James Clarke

[Ed Krassenstein @EdKrassen]

WWII Veteran and Purple Heart recipient Robert Hilliard:

"Next week I'll be 101 years old. In February 1944 when I was 18 years old I was inducted into the army and what they taught me to do there was to kill people who set up detention camps. Can you imagine how I felt earlier this year when they announced that one of the future detention camps would be at that same camp landing in Florida? We have a fascist, a fascist government, that allows innocent people to be put in detention camps and incarcerated."

Source: @tomaskenn

[James Clarke @ClarkeJamesA]

@PlacidWadhawan @ZEE5India Bastards! Hope your subscription covered this year's Premier league! 😉

[James Clarke @ClarkeJamesA]

@Neduszn8 Eiður Guðjohnsen

[James Clarke @ClarkeJamesA]

@lady_valor_07 Ada

[Olena Rohoza @OlenaRohoza]

🇮🇹 The speech that all of Italy heard. And that the world must hear.
In a country that will host the Olympic Games, Italian Senator and Vice President of the Human Rights Commission Filippo Sensi took the floor and said what should have been said out loud long ago.
He called it a disgrace that the International Olympic Committee disqualified Ukrainian skeleton athlete Vladyslav Heraskevych.
Not for doping.
Not for violating fair play.
But for… memory.
For a helmet bearing the faces of Ukrainian athletes — his friends, colleagues, champions — killed by Russia.
The IOC stated that the helmet “did not comply with regulations.”
And then Sensi asked a question that brought silence to the chamber:
Does aggressive war comply with regulations?
Is there a separate technical protocol for it?
The correct angle of a missile strike?
The permissible size of a crater?
An athlete prepares for the Olympics for years.
A Ukrainian athlete trains between air raid sirens, in shelters, under news of the dead.
He overcomes fear, exhaustion, and loss.
And he steps to the start line not only for a medal — but for the right to exist.
And he is suspended… for remembering.
Because memory is the most dangerous substance. It is hard to add to a prohibited list. But apparently, someone would very much like to.
The senator named names. Just a few among more than 650 Ukrainian athletes killed by Russia:
▪️ Yevhenii Malyshev, 19, biathlete — killed in Kharkiv.
▪️ Mariia Lebid, 15 — missile strike in Dnipro.
▪️ Dmytro Sharpar, 25, figure skater — killed in Bakhmut.
▪️ Volodymyr Androsiuk, 22, track and field athlete — also Bakhmut.
▪️ Daria Kurdel, 20 — missile strike in Kharkiv.
▪️ Alina Perehutova, 14 — standing in line for water with her mother in Mariupol.
▪️ Maksym Halinichev, 22, boxer — killed defending Luhansk region.
▪️ Viktoriia Ivashko, 9, judoka — missile strike in Kyiv.
▪️ Kateryna Diachenko, 11, gymnast — airstrike on Mariupol.
▪️ Karina Bakur, 17, world kickboxing champion — shielded her father with her body.
These were the faces Heraskevych wanted to carry with him to the start line.
So that they would “compete” alongside him.
So that their dream would not die with them.
And for that, he was punished.
Because it turns out that the faces of murdered athletes violate regulations.
But their absence on the track does not.
In his speech, Sensi said the most important thing:
The Olympic Committee did not lose an athlete.
It lost its most valuable medal — its conscience.
Sport without memory is just a show.
Sport without humanity is just decoration.
Sport that fears truth is not about peace.
The Olympic movement was born from the ideals of honor, dignity, and unity.
Yet today Ukrainian athletes must prove not only their strength — but their right to remember their fallen.
And if memory becomes a violation of regulations — then the problem is not the helmet.
The world must hear this.
Because silence is also a position.
And indifference is also a choice.
Memory cannot be disqualified.
And conscience cannot be added to a prohibited list.
🇺🇦 We remember every one of them.
And we will not allow their names to be erased.

