom for the Cuban people, starvation is a strange way to free them.

If the goal is regime change, it hasn't worked in 67 years.

If the goal is to help Cubans, lifting the embargo costs us nothing and gives them everything.

The communism answer explains why we don't like Cuba. It doesn't explain the embargo.

Try again.

[Gandalv @Microinteracti1]

🇺🇸 The Gun People Who Can’t Spot a Tyrant

America is, when you think about it, absolutely magnificent in its absurdity.

Here is a country so profoundly committed to the idea of armed resistance against government overreach that it wrote the whole thing down in its founding document.

The Second Amendment. Sacred text. Non-negotiable.

The entire philosophical premise being: we the people shall remain armed, so that should any future government attempt to seize illegitimate power, we can stop them.

Remarkable foresight, really.
There is, however, one rather catastrophic design flaw in this otherwise bold constitutional experiment. It assumed the people clutching the rifles would actually recognize tyranny when it walked through the front door, wiped its feet on the Constitution, and sat down in the Oval Office.

They do not.

It turns out you can dismantle democratic institutions in plain sight, in real time, on television, and roughly half the population will respond by eating toast. Some bacon, perhaps. A scroll through Instagram. Maybe a bit of outrage about something a liberal said in 2025.

The checks are gone. The balances, wobbling. Career officials purged. Courts packed. The press called enemies of the state. Federal prosecutors weaponized. And the proud defenders of liberty, the people who will fight you to the death over a bump stock, are furious about exactly none of it.

Because nobody told them what authoritarianism actually looks like in the early stages. It doesn’t arrive in a tank. It arrives in a suit, with a slogan, and it’s on your side, and it’s very mean to the people you already didn’t like.

So they sit there. Chewing. Scrolling. Completely unaware that the country they are willing to die for has already, quietly, become a rather different country entirely.

The guns, I should note, remain absolutely fine.

[Gandalv @Microinteracti1]

Marco Rubio Has Discovered That NATO Exists

Marco Rubio stood at a podium recently and said, with the confidence of a man who has never read anything, that if NATO can’t be used to “project to other contingencies,” then “we have a problem.”

He is correct. There is a problem. The problem is Marco Rubio.

Article 5 of the NATO treaty has existed since 1949. It says, in language so simple a golden retriever could grasp it, that an attack on one member is an attack on all. That’s it. That’s the whole thing.

You don’t need a law degree. You barely need literacy.

What Article 5 does not say, and what no page of the NATO founding treaty has ever suggested, is that 31 sovereign European nations signed up to serve as a strategic parking lot for American military adventures on the other side of the planet.

Denmark did not join a defensive alliance in 1949 so that, 75 years later, it could help Washington bomb a country it got bored looking at.

NATO is a shield. Not a sword. Not a taxi service. Not a valet for whatever impulsive geopolitical tantrum is trending in Washington this quarter.

The Americans have now spent 15 months confused by this distinction.

Their finest minds, their cabinet secretaries, their very best people, staring at the treaty like a dog watching television. Ears up. Deeply engaged. Understanding absolutely nothing.

The good news is that Europe has finally understood something too: you cannot outsource your survival to people who find a single sentence intellectually challenging.

Gandalv / @Microinteracti1

[crazer @CrazerArts]

When I was a teen, my family moved to GA from growing up in Chicago and Wisconsin.

Everything you've said in this post is acutely accurate to what I experienced living in the south.

Even as a kid, I experienced people calling me a "fucking yankee" (a slur my friends had to explain to me, as I thought it had something to do with sports or something). I was called "race traitor" for having non white friends. I was called "satanic" because I was atheist (lol).

For years, when I met new people, I frequently was told "go back to whatever the hell country you came from" because they couldn't wrap their heads around my lack of southern drawl.

In my 8th grade middle school, I was taught things I already learned in 6th and 7th grade up north. My history class was mostly about the civil war, which the teacher called "the war of norther aggression". There was a show and tell in that class where kids brought in pictures of the shrines in their homes to their relatives who fought for the south in the civil war, and talked about them as if they were superheroes. "the south shall rise again" was a mantra often heard and seen on tee shirts and stickers and whatnot.

