Michael Witlin

[Michael Witlin @wizardly]

@Gerashchenko_en Since the invasion of Crimea. I discovered your informative account about 4 years ago. Thank you Anton. Slava Ukraini.

[1 Team 1 Fight @1team1fight_org]

Images like these are flooding the world today.
What is it that we feel looking at it?
Anger?
Rage?

Lives have been taken yesterday again in a ruthless action of russian federation. The inability of the world to act and dismantle russia's capacity continues.

Please don't stay Indifferent when our nation has to endure this. Every action of support and solidarity is an action to weaken the enemy.

[Volodymyr Zelenskyy / Володимир Зеленський @ZelenskyyUa]

A rescue operation is currently underway in Kyiv at the site of a Russian drone strike on a nine-story residential building – an entire section of the building has been completely destroyed. Dozens of people have been rescued. Tragically, one person has been killed. My condolences to their family and loved ones. People may still be trapped under the rubble.

Overnight, the Russians launched more than 670 attack drones and 56 missiles against Ukraine. Ballistic, aeroballistic, and cruise missiles were used in the strikes. The main target of this attack was Kyiv. There is damage at twenty locations across the city – ordinary residential buildings, a school, a veterinary clinic, and other purely civilian infrastructure. Destruction has also been reported in the Kyiv region, while similar terrorist strikes targeted energy infrastructure in Kremenchuk, as well as port and residential areas in Chornomorsk.

In total, since midnight yesterday, Russia has used more than 1,560 drones against our cities and communities. These are definitely not the actions of those who believe the war is coming to an end. It is important that partners do not remain silent about this strike. And it is equally important to continue supporting the protection of our skies. The PURL initiative is needed so that Ukraine can defend itself against ballistic strikes like these. And likewise, in the interests of everyone seeking peace, pressure on Russia must continue. I thank everyone who stands with Ukraine.

[Michael Witlin @wizardly]

@angelshalagina Excellent news.

[Adam Kinzinger (Slava Ukraini) 🇺🇸🇺🇦 @AdamKinzinger]

DEVELOPING: DOJ is investigating $2.6B in suspiciously timed oil trades made right before Trump's Iran decisions. The corruption is finally catching up to them.

Please like and share to get the word out!

[Isaac Hayes III @IsaacHayes3]

Black people in America need to be registered to vote, all of us. Full Fk’n Stop.

In states like Georgia, Maryland, Louisiana, Mississippi, and Alabama, turning to vote can shift outcomes in House, Senate, and gubernatorial races.

Look at Georgia. About 3.5 million Black residents live here. Roughly 2.5 million of us are eligible to vote, yet only around 1.4 million of us actually do. That leaves between 900,000 and 1.1 million eligible Black voters not participating.

Now compare that to the margins of the last two Ga: governor’s races. In 2018, the race was decided by about 54,000 votes. In 2022, about 191,000 votes. The number of eligible Black voters not participating is between 7 and 10x larger than those margins.

This isn’t about theory, it’s about MATH. If we show up consistently, outcomes change. The shift starts with registration, and it is sustained by turnout.

Register and VOTE.

[Jay in Kyiv @JayinKyiv]

A Russian woman is going viral posting anti-Putin rants, today saying that the money they spend on war for a single day could fix the teeth of every pensioner in Russia, and that she doesn't need Ukraine and isn't giving her son's to "Putin's ass" just to come home in a bodybag.

The woman then wishes the people of Ukraine "good health".

[Protect Kamala Harris ✊ @DisavowTrump20]

This is Democrat Army veteran Noah Taylor. A new poll shows him beating GOP U.S. Senator Roger Marshall by 4 points in Kansas.

RETWEET if you support @NoahforKansas as he runs to flip Kansas Blue!

[Mykhailo Rohoza @MykhailoRohoza]

