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Happy Independence Day, Eswatini 🇸🇿
On 6 September, Eswatini’s history since independence has included constitutional change, the restoration of monarchical rule and continuing debates over political participation and civic freedoms.Independence remains a useful moment to reflect on sovereignty, democratic participation, human rights and the aspirations of the people of Eswatini. 🙏🏾
#Eswatini #IndependenceDay #Africa #Democracy #HumanRights
Photo: ©️@Efyakimora
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Happy Independence Day, Eswatini 🇸🇿
On 6 September, Eswatini’s history since independence has included constitutional change, the restoration of monarchical rule and continuing debates over political participation and civic freedoms.Independence remains a useful moment to reflect on sovereignty, democratic participation, human rights and the aspirations of the people of Eswatini. 🙏🏾
#Eswatini #IndependenceDay #Africa #Democracy #HumanRights
Photo: ©️@Efyakimora
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Happy Independence Day, Eswatini 🇸🇿
On 6 September, Eswatini’s history since independence has included constitutional change, the restoration of monarchical rule and continuing debates over political participation and civic freedoms.Independence remains a useful moment to reflect on sovereignty, democratic participation, human rights and the aspirations of the people of Eswatini. 🙏🏾
#Eswatini #IndependenceDay #Africa #Democracy #HumanRights
Photo: ©️@Efyakimora
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Happy Independence Day, Eswatini 🇸🇿
On 6 September, Eswatini’s history since independence has included constitutional change, the restoration of monarchical rule and continuing debates over political participation and civic freedoms.Independence remains a useful moment to reflect on sovereignty, democratic participation, human rights and the aspirations of the people of Eswatini. 🙏🏾
#Eswatini #IndependenceDay #Africa #Democracy #HumanRights
Photo: ©️@Efyakimora
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Happy Independence Day, Eswatini 🇸🇿
On 6 September, Eswatini’s history since independence has included constitutional change, the restoration of monarchical rule and continuing debates over political participation and civic freedoms.Independence remains a useful moment to reflect on sovereignty, democratic participation, human rights and the aspirations of the people of Eswatini. 🙏🏾
#Eswatini #IndependenceDay #Africa #Democracy #HumanRights
Photo: ©️@Efyakimora
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Movie TV Tech Geeks #Movie #JurassicPark #TheMatrix #IndependenceDay The 8 Most Fun Sci-Fi Movies of the 1990s, Ranked http://dlvr.it/TVKQ2b
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Anton Gerashchenko
@antongerashchenko.bsky.social
On Ukraine's 35th #IndependenceDay, ground robotic complexes paraded down Kyiv's central street, interceptor drones and aircraft paraded Ukrainian skies and unmanned sea drones paraded Ukrainian waters!
This looks beautiful but it's also an example of Ukraine's technology advances.
#FlagDay #Ukraine #UkraineWar #AI #Robotics 8/24/26
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Russian Drone Hits Chernihiv Flat on Independence Day, 20 Hurt
A Geran-5 drone struck a residential high-rise in central Chernihiv on Ukraine's Independence Day, injuring 20 including two children
https://pulseofnations.lol/russian-drone-hits/
#Chernihiv #Civilian #Drone #IndependenceDay #Russia #Shahed #Ukraine
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Ukraine held its first unmanned systems military parade
#drones #grounddrone #IndependenceDay #Kyiv #militaryparade #UAV #Ukraine
https://uatribune.com/en/ukraine-held-its-first-unmanned-systems-military-parade/
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Today is my 1 year anniversary on #Mastodon
Today is also the 35th anniversary of Ukraine's Independence Day
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"Ukraine declared its independence in 1991 and was promptly recognised by countries around the world.
For more than a decade, Russia has tried to prove that independence can be reversed by force.
Ukraine keeps proving otherwise 🇺🇦 "
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"For years, Kremlin officials have insisted Ukraine is an ‘artificial’ country, ‘controlled from abroad’, or ‘incapable of choosing its own future’.
35 years after independence, Ukraine is still making that choice for itself.
Perhaps that is precisely what makes its independence so difficult for the Kremlin to accept."
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Dzień Niepodległości Ukrainy / День Незалежності України / Ukrainian Independence Day
W tym szczególnym dniu Stowarzyszenie „NIGDY WIĘCEJ” przekazuje wyrazy najgłębszej solidarności wszystkim Ukraińcom i Ukrainkom.
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Illia Ponomarenko: "What matters is that 35 years ago, on August 24, 1991, Ukraine did not simply declare its independence from the USSR and finally become a separate country.
