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Polish PM dropping truth bombs:
'How can 500 million Europeans ask 300 million Americans to protect them from 140 million Russians...?
But I’ll tell you something even more astonishing — there are 2 billion Muslims asking the world to protect them from 7 million Jews...!?'"
The numbers say it all.
The same crowd that can’t win a single war, builds tunnels instead of schools, and turns every territory they control into a dumpster fire is convinced the tiny Jewish state is an existential threat to them.
It’s not about land. It’s not about 'occupation.' It’s pure Jew-hatred on an industrial scale.
One side contributes to humanity. The other side contributes body counts and conspiracy theories.
Thanks for the reality check, Poland. 🇮🇱
Así fue la increíble transformación de este perro después de ser rescatado en condiciones lamentables.
Never forget Wang Wang and her puppies.
The mother dog was burned alive, and her babies were beaten to death by four 14-year-old boys who laughed throughout the video in China. Cruelty is not entertainment. They deserve justice.
Roman mosaic found under an Italian vineyard
This is a statue of the only man in Troy who saw the trap. He tried to warn everyone, and this is what the gods did to him because of it...
His name was Laocoön, a Trojan priest. When the Greek army vanished and left a giant wooden horse outside the city gates, all of Troy celebrated. Only Laocoön refused to believe it. He warned his people the horse was a trick and, to prove it was hollow, hurled his spear into its side.
In Virgil's telling, he spoke a line that has outlasted almost everything else about Troy: "I fear the Greeks, even when they bring gifts."
He was right. The horse was packed with soldiers, and Troy was hours from destruction.
This sculpture shows what he got for it. Two enormous sea serpents rise out of the sea and coil around him and his young sons, dragging all three down together. The father's whole body is knotted in the struggle, every muscle straining, his face locked in a scream. The gods wanted Troy to fall, and Laocoön was in the way.
The Trojans watched him die in agony and drew exactly the wrong conclusion: they decided the gods were punishing him for attacking a holy gift. So they pulled the horse inside their own walls, and that night, Troy burned...
The statue is called Laocoön and His Sons. It is the work of three Greek sculptors from the island of Rhodes, Agesander, Athenodoros, and Polydorus, and dates to the Hellenistic period, making it well over two thousand years old.
Buried for more than a thousand years, it was dug out of a Roman vineyard in 1506, and Michelangelo rushed across Rome to see it the day it was found.
It has been called the single greatest depiction of human suffering in the history of art, but it endures because of what it is really about: the man who sees the truth, says it out loud, and is destroyed for being right while the crowd watches...
It is one of the oldest patterns there is, and it has never stopped repeating.
There is nothing new under the sun.
A Roman emperor ate his meals in a sea cave, a few feet from a massive marble sculpture of the moment Odysseus blinds the Cyclops.
Eventually it lay shattered in thousands of pieces on the floor of that cave, and stayed there until 1957...
The emperor was Tiberius, who ruled Rome after Augustus, and the cave is at Sperlonga, on the coast between Rome and Naples. It was a natural grotto opening onto the sea, and he turned it into a private dining hall, with pools of water reaching into the mouth of the cave and a platform where he and his guests reclined to eat, the waves echoing off the rock around them... Definitely not a bad place to host dinner.
The sculpture stood at the deepest point of the cave and it showed the most terrifying scene in Homer's poem, when Odysseus and his men are trapped inside the cave of Polyphemus, a one-eyed man-eating giant who has sealed them in with a boulder too heavy to move and is eating the crew alive, one by one.
Odysseus cannot simply kill him in his sleep, or they will be entombed with the corpse forever. So he gets the giant drunk, waits for him to pass out, hardens the tip of an olive-wood stake in the fire, and drives it into the Cyclops's single eye.
The sculptors depicted the instant just before the stake goes in...
The colossal figure of Polyphemus sprawls backward, drunk and unaware. Odysseus, the one closest to the Cyclops, and three of his men strain upward with the spike. It was carved larger than life and set in shadow at the back of the grotto, so that as the lamplight shifted, the whole scene seemed to move over the emperor's dinner.
The Roman historians Tacitus and Suetonius both record that in the year 26 AD, while Tiberius was dining there, rocks fell from the roof of the grotto, crushing several of his attendants and nearly killing the emperor, who was shielded and dragged out. In that collapse, or in a later one, the great marble scenes were smashed into thousands of fragments.