When Barack Obama entered the Hiroshima Peace Memorial Park on May 27, 2016 — becoming the first sitting U.S. president to visit the city destroyed by the United States in August 1945 — the world focused on his speech. Cameras showed the wreath at the cenotaph. Headlines rightly emphasized the weight of the moment. But almost no one noticed a short, quiet Japanese man standing among the official delegation.
His name was Shigeaki Mori. He was eight years old on the day of the atomic bombing. By 2016, he was the only person who knew the names of all twelve Americans who died in Hiroshima — U.S. prisoners of war whom America had never fully accounted for.
Mori spent forty years finding them. Not for money. Not by order. Simply because he believed the dead should have names.
He was born in Hiroshima on March 29, 1937. On the morning of August 6, 1945, he was crossing a small bridge about 2.5 kilometers from the epicenter. The blast threw him into the stream below. Decades later, he recalled:
“I climbed out and saw a woman stumbling toward me. Her body was covered in blood, her organs hanging out. Holding them, she asked where the hospital was. I cried and ran away.”
He was eight. And there were no hospitals left.
Mori survived. He grew up in postwar Japan, worked ordinary jobs — in a brokerage, later at a piano factory — but dreamed of becoming a historian. He never got a formal degree. So he became one on weekends.
In the 1970s, a professor showed him a document: a list of twelve American airmen shot down over Japan in 1945. They were crew members of two B-24 bombers — Lonesome Lady and Taloa — captured and held in Hiroshima, just 400 meters from where the bomb exploded.
They died from their own country’s bomb.
For decades, their story was barely acknowledged. Families were told only: “missing, presumed dead.” No details. No truth.
Mori decided to find it.
Without funding or institutional support, he spent decades reconstructing their fate — comparing archives, tracking records, even locating surviving crew members. One by one, he restored their identities.
Then he wrote letters.
In broken English, he contacted families across the U.S. — often seventy years too late — explaining what had happened to their sons, brothers, husbands.
In 2008, he published his research, which eventually led the U.S. government to officially acknowledge the deaths of the twelve American POWs in Hiroshima.
In 2016, a documentary introduced his story to a wider audience. During Obama’s visit, Mori was invited to attend. In his speech, Obama mentioned the victims — including “twelve Americans held in captivity.”
For the first time, a sitting U.S. president publicly acknowledged them on Japanese soil.
After the speech, Obama approached Mori — a small, elderly man who bowed politely. Then, unexpectedly, the president opened his arms.
They embraced.
The image went around the world.
In 2018, at age 79, Mori visited the United States for the first time. He attended memorial events, spoke publicly, and finally met some of the families he had written to for decades.
When asked why he devoted his life to Americans who died beside him, Mori answered:
“My work was not about people from an enemy country. It was about human beings.”
Shigeaki Mori died in Hiroshima on March 14, 2026. He was 88 years old.

[Kate from Kharkiv @BohuslavskaKate]

The visibility of all pro‑Ukrainian accounts, including mine, has dropped dramatically. Please help me fight the algorithm by visiting my profile and boosting posts about today’s Russian war crimes.

Pic for attention.

[Ed Krassenstein @EdKrassen]

This exchange between @SenBlumenthal and Trump’s judicial nominees is utterly astounding.

If you can watch this and still think this country isn’t falling into authoritarianism and fascism under Donald Trump, then you are not being honest with yourself.

[Official Toonie Tuesday 🎗️ @toonie_tuesday]

⚙️ ACTIVATION ⚡️

This Toonie Tuesday we’re launching a very important project called ACTIVATION with @Azov_one to support the UAV Battalion of the Air Defence Unit of the 12th Special Forces Brigade “Azov” of the NGU.

$ Link: https://t.co/k4mbfYQ0Di USD Stripe
(additional $ options in comment)

Goal: $6,000. Donate €2 £2 $2 📬 screenshot in replies & repost

ACTIVATION focuses on integrating small, customized initiator boards into standard FPVs to transform them into interceptors. FPVs come in various forms and are available from different sources; however, Toonie Tuesday ACTIVATION gives them real power.

Every 20 USD activates 1 FPV drone, which can intercept a high-value enemy drone in the craftful hands of Azov pilots. For more information watch “This Week’s Toonie”, link is in the comments.

Watch the video, visit our profile, bookmark, like, retweet, comment, quote tweet, it all helps with visibility.

[Joyce Alene @JoyceWhiteVance]

Today marks the one year anniversary of Epstein survivor Virginia Giuffre's death. The survivors aren't going anywhere. https://t.co/cajlNk9tEt

[D.Radka, #NAFO 🇨🇿🤝🇺🇦 @DakdaR22]

Friends, Can I ask you for retweet of my pinned post, if you see me?
We need help.
We can finish missions for NGU, but only as team.
Please help us 🙏

[Michael Witlin @wizardly]

@BohuslavskaKate Always Kate. Thank you.

[St.Brigette @saintBrigettee]

The Strokes displaying last university in Gaza bombed as they finish their set in Coachella.