Vicki Johnson

I’ve joined the #Xodus and am no longer active here. You can find me on Bsky.

[Ethan Levins 🇺🇸 @EthanLevins2]

🚨 ISRAEL BREAKS CEASEFIRE

Israeli airstrikes have resumed in Lebanon.

ANOTHER Trump humiliation ritual

[Mr Ethical 🚩 @nw_nicholas]

My ideal, predicted scenario. Parliamentary Standards Commissioner rules that Farage should have declared £5m. That triggers Electoral Commission to determine if Harborne was a permissible donor at the time. (I suspect not). They find he wasn't and open criminal investigation. Police/NCA get involved and discover numerous other "donations" laundered from around the world. Farage goes to prison.

[Steve Sweeney @SweeneySteve]

There is no ceasefire in Lebanon with I$raeli attacks continuing in the south as it insists the MOU between Iran and the US doesn’t apply to them.

Multiple villages have been targeted this morning with demolition operations while a booby-trapped vehicle was detonated on the road between Haris and Tebnine.

Some municipalities have warned people not to return as many of those displaced from their homes are heading south.

I$raeli forces this morning opened fire on Kfar Roummaine and also targeted the area around Maifdoun as civilians tried to return with at least one person wounded.

[Vicki Johnson @vickijohnson151]

@YvetteCooperMP So where does this leave the international community in bringing Israel to face justice for genocide?

[Vicki Johnson @vickijohnson151]

@Lovehasnowords1 I’m in. Who’s going to organise this?

[ALUTHEDON @Mbakaza4L]

He was sentenced to ten years. Republicans let him out after 6 months. Disgusting.

[Vicki Johnson @vickijohnson151]

@Keir_Starmer @YvetteCooperMP Israel still acting with impunity.

[Parody Jeff @Parodyjeffx]

🚨 ISRAELI SETTLERS BURN PALESTINIAN VILLAGES IN REVENGE FOR TRUMP-IRAN PEACE DEAL.

Israeli settlers just torched multiple villages in the West Bank.

This is how they act when diplomacy and peace threatens their blood-thirst wars.

[Parody Jeff @Parodyjeffx]

🚨 ISRAELI SETTLERS BURN PALESTINIAN VILLAGES IN REVENGE FOR TRUMP-IRAN PEACE DEAL.

Israeli settlers just torched multiple villages in the West Bank.

This is how they act when diplomacy and peace threatens their blood-thirst wars.

[Adi el Grande @icardo8]

🚨🗣️Nuevo: Thierry Henry reacciona a las conferencias de prensa de Brasil, Marruecos y Países Bajos, donde se informa que no se permitieron preguntas en español para Hakimi, Vinícius Jr. y Frenkie de Jong:

“He cubierto Mundiales durante años, y esta situación no tiene absolutamente ningún sentido para mí. ¿Me estás diciendo que un Mundial coanfitrión por México puede impedir que los periodistas hagan preguntas en español? Eso es como organizar una carrera de Fórmula 1 y prohibir que los autos usen sus motores.

Lo vimos con Hakimi. Lo vimos con Vinícius. Ahora estamos escuchando historias similares que involucran a Frenkie de Jong. Los jugadores entendieron las preguntas. Los periodistas hablaban uno de los idiomas más hablados del planeta. Sin embargo, de alguna manera el idioma se convirtió en el problema.

Gianni Infantino habla de inclusión, diversidad y llevar el fútbol a todos. Bien. Entonces expliquen esta contradicción. ¿Cómo puede la FIFA celebrar la diversidad en cada video promocional y luego crear titulares porque a los periodistas españoles les están diciendo que cambien de idioma en un torneo organizado por México?

El español no es algún dialecto oscuro hablado por un puñado de personas. Es el idioma de cientos de millones en las Américas y más allá. Si un periodista de México, España, Argentina, Colombia o cualquier otro lugar hace una pregunta en español y el jugador la entiende, ¿por qué el fútbol está creando barreras donde no existían ninguna?

La ironía es increíble. La FIFA sigue diciéndonos que el fútbol pertenece a todos, pero esta controversia tiene a muchos fans preguntándose si algunas voces son más bienvenidas que otras.

Tal vez haya una explicación logística. Tal vez sea un problema de traducción. Pero la percepción importa. Y en este momento la percepción es terrible.

Porque lo que los fans están viendo es simple: un Mundial organizado en parte por una nación de habla hispana, jugadores que entienden el español, periodistas que hablan español, y funcionarios diciéndoles que no lo usen.

Si eso es progreso, alguien necesita explicarlo mejor. Porque desde fuera, parece que el organismo rector del fútbol se está tropezando con su propio mensaje.”

“La FIFA quería una celebración de la diversidad. En cambio, le han entregado a internet una controversia que no dejará de ser discutida.”

[Vicki Johnson @vickijohnson151]

@Keir_Starmer @UKinUSA Several points missing from this statement: firstly the impact on human lives in the region, it is not all about getting the ‘oil flowing’ again; secondly the international move to bring genocide criminals to justice must happen.

[Steve Sweeney @SweeneySteve]

@BowesChay They’re bombing and firing at civilians trying to return home. There is no ceasefire here and I$rael says the MOU doesn’t apply to them.

[Vicki Johnson @vickijohnson151]

@Trumperizar Compare that to the mess left behind after the @UFC event

[Viral Reel Addict @ViralReelAddict]

The Trump administration took the names of nine enslaved people off a memorial at George Washington's home. A judge ordered them back.

That memorial sits at the site of George Washington's presidential home in Philadelphia, and the order to restore it came Friday from U.S. District Judge Angel Kelley in Boston.

Her ruling forces the Interior Department to put back the slavery exhibit there, along with the signs and displays it pulled from parks and monuments nationwide because, in the government's own words, they "do not align with its preferred narrative."

The fight comes down to one question: who gets to be in the story of America?
This administration decided it could delete the people it found inconvenient. The judge said no.

It started with an executive order Trump signed in March 2025, "Restoring Truth and Sanity to American History."

The order claimed a "revisionist movement" had smeared the country as "inherently racist, sexist, oppressive, or otherwise irredeemably flawed," and sent the Interior Department into the parks to scrub anything that fit. It named one target directly: Independence National Historical Park in Philadelphia, where the nation declared that all men are created equal.

That is where you see what the words meant. The Park Service took down the memorial to the nine people Washington enslaved at his presidential home.

Those were the same people who cooked and cleaned and were owned by the first president while he ran the new republic. Their names stood on that wall until this administration decided visitors should not have to read them.

Another judge had already ordered that one restored. She compared the government's claim that it gets to decide which history is true to the Ministry of Truth in Orwell's "1984."

Kelley went wider. Her order swept in exhibits on abolition, immigration, labor, women's suffrage, civil rights, and the climate, quietly pulled from sites including Fort Sumter and the Grand Canyon.

She did not soften it. The government, she wrote, had tried to "rewrite the Nation's history with a white-out pen," telling "half-truths" about the country it claims to honor.

The Interior Department's entire response was to call her a "liberal activist judge" and threaten an appeal.

It had no answer for the white-out pen, because there isn't one. Slavery happened. The people who built this country existed, and their names were carved into a wall in Philadelphia until someone here decided to erase them.

America turns two hundred and fifty this year. This administration's idea of honoring that was to pick which Americans were allowed in the story.

The white-out pen is going back in the drawer. The names go back on the wall, by the Fourth of July, by court order.

[Vicki Johnson @vickijohnson151]

@Sabiha1278 He said this months ago- the world is waiting

[GO GREEN @ECOWARRIORSS]

Imagine if you told someone 10 years ago
that Antarctica in Winter is missing a chunk of ice the size of France or California
They would have said you were insane
But it has happened and not a whisper from MSM
more interested in Trump cage fights and world first trillionaire.

[Vicki Johnson @vickijohnson151]

@LePapillonBlu2 @realDonaldTrump @WhiteHouse @JDVance so is this what upholding the dignity of the office and the reputation of the USA looks like?

[Vicki Johnson @vickijohnson151]

@Caterin49788702 I wish/hope the other students walked out with him to show their support.

[Vfynn_🥷🏼 𐙚 @Vfynn_]

🚨🗣️New: Thierry Henry reacts to the USA vs Paraguay stoppage for TV commercials:

“I’ve spent my entire life in this beautiful game — as a player at the highest level, as a fan, and now as someone who analyses it every week — and what unfolded during that USA versus Paraguay match left me deeply frustrated. The fourth official standing there on the touchline, arm raised high, instructing the referee to hold the restart… not for any injury, not for tactical reasons, and not even primarily for player hydration in that scorching heat. No. It was because the broadcast team hadn’t finished airing all their commercials. That’s not football. That’s a television show pretending to be a World Cup match.

The beautiful game is being strangled by greed. Players are out there in the heat, ready to restart, momentum building like a storm about to break — and we pause everything so the sponsors can cash in. It’s like stopping a symphony mid-crescendo because the advertisers want their jingle heard. Football didn’t conquer the world by turning into American sports with endless timeouts and ad breaks. We had rhythm, flow, emotion that flowed like a river. Now? It’s dammed up for dollars.

This isn’t about hydration or player welfare anymore — it’s a slippery slope where the soul of the game is sold piece by piece. Fans deserve better. Players deserve better. The referee on that pitch looked like a puppet on strings controlled from some broadcast truck. Enough is enough. We need to protect what made this sport the greatest on Earth before it disappears completely.”

The World Cup should be football’s cathedral. Instead, we’re turning it into a shopping mall with a pitch in the middle.

And here’s the question nobody wants to answer: if the fourth official is waiting for commercials, then who is really running the game? FIFA? The referee? Or the broadcasters?

Because the moment football starts asking advertisers for permission before asking the players, you’ve crossed a line.

The World Cup is supposed to be the showcase of football. Not the showcase of who paid the most for airtime.”

[Nurder Koch @NurderK]

„Völlig verrückt": Antarktis verzeichnet Rekordtemperaturen im Winter

In der Antarktis wurden am 6. Juni Temperaturen von bis zu 15,4 Grad Celsius gemessen. Die Daten stammen von der argentinischen Esperanza-Station auf der Trinity-Halbinsel.
Der neue Höchstwert fällt in eine länger anhaltende Wärmephase. Über drei Wochen hinweg lagen die Tageshöchsttemperaturen durchgehend über dem Gefrierpunkt.