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READ: Last month, 16-year-old Palestinian-American Mohammed Ibrahim was finally released after nearly 10 months in an Israeli prison. His freedom follows a campaign by over 100 organizations pressuring the Trump administration to intervene on his behalf. mondoweiss.net/2025/12/inside-…

Inside the grassroots campaign to release U.S. teenager Mohammed Ibrahim from Israeli detention

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“SAVING THORNWOOD is a riveting YA novel with thoughtful characters who are navigating intense personal crises while also aching for friendship.” @chasingray.bsky.social reviews new work from David Surface & @juliarust.bsky.social locusmag.com/review/saving-tho…

Saving Thornwood by David Surface & Julia Rust: Review by Colleen Mondor

Saving Thornwood, David Surface & Julia Rust (Yap! Books 978-1-949-14058-3, $18.00, 345pp, hc) July 2025. Cover by Errick Nunnally. In Saving Thornwood, authors (and spouses) Julia Rust and Dav…
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Yesterday's post by Heather Cox Richardson should be an urgent call to action.

The new US National Security Strategy gives an indisputable nod to racism, imperialism, and is a direct threat to reproductive rights.

Carney must stop playing footsie with Trump and if you read in the news that Trump "likes" our PM, that should be a dire warning that our sovereignty is in danger.

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The Trump administration's NSS announces a dramatic reworking of the foreign policy the U.S. has embraced since World War Il. After a brief introduction touting what it claims are the administration's great successes, the document begins by announcing the U.S. will back away from the global engagements that underpin the rules-based international order that the World War II Allies put in place after that war to prevent another world war. The authors of the document claim that the system of institutions like the United Nations, alliances like the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, and free trade between nations that established a series of rules for foreign engagement and a web of shared interests around the globe has been bad for the U.S. because it undermined “the character of our nation.”
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Immigration is rejected, climate change as an ideology that threatens the US and helps its adversaries.

Europe in danger of "civilizational erasure?"

WTF is "Western identity" if not "replacement theory" racism?

The rejection of NATO = Russian wish list.

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To achieve their white supremacist country, the document's authors insist they will not permit “transnational and international organizations [or] foreign powers or entities” to undermine U.S. sovereignty. To that end, they reject immigration as well as “the disastrous ‘climate change’ and Net Zero ideologies that have so greatly harmed 1 Europe, threatened the United States, and 1 subsidize our adversaries.” The document reorients the U.S. away from traditional European allies toward Russia. The authors reject Europe's current course, suggesting that Europe is in danger of ‘civilizational erasure” and calling for the U.S. to “help Europe correct its current trajectory” by “restoring Europe's civilizational self-confidence and Western identity.” Allowing continued migration will render Europe “unrecognizable” within twenty years, the authors say, and they back away from NATO by suggesting that as they become more multicultural, Europe's societies might have a different relationship to NATO than “those who signed the NATO charter.”
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And this, a direct threat to Latin America is a harbinger of what might be in store for Canada.

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Full "Letters From An American" post which include historical context:
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It went on to make clear that this policy is a plan to help U.S. businesses take over Latin America and, | perhaps, Canada. “The U.S. Government will identify strategic acquisition and investment opportunities for American companies in the region and present these opportunities for assessment by every U.S. Government financing program,” it said, “including but not limited to those within the Departments of State, War, and Energy; the Small Business Administration; the International Development Finance Corporation; the Export-Import Bank; and the Millennium Challenge Corporation.” Should countries oppose such U.S. initiatives, it said, “[t]he United States must also resist and reverse measures such as targeted taxation, unfair regulation, and expropriation that disadvantage U.S. businesses.”

December 5, 2025

Late last night, the Trump administration released the 2025 National Security Strategy (NSS) of the United States of America.
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Writing and erasing a poem is just as productive as publishing one

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Visited the Samoyed cafe :3 [Seoul] byteseu.com/1605855/ #Korea #SouthKorea
Visited the Samoyed cafe :3 [Seoul]

Visited the Samoyed cafe :3 [Seoul]

Hi I’m a tourist from Mexico 🇲🇽 your country is amazing
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Can you still get the tetanus shot in the USA?

I heard it causes you to live for longer

Hugz & xXx

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After my prostate examination, the doctor left, then the nurse came in and whispered three words that no man wants to hear...

'Who was that?'

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I've been trying all sorts of places with little luck, but in order for my wife and I to meet our new nephew and see our family for the first time since moving, we desperately need a cat-sitter! If you like cats and live in Portland, please DM me so we can test compatibility/locations/etc
If I haven't talked to you before, I'll have to get to know you a bit before trusting you with my cat (and potentially my apartment, depends on the situation)
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Montasico: libertÀ per anan yaeesh
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Social worker stabbed at S.F. General Hospital dies of injuries

The social worker was allegedly stabbed by 34-year-old Wilfredo Tortolero Arriechi, a patient and known to and feared by hospital staff.

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Social worker stabbed at S.F. General Hospital dies of injuries

The social worker was allegedly stabbed by 34-year-old Wilfredo Tortolero Arriechi, a patient and known and feared by hospital staff.
Joe Rivano Barros (Mission Local)

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SEC championship: No. 3 Georgia ends No. 9 Alabama’s hold on rivalry, beating Crimson Tide 28-7 to win title
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/12/06/sec-championship-georgia-alabama/?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub

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Kaye Kittrell: How many hours will it take? #seeds allforgardening.com/1531261/ka… #gardening #KayeKittrell #LateBloomerUrbanOrganicGardenShow #VLog
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No. 24 USC gives up 18-point lead, falling to Washington for first loss
https://www.latimes.com/sports/usc/story/2025-12-06/usc-men-fall-to-washington-for-first-loss-in-basketball?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub

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No. 24 USC gives up 18-point lead, falling to Washington for first loss

The Trojans, who were 8-0 entering play Saturday, led for all but six minutes in the game, but the Huskies outscore them 54-28 in the second half for the win.
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In a sleight of hand you may have missed, Danielle Smith's government just made changes to the industrial carbon tax that seriously undermine the intent of the MOU she just signed with Mark Carney. #ableg #cdnpoli #climate/more See this interview for the details: youtu.be/qSmhI0wALFM?...

