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[George @GeorgeIsJeff]

My mother and me. Berlin 1974. I was raised by patriotic Americans who despised dictators and bullies. They taught that there is absolute right and absolute wrong. They taught us to fight for the struggling and the weak against the mistreatment of the privileged and the strong.

[Brian Krassenstein @krassenstein]

As Trump posts AI videos of him assaulting Stephen Colbert, here’s what Colbert was doing:

Dancing with his wife, having fun at the Fired & Festive!” afterparty in NYC.

[Republicans against Trump @RpsAgainstTrump]

Every major Western country condemned the attack, except the United States. Shameful.

[Michael Bennet @SenatorBennet]

Secretary of Defense Hegseth must immediately release Congressionally appropriated funds for Ukraine and our Baltic allies. I’m joining bipartisan colleagues to demand it.

Withholding these funds signals weakness to Putin — not peace through strength.

https://t.co/fUN5cZ6OLH

[Vatnik Soup @P_Kallioniemi]

People really need to pay attention to this story. It describes how the Kremlin's disinformation machine communicates directly with Putin's office, and how some of these fake stories garner up to 80M views.

It's time to shut it down for good.

[George @GeorgeIsJeff]

So good. @StephenAtHome is resilient.

[George @GeorgeIsJeff]

It’s a cult that enjoys the gaslighting.

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

Russia is losing on the battlefield and in the Black Sea. Its economy is in tatters. All it can do is bomb Ukrainian cities and civilians. This is why we must pass Russian sanctions and military aid to Ukraine. The House will vote on this in two weeks.

[Philip Obaji Jr. @PhilipObaji]

Leaked chats and documents showcase the Russian presidential administration’s role in false-flag vandalism attacks and election interference campaigns in Europe and beyond. I have been warning Europe about this for a long time.

https://t.co/bPyvR7IXKb

[Matthew Keys @MatthewKeysLive]

Just one day after ending "The Late Show" on CBS, Stephen Colbert returned to TV — to host a public access show with rocker Jack White in Monroe, Michigan.

Appearances by Jeff Daniels, Eminem and Steve Buscemi.

[Vatnik Soup @P_Kallioniemi]

Republican politician John McCain was one of the few people who understood from the beginning what Putin was all about. This interview is from 2014.

It’s a shame most US politicians still lack this kind of clarity.

[George @GeorgeIsJeff]

One of the secrets of using X, or any other social media for that matter, is muting accounts that are obviously paid voices, bots, uninformed and uneducable morons, or people who simply want to antagonize. I mute the people I disagree with, in fact I think I learn and benefit from hearing their perspectives, but the rest just get muted. I would happily pay for a version of X that only allowed identity-verified accounts. @elonmusk or @Grok, has this ever been considered?

[George @GeorgeIsJeff]

@pwarminski @DallasTexasTV Give me a location on this?

[Kate from Kharkiv @BohuslavskaKate]

HODGES: We are going to regret that we, United States, didn’t do more to help Ukraine, because Ukraine going to win this war. Ukraine’s defeat of Russia is in best interests of all of us. Ukraine will become dominant defense industry power in Europe. America will be left behind.

[Face The Nation @FaceTheNation]

Former Defense Secretary Robert Gates said the firing of Pentagon leaders and the removal of a full Pentagon press corps under Defense Sec. Pete Hegseth “concerns” him, but he noted, “I don't know the rationale for those changes.”

“When you have a lot of changes like that, yeah, I think there is an obligation to explain, at a minimum, to the Congress, the rationale,” Gates told @margbrennan. Asked whether the systems are operating that way right now, Gates replied: “No.”

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

The Pentagon blindsided Poland and pulled an armored brigade out of Eastern Europe while Russia is still waging war in Ukraine. This sends a weak message to Putin and is a slap in the face to our NATO allies. We need answers and accountability from DoD.

[Disclose.tv @disclosetv]

NOW - Trump says it's good to have 500,000 foreign Chinese students in the U.S. and for China to purchase U.S. farmland; otherwise, colleges and farm prices would collapse: "I frankly think that it's good that people come from other countries and they learn our culture."

[George @GeorgeIsJeff]

@RepDonBacon @Kasparov63 Thank you for your vigilant support of the defense of Europe.

[George @GeorgeIsJeff]

@SarahLongwell25 @JessicaBRiedl What will happen to the money donated?

[Dr. Catharine Young @DrCatharineY]

We are now witnessing the dismantling of independent scientific oversight.

The President has terminated, without reason, multiple members of the National Science Board, the independent body that guides NSF and advises Congress and the President on U.S. science policy.

[Volodymyr Zelenskyy / Володимир Зеленський @ZelenskyyUa]

No one could have imagined that decades after Chornobyl – after everything countries have done to ensure radiation safety and protect lives – someone would want to turn Chornobyl, the facilities that remain here, and the Exclusion Zone itself into a territory of war.

And the worst thing is that when the Russians came to Chornobyl, it became clear that they had absolutely no understanding of where they had come and what this place was. This is important to understand about today’s Russia – about this state, about what remains of their culture, and about how they treat people, how they treat life as a whole.

The Russians tried to advance on Kyiv through this territory and seize the capital. They dug military positions here in restricted forests, drove military equipment across this land, deployed artillery here and fired from this area, destroyed equipment, and abused our people who work at the Chornobyl plant and associated facilities. Some of our Ukrainian servicemembers, including those from the National Guard of Ukraine who were guarding the Chornobyl Nuclear Power Plant, are still, unfortunately, in captivity in Russia.

From an address marking the 40th anniversary of the Chornobyl disaster (1/3)