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Vader en opa, pensionado, koken, campervakanties, schaatsen, fietsen #dekaleberg en zwemmen. 'Pluk de dag'🍀

[Valy 🎩🎭 @liderfiscal]

#URGENTE Las protestas en Estados Unidos se han intensifican. Hoy, cientos de miles de estadounidenses tomaron las calles para exigir el fin del financiamiento a Israel, un desarrollo que claramente ha dejado a Trump sin dormir, como se evidencia en esta grabación. Ayúdanos a difundir, que no lo eliminen de X.
#TrumpsteinPedoCoverUp

[BrooklynDad_Defiant!☮️ @mmpadellan]

Good morning and Happy Wednesday to everyone who agrees that the Kennedy Center belongs to America and not to the ego of one very small, very petty man who can't stand that his name isn't on everything.

Now he wants to tear it down.
That's petty, and INSANE.

[Morgan J. Freeman @mjfree]

🚨 NEVER FORGET what seditionist insurrectionist Donald Trump did on J6

Instead of accepting defeat and honoring the peaceful transfer of power, the POS unleashed a deadly mob on the U.S. Capitol in a last-ditch attempt to stay in power.

[Ad Blaauwbroek @abluejeans]

@bluhue123 ✋🏼

[Bill @Mobilized3213]

Chapman's Ice Cream has just done something EVERY Canadian should know.
The largest ice cream company in Canada used to source fruit and nuts from American suppliers — for some, for over 30 years. Then, Trump imposed a 25% tariff on Canadian products.
So, what did Chapman's do?
📷 They called Italy.
📷 They called Spain.
📷 They signed multi-year contracts with European suppliers.
And the vice president said it perfectly:
"Even if Trump wakes up smarter than yesterday, we're about to sign long-term deals with other countries — and the American companies that supply them will have nothing but their eyes to cry for."
Oh, and on top of ALL that? They're COLDing their prices so that the average Canadian doesn't have to spend a single cent more.
It's a family business. No shareholders. Just the Chapman family saying: "The least we can do is make sure Canadians still have the means to buy ice cream."
That's what Canadian pride looks like.
Next time you're at the grocery store — grab some Chapman's.
Every scoop of ice cream is a vote for Canada.

[Bas Geeraets 🦉 @AtelierGeeraets]

Omdat ik dit het liefste doe, nog een tekening. Dit is een boomklever in de moderne tijd.

‘Even aan de lader’
29,7 x 21 cm
Inkten op papier

Delen is lief

[Bas Geeraets 🦉 @AtelierGeeraets]

Ik maakte een tekening. Over de wens voor een frisse wind, een nieuwe. Van een duif en een vlieger.

‘Draag het op de wind’
29,7 x 21 cm
Inkten op papier

Delen is lief.

[Jack Hopkins @thejackhopkins]

Before Ratcliffe ever set foot in Moscow, somebody in Washington picked up a phone and called Kyiv.

The message? Don’t shoot.

Not Monday. Not Tuesday. Not Wednesday. Not around Moscow. Not around St. Petersburg. Not up north.

Why? Because a plane carrying a senior American official-John Ratcliffe-was in the air, headed for Russia.

That’s not me talking. That’s Reuters, quoting a source who knew about the request.

Now read that again. Slowly.

Because 99 out of 100 people are going to skim right past it and go back to arguing about something that doesn’t matter.

They cleared a three-day window in somebody else’s war.

Three days. Hand-picked. Stretched across half a country. So one man could land safely.

And here’s the part that should stop you cold: somebody in Washington knows exactly which switch to flip, and exactly who flips it.
We know that now, because when it counted…when it was our guy in the sky…the switch got flipped.

That isn’t a footnote, friend. That’s the whole damn story.

[D.Radka, #NAFO 🇨🇿🤝🇺🇦 @DakdaR22]

“Our ultimate goal is not Russia without gasoline. Our ultimate goal is Ukraine without Russia.
Ukraine without war. Ukraine with Europe. And Ukraine and Europe without the Moscow threat.”

- Volodymyr Zelensky 🇺🇦

..........
Thank you to everyone who stood up in defense of Ukraine.🫡🇺🇦❤️

[Bas Geeraets 🦉 @AtelierGeeraets]

Tekening genaakt. Het is een IJsvogel.

‘Ik identificeer me als aalscholver’
21 x 29,7 cm
Inkten op papier

Delen is lief.

[Ad Blaauwbroek @abluejeans]

@AtelierGeeraets Wat een schitterende tekening van een prachtige vogel!

[John Cleese @JohnCleese]

Shame on him

[Brian Krassenstein @krassenstein]

BREAKING: Maj. Jason Watson has just been charged under the Uniform Code of Military Justice for three violations of Article 88 for “contemptuous” remarks about Trump.

Yes, you heard that right. He was just charged for calling for Trump’s impeachment.

A president who has service members arrested for speaking out against the president, isn’t a president. They are a dictator.

[Roman Sheremeta 🇺🇸🇺🇦 @rshereme]

The United States asked Ukraine not to strike Moscow while senior American officials are visiting the russian capital, including CIA Director John Ratcliffe.

Think about that.

When American officials travel to Moscow, Washington apparently has no problem asking Ukraine: Do not attack Moscow while we are there.