7 Days After the MOU, Alberta ...

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Auf YouTube findest du die angesagtesten Videos und Tracks. Außerdem kannst du eigene Inhalte hochladen und mit Freunden oder gleich der ganzen Welt teilen.
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:kirby_prideheart: Ello sweet and lovely Friendos :purple_heart_sparkle:

#GoodNight and #TZAG everyone :kirby_tired:

I hope you're all doing well. 😊 I've been awake for a while now, as my body was not allowing me more than 6 hours of sleep. I'm so exhausted and done with thesw terrible muscle pains. 😔

I did some cardio at the gym. Worked on my puzzle a bit. I made today's blog post. And I just uploaded about 30/35 snaps of 🇻🇦 Vatican City to my Flickr account. I need to write my journal Toot in a bit. But first, I'll lay down for a while with my book.

I wish I had more energy... I want to do loads of things bit I just feel so tired. Ugh... 😔

Hope you're all having a good weekend! :blobcatflower:

:pixy_party: 💜 🍀 🐾

#PixysJourney

A softly glowing nighttime scene shows four glass candle holders arranged in a gentle row on a dark, reflective surface. Each holder contains a lit tealight, their flames casting warm, flickering light that brightens the otherwise shadowy surroundings. On the far left is a mosaic-style holder in deep rose and crimson tones, its square glass panels glowing warmly from within. Next to it stands a ribbed clear-glass holder, the flame inside creating golden reflections along the vertical ridges. The third holder is a rounded, metallic-looking bowl with a smooth, mirror-like surface that reflects both candlelight and shadows. Furthest back is another clear holder, slightly greenish in hue, its subtle texture catching the soft light. The darkness around them makes the candle glow appear even stronger, giving the scene a peaceful, intimate atmosphere.
#tzag #Goodnight #pixysjourney

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The Rise and Fall of the Second Largest Empire in History by Thomas J. Craughwell, 2010

How Genghis Khan's Mongols Almost Conquered the World

Emerging out of the vast steppe grasslands of Central Asia in the early 1200s, the Mongols, under their ferocious leader, Genghis Khan, quickly carved out an empire that by the late thirteenth century covered almost one-sixth of the Earth's landmass from Eastern Europe to the eastern shore of Asia.

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It encompassed 110 million people. Far larger than the much more famous domains of Alexander the Great and ancient Rome, it has since been surpassed in overall size and reach only by the British Empire. The Rise and Fall of the Second Largest Empire in the World recounts the spectacularly rapid expansion and dramatic decline of the Mongol realm, while examining its real, widespread, and enduring influence on countless communities from the Danube River to the Pacific Ocean.
#history #Books #empires #NonFiction #mongols

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European Empires From Conquest to Collapse, 1815-1960 by V.G. Kiernan, 2024

New edition of a trail-blazing history of imperial warfare

Victor Kiernan offers a ground-breaking, truly global history of the violence of empire. European Empires from Conquest to Collapse deftly surveys the fighting forces and military engagements of the Great Powers, from the British in India to the scramble for Africa.

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With an acerbic wit, Kiernan unpicks the doctrines and realities of colonial warfare. Europe was fond of parading its concept of ‘civilized war’, he observes, but almost everything could be tolerated if it was deemed necessary for the upholding of prestige. Guerrilla insurgency, he adds, ultimately became one of the most sophisticated branches of the art of war. Of all the reasons for an interest in the colonial wars of modern times, Kiernan argues, the best is that they are still going on, openly or disguised. European Empires from Conquest to Collapse is a landmark attempt to see clearly what empire entailed, instead of resting content with legend or fantasy. With a foreword by Tariq Ali, author of Winston His Times, His Crimes and The Forty-Year War in A Chronicle Foretold .
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Why Empires Fall by John Rapley & Peter Heather, 2023

Rome, America and the Future of the West

What can the fall of Rome teach us about the decline of the West today? A historian and a political economist, both experts in their field, investigate. Over the last three centuries, the West rose to dominate the planet.

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Then, suddenly, around the turn of the millennium, history reversed. Faced with economic stagnation and internal political division, the West has found itself in rapid decline. This is not the first time the global order has witnessed such a dramatic rise and fall. The Roman Empire followed a similar arc from dizzying power to disintegration - a fact that is more than a strange historical coincidence. In Why Empires Fall, historian Peter Heather and political economist John Rapley use this Roman past to think anew about the contemporary West, its state of crisis, and what paths we could take out of it. In this exceptional, transformative intervention, Heather and Rapley explore the uncanny parallels - and productive differences - between the two cases, moving beyond the familiar tropes of invading barbarians and civilizational decay to learn new lessons from ancient history. From 399 to 1999, the life cycles of empires, they argue, sow the seeds of their inevitable destruction. The era of western global domination has reached its end - so what comes next?
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Elon Musk adds to Donald Trump’s widening rift with the European Union, after EU fined his social media platform X byteseu.com/1605853/ #Europe
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Elon Musk adds to Donald Trump’s widening rift with the European Union, after EU fined his social media platform X

London | Elon Musk has added to strains in trans-Atlantic ties by calling for the European Union to be torn apart after the bloc fined his social media
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