Steve Pona

[Rep. Jamie Raskin @RepRaskin]

Trump has turned one of the most solemn powers of the presidency into a sleazy pay-to-play scheme, selling pardons to the highest-bidding white-collar criminals, international narco-traffickers and dictators who find a Trump connection. We're exposing how this corrupt racket cheats the victims by letting MAGA-approved fraudsters skip out on paying nearly $1.7 billion in stolen funds.

[UAVoyager🇺🇦 @CrimeanVoyager]

The russians left his body on the road so someone would recognize him.

His name was Ivan Bauer. He was 13 years old.

Ivan never knew his father. He was killed in a car crash when Ivan’s mother was eight months pregnant. She raised him alone, with his sister.

Ivan loved football and fishing. At school, he was known for his drawings and his love of practical work.

He woke up at 6:30 every morning — even though school was two hours away — to chop wood, feed the geese and chickens, and help his family.

When his baby sister Katya was born, Ivan carried her, bathed her, and played with her until she fell asleep.

He was the kind of boy who helped everyone.

Every day, he also visited his grandmother Nadia, who was over 80, carrying water and helping around the house.

Then russia came.

When bombs fell from the sky and his mother covered him with her body, Ivan would calmly tell her:

“Mom, don’t. If it kills me, it kills me.”

On May 6, 2022, Ivan went to the well to bring water for his grandmother.

russian forces dropped cluster bombs on Izium.

The shrapnel tore Ivan apart.

His grandmother was killed too.

The russians took the boy’s body from the yard and left it on the road — so someone would recognize him. So children would see him and tell their parents.

His mother came for her son.

She brought him home, laid him in the garage, and spent the entire night beside his body.

The family made his coffin themselves.

They buried Ivan by making their way through gardens because the cemetery was under fire.

Today, his mother visits his grave whenever she can.

She says Ivan was her support.

“The best man in my life.”

He was just a 13-year-old boy.

He should have grown up.

Instead, russia left his body on a road in Izium.

His mother has to live with that for the rest of her life.

[frakmaga2025 @FrakMAGA2022]

Clarence Thomas claiming to be "under attack" for ProPublica exposing his two decades of undisclosed luxury gifts, property deals, and tuition payments totaling nearly $6 million is peak victimhood theater. It's not an attack to document a Supreme Court Justice ignoring federal disclosure laws, nor is "my rich friends told me it was fine" a valid defense for pocketing millions in largesse from a GOP megadonor. Getting caught for blatant ethical breaches isn't persecution; it's basic accountability finally catching up.

The fact he runs to Ted Cruz for comfort, a senator who champions "law and order" only when convenient, perfectly illustrates the selective outrage. They complain about a two-tiered justice system while actively demonstrating that for their side, the rules simply don't apply. From Crow's lawyers telling the Senate to take contempt chances to Thomas’s wife pushing election lies, it’s a consistent pattern: principles are negotiable when your own are on the hook. https://t.co/3xV6AcW1k7

[Tim Miller @Timodc]

Honestly it would make sense for Republicans to just stop with the charade, make Darline Graham Senate Majority Leader and have 50 of them give her their proxy. She is the final form of a Trump era GOP senator.

[Steve Pona @SteveSpona]

@MeidasTouch Republicans could run Lindsey Graham’s goldfish and dumb as dirt MAGAts would vote for it.

[Ahmet Özayyıldız @AhmetTekkk]

ABD'liler Rusların isteği üzerine görüşme yaptılar ve 4 konu konuşuldu.
1. Rusya, Estonya'ya saldırı planları yapıyor. Estonya Nato toprağı olduğu için Rusların olası bir saldırısına karşılık verebileceklerini söylediler. Ruslar ise Estonya'ya Füze ve Dron saldırısı yapacaklarını

[Kate from Kharkiv @BohuslavskaKate]

Mike Pence: Right now, President Lee of South Korea could transfer interceptors they manufacture directly to Ukraine. And I'm really calling on President Lee to do just that. I think, this is real moment where South Korea can step up, given North Korea’s cooperation with Russia.

[Steve Pona @SteveSpona]

@RpsAgainstTrump Trump should send Kim another dick pic, to get his attention.

[Brian Krassenstein @krassenstein]

BREAKING: US judge has just rejected Ghislaine Maxwell's 'frivolous' appeal against her conviction.

I'm sure she will have Trump to pardon her at the end of his term though...

[Meidas_Charise Lee @charise_lee]

From the comments;
The Heritage Foundation is running the show and this has been their plan for decades they just didn’t have anyone corrupt enough and along came Trump.

[Andrew Perez @andrewperezdc]

Just thinking about how Clarence Thomas wrote a health insurance decision that's allowed insurers to just completely fuck patients, so perhaps they die, while he was in the process of getting a free or nearly free $267,000 RV from a health insurance exec https://t.co/2mwiFtUnvL

[UAVoyager🇺🇦 @CrimeanVoyager]

The world needs to see footage like this.

A russian drone hunts a civilian in Kherson.

They find him.
They kill him.

Then they upload the footage themselves — with no shame, no remorse, and no regret.

This is russia — terrorists celebrating the killing of civilians.

[Social Moi 🇨🇦🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🐻‍❄️🍔🤣 @Social_Moi]

Did you know?

Chapman's Ice Cream shifted its supply chain from the United States to European suppliers in countries like Italy and Spain to avoid passing tariff costs onto Canadian consumers.

BUY CHAPMAN'S! 🇨🇦🍨

[Jonah Goldberg @JonahDispatch]

A big reason for the trade imbalance? We were buying oil at below market rates from Canada. We had a sweat heart deal. Take oil imports out of it and we had a trade surplus. This thing with Canada is moronic. And the people buying into Trump's bizarre misunderstanding of basic facts and economics are telling on themselves.

[Jürgen Nauditt 🇩🇪🇺🇦 @jurgen_nauditt]

Russia is receiving gasoline from a NATO country. A shipment of around 200,000 barrels was loaded onto the tanker *Wendrix* at the Turkish port of Mersin and is being transported to Russia.

While Russia wages war against Ukraine, fuel is making its way to Russia from—of all places—a NATO member state. And it is being transported by a tanker belonging to the sanctioned "shadow fleet."

What madness. NATO states should not be helping Russia maintain its fuel supply.

[Roman Sheremeta 🇺🇸🇺🇦 @rshereme]

A father breaks down in tears upon learning that his son was found dead beneath the rubble of a multi-story residential building destroyed by a russian strike in Kyiv.

[Steve Pona @SteveSpona]

@GordoCDA Also possible: spilling the details of Ukrainian operations to Amerika’s ruzzian ally.

[Jo @JoJoFromJerz]

The Trump regime murdered Alex Pretti and his family only learned about it by watching it on tv. 😞

[Dean Blundell🇨🇦 @ItsDeanBlundell]

Today, Canada is giving serious consideration to changing the name of Lake Michigan to Lake Epstein as we won’t be doing business with pedophile rapist presidents any longer.
Thank you for your attention to this matter. - DB