Bruce Mayo🇨🇦🇺🇦🇩🇰

Sitting in a park in Paris, France, reading the news and it sure looks bad. They won't give peace a chance.That was just a dream some of us had.

[Tymofiy Mylovanov @Mylovanov]

Kasparov: After defeat, Russia faces a choice — become China's vassal or start negotiating with everyone. Recognize crimes, pay reparations, build equal relationships with all neighbors.

Stop being a permanent incubator for dictators. There is no third option for Russia. 3X

[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

[Mallory McMorrow @MalloryMcMorrow]

One billionaire family controls the bridge that carries 25% of all U.S.–Canada trade.

The good news? There's a brand new public bridge right next door (and Canada paid for the whole thing).

The bad news? Donald Trump won't let it open.

Here's the story:

For more than a decade, Michigan and Canada worked together to build a new public crossing right next to it — six lanes over the Detroit River, named for a Canadian-born Red Wings legend, built by thousands of union workers. Canada paid the entire bill. Michigan co-owns it. It's finished. It’s a shining example of international cooperation and collaboration, with a tremendous return for both sides: more jobs, faster trade, and lower costs.

So why isn't it open?

Because the Moroun family, who own the rival Ambassador Bridge just up the river, doesn’t want the competition. They spent years and tens of millions of dollars trying to stop any competing international crossing from being built or opening. They lost. So they went to the White House instead.

In January, Matthew Moroun gave $1 million to a pro-Trump super PAC. Then the billionaire called Trump's Commerce Secretary and, just hours later, Trump suddenly attacked the same publicly owned bridge he praised in his own first term and threatened to block it.
Then, the day before the June 12th ribbon-cutting, the opening was called off indefinitely.

It's corruption so flagrant it would be laughable if it weren't so damaging.

Trump is screwing over Michiganders for the interests of billionaires — holding a finished, publicly owned project hostage to protect one donor's toll booth.

So a finished bridge sits closed, Michiganders keep paying the higher tolls, cars and trucks cost more, and a billionaire family keeps its monopoly.

Mr. President: stop playing games. Open the damn bridge.

[Global News 24 @GlobalNews_24]

🚨 Всем привет, меня зовут Ксюша. Я — россиянка из Москвы, которая переехала в Украину уже во время войны. Сегодня я обращаюсь к своим соотечественникам 🇷🇺

Почти 200 дронов над Москвой. Второй раз за три дня горит НПЗ в Капотне. Горит «Люблино». Все четыре аэропорта столицы перекрыты. Это не случайность. Это первая серьёзная демонстрация того, что Украина способна перенести войну вглубь России. Дроны были медленными. Дальше будут быстрее. Дальше, точнее. У Украины уже есть свои крылатые ракеты и баллистические разработки. То, что вчера казалось невозможным, сегодня — реальность.

Пока вы в шоке от сирен и дыма над Москвой, люди в Херсоне, Сумах, Харькове, Одессе и Киеве живут с этим уже пятый год. Разрушенные дома, прилёты, постоянный страх.

Я знаю Москву, в которой никогда не выли сирены. Теперь вы почувствовали хотя бы каплю того, что чувствуют они каждый день.

Вся ответственность лежит на Владимире Путине и его режиме. На пропагандистах, которые ежедневно разжигают ненависть. И на миллионах россиян, которые либо поддерживают эту войну, либо молчат. Россия начала эту войну. Поэтому всё, что сейчас летит в нашу сторону — прямое следствие этого выбора.

Если Путин отдаст приказ остановить войну — она остановится в тот же день. Зеленский уже много раз предлагал прекратить огонь. Ответа нет. Пока приказа нет — удары по России будут только усиливаться. Это не месть. Это вынужденная самооборона.

Украина не хотела этой войны. Она просто вынуждена выживать. Пора это признать!

[Volodymyr Zelenskyy / Володимир Зеленський @ZelenskyyUa]

There’s no doubt that Putin fears the return of his army home. That is why he is so afraid of the war ending without victory. And there will be no victory. He is physically afraid of his own army. That is why, if there is no ceasefire backed by specific security guarantees, he will return to war. And this time, others may be the ones under attack.

Today, Ukraine is de facto the second army of NATO – one that is not inferior to the second army in the world. And that is why NATO needs us – specifically us – de jure. This is already a fact recognized by all leaders. Putin will remain in the Kremlin until his death, and he has one goal: the restoration of the Soviet Union. Without Ukraine, this is impossible, and that is why things are so difficult for us.

From answers to journalists’ questions. (3/3)

[Acyn @Acyn]

Carney: Putin is going to lose this war. And from now until the point where he realizes that or accepts that is absolutely senseless slaughter.

[Tymofiy Mylovanov @Mylovanov]

Source:

https://t.co/TZAO8SZ47u

[🎩Laird of the Manor🎩 @LairdOfThManor]

A small public service announcement from the Department of Things That You Should Know…

It has not “peeked” your interest.
Nor has it “peaked” your interest.

…It has piqued your interest.

