Putin's cannon fodder: "The average life expectancy of a new recruit—from arrival at a training ground to death in a combat zone—lies...between 10 days and 3 weeks. Once...sent onto the battlefield, Russian fighters survive an average of 20 to 35 minutes." https://t.co/i8qfgxl220
Wow, now Iran’s regime and Egypt have objected to Seattle’s Pride Match and urged FIFA to remove Pride-related symbols.
This is exactly what I’ve been warning about: authoritarian Islamists never stop at asking for tolerance.
First: “Respect our religious practices. Respect our customs. Respect our sensitivities.”
Then: “Change your traditions. Silence your values. Adjust your society to our ideology.”
These are the same “values” that sentence women to 74 lashes for singing, execute gay people, and shoot peaceful protesters in the streets.
Free societies should never surrender their values to appease authoritarianism.
Le gravi e offensive parole del Presidente Trump nei confronti del Presidente del Consiglio Giorgia Meloni offendono tutta l’Italia. Per questo motivo ho deciso di annullare la mia visita negli Stati Uniti prevista per i prossimi 21 e 22 giugno.
New @maggieNYT@jonathanvswan book describes how, after Trump redecorated the Oval Office to fill it with gold flourishes, someone asked the president about the likelihood that the next president would undo all that he done. Trump said: “Cubans love gold.”
https://t.co/dgI9hHSMtI
The details about the Tate brothers in this @newyorker profile are as sick as anything you will ever read. They are rapists, pornographers, traffickers - and heroes to the "conservative" MAGA movement
https://t.co/Zv2l52b9Id
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
I know it’s become pretty cliche and cringey to talk about at this point but if you’re under like 25 I cannot stress enough how one time Obama wore a tan suit and people spent a week arguing over whether or not it was demeaning to the Oval Office and they were serious about it.
🇵🇹🇺🇳 Portugal’s election to the UN Security Council, a recognition of portuguese diplomacy at the highest level, is a source of great pride for us all. Parabéns to MFA @PauloRangel_pt, Ambassador @ruivinhas5, @vitorino_mo et al in NYC 👏
🇵🇹 Portugal eleito membro não-permanente do Conselho de Segurança das Nações Unidas 🇺🇳 no biénio 2027/2028.
A primeira vitória de sempre para o país na primeira volta da eleição.
#BREAKING
UN General Assembly ELECTS following States as non-permanent members of the Security Council for two-year terms beginning 1 Jan 2027:
🇦🇹 Austria
🇵🇹 Portugal
🇹🇹 Trinidad and Tobago
🇿🇼 Zimbabwe
Voting continues for the remaining one seat from the Asia-Pacific States.