Firebird

🇬🇧🇺🇦 Anti injustice. Love not hate. We all share the same planet, the same water and the same air.

[Volodymyr Zelenskyy / Володимир Зеленський @ZelenskyyUa]

As of now, 44 people have been reported injured in the massive Russian strike on Kyiv and the Kyiv region. Another 17 people, tragically, were killed. My condolences to their families and loved ones. It was a heavy strike – 24 ballistic missiles, 4 Zircon/Oniks missiles, and another 115 drones, a significant number of them jet-powered. The main targets of the attack were warehouse facilities belonging to civilian businesses. There were also strikes on infrastructure and a railway station. These facilities had nothing to do with the war – a brewing company, construction materials warehouses, and civilian logistics facilities.

Ballistic missile interceptors could have saved the lives of those killed today. It is very important that our partners understand that delays in supplying them, or an unwillingness to provide anti-ballistic systems, lead directly to such horrific casualties and destruction. Partners who are not yet ready to play a more active role in supplying interceptors can help by implementing new sanctions. A significant share of Russia’s ballistic missile production is still not under sanctions. Even now. New steps are needed – from the G7, the European Union, and everyone who supports the protection of life. Thank you to those who are willing to help in this way.

[FactPost @factpostnews]

A civilian medical plane has crashed after a U.S. military test of an experimental GPS jammer disrupted the plane's radar.

Every person on board was killed.

[Michael McFaul @McFaul]

Trump did not go to war with Iran to open the Strait of Hormuz because obviously the strait was open before he launched his war.

[SPRAVDI — Stratcom Centre @StratcomCentre]

Russians have destroyed the 300 year old Holy Nativity Church in Beryslav – the only surviving example in Ukraine of 18th-century wooden Cossack religious architecture.

The church was built in 1725 from oak logs, without a single metal nail. It survived wars, empires, and Soviet anti-religious campaigns.

In 1784, the Cossacks transported the church across the Dnipro River from Peryvolochne to Beryslav, where it stood for over two centuries.

On August 1, a Russian drone completely destroyed the shrine. This is the 337th Ukrainian church destroyed or damaged by Russia since the beginning of the full-scale invasion.

The destruction of the church is yet another act of cultural genocide and a deliberate attack on Ukrainian shrines.

[WarMonitor🇺🇦🇬🇧 @WarMonitor3]

North Korea has deployed a whole missile unit to the Vorenzh Region of Russia in order to launch missiles into Ukraine everyday 90 personnel and 120 ballistic missiles have been deployed along with six launchers.

North Korea is essentially at war with Ukraine...

[Aes🇺🇸 @AesPolitics1]

Lmfao

[James Tate @JamesTate121]

The Incident: On April 25, 1980, the Trump Organization executed an eviction against Mary Filan, a 74-year-old widow who was partially paralyzed from a recent stroke.
The Location: The eviction occurred at her rent-controlled apartment in Flushing, Queens, where she had lived for over 30 years.
The Dispute: The Trump Organization claimed she owed four months of back rent. However, Filan maintained that her rent was fully paid, stating that her last bill was a minor balance of $10.20, which she had already cleared.
The Aftermath: City marshals and moving crews removed her belongings—including her furniture and jewelry—leaving her sitting on a laundry hamper in the apartment. Due to the trauma and her medical condition, neighbors and city social services arranged for her immediate admission to a local hospital.
Joe Conason for the Village Voice in May 1980 under the headline "Trump Evicts Stroke Victim, 74." The case also received brief coverage in The New York Times. When questioned at the time, a spokesperson for the Trump Organization stated that management handled those issues and that they "don't get involved with individual cases."

[The PitchLine @ThePitchLine]

🚨𝗝𝗨𝗦𝗧 𝗜𝗡🚨

‼️🗣️ UEFA President Aleksander Čeferin on Gianni Infantino 👀⚽

🗣️ Aleksander: "For years UEFA and the European football family tolerated your grandstanding, your photo-ops with every strongman and celebrity who flattered your ego, and your relentless transformation of the World Cup into a commercial circus 🎪💰.