It restored its statehood and independence first proclaimed in 1917–1918 — and drowned in blood by Lenin’s Bolsheviks."
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Happy Independence Day, our beloved Ukraine! 🇺🇦
Ukraine is not just a spot on the map. It is our home, our memory, our love, and our faith.
Every stalk of wheat, every breath of wind, every native word — this is what gives us the strength to live and fight. May our blue sky become peaceful as soon as possible, and may peace and Victory reign in every home! 🌾💙💛
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Russia Strikes Kyiv, Airport With Ballistics Before Holiday
Russia hit Kyiv and Boryspil airport with ballistic missiles for a second straight day, killing at least three civilians as Ukraine pleads for Patriot interceptors.
https://pulseofnations.lol/russia-strikes-kyiv/
#AirDefense #Boryspil #IndependenceDay #Kyiv #Missiles #Russia #Ukraine
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Saturday, August 22, 2026
Deliberately targeted — Russia hits civilian residential building in Sumy . . . . . Russian double-tap strike on shopping center in Kryvyi Rih kills at least 16 . . . . . Major Russian oil refinery, Ozon logistics center set ablaze in reported Ukrainian attack . . . . . and morehttps://activitypub.writeworks.uk/2026/08/saturday-august-22-2026/
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Happy birthday, I guess. Whatever.
#dirgahayuindonesia
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My birthday was yesterday, hooray for India’s Independence Day and the peak summer holidays Feast of the Assumption in France and Italy.
I have been in Sydney to see The Drover’s Wife at Sydney Opera House with a talk before the show by Leah Purcell. Big recommend, important story told well in a beautiful format. Even better when you get to see a good show with a great friend.
Also got to catch buses, regional trains, suburban trains, and ferries.
The harbour view was from my apartment window.
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Happy Indian Independence Day!
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My dear Students of India,
I write to you on this Independence Day. My message is simple and direct.
This is our 80th anniversary of India’s freedom [1]. Seventy nine years ago, on this day, our country stepped out of colonial rule. Those who came before us paid a heavy price for that freedom. Their struggle gives this day its weight. It also places a clear duty on every generation that follows.
I pass on more than a date of freedom. I pass on the duty to turn formal freedom into something people live every day.
Sacrifice and refusal once brought freedom. The work that remains needs effort from you. Choose truth instead of stories that make things easy. Choose real skill instead of empty show. Choose the lasting good of most people instead of short benefits for a few.
History keeps every mark we leave. Every policy leaves a mark. Every silence leaves a mark. Every act of courage leaves a mark. Every act of convenience leaves a mark. These marks become the ground you will walk on.
Independence is not only about celebration. It shows when you face your own record honestly. It shows when you change direction quietly, without making a show of it. It shows when you build institutions that last longer than any single government or generation.
You have the power to shape what comes next. The work continues. The baton now rests in your hands.
From one who belongs to the generation that came before.
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#OnThisDay Happy #IndependenceDay, India!
Birth Anniversary of Napoléon Bonaparte (1769).
Wow! signal was received (1977). The signal appeared to come from the constellation Sagittarius and bore the expected hallmarks of extraterrestrial origin.
Happy Birthday #Actress Jennifer Lawrence (1990).
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Three children suffer major injuries in Kent fireworks accident
#Fireworks #July4th #IndependenceDay #Celebrations #Accidents #Safety #Dangers
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🍄 David Zangwill explores our personal journey from Independence to Global Interdependence.
Along the journey, David builds a case for why #InTERdependenceDay ought to be celebrated on July 5th, the day after #IndependenceDay in the U.S. https://www.museumofself.com/self-interdependence/
🏷️ #DavidZangwill #interbeing #inTERdependence #interdependent #July4 #July5 #July4th #July5th
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At least 8 people, including 4 children, were shot during a #July4th barbecue in the #ConeyIsland neighborhood of #Brooklyn Saturday, acc/to police.
As family celebrated #IndependenceDay in the courtyard of a home, an unknown man dressed in all black & wearing a black ski mask approached the fence line along Surf Ave & fired multiple rounds into the courtyard before fleeing on foot, NYPD Com Jessica Tisch told reporters Sunday.