But just days earlier, Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner canceled their planned visit to Kyiv around Ukraine’s Independence Day because of “heavy russian air strikes on the city.”

So why didn’t Washington simply ask russia: Do not attack Kyiv while American officials are there?

Apparently, the United States can ask Ukraine to stop bombing russia to protect American officials in Moscow. But it cannotask russia to stop bombing Ukraine to protect American officials in Kyiv.

Instead, Witkoff and Kushner canceled their trip.

This tells you something important about American diplomacy under Trump.

Washington repeatedly demands restraint from Ukraine while accommodating russia. It expects Kyiv to adjust its military actions around American diplomacy, while seemingly accepting that Moscow will continue bombing Ukrainian cities whenever it wants.

You cannot be an honest broker when the rules apply only to one side.

That is blatant hypocrisy.

[Ad Blaauwbroek @abluejeans]

@Mimiiben1 5

[Anna @AnnaDeMilanese]

Selenskyj fordert China heraus: Schweigen reicht nicht mehr. 🇺🇦🇨🇳 🎯

In seiner Rede zum 35. Unabhängigkeitstag der Ukraine richtete sich Selenskyj heute direkt an Peking.

Wörtlich: China könne nicht länger schweigen, wenn "jemand sich in einen Matrosenanzug und eine Militärmütze wirft und, bestimmte Wörter schlecht aussprechend, über einen Nuklearschlag redet".

China müsse reagieren, "diesen Eifer abkühlen" und beweisen, dass sein Anspruch, Weltführer zu sein, nicht nur wirtschaftlich und technologisch gelte, sondern auch zivilisatorisch, indem es klarstelle: Kein Diktator habe das Recht, den Planeten mit seinen alten Atomsprengköpfen zu bedrohen.

Das ist keine neue Front, sondern eine Zuspitzung. Laut Selenskyj hatte China Russland bereits im Juli, im Vorfeld des NATO-Gipfels, unmissverständlich mitgeteilt, über einen Atomwaffeneinsatz dürfe "nicht einmal nachgedacht" werden.
Die heutige Rede macht aus dieser diplomatischen Hintergrundbotschaft eine öffentliche Forderung, an einem symbolisch aufgeladenen Tag, live an die Weltöffentlichkeit gerichtet.

Zu Putin selbst wurde Selenskyj persönlich: Putin hoffe, die Ukraine sei müde geworden. Er habe sie nie verstanden, und jetzt bleibe ihm keine Zeit mehr dafür. Wer die gesamte Ukraine habe nehmen wollen, habe stattdessen seine Ölraffinerien verloren, seine Flotte, seine Einnahmen und eine ganze Generation, die in die "Fleischwolfmaschine" geschickt worden sei.
27 Jahre spreche Russlands Herrscher von Größe, während das Land in Schlangen vor Tankstellen stehe. 🔥🎯

Selenskyj nutzte die Rede zugleich, um die eigene Verteidigungsindustrie zu präsentieren, als "wahren Giganten", der rund um die Uhr arbeite, mit zehntausenden bodengestützten Robotersystemen, die bereits tausende Soldatenleben gerettet hätten, und mit den selbst produzierten "Flamingo"-Raketen, die im Winter eine größere Rolle spielen sollen.

Die Rechnung dahinter: Solange China Russlands Kriegswirtschaft technologisch am Laufen hält, bleibt Pekings Neutralität eine Fiktion, und genau diese Fiktion versuchte Selenskyj heute öffentlich aufzubrechen.

Kommentare darunter sind ausdrücklich willkommen, und sei es nur ein Wort oder ein Emoji.

Quellen: Ukrainska Pravda, internationale Agenturmeldungen zur Rede vom 24. August 2026.

[Impeach Trump a 3rd Time! @Christo12919382]

Anyone else sick of this shit?

[Resister in GA 🟧 @ResisterInGA]

Well #MAGA?

[Roman Sheremeta 🇺🇸🇺🇦 @rshereme]

Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner have canceled their planned trip to Kyiv because of “heavy russian air strikes on the city.”

Witkoff and Kushner have traveled to Moscow eight times for meetings with Putin.

But when it comes to visiting Kyiv, russian air strikes suddenly make the trip too dangerous.

Meanwhile, presidents and prime ministers from a dozen European countries have visited Kyiv over the past several days — despite those very same russian attacks.

This tells you something important about American diplomacy under Trump.

For months, we have been told that Witkoff and Kushner are trying to broker peace between russia and Ukraine. Yet the people supposedly acting as intermediaries repeatedly travel to Moscow, meet with Putin, listen to russia’s demands - and cannot even bring themselves to travel to the capital of the country russia is invading.

You cannot understand this war by visiting Moscow eight times and Kyiv zero times.

And you certainly cannot be an honest broker if you are willing to sit comfortably across the table from the aggressor but are too afraid to visit the victim because the aggressor might bomb you.

European leaders are showing what solidarity looks like.

Washington is showing what cowardliness and complacency look like.

[Angelica Shalagina🇺🇦 @angelshalagina]

Ukraine gave up the world’s third-largest nuclear arsenal.
In return, it received security assurances.

Decades later, Ukrainians are hiding
From missiles fired by one of the countries that signed them.

Remember that when people talk about “guarantees”