You are not “phased” by something.
You are fazed by it.

If you’ve had a long day, you are weary.
If you suspect someone is an idiot, you are wary.

It is “due course”, not “do course”.
“Per se”, not “per say”.

And while we’re here, it’s “could have”, not “could of”, but that particular battle may already be lost.

Thank you for your attention during this brief outbreak of grammatical housekeeping.

This has been a @LairdofthManor announcement.🎩💙

[Scott Robertson @sarobertson_]

Kaja Kallas: As Russia bombs cathedrals, Europe should not roll out the red carpet for Russian artists and athletes that support the Kremlin's war. Culture and sport should not be a tool to whitewash aggression.

[Nasha Canada🇨🇦Наша Канада @NashaCanada]

После окончания войны все операторы российских дронов и командиры ракетных расчетов, совершавшие военные преступления против мирного населения Украины, должны предстать перед Международным трибуналом.

— ретвит, если согласны.

[Olena Rohoza @OlenaRohoza]

🇺🇸💪🧐Howard Buffett, the son of billionaire Warren Buffett, gave Ukraine 150 million of his personal money in 2022.
In 2023, he bought a total of 360 million $ for Ukraine. At his own expense, he built kitchen factories in Bucha and Lozovaya, police stations in Borodyanka and Izyum, and a dog training center in Bucha.
Buffett brings combine harvesters, tractors and seeds to Ukraine and gives them to farmers for free. Buys and brings mine clearance vehicles to Ukraine: in some areas, mine clearance is the main type of agricultural work...
Buffett supports the Ukrainian police, brought dozens of DNA detection machines, bought service dogs of the highest level of training in the Netherlands and brought them to Ukraine. Buffett helps search for war criminals, created a separate organization in Ukraine.
He financed the creation and operation of The Superhumans Center, an open prosthetics center near Lviv. I bought and brought 2,400 high-power generators...
In September 2023, Buffett and Ukrzaliznytsia created the world's first kitchen train that can operate offline for 5-7 days during blackouts and produce 70 thousand servings of food during the week.
How much money does Howard Buffett have? It's hard to say, because he spends them all the time, he has already spent half a billion on Ukraine. He fell in love with Ukraine, visited ten times during the war, and it feels like he spends more time in Ukraine than at home in the United States...
He's the middle child of billionaire investor Warren Buffett. It was named after Howard Buffett, his grandfather, and Benjamin Graham, Warren Buffett's favorite professor.
As CEO and chairman of the Howard G. Buffett Foundation (HGBF), Buffett has traveled to more than 130 countries to document the challenges of preserving biodiversity and providing sufficient resources to meet people's needs.
HGBF was one of five philanthropic groups that received вор 2.9 billion in Berkshire Hathaway Class B shares from Warren Buffett in July 2020.
P.S. According to Forbes magazine, as of April 2023, Warren Buffett was ranked 5th in the ranking of the richest billionaires in the world with personal assets of 106 billion. $.
In addition, Warren Buffett plans to donate most of his assets to charity.

[Kate from Kharkiv @BohuslavskaKate]

Russians have struck the Kyiv-Pechersk Lavra and are burning down one of Ukraine's oldest Orthodox churches‼️

The roof of the Dormition Cathedral is ablaze. The cathedral itself is a significant part of our history, it is older than Moscow. It was already there when russian neanderthals were building shacks made of sticks and shit.

Fucking barbarians!

[Yulia Svyrydenko @Svyrydenko_Y]

Right now, as Russians continue to strike #Kyiv with over a dozen of ballistic missiles, the Dormition Cathedral of Kyiv‑Pechersk Lavra — a UNESCO World Heritage site and priceless cultural landmark — has been struck and is burning.
A brutal assault on our people and our heritage. This is the true face of Russia’s Orthodox values.

[Gwen✨ @Gwenherself]

🚨 URGENT: STOP THE EXECUTION! 🚨

19-year-old #SagharGholami faces confirmed death sentence by Iran’s regime.

Family begs the world: Be her voice!
Media, world leaders — ACT!

[INSIDER ⚡️ @UKRSONCE]

росіяни проводять геноцид українців, вони вдарили КАБом 3000 кг по українському місту Покровське, Дніпропетровської області 💔

Друзі , поширюйте відео на цілий світ , нехай бачать всі, які росіяни варвари і нелюди ...

[Bruce Mayo🇨🇦🇺🇦🇩🇰 @MayoBruce]

@MarcKieley Not even pissing down rain, luxury!

