@barbaragirouard
I was over there before and now I’m here. I like prairies, mountains, oceans, and big wide blue skies. My posts are my bio, I am becoming the one I am becoming. Bi-global Métis and Polish hybrid. 🇨🇦 Strong and Free
A painting in blue, grey, ochre, green and white of a rocky beach and stylized waves seen through an open casement window.
Oh, is it Wednesday already / again?
Frederick Horsman Varley, 1881-1969
View from the Artist’s Bedroom Window, Jericho Beach
oil on canvas, 1929
Collection of the Winnipeg Art Gallery
#WindowsOnWednesday #CanadianArt
⚠️ An Iranian drone attack in Kuwait that killed US service members in the early hours of the Iran War was more severe than previously admitted, with dozens suffering injuries that included brain trauma, shrapnel trauma and burns.
Great work by NYT showing Trump's war is the most unpopular ever. Supports my argument (see below) that in some ways the public rejection of Trump across the board is a very heartening development:
This is how we got here. The lack of judgement is just staggering. Dated: June 21, 2025
War isn’t just ideology, it’s an industry. Every million dollars in arms sales carries a human cost. Eisenhower warned about the military-industrial complex in 1961, but the machine grew anyway: military power, defense contractors, political influence, and oil. The math behind war tells the story.
I highly suggest you watch this 👇🏼
bsky.app/profile/sull...
Absolutely, flabbergastingly insane.
This interview with the great @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social was a "wow" moment for me. Thanks, New York Times and David Marchese.
www.nytimes.com/2026/03/07/m...
I couldn't help noticing the question that seemed the most Times-like to me.
This is interesting for multiple reasons. #SteveBannon, deranged fascist that he is, recognizes the idiocy of #IranWar, while trying to give moronic easily duped Trump, cover for why he started his insane war. But here he is interviewing left-leaning Trita Parsi, both agree on the harm of this war.
DW wrote that russian govt approved a bill that would allow the deployment of ru military to other countries to protect ru citizens from criminal or other prosecution.
These bills aren't new and were passed in 2008, 2014 & 2022. And we all know very well what followed after.
A Pew survey found that 53% of American adults describe the morality and ethics of our fellow citizens as “bad.” Meanwhile, in Canada, 92% say their fellow Canadians are good while just 7% say they’re bad.
Why are we Americans so down on our fellow citizens?
Poilievre has but one stock reply.
“In a statement on social media, Poilievre accused Carney of using "backroom deals" to "seize a costly majority that voters rejected, which will enable Liberals to balloon debt, inflate the cost of living, block resources and turn criminals loose on our streets."“
Iran’s farmers confront a new threat: ‘black rain’
open.substack.com/pub/irandisp...
Trump’s colossal ignorance, egotistical drive for power, and fixation on fossil fuels is going to be known as the greatest crime of the millennium.
Netanyahu Calls Iran Strikes Necessary To Prevent War He Just Started
Netanyahu Calls Iran Strikes Necessary To Prevent War He Just Started
Nine months ago, the United States "completely and totally obliterated" Iran's nuclear program.
Tonight, we're attacking Iran to disrupt their nuclear program.
A sizable percentage of this country thinks that's normal.
U.S. military spending is set to hit a record $1.5 trillion.
Roughly half of defense spending goes to private contractors that routinely price-gouge the government.
Meanwhile, the Pentagon has failed EIGHT straight audits.
The military industrial complex is cheering today.
The world needs rational reactions to irrational actors like Trump, Netanyahu, Khomeini, and Putin.
Parse the words carefully, just like Carney’s description of Trump as a transformational leader, the use of the word “acting to prevent Iran from obtaining a nuclear weapon” does some heavy lifting.
I’m thinking that the real pandemic is of stupidity and ignorance.
as the bombs explode, trump regime plots election theft.
www.propublica.org/article/elec...
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH
This is not a coincidence!!!
Moroun donated $1M US to Trump-supporting super PAC before Gordie Howe bridge threats #US #Canada
Donation came less than a month before U.S. president's threat to block bridge's opening
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
Aliya Rahman, woman who was dragged out of car by ICE in Minneapolis: "I've spent the last month learning the names of the tendons in my shoulder, because both of my shoulders are torn -- cartilage and tendons. But what I haven't learned is the names of the people who did this to me."
Text card: Thinking About "Four Years" "Exactly four years of war, as of today. The cemeteries in Ukraine are larger than they should be. Fresh graves change the landscapes, as seen from a car or a train; the short spans of life, seen inscribed in stone, alter the reaction of the heart. The number four did not come to us. We brought it with us. Like 216, or like 100,000, the number four arrived because of what we failed to do. Do we count? Or are we just counting?" Read more at https://snyder.substack.com
It has been four years since Russia launched its full-scale invasion of Ukraine. Walking in Uzhhorod, I found myself counting to two hundred and sixteen. Two hundred and sixteen plaques with photographs of men and women from Uzhhorod who have been killed in the war.
Just know PM Carney is visiting countries to expand our trade at unprecedented speed so we can dump this piece of shit where he belongs, in the good ol USofA.
Proud of Canada 💪🇨🇦
This is utterly delusional.