On main street in our suburban town, there is a store right next to the post office, that peddles in all the kkk wears. Where these folks can buy their confederate flaks, nazi flags, and (i assume) now trump flags. They had full kkk outfits on display, along with all the sashes and badges and everything. My troublemaker girlfriend in high school was curious about what else they had, so she went in there and acted all excited about everything. They gave her a full-on swag bag full of stuff they kept behind the counter. Extreme supremacist pamphlets and booklets and all kinds of shit that most people would assume is only in movies.

I ran into these folks in middle school, high school, in suburbs, rural areas, and in Atlanta. Classmates, coworkers, teachers, cops, and randos in the wild. I saw everything described by the original poster during my years living in the south, and much more. Much worse.

Not everybody in the south is like this. It would be goofy to imply that or to try to suggest it, but they are there. The numbers are not small. Their roots are deep, as are their commitment to the beliefs described in the original post. (I also realize this isn't limited to the south, but during my years living there, it was far more concentrated than other places I've lived or visited)

The Fox News / Trump stuff feeds a beast that has existed for many decades. The people who used to speak quietly about their supremacist beliefs amongst themselves or when in private, were made loud and now shout as Trump has encouraged them to do so.

[James Tate @JamesTate121]

You see this kind of thing in struggling lower-income Southern households, and it tells a very specific story.
When life hasn't delivered much.... no wealth, no power, no real social standing.... some folks discover that white supremacy is basically a free membership card to a club that makes them feel superior without requiring any actual achievement.
It's the world's laziest status symbol.
The starter kit is always the same:
*A Confederate flag honoring a war their ancestors lost badly 160 years ago.
*A gun they'll never actually need.
*A Bible they've never actually read.
*And Fox News running 24/7 telling them they're REAL Americans.... unlike those fancy elitist Democrats who are secretly importing an army of replacement voters to steal their....
Their what exactly? Their Dollar General? Their 1987 Camaro on cinder blocks in the yard?
FOX found the formula, and they never let go of it: Take a man who has nothing, tell him the reason he has nothing is because those people are taking it.... and suddenly he's not a struggling nobody.
He's a soldier in a cultural war. He matters. He's relevant. He becomes a MAGA Warrior!
And THAT.... ladies and gentlemen.... is precisely how a twice-impeached, four-times-indicted, 34-time felon, bankrupt New York con man who golfs at his own resorts became the hero of the working man.
You genuinely cannot make this stuff up.
And I write this so that hopefully they will recognize what they have done and what they are doing and snap out of it.....
I was born and raised in Appalachia ... These very people could be my relatives ..... but ... I .... got common sense from my granny ----- "question everything". VIA~Lee Murphy

[Gianl1974 @Gianl1974]

Here are a few reasons why nobody should take Melania Trump seriously.

When Donald Trump publicly mocked the killing of Rob Reiner, Melania stayed silent.

When Donald Trump publicly celebrated the death of Robert Mueller, Melania stayed silent.

When Donald Trump publicly, and repeatedly, called Marjorie Taylor Greene a "traitor," triggering death threats against her and her family — threats that the former representative said the president blew off and dismissed when she asked him to stop — and continuing his public attacks against her even after she informed him of those threats, Melania stayed silent.

When U.S. intelligence essentially confirmed Donald Trump's war against Iran mistakenly hit a school, taking the lives of nearly 200 children — while her husband refused to acknowledge the mistake, take responsibility, or even apologize — Melania stayed silent.

When Donald Trump and his oldest son publicly mocked the attack on Nancy Pelosi's husband, a senior citizen, with a hammer by a fanatic who had supported Donald Trump's lies about the results of the 2020 election, Melania stayed silent.

When a Donald Trump supporter hunted down Democrats, taking the lives of two while shooting two others in an act of horrific violence in Minnesota last year, and Donald Trump didn't even reach out to the governor of the state to offer help or condolences, Melania stayed silent.