[Olena Rohoza @OlenaRohoza]

🧐🤔YOU WANTED A WALL, TRUMP? YOU’LL HAVE ONE.
Mexico’s president, Claudia Sheinbaum, responded to Trump’s threats:
“So you voted to build a wall.
Well then, dear Americans — even if geography isn’t your strong suit, and you see America as a country rather than a continent — you should know that on the other side of that wall stand 7 billion people.
And if the word ‘people’ doesn’t resonate with you, let’s call them ‘consumers.’
Those 7 billion consumers can switch from iPhone to Samsung or Huawei in less than two days.
They can trade Levi’s for Zara or Massimo Dutti, and within six months replace Ford and Chevrolet with Toyota, KIA, Mazda, Honda, Hyundai, Volvo, Subaru, Renault, or BMW — brands that are already more popular in many places.
They can cancel DirecTV.
And even if they choose not to, they can stop watching Hollywood films and turn instead to higher-quality productions from Latin America or Europe — with richer storytelling and better filmmaking.
Believe it or not, people can skip Disney and visit the Xcaret resort in Cancún instead — or explore destinations across Mexico, Canada, or South America.
Even in Mexico, you can find better burgers than McDonald’s — with higher nutritional value.
Have you ever seen pyramids in the United States?
Egypt, Mexico, Peru, Guatemala, and Sudan have ancient wonders — none of them in the U.S.
If they were, Trump would probably have bought and resold them by now.
We know Nike isn’t the only sneaker brand. There’s Adidas — and even Mexican brands like Panama.
We understand economics better than you think.
And we also know that when those 7 billion consumers stop buying American products, unemployment will rise, and your economy — trapped behind its own self-imposed wall — will begin to collapse to the point where you’ll be begging for help.
We didn’t want to do this.
But you wanted a wall?
Well.
You’ve got one.”
Her approval rating has reached a historic level — according to a recent poll, it stands at 85%.

[TheFrenchie @ML3democrats]

She would not have bombed Iran.

She would not have illegally attacked Venezuela.

She would not have destroyed the economy.

She would not have pardoned criminals, drug traffickers, and traitors.

She would not have supported Putin's Russia.

She would not have slept in the Oval Office.

She would not have an affected hand.

She would not have cut the SNAP program.

She would not have used the DOJ to attack her political enemies.

She would not have given money to foreign countries.

She would not have abandoned American farmers.

She would not have prevented the release of the Epstein files.

She would not have destroyed American democracy.

She would not have trampled on the Constitution.

She would not have abandoned the fundamental rights of citizens.

She would not have deployed American soldiers against the American people.

She would not have destroyed the White House.

She would not have enriched her family through government influence.

She would not have lied about her health records.

She would not have played golf.

She wouldn't have asked people to cheat in future elections.

She wouldn't have said "Quiet piggy" to a female journalist.

She wouldn't have invited Putin to Alaska.

She wouldn't have appointed an administration of incompetents.

She wouldn't have done everything Trump did.

[Sama Hoole @SamaHoole]

Ireland is being made to shrink its dairy herd, with healthy in-calf cows going to slaughter early, to satisfy a nitrogen figure set in Brussels.

Start with how cruel the timing is. Barely a decade ago, when the EU scrapped its milk quotas in 2015, Ireland told its farmers to do the opposite. Expand. Grow the herd. Build the new parlour. The government's own strategy pushed dairy hard for export growth, and thousands of families borrowed heavily and did exactly as they were asked. Now the same establishment that cheered them bigger is ordering them smaller.

The instrument is a rule that sounds technical and harmless. The EU caps the nitrogen that livestock manure may spread on the land. Ireland's grass-fed dairy farms, among the most efficient and lowest-carbon on earth, held a hard-won allowance to graze a little heavier. After a water-quality review, that allowance was cut, from 250 kilos of nitrogen a hectare down to 220, across great swathes of the country from 2024, and it has stayed under threat ever since, its conditions tightening at every review.

To drop under the new line, a farmer has three doors. Find more land, ship his slurry away, or get rid of cows. Land is scarce and the squeeze itself sent rents soaring, so for many the only door left is the herd.

The Irish Farmers Association reckoned an extra sixty nine thousand acres would be needed nationally just to stand still. One senator, a farmer himself, warned that up to forty one thousand cows, a great many of them pregnant, could be sent to slaughter to comply, and called it an animal welfare catastrophe in the making.

Sit with that. Healthy, productive, in-calf cows, on some of the greenest grass in Europe, culled early because a stocking number on a form moved by thirty kilos. The very cows the nation was begging the farmer to buy ten years ago.

This is what modern environmental policy looks like at the sharp end. A good cow loaded onto a lorry she never needed to be on, on a wet Tuesday in County Cork, to shift a figure in a spreadsheet.

[Kate from Kharkiv @BohuslavskaKate]

REP. BACON: President Trump wants to negotiate settlement between Ukraine and Russia, acting like referee in boxing match, but that’s not the case. There’s good versus evil here.

Russia invading Ukraine, bombing cities every night. America should be unashamedly on the right side — the side of democracy, the side of Ukraine, country that wants to align with us.

Russia hates us. Putin hates United States, hates what we stand for. I don’t know why President Trump can’t see that.

I’ve waited year and a half in this Congress to get something done on Ukraine, and we’ve done nothing.

There have been no votes, no policies from the leadership here or from President to support a country that is fighting for its life.

I agree that Ukraine has the upper hand right now, but Russia is bombing those cities every night, and we should be there to help them defend against these ballistic missile attacks.

Actions speak louder than words.