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Democrat Boomer, who still believes in the promise of this country. #VoteBlue
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[🇺🇦Radio Free NAFO Jack’s House @FluteMagician]

1) I don’t post much here on the Lake Mead water crisis or the food price shocks and shortages that will result soon. This thread is on BlueSky but I will share it here because I think it’s important. To see more, find me on BlueSky. See my pinned tweet there. Let’s begin⬇️

[Bhavik Lathia @bhaviklathia]

Very few people understand the modern and evolving media environment... we're at the dawn of a new era

Yes, different and newer than the 2024 media environment

[Kev @blu_kryptonian]

'Genuine rigging!' Nobel-winning economist sees a 'Ponzi scheme' in SpaceX's valuation https://t.co/zWeL9FbqHC

[TheRealThelmaJohnson @TheRealThelmaJ1]

We spent 100 billion dollars and what we got the Strait of Hormuz open like it was 100 days ago. What a loser.

[Anton Gerashchenko @Gerashchenko_en]

Five rescue workers were killed by a Russian follow-up strike on Kharkiv...

Such a tragedy. Deepest condolences...

They were putting out a fire caused by the first attack when Russia launched a second strike. At least five more rescuers were injured.

Deliberately targeting emergency responders who rush to save lives is one of the most cynical and ruthless crimes repeatedly committed by Russia.

[Don Winslow @donwinslow]

The horrors of America 2026

[Kev @blu_kryptonian]

Six Russian ships flee Channel in 77 minutes after UK seizes Putin shadow tanker https://t.co/fkIiwxXVad

[Citizens for Ethics @CREWcrew]

Congress must bar implementation of Trump’s IRS settlement.

Congress must also prevent future conflicts by prohibiting a sitting president from suing his own administration and collecting damages from it during his term in office.

We've sent a letter.
https://t.co/lJzvRRsU3I

[The Birthday Fairy Project 🟧 @TBFPToodle_oo]

Christina Artus should be 44 today.
She was shot and killed, along with her 1-year-old daughter, in a 2024 Gonzales, LA domestic murder.

#endgunviolence
[email protected]

[Christopher Miller @ChristopherJM]

The cathedral on the grounds of the historic Kyiv-Pechersk Lavra, a UNESCO World Heritage Site built around 1050 and one of the holiest sites in Eastern Europe, is on fire tonight as Russia launches another mass missile and drone attack on Ukraine’s capital. Mayor Klitschko confirmed the blaze.

[Anton Gerashchenko @Gerashchenko_en]

Massive Russian attack on Kyiv: as of now, Russia has attacked a UNESCO heritate church, residential buildings and civilian infrastructure.

Russian cruise missiles are headed toward Kyiv, drones, ballistic missiles, Tsirkon missiles can follow at any moment.

Civilians suffer again in Kyiv:

▪️A large fire in Kyiv-Pechersk Lavra.
▪️In one district, five strikes hit civilian infrastructure objects within less than 30 minutes. A residential building, market and grocery store damaged.
▪️A residential building damaged in another Kyiv district.
▪️6 people injured by the attack.
▪️About 140,000 people without electricity.

[Karen Piper @PiperK]

The ocean's circulatory system keeps the planet alive; the human circulatory system keeps humans alive.

Deciding not to monitor the former is like deciding to never check your pulse.

[Karen Piper @PiperK]

While Mike Lee wants to debate whether Mormons are Christians, Native Americans just got erased from the list. At least he's still on it.

[EU says Elon should not lie abt my blue check @emptywheel]

Note how @C__Herridge misled her rubes by claiming DOJ had "secured additional charges" when what happened is they charged the same charges, trying to clean up clear errors on the law, and in the process confessed they had lied about motive.

A confession.

[The Intellectualist @highbrow_nobrow]

President Biden’s farewell address:

"I want to warn the country of some things that give me great concern. That's the dangerous concentration of power in the hands of a very few ultra wealthy people … Today, an oligarchy is taking shape.” @atrupar (2025)

[Marc E. Elias @marceelias]

My latest for Democracy Docket subscribers is supposed to be about the three year anniversary of a key voting rights victory in the Supreme Court. But it is really about the importance of hope. https://t.co/0StGlWz45f

[The Intellectualist @highbrow_nobrow]

RFK Jr. explains why socializing with Jeffrey Epstein wasn't such a big deal for him:

"…I ran into everybody in NY. I mean, I knew Harvey Weinstein, I knew Roger Ailes, I knew -- O.J. Simpson came to my house. Bill Cosby came to my house.” (2024)

[Anton Gerashchenko @Gerashchenko_en]

Russia has now lost four elections in a row: in Romania, Moldova, Hungary, and now Armenia.

What's more, no one expected the margin in Armenia to be so large. This suggests that Armenians have lost faith in Russia and are distancing themselves from it.

I do not believe Russia will take military action against Armenia. The military base poses no threat, and Russia itself is exhausted by the war it is waging against Ukraine.

Through its heroic resistance, Ukraine is also giving other nations and states a chance to break free from Russia.

I believe Georgia may be next in attempting to remove pro-Russian forces.

Armenia's break with Russia will strengthen Turkey and its influence in the region. That is good news.

In addition, sources believe that the defeat in Armenia could be used by the Kremlin to oust the so-called "Armenian lobby" within the Russian leadership: to weaken, remove its members from office, and cut them off from financial flows.

The main names mentioned are Mikhail Mishustin, Russian prime minister, and Sergey Lavrov, Russian foreign minister.

Russia continues to lose ground and its influence.

[ProPublica @propublica]

A maternity ward doctor donated his own blood during surgery to keep a pregnant patient alive.

One woman gained fewer than 10 pounds over her entire pregnancy.

Another collapsed and had seizures during labor.
https://t.co/xRpGvTEL0F

[Roger Parloff @rparloff]

The suit over the UFC White House cage-fighting extravaganza alleges breathtakingly corrupt commercial exploitation of the nation’s most cherished monuments. Once again, the challenge is “standing.” When he f-cks all of us, none of us have standing.
https://t.co/DcXSyyvB3y