I think my neighbour caught me throwing holly leaves over the fence the other day (they’re from his holly tree).
We saw one another, but neither of us said anything.
I imagine this kind of tension is being felt by most Canadians right now.
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Lifted from the BBC News page…
Trump’s face is added to select US passports for America’s 250th birthday
Grace Eliza Goodwin
- Published
27 June 2026
The Trump administration has unveiled a new limited edition US passport design featuring a photo of President Donald Trump to commemorate America’s 250th birthday.
In a post on social media on Friday, Trump shared a photo of the passport’s newly designed pages, one that includes an image of himself with his fists on the Resolute Desk with the Declaration of Independence in the background and his signature below.
The passports will become available on 6 July and only while supplies last, the US State Department said.
It’s the latest in a series of moves by the president to mark American institutions - including federal buildings, websites, and documents - with his name or likeness.
“The U.S.A.'s New Passport, which says, ‘Welcome, but be good!’” Trump wrote on Truth Social. The text “welcome but be good” does not appear in the images of the passport pages that Trump shared in his post.
The White House reshared the images on its own X account, dubbing the new document a “patriot passport”.
Access to the newly designed document is currently very limited.
Americans cannot apply online or via mail for the document, and must make an appointment for an in-person visit at the passport agency in Washington DC, according to the state department.
Applicants can also schedule appointments at a select number of special acceptance events designated specifically for the commemorative passport, the state department adds. Only two of such events are currently listed on the department’s website and are both at the Washington Passport Agency, the department says. More events will be added to the list as they are announced.
Current US passports depict scenes from the country’s history, such as the Moon landing, along with American symbols like the Statue of Liberty.
It is not clear if citizens who apply for passports in person at the Washington Passport Agency will be able to opt out of the special edition.
The commemorative passport was first announced in April, with a slightly different design that showed only Trump’s face and had his signature in gold rather than in black. It also did not include the numbers “250”.
It marks the first time a living, current president has been featured on a US passport.
The US Mint has also recently announced plans for a commemorative gold coin featuring Trump as part of the 250th anniversary this summer. The president is also set to become the first sitting US president to have his signature on American banknotes.
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FFS even the Reichsmark only featured a swastika and some portraits of scientists.
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Its been illegal for 150 years to include a living person on circulating currency. They just dont give a shit about things as trivial as laws.
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Well I suppose arrangements could be made…
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I fully expects a visit from the Feds now after laughing at that
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Well said Joe Biden…
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“While stocks last”.
Anyone remotely sane will be waiting for those stocks to empty then.
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Maybe this will be like the watches that were paid for but never arrive.
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Also, imagine if you were passport control anywhere else in the world and some fuckwit handed you one of these…
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That is a textbook Roberts Court situation.
They didn’t need to take the case on but in doing so they scared the shit out of people. It generated loads of preemptive analysis about the negative consequences and what it would mean about who we are as a country. And now the court has rejected it there will be an equal amount of coverage praising the court and rejecting criticism of them…all while sucking the air out of the discussion for how awful the range of other decisions they came to in this session were.
This is an astonishingly political court and I dont mean in terms of the decisions, but in the ways it plays politics with this side of narrative manipulation. Its to transparent, but its made even more gross that its target audience in the media ALWAYS complies with their “critics on the left are politicizing the court in dangerous ways with their hyberbolic warnings…” pieces.
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I thought the Constitution was perfect?
MJ doesn’t seem to think so…
For anyone who has missed this clip to date… It’s hilarious :0)
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This has nothing to do with the 250th year celebration. It has 11 stars and that is important. It is not for the number of original colonies, as there were 13 of them. So what is 11?
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The genius of the Constitution is that it isn’t perfect.
They got the bum bit right too!
It’s perfect for the bits that suit them. Laws for thee but not for me and all that.
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I genuinely feel the damage done to government and our ability to operate internationally is going to be so badly crippled by this administration that even if a Dem gets elected in 28 its going to be an ungovernable mess
https://x.com/PhillipsPOBrien/status/2072173933973872872?s=20
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