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[orthodoxmason @orthodoxmason]

Good advice that

[Kate from Kharkiv @BohuslavskaKate]

Ukraine can't end the war, because Russia is the invader.

​If Russia stops fighting, there will be no war, if Ukraine stops defending itself, there will be no Ukraine.

​I can't believe we are still discussing this after all these years!🤦‍♀️

[Aaron Parnas @AaronParnas]

This video is going viral on TikTok of people going the "fascist fair" in DC.

[Governor Josh Shapiro @GovernorShapiro]

On this day in 1776, right here in Philadelphia, we declared our independence from a King — and a new nation was born.

May we never take for granted the fundamental right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness that were spoken aloud on this day 250 years ago.

And let us recommit to the sacred responsibility we hold as Americans to preserve, protect, and defend those very values.

[Governor Josh Shapiro @GovernorShapiro]

250 years ago today — in this very same room — a band of patriots declared independence from a tyrant king and set ourselves on a path of self-determination.

Their work isn’t finished — and in the face of chaos, cruelty, and corruption, the responsibility to protect our fundamental freedoms and stand up to tyranny now falls to each of us.

Happy Independence Day, Pennsylvania. 🇺🇲

[Chris Murphy 🟧 @ChrisMurphyCT]

The plan is for this plane to be in service for two years and then Trump will take if for himself. No President has ever stolen an Air Force for himself.

And you paid for it. The total cost could be $1 billion of your money for a new luxury jet for Trump and his family.

[PBS News @NewsHour]

Scientists across the country are expressing alarm as the Trump administration dismantles another tool for understanding how the planet is changing.

Starting this month, more than 900 deep-sea ocean sensors will be pulled out of the Pacific and Atlantic Oceans off the coast of Washington, Oregon, Alaska, North Carolina, and Greenland.

Researchers say these are critical ocean observation tools.

William Brangham (@WmBrangham) explains.

[Mike Levin @MikeLevin]

This is really stupid, and it’s not getting enough attention.

The Trump administration is pulling a working $368 million ocean monitoring system out of the water, equipment taxpayers already bought, built, and sank into the deep ocean.

And they are doing it right when the oceans are behaving in ways that alarm the scientists who study them.

Record-breaking temperatures.

A system of Atlantic currents that may be lurching toward collapse.

The response?

Yank out the instruments and walk away.

That is not budgeting. That is smashing the gauges while the engine is on fire and calling it efficiency.

For what? The Trump administration dressed it up as a “nimbler approach” and “smart lifecycle management,” which is fancy nonsense for “we shut it off and hoped nobody would ask why.” There is no return-on-investment analysis. They cannot show taxpayers save a dime, because the gear is already paid for and the science it produces protects real money and real lives.

The kicker: the same people killing the monitors want to mine the deep sea for minerals. So they are destroying the only tools that could measure what that mining does. That is not an accident.

That is the point. You cannot see the damage if you break the instruments first.
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[Michael McFaul @McFaul]

The Strait of Hormuz was open and not controlled by Iran before Trump launched his war against Iran.

[Michael McFaul @McFaul]

Deny Ukraine membership in NATO, cut aid to Ukraine, promise Putin Donbas, praise Putin after he helps Iran, and now consider pulling troops out of Germany. How many gifts can Trump give Putin?

[Give A Shit About Nature @giveashitnature]

In 1979, John Beal had three heart attacks and was told he had 4 months to live.

He decided to spend those 4 months cleaning up the creek behind his house.

Hamm Creek ran through South Seattle into the Duwamish River. The water was yellow, dead fish washed up on the banks, and sections of it had been buried in concrete culverts that ran too hot for salmon to swim through.

He had no environmental training, he just started picking up trash.

The four months came and went, and he kept going.

He spent the next 27 years pulling debris out of that creek by hand, planting native trees, fighting utilities to daylight the buried sections, and teaching volunteers to name every tree they planted. He always said a tree with a name had a better chance.

Within days of one restoration, small salmonids appeared in water that hadn't held fish in 40 years. Herons, beavers, and river otters all came back.

John Beal died in 2006, at 56, of a heart attack, beating his prognosis by 27 years. He always said the creek gave him the extra years, and he was paying it back.

"The environment starts at your feet. You're involved in an environment every time you take a step." -John Beal

[More Perfect Union @MorePerfectUS]

BREAKING: Maryland is about to become the first state in the nation to ban the use of surveillance data and dynamic pricing at grocery stores.

The Maryland House has just passed the Protection from Predatory Pricing Act.

Governor Wes Moore plans to sign the bill.

[Michelle Cowbourne @Glastomichelle]

St Michael's tower peeping through the blossom on a very overcast start to the day here in Glastonbury.

[𝔗𝔯𝔲𝔱𝔥 𝔐𝔞𝔱𝔱𝔢𝔯𝔰 @politicsusa46]

There is something deeply chilling about listening to German MEP Terry Reintke addressing the European Parliament in support of the resistance of Americans against fascism.

80 years ago Germany were the perpetrators of a similar crime against humanity in Europe, and in 2026 we have Human Rights Watch condemning the actions of the United States Government as they zoom in on the words of Stephen Miller:

"You can talk all you want about international niceties and everything else. But we live in a world, in the real world (...) that is governed by strength, that is governed by force, that is governed by power,"

This is not power, it’s tyranny and those responsible for perpetrating these war crimes against their own citizens MUST be held fully to account when the regime falls, as it will.

🎥 TikTok - https://t.co/xdgrcdsPH8

[PROTECT ALL WILDLIFE @Protect_Wldlife]

I will never, ever, get bored with seeing this video….

Two old guys who obviously mean the world to each other. ❤️

[Aaron Rupar @atrupar]

Ossoff: "You're seeing what I'm seeing, right? The president posting about the Obamas like a Klansman."

[Senator Chris Van Hollen @ChrisVanHollen]

Trump said he would fight for “forgotten Americans.” I didn’t know that meant Jeff Bezos.

Despite making $89.5 BILLION in profits last year, Amazon paid just 3.1% in taxes.

This is what Republicans’ SNAP & Medicaid cuts were for.

Guess that ‘Melania’ doc really paid off.

https://t.co/c0UCEwa0vR

[Joaquin Castro @JoaquinCastrotx]

Liam Ramos, 5, spent ten days in a Texas trailer prison. He got sick, missed his mother and school, and was afraid of the guards.

Millions prayed, spoke up, and offered to do whatever they could to see him go home.

Then a federal judge ordered his release and I escorted him and his father home to Minnesota.

But now the Trump Administration is trying to take him again. They are breaking legal precedent in an attempt to break this boy’s spirit and all of the Americans who are praying for him.

[John Collins @Logically_JC]

They can't even fathom people recognizing abuses, and speaking out about them on principle alone.

[Decoding Fox News @DecodingFoxNews]

This is one way to artificially boost ticket sales. It could be fake. It’s hard to know. Trump DID pay fake supporters $50 a person to cheer for him when he first announced his candidacy for president in 2015. I know people who took the gig.