New footage from the destroyed city of Bakhmut—once a significant Ukrainian city in the Donetsk region. Putin’s "liberators" captured it three years ago, in the summer of 2023. Since then, the city has lain in ruins...
This war, unleashed by a regime of a Stalinist, Soviet-style mold, will go down in history as one of the most insane and senseless wars ever started on Earth.
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✋🤚 Hands up for equality.
Not someday. Now.
Equal Rights for men and women in the Constitution.
Join the fight, Sign the Petition.
Raise your voice. Raise the standard. Raise each other.
#HandsUpForEquality#sign4era#EqualRights#ERANow ✊
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Equal Rights-> Its about your Money. Your security. Paid family leave, closing the wage gap, building generational wealth, permanent protections against gender discrimination. Demand the Equal Rights Amendment. https://t.co/AwkTm0QWiF #sign4era#EqualRights
UN: At least one million women and girls have lost access to critical humanitarian support since January 2025 as unprecedented aid cuts push women's organizations in crisis zones to the brink of collapse, the UN’s gender equality agency, UN Women, said on Friday.
Gender equality isn’t guaranteed in the Constitution without the ERA
Let that sink in.
The ERA changes that.
And yeah—we think that’s worth a cross-country movement.
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Q: You've called for repealing women's right to vote, which is protected by the 19th Amendment. Why?
Pete Hegseth's Pastor, Doug Wilson: Because it's a good idea. A lot of women wouldn't agree. I don't want women voting as individuals
On #America250, I am energized by @aliciakeys message for equality.
#ERANow is possible when both sides come together for the fair & equal treatment of women.
I challenge @aliciakeys to write a new anthem for the ERA, Alicia? @Sign4ERA@ERACoalition https://t.co/4HAVbmiREz
WE NEED YOUR HELP TO HALT THIS WAR.
Please take a moment to message your Senators to urge them to demand a vote next week to prohibit Trump from using any new funding to wage war on Iran.
Cutting off funding is the quickest way Congress can halt further escalation, stop the administration from illegally continuing this war, and prevent more civilian deaths: https://t.co/RbCvVOfvct
Almost a year and a half since I walked out of USAID's headquarters for the last time. I spoke with @NPR about the grief — for the 15,000 people who served faithfully, for the programs that were saving lives, for the brand of American goodwill that took 60+ years to build. And about the hope that it can be rebuilt. Full interview here: https://t.co/PpDI0BcaNR
- We have been waiting far too long for Equal Rights in the USA. Without the Equal Rights Amendment, we are still "second class citizens" under the law. Sign the petition and demand congress take action. #ERANow#EqualRights#250years#4thofJuly https://t.co/AwkTm0QWiF
Abigail Adams urged her husband John in a March 31, 1776 to "Remember the Ladies" and include women's rights in the new nation's laws, writing, "If particular care and attention is not paid to the Ladies, we are determined to foment a rebellion." https://t.co/AwkTm0QWiF
Starting in early 2025, Elon Musk and the Trump administration began terminating USAID's programs and firing its staff — with Musk himself boasting about "feeding it into the woodchipper." One year ago today, USAID was officially dissolved, its remaining programs haphazardly folded into the State Department. Amid all the lies and misinformation that have followed, some facts about what has actually been lost:
• USAID saved more than 3 million lives a year at a cost of less than $10/month per American. That is what was destroyed. On purpose.
• According to Boston University's Global Impact Counter — which tracked deaths attributable to the cuts until it stopped operations in February 2026 — an estimated 781,000 people died preventable deaths in the first year, including 518,000 children.
• Global child mortality (the number of children who die before their fifth birthday) rose in 2025 for the first time in 35+ years — by 200,000 additional deaths.
• USAID's 50-country disease surveillance network — the system that cut outbreak response times from 2 weeks to 48 hours — is gone. We are now watching an unprecedented Ebola outbreak unfold in real time — with the highest first-month caseload and death rate in modern history.
• Programs reaching 93 million women and children were cut 92%. TB programs cut 56%. Water and sanitation cut 86%. Over 2,000 health facilities permanently closed.
• 25 million fewer people received humanitarian assistance in 2025. The overall humanitarian budget was slashed 74% — from $14.1 billion to $3.7 billion.
• 363 million people face acute hunger in 2026. The famine early-warning system that would have seen it coming went dark for five months.
• $1.7 billion in democracy and governance funding (election monitoring, anti-corruption work, support for independent media and civil society) was terminated.
• 360+ independent media outlets lost funding. Hundreds of legal clinics closed.
• Far from saving money, the Trump administration itself has already said the dismantlement will cost taxpayers at least $19.2 billion in cancellation fees, severance, and penalties. That's more than half of USAID's annual budget — spent on destruction and closeout, not support for vulnerable people.
• American farmers, universities, and businesses are among the casualties too. USAID partnered with more than 3,500 U.S. companies and maintained 17 university-based research labs. Its work with U.S.-based contractors and the private sector generated hundreds of thousands of American jobs and multiplied the return on every dollar spent. Those markets and partnerships are gone.
… it is night in Ukraine right now, almost 4 a.m. Ukrainians are underground, those who have such an opportunity in their cities, while others are just in their homes and apartments, hearing, and even watching from their windows, yet another round of nightly explosions and flashes. Some are closer, some are further away, but the explosions are felt with the entire body.
As always, the morning will reveal more.