#MassShooting #law #GunLaws #GunControl
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https://www.europesays.com/people/140263/ Tim Cook, Sundar Pichai, Michael Dell, Mark Benioff and other tech CEOs share July 4 greetings #250thAnniversary #IndependenceDay #July4Greetings #MarcBenioff #MarkZuckerberg #MichaelDell #SundarPichai #TechCEOs #TimCook
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4th of July orations (1777-1800) in #PRISMS:
https://www.prisms.digital/editions/?q=subjects:%22Fourth%20of%20July%224th of July orations database (1777-1876):
https://www.julyfourthorations.org/#18thC #Revolution250 #IndependenceDay #FourthOfJuly #Evans #July4th #FoundingFathers #DigitalHumanities #c18th
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4th of July orations (1777-1800) in #PRISMS:
www.prisms.digital/editions/?q=...
4th of July orations database (1777-1876):
www.julyfourthorations.org
#18thC #Revolution250 #IndependenceDay #FourthOfJuly #Evans #July4th #FoundingFathers #DigitalHumanities #c18th -
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Today We Celebrate Our Independence Day!
https://medi-nerd.com/2026/07/04/today-we-celebrate-our-independence-day/
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Hilarious #SitecoreLunch today. Discussed:
🌌 #CosmosDB
🏦 A little civics
🐟 Fishbowl cocktails
🎇 #IndependenceDay
🏴☠️ Flying country flags
🔢 Future of serialization
🟪 #Sitecore placeholders
🐭 #DisneyLand vs. #DisneyWorld
📝 Managing #Sitecore Page and Partial DesignsSee you same time next week! 🥪🥗
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Happy #Celebrations #4th #July by Kaye Menner #Photography Wide variety #Prints & lovely #Products at:
https://kaye-menner.pixels.com/featured/celebrations-4th-july-by-kaye-menner-kaye-menner.html
#independenceday #holiday #happy #unitedstates #flag #redwhiteblue #homedecor #mastoart #fediverse #fediart #fedigiftshop #giftideas #wallartforsale #Art #artforsale #BuyIntoArt #AYearForArt #Artist #FineArtAmerica #PhotographyFeed #VisualArts #CreativeArts
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Retro Gaming Ads Blast – Part 43
Welcome back readers, fellow geeks and electronic gaming fans!
In this edition of the Retro Gaming Ads Blast (RGAB) series, we will take a look at another batch of retro gaming print ads from the 1980s to the 1990s.
For the newcomers reading this, Retro Gaming Ads Blast (RGAB) looks back at the many print ads of games (console, arcade, computer and handheld) that were published in comic books, magazines, flyers, posters and newspapers long before smartphones, social media, the worldwide web and streaming became popular. To put things in perspective, people back in the 1980s to the 1990s were more trusting of print media for information and images about electronic games and related products.
With those details laid down, here is the newest batch of retro gaming print ads for you to see and enjoy…
1. Taito’s 4-in-1 Print Ad
I remember seeing this ad in some comic books I read back in the 1980s.There is nothing like taking the clever approach of promoting multiple video games using only one single print ad in the size of a single page. Taito did exactly that in the 1980s when it promoted Elevator Action, The Legend of Kage, Arkanoid and Renegade for the Nintendo Entertainment System (NES) promising excitement as the mentioned games were making the jump from arcade to console. What is very notable in Taito’s single-page print ad was that it did not show any screenshots of the games. Instead, they used hand-drawn artwork to emphasize each game’s theme or setting, and leave it up to the viewers’ imagination as to how those games would look like on NES. This old ad is intriguing and amusing at the same time.
2. Chase H.Q. II: Special Criminal Investigation Print Ad
Cars and high-speed action emphasized in this ad.Following the huge success of the original Chase H.Q. on both arcade and consoles in the late-1980s, the sequel Special Crime Investigation was released in the arcades in 1989 and ported to game consoles and computers in the early 1990s under the title Chase H.Q. II: Special Criminal Investigation. To promote Chase H.Q. II: Special Criminal Investigation for home computers, game publisher Ocean came up with a colorful print ad showcasing a few cars, a city background and elements of gun-related action presented in nice art. The ad has an image of the original arcade machine to remind gamers that they are playing the sequel to Chase H.Q.
3. Dancing Eyes Japanese Arcade Flyer
The front. The rear.Released by Namco in Japan in 1996, Dancing Eyes is a puzzle arcade game that became notorious due to its overtly sexual nature. With the way it was designed, players control a small monkey called Urusu-San and crawl along a 3D grid mapped over characters (mostly ladies) or various objects. If the 3D grid is mapped over a young lady, any tile of the grid destroyed by the player exposes the lady’s underwear or skin. Such sexuality is reflected in the arcade flyer of Dancing Eyes which has a suggestive hand-drawn art on the front while the game’s mechanics are explained in the rear. Even the rear of the flyer shows sexual nature of the game with screenshots. While the game was officially released only in Japan, Dancing Eyes actually was made available for gamers to play at the arcade of X-Site amusement center inside Festival Mall in Alabang during the early 2000s and it attracted a lot of guys. I bet Namco did not know about that.
