D. Sam Abrams @dsamabrams

Moscow region is HELLISHLY BURNING right now🔥🔥 The “special military operation” Is going exactly according to putin’s plan. Just not the part he planned for russia😏💥

Ahir al vespre a Alibri per presentar-hi la preciosa antologia de poesia catalana traduïda a l'italià impulsada per Momtserrat Gallart, Maria Cucurella, Stefano Iori, Carla Villagrossi. Gratitud i celebració de la paraula commoguda

In 1903, John Muir did something no politician, no senator, no army of lobbyists could do. He took the President of the United States away from his entourage, away from the speeches and the crowds, and led him deep into the heart of Yosemite. Just two men. A campfire. The open sky above Glacier Point. That night, dusted by fresh snow under the giant Sequoias, Theodore Roosevelt felt something shift inside him. Muir didn't lecture. He just showed him the truth a magnificent wilderness being eaten alive by logging, grazing, and greed. By morning, the President had seen enough. Roosevelt later told a crowd that sleeping beneath those ancient trees felt like resting inside a temple built by God himself. Within three years, Yosemite Valley was transferred to full federal protection. One man. No weapon. No army. Just an unshakeable love for the American land and the courage to speak its truth to the most powerful person on earth. John Muir didn't just save a valley. He saved America's soul. Father of the National Parks. Guardian of the American Wilderness.

"When you come to power, will you abolish the constitution of the German Republic?" It was 1931, and American journalist Dorothy Thompson was permitted only three questions during a rare interview with Adolf Hitler that many considered impossible to secure. The leader of Germany's rapidly ascending far-right Nazi party gave her a chillingly candid reply. "I will get into power legally," Hitler told her. "I will abolish this parliament and the Weimar constitution afterward. I will found an authority-state, from the lowest cell to the highest instance; everywhere there will be responsibility and authority above, discipline and obedience below." Thompson believed he was telling the truth about his dictatorial ambitions, yet she couldn't fathom that he would be successful. The very idea struck her as absurd: "Imagine a would-be dictator setting out to persuade a sovereign people to vote away their rights." As one of America’s most respected foreign correspondents and the first American woman to head a foreign news bureau, Thompson had been tracking the Nazi movement since 1923. At the time of the interview, she was deeply familiar with Hitler, having watched his speeches, read Mein Kampf, and interviewed numerous German politicians and Nazi supporters. "When I walked into Adolph Hitler's salon in the Kaiserhof hotel, I was convinced that I was meeting the future dictator of Germany," Thompson later reflected. "In something like fifty seconds I was quite sure that I was not. It took just about that time to measure the startling insignificance of this man who has set the world agog." She recognized that Hitler was a masterful propagandist and orator in front of a crowd but she wasn't prepared for how pathetic he appeared one on one. "He is inconsequent and voluble, ill-poised, insecure. He is the very prototype of the Little Man," she wrote after their meeting. Thompson found the interview nearly impossible to conduct: "One cannot carry on a conversation with Adolph Hitler... In every question, he seeks for a theme that will set him off. Then his eyes focus in some far corner of the room; a hysterical note creeps into his voice, which rises sometimes almost to a scream. He gives the impression of a man in a trance. He bangs the table." Following the interview, in numerous articles and her book "I Saw Hitler," she warned about the threat Hitler represented to democracy and highlighted Hitler's embrace of racial prejudice, noting that persecution of the Jewish people was among the first planks in his program. But ultimately, she viewed an outright Nazi victory in the upcoming election as "unlikely," not believing that German citizens would embrace such an extremist demagogue in an election. Within a year, Thompson learned the devastating lesson of how easily democratic citizens could be persuaded to relinquish their rights to a would-be dictator who channeled their anxieties into hatred of a demonized 'other' while promising national greatness. After he came to power in 1933, Hitler began to crush his political opponents, rapidly militarize German society, and persecute targeted groups. Thompson quickly became one of the most vocal chroniclers of Hitler's growing brutality, warning a world that was largely oblivious. “It must be said, it must be re-iterated,” she wrote, “that there has been and still is a widespread terror, which extends throughout the whole of Germany.” Hitler was sufficiently threatened by Thompson's work that he reportedly demanded the creation of a "Dorothy Thompson Emergency Squad" to rush translations of her articles to him. In August 1934, Nazi government expelled Thompson from the country, making her the first American journalist banned from Nazi Germany. © A Mighty Girl #archaeohistories

🌱#TrobadesNL ESTAMPIDA: La Terra no és el teu planeta 🌾Brama ecopoètica amb l’ambientòleg @AndreuEscriva i la poesia de Jorie Graham, en veu i ànima de la traductora Núria Busquet Molist 🍷I amb copa de vi èpica! 🗓️Dissabte 11 de juliol a les 19:00h 📝naturallibres.com/event/trobades…

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Dietaris, Marià Manent sonograma.org/quadern-de-lli… «L’escriptor és capaç de reunir en un mateix breu passatge la gent que s’amagava als refugis durant els tirotejos de la plaça de Catalunya, el cant d’un merlot, una tonada tendra de Rameau, i un rossinyol, un Chopin exaltat i líric»

