If you don't know the story of Salvo D'Acquisto, you don't know the meaning of the word 'courage'.

American doctors volunteering in Gaza report a disturbing pattern of children shot by Israeli forces. Now they’re pushing for accountability. The latest from our friends at @revealnews.org:

Just so I'm clear: TV host says we should kill every homeless person? No big deal TV host says the right must "go to war" with the left? Pfft. TV host says the government is cracking down on critics? Well, the government cracks down on him for the criticism. Free speech, everyone.

Anyway, now we know what the FCC thinks is in the public interest: Fox host advocating for executing homeless people? Yes ABC comic suggesting Trumpers are using a death cynically? No

The people who get mad about this kind of honesty are largely not people who will be persuaded by the evidence that the person was horrible. Half the hate mail I've gotten has informed me that I have no evidence Kirk was a bigot, and I laid out evidence *in the column they're complaining about.*

#odyssey #bronzeage #trojanwar While I no longer spend as much time as I did as a kid angsting over how bad the modern historical film industry is, looking at the absolute state of that Odyssey movie's costumes annoys me over how it pales to reality. A proper Troy era film would be a sight to see.

Every year when it gets to be close to autumn, I bake a ton of cookies for my friends. And then I remember that I don’t have any friends, and I eat them by myself.

Baby. Postcard from my collection, ca. 1900.

Frolicking beneath the Dolomites, northeastern Italy 😊

There are several petitions being launched to impeach and remove RFK Jr. There are those people out there who’ll say this is bad, a dangerous precedent, unworkable, etc. but Bobby is a threat to the health and lives of our children. He must be removed from office or people will die. Kids will die.

I'll repeat it: ICE are behaving just like irregular police forces that operated in many cities during Mussolini's Italian Social Republic. Basically, violent gangs of fascist thugs given a free hand by authorities to arrest, torture and execute anyone suspected of anti-fascist activities.

Patiently waiting for bird videos to be invented. Photo from my collection, 1956.

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Mother donkey and her newborn... 😊 #bluesky

Pet tax

I need a house cow.. 🐮🥹 #bluesky #cow

12th August 1944, 560 civilians are massacred in the mountain village of Sant'Anna di Stazzema in the Province of Lucca (Tuscany). The victims are almost all women and children. The atrocity is carried out by Waffen-SS troops, aided by Italian fascists [Thread] >> 1

2nd August 1980, the worst terrorist attack in post-war Italian history is carried out by neo-fascist group NAR. A bomb hidden in a suitcase explodes in the waiting room of Bologna Station, causing the partial collapse of the station structure. 85 people die and 200 are injured [Thread] >> 1

Mother and her baby... 😊 #bluesky

ICE are behaving just like "unofficial" police forces that operated in many cities during Mussolini's Italian Social Republic. Basically, just violent gangs of fascist loyalists given a free hand to arrest, torture & execute anyone suspected of anti-fascist activities.

We only rate dogs. This is a fruit bat waiting for a teensy bit of banana. Please only send dogs. Thank you… 12/10

Brooke Rollins on farm laborers: "There will be no amnesty. The mass deportations continue, but in a strategic way. And we move the workforce toward automation and 100% American participation, which with 34 million able-bodied on Medicaid we should be able to do fairly quickly."

After demonizing the American Academy of Pediatrics and calling for its dismantling across social media (very profitable exploitation), Vinay Prasad is now being sued by the AAP for denying lifesaving vaccines to children. Oops.

You didn't need a video of baby red pandas being all cute, but here you go #bluesky ... ☺️

Trump’s America. Where the wheelchair-bound are zip tied by police for going to Congress to protest their healthcare being removed.

"COVID-19 has been linked to acute and long-term cognitive impairments, including memory and concentration deficits, as well as neuropsychiatric symptoms such as anxiety and depression." - sounds incredibly "respiratory" and "mild" to me! www.nature.com/articles/s41...

The Medical Establishment wants you to believe that COVID-19 merely goes in one lung, and out the other - a harmless, benevolent friend. Well, that’s not the case. www.wlky.com/article/kent...

This is why it’s difficult for me to take people like Don Lemon and Jim Acosta seriously. They got fired and then started singing a different tune. If you didn’t agree with or like the tune at CNN, why not quit? Tells me they lied/ pushed other agendas for the money and can never be trusted.

That was 3rd time since Michael Brown's murder that a prominent Ferguson activist was "found dead." Darren Seals was found dead in a burning car & DeAndre Joshua was shot to death & torched inside a car. According to Daily Beast, by 2020, six Ferguson men were shot & burned in cars archive.is/LOTD9

A country incapable of building bananas is doomed to fail.

NEWS | Gaza Media Office: 80 Days of Blockade Caused Hundreds of Preventable Deaths Video: Gaza Civil Defense Chief

My small starter pack of cute snd whimsical artists for your timeline go.bsky.app/Grwaxo5

33 years ago, on 23rd May 1992, Giovanni Falcone is assassinated, along with Francesca Morvillo, Vito Schifani, Rocco Dicillo and Antonio Montinaro. This thread tells the story of how he is undermined, isolated and abandoned to his destiny by the state he so loyally serves >> 1

This dog politely asked for a musician's drumstick in the middle of their performance. Always excited to find a fellow stick lover. 12/10

capivaras' rock band prints: www.inprnt.com/gallery/guil...

28 April 1945, Benito Mussolini is executed by Italian partisans. This (long!) thread recounts the events surrounding the flight, capture & execution of Mussolini (Photo: last known photo of Mussolini alive, as he leaves Milan on the evening of 25 April 1945) [Thread] >> 1

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Fox News anchor, Jesse Watters finds it “personally offensive” that Canadians refuse to be annexed by the US: “That’s what everyone in the world wants—American citizenship.” American Imperialism is on full show.

It boggles my mind that "aMeRiCaN eXcEpTiOnALiSm" has these morons so brainwashed that they can't conceive that the US is 90% of the way to"3rd world shithole" for anyone other than the ultrarich. If I had a viable exit strategy, I'd have moved to Europe long before now. It's a better place to live.