4. Sega Saturn North American Print Ad
This print ad always caught people’s attention.When the Sega launched the Saturn console in America roughly four months ahead of schedule in 1995, the company suffered as the sales were disappointing, ties with business partners were strained and the available Saturn games were very few. By the fourth quarter of that year, more games became available for the Saturn and this gave Sega the opportunity to aggressively market the console as the one that gamers should get for their enjoyment. To promote the Saturn, Sega came up with a two-page print ad that had a dominant image of a naked woman whose private parts were cleverly covered by screenshots of the available games. Since most gamers were predominantly male from teenagers to adults, it made sense for Sega to come up with an eye-catching sexy ad to promote their console and the video games (including those from other companies). This old ad is considered by the woke and rabid feminists as very offensive today.
5. Blockbuster Video Print Ad
If you won the grand prize and wanted a lot of entertainment, you would not want to leave your home.Back in the late 20th century, Blockbuster Video was the dominant retailer that offered customers movies in home video format for sale and for rent. Along the way, the company offered video game rentals and attracted millions of gamers around the nation. Given the tremendous growth of video gaming in America in the 1990s, Blockbuster got itself more involved by launching the Games of Summer Sweepstakes in 1996. Utilizing print ads, the sweepstakes offered the Ultimate Game Rooms – composed of a 41-inch big-screen TV, Surround Sound speakers, hi-fi VCR, NBA Jame Extreme arcade game, the Sega Saturn, the PlayStation, a gaming chair, Acclaim games for Saturn and PlayStation, and a 1-year free Blockbuster Video game rentals privilege – as the grand prizes. Do you know anyone who won in Blockbuster’s sweepstakes?
6. Independence Day (ID4) Print Ad
A nice looking ad for a game that was actually mediocre.Remember how big a blockbuster Independence Day (ID4) was in cinemas in 1996? The film grossed over $800 million worldwide and it revived the disaster movie genre using modern filmmaking techniques and the latest technologies of the decade. Given the massive success of the movie, it was not surprising that an official video game adaptation was released in 1997. To promote the game, Fox Interactive (the video game company of the movie studio behind the film) came up with a 2-page print ad using official artwork from the movie showcasing the alien spaceship being attacked by a military fighter plane. The ad showed only 3 screenshots and the descriptive text was written to make gamers feel like they have the role to lead Earth’s fight against the aliens. While the art looks good, it can only go so far to hide the mediocrity of the game itself.
7. GoldenEye 007 Print Ad
Bond, James Bond.When GoldenEye achieved both critical and financial success in movies, it revived the James Bond movie franchise big-time and Pierce Brosnan was easily accepted by the public as the newest Agent 007. Several months before the movie was even released, an official video game adaptation started development. After much revisions and hard adjustments, the project evolved into a first-person shooting game for the Nintendo 64 console titled GoldenEye 007. To promote the game, Nintendo came up with a 2-page print ad that cleverly showed Brosnan as James Bond on the left and displayed the screenshots and other details on the right. This ad was easily eye-catching and it made lots of gamers excited. As history showed, GoldenEye 007 got released in 1997 and became a huge critical and commercial success while also proving that first-person shooters on game consoles can be a lot of fun.
8. North American Sega Saturn Games Promo Print Ad
There definitely was something fun offered to gamers. Who could go wrong with titles like Tomb Raider, Nights into Dreams, Virtual On and Virtua Cop 2?As mentioned earlier, the Sega Saturn had a bad launch in America in 1995 which caused a lot of problems for the company. In 1996, Sega of America went on the offensive to really capture gamers’ attention by launching their Saturn games promo. The message of this 2-page print ad was very clear…Sega offered one free first-party game (limited to four specific games including Nights into Dreams) to those who bought two games (from a lineup of twelve specific titles). It should be noted that the Christmas season of 1996 was the most successful sales period of the Sega Saturn in America as gamers really responded to the promo. Even though some called this promo an act of desperation, nothing changes the fact that Sega succeeded during the most critical sales season of 1996.
