Happy Independence day, my friends from the #USA! Happy 250th anniversary! May your country be free, prosperous in spite of everything happening and stay the land of technical progress and inventions moving our civilization forward!
”And on July 4, 1776, the Second Continental Congress adopted the Declaration of Independence… For all the fact that the congressmen got around the sticky little problem of Black and Indigenous enslavement by defining “men” as “white men,” and for all that it never crossed their minds that women might also have rights, the Declaration of Independence was an astonishingly radical document.” —Heather Cox Richardson, July 3, 2026 https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/july-3-2026 #usa#declarationofindependence
"We in this country have seen a remarkable change. And in Washington right now — and forgive me, I’m gonna use the 'f' word — we have a fascist, a fascist government that allows innocent people to be put in detention camps and incarcerated."
"We have been lied to over and over and over again about these camps. Our president said these detention camps were being put up to put in immigrants who had criminal records. We now have about 65–70,000 people incarcerated in these camps."
"29% have criminal records. 71% of the people in these camps, even with our country's and our government's statements about why they set up the camps, don’t belong there! 71% of the people in camps don’t belong there, according to the government, and yet they are put there."
The idea that a human being is not doomed to remain a product of historical circumstance, but that it can become an architect of its own future. It was pure oxygen for the repressed yet determined.🌱
The White House app is being auto-installed on work phones across multiple US agencies, and employees say it cannot be permanently removed. 📱 The app previously faced security scrutiny over data sharing, and workers raised privacy concerns after it appeared on government-issued phones. 🔒
Convicted felon Trump's criminal lawyer Blanche must now explain why he shouldn't be forced to release names redacted from emails that court documents describe as referencing a "torture video" and sexual activity with minors, the names of co-conspirators in a draft federal indictment, & FBI interview notes from a victim who says Epstein introduced her to Donald Trump when she was 13 and that Trump physically and sexually assaulted the minor child. The FBI interviews the child victim four times. Felon Rapist Donald is hiding these FBI documents showing his crimes.
Many people outside still can't believe what's happening in Gaza,
or think it's confined to a specific area — and we've seen this a lot on social media.
But the truth?
The aggression has destroyed Gaza from north to south.
Gaza today isn't a city; #Gaza today is the remnants of life.
There's no "living" in Gaza… only a "struggle to survive."
Houses are rubble.
Streets are graveyards.
Electricity, water, internet… are now memories and lost luxuries.
Hospitals? Paralyzed.
Schools? They've become temporary shelters, or they've been destroyed.
Electricity?
Since the first days of the war, it's been cut off.
A very small segment of the population has access to solar power, and it's become a resource for people… but at a price.
Can you imagine?
Your phone battery is dead? You have to pay 2 shekels to recharge it.
Power banks? 3 shekels.
A large battery? 7 shekels.
Everything has a price, even charging, even electricity.
And the prices? Insane and unbelievable!
The internet?
There's no home internet.
There are temporary cards sold by people who have electricity and internet.
The card costs between 1 and 5 shekels (half a dollar to a dollar and a half), depending on the time and speed.
And the cost of living?
A kilo of tomatoes = 20 shekels ($5.50)
A kilo of cucumbers = 25 shekels ($7)
A kilo of potatoes = 50 shekels ($13 – if you can even find them) A kilo of eggplant = 30 shekels ($8)
A single cigarette? From 50 to 120 shekels ($13–$32!)
A loaf of bread? Almost nonexistent, and flour is running out.
Some people have resorted to smoking wild herbs, adding nicotine, carbonation, sugar, and sometimes pesticides and toxic substances… just to give it a flavor!
So, how are people surviving?
Some have nothing.
Some cook over wood fires.
Some eat one meal a day or less.
Some grow parsley or lettuce, or anything to stave off starvation.
Some make soup with water and onions…
And some don't eat at all.
No food, no gas, not enough flour.
Prices are sky-high, and people have nothing.
A kilo of ordinary vegetables is now more expensive than in European cities.
And a single cigarette is more expensive than a large meal for an entire family!
The water?
It's polluted, salty, and undrinkable.
People filter it using primitive methods, boil it, or drink it contaminated because “there's no alternative.”
The gas?
It's been cut off for over a month and a half.
People cook over wood fires, charcoal, or anything that will ignite.
The health situation?
There aren't enough medicines, no well-equipped hospitals, no medical equipment, and not enough staff.
And people get sick… and wait for death in silence.
I suppose I can serve you well with an extensive background on this news item but to be honest with you I'm not that interested, you're not that interested, and it's nothing but another nugget of endless dreary #Trump#MAGA bullshit
They had a fair or something for celebrations of 250 years of the #USA? No one showed up? I don't know, I don't care. Just incompetence and unpopularity
Just laugh at the endless circus of stupidity ("Freeedom?" 😆)
The USA failed to comply with it's own MoU, including in Lebanon.
The genocide of Palestinians continues with full US support.
I hope any Americans reading this feel deep deep shame about the United States of America and the suffering it has causes around the world for decades. From Iraq to Vietnam, from Hiroshima to Cuba, from Minab to Santiago.
USA-Iran-Konflikt verschärft sich trotz des Rahmenabkommens wieder
Knapp zwei Wochen nach Unterzeichnung eines Rahmenabkommens eskaliert der Konflikt zwischen den USA und Iran weiter. Während die USA als Reaktion auf die Attacke auf ein Frachtschiff Iran angriff, beschoss Iran Ziele in Kuwait und Bahrain.