The Jolly Barker

Democracy enjoyer and Combat Mosquito Trainer. I’m something of a diplomat myself. 🇺🇸🇨🇦🇺🇦

[The Jolly Barker @TheOriginalGVC]

My heart, my namesake, my beautiful blue-eyed boy. 6,437 days of unbridled, exuberant love and joy with you, all among the best days of my life.

RIP my little man. You did real good. I love you forever. Now go find your brothers and be free.

[Ukraine Rally DC 🇺🇸🇺🇦 @ukrainerallydc]

Don't forget to call your Senators and tell them to pass the Ukraine Support Act! @Community4UKR
Join us here at Constitution Ave NE and Delaware Ave NE by Russell Senate Office Building from 4-7pm tomorrow Tuesday.
#CrimeaIsUkraine 🇺🇸🇺🇦

[The Jolly Barker @TheOriginalGVC]

@ralexdc Dan Negrea is a traitor working for a pedophile and can be trusted precisely as much as putin.

[Lev Havryliv @LevHavryliv]

@ralexdc @exileoftza Russia has violated over twenty ceasefires since 2014.

It can’t be trusted with another one.

A ceasefire leaving millions of Ukrainians under brutal Russian occupation is no solution.

There is a military solution to this war just as there was in WWII.

[The Jolly Barker @TheOriginalGVC]

@may0nnaisebenz @j_fishback I agree fishback is as much a leech on society as @SenRickScott

[The Jolly Barker @TheOriginalGVC]

@pietka_t @TankerFella I’m glad the troll farms read my shit. now fuck off and get mobilized. https://t.co/8qXu64bxvd

[The Jolly Barker @TheOriginalGVC]

@IAPonomarenko Putin is Dead Man Walking.

[The Jolly Barker @TheOriginalGVC]

@j_fishback grifters gonna grift. and then get smoked.

[The Jolly Barker @TheOriginalGVC]

@GregoryKBovino You will die alone and unwanted and nature shall forget you as soon as you’re cold.

[The Jolly Barker @TheOriginalGVC]

@USWPColby You’re a pint-sized traitorous piece of shit and I hope I never cross you in person.

[The Jolly Barker @TheOriginalGVC]

@RepLuna when will you introduce the same requirements for Congresswomen?

[The Jolly Barker @TheOriginalGVC]

@punknafo

[D@Fupp$t€R @punknafo]

🇮🇪 It saddens me that I feel I have to point this out but the vast majority of the Irish people stand firmly with Ukraine.

Don’t let anyone fool you into directing hatred at ordinary Irish men, women, and families. They are not your enemy.

Russia has proven incredibly skilled at sowing division and pulling the wool over people’s eyes — exploiting grievances, amplifying fringe voices, and trying to paint entire nations with one brush. But we must be smarter than their propaganda.

Yes, the Irish government has made mistakes and deserves real criticism for some of its positions and policies. No nation’s leadership is beyond reproach. But that is not the same as blaming the Irish people themselves.

The heart of Ireland — its working people, its communities, its diaspora — has shown real solidarity with Ukraine time and again. Let’s keep that in mind.

Hate the propaganda. Challenge bad policy. But don’t turn on the Irish people.

We’re stronger when we see each other clearly — not through Moscow’s distorting lens.

Slava Ukraini. 🇺🇦

[Kate from Kharkiv @BohuslavskaKate]

Locking content to the region where it was created is the worst thing this platform could do to Ukrainians (which I can't prove is happening, but it certainly feels that way).

We are already fully aware that we are being bombed, we see russian atrocities every single day. We need to get the word out, not in, and we need to get help in from the world's democracies.

​Please help Ukrainians you follow fight the algorithm by interacting with our content, especially when we post about Russian war crimes.
​Pic for attention.

[Anonymous @YourAnonNews]

Dumb fucknuts

[The Jolly Barker @TheOriginalGVC]

@MonicaCrowley How you have failed your forebears. You shame them in ways you are too stupid to understand.

[The Husky @Mr_Husky1]

They looked at the neat rows of graves and said, "These men will never be forgotten."

That was the solemn vow made by the residents of a small Dutch town called Oosterbeek just after the devastation of World War II.

The sky above this community near Arnhem had once been filled with thousands of falling paratroopers, but today, it is filled with the soft voices of children whispering to the quiet earth.

For over eight decades, the youngest citizens of this village have guarded a sacred promise made to teenagers and young men who crossed the ocean to fight for a freedom they would never live to see.

If you walk through the local military cemetery today, you will find 1,759 white headstones standing in perfect, silent rows. These graves belong to the airborne soldiers who lost their lives in September 1944 during the brutal Battle of Arnhem. When the gunfire finally stopped and the smoke cleared, the grieving locals knew they had to do something to honor the sacrifice.

They decided to keep their promise in the most beautiful, living way possible. Instead of just building cold stone monuments or holding formal political speeches, they passed the torch of memory directly into the hands of their children.

Every single year since 1945, the school children of Oosterbeek have adopted a specific soldier's grave. A child is given a name, an age, and a hometown of a fallen hero. They learn about where the soldier grew up, what he loved, and how his life ended on that fateful autumn day.

The locals affectionately call these young caretakers the flower children.

During the annual memorial service, a profound silence falls over the entire area. Hundreds of school children walk through the cemetery gates, clutching bright, fresh flowers in their small hands.

They approach their assigned headstones with deep reverence, treating the fallen soldiers not as strangers from an old history book, but as beloved members of their own families.

One young girl, carefully wiping a stray leaf off a white stone, looked up and said, "He was only nineteen when he died here, so I come to visit him because his own mother never could."

The children, some as young as six years old, kneel on the grass to pull weeds and arrange their bouquets. They whisper soft words of gratitude in Dutch to soldiers who arrived from the United Kingdom, Poland, and Canada. These men gave up their entire futures for a country they had never even visited before.

Families of the fallen soldiers still travel from all corners of the globe to witness this incredible scene. For decades, aging mothers, brothers, and later nieces and nephews, have stood at the edge of the cemetery with tears in their eyes. Seeing a young child gently tending to the grave of their lost relative brings a rare kind of comfort.

The sharp pain of an ancient loss transforms into a warm, shared gratitude that spans across generations and oceans.

Freedom is never free, and its cost is etched deep into the soil of this town. The people of Oosterbeek have found a way to honor that heavy price by teaching their children that true bravery does not just belong in heavy textbooks or official government ceremonies.

True bravery lives on through quiet gestures, caring hands, and the simple act of remembering those who can no longer speak for themselves.

A long time ago, those young soldiers fell from the sky to save a village of strangers. Today, the great-grandchildren of that same village reach out their hands to keep those soldiers alive in the heart of humanity, ensuring they will never truly fade away.

[Dan the “Shadow Tanker Bonker” @realLangerDan]

‼️Two weeks ago on 24 May, the Irish government said on RTÉ Radio that it was “finalising” the Aughinish investigation.

Tonight, they said it should be “competed this month”.

Does this sound like a commitment to urgency? #Alumina21

[Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum]

The details about the Tate brothers in this @newyorker profile are as sick as anything you will ever read. They are rapists, pornographers, traffickers - and heroes to the "conservative" MAGA movement
https://t.co/Zv2l52b9Id

[Caolan @CaolanReports]

This is the Irish minister for foreign affairs pushing sanctions for Isreal while she remains silent about the huge scandal around the russian refinery that still sends 14 ships to St Petersburg per month.

[The Jolly Barker @TheOriginalGVC]

@RapidResponse47 do they ask him why he’s such a