After 3 years in Israeli detention camps, Israeli occupation release Palestinian detainee Hossam Al-Razza from Nablus, in poor health, due to systematic torture and starvation.

#Israel #Palestine #Gaza #Palestinian

@goatrodeo

Farmers need to go to a re-education camp, where they would learn a few things. Here is the agenda.

Free Market my ass:

How the government manages the market to allow you to survive.

Tax breaks for you:
How other people pay taxes while you don't.

That's not your land:
How to graze your cattle on federal lands for pennies on the dollar

The Dakota crowds ate up Trump's wacko warnings about Communists, the godless (immigrants) and woke(Democrats) people advocating against him and his policies (tariffs, DOGE, Epstein Class Immunity, and the Israel/Epstein/WaronIran). Yet the Feds' paid for I29 and I90, the Missouri River flood control projects, the REA and TELCOs, and of course the massive billions in farm welfare and Medicaid they receive to prop up their failing farms and address their poor health outcomes.
#MAGACommunism

Blessings

https://music.youtube.com/watch?v=YV8KskUf3lQ&si=WKCwHLXVcmlX583l

Amazing photo by Cheney Orr of Reuters from today. Black woman sitting alone on the DC Metro with a crowd of masked white supremacists on their way to the capital to march with confederate flags.

There is also a deeper analogy for what I keep hearing over and over from Black people: finding themselves surrounded by white people who either do not know, or do not care, about how America looks from the Black person's perspective.

#Photography #PoliticalPhotography #July4th

Small protest remembering the 52 people that died in ICE custody. Organized by the Sunrise Movement. We only learned about it because stepson is a medic at the event, hard to find online, seems they only posted it on Instagram.
#minneaota #ice #nokings #protest

So Nice of Tom Kean to Take 4 Months of Paid Sick Leave After Voting Against Paid Sick Leave!

https://www.jezebel.com/so-nice-of-tom-kean-to-take-4-months-of-paid-sick-leave-after-voting-against-paid-sick-leave

Would be the best present we could receive on the 250th anniversary amiright ?
#Trumptôd #heatstroke

Yes but just a few things.
#USpol

In respect of Mexico going all the way, and today being a holiday and the crying need for more duets in this life and a shout out to my soulmates Shakira et Fer Olvera! I am happy, hope you are too, and prayers to all whose dignity we have trampled on as a country, ostensibly the land of the free and home of the brave! Less jingoism and more freedom please.
With love,
From,
a Communist (so I’m told)
https://music.youtube.com/watch?v=tzHfcuoom1M&si=ucqopL3Qz19TOMIz

What a difference 8 years makes, especially for Senator John Thune. 8 years ago he spent his 4th of July along with many other R Senators playing footsie IN RUSSIA BEING WINED AND DINED BY PUTIN. This year he was in his faux cowboy gear (dude is scared of horses) at Mt Rushmore, clapping along to Trump’s faux exhortation against Communism. Two Putin kneelers, Thune and Trump, warning against Communism? Get off your knees boys. Putin is the Enemy not your Master.
#SlavaUkraini

The US banned Hawaiian language, overthrew our country, poisoned our water, devastated our universal healthcare, & illegally occupies Hawaii to this day. My mother's hands were broken for speaking Hawaiian in school. The US is not a beacon but the destroyer of independence

Rather than flag waving today ima gonna

https://music.youtube.com/watch?v=9XFx82Oji7g&si=oVYgrnM0Jp0pXET1

#KebMo

In a statement published on July 4, President #Zelenskyy has rejected russian claims that moscow’s forces have captured the eastern Ukrainian city of Kostiantynivka, challenging putin to meet him there if the Kremlin’s statements are true. According to Zelenskyy, russia was attempting to create a false narrative about the battlefield situation.

Think of the dogs though, please?

"The men who endorsed the Declaration of Independence on July 4, 1776, pledged their “Lives, [their] Fortunes and [their] sacred Honor” to defend the idea of human equality. Ever since then, Americans have sacrificed their own fortunes, honor, and even their lives, for that principle."

And here we are again.

July 3, 2026 - by Heather Cox Richardson
https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/july-3-2026

You gather your most expensive people into a room to make your most important decisions. Then, somewhere in the second hour, the room quietly gets worse at making them. Not the people. The room.

I now travel with a portable CO2 monitor. Outdoors it reads around 400 parts per million. In a closed meeting room with a handful of people in it, I have watched it climb past 2,000. The photo here is a real reading: 2,143.

That number matters more than it looks. Researchers at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory put people in a chamber and varied only the CO2. At 1,000 ppm, performance dropped significantly on six of nine decision-making measures compared with a clean-air baseline of 600. At 2,500 ppm, seven of the nine fell substantially, some into a range they called dysfunctional. A separate study out of Harvard found cognitive scores declining as CO2 rose, with the steepest losses in exactly the domains you called the meeting for: strategy, planning, and using information under pressure.

Continue reading on my blog because it's too long for here. https://blog.mikebowler.ca/2026/07/03/co2-and-decision-making/

Oh lordy the weather forecast for Trump's oh-so-special 250th 4th of July celebration in DC is absolutely lit. Just glorious. 10/10. May he speak far too long in the heat and then be hit by lightning.

@msbellows
Dare we hope for mass deaths?