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[FireFighterDev @fire_starter457]

😂😂 Nancy Mace tried to expel the only Black Muslim woman in Congress.

She just lost her own seat instead.

Ilhan Omar is still here. Nancy Mace is not.

Karma doesn't miss.

[Volodymyr Zelenskyy / Володимир Зеленський @ZelenskyyUa]

Today, I signed a decree establishing a new special day – the Day of the Unmanned Systems Forces. From now on, it will be observed every year on June 11. A day of our respect and gratitude to the USF.

For the first time in the world, such a branch of the military was created – in Ukraine. We are developing the USF to the max, and it is Ukrainians who have proved that through technology, ingenuity, and courage, we can change the nature of warfare. We can achieve objectives that were previously either completely out of reach of conventional weapons or extremely difficult to achieve and required an enormous expenditure of resources.

In just one year since the establishment of the USF Grouping, Russian targets of various levels worth nearly $40 billion have been struck. Most importantly, these are different types of strikes, and each one expands our ability to save lives.

The Unmanned Systems Forces of the Armed Forces of Ukraine are truly a model for many other militaries.

[Brian Allen @allenanalysis]

BREAKING: Scott Pelley Just Made A Pretty Stunning Allegation.

According to Pelley, CBS leadership wanted a story about the killing of ICE protester Renée Good changed to better match Trump's version of events.

Pelley says he was told management wanted protesters portrayed as more violent and wanted Good described as driving toward the officer who shot her. He says the video evidence showed otherwise.

Then came the admission.

"There was a thumb on the scale for the president's version of events."

A veteran journalist with 37 years at CBS is alleging political pressure was applied to change the facts of a story.

That's a remarkable accusation.

[evan loves worf @esjesjesj]

Remember a few weeks ago when someone said that the right wing cared more about the environment than leftists

[Matthew LaBosco @matthew_labosco]

Matthew Walker, the UC Berkeley scientist behind "Why We Sleep," found an hour of screens before bed delays melatonin, your sleep hormone, by ~3 hours.

That's why you lie there wired and cortisol won't power down.

7 ways to fix your sleep:

1. Kill bright screens before bed.

[ふLady @fredsladygodiva]

"I was walking with Ali (wife) and Freddie Mercury pulled me aside and said: 'Oh, Bo-No… is it Bo-No or Bon-O?' I told him, 'It’s Bon-O.'

He said, 'Come over here with me. We’ve all been talking, Roger [Daltrey] and Pete [Townshend] and David [Bowie], and we all agree there are no singers any more, everyone is shouting these days, but you’re a singer.'

I was up against a wall and he put his hand on the wall and was talking to me like he was chatting up a chick. He had me laughing but I was shifting nervously at the time, with Ali and myself exchanging glances."

"I thought, 'Wow, this guy’s really camp.' I was telling somebody later and he said: 'You’re surprised? They’re called Queen!' But I was really amazed. It hadn’t dawned on me."
- Bono
#FreddieMercury #LiveAidu

[Gene Trevino @GenoVeno73]

This was fact checked to be true.

The qualifications for a Republican president are now made clear.

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[Voices of WW2 @VoicesofWW2]

On June 9, 1944, the French Resistance captured a senior SS officer named Helmut Kämpfe near Limoges. The next morning, his unit, the 2nd SS Panzer Division Das Reich, was looking for a response. They had already hanged 99 men from the balconies of Tulle the day before, chosen at random from townspeople, leaving them to strangle slowly in front of their families because they couldn't find enough rope for a proper drop.

Now they needed something more.

On June 10, Sturmbannführer Adolf Diekmann led his men to Oradour-sur-Glane. Some historians believe he confused it with Oradour-sur-Vayres, a different village where the Resistance was actually active. Others believe he knew exactly where he was. Either way, at 2pm his soldiers blocked every road in and out of the village.

They told everyone to gather in the marketplace for a routine identity check. People complied. A dentist came. A farmer left his fields. Schoolchildren were told by their teachers not to worry, they'd be back by dinner. A man cycling through town stopped to see what was happening.

By 2:30pm, around 650 people were standing in the square.

Then the soldiers separated the men.

The women and children were marched to the church. The 190 men were divided into six groups and taken to barns across the village. The mayor, Dr. Paul Desourteaux, reportedly tried to negotiate. There was nothing to negotiate.

In the barns, the soldiers opened fire but aimed deliberately at legs. At thighs. At knees. The goal was not to kill but to incapacitate. To ensure that when they piled straw over the bodies and lit it, nobody could crawl away. Men who were on fire and still conscious screamed while soldiers stood outside the doors.

Six men survived by playing dead beneath other bodies. One died from his burns days later. Five lived.

