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[Maggie Oliver @MaggieOliverUK]

BREAKING🚨 The woman who accused Harvey Weinstein of r*ping her just walked away from the case — not because it wasn't true, but because the system broke her before it broke him.

Her name is Jessica Mann. She has spent EIGHT YEARS testifying against Weinstein. Two grand juries. Three trials. She told the same painful story over and over, sat through cross-examination about the most traumatic thing that ever happened to her, and never once wavered.

This week, she said she couldn't do it a fourth time. And honestly, who could?

Read what she wrote to the court: "The court gave so many privileges to Harvey Weinstein that it makes accountability nearly impossible. I have not had power or position in any of this. I have not had great wealth, nor have I had my own long-term legal representation."

And then this, which should stop you cold: she said pursuing justice "is better left a pipe dream."

Let that sink in. Not "I made it up." Not "it didn't happen." A woman who told the truth, consistently, for eight years, finally concluded that the system is so stacked toward a rich and powerful man that justice was never actually on the table for someone like her.

To be clear about what this is and isn't: Weinstein is still in prison. He's still convicted of sexually assaulting another woman in New York, and of rape in California. Prosecutors said plainly they believe Mann. They called her brave. This isn't him being cleared. It's him being protected by exhaustion — by a process designed so that a billionaire with endless lawyers can outlast a survivor until she simply can't stand up again.

That's the quiet way powerful men win. Not innocence. Attrition.

[Henry 🦩 @HenryLindo123]

Die CSU verbreitet zwar keine russische Propaganda, aber ihr Mann im Auswärtigen Amt, Florian Hahn @hahnflo hält seine Hände schützend über das #RussischesHaus in Berlin- ein nicht zu unterschätzendes Sicherheitsrisiko.

[Echoes of War @EchoesofWarYT]

The most influential immigrant group in American history is the one nobody argues about, because almost nobody remembers it was them.

Start at the beginning. The Continental Army was a half-trained mess until Baron von Steuben, a Prussian officer, showed up at Valley Forge and drilled it into a real fighting force. The freedom of the press you take for granted traces back to John Peter Zenger, a German immigrant printer whose 1735 trial established that you can't be jailed for printing the truth. German-Americans were shaping this country before there was a country.

Then look around your own life. Your Christmas tree is German. The hot dog (Frankfurt), the hamburger (Hamburg), the pretzel, the delicatessen, all German. Kindergarten is German, the word and the idea, brought over and opened by Margarethe Schurz. Blue jeans came from Levi Strauss of Bavaria. Heinz ketchup, Steinway pianos, Oscar Mayer, and the big four beers, Budweiser, Pabst, Miller and Schlitz, were every one founded by German immigrants.

The Brooklyn Bridge was engineered by John Roebling, born in Prussia. The Santa Claus you picture every December, plus the Republican elephant, were drawn by Thomas Nast, a German immigrant. Pfizer was founded by Charles Pfizer, who arrived from Germany in 1848. Boeing was built by the son of a German immigrant. John Jacob Astor showed up from Germany with next to nothing and became America's first multimillionaire. Charles Steinmetz, a disabled immigrant nearly turned away at the border, went on to make modern electrical power possible.

And it kept going. Wernher von Braun designed the rocket that put America on the moon. Einstein was German. Carl Schurz, a refugee, became a Union general and the first German-born US Senator. Eisenhower commanded D-Day and won the White House under a name once spelled Eisenhauer. Babe Ruth was a German-American kid from Baltimore.

Here is the kicker. German is the single largest ancestry group in the entire United States, around 44 million people, bigger than Irish, English or Italian. The biggest thread in the whole American fabric, and somehow the quietest.

They never asked for parades. They just trained the army, freed the press, engineered the bridges, founded the companies, built the rockets and lit up the Christmas mornings, then blended in so completely you forgot they were ever the "other." That might be the most American story there is.

[Jennifer Griffin @JenGriffinFNC]

From the Navy SEAL officer who planned and executed the Bin Laden raid: “In recent months, President Trump, upon advice from Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth, has relieved or forced the retirement of some of the finest officers that have ever served this nation. I have personally worked with most of them in combat….And this week, in an egregious decision, the president forced General Chris Donahue to step down from his position in command of U.S. Army Europe. Donahue is without question one of the most brilliant officers I know. He is strategically focused, tactically aggressive, personally courageous, exceptionally thoughtful in his planning and execution, and compassionate with his troops. He has the respect of every man and woman who ever served with him—and you can put me at the top of that list.”

[Anonymous @YourAnonNews]

This is Jonathan Ross. He shot and killed Renee Good. He still hasn’t been indicted.

[Leonhard Gandhi @energy_charts_d]

Im ersten Halbjahr 2026 wurden schon mehr große Batteriespeicher in Betrieb genommen als im ganzen Jahr 2025.
https://t.co/CVEEF99Er1

[Roman Sheremeta 🇺🇸🇺🇦 @rshereme]

A russian soldier called “Grom” raped Alisa Kovalenko for four days.

Before that, they beat her. They threatened to cut off her fingers and her teeth. They promised they would get to her parents, and to her boyfriend.

She was 27 – a documentary filmmaker who had come to Donetsk Oblast to film the beginning of Russia’s war.

A taxi driver turned her in.

