Pedro Fradique 🇺🇦

[Garry Kasparov @Kasparov63]

And spare me any "just sports" bullshit they spread when of course it’s the dictators who are exploiting sports to whitewash their regimes. As I know well, Russia uses sport as a form of political propaganda. Banning aggressor nations from doing this should be the norm.

[Urban Cycling Institute 🚲  @fietsprofessor]

👷> 'Hey, we would like to build a motorway from A to....'
👨> Stop talking! Take our money and start!

👨‍👩‍👧‍👦> 'We would like to have a safe bicycle path!'
👨> Are you sure? Well, please follow the steps in the procedure:

[HELLO! Canada @HelloCanada]

Stephen Colbert may have said goodbye to late night, but he wasn’t leaving quietly 💃🏻🕺After wrapping his final episode of The Late Show, the host, 62, hit the dance floor at his “Fired & Festive!” afterparty in NYC - and when wife Evie came out to join him, the celebration was even sweeter ❤️

📽️: gayleking

#stephencolbert

[Vala Afshar @ValaAfshar]

MIT professor delivers a brilliant masterclass on how to effectively present your ideas with clarity, high impact and purpose

[Pedro Marques Lopes @pedroml]

A @CamaraLisboa está claramente a gozar com as pessoas e com a cidade. 8 km em 2 anos ? 8 km em 2 anos? Uma cidade que está invadida por carros, onde quem anda de bicicleta na cidade corre riscos permanentes de atropelamento constrói 8 km de ciclovias em 2 anos? Entreguem a câmara ao ACP e não se fala mais disto.

https://t.co/bHBAfxLlwf

[Jessica Berlin @berlin_bridge]

Russians: *bomb Ukrainian civilians on Christmas, Easter, Chanukah, Eid, New Year’s, Armistice Day, Groundhog Day, yesterday, today, every day since 3+ years*
Also Russians: Ukraine please don’t shoot during our military parade! Let us glorify how we kill you in peace 🙏

[António Costa @eucopresident]

Together for a just and lasting peace, together with Ukraine.

[Liz Cheney @Liz_Cheney]

Generations of American patriots, from our revolution onward, have fought for the principles Zelenskyy is risking his life to defend. But today, Donald Trump and JD Vance attacked Zelenskyy and pressured him to surrender the freedom of his people to the KGB war criminal who invaded Ukraine. History will remember this day— when an American President and Vice President abandoned all we stand for.

[Pedro Marques Lopes @pedroml]

Acabou a liberdade de opinião no Post e com ela um jornal que era uma referência. O que mais impressiona em textos como este é como se ainda finge que se está a defender a liberdade. É que não tenho dúvidas de que Bezos sabe que não está a defender os valores que enuncia. Mais um passo ...

[Pedro Fradique 🇺🇦 @Ptpwpiptptpepr]

This!!

[Garry Kasparov @Kasparov63]

No, Trump has destroyed America in the eyes of the world.

[Pedro Fradique 🇺🇦 @Ptpwpiptptpepr]

@RailwaysPT sugiro conta na nova plataforma que começa com um azul e acaba no céu…

[Volodymyr Zelenskyy / Володимир Зеленський @ZelenskyyUa]

In my interview with Sean Hannity on Fox News, I stressed that Putin doesn’t fear Europe. European security guarantees alone will never be enough. Every European leader I’ve spoken to looks to Trump. Without strong U.S. security commitments, everything else is weak.

[The Ocean Cleanup @TheOceanCleanup]

To improve the efficiency of our cleanup operations in the Great Pacific Garbage Patch and address the urgency of the plastic pollution problem , this year we are developing methods to use GPS trackers and drones to locate plastic hotspots in real time.

[Aaron Parnas @AaronParnas]

Jeff Bezos never wanted this cartoon to become public.

He killed it, and as a result, pulitzer prize editorial cartoonist Ann Telnaes quit.

Make sure everyone sees this cartoon.

[Pedro Fradique 🇺🇦 @Ptpwpiptptpepr]

“Cabe a si, senhor leitor, desconfiar do que lê de um qualquer influenciador, político, empresário ou dono disto tudo. Dê poder à imprensa. Leia jornais, consuma notícias, informe-se porque é da apatia e do desligamento que o mal se alimenta.” Liliana Valente, newsletter Expresso

[Garry Kasparov @Kasparov63]

Sad. Perhaps this will make them better prepared to fight for Komi independence some day. Be careful what you ask for...

[Volodymyr Zelenskyy / Володимир Зеленський @ZelenskyyUa]

The “brave” Assad ran away to Putin. Where will Putin run away?