When Donald Trump chose to attack and criticize Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer after an attempt to kidnap her by far-right radical lunatics was thwarted, rather than simply expressing relief that these lowlifes who were plotting to do so were stopped, Melania stayed silent.

She's married to one of the worst human beings on the planet. An absolute lowlife piece of garbage who's among the most disgraceful people to ever be allowed to call themselves "president" — who spends hours every single day lashing out and attacking others with some of the most vile statements imaginable — and Melania stays silent.

Oh, but when Jimmy Kimmel makes a joke about her husband's age in a comedy sketch — now the thin-skinned, easily triggered snowflake who married a man who's only two years younger than her father for his money has something to say.

Just... stop.

Go away.

Nobody cares.

In my lifetime, there's not been a First Lady who's less consequential than Melania. She's a clown whose biggest accomplishment will be marrying a man old enough to be her father for his money and not throwing up while they conceived their son.

And if my words are harsh, I don't care. When she took up a cause "against cyberbullying" while she's married to the most infamous cyberbully on the planet, while never once standing up to any of the horrible things he's said online — she can F all the way off.

She needs to be like the rest of us, sitting around waiting to read that big, beautiful headline so we can all celebrate.

Until then, nobody cares what she has to say about anything — including her husband.

[Manuel R. @teammlr1]

@CalltoActivism

[Daniel Davis Deep Dive @DanielLDavis1]

Is anyone even gonna ask the obvious question: why?

Why has it become normal for America to go attacking and destroying and seizing other countries and taking their assets, without any justification? It goes beyond question that Cuba poses no threat to anyone. Why then, is military force on the table?

Where is the legality, the justification, the morality…

They are all absent, and this is just another naked power grab, of the alleged most powerful nation on the planet, trying to crush one of the smallest and weakest powers in this hemisphere.

It is disgraceful and disgusting.

[Adi el Grande @icardo8]

🚨 ÚLTIMA HORA: Estados Unidos exige que los aficionados de Argelia, Senegal, Cabo Verde, Costa de Marfil y Túnez paguen un depósito de 15.000 dólares cada uno si quieren asistir al Mundial de 2026.

La administración Trump afirma que esto tiene como objetivo "desincentivar la inmigración ilegal".
@TheAthletic

EEUU es un país inviable para un Mundial de fútbol.

[Rubén Blades @rubenblades]

De todas las fotos que se le han tomado a Trump, ​esta lo “retrata” espiritualmente. Su falta de empatía, cero interés en el problema de otro, ausencia de solidaridad, falta de cooperación para ayudar a terceros, cero preocupación por el estado del otro. Completamente ausente, emocional y humanamente, completamente incapaz de sentir lo que normalmente una persona, y más en su posición, sentiría.
Pobre de la gente que piensa que a Trump le interesa asistirlos. Esta foto lo dice claramente.
Tu problema no es su problema. A él le interesa él y nadie más.

[James Tate @JamesTate121]

A retired lawyer in the U.S. was watching the news when he saw the story about the new Trump commemorative coin and something immediately didn't sit right with him.
So he did what lawyers do. He went digging...
And he found it. A federal law passed in 1866 that explicitly prohibits living people from appearing on U.S. currency. It's not a grey area. It's not open to interpretation. It's been sitting in the books for over 150 years.
The last time this actually happened was 1926 when a coin featuring Calvin Coolidge was minted while he was still alive and serving as president. The backlash was immediate. The coins were pulled. And the law was reaffirmed...
Now this retired lawyer has filed a federal lawsuit against the U.S. Mint not because of who is on the coin, but because the law says it simply cannot be done. Full stop...
No political agenda. No protest. Just one guy, a dusty legal statute, and a federal case that nobody in Washington apparently saw coming

[James Tate @JamesTate121]

Too on point not to share, “Aussie reply to Trump rant about NATO not being there for us.

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 fucking mouth. Credit (borrowed from) Jim Scroggins - original author 📷 unknown”