There they lay, at the bottom of the cave, until 1957, when workers building a coastal road cut into the ground and found them. Among the rubble they pulled out the colossal head of the giant himself, and slowly, piece by piece, the scene was put back together.
The cave gave up two more secrets: the first was an inscription, ten lines of Latin verse, praising the grotto and saying that only a new Virgil could do justice to its statues of Scylla and the blinding of the monster by the man from Ithaca. It told the archaeologists exactly what they had found. The second was carved into the base of the neighbouring ship: three names, Athenodoros, Agesander, and Polydorus, the same sculptors the Roman writer Pliny had named as the creators of the Laocoön, the statue I wrote about yesterday.
Homer's Odyssey is one of the oldest stories in the world, and it has outlived the emperor, the civilization that first told it, and every person who has ever loved it. Nearly three thousand years later, we are still telling the story of a man lost far from home, because some part of us always is...
I started my newsletter because the past is full of stories like this one, and so few people ever stop to tell us why they matter. Every week I try to. If that is something you'd like to be part of, you can join through the link in my bio, and if you'd like to support my work, a paid subscription is what makes it possible.
Thanks for reading.
Please retweet, appeal for information, horse attacked in her field #PONTYPRIDD #WALES #UK 14 July 2026
Community Rallies Behind Traumatised Rescue Horse After Brutal Overnight Attack In Pontypridd 🐴🥲
Donations welcomed
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A local community is appealing for information and support after a gentle rescue horse named Violet was subjected to a horrific overnight attack in her own field.
The incident occurred between 8:00 pm on the 14th of July and 8:00 am the following morning, in a pasture situated between Pantygraigwen Road and #Hopkinstown.
The beloved mare sustained severe injuries during the ordeal, including significant swelling around her eyes, multiple puncture wounds to her legs, and a deep gash across her back that required veterinary staples.
According to a fundraising appeal launched by a family friend, the injuries are primarily believed to have been caused by an off-lead dog.
However, a local social media update from the Friends of Graigwen group, noted that a broken section of the field's fencing may have been used as a weapon against the horse, suggesting that some of the wounds could have been inflicted by a sharp object.
Emergency veterinarians attended the scene immediately to administer antibiotics and sedation while treating the wounds.
Violet is being closely monitored as she begins what her caretakers hope will be a full physical recovery.
Sadly, her owners report that the emotional toll has been just as devastating. Previously known as a sweet and kind animal who had already overcome a difficult past, Violet is now completely terrified to return to the field where she should feel safest.
The unexpected emergency veterinary care has left the owners facing significant bills they were not prepared for.
A fundraising campaign is currently underway to help cover the costs of Violet's ongoing treatment and rehabilitation.
In the meantime, the incident has been officially reported, and additional security cameras are being installed in the area.
Anyone with information regarding the attack or the damaged fence is urgently asked to come forward to assist with the investigation.
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Seeing this video is truly heartbreaking. 💔
I don't know where this incident happened, but someone has cruelly painted this innocent dog with harmful colours. Animals are not toys or objects for entertainment. The chemicals in paints can severely damage their skin, eyes, and overall health.
Please treat animals with kindness and compassion. If anyone knows the location of this dog, please alert local rescuers so this poor soul can receive the care it desperately needs.
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❤️ Meet Benny.
Thanks to the kindness of a few wonderful supporters, Benny safely arrived at our sanctuary at around 3:30 AM this morning after a journey of nearly 500 kilometres from a neighbouring city.
He is only 8–9 months old, yet our veterinary examination revealed heartbreaking injuries. Benny has lost the entire hoof capsule on both his left front and left hind hoof. His tiny body is covered in multiple deep wounds, he is severely dehydrated, has no appetite, and is dangerously underweight.
His treatment has already begun, but his recovery will take many months. He will need daily wound care, pain management, specialised nutrition, and ongoing veterinary treatment.
For the first time in his life, Benny won't be surrounded by suffering. Instead, he'll grow up with our other rescued youngsters, where he'll run, play, make friends, and finally discover what childhood is truly meant to be.
Please help us give Benny the future every little donkey deserves.
