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[mario elocio🌴🇺🇦 @elocio]

#Patriotism is

[GBX @GBX_Press]

🇪🇸 Spain

​Benjamin Netanyahu: "Spain defamed Israeli soldiers, who are the most moral army in the world. I ordered Spain to be excluded from the military coordination center in Kiryat Gat."

​Spanish response – Minister Sira Rego:

​"We are not defaming you; we are describing you as you are."
"You are a system of extermination and crime, and you will all stand before the International Criminal Court."

[Sarrah Bellus @sarrah_bellus]

The idiots drove a presidential motorcade - including the 10-ton "Beast" that transports the president - across a newly laid liner for the Reflecting Pool. Who's brilliant idea was that? Now the liner is damaged and peeling off and they are blaming "vandals". A photo of the vandals is shown here.

[sarah @sahouraxo]

Israeli drones are dropping grenades on children in South Lebanon.

Read that again.

Dropping grenades.

On children.

The “ceasefire” is a lie.

[Stephen King @StephenKing]

It will be at least 40 years before our loved and lovely America recovers from the wounds this selfish, stupid, and ego-driven man has inflicted. That it will recover seems certain to me, but it will leave scars.

[ArchaeoHistories @histories_arch]

When Emily Wilson published her translation of The Odyssey, it quietly but decisively shifted how many readers understood one of the foundations of Western literature. For centuries, English versions of the poem had been shaped by male translators who often filtered Homer’s Greek through Victorian, Edwardian, or mid-20th Century assumptions about gender, class, and morality. Wilson approached the text with a different aim: fidelity not to tradition, but to the language itself.

Her translation pays close attention to what the Greek actually says, rather than what earlier translators assumed it meant. Where previous versions softened Odysseus into a noble hero or exaggerated the moral failings of female characters, Wilson strips away editorial judgment. Words that had long been rendered with moralizing or misogynistic overtones—especially when applied to women, servants, or the enslaved—are reexamined and translated with consistency and precision. A term describing women as sexually suspect, for example, is no longer quietly upgraded to “faithful” or “pure” when it suits male sympathy.

Equally important is what Wilson avoids. She resists anachronistic language that romanticizes violence, hierarchy, or domination. Her Odysseus is clever and ruthless, not automatically admirable; Penelope is intelligent and strategic, not merely patient and chaste. Enslaved women are named as enslaved, not euphemized into “maids,” forcing modern readers to confront the social realities the poem assumes rather than smoothing them away for comfort.

Wilson’s choices don’t modernize Homer—they clarify him. By refusing to insert gendered judgment or inherited bias, her translation reveals how much earlier versions reflected the values of their translators rather than the ancient text. The result is an Odyssey that feels sharper, more unsettling, and more honest: a poem about power, survival, and storytelling itself, finally allowed to speak without centuries of moral varnish.

© Reddit

#archaeohistories

[Mitch Jackson, Esq. @mitchjackson]

Let me be really clear about what just happened.

The head of the U.S. Postal Service sat in front of the United States Senate and said the quiet part loud: no voter list, no mail ballots. Full stop.

You don’t get to look away from this one.

This is a proposed rule. It’s being fought in court. But the fact that it was said — that a federal official openly threatened to withhold your ballot — that matters.

Your vote is yours. Not the administration’s. Not USPS’s. Yours.

Stay informed. Stay loud.

[Brian Allen @allenanalysis]

NEWS: Three-star Admiral Nancy Lacore just won a Democratic House primary in South Carolina.

She was fired by Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth.

Her story is a reminder that public service doesn’t begin or end with a job title.

Some people spend their lives looking for ways to contribute.

Others actually do it.

Show Admiral Lacore some love and leave a 💙.

[Mallory McMorrow @MalloryMcMorrow]

One billionaire family controls the bridge that carries 25% of all U.S.–Canada trade.

The good news? There's a brand new public bridge right next door (and Canada paid for the whole thing).

The bad news? Donald Trump won't let it open.

Here's the story:

For more than a decade, Michigan and Canada worked together to build a new public crossing right next to it — six lanes over the Detroit River, named for a Canadian-born Red Wings legend, built by thousands of union workers. Canada paid the entire bill. Michigan co-owns it. It's finished. It’s a shining example of international cooperation and collaboration, with a tremendous return for both sides: more jobs, faster trade, and lower costs.

So why isn't it open?

Because the Moroun family, who own the rival Ambassador Bridge just up the river, doesn’t want the competition. They spent years and tens of millions of dollars trying to stop any competing international crossing from being built or opening. They lost. So they went to the White House instead.

In January, Matthew Moroun gave $1 million to a pro-Trump super PAC. Then the billionaire called Trump's Commerce Secretary and, just hours later, Trump suddenly attacked the same publicly owned bridge he praised in his own first term and threatened to block it.
Then, the day before the June 12th ribbon-cutting, the opening was called off indefinitely.

It's corruption so flagrant it would be laughable if it weren't so damaging.

Trump is screwing over Michiganders for the interests of billionaires — holding a finished, publicly owned project hostage to protect one donor's toll booth.

So a finished bridge sits closed, Michiganders keep paying the higher tolls, cars and trucks cost more, and a billionaire family keeps its monopoly.

Mr. President: stop playing games. Open the damn bridge.