🗣️ "We swallowed the expansion to 48 teams 🌍⚽, the calendar chaos, the endless new competitions designed primarily to generate revenue streams 💵 you control. We even remained silent 🤐 when you courted political favour 🤝🏛️ at the expense of the game’s independence ⚖️. But your latest scheme to carve up the World Cup itself, to sell a stake in the soul of football to private equity and your preferred political allies has finally crossed a line that cannot be uncrossed."💔⚽

🗣️ "You attempted, in secret 🤫, to turn the most sacred competition in our sport into a tradable asset for the enrichment of a handful of financiers and the further aggrandisement of your own position. When the scale of the deception became clear, you did not apologise ❌. You doubled down. You accused critics of failing to understand 'development' 📈. You tried to blackmail smaller associations 💸 with the promise of money 💰 that was never yours to promise."

🗣️ "You have shown that you view FIFA not as a guardian of football ⚽🛡️ but as a personal vehicle for power, influence and future financial security 💵. The resignation of your own advisers, the open accusations of deception inside your organisation, and the unified rejection ❌ by UEFA, Concacaf and others are not inconveniences they are the inevitable consequence of leadership that has become untethered from any sense of duty."

🗣️ "UEFA has lost confidence in you. Completely. ❌ We will not sit quietly 🤐 while you attempt to salvage your presidency through back-channel lobbying and political favours. If you do not resign immediately, we will pursue every available legal ⚖️, regulatory and institutional means to ensure that the next FIFA Congress delivers the only outcome the game now requires: your removal. 🚨 Football is not for sale. ⚽🚫💰"

[Count Binface @CountBinface]

How many jobs are MPs allowed?

[The Green Dragon Tavern @greendragonhq]

Nancy Mace has yet to say anything about her Republican colleague pulling a gun on his wife and breaking his child’s collarbone.

[Jessica Tarlov @JessicaTarlov]

Seems very bad...

[Darth Putin @DarthPutinKGB]

I'd like to thank Donald for all he has done to make this possible.

[Marco Foster @MarcoFoster_]

Bernie Sanders: “Donald Trump is the most dangerous president in the history of this country. He’s an authoritarian, he’s a kleptocrat, he’s corrupt, he has gotten us into a horrible war. My job as a senator is to do everything I can to fight back against those disastrous policies”

[Gandalv @Microinteracti1]

Donald Trump is still issuing threats, and the rest of the planet has quietly stopped flinching. The bombast that once sent diplomats scrambling for their phones now lands with all the menace of a car alarm nobody bothers to check.

World leaders have watched the pattern play out too many times. They have seen him boxed in by his own courts, brushed aside by a Congress that no longer jumps on command, and strung along by Iran, which treats his ultimatums as opening bids rather than final warnings.

The result is a presidency loud in volume but shrinking in consequence. When every threat is existential, none of them are.

[James Tate @JamesTate121]

Bigger story is that the accounts were linked to Epstein Island.

[Ursula von der Leyen @vonderleyen]

Once again we wake up to the news of horrible atrocities by Russia through its aerial attacks on Ukraine.

Russia must pay for the destruction it has caused.

And we are using the proceeds from the immobilised Russian assets to make sure it does.

We are making a further €1.4 billion of them available to Ukraine.

This will support Ukraine's continued resistance against Russia's illegal war.

https://t.co/PzIQDMv5tB

[Furkan Gözükara @FurkanGozukara]

🚨 BOMBSHELL! MS NOW confirms Donald Trump is the most unpopuler second-term president since the 1940s. His approval has completely collapsed.

The only comparison is Richard Nixon days before resinging over Watergate.

The Trump administration is facing total ruin!

[Senate Budget Democrats @SenateBudget]

MURRAY: How much were the tax breaks for the top 1% in Trump's Big, Ugly Bill?

SCHNEIDER: $1 TRILLION.

MURRAY: And how many Americans are losing health care?

SCHNEIDER: 11 MILLION from Medicaid.

MURRAY: So, no billionaires lose health care and they get a $1 TRILLION tax cut.

[Richard Woodruff 🇺🇦 @frontlinekit]

The future of warfare is coming, and it's Ukrainian 🇺🇦 💪💪💪