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[steph stags🌻💙💛⬆️ @ShebaStags]

We must not, can not, will not forget the children.

[UNITED24 Media @United24media]

❗ Official data on the number of 19500 abducted children significantly underestimate the real figures, — Ukrainian Child Rights Network 🧵 1/7

[😱 Scary Larry 😱 🇺🇦✊🏻🇺🇸🗽 @aintscarylarry]

BREAKING: In a very surprising plot twist, Kash Patel announces he will be arresting himself, his boss, and the rest of the republican party.

[Team Ossoff @TeamOssoff]

Ossoff: Last September, the President of Kazakhstan calls Donald Trump and says he wants to grant tungsten mining rights to an American company. And the very next month, Eric and Don Jr. get a stake in the American company pursuing the mining deal.

Six days later, six days after Prince Eric and Prince Don get their stake, Kazakhstan announces this company will get, “The largest known undeveloped tungsten resource in the world.” A few more weeks go by, and then the U.S. government, run by their father, sets aside 1.6 billion of your tax dollars to fund and finance their mining project. In Kazakhstan.

All this while you pay more for gas, for groceries, for health care, and that's just the tip of the iceberg.

[Tymofiy Mylovanov @Mylovanov]

Applebaum: Trump is using a specific language from the 1930s: “enemies within,” “enemies of the people,” migrants and political opponents as “vermin,” migrants “poisoning the blood” of Americans.

That language comes from Hitler, Stalin and the Stasi. 1/

[UAVoyager🇺🇦 @NAFOvoyager]

This is Oleh.

He was 2.

russia decided that was enough.

A missile hit his home, killing Oleh, his mother, and 14 neighbors.

He never saw peace.
Never started school.
Never had a future.

His life ended before it began.

[Olga Patlyuk 🇺🇦 @OlgaPatl]

Every time I read that sanctions against Russia should not be made tougher because they might affect “оrdinary Russians,” I have one question.

Why is the world so concerned that Russians might have a less comfortable life, yet speaks far less about Ukrainians who are being kіІIеd every day by Russian mіssiles and drones?

Sanctions may cause economic hardship for Russians. But that hardship does not thrеаten their lives. It does not dеstroy their homes in the middle of the night. It does not burу their children under the rubble. It does not force them to wake up to еxplosions and live with the fеar of losing their loved ones every single day.

So what is the logic?

Why does the comfort of citizens of the аggressor state matter more to some people than the lives of those their state is kіIІіng?

For years, we Ukrainians have been paying the highest price -with our lives, our health, our homes, and our future. And when someone argues that Russians must be protected from the consequences of sanctions while remaining silent about protecting Ukrainians from Russian mіssiles, it looks like moral blіndness.

I am not concerned about the comfort of people whose state brings dеаth to my nation every day.

I am concerned about the lives of Ukrainians.

[Anders Åslund @anders_aslund]

It is Albanians, not Americans, who are protesting against American corruption.
The US appears to have accepted the corruption of the Trump family, so we Americans have to rely upon the sound anti-corruption sentiments of others.
Truly embarrassing, but thank you, Albania!

[Amber Woods @AmberWoods100]

Section 224, which has been publicly endorsed by Netanyahu, would move Israel from being a major recipient of U.S. support to becoming deeply embedded within America’s defense technology and industrial base.

The concern is not aid. The concern is integration. Americans are rightfully concerned.

[steph stags🌻💙💛⬆️ @ShebaStags]

@jimstewartson Himself included.

[Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1]

More than half of the publicly identified donors to Trump's White House ballroom project have won new or expanded federal contracts worth more than $50 billion during the past six months, according to a report released by a government watchdog group.

[Brian Allen @allenanalysis]

Rent is insane.

Buying a house feels impossible.

Healthcare costs too much.

Congress spends too much money.

The government wastes too much money.

Corporations have too much influence.

Politicians lie.

The rich play by different rules.

The middle class keeps getting squeezed.

Nobody reads the terms and conditions.

Your phone listens a little too well.

Nobody actually wants World War III.

Things we’re told to fight about:

A tweet.

A flag.

A bathroom.

A pronoun.

A celebrity’s opinion.

[Saint Javelin @saintjavelin]

Putin genuinely lives in the world’s biggest wonderland.

Today he claimed Russia’s economy hasn’t “collapsed” and has merely fallen to the level EU countries have supposedly lived at for years.

But yeah, Russia’s economy is fine. It’s just that food prices are up 21%, services up 14%, interest rates hit 16% to stop inflation from spiralling, GDP growth was just downgraded to 0.4%, and the National Wealth Fund has shrunk more than two and a half times since the invasion began . Totally normal EU stuff.

[Mike Levin @MikeLevin]

This is so insanely corrupt, I can’t even believe it.

More than half the donors to Trump’s $400 million White House ballroom just won over $50 billion in new federal contracts in six months.

And here’s the part that should make your blood boil.

Sixteen of these 27 donors were facing federal enforcement actions, antitrust reviews, labor cases, securities charges. Many of those cases have been quietly dropped or scaled back since Trump took office. You write a check, your legal problems disappear. That’s not a coincidence.

The White House won’t even release the full donor list. They’re hiding it on purpose, because daylight is the one thing pay-to-play can’t survive. A federal judge already ruled ballroom construction has to stop until Congress authorizes it.

Government is supposed to serve the people, not auction itself off to the highest bidder. When access goes to whoever pays the most, working families always end up paying the price.

We either end the corruption, or the corruption will end us.

https://t.co/4MGFzSseFl

[steph stags🌻💙💛⬆️ @ShebaStags]

@MacFarlaneNews @NotHoodlum Their cowardice is stunning.

[M.Ockers @OckersM]

What a can of worms eh?
#Alumina21

[KyivPost @KyivPost]

Russia deliberately targeted an ambulance on the grounds of a hospital in Kherson with an FPV drone in broad daylight.

Two paramedics were injured in the strike.

Video: Kherson Region Military Administration

[steph stags🌻💙💛⬆️ @ShebaStags]

@boris0630 @SenatorShaheen is 100% CORRECT

[D.Radka, #NAFO 🇨🇿🤝🇺🇦 @DakdaR22]

Message from Ukrainians to Zelensky:

"We have been on the brink many times, but Zelensky has always found a way out..

We are with you, Mr. President!"

No one will break this nation❤️🇺🇦

[James Talarico @jamestalarico]

There’s been a lot of talk in this race about what makes a "real man."

A man does what’s right when no one is watching. He upholds his commitments to his family and neighbors. He doesn’t lie, cheat, & steal his way through life.

Real men serve others. Weak men serve themselves.

[D.Radka, #NAFO 🇨🇿🤝🇺🇦 @DakdaR22]

Moment When Radoslaw Sikorski reminded America, UK, France and Russia that they guaranteed Ukrainian security and borders in 1994!

- Sikorski:
“As you know, Russia, the USA, and Great Britain guaranteed the security of Ukraine and its borders.
In exchange for Ukraine giving up what was then the third largest arsenal of nuclear weapons in the world. In 1994.
So you have an obligation to Ukraine to help them defend their freedom.”