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Thank you for standing with Benny. ❤️
"Filmed four days ago at Memorial Hospital in Seattle, Washington.
Eight days ago, Officer Ryan Mitchell, 32, Seattle PD K9 Unit, and his six-year-old Belgian Malinois partner Atlas responded to an armed robbery call. Mitchell was shot twice in the shoulder and side. Atlas stood over him growling at everyone even paramedics until they convinced him they were helping.
Mitchell survived surgery but spent eight days in ICU. The department pushed hard for a hospital exception, explaining Atlas had been inconsolable - refusing food, refusing other handlers, just pacing and crying. The hospital agreed to one visit.
Footage shows Mitchell bandaged in bed as Officer Garcia brings Atlas in on leash. Atlas stops completely, staring, like he can't believe what he's seeing. Mitchell extends his arm: "Come here, buddy." Atlas breaks into a careful run, jumps onto the bed, and lies down across Mitchell's chest, deliberately avoiding his injuries. Mitchell wraps both arms around him and cries. Atlas presses his head under his chin and stays perfectly still.
"We've never allowed a K9 in ICU before," Mitchell's doctor told us. "But that reunion made me understand why we had to. That dog needed to see his partner alive and breathing."
Atlas refused to leave the bed after his hour-long visit - it took twenty minutes to coax him down. Mitchell goes home to Atlas next week.
Sometimes your K9 partner stands guard over you when you're down, and all you need is to hold each other again.
Gerda Weissmann Klein stood near the doorway of an abandoned factory, barely able to stand.
She was one day from her twenty-first birthday and weighed just sixty-eight pounds. Her dark hair had turned white from starvation. Her clothes hung in filthy rags; her feet were wrapped in cloth after her shoes had disintegrated months earlier.
For six years, the Nazis had tried to strip away everything that made her human—her home, her family, her name, her future. She was alive, but barely, and no longer knew what survival was supposed to mean.
Then an American soldier approached and did something so simple that Gerda would remember it for the rest of her life.
He opened the door for her.
Gerda Weissmann was born on May 8, 1924, in Bielsko, Poland, into a loving Jewish family. Her childhood was filled with parents who adored her, an older brother Arthur she worshipped, school friends, books, and dreams of studying, traveling, and building a life.
That world ended in September 1939 when Germany invaded. Gerda was fifteen. Rights vanished. Arthur was taken for forced labor and never seen again. The family was expelled from their home and crowded into the Bielsko ghetto.
In June 1942, Gerda was separated from her parents. Her father’s final words were strange but lifesaving: “Wear your ski boots.” It was summer. She obeyed. Those boots would carry her through years of forced labor and a brutal winter death march. Her parents were deported to Auschwitz and murdered.
Alone at eighteen, Gerda endured a series of labor camps tied to Gross-Rosen. Starvation, exhaustion, and selections claimed women around her daily. She survived by clinging to memories of her family and the quiet kindnesses shared among prisoners.
In January 1945, as the Soviets advanced, over a thousand women were forced on a 106-day, 300-mile death march through snow and mud. Anyone who fell was shot or left behind. Gerda’s boots fell apart; she wrapped her feet in rags and kept walking. Friends froze beside her at night. By the time they reached Volary, Czechoslovakia, only about 120 remained.
The SS guards fled, abandoning the survivors in factory buildings. Gerda stood near the doorway, skeletal and hollow, when American soldiers arrived.
One of them was Kurt Klein, a 24-year-old Jewish intelligence specialist who had escaped Germany in 1937. His parents were murdered in Auschwitz. He had returned to Europe in an American uniform.
He walked toward her and opened the door.
For six years, doors had only meant imprisonment and orders. No one had shown her such basic courtesy. “He was the first person in six years who opened a door for me,” she later said. That small act of dignity—treating her like a human being—began to restore what the Nazis had tried to destroy.
Kurt asked if she was Jewish. She hesitated, then said yes. He replied that he was too, and asked what he could do for her. Even in her weakened state, Gerda first led him to help the other women. She quoted Goethe: “Noble be man, merciful and good.”
In 1946, they married in Paris. They moved to Buffalo, New York, built a family, and raised three children.
