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[Shannon Watts @shannonrwatts]

How to underperform in a Dem election:

Trust the polls

Ignore Black and rural voters and make older voters your enemy

Campaign with Hasan Piker

[ZSUAngel @angel_zsu]

Her name was Savita Wagner. She was 36 years old.
She was German.
Until 2022, Savita had never been to Ukraine. She had no friends here.
Then she saw Bucha after its liberation.
And that was enough for her to realise she could no longer stand on the sidelines.
At first, she delivered humanitarian aid to Ukrainians.
And then she took a step that not everyone would dare to take:
she joined the Ukrainian army.
‘Karpatska Sich’.
Call sign — ‘Zmiya’.
Savita became a combat medic.
She ran under fire to reach the wounded.
She applied tourniquets.
She pulled her comrades to safety.
She saved lives in a place where she herself could have lost hers at any moment.
She came to Ukraine and
died defending people she had never even known before.
Three weeks before her death, Savita met her mum in Kyiv.
And Savita said these words to her:
‘Mum, I’m defending Europe’s freedom.’
And she returned to the front line once more.
Under Russian fire, a wounded comrade needed help.
Savita did not abandon him.
She went after him into the line of fire.
And this time, she did not return.
Savita could have stayed in Germany.
She could simply have sympathised with Ukraine.
She could have helped with money or humanitarian aid.
But she chose otherwise – to risk her own life for the freedom of people she had never met.
And she paid the ultimate price for that choice.
Savita Wagner — German by birth. A Ukrainian heroine by choice.
May as many people as possible learn her name today.
Savita Wagner.
A heroine who saved others until the very end.
🇺🇦🕯️ Eternal memory. Eternal honour.

[Jamie Metzl @JamieMetzl]

I’m a lifelong Democrat. I believe the Trump administration poses a growing threat to our democracy. I also believe the DSA poses a fundamental threat to both the Democratic Party and America.

If Democrats want to be seen as the party of patriotic Americans committed to building a better future for everyone, they must unequivocally condemn and distance themselves from the DSA’s anti-American bigotry.

We Democrats rightly condemned the Republican Party’s accommodation of the January 6 insurrectionists. We should hold ourselves to the same standard by unequivocally rejecting candidates, including DSA candidates running on Democratic ballot lines, who advocate dismantling core constitutional institutions and democratic norms.

[Israel ישראל @Israel]

Years ago, the first child from Somaliland received life-saving heart care at @SaveChildsHeart❤️

Today, newly established diplomatic relations between Israel and Somaliland are already bearing fruit. The first delegation of children has just returned home after a month of treatment - healthier, stronger, and with brighter futures.

Here's to many more hearts saved.

[Haviv Rettig Gur @havivrettiggur]

This feels like a good moment to remember that Ireland got rich not by producing much or innovating anything, but mostly by becoming one of the world's biggest tax havens -- by enabling large companies from other nations to hide their tax revenues from their home nations.

Apple, Microsoft and Google have routed many hundreds of billions of dollars through Ireland to shelter their profits.

Israel, in contrast, got rich by innovating at a colossal scale. It spends 6% of its GDP on R&D, the highest of any nation on Earth. 10% of its workforce works in tech.

That's why those same Apple, Microsoft and Google all built massive R&D centers in Israel, alongside 500 other multinationals. The defense tech is famous, but Israel is also a global powerhouse in water and agriculture. And it draws 10% of global deep-tech investment in medical devices and food R&D.

So a tax-cheat nation that got rich by impoverishing others now refuses a safety system meant to land planes safely in the fog from a nation that actually produces new and useful things for the world.

It's one thing not to buy arms, or to exact political costs for a war you hate. This isn't that. This is just sanctimonious narcissism.

Take the fog safety system, you preening tax-cheats. We promise to look the other way.

[HonestReporting @HonestReporting]

2/ From the headline down, The Guardian minimizes the Jewish connection to the Temple Mount and demonizes those who honor this connection:

🛑 The holiest site in Judaism becomes "Jerusalem's most important Muslim religious site."
The "Temple Mount" is briefly referenced with no explanation for why it holds this title (hint: it was the historic site of two Jewish temples)

🛑 Jews visiting the Temple Mount on the saddest day of the Jewish calendar (which commemorates the destruction of the two temples) are described as having "stormed the area" and having "performed rituals."
Who wrote this, the Hamas press office?

