Can’t fix stupid. Try. Try again.

Opinionated so-and-so, stage actor, appalled parent.

[Can’t fix stupid. Try. Try again. @Anglojen]

Get this wise book. ❤️ #theprophet #khalilgibran #indyaudiobook

[Michael Kramer & Kate Reading @Kramer_Reading]

Our Indy audiobook of The Prophet, by Khalil Gibran! 🎉🎉🎉 Available for preorder now, releasing January 14th. CDs available in April. Support us by sharing and buying a copy (or several!) We will earn royalty shares from sales of this beautiful book. ❤️
https://t.co/O4BPD4YKBP

[United Nations @UN]

The number of people displaced in Haiti is approaching a record 1.5 million amid a worsening humanitarian crisis driven by violence.

@UNmigration continues to deliver life-saving assistance, but needs are immense & sustained funding is critical. https://t.co/UJoKwYhYzB

[Can’t fix stupid. Try. Try again. @Anglojen]

@UN @UNmigration Talk about shackling Haiti with debt, and how that has affected the country:

https://t.co/v1Nm0gfeQS

[Mike Levin @MikeLevin]

This is really stupid, and it’s not getting enough attention.

The Trump administration is pulling a working $368 million ocean monitoring system out of the water, equipment taxpayers already bought, built, and sank into the deep ocean.

And they are doing it right when the oceans are behaving in ways that alarm the scientists who study them.

Record-breaking temperatures.

A system of Atlantic currents that may be lurching toward collapse.

The response?

Yank out the instruments and walk away.

That is not budgeting. That is smashing the gauges while the engine is on fire and calling it efficiency.

For what? The Trump administration dressed it up as a “nimbler approach” and “smart lifecycle management,” which is fancy nonsense for “we shut it off and hoped nobody would ask why.” There is no return-on-investment analysis. They cannot show taxpayers save a dime, because the gear is already paid for and the science it produces protects real money and real lives.

The kicker: the same people killing the monitors want to mine the deep sea for minerals. So they are destroying the only tools that could measure what that mining does. That is not an accident.

That is the point. You cannot see the damage if you break the instruments first.
https://t.co/MzE4AW1QBv

[Can’t fix stupid. Try. Try again. @Anglojen]

@ewarren Should they also be funding the disastrous Albanian Sazan island project?

[Elizabeth Warren @ewarren]

Should Saudi, Qatari, & Abu Dhabi wealth funds have a near-majority stake in one of America's largest media companies?

The Paramount-Warner Bros. deal could mean foreign access to your personal data—and leverage over U.S. media.

Block the merger.

[Anders Åslund @anders_aslund]

It is Albanians, not Americans, who are protesting against American corruption.
The US appears to have accepted the corruption of the Trump family, so we Americans have to rely upon the sound anti-corruption sentiments of others.
Truly embarrassing, but thank you, Albania!

[Volodymyr Zelenskyy / Володимир Зеленський @ZelenskyyUa]

Today is the 82nd anniversary of D-Day – the Allied landings in Normandy, which significantly hastened the countdown to the Nazis' collapse in World War II. It is one of the most important moments of unity among the defenders of life in human history, and it was less than a year until the peoples’ aspiration for freedom and the hope of peace prevailed in May 1945. It happened then. We are working to make it happen again today.

And although yesterday in Petersburg another cynical order to continue killing was issued for the army trying to destroy our freedom, history has seen this before. The Nazis also had their own hopes after D-Day. But freedom still wins. And even in the darkest circumstances, people find ways to come together to protect life.

I thank all those who are now helping to protect the values that prevailed in World War II. I thank everyone who is defending life. Glory to Ukraine!

[Volodymyr Zelenskyy / Володимир Зеленський @ZelenskyyUa]

Another 185 Ukrainian defenders are returning home today from Russian captivity. One civilian is also returning along with the defenders. They are warriors of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, the National Guard, and the State Border Guard Service of Ukraine – privates, sergeants, and officers. They defended our state in Mariupol and at Azovstal, as well as in the Donetsk, Luhansk, Kharkiv, Kherson, Zaporizhzhia, Sumy, Kyiv, and Kursk sectors. Among them are those returning after years in Russian captivity, where they had been held since 2022.