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The Sci-Fi Disaster Epic That’s So Dumb It’s Wonderful
By Robert Scucci | Published 1 minute ago Moonfall (2022) It’s not uncommon for your typical disaster movie…
#NewsBeep #News #Movies #AppleTV+ #CarolinaBartczak #CharliePlummer #disastermovies #Entertainment #FandangoAtHome #halleberry #IndependenceDay #JohnBradley #michaelpena #moonfall #PatrickWilson #Sci-Fi #Streaming #UK #UnitedKingdom #YouTube
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Chào mừng Tết Độc Lập! 🙏 Một sư thầy đã tổ chức đêm hoa đăng tri ân và chiếu bộ phim "Mưa đỏ". Một hoạt động ý nghĩa kết hợp thiện nguyện, thăm hỏi và tưởng nhớ. ✨ #TetDocLap #HoaDang #MuaDo #VietNam #NgàyĐộcLập #PhimViệt #TônGiáo #IndependenceDay #LightFestival #VietnameseMovie #Religion
https://vietnamnet.vn/tet-doc-lap-nha-su-to-chuc-dem-hoa-dang-va-xem-phim-mua-do-2438781.html
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Happy Birthday America!!!
Let's celebrate the freedom, unity, and spirit of our great nation today and always. MY SPECIALTY: EXTRAORDINARY SERVICE Marie Walton, GRI REALTOR & ASSOCIATED BROKER (972) 816-5197 [email protected] View Website Ebby Halliday - North Dallas 16000 Preston Road, Suite 100 Dallas TX 75248 #FourthOfJulyFireworks #July4thCelebration #IndependenceDay #FireworksShow #StarsAndStripesForever #DFW #NorthTexas #Dallas #Carrollton #Addison…
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2/2 Hello World, it's #Finland calling!
It's our #IndependenceDay, and Finnish Broadcasting Company Yle has a live sream from the 612-march of the #FarRight and the counterdemonstration #HelsinkiIlmanNatseja - Helsinki without #Nazis - mentioned above.
You can watch it here:
https://arenan.yle.fi/1-72695111
The other of the MP's from #TheFinnsParty cancelled his participation in the #FarRight march, but the other, #TeemuKeskisarja, didn't and is the keynote speaker of it.
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1/2 Hello World!
It's #Finland calling, again!
The latest news about our far right #consevative #government:
Two MP's from #TheFinnsParty have announced that they'll not participate the #IndependenceDay ball held by president #AlexanderStubb, but are instead participating 612-march.
The march is organized by a #FarRight association, and also #NeoNazis are regularly marching - #swatsika flags with them.
Prime minister #PetteriOrpo stays silent.
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Friday Reads: Twilight’s Last Gleaming
““No Mortal Man is Above the Law,” sayeth the Supremes. Enjoy your Independence Day; if the Conflicted Convicted Felon is elected, it’ll be our last.” John Buss, Repeat 1968
Good Day, Sky Dancers!
Independence Day has always been my favorite holiday, and it’s my youngest daughter’s too. When we lived in the Quarter, we would always walk our 2 blonde labs to the Mississippi River Bank and watch the left and east bank boats launch a huge fireworks display. Down here in the Bywater, it’s still the same short walk to the riverbank, but the Poland Avenue Wharf or the newest Crescent Park are the favorite places to go. Cars always turn to our local NPR station for patriotic music and blast it loud. You can tell when it’s time for the display because all the bars and houses empty into the streets and head south to the banks of the Mississippi River. I have always wondered what past celebrations were like, but that’s a rabbit hole for another day.
I spent the pre-show hours with friends listening to his industrial band livestream their efforts while sitting in their driveway patio. It seemed like a normal fourth. While everyone headed to the river, I headed home to Temple to let her dig a burrow under me to hide from the noise. No displays for me in the last 10 years. Just time at home in bed comforting Temple. The weird thing this year was the fireworks didn’t seem to bother her, and she spent most of the time spooning me. Maybe she sensed that my fear was far greater than hers today. It’s a thought.
Twilight’s last gleaming from last night at my neighbor’s driveway patio.
The swiftboating of the democratic candidate season has begun. My friend who owns the bar on the corner told me she’s hearing from others besides me who are looking for places to become expats. Given the Le Pen elections, I’m researching the south of France right now, although they may soon have their counter-revolution. Russia is happy about that one. I’m sure they have high hopes for us.
If you haven’t seen this little speech, you really should. “Leader of the pro-Trump Project 2025 suggests there will be a new American Revolution. Kevin Roberts said the revolution will be bloodless “if the left allows it to be.” This is from the AP but sourced at Politico.