Gerda never forgot those who did not survive. In 1957 she published her memoir All But My Life. She spoke to countless audiences, served on the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum board, and delivered the keynote at the UN’s first International Holocaust Remembrance Day. Her story became the
She and Kurt worked side by side for decades, their wartime letters later published in The Hours After. Their marriage lasted fifty-six years until Kurt’s death in 2002. Gerda passed away in 2022 at ninety-seven.
The Nazis tried to prove cruelty was stronger than everything else. Gerda and Kurt proved otherwise.
Two people who had lost their families to Auschwitz met beside an abandoned factory and chose love, memory, and dignity. My mother in law was “Gerda” too. In 1939 she escaped Berlin with her family.
If not for this miracle, I wouldn’t have my kids❤️
❗ Mykhailo Fedorov was asked about corruption: Which corrupt officials or companies were involved in his dismissal? Here is his full response:
📌 From day one, we introduced a new procurement system based on data. Previously, the General Staff would provide a list of companies and products that had to be purchased. We decided instead to buy from the top 10 highest-quality companies in each category. As a result, 80% of drones are now purchased from the best manufacturers because there had been a lot of low-quality equipment reaching the front. The remaining 20% are procured through competitive tenders.
📌 The second step was launching open tenders. We started with 155 mm artillery shells. One company opposed holding a tender but eventually participated—and reduced the price of each shell by $1,000. We saved more than $100 million on artillery alone.
After that, we launched a tender for 160,000 medium-strike drones. Fifty-nine companies submitted bids. That is our competitive advantage. We expect savings of 20–30%. If the budget exceeds 20 billion hryvnias, then saving 20% means billions that can be invested elsewhere.
📌 We also halted a large number of contracts that had been signed directly between certain Ukrainian companies and foreign suppliers. I wasn't even aware of many of them when I took office. In a sense, we disrupted some companies' business strategies, but how could I justify buying shells we already had in surplus when we faced shortages of other types?
We tried to launch as many competitive tenders as possible for both deep-strike and FPV drones, because they generate significant savings while allowing companies to compete in an open market.
📌 There is, in fact, a great deal of corruption. Some department heads within the Ministry of Defense had effectively been appointed by private companies. These were officials who would not even attend ministry meetings without representatives of certain law enforcement agencies accompanying them. We began dismissing them, one after another.
There was one case involving a proposed direct contract with a specific company. We received a letter from the Bureau of Economic Security (BEB) stating that the company's profit margin was 200–300%. It belonged to a well-known individual who does not live in Ukraine. After discussions with the General Staff, we removed that company from consideration. However, everything said during that meeting somehow became known across the entire market. We conducted polygraph tests and identified those responsible.
❗ There were many stories like this. We had only begun changing the system at its core. These reforms will save budget funds, allowing Ukraine to continue fighting and spend money on what the military actually needs.
0igan !!!! Hay algún cura papa o algo por aquí ?? Hay que declarar a #Venezuela tierra MILAGROSA !!!!!
22 DIAS BAJO LOS ESCOMBROS
la vida se abre camino y este hermoso gatito llamaba a sus papis y estaban para el 😍😍 buenas tardes manada
Suzhou Animal Cruelty Incident Sparks Outrage and Heavy Censorship
Jiangsu, China — July 12, 2026
In the “Four Seasons Linked City” residential community in Suzhou, Jiangsu province, three male students allegedly carried hammers and wooden sticks into the neighborhood and brutally tortured and killed a stray cat.
Witnesses and circulating accounts described the act as premeditated and excessively violent, with the students reportedly chasing and attacking the animal before ending its life.
What has fueled widespread public anger online is not only the cruelty itself, but the response from the perpetrators’ families and community.
Parents of the students reportedly defended their children by stating, “He’s just a child,” downplaying the incident as a minor mistake.
In a further escalation, the parents contacted police to accuse netizens who shared details of the case of “cyberbullying” their child, claiming it had caused psychological distress.
Friends, relatives, and neighbors of the three students reportedly rallied in their defense. Many dismissed public criticism by arguing that netizens were “full and idle,” that “it’s only a cat that died,” and that protecting the boys’ reputations was far more important.
Some even warned that spreading the story online would “hand a knife to foreign forces” to smear China’s image.