I thank everyone who makes this possible: the team working on exchanges and our partners. And special gratitude to the warriors who replenish our exchange fund – who, through their strength and results on the frontline, ensure the return of our people home. The work continues. The return of our people is a constant priority for Ukraine. Every day, we are working to free every Ukrainian man and woman from captivity.

[Sen. Bernie Sanders @SenSanders]

This week, my amendment to ban billionaire-funded super PACs received unanimous support from my Democratic colleagues.

The momentum is growing. It’s time to repeal Citizens United, ban super PACs and move to the public funding of elections NOW.

[Senator Reverend Raphael Warnock @SenatorWarnock]

Let's be direct about this.

The Trump family has turned our government into their personal piggy bank.

It’s appalling.

[Can’t fix stupid. Try. Try again. @Anglojen]

@GeorgeBoulos23 @ZelenskyyUa Brain > brawn

[Volodymyr Zelenskyy / Володимир Зеленський @ZelenskyyUa]

We are trying to intercept all Russian drones, even when some of them are going in the direction of other countries, like Romania, Moldova, Poland, or the Baltic states. If we can't, we immediately notify our partners and try to help them.

Russia uses drones to pressure NATO countries and gauge the reaction. This is their typical message: Don’t help Ukraine. I think there should be a stronger response from a united NATO.

Putin is comparing this reaction to what he saw in previous years. And he is also testing air defenses of NATO countries bordering Russia or Belarus. Are they capable of intercepting all the missiles and drones?

From an interview with Face the Nation. (1/5)

[Elizabeth Warren @SenWarren]

Families living next to data centers are facing nonstop noise, pollution, and higher utility bills.

Over the last five years, electricity costs are up as much as 267% for families near these data centers.

Enough is enough.

[Joyce Alene @JoyceWhiteVance]

Judge Cannon has been sitting on the Jack Smith report for over a year. But the 11th Circuit looks like it's running out of patience. Here's what's happening and why it matters. https://t.co/k9eDX8Lg76

[Mary Peltola @MaryPeltola]

Banning factory trawling is the first step towards reviving our fisheries and bringing abundance back to Alaska.

That recovery won't happen if factory trawlers are still destroying our ocean habitats and catching metric tons of bycatch.

[Lazzyyyyyy @em_Lazzy]

Mamdani is proving that everything Bernie Sanders wanted to do for the country as president really was possible. He wiped out a $12 Billion deficit, and no rich person died. Crazy how having a great politician can be good for the ppl

[Derek Thompson @DKThomp]

This has quietly been a miracle month in medicine.

In the last 5 weeks we’ve got news on:

- retatrutide, the triple agonist GLP-1 from Lilly, basically melting fat and body-wide inflammation at record levels
- RevMed’s new pancreatic cancer drug showing unprecedented abilities to extend life
- small trial of a one-and-done PCSK9 gene editing therapy for slashing LDL cholesterol
- Mayo’s AI-assisted radiology showing vastly improved cancer detection
- this new therapy for metastatic solid tumors

This stuff is at varying levels of evidence. Retatrutide is ~100% on its way, other stuff needs more clinical trial data. But put it together and we’re maybe on the verge of majorly reducing the mortality of heart disease and cancer, the two leading causes of death in America.

[Rep. Mike Levin @RepMikeLevin]

The next time you pull up to a national park and pay the entrance fee, know this:

Our parks have $23 billion in repairs that have never been made.

But instead of prioritizing that our national parks are clean, maintained, and ready for your next visit, the President is spending some of the money on vanity projects like painting the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool blue.
https://t.co/VMWYaT0UgB

[Bill Kristol @BillKristol]

So the "ballroom" will have a bunker underneath and a "DronePort" on top. It's not just a childish extravagance. It will be a kind of military encampment.

All the more reason, obviously, for Congress to stop it.

[UNITED24 Media @United24media]

⚡️Russia is trying to swap stolen Ukrainian children for prisoners of war, a demand Zelenskyy calls illegal and proof of their crimes.