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eicker.news tech news<p>»<a href="https://eicker.news/tags/China" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>China</span></a> embeds <a href="https://eicker.news/tags/DeepSeek" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>DeepSeek</span></a> AI in <a href="https://eicker.news/tags/everything" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>everything</span></a> from cars to police work: Chinese companies, as a signal of <a href="https://eicker.news/tags/patriotism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>patriotism</span></a>, are racing to build services on top of the <a href="https://eicker.news/tags/homegrown" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>homegrown</span></a> <a href="https://eicker.news/tags/AImodel" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AImodel</span></a>.« <a href="https://restofworld.org/2025/china-embeds-deepseek-ai-in-everything/?eicker.news" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">restofworld.org/2025/china-emb</span><span class="invisible">eds-deepseek-ai-in-everything/?eicker.news</span></a> <a href="https://eicker.news/tags/tech" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>tech</span></a> <a href="https://eicker.news/tags/media" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>media</span></a></p>
Chris Alemany🇺🇦🇨🇦🇪🇸<p>Friday thoughts.</p><p>1) Canada was historically divided until Trump started making invady-noises.</p><p>2) We are now experiencing a rally around the flag like nothing for generations. We have found a common enemy.</p><p>3) America is incredibly divided to the point where opposition to Trump seems paralyzed.</p><p>4) Is the solution: for Canada to invade Point Roberts by force*</p><p>This is an unserious Friday thought. You're welcome.<br><a href="https://mstdn.chrisalemany.ca/tags/tradewar" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>tradewar</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.chrisalemany.ca/tags/patriotism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>patriotism</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.chrisalemany.ca/tags/trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>trump</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.chrisalemany.ca/tags/canPoli" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>canPoli</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.chrisalemany.ca/tags/cdnpoli" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>cdnpoli</span></a></p><p>*force of Moose 🫎</p>
Catherine Schmidt<p><a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>trump</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/jdvance" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>jdvance</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/verterans" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>verterans</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/patriotism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>patriotism</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/alt" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>alt</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/ALT4you" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ALT4you</span></a></p>
Wisdom in Space<p>Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious.<br> -- Oscar Wilde</p><p>⬆ <a href="https://c.im/tags/Wisdom" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Wisdom</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Quotes" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Quotes</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/OscarWilde" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>OscarWilde</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Patriotism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Patriotism</span></a></p><p>⬇ <a href="https://c.im/tags/Photography" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Photography</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Panorama" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Panorama</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Sunset" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Sunset</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Florida" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Florida</span></a></p>
CM Thiede<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@grammasaurus" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>grammasaurus</span></a></span> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://med-mastodon.com/@gregggonsalves" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>gregggonsalves</span></a></span> they're called "quacks." Have the unpleasant experience of dealing with just one of those, it can throw your faith in medicine completely out of whack. Some will never trust it again and others will become even more grateful for real Doctors. That's where the split between the educated blaming the system and the uninformed blaming medicine takes place, opening the door for politics. Why? Capitalism? A healthy nation is a strong nation, right? Seems like a nobrainer, what the current <a href="https://social.vivaldi.net/tags/POTUS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>POTUS</span></a> would call, "common sense."</p><p><a href="https://social.vivaldi.net/tags/capitalism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>capitalism</span></a> <a href="https://social.vivaldi.net/tags/healthcare" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>healthcare</span></a> <a href="https://social.vivaldi.net/tags/doctors" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>doctors</span></a> <a href="https://social.vivaldi.net/tags/quacks" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>quacks</span></a> <a href="https://social.vivaldi.net/tags/USPol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>USPol</span></a> <a href="https://social.vivaldi.net/tags/CommonSense" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>CommonSense</span></a> <a href="https://social.vivaldi.net/tags/Education" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Education</span></a> <a href="https://social.vivaldi.net/tags/nationalism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>nationalism</span></a> <a href="https://social.vivaldi.net/tags/patriotism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>patriotism</span></a></p>