🛑 Of course, Jews cannot visit their holiest site without being described as "Jewish religious extremists." Disgusting.

[Masih Alinejad @AlinejadMasih]

To those who say "it's her choice" I used to say the same thing about my own Hijab.

I was covered head to toe. Even on the beach. Even with my male relatives. And when people challenged me, I said: this is my choice. You know why? Because the other option was burning in hell, hung by my hair for eternity. That's what they taught me since childhood.

Yes, let me repeat it for you to just understand about our version of “freedom of choice.” I grew up in an Islamist culture that gave me two options. Cover yourself and go to heaven. Or don't cover, and be hanged by your hair and burned in hell.

Like when someone puts a gun to your head and says "you can go left or right", technically, yes, that's a choice.

I picked heaven. I called it freedom. And I believed it, because that's what happens when fear is all you've ever known.

And if you think I shouldn't be telling you my story, I don't care. I really, genuinely, from the bottom of my heart, don't care. The women still living under that "choice"? I care about them.
#LetUsTalk

[Nate @NateAgainstHate]

Time to take out the trash.

[Sam @SamCKx]

Not sure if everyone is fully aware of what is facing Andrew Tate right now.

If the US extradite him, he will likely face trial in the UK, facing potentially 20+ years in jail if found guilty. Once he's served his time/been acquitted, he would be transferred to Romania and face similar sentencing there if found guilty.

If not extradited, he will have to return to Romania to face trial there, facing potentially 20+ years in jail if found guilty. Once he's served his time there/been acquitted, he would be transferred to the UK to face his charges there.

There is no scenario where he can realistically avoid trials in both the UK and Romania, unless he literally spends the rest of his life on the run.

There's a strong possibility he could spend the rest of his life in jail.

[Amir Tibon אמיר תיבון @amirtibon]

@DanielBShapiro Dan, I think Mamdani and his wing of the Democratic Party would be delighted to help Netanyahu win reelection. They know how toxic he has become to the wider U.S. public and are afraid that a new Prime Minister, with a different coalition, will lead a course correction.

[Ahmed Fouad Alkhatib @afalkhatib]

Two weeks ago, I spoke with a retired Democratic Party official who had recently met with former Vice President Kamala Harris and said she is weighing a 2028 run but hasn’t yet decided. Today’s reporting that she’s engaging New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani and certain “pro‑Palestine” activists should surprise no one; this faction has gained real influence across blue districts at the local, state, and federal levels. What would be surprising, and politically costly for her and the Democratic Party in 2028, is treating the extreme, divisive, and harmful voices and groups within the “pro‑Palestine movement” as legitimate representatives of the Palestinian issue. Harris should remember how some of these same malicious networks treated her in 2024, contributing directly to her defeat.

She should also look at how California State Senator Scott Wiener is currently being treated: he bent to and kneeled before the mob, distanced himself from Israel and AIPAC, and labeled Gaza a genocide; yet, that’s not good enough to the violent mobster activists who continue to attack, harass, embarrass, and undermine him. The interests of the Palestinian people, especially Gazans, require serious U.S. policy thinking and actions, not the lunatic and extreme agendas of the activist “pro-Palestine movement” or the emerging Islamo‑socialist political class inside the Democratic Party.

[Max 📟 @MaxNordau]

One thing that sticks with me: The Hormuz shutdown woke up the entire region to the fact that the Iranian regime is a hostage taker. The Iranian regime "broke glass in case of emergency," but now the reputational damage is permanent.

Iran's neighbors wanted a speedy end to fighting because they weren't ready to handle the redistributed shipping load, but now they're going to work to make sure that they're not vulnerable to disruption in case the IRGC does this again.

Saudi Arabia and UAE are going to accelerate investment in bypass capacity.
- More Saudi pipeline capacity to Yanbu
- More UAE pipeline capacity through Fujairah
- More Red Sea ports
- Larger strategic petroleum reserves
- Increased naval cooperation

Also, Saudi Arabia should normalize with Israel, then build a pipeline from Yanbu to Ashkelon.

[Bull of the Woods @KittrellChuck]

@VP
@JDVance
While you go on the gaslighting rampage against Israel (again):

Please elaborate to us why there is zero mention in the MoU of any civil guarantees against persecution of the civilian population?

The people of Iran have been left out of this agreement and are left holding the bag of arrests, tortures, and execution while the USA just looks the other way.

What about them?

What about "Promises Made, Promises Kept" to the civilain population?

It's relatively easy to dig up Trump's posts to the civilians of Iran. Look them up yourself.

You appear always focused to chastise Israel, and just abandon any pretense of helping the civilian population of Iran from a murderous barbaric regime.

Why is that?

Do you think "it's not our problem"?

Stop gaslighting us about Israel, and answer questions about what this agreement does NOT address.

@POTUS

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[Rawan Osman روان عثمان @RawaneOsmane]

Let’s not forget why the IDF is in Lebanon, once again.
#israel #lebanon #idf

[myles brown @mdotbrown]

This is the only angle that does that miracle justice.

[Hen Mazzig @HenMazzig]

“Boycotting everyone just because they’re Israeli is a form of racist prejudice”

Leila Shahid was the first woman ambassador of Palestine. She served in Ireland, the Netherlands, and France. She was the Palestinians’ delegate at the EU.

Before her death in February, she sat on a panel with Israeli filmmaker Nadav Lapid, who is a staunch critic of the Israeli government and even of Israeli society itself.

She brazenly criticized the boycott movement that includes bans on Israeli artists based on nationality.

This week, Lapid was subject to just such a boycott, when so many filmmakers dropped out of a film festival he was set to jury that he was forced to resign.

Western activists will do anything for Palestinians. Except actually listen to them.

[Masih Alinejad @AlinejadMasih]

Heartbreaking. I watched it once. Then I watched it again. And each time, my body hurt and my heart broke.

Four young women in Kabul were run over by Taliban forces after attending an educational seminar.
Nobody knows whether they are alive or not. Just think about that.
These women were were not doing anything wrong. They were learning.

Simple act of seeking education can become a life-threatening risk.

I received this video from a woman of Afghanistan with a simply message: “please use your platform and tell the world that they are killing us here, we are tired of Taliban. please don’t let the world forget Afghan women. we are fed up with Taliban. Enough is enough”.

[Ahmed Fouad Alkhatib @afalkhatib]

At long last, the UN Human Rights Council has formally acknowledged that Hamas in Gaza carried out executions, torture, improperly used medical facilities for terror purposes, and engaged in violent abuses against women and children after October 7. The report captures only a fraction of what actually occurred, in part because documenting these crimes is extraordinarily difficult and because Gazans fear retaliation if they report anything to the UN or other investigators. The findings on Hamas were buried beneath a long section on Israeli settler abuses in the West Bank, but even so, this marks a significant shift for an international body that has long struggled to speak plainly about Hamas’s brutality in Gaza.

Most importantly, the report acknowledges but barely scratches the surface of how extensively Hamas has weaponized Gaza’s medical infrastructure, embedding fighters in hospitals, using patients as shields, and turning civilian facilities into operational hubs. The UN even notes that Doctors Without Borders evacuated non-essential staff from Nasser Hospital because Hamas was interfering with the hospital’s operations.

When I shared this information, including testimonies from Gazans who documented Hamas’s fascistic behavior inside hospitals, and photos of fighters emerging from Nasser Hospital after the ceasefire, the online “pro-Palestine” chorus had nothing to offer except accusations of Zionist collaboration, accusations of betrayal, and personal insults. This UN report is an indictment not only of Hamas, a violent extremist terror organization responsible for immense suffering, but also of every activist, journalist, and academic who chose to look away. It shows that Hamas’s crimes were so egregious, so undeniable, that even a slow, hesitant, and often ineffectual body like the UNHRC could no longer pretend not to see them.

Shame on anyone who still defends Hamas or ever believed its violence constituted “resistance” on behalf of the Palestinian people.

[Natalie Wynn @ContraPoints]

I feel like this whole Platner situation could’ve been avoided if a bunch of upper middle class leftists hadn’t seen the most obvious red flags imaginable and thought, “that’s just what rough, salty, Ohio Waffle House type working class people are like”