As outrage spread on Chinese social media, authorities moved swiftly. Netizens who had posted about or exposed the incident were reportedly summoned by local police for questioning.
All related discussions, videos, and images were rapidly deleted across platforms within China. Police reportedly adopted a firm stance, emphasizing that such discussions were not permitted as they “disrupt social harmony.”
Commentators online have highlighted the premeditated nature of the act — the students were armed and targeted an innocent stray animal — arguing it goes far beyond childish “fun” or mischief.
They criticize the parents’ alleged indulgence and evasion of responsibility as sending dangerous signals, potentially preventing the children from learning accountability. Many expressed concern that unchecked cruelty toward animals today could foreshadow violence toward people tomorrow.
The incident has once again spotlighted ongoing debates in China about animal welfare, juvenile delinquency, parental responsibility, and the limits of online expression. As of now, detailed information remains heavily suppressed inside the country.
I'm convinced we live in 1. A throwaway society (pets included) and 2. And a transactional one.
Take for example: Oscar. A 12 year old Maltese type dog that was surrendered to the Philly ACCT back in April.
These were the notes on his paperwork:
Walk-in surrender due to pet's age and declining medical conditions. The owner believes theanimal may have had a stroke last summer. They reported that the animal froze while walking outside and hasn’t really been the same since. They also noticed changes in the animal’s face afterthat incident. The owner was not able to take the animal to the vet at the time (or since then) due to financial limitations. They think the animal may now be blind in at least one eye and is also losing hearing, as he no longer responds well to commands. The owner described it as “he just does what he wants now. However, the owner also reported that he is still friendly. Offered vet resources, declined. Informed of potential euth outcome if determined by our vets that the is suffering/bad quality of life, owner understands and does not believe he is suffering, just cannot take care of him anymore also due to her own age and health limitations.
UGH. Thrown away like trash and how transactional how this went.
Sometimes people think of us as harsh when we examine a potential adopter and take into their financial consideration when adopting a dog from us.
With the world how it is now, how can you not?
Let's just say Oscar is THRIVING with love, vetting and attention.
Project Kamdhenu ❤️
Every day, our feeding journey takes us beyond just dogs and cows.
We also serve donkeys, mules, and small horses gentle souls who spend their lives carrying heavy loads and working tirelessly. Many of them are abandoned on the streets by their owners once the day's work is over, left to search for food on their own despite their exhausting labour.
It is truly heartbreaking.
We have tried counselling many of the owners, encouraging them to treat these hardworking animals with compassion and dignity. While some listen, many remain indifferent. But that doesn't stop us from doing whatever we can for these voiceless souls.
Through our heartfelt mission, we serve dogs, cows, bulls, cats, donkeys, mules, and many other animals who silently suffer due to hunger and neglect.
Feeding them is more than an act of charity it is deeply soul-satisfying. Their silent gratitude, trusting eyes, and peaceful hearts remind us every day why this mission matters.
We feel incredibly blessed to be able to do this, and none of it would be possible without each one of you who follows our journey, shares our work, donates, volunteers, and believes in our mission.
Please continue to stand with us and enable us to reach many more hungry, forgotten lives.
Together, we can build a world where every animal is treated with compassion, dignity, and love. ❤️
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揭阳虐狗，事件都火到海外了！
四个未成年小孩用铁线拖、用棍棒殴打，浇汽油火烧，把处于哺乳期的流浪母狗“旺旺”跟它的幼崽活活虐死。
母狗至死都在护着孩子，而他们却笑着拍视频！
去世前，旺旺眼都被刺瞎了，还顶着满身大火到处找自己孩子的尸体，是个人看了都忍不住落泪。
都说“人之初，性本善”，我觉得这话错得离谱；看看前几年邯郸那事，三个未成年人把高中生打死，没有一点善良可说。
事情都发生十几天了，陈乔恩声援过，杜江也多次发声，可当地还在疯狂删帖捂嘴，袒护那四个小孩。
《未成年人保护法》不是这么用的！
此事不仅是对公序良俗的践踏，更是严重的公共事件！台湾、香港、美国，很多国家跟地区的网民都在关注。
希望揭阳公开专门学校是哪里，给四个虐待动物的学生加以处分，入档案，并推进动物保护法成立！
最后，愿每一个小生命都能被世界温柔以待！
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