WIST Quotations<p><a href="https://wist.info/lincoln-abraham/7465/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">A quotation from <b>Lincoln</b></a></p><blockquote>I am loathe to close. We are not enemies, but friends. We must not be enemies. Though passion may have strained, it must not break our bonds of affection. The mystic chords of memory, stretching from every battlefield and patriot grave, to every living heart and hearthstone, all over this broad land, will yet swell the chorus of the Union, when again touched, as surely they will be, by the better angels of our nature.</blockquote><p><b>Abraham Lincoln</b> (1809-1865) American lawyer, politician, US President (1861-65)<br>Speech (1861-03-04), Inaugural Address, Washington, D. C. (final paragraph)</p> <p>Sourcing, notes: <a href="https://wist.info/lincoln-abraham/7465/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">wist.info/lincoln-abraham/7465…</a></p><p><a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=quote" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>quote</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=quotes" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>quotes</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=quotation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>quotation</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=Lincoln" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Lincoln</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=angel" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>angel</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=divineintervention" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>divineintervention</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=friendship" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>friendship</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=heritage" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>heritage</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=nation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>nation</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=patriotism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>patriotism</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=unity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>unity</span></a></p>
Sean Fenian<p>US Senator Carl <a href="https://plasmatrap.com/tags/Schurz" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Schurz</a> of Utah once said, in a speech before the Senate,</p><blockquote>My country, right or wrong; when right, to be <i>kept</i> right; when wrong, to be <i>set</i> right.</blockquote>That is <a href="https://plasmatrap.com/tags/patriotism" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#patriotism</a><span>.<br><br>When you stand up and declare, "Nothing my country does can be wrong, and nothing I do in the name of my country can be wrong," that is no longer patriotism. That is </span><a href="https://plasmatrap.com/tags/jingoism" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#jingoism</a><span>.<br><br>Learn the difference.</span><p></p>
Thelonious08<p>The Orange Regime is a grave National Security Threat. It must be impeached and removed from office. Nothing else matters. If you love your country call your reps in DC and demand immediate impeachment. </p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/NationalSecurity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>NationalSecurity</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Patriotism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Patriotism</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/LoveTheUSA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>LoveTheUSA</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/impeach" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>impeach</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/impeachment" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>impeachment</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/SaveAmericanDemocracy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SaveAmericanDemocracy</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/RaiseTheBar" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>RaiseTheBar</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/PrimaryThemAll" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>PrimaryThemAll</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/DemandMore" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>DemandMore</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/uspol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>uspol</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/USPolitics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>USPolitics</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/journalism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>journalism</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/news" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>news</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/analysis" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>analysis</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Resist" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Resist</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/media" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>media</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/socialmedia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>socialmedia</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Resistance" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Resistance</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/FascistAppeasers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>FascistAppeasers</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/FascistEnablers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>FascistEnablers</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/FascistTakeover" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>FascistTakeover</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/MakeThemFight" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>MakeThemFight</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/TownHall" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>TownHall</span></a></p>
WIST Quotations<p><a href="https://wist.info/moyers-bill/75297/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">A quotation from <b>Bill Moyers</b></a></p><blockquote>When I see flags sprouting on official lapels, I think of the time in China when I saw Mao’s Little Red Book on every official’s desk, omnipresent and unread.</blockquote><p><b>Bill Moyers</b> (b. 1934) American journalist and public commentator<br>Essay (2003-02-28), “Patriotism and the Flag,” NOW with Bill Moyers (PBS)</p> <p>Sourcing, notes: <a href="https://wist.info/moyers-bill/75297/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">wist.info/moyers-bill/75297/</a></p><p><a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=quote" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>quote</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=quotes" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>quotes</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=quotation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>quotation</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=compliance" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>compliance</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=conformity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>conformity</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=facade" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>facade</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=flag" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>flag</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=partyline" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>partyline</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=patriotism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>patriotism</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=performance" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>performance</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=pretense" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>pretense</span></a></p>
