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[Ben Jacobs @JacobsBen]

🚨 Exclusive: The White House made a direct call to FIFA to ask Gianni Infantino to review Folarin Balogun’s red card.

FIFA approached for comment and referred to the findings of its independent committee.

FIFA sources insist White House influence could not affect the decision due to the powers contained in Article 27 and the independent nature of the disciplinary panel.

[Pavvy G @pavyg]

Mirra gives a snippet of how tough it's been for her, she's constantly being vilified simply for being Russian, she is forced to play as a neutral competitor.

For anyone this is really tough to deal with but especially for a 19 year old, so proud of her!

[Brian McDonald @BrianMcDonaldIE]

If mission success really “wasn’t important” to Russians, it’s odd that Russia hasn’t lost a single cosmonaut in spaceflight since the USSR collapsed.

In the same period, the US has lost seven astronauts.

[Almut Rochowanski @rochowanski]

Now that it's sinking in that public resistance against busification is real and not Russian disinformation, I'm told by some with great confidence that it's only a thing in Eastern Ukraine. But I've been seeing videos like this from far-West Ukraine for a very long time.

[after history 👤 @After__History]

Historian Robert Dale researched the claim that the Soviets carried out mass deportations of disabled veterans in 1947 and concluded that there was no evidence to suggest a targeted campaign of this nature ever occurred. One of many popular Soviet history myths accepted as fact because people tend to have a very low threshold of evidence when it comes to believing things about the USSR that validate their pre-existing biases.

Of course, the myth reflected real anxieties and disappointment at the social stigma and low-quality of institutional support the USSR provided its disabled veterans. But it's really not demonstrative of a uniquely communist authoritarianism/incompetence given that the post-war reintegration of the disabled proved to be a massive failure across the board, generally.

The Soviets uneven universal pension structure was still superior to the paltry and fragmented support the US provided its disabled citizens. Nevermind the fact that by the 1930s over 30 U.S states had active compulsory sterilization laws targeting disabled people. It’s worth noting that the Soviets never embraced this kind of genocidal-eugenic attitude towards the disabled

[Collingwood 🇬🇧 @admcollingwood]

Nothing says "We are a responsible power and you should view us kindly" like supporting an Al Qaeda insurgency in a country just because its government ended the colonial hangover extraction deal that allowed France to buy uranium at massively below market prices.

[Brian McDonald @BrianMcDonaldIE]

Can’t speak for China, but Russia’s own strategy documents openly frame climate change as a potential net benefit. They cite longer growing seasons, Arctic shipping routes, and easier access to resources.

Make of it what you will.

[Philippe Prigent @philippejeanpr1]

La « résistance ukrainienne » dans les parties non-russophones de l’Ukraine fut surtout un soutien armé à l’Allemagne nazie…
Les prouesses militaires des Ukrainiens non-russophones ont été réalisées sous commandement allemand, notamment après Stalingrad.

[Ben @Jaures2013]

Certes, le pacte a facilité l’invasion de la Pologne mais affirmer que sans lui l’Europe ne serait pas entrée en guerre est une énormité 😅. Hitler voulait la guerre totale à l’Est pour son espace vital. Il l’aurait provoquée tôt ou tard... C'est vous qui réécrivez l'histoire.

[Gilliatt De Staerck @GDestaerck]

Cet ex-gudarde sait-elle que la France, par Bonnet, a signé un "traité de non-agression" avec Ribbentrop pour l'Allemagne nazie en 1938, ouvrant ainsi la voie à Barbarossa pour le troisième reich ?
#9mai #antifascisme #URSS

[Aaron Maté @aaronjmate]

New: ‘Highly Protected’: OPCW confirms it buried critical evidence in Syria chemical weapons probe

After years of stonewalling, the OPCW has finally acknowledged concealing the assessment of German military toxicologists who ruled out chlorine gas as the cause of dozens of deaths in the alleged Douma chemical attack of April 2018. The censored finding pointed instead to a false flag.

by @aaronjmate https://t.co/2H7OIX6grB

[Brian McDonald @BrianMcDonaldIE]

Noah Smith is not only a bigot, he’s also very poorly informed bigot.

In the past 20 years, Russia has more than doubled the size of the Moscow Metro; built Europe’s longest bridge; built 8 of Europe’s 10 tallest skyscrapers; completed the Trans-Siberian Highway, something the USSR itself never fully managed; launched the world’s most advanced fleet of nuclear icebreakers and built a brand-new cosmodrome in the Far East.

It's also currently constructing Europe's fastest high-speed railway between Moscow and St Petersburg and it has overhauled cities like Rostov-on-don, Vladivostok, Nizhy Novgorod and Sochi.

That's just off the top of my head.

Also, you can dislike the Russian government without descending into vulgar "barbarians squatting in ruins" rhetoric. Imagine if someone said the same about the US, or indeed, Israel?

[Reuters Africa @ReutersAfrica]

Madagascar has detained a former French serviceman accused of taking part in a plot to destabilise the Indian Ocean island, including by inciting security forces to mutiny and sabotaging infrastructure to cause nationwide blackouts, authorities said. https://t.co/4ii0uDS0OZ

[Leonid Ragozin @leonidragozin]

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Look at his hands

[Tibo91 @Tibortibor15]

🇨🇵🇺🇦French journalists came to Ukraine to film a documentary about escaping mobilization.

While filming in the field,they got the chance to see firsthand what mobilization in Ukraine looks like.

The Ukrainian translator was arrested and the driver mobilized.

[Bloomberg @business]

Attacks on Ukraine's draft officers are soaring, as war fatigue deepens https://t.co/HurzeG994u

[Stephen McIntyre @ClimateAudit]

excellent thread on new book about Nordstream bombing. Identifying the Ukrainian saboteurs and their CIA associates.

[Nick @NicAnkush]

The EU rigged the election in Romania btw

Good reminder for people whenever the EUtards spout off about Democracy.

[Dave DeCamp @DecampDave]

One thing that can unite Republicans and Democrats is lying your way into a war

[Kevork Almassian @KevorkAlmassian]

Jake Sullivan (2012): “Al-Qaeda is on our side in Syria.”

U.S. Defense Intelligence (2012): al-Qaeda is a driving force in the insurgency.

James Jeffrey (2021): Jolani’s army is an “asset” for U.S. strategy.

Robert Ford (2025): I trained Jolani.

Donald Trump (2026): I put Jolani in power.

Connect the dots: