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[Troy Jackson @TroyJackson207]

Working people are sick and tired of getting left behind by corporate elites and Washington insiders like Susan Collins. Together, we can defeat her.

I'm Troy Jackson. I'm a Mainer, a dad, a fifth-generation logger from Allagash, and I’m running for the United States Senate. I ask for your support so we can finally build the progressive future Mainers and Americans deserve.

Join us at https://t.co/F0jLccV4w8.

[Team AOC @TeamAOC]

For the next day, weeek, month, our assignment is to show up. Across the South, the flare has gone up for voting rights — and when the flare goes up, we show up.

From New York to Alabama, our fates are intertwined. That's what solidarity is all about.

[ray ✨ @mascarayde]

i genuinely feel like i’m losing my mind watching this show in what world did athena lose thisvwdbdj???? 😭😭😭😭😭😭 #dragrace

[Senator Chris Van Hollen @ChrisVanHollen]

Today, Trump hosted AI execs to ask them to "pledge" to cover the electricity costs of their data centers.

One problem? It's smoke and mirrors.

Consumers should understand that if he's serious, Trump would support my Power for the People Act to make these protections LAW.

[Graham Platner for Senate @grahamformaine]

A man who has never seen war and never will, cheering this on from a comfortable perch in Washington.

Every Senator who fails to stop this war should lose their seat, starting with @SenSusanCollins and @SenFettermanPA.

[Malala Yousafzai @Malala]

They were girls who went to school to learn, with hopes and dreams for their future. Today, their lives were brutally cut short.

I am heartbroken and appalled by the U.S. and Israeli strikes on Iran, including reports that a girls’ school in southern Iran was hit, resulting in the injury and death of many girls. The killing of civilians, especially children, is unconscionable, and I condemn it unequivocally.

My heart is with the children, families and communities affected by escalation across the region. I stand firmly against violence and the targeting of schools and civilians. I call for the escalation of violence across the region to end. Justice and accountability must follow. All states and parties must uphold their obligations under international law to protect civilians and safeguard schools.

Every child deserves to live and learn in peace.

[Brian Allen @allenanalysis]

🚨 BREAKING: BBC and Reuters confirm that a joint U.S.–Israel strike in Minab hit a girls’ elementary school. Iranian officials say 40 students were killed and 48 injured.

Iran retaliated immediately — missiles and drones launched at Israel and U.S. bases across the region.

- UAE and Qatar closed airspace
- Gulf states intercepted incoming missiles
- One reported fatality in Abu Dhabi from debris

Remind me — was “bombing elementary schools” on the ballot last November?

Because I must’ve missed that part of the campaign platform.

[Furkan Gözükara @FurkanGozukara]

CNN will never show you this : An Israeli settler pointing a gun at a Palestinian farmer.

"This land is mine now. Get out. Never come back"

The farmer's family worked that land for generations.

The settler flew in from Eastern Europe.

[Drop Site @DropSiteNews]

“We’ve seen a clear pattern of American citizens in the West Bank killed without any accountability from the Netanyahu government and without any serious effort by the American government to achieve accountability,” Sen. Chris Van Hollen (D-Md.) told Drop Site’s Julian Andreone.

He was responding to the death of American teenager Nasrallah Mohammed Jamal Abu Siam, shot and killed by Israeli settlers in the occupied West Bank on Feb. 19, and one of at least seven U.S. citizens killed there since October 2023.

“It’s essential that the U.S. government actually get accountability for this killing,” Van Hollen added, saying he had raised the issue with both the Biden and Trump administrations.

@JulianAndreone | @ChrisVanHollen

[Ed Krassenstein @EdKrassen]

This is brilliant! Democrat candidate for US Congress in Illinois’ 9th district, Kat Abughazaleh, launched an attack ad against herself!

[Morgan J. Freeman @mjfree]

They all knew who Donald Trump was before he was elected. They all know who he is now.

This video was deleted from Twitter, you know what to do !!

[Zachary Foster @_ZachFoster]

New documents have surfaced revealing new details about Israel's conduct during the 1948 War in which it ethnically cleansed 750,000 Palestinians from their homes.

The documents confirm Israeli leaders carried out more war crimes & premeditated massacres than previously thought.

A July 1948 order was sent to Israeli commanders in the north titled, "conduct in captured villages where there is a population." The order stipulated that:

▶️ After an Arab village was captured, identification certificates were to be issued to the inhabitants. If someone transferred their certificate to another person, both were to be shot.

▶️ If someone did not report on time for military inspection, they were to be shot and their home was to be blown up.

▶️ If an "outside Arab" was found in a village, he was to be shot immediately.

▶️ In general, the rule was to shoot "every 10th man" in a captured village where outsiders were found.

▶️ All the men in any household in which property stolen from Jews was found were to be executed.

▶️ In Arab a-Zabah, a Bedouin community in the Lower Galilee, another order stated: "every Arab among the Zabahim is to be killed."

▶️ Another July 1948 order instructed troops to mount a search for Arabs who might have hidden in the Mount Turan area of the Lower Galilee, after the site had already been conquered. The order was: "Kill anyone who is hiding."

▶️ Another order read: "Arabs in a small number are wandering about in the [captured] villages ... the area is to be cleansed of Arabs ... every Arab who will be met with is to be annihilated."
https://t.co/Rg1zOnEUQp

[Drop Site @DropSiteNews]

The chaos of bombardment in a dense urban enclave generates data on how humans react under stress, former Greek finance minister Yanis Varoufakis recalled a Palantir executive telling him. “The more bombardment and havoc, the better the training.”

In an interview with Drop Site, he said the rep also told him that “as the bombs fell we were having a party,” because Gaza was becoming a live laboratory for AI.

“This is the first instance in history where it is the suffering of a people being subjected to genocide and bombing—the suffering itself—which is adding to the capital of a company which then uses that capital to produce commodities to sell elsewhere,” Varoufakis told @_jwhittall.

🎥 He recently repeated the account at a live event. Video attached.

Read Drop Site’s full investigation into Palantir’s role in tracking Gaza aid at the link below. ⤵️

[Karly Kingsley @karlykingsley]

A 65 year old legally blind and disabled woman says she has unintentionally lost 28 pounds because she can’t afford enough food under the Trump administration.

“Like the previous caller said, the end is coming near, and it couldn’t be any more true than for me.”

Heartbreaking

[Omar Hamad | عُـمَـرْ 𓂆 @OmarHamadD]

A week ago, I visited the Al-Omari Mosque Library to take some books and place them in the Phoenix Library that I founded, due to the scarcity of books in Gaza and the high cost of printing them. There, I met the remarkable woman who appears in the photo — Dr. Haneen Al-Amassi. She has preserved books and manuscripts that are more than 500 years old, and some that are over a thousand years old. She has done everything she can to protect these books and manuscripts, and she also works on restoring those that were damaged by bombardment and fire. She has studied the history of Gaza and has a broad and deep perspective on it.

Truly, I was deeply honored to meet her. She is genuinely a person who deserves our respect and pride.

What I want to say is that there are people who have resisted with everything they have — and you do not even know their names.

[Owen Shroyer @OwenShroyer1776]

Here's 30 years of Netanyahu telling you Iran is days away from a nuclear bomb.

[Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @NYCMayor]

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[More Perfect Union @MorePerfectUS]

Alabama is making over $450,000,000 every year from slave labor.

[FLAVOR FLAV @FlavorFlav]

So impressed and blessed for all the brands reaching out to support. thousand and more companies offered to donate product and my team gunna get to it. 🙏🏾🙏🏾

BUT if you a billion dollar company,,, we don’t want a product donation. We want you to sponsor these women + athletes.

[John Oliver @iamjohnoliver]

Hello again! Here's our piece from Sunday about Twitter. Bye! https://t.co/KqA7EUY18B