In the church, the women had been waiting almost two hours with the children. Soldiers carried in a large wooden box and placed it in the nave. They lit a fuse and left. The explosion released a thick, suffocating smoke. Soldiers then entered and opened fire on anyone still moving. Then they piled wood, straw, and chairs onto the bodies and lit everything.

The church bell rang for hours as the fire climbed the tower.

Women broke windows. Those who reached the ledge were shot before they could jump. One woman, 47-year-old Marguerite Rouffanche, crawled behind the altar, found a small window, and squeezed through. She dropped three meters to the ground. A 19-year-old named Henriette Joyeux saw her and followed, throwing her seven-month-old baby out first. Soldiers shot the baby out of the air. Then shot Henriette. Then shot Marguerite five times as she ran.

Marguerite survived by lying still beneath pea plants in a garden while the village burned around her. She lay there until the next morning. She was the only person to leave the church alive.

The youngest confirmed victim was seven days old.

After the killings, the soldiers spent the afternoon looting every building. Food, valuables, livestock, wine. Some burned homes with elderly residents still inside. Then they ate dinner. That evening. In the area.

The next morning, relatives from surrounding villages arrived looking for their families. They found 642 dead and a village of smoking ruins.

The aftermath is almost as horrifying as the massacre itself.

At the 1953 war crimes tribunal, 65 men were indicted. Only 20 could be found. Fourteen were Alsatians, French citizens, and Alsace threatened to riot if its sons were convicted. An amnesty law was quietly passed. Almost everyone walked free within a year.

Nobody spent meaningful time in prison for Oradour-sur-Glane.

By French law, nothing in the original village may be moved, repaired, or altered. The rusted cars sit in the street where they burned. The sewing machines are fused to the shop floors. The baby carriages are still there. The church stands open to the sky with a plaque listing the names of the children killed inside.

You can walk through it today.

82 years ago this morning, those 642 people had no idea. The dentist was thinking about his afternoon appointments. The teachers were relieved the children were behaving. The man on the bicycle was annoyed about the delay.

By 6pm they were all dead, and the soldiers who killed them were eating dinner.

Never forget Oradour-sur-Glane.

[lonna westeman 𝚅𝚘𝚝𝚎 𝙱𝚕𝚞𝚎 𝚃𝚎𝚡𝚊𝚜 @LHWesteman]

The cost is he’s making billions of dollars by being president. He didn’t make that kind of money he lost money. He had to go to banks to get money even Banks in Russia. He was a failure in every way but somehow he got lucky never held accountable for a damn thing he’s ever done wrong

[Greg Canty @GregCantyFuzion]

@nettermike What an idiot …. He is a greedy power hungry narcissist clown who is raping America for everything possible and destroying it in the process

[Olivia Renee 🇺🇸 (Autism Mom) @rnautismmom]

@nettermike Did you thank him for dodging the draft, stealing from charities, walking backstage so he could see naked women, saying he would do his own daughter, cheating on all three of his wives...cause none of those are lies.

[BrentS2708 @BrentS2]

@nettermike Thank you for making America the pariah of the world!

[Greg Stanton @GregStanton]

@nettermike He and his family are getting richer and richer. And you are thanking him.

[linda ridpath @ridpath_linda]

@nettermike I don’t know what makes someone blindly fall into a cult. I know that Warren Jeffs still runs his cult from prison and his followers still think he’s wonderful, even though he’s a terrible man and rotting in prison, so I won’t try to show you the Trump cult. Get therapy.

[MM  @adgirlMM]

Here's the NY Times article everyone is talking about. A gift from me to you. 👀 https://t.co/cS2ZbncmFh

[Wajahat Ali @WajahatAli]

Your daily reminder this should be the biggest scandal in American politics right now but nobody seems to care. Ken Paxton freed a man who raped a boy for 3 years.

He also doesnt have to register as a sex offender.

https://t.co/V9XqCfrZXv

[Aaron Rupar @atrupar]

MIKA: Given your sexting, can you call for the release of the Epstein files and not be conflicted in any way?

PLATNER: Yes, of course. I engaged in consensual romantic activities with adults at an earlier part of my life. That seems like a fairly normal thing most people do. Going to an island with billionaires to possibly assault children is a vastly, vastly different thing.

[LanaQuest aka RosaSparks @LqLana]

Rep. Emilia Sykes's line of questioning is amazing.

I know it's five minutes but it's worth it. She could teach a Master Class.

The way Republicans try to explain away what comes out of Trump’s bloated mouth is unreal. #DemsUnited

[Democratic Wins Media @DemocraticWins]

BREAKING: In a stunning moment, Donald Trump's former economic advisor just admitted on Fox News that inflation is being driven nearly exclusively by bad decisions that Donald Trump has made. Wow.