Day 5 of the infamous 40-day operation... and amid the daily tactical chaos, the chief of Sweden's Military Intelligence and Security Service (Must), Thomas Nilsson, has just delivered a chilling reality check that all of Europe needs to hear. 🪖🇸🇪⚠️The warning is crystal clear: The threat from Russia does not end with Vladimir Putin.Too many in the West are quietly hoping that things will simply snap back to normal once Putin is out of the picture, but that is dangerous, naive wishful thinking. The Kremlin’s deeply rooted imperialistic ambitions, aggressive military planning, relentless hybrid operations, and sheer willingness to use brutal force extend far beyond a single man in a bunker. The Russian system is built for a long-term confrontation with the West, and any domestic political opposition has effectively been wiped out. Assuming that a post-Putin Russia will automatically transform into a peaceful, friendly neighbor means repeating the exact same catastrophic strategic mistakes Europe made in the decades leading up to 2022. This isn't a temporary storm that will blow over. Deterrence, heavy rearmament, and unwavering, long-term support for Ukraine are not passing political trends—they are the permanent foundation of European security for the next generation. We are dealing with a systemic, multi-generational challenge, and it's time to face it head-on. 🛡️🇪🇺 Sources: Official statements from the Head of the Swedish Military Intelligence and Security Service (Must), June 30, 2026.

“This mortal surge That beats against us now is nothing else Than plangent ignorance. Truth neither shakes Nor wavers; but the world shakes, and we shriek.” —Edwin Arlington Robinson, “Octaves”

Hypocrisy doesn't get much cleaner than this. Donald Trump spent years claiming America's elections were riddled with fraud despite courts, audits, recounts, and election officials finding no evidence of fraud on the scale he alleged. Then he was caught on tape asking Georgia's Republican Secretary of State to "find 11,780 votes." That's not exposing election fraud. That's asking for the one thing that would have been election fraud. Authoritarians often insist the system is corrupt while demanding that officials corrupt it for them. The accusation becomes the cover story. The danger wasn't just one phone call. It was teaching millions of Americans that the only legitimate election is the one he wins.

SCOTUS struck down Trump’s executive order purporting to limit the Constitution's guarantee of birthright citizenship, confirming that, except under rare circumstances, anyone born in the U.S. is automatically a citizen. But that does not mean that real damage has not been done, Marc Elias says.

"The President says it is not a conflict. But just about anyone else who looks at it seems to think that it is": New York Times Investigative Journalist Eric Lipton on President Trump's billion dollar payday after his first year back in office.

BREAKING: Governor Josh Shapiro just announced that he is suing the Trump Administration over their efforts to rip Medicaid away from Pennsylvanians in need. This is big.

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🚨💥 BOMBSHELL ALERT 💥🚨 THEY CAN’T HIDE ANYMORE!!! Right now the US House just dropped the REAL Epstein List — 420-0 VOTE to force the release of EVERY secret sexual misconduct payoff Congress has been burying for years! This isn’t some redacted nothingburger. This is the one they’ve been terrified of. The swamp’s own dirty ledger. The actual client list they never wanted you to see. Rep. Thomas Massie just forced their hand. The hat is OFF. The gloves are OFF. If your “representative” is on this list… we’re about to find out who’s been paying victims to stay quiet with YOUR tax dollars. This changes everything. RT if you want the names dropped with NO redactions. 🔥 #RealEpsteinList #DrainTheSwamp #MassieWasRight

The House just passed my resolution to provide greater transparency into how taxpayer dollars were spent to resolve congressional sexual misconduct claims. The vote was 420-0. Americans deserve to know precisely how their money is spent.

🚨 TRUMP’S FINANCIAL DISCLOSURE JUST DROPPED…AND IT’S WORSE THAN YOU THOUGHT. The U.S. Office of Government Ethics released Donald Trump’s 927-page financial disclosure today. Here’s what a sitting U.S. President made in 2025: 💰 $635 MILLION from the TRUMP memecoin, while retail investors watched it crash from $74 to $1.68 💰 $594 MILLION from World Liberty Financial token and stablecoin sales, a crypto venture co-founded with his own sons 💰 $65 MILLION from selling equity in that same company 💰 $80+ MILLION in media settlements from ABC, CBS, Meta, and YouTube, paid to his own presidential library Total crypto haul: over $1.4 BILLION. In one year. While serving as President of the United States. His net worth has nearly TRIPLED, from $2.4 billion to $6.3 billion, since taking office. And while Trump pocketed $1.4 billion from crypto, the everyday Americans who bought his memecoin? They lost. 764,000 wallets ended up in the red. This is the most corrupt presidency in American history. Period.

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Ahir, acte ple de bellesa a @La_Central_ en la presentació de “Sobre Salvat-Papasseit i altres escrits”, de Tomàs Garcés. Poques vegades tant amor i sensibilitat tenen lloc en un mateix acte. Garcés, tan fidel a la memòria de Salvat com una forma d'estimar atemporal. Meravella!

Ha estat un acte que ha parlat de Garcés i de Salvat-Papasseit des de diferents aspectes,gràcies a les intervencions de @dsamabrams , Jordi Cornudella, Ferran Aisa,@MarinaGarces i el propi Guerrero. Fa goig quan en actes així no es repeteixen clixés gastats i s’hi aporten coses.

@salvat_nitra @dsamabrams @MarinaGarces Ha estat un acte d'una bellesa extraordinària, fora del comú, amb una coral de veus i d'improvisacions que han trencat el motlle habitual de les presentacions de llibres. Poesia i beutat en estat pur.