The leader of a conservative think tank orchestrating plans for a massive overhaul of the federal government in the event of a Republican presidential win said that the country is in the midst of a “second American Revolution” that will be bloodless “if the left allows it to be.”
Heritage Foundation President Kevin Roberts made the comments Tuesday on Steve Bannon’s “War Room” podcast, adding that Republicans are “in the process of taking this country back.”
Democrats are “apoplectic right now” because the right is winning, Roberts told former U.S. Rep. Dave Brat, one of the podcast’s guest hosts as Bannon is serving a four-month prison term. “And so I come full circle on this response and just want to encourage you with some substance that we are in the process of the second American Revolution, which will remain bloodless if the left allows it to be.”
Roberts’ remarks shed light on how a group that promises to have significant influence over a possible second term for former President Donald Trump is thinking about this moment in American politics. The Heritage Foundation is spearheading Project 2025, a sweeping road map for a new GOP administration that includes plans for dismantling aspects of the federal government and ousting thousands of civil servants in favor of Trump loyalists who will carry out a hard-right agenda without complaint.
His call for revolution and vague reference to violence also unnerved some Democrats who interpreted it as threatening.
“This is chilling,” former Democratic presidential candidate Marianne Williamson wrote on the social platform X. “Their idea of a second American Revolution is to undo the first one.”
James Singer, a spokesperson for President Joe Biden’s reelection campaign, pointed to this week’s Fourth of July holiday in an emailed statement.
“248 years ago tomorrow America declared independence from a tyrannical king, and now Donald Trump and his allies want to make him one at our expense,” Singer said, adding that Trump and his allies are ”dreaming of a violent revolution to destroy the very idea of America.”
Roberts, whose name Bannon recently floated to The New York Times as a potential chief of staff option for Trump, also said on the podcast that Republicans should be encouraged by the Supreme Court’s recent immunity ruling.
Bannon is in jail right now, serving time for contempt of Congress. The New Republic‘s Parker Malloy has a good point here. “Why Does the Media Insist on Helping Steve Bannon Act the Martyr? NBC and ABC snagged pre-prison interviews with the far-right globalist. But to what end? They became tools in his propaganda machine.” The press just falls right in line by normalizing this behavior.
NBC News’s Vaughn Hillyard and ABC News’s Jonathan Karl recently made a journalistic misstep by interviewing Steve Bannon right before he reported to prison. This move, which might seem innocuous at first glance, actually elevates Bannon’s “political prisoner” narrative, a misleading storyline that does little but bolster the War Room host’s victim complex.
By interviewing Bannon just before he heads to prison, both NBC and ABC are essentially giving him a platform to paint himself as a martyr.
It allows Bannon to control the narrative. This plays directly into the hands of Bannon and his supporters, who are eager to cast any legal action against them as part of a broader conspiracy to silence dissent. It’s a classic tactic: position yourself as a victim to garner sympathy and rally support.
But Bannon is not going to prison for his political beliefs or his support for Donald Trump. He’s going to prison because he defied a congressional subpoena. By allowing Bannon to put some focus on his claims of political persecution, these interviews shift attention away from his actual misconduct and the legal consequences of that misconduct. This undermines the rule of law and gives credence to the idea that powerful individuals can evade accountability by crying foul.
Beyond that, it normalizes extremist rhetoric. In his interview with Karl, Bannon doubled down on his inflammatory language, discussing “retribution” and the need for investigations and potential imprisonments of political figures. Bannon listed former FBI Director James Comey, FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe, former Defense Secretary Mark Esper, former Joint Chiefs Chairman Mark Milley, Attorney General Merrick Garland, and former Attorney General Bill Barr as people who should be “very worried” about prosecution under a second Trump administration. Bannon defended his use of the slogan “Victory or Death!” at the recent Turning Point Action convention and rolled his eyes at Karl for even asking him about his 2020 comments about beheading Dr. Anthony Fauci and FBI Director Christopher Wray.
Also, from TNR is this headline about the black man running for governor on the insanity platform. “MAGA Gov Candidate’s Ugly, Hateful Rant: “Some Folks Need Killing!” Mark Robinson, the GOP nominee for governor in North Carolina, has a long history of incendiary comments. But he may have topped himself this time.”
Mark Robinson, the extremist GOP nominee for governor in North Carolina, appeared to endorse political violence in a bizarre and extended rant he delivered on June 30 in a small-town church.