Her partner, the French producer Stéphane Siohan, raised the alarm in the media. The public attention saved her. She was released. She carried what happened alone for more than a year before she could say it out loud – and then became one of the first women in Ukraine to say it anyway.

Russia expected that to break her.

In 2022, when they came back for the rest of the country, Kovalenko first got the heroes of her unfinished film to safety. Then she volunteered for the front – a mother of a small son, serving as an assault infantry soldier.

She put it as simply as it can be put:

“When you see even one form of Russian evil, you understand that it must be stopped at any cost.”

They wanted a victim. They got a soldier.

Source: Ukrainska Pravda

[Norm Clark @Normsmusic]

James Robison
What Joyce Carol Oates wrote to Elon Musk on Twitter. I am told it rattled him. I love it.
“So curious that such a wealthy man never posts anything that indicates that he enjoys or is even aware of what virtually everyone appreciates – scenes from nature, pet dog or cat, praise for a movie, music, a book (but doubt that he reads); pride in a friend’s or relative’s accomplishment; condolences for someone who has died; pleasure in sports, acclaim for a favorite team; references to history. In fact he seems totally uneducated, uncultured. The poorest persons on Twitter may have access to more beauty & meaning in life than the ‘most wealthy person in the world.’”

[Dr. Karen v. Mücke @vmuecke_k]

Die @gematik1 bekommt jährlich 100 Mio€ (!) für die Umsetzung der Digitalisierung im Gesundheitswesen.

Das Geld stammt übrigens größtenteils aus den Kassenbeiträgen der gesetzlich Versicherten.

Dafür erwarte ich Kompetenz und Engagement und kein Abwimmeln an Dienstleister!

[Caroline Orr Bueno, Ph.D @RVAwonk]

Seven years ago, my name appeared at the top of an “enemies list” allegedly created by insiders close to Tulsi Gabbard due to my work. New leaked documents confirm what I found then: an online army of fake accounts has been boosting Gabbard & attacking her critics for years.

[Jim Stewartson, Decelerationist 🇨🇦🇺🇦🇺🇸 @jimstewartson]

This is pure, unadulterated Nazism. Hitler’s program to remove disabled people from the community to “institutionalize” them was called “Aktion T4.” It resulted in 300,000 disabled people being murdered.

This is Buchenwald.

[Karen Piper @PiperK]

Wow. A Lancet study says Elon Musk will have killed 14 million people by 2030. Lancet is the world's top medical journal.

[Gavin Newsom @GavinNewsom]

A federal court just confirmed what everyone already knew:

Trump’s DOJ is illegally using the machinery of government to target his political enemies with bogus investigations.

That’s not justice. It’s corruption. IT MUST END!

[Jamie Bonkiewicz @JamieBonkiewicz]

REMINDER: JARED KUSHNER IS NOT AN ELECTED OFFICIAL AND HAS NO FUCKING BUSINESS ANYWHERE NEAR GOVERNMENT MEETINGS OR PEACE TALKS.

[Danielle Beckman @DaniBeckman]

As #HPV vaccine coverage continues to rise, cervical cancer deaths among young women plummeted.

In the most highly vaccinated cohorts, deaths fell to ZERO.

Among unvaccinated women, mortality rates barely changed.

Vaccines save lives.

https://t.co/UQyodmCCRU

[Books Behind Borders @MHTruthUltra]

😱 And just like that, it’s completely VANISHED from the media. A sitting congressman, Ted Lieu, said on the record that the Epstein files are being blocked because they show Trump raped and threatened to kill children.

Lets make this viral again 👇

[Travis Akers 🇺🇸 @travisakers]

This photo was published of the Prime Minister of Qatar, Vice President JD Vance and Jared Kushner. What’s the problem? Giving a foreign leader visual access to a USG laptop, while using someone else’s CAC to log in. Pure incompetence at every turn.

[Senator Patty Murray @PattyMurray]

Scientists in Atlanta were stopped from criticizing the Trump admin at a scientific conference, so let me do it here:

Trump is destroying biomedical research in America, and it will take decades to get back on track. 

Spread the word. Stand up for science.

[Mike Levin @MikeLevin]

The Trump administration just paid Invenergy $765 million to cancel four wind projects. That brings the running total to roughly $2.5 billion in taxpayer money spent to stop energy from being built.

Think about that.

At a time when electricity demand is rising, the Trump administration is spending billions to reduce the amount of power that could reach the grid.

Trump has spent years attacking wind turbines as ugly and inefficient. He is entitled to his opinions about how they look. He is not entitled to make taxpayers finance those opinions.

Seven states have already sued over earlier agreements. Federal courts have repeatedly found legal defects in this administration’s efforts to halt offshore wind development. The administration has cited national security concerns while providing little public evidence to support them, and judges have said they were not convinced.

Strip away the politics and what remains is hard to defend.

Billions in taxpayer money paid to private companies to cancel planned energy projects during a period of rising demand.

Governments usually spend money to build things.

This administration is spending billions to make sure some things never get built.
https://t.co/rB2naxc27j

[Derrick Evans @DerrickEvans4WV]

She borrowed $49,548.74 in student loans.

120 payments later, she’s paid $25,558 — and now owes $50,121.

She’s paid on it for years and still owes more than what she originally borrowed.

The entire thing is a SCAM to enslave the young people.