Ben! (Boo!)<p>I remember when I was a kid they taught us the neutered version of This Land is Your Land in music class, minus the more explicitly socialist verses that are the best damn part. And I guess their way of "balancing" it politically if parents in our conservative district complained by also teaching us Lee Greenwood's shit-awful God Bless the USA which I hated back then before I even realized all the ways it sucked. </p><p><a href="https://mas.to/tags/music" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>music</span></a> <a href="https://mas.to/tags/nationalism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>nationalism</span></a> <a href="https://mas.to/tags/patriotism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>patriotism</span></a> <a href="https://mas.to/tags/folk" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>folk</span></a></p>
Kafkaphony<p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/liberals" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>liberals</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/leftists" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>leftists</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/America" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>America</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/patriotism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>patriotism</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/nations" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>nations</span></a></p>
WIST Quotations<p><a href="https://wist.info/twain-mark/69176/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">A quotation from <b>Twain</b></a></p><blockquote>You see my kind of loyalty was loyalty to one’s country, not to its institutions or its office-holders. The country is the real thing, the substantial thing, the eternal thing; it is the thing to watch over, and care for, and be loyal to; institutions are extraneous, they are its mere clothing, and clothing can wear out, become ragged, cease to be comfortable, cease to protect the body from winter, disease, and death.</blockquote><p><b>Mark Twain</b> (1835-1910) American writer [pseud. of Samuel Clemens]<br><i>A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court</i>, ch. 13 “Freemen!” (1889)</p> <p>Sourcing, notes: <a href="https://wist.info/twain-mark/69176/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">wist.info/twain-mark/69176/</a></p><p><a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=quote" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>quote</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=quotes" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>quotes</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=quotation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>quotation</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=country" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>country</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=government" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>government</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=institutions" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>institutions</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=leaders" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>leaders</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=loyalty" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>loyalty</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=officials" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>officials</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=patriotism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>patriotism</span></a></p>
Catherine Schmidt<p><a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Patriotism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Patriotism</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/resist" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>resist</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/resistance" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>resistance</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/patriot" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>patriot</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/civilwar" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>civilwar</span></a></p>
Shantell Powell<p>The rise of nationalism in Canada deeply disturbs me. Canada is built upon genocide. It profits on the effects of genocide, and racism is systemic in its power structure. How many Canadians have bothered to read the calls to action in the findings of the Truth and Reconciliation commission? <a href="https://c.im/tags/patriotism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>patriotism</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/fascism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>fascism</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/genocide" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>genocide</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/racism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>racism</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/nationalism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>nationalism</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/colonialism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>colonialism</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/TruthAndReconciliation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>TruthAndReconciliation</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Canada" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Canada</span></a></p>
Fight the Right<p>Zelenskyy says he would ‘quit for peace’ as he refuses US demand for Ukraine minerals</p><p>Ukrainian president says US military aid was a ‘grant’ rather than a debt but adds that he wants Trump to be ‘on our side’</p><p><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/feb/23/zelenskyy-refuses-trump-demand-to-give-500bn-of-ukraine-minerals-to-us" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">theguardian.com/world/2025/feb</span><span class="invisible">/23/zelenskyy-refuses-trump-demand-to-give-500bn-of-ukraine-minerals-to-us</span></a></p><p><a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/PresidentKrasnov" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>PresidentKrasnov</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Trump</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Zelenskyy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Zelenskyy</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/courage" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>courage</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Integrity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Integrity</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Patriotism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Patriotism</span></a></p>