This year's Human Rights Day is marked by heartbreaking images of Syrian prisons and torture chambers, which were opened after Assad ran away. People have been humiliated there for many years. Men and women. They were beaten, tortured, raped. Thousands upon thousands of people have passed through this violence factory.

For decades, the Assad regime has relied solely on violence. And this is what all Putin-backed regimes look like. We have seen these types of prisons, torture chambers, unspeakable violence, humiliation, beating, torture, rape, and other crimes on our territory in every location occupied by Russian invaders.

Russia is a prison state and it can only keep hold of someone else’s stolen land by putting its prisons and torture chambers there.

Since the beginning of the Russian occupation, tanks have been followed by repression and torture. We first saw it on our land in Crimea in 2014, when Russian occupation resulted in repression of the indigenous people, Ukraine's largest Muslim community, the Crimean Tatars, as well as journalists and political figures. Then Russia continued its horrific human rights violations in the occupied Donbas, including the notorious Izolyatsia prison.

Since February 2022, Russia has expanded these practices to the rest of the occupied territories. Atrocities have increased in scope and brutality.

This is why we, as Ukrainians, feel so moved when we see Syrians walking out of Assad's prisons and torture chambers.

Assad and Putin are more than just vassal and lord. They are accomplices in violence. Dictators like Assad cannot survive without dictators like Putin. And Putin will try to get a revenge for Assad’s fall.

This is why we need unity and strength to confront regimes that only sow humiliation and leave nothing but suffering, pain, and ruins in their wake. By assisting Ukraine in its fight against Putin's dictatorship, the international community is assisting many other regions in restoring security and protection from violence.

There must be justice for the horrific atrocities and human rights violations. In fact, Putin and Assad are the ones who deserve to be imprisoned, not the innocent people they have been imprisoning for years.

[The Ocean Cleanup @TheOceanCleanup]

We stopped dozens of trash floods like this in Guatemala this year. 🇬🇹

[Mafalda Anjos @manjos]

Fairplay de gente decente. Que post bonito.

[Roger Federer @rogerfederer]

Vamos, @RafaelNadal!

As you get ready to graduate from tennis, I’ve got a few things to share before I maybe get emotional.

Let’s start with the obvious: you beat me—a lot. More than I managed to beat you. You challenged me in ways no one else could. On clay, it felt like I was stepping into your backyard, and you made me work harder than I ever thought I could just to hold my ground. You made me reimagine my game—even going so far as to change the size of my racquet head, hoping for any edge.

I’m not a very superstitious person, but you took it to the next level. Your whole process. All those rituals. Assembling your water bottles like toy soldiers in formation, fixing your hair, adjusting your underwear... All of it with the highest intensity. Secretly, I kind of loved the whole thing. Because it was so unique—it was so you.

And you know what, Rafa, you made me enjoy the game even more. 

OK, maybe not at first. After the 2004 Australian Open, I achieved the #1 ranking for the first time. I thought I was on top of the world. And I was—until two months later, when you walked on the court in Miami in your red sleeveless shirt, showing off those biceps, and you beat me convincingly. All that buzz I’d been hearing about you—about this amazing young player from Mallorca, a generational talent, probably going to win a major someday—it wasn’t just hype.

We were both at the start of our journey and it’s one we ended up taking together. Twenty years later, Rafa, I have to say: What an incredible run you’ve had. Including 14 French Opens—historic! You made Spain proud... you made the whole tennis world proud.

I keep thinking about the memories we’ve shared. Promoting the sport together. Playing that match on half-grass, half-clay. Breaking the all-time attendance record by playing in front of more than 50,000 fans in Cape Town, South Africa. Always cracking each other up. Wearing each other out on the court and then, sometimes, almost literally having to hold each other up during trophy ceremonies.

I’m still grateful you invited me to Mallorca to help launch the Rafa Nadal Academy in 2016. Actually, I kind of invited myself. I knew you were too polite to insist on me being there, but I didn’t want to miss it. You have always been a role model for kids around the world, and Mirka and I are so glad that our children have all trained at your academies. They had a blast and learned so much—like thousands of other young players. Although I always worried my kids would come home playing tennis as lefties.

And then there was London—the Laver Cup in 2022. My final match. It meant everything to me that you were there by my side—not as my rival but as my doubles partner. Sharing the court with you that night, and sharing those tears, will forever be one of the most special moments of my career.

Rafa, I know you’re focused on the last stretch of your epic career. We will talk when it’s done. For now, I just want to congratulate your family and team, who all played a massive role in your success. And I want you to know that your old friend is always cheering for you, and will be cheering just as loud for everything you do next.

Rafa that!

Best always, your fan, 

Roger