António Duarte 🇵🇹 🇺🇦

Nisi utile est quod facimus stulta est gloria

[António Duarte 🇵🇹 🇺🇦 @AntGDuarte]

So I'll take Peter's challenge: here's a plausible lab origin hypothesis that fits both the data and the post-emergence timeline in China.

In 2019, a researcher from Wuhan was infected by a lineage A progenitor of SARS-CoV-2, becoming the index case of the Covid pandemic.

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[António Duarte 🇵🇹 🇺🇦 @AntGDuarte]

@henriquev @urielirigaray https://t.co/BXLRVmWt5q

[Faz 🇵🇹 @sefazesfavor]

@urielirigaray This is not true at all

There are some minor aspects in wich brasilian kept some archaic parts yes but Portuguese from Portugal is closer in every major metric

Brasilian nowdays is filled with English words and the "tchi" sound completely alien to even Brasilian 100 years ago

[Orla Joelsen @OJoelsen]

USA: The whole world is laughing at your president.

[Alexander Browder @Alexbrowder_]

Proud to be the first high school student in the world to ever be sanctioned by an authoritarian regime for uncovering corruption. It just proves that the work I’ve done to expose Russias sanctions evasion stablecoin, A7A5, has touched a raw nerve.

https://t.co/b0voHBkqG7

[Middle Eastern Affairs @OpsHQs]

The Israeli ambassador to Europe is protesting the spread of this image. Let it spread all over the world. 🌍🔥"

[Anonymous @YourAnonCentral]

When you stay in Moscow too long and get conscripted

[Yaroslav Trofimov @yarotrof]

Delegates of the St Petersburg International Economic Forum arriving at the opening ceremony as the St Petersburg port (10 miles away) burns in the background, following a wave of Ukrainian strikes. Video posted by Ksenia Sobchak https://t.co/SuL4mL1Qd0

[Jim Acosta @Acosta]

When I called out Trump years ago for being a danger to democracy, a free press, and truth itself, I was accused of making myself the story and showboating. How did things turn out? Trump is all of those things. Tonight, the free press is very much in danger in America. Wake up!

[(((Tendar))) @Tendar]

The Saint Petersburg International Economic Forum of 2026 (SPIEF 2026) in Russia has started with a very fiery keynote speech by the Ukrainian surprise guests.

[Caolan @CaolanReports]

Every sign at this refinery in Ireland is in russian. The official website is a .RU domain.

There’s no reason to hide it because local politicians are openly doing it for them.

[Rep. Don Bacon 🇺🇸✈️🏍️⭐️🎖️ @RepDonBacon]

Mr Witkoff has gone to Moscow eight times to negotiate peace… zero times to Ukraine. Most Americans know this is not right. Don’t pretend to be neutral when the facts are obvious. Can we get someone serious in the position to do this right?

[Simply_Shula @Simply_Shula]

Candace Owens is in Russia now posting about how amazing it is. As someone who grew up there, I can tell you with absolute assurance that you’re being played.

Actual realities of Russian life:
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[Stephan Jensen @StephanAJensen]

Not sure who neds to hear this, but when russia invades a European country, levels its cities to the ground, r*pes its women & children, calls for the extermination of its people, and openly says it wants to do the same to the rest of Europe then yeah, they really are our enemy.

[Aaron Rupar @atrupar]

BLANCHE: Who the president chooses to pardon is not a problem, period

IVEY: What's the legal basis for that statement?

BLANCHE: The Constitution

IVEY: The Constitution does not give him the authority to pardon in exchange for payments. It does not permit bribery

[Boris Johnson @BorisJohnson]

Putin is behaving with the desperate barbarism of a man who is going to lose. He will never conquer Ukraine. He needs to admit that to himself - and save many thousands of lives on both sides.

[The Economist @TheEconomist]

The American president’s notoriously short attention span may be all that is standing between Israel and another bloody adventure in Lebanon https://t.co/mTuuDxUbVY

[Woofers @NotWoofers]

Due to severe shortages, Russian authorities have suspended the sale of all grades of fuel in Sevastopol until 14:00 tomorrow. Supply is reserved for emergency vehicles.

This message is from the Russian governor of Crimea's channel.

[Johnny FD @JohnnyFDK]

Right now in Moscow there are American bloggers who went on an all expenses paid trip to go spread Russian Propaganda.

Meanwhile, I came to Kyiv on my own dime to show the world the truth about the war.

No one is paying me to be here, unlike Candace Owens who is a paid Russian shill.

[Kate from Kharkiv @BohuslavskaKate]

This is not a movie about meteor showers before the apocalypse; this is Russia bombing Kyiv last night. A city with several million people in it - children, the elderly, and normal families just like yours.

[RGill @robggill]

Kalibr subsonic cruise missiles are 60% aluminum; 40% of the structural weight of drones is alum; 20% of Ballistic missiles such as Iskanders is aluminum. These missiles can not be constructed without aluminum and aluminum coming from the Shannon Estuary.