[𝔗𝔯𝔲𝔱𝔥 𝔐𝔞𝔱𝔱𝔢𝔯𝔰 @politicsusa46]

This is what Trump will never tell you while he’s stabbing European NATO allies in the back.

Norwegian Prime Minister Jonas Store explains that the world’s largest nuclear arsenal sits less than 100 kilometres from the Norwegian border and those weapons are pointing at the U.S.

So tell me who needs who?

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[James Clarke @ClarkeJamesA]

@theamelia__ My whole life ahead of me.

[Joe G @EastEndJoe]

Remind me again how this is America First?

[James Clarke @ClarkeJamesA]

One for the City fans tonight 'your boys took a hell of a beating'. Classic Norwegian commentary #MCI #BOD #BODvMCI #ManCity https://t.co/XOF9b515hB

[Meidas_Charise Lee @charise_lee]

AND THERE YOU HAVE IT‼️

[Jay in Kyiv @JayinKyiv]

The calm demeanor of Americans as they grow accustomed to extreme levels of police brutality is almost as shocking to European audiences as the violence itself.

A once free people are now compliant, walking right into the slaughterhouse.

[James Clarke @ClarkeJamesA]

@AuntCunt Yes. Why? I still get cravings. Big food deciding what we can eat. Cadbury now contains next to no chocolate.
But if you're salty about this wait until you find out they've discontinued Andrew's Liver Salts

[Orla Joelsen @OJoelsen]

Statement from the Premier of Greenland 🇬🇱
6:55pm local time:

“🇬🇱 We have been a close and loyal friend of the United States for generations. We have stood shoulder to shoulder in difficult times. We have taken responsibility for security in the North Atlantic — and not least for North America. That is what true friends do.

Precisely for that reason, the current and repeated rhetoric coming from the United States is entirely unacceptable.

When the President of the United States speaks of “needing Greenland” and links us to Venezuela and military intervention, it is not only wrong. It is disrespectful.

Our country is not an object in great-power rhetoric. We are a people. A country. A democracy. That must be respected — especially by close and loyal friends.

We are part of NATO, and we are fully aware of our country’s strategic location. We also understand that our security depends on good friends and strong alliances. In that context, a respectful and loyal relationship with the United States is very important. That has been the case for decades.

But alliances are built on trust. And trust requires respect.

Threats, pressure, and talk of annexation have no place between friends. That is not how one speaks to a people who have repeatedly demonstrated responsibility, stability, and loyalty.

Enough is enough.

No more pressure.
No more insinuations.
No more fantasies of annexation.

We are open to dialogue. We are open to conversations. But they must take place through the proper channels and in full respect of international law. And the proper channels are not random and disrespectful posts on social media.

Greenland is our home and our territory.
And it will remain so. 🇬🇱”

[James Clarke @ClarkeJamesA]

@GregKatz02 @AnnieForTruth 2019? Obama was not president. Do you mean 2015?

[James Clarke @ClarkeJamesA]

@CostaCoffee Well you can see place (northbound)and date in chain above. Time was late afternoon around 500pm.

[James Clarke @ClarkeJamesA]

@CostaCoffee Not happy that l couldn't have coffee in a cup and saucer with a spoon. Especially as the price at the Southwaite services is so much higher than the high street. Grumpy near Carlisle.

[James Clarke @ClarkeJamesA]

Was this the #MOTD ever? Chelsea lost. Liverpool lost. Man U lost. Tottenham lo... so nearly bit failed to beat the worst team in the league. I'll take it.

[James Clarke @ClarkeJamesA]

I’m calling on my MP @bradleythomasuk to back Long Live The Local. Pubs and breweries need our support! Sign today at https://t.co/1qD1d4hguM #longlivethelocal

[Channel 4 News @Channel4News]

Palestinians force to leave and Israeli settlers move in. This is a pattern being repeated in villages across the Jordan Valley in the Israeli-occupied West Bank.

We're in Mu’arrajat, which until a week ago had a population of around 500 people.