[Jon Cooper 🇺🇸 @joncoopertweets]

Somebody should explain to @JohnFetterman that contempt for the policies of Netanyahu’s right-wing government does not equate to contempt for Israel. I’m Jewish and I despise Netanyahu.

[Joni Askola @joni_askola]

If you want to see what true elite hypocrisy looks like, look no further than tech oligarch Peter Thiel.

He is the ultimate example of a man who successfully climbed the ladder of democratic freedom and is now trying to pull it up behind him.

Thiel owes his entire fortune to the liberalism and protections of Western democracy. Moving to the United States as an immigrant and living openly as a member of a sexual minority, he benefited immensely from California's legal and social progressivism. Today, he uses that same fortune to bankroll authoritarian ideologies. His worldview is deeply rooted in a fascist contempt for democratic institutions, and he is obsessed with replacing public governance with corporate, autocratic control.

He feels absolutely no loyalty to the United States or the people living here. Thiel operates as a borderless sovereign who maintains multiple exit strategies. Whether it is his controversial fast-tracked citizenship in New Zealand or his new moves in Argentina, he is always ready to escape the consequences of the political fires he lights, leaving regular people to burn.

He is the hypocritical and dangerous ”global elite” his pawns claim to fight

[Jo @JoJoFromJerz]

Out of 20,000 sex offenders incarcerated in our federal prisons, Ghislaine Maxwell was the ONLY one who the Trump administration moved to a low security prison camp.

Why isn’t this a bigger scandal?
Where is the press??

[Norm Clark @Normsmusic]

James Robison
What Joyce Carol Oates wrote to Elon Musk on Twitter. I am told it rattled him. I love it.
“So curious that such a wealthy man never posts anything that indicates that he enjoys or is even aware of what virtually everyone appreciates – scenes from nature, pet dog or cat, praise for a movie, music, a book (but doubt that he reads); pride in a friend’s or relative’s accomplishment; condolences for someone who has died; pleasure in sports, acclaim for a favorite team; references to history. In fact he seems totally uneducated, uncultured. The poorest persons on Twitter may have access to more beauty & meaning in life than the ‘most wealthy person in the world.’”

[Mike Levin @MikeLevin]

A note to my friends who still back Trump:

I am not here to dunk on you. I am writing because you have a working brain, and this story insults it.

The Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool got a $14 million paint job. Shortly thereafter the water turned green and the new “American flag blue” coating started peeling off the bottom in sheets. Trump says vandals did it. He claims, without evidence, that someone took a knife and cut a 300-foot slit, a number that grew to 350 feet while he was still talking.

Back on May 4, Trump bragged about that same coating and said, if you had a knife, you could not even cut it, so strong, like powerful rubber. He cannot have it both ways.

And the green water?

A George Mason scientist tested it and found ordinary, non-toxic algae, the kind that blooms in any shallow sunny pool. To fight it, crews dumped hydrogen peroxide into the water.

Hydrogen peroxide is also a paint stripper.

That, not sabotage or vandalism, is the obvious reason the paint came off. They wrecked their own paint job, then blamed phantom vandals for it.

The lone "vandal" they paraded is a 67-year-old Olympian who touched a flap of paint already peeling on its own.

Here is the thing. If they will look you in the eye and lie about something this small, something you can see with your own eyes, ask yourself what else they are lying to you about.

Again, you have a working brain. People like Karoline Leavitt are counting on you to stay loyal instead of exercising independent thought.

Prove them wrong.

[Pope Leo XIV @Pontifex]

Dear writers, we need your imagination, your narrative creativity and your lively thinking. We need these to create spaces of freedom and authenticity, within which divine grace can make the promise of consolation and peace resound. https://t.co/FEmCrdQ392

[The New York Times @nytimes]

Breaking News: Officials knew the $16.4 million Reflecting Pool renovation was peeling and turning green earlier than they acknowledged. https://t.co/zQ7FlZtu89

[Angry Staffer @Angry_Staffer]

WOW!! JD Vance got the Iranians to AGREE to the SAME thing we had under OBAMA in the agreement that TRUMP pulled out of!

All it took was months of war, 300 billion to Iran, and one of the biggest US capitulations in history.

ART OF THE DEAL, BABY!!

[Zara Quinn @_Zaraquin]

Mocking Mother mari and Jesus Christ spitting on Christians and still some dumb ass support Zionism.

Fuck israel, Fuck zionism,

[anyone_want_chips @anyonewantchips]

Hillary Clinton was mocked for warning us about Tulsi Gabbard. Turns out, she was right. About everything.

[Not Your Average Liberal @NotAvgLiberal]

Imagine a country where you can get a 10 year prison sentence for removing peeling paint from a pool…

And receive no prison sentence for raping a child.

Welcome to America.

[Republicans against Trump @RpsAgainstTrump]

NEW: A federal judge appointed by George W. Bush has thrown out Justice Department subpoenas targeting Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz and his allies, calling them an abusive and retaliatory effort to punish Walz for refusing to assist Trump’s immigration crackdown.

Judge Patrick Schiltz said there was “no doubt” the subpoenas were issued to damage Walz, writing: “Initiating a criminal investigation in order to harass political opponents or to coerce them into taking official action — particularly official action that the federal government cannot directly require those political opponents to take — is a blatantly unlawful and unethical use the grand-jury process.”