“Some folks need killing!” Robinson, the state’s lieutenant governor, shouted during a roughly half-hour-long speech in Lake Church in the tiny town of White Lake, in the southeast corner of the state. “It’s time for somebody to say it. It’s not a matter of vengeance. It’s not a matter of being mean or spiteful. It’s a matter of necessity!”
Robinson’s call for the “killing” of “some folks” came during an extended diatribe in which he attacked an extraordinary assortment of enemies. These ranged from “people who have evil intent” to “wicked people” to those doing things like “torturing and murdering and raping” to socialists and Communists. He also invoked those supposedly undermining America’s founding ideals and leftists allegedly persecuting conservatives by canceling them and doxxing them online.
In all this, Robinson appeared to endorse lethal violence against these unnamed enemies, particularly on the left, though he wasn’t exactly clear on which “folks” are the ones who “need killing.”
Robinson, a self-described “MAGA Republican,” has a long history of wildly radical and unhinged moments. He has linked homosexuality to pedophilia, called for the arrest of trans women, pushed hallucinogenic antisemitic conspiracy theories, endorsed the vile “birther” conspiracy about Barack Obama, described Michelle Obama as a man, hinted at the need to violently oppose federal law enforcement and the government, and posted memes mocking and denying the brutal, violent assault on Nancy Pelosi’s husband, among many other things.
My belief is he said the quiet part out loud. My governor isn’t calling for the death penalty for anyone who doesn’t fit the White Christian Nationalist mold or stays quiet, afraid, and hidden, but I do believe he’d do it if any other MAGA governor started the trend. As JJ says, fear for people you love. As to the swiftboating of Biden for a cold, let’s show you this oldie but goodie of just a smidgen of the swiftboating of Hillary. “Remember when Hillary Clinton had pneumonia and showed up anyway at a 9/11 memorial & media ripped her for that?” (via @joannebamberg with Karolic Kuns and me in the amen corner.)
Even New York Magazine is in on it. “The Conspiracy of Silence to Protect Joe Biden. The president’s mental decline was like a dark family secret for many elite supporters.” Biden, meanwhile, is on a prove-them all full of a shit tour of duty. Here’s another ‘nattering nabob of negatism’ NBC News. (With no apologies to rotten apple dead Spiro Agnew.)
President Joe Biden will hold a rally Friday in Wisconsin and then sit for his first televised interview since his disastrous debate performance last week, events could be crucial in determining whether he can salvage his embattled candidacy.
The interview with anchor George Stephanopoulos of ABC News is shaping up to be one of the most high-stakes moments for a president or a candidate in many years. Democratic elected officials, donors and voters will be closely watching to see whether he can still deliver in an adversarial setting and turn in a performance worthy of being the party’s nominee to defeat Donald Trump this fall.
The interview will “air in its entirety as a primetime special” at 8 p.m. ET Friday, ABC said, adding that a “transcript of the unedited interview will be made available the same day.”
Before that, Biden is expected to speak this afternoon at a campaign rally in Madison, Wisconsin. At the rally, Biden will “underscore the stakes of this election for our democracy, our rights and freedoms, and our economy,” a campaign official said. Also speaking will be Gov. Tony Evers, a Democrat, and Rep. Mark Pocan, D-Wis., among others.
The White House said the interview team from ABC “will be with us all day in Wisconsin” and able to cover the rally event and to observe the president as he participates in his schedule, and said it has “some flexibility” around the length of the sit-down but “no exact estimate” of the duration of the conversation.
Read the next paragraph, which I will not print here, and try not to bang your head against your desk, wall, or coffee table. Law Professor Richard W. Painter is floating a Constitutional Amendment on X.
Const. Amend. 28: “The President and the judges of the United States courts including the Supreme Court, shall be bound by the criminal laws of the United States and also by financial disclosure and conflict of interest laws enacted by Congress.” So who votes against?
If you want a real shock, go see The Economist Cover Picture today with the heading “No way to Run a Country.” The attached story is “Biden Must Withdraw.” This is from a country where the General Election just kicked the Conservative PM (a hedge fund manager) and replaced him with a Human Rights Lawyer and member of the Labour Party. Fourteen years of Conservative Rule has just been tossed for something different. Of course, CNN has joined the swiftboating effort. This is from Dr. Sanjay Gupta at CNN. “It’s time for President Biden to undergo detailed cognitive and neurological testing and share his results.”
So, I have to share this one from the New York Times even though I’m about to cancel my subscription. “Biden Tells Governors He Needs More Sleep and Less Work at Night. The president’s opening remark to a group of key Democratic leaders — that he was in the race to stay — chilled any talk of his withdrawal, participants said.” The usual suspects, Reid J. Epstein and Maggie Haberman, reported it.
President Biden told a gathering of Democratic governors that he needs to get more sleep and work fewer hours, including curtailing events after 8 p.m., according to two people who participated in the meeting and several others briefed on his comments.
The remarks on Wednesday were a stark acknowledgment of fatigue from the 81-year-old president during a meeting intended to reassure more than two dozen of his most important supporters that he is still in command of his job and capable of mounting a robust campaign against former President Donald J. Trump.
Mr. Biden’s comments about needing more rest came shortly after The New York Times reported that current and former officials have noticed that the president’s lapses over the past few months have become more frequent and more pronounced.
But Mr. Biden told the governors, some of whom were at the White House while others participated virtually, that he was staying in the race.
He described his extensive foreign travel in the weeks before the debate, something that the White House and his allies have in recent days cited as the reason for his halting performance during the debate. Initially, Mr. Biden’s campaign blamed a cold, putting out word about midway through the debate amid a series of social media posts questioning why Mr. Biden was struggling.
Mr. Biden said that he told his staff he needed to get more sleep, multiple people familiar with what took place in the meeting said. He repeatedly referenced pushing too hard and not listening to his team about his schedule, and said he needed to work fewer hours and avoid events scheduled after 8 p.m., according to one of the people familiar with what took place at the meeting.
After Gov. Josh Green of Hawaii, a physician, asked Mr. Biden questions about the status of his health, Mr. Biden replied that his health was fine. “It’s just my brain,” he added, according to three people familiar with what took place — a remark that some in the room took as a joke, including Gov. Kathy Hochul of New York, according to a person close to her. But at least one governor did not, and was puzzled by it.
Jen O’Malley Dillon, Mr. Biden’s campaign chair, who attended the meeting, said in a statement that he had said, “All kidding aside,” a recollection confirmed by another person briefed on the meeting. Ms. O’Malley Dillon added: “He was clearly making a joke.”
So, I fully admit to being depressed and worried. I know that BB stopped her NYT subscription. I hope John Buss doesn’t mind. I shared this bit he posted to his FaceBook about canceling his. I seriously worry about him in North Carolina, too. None of us in the old Confederate States are safe right now.
This is from a poll taken in April and reported by the AP on May 1. “Half of US adults mistrust media coverage of 2024 elections, a poll finds. About half of Americans say they are extremely or very concerned that news organizations will report inaccuracies or misinformation during the election. According to a poll, 42% express worry that news outlets will use generative artificial intelligence to create stories. (AP Video: Serkan Gurbuz)”
I think it’s likely that if they redid that this month, they’d find a statistically significant increase in the number of people saying that. However, I admit that I live in the Southern City that promptly surrendered when Captain David Farragut of the Union Navy bombed two forts and arrived at the port. We are a haven for the GLBT community. We also have a strong Jewish presence and are well known for being a place of refuge for many diasporas. Our new governor hates us and wants to take away our city charter, which is the legal means by which we don’t become the rest of the state. You have to wonder how many cities like ours will come under direct attack if MAGA either gets its way or doesn’t.
The only way out of this is to VOTE and get everyone you know to VOTE because our lives depend on it.
I really hope you got to enjoy a little celebration on Independence Day. I’m still on board with ensuring liberty and justice for all. I am also standing by the Biden/Harris ticket. Again, you realize that I have had a lot of gripes in the past about Biden and what happened to Anita Hill. It is somewhat karmic that what is going on now is somewhat built in by the bad decision he, Teddy Kennedy, and John Kerry made about Clarence Thomas. Forty-eight percent of the Senate was against his confirmation. He should’ve been Borked. That, unfortunately, is toxic water under the bridge of democracy, but we have what we have now, and it is what it is. Remember the words of Benjamin Franklin and fight for it. The Roberts Supreme Court just took down the republic.
“A republic, if you can keep it.”
–Benjamin Franklin’s response to Elizabeth Willing Powel’s question: “Well, Doctor, what have we got, a republic or a monarchy?”
What’s on your reading and blogging list today?
I’m sentimental, if you know what I mean
I love the country but I can’t stand the scene
And I’m neither left or right
I’m just staying home tonight
Getting lost in that hopeless little screen
But I’m stubborn as those garbage bags
That time cannot decay
I’m junk but I’m still holding up
This little wild bouquet
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