Jamie Wentto Scout Camp and survived!☮️

Wife, Mom, Librarian, Scouter, Archer, Crafter, Reader

[COCO @TWOTIMESABITCH]

i just want to point out… the amount of money the U.S. has spent on war in the last 2.5 months is roughly the same cost that Bernie Sanders proposed for universal college. so the real question is never ‘can we afford it’… it’s what we choose to prioritize.

[Voyageurs Wolf Project @VoyaWolfProject]

Montage from an old logging road last summer that was used by many animals, including one fox who seemed fairly adept at catching snowshoe hares!

[Jared Ryan Sears @JaredRyanSears]

For anyone who is worried about the communist threat facing America, here is some important information:

No one was eating the dogs or the cats.

No country emptied it's asylums or prisons into America.

Schools were not setting up litter boxes for kids.

America did not win the war in Iran over 30 times. It lost.

Other countries didn't pay the tariffs, you did.

DOGE didn't cut $2 trillion from the budget. It cost more than the tiny amount it did cut.

There is no communist threat. Not one person who has won a primary for Congress this year is a communist.

A political party that can't run on its record because it has been such a massive failure resorts to baseless fearmongering. That's all.

[Al Franken @alfranken]

Happy 250th, everybody! I think our Founders would be surprised at how much money Trump made last year. And without slaves!

[The Tennessee Holler @TheTNHoller]

PASTOR LORAN LIVINGSTON (@CentralChurchNC): “There has never been a Christian nation, and never will be. You don’t live in one now. A Christian nation wouldn’t have killed and displaced 20 million Native Americans, or thought owning slaves was pleasing to God.”

[Barack Obama @BarackObama]

America is a constant work in progress. Every generation must take up the unfinished work of the last and carry it further—protecting what’s right, fixing what’s wrong, and making our union a little more perfect. 250 years later, that’s more important than ever.

[Bibliotheca @BibliothecaX]

Ray Bradbury on libraries as guardians of memory and possibility. #LibraryThinking #Bibliotheca

[Suzie rizzio @Suzierizzo1]

It’s really too bad that all the billionaires here in the U.S don’t feel the same way because if they did this Country wouldn’t be struggling right now.

[Tina Smith @SenTinaSmith]

It’s been almost a year since Republicans passed the Big Beautiful Bill. Where are we now?

Because of this bill, hundreds of thousands of Minnesotans are either uninsured or about to be. Tens of thousands of Minnesotans are without food assistance at a time when groceries have never been more expensive. All to pay for hundreds of billions of dollars for big corporations and Trump’s billionaire friends.

This bill was nothing more than a massive grift that we will spend years (if not decades) recovering from.

[Rev. Benjamin Cremer @Brcremer]

If our Christianity causes kids to go hungry, the sick to go without healthcare, the stranger to be unwelcome, and the needy to be treated as "parasites," all while billionaires get richer, we've profoundly misunderstood the most basic elements of Jesus' teachings.

[autismsociety @AutismSociety]

This July, we are celebrating Disability Pride Month! Disability Pride is about reclaiming narratives, honoring our diverse community, and celebrating the unique perspectives and strengths of Autistic individuals.
#DisabilityPrideMonth #DisabilityPride #AutismAcceptance

[Willie Ross Jr. Knee Deep @RossKneeDeep]

By David Abbruzzes:

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."

Very well stated.

[InfoGram @_InfoGram_]

Obama has just dropped the biggest bombshell on Trump 🔥

🇺🇸Trump at 2:00 PM: “Iran has agreed not to make a nuke. No president has done this.”

🇺🇸Obama at 3:00 PM— "We had a deal. Iran wouldn’t build nukes. Trump ripped it up. Iran ramped up its nuclear program.

Then He went to war. Burned billions. Wore out our military. People died.

And for what? We’re back at square one, but worse. Only a fool cheers this." 🔥

Absolute brutal by Obama 💪🔥

[Voyageurs Wolf Project @VoyaWolfProject]

From early May: cougar grooming himself after feeding on a GPS-collared deer he killed. We have routinely captured this male on camera over the past 3 months now suggesting he has taken up residency in the area and is occupying a territory (i.e., not wandering like dispersing males typically do).

Note: we have had folks ask to see more of the footage we have captured of cougars over the past few months so we will try to share more footage in the coming weeks.

We captured many hours of footage at the kill where we documented the female with 3 kittens as well as at the kill in early May by this male. In addition, we have captured many videos of this male over the past few months just walking down roads and trails. All this to say, more footage to come!

Huge thanks to the Minnesota Environment and Natural Resources Trust Fund for supporting the Voyageurs Wolf Project and the recent effort to understand deer survival in the area. Their support was critical to this observation—without it, we would never have captured this footage.

And huge thanks to the >10,600 donors who have supported our project and enabled us to purchase trail cameras supplies. The cameras (and batteries, SD cards, mounts) we set at this kill were purchased with funds from donations.

[Reggie B. @reggiebblue]

Michelle Obama on the portrait with Obama.

Q: You are in the foreground. You are not in the background.

Michelle: That's because I married a man who isn't threatened by having a smart challenging partner. And that's another way to be a man. To lead and co-lead at the same time. That's a testament to the way my husband was raised and how he sees the world.

[Rev. Benjamin Cremer @Brcremer]

The most common way people take Jesus’ name in vain today isn’t using his name as a cuss word.

It is putting his name in their bio and then posting slurs and being really hateful online.

[Zach W. Lambert @ZachWLambert]

Fighting for kids to receive state-mandated Bible instruction while fighting against those same kids receiving free lunch is exactly the kind of religious hypocrisy Christians should stand against.

This is what it looks like to take the Lord’s name in vain.

[Barb McQuade @BarbMcQuade]

Supreme Court holds that all persons born in the United States are US citizens because, as anyone who can read could tell you, the 14th Amendment that says so.
https://t.co/vixMpxyE6k

[Molly Ploofkins @Mollyploofkins]

Texas is officially the first state in the nation to mandate Bible study. I don't know who needs to hear this, but red states are closer to Sharia law than Zohran Mamdani's New York City.

[Governor Tim Walz @GovTimWalz]

America’s real state fair starts August 27th. Plan accordingly and thank you for your attention to this matter.