BarbChamberlain<p>Excerpt from "America" by Maya Angelou </p><p>The gold of her promise <br>has never been mined <br>Her borders of justice <br>not clearly defined </p><p>Her crops of abundance <br>the fruit and the grain <br>Have not fed the hungry <br>nor eased that deep pain</p><p><a href="https://www.poetryverse.com/maya-angelou-poems/america" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">poetryverse.com/maya-angelou-p</span><span class="invisible">oems/america</span></a></p><p><a href="https://toot.community/tags/poetry" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>poetry</span></a> <a href="https://toot.community/tags/poem" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>poem</span></a> <a href="https://toot.community/tags/poems" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>poems</span></a> <a href="https://toot.community/tags/TodaysPoem" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>TodaysPoem</span></a> <a href="https://toot.community/tags/PoemADay" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>PoemADay</span></a> <a href="https://toot.community/tags/America" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>America</span></a> <a href="https://toot.community/tags/MayaAngelou" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>MayaAngelou</span></a> <a href="https://toot.community/tags/justice" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>justice</span></a> <a href="https://toot.community/tags/hunger" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>hunger</span></a> <a href="https://toot.community/tags/BlackLivesMatter" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>BlackLivesMatter</span></a> <a href="https://toot.community/tags/patriotism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>patriotism</span></a></p>
Rev.Hans@SacredBodies.ca :mstdnca:<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mstdn.ca/@ryan2one3" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>ryan2one3</span></a></span> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://a.gup.pe/u/hnom" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>hnom</span></a></span> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://a.gup.pe/u/hockey" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>hockey</span></a></span> Certainly a tone-deaf choice, given the context. I don’t know who made this choice, but I’d love to hear their rationale. </p><p><a href="https://mstdn.ca/tags/canada" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>canada</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.ca/tags/patriotism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>patriotism</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.ca/tags/leadershipfail" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>leadershipfail</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.ca/tags/hockey" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>hockey</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.ca/tags/hnom" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>hnom</span></a> 🇨🇦</p>
Ben Royce 🇺🇦<p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/USA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>USA</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Politics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Politics</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/USPol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>USPol</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Racism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Racism</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Patriotism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Patriotism</span></a></p>
WIST Quotations<p><a href="https://wist.info/bierce-ambrose/74874/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">A quotation from <b>Bierce</b></a></p><blockquote>PATRIOTISM, <i>n.</i> Combustible rubbish ready to the torch of any one ambitious to illuminate his name. In Dr. Johnson’s famous dictionary patriotism is defined as the last resort of a scoundrel. With all due respect to an enlightened but inferior lexicographer I beg to submit that it is the first.</blockquote><p><b>Ambrose Bierce</b> (1842-1914?) American writer and journalist<br>“Patriotism,” <i>The Devil’s Dictionary</i> (1911)</p> <p>Sourcing, notes: <a href="https://wist.info/bierce-ambrose/74874/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">wist.info/bierce-ambrose/74874…</a></p><p><a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=quote" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>quote</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=quotes" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>quotes</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=quotation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>quotation</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=demagoguery" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>demagoguery</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=fame" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>fame</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=nationalism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>nationalism</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=patriot" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>patriot</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=patriotism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>patriotism</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=publicity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>publicity</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=scoundrel" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>scoundrel</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=villain" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>villain</span></a></p>
CBC Ottawa<p>Flags fly off store shelves in Ottawa as Trump's comments fuel wave of patriotism<br>U.S. President Donald Trump’s repeated calls to make Canada a 51st state, along with his threats of tariffs, have fueled a surge in patriotism — just in time for National Flag of Canada Day. Across Ottawa, demand for Canadian flags is skyrocketing, with stores struggling to keep up.<br><a href="https://mastodon.hongkongers.net/tags/patriotism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>patriotism</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.hongkongers.net/tags/politics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>politics</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.hongkongers.net/tags/economics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>economics</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.hongkongers.net/tags/Ottawa" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Ottawa</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.hongkongers.net/tags/Canada" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Canada</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.hongkongers.net/tags/News" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>News</span></a><br><a href="https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/ottawa/ottawa-flag-day-sales-1.7460484?cmp=rss" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">cbc.ca/news/canada/ottawa/otta</span><span class="invisible">wa-flag-day-sales-1.7460484?cmp=rss</span></a></p>