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We need facts as never before. 3 years after Putin invaded Ukraine, I spent 24 hours with combat medics on the Ukrainian frontline. Their courage, compassion, dedication & skill are astounding. Please read & please never stop standing up for Ukraine. 🇺🇦 www.theguardian.com/world/2025/f...

The Daily Star this morning is brutal.

Ok folks, deep breaths. There is very real reason to worry about the dynamic emerging between Washington and Moscow when it comes to Ukraine. But there is also very real reason to believe that Ukraine and Europe can create a better outcome. (A rather long 🧵, obviously) /1

Did I just see the best SuperBowl ad, ever? ✅ Sells nothing ✅ Long-term thinking ✅ Backed by science ✅ Focuses on empathy ✅ Helps people & planet 👉 sciencemoms.com | @katharinehayhoe.com #climatechange #environment

Ellen Weintraub, the commissioner and chair of the FEC, says she's received a letter from the White House trying to remove her. "There’s a legal way to replace FEC commissioners-this isn’t it."

Lieu: Trump then ordered the Army Corps of Engineers release over 2 billion gallons of water that almost flooded farmland.. this water was saved for the farmers for summer when they need it. So Trump wasted all this water that isn’t even reaching Southern California for a PR stunt

This video is just epic. The beauty of the human spirit’s ability to overcome & thrive. 🇵🇸 ❤️

Someone in Germany, whom I’ve known for decades, has put together the most used quotes by the German AfD party “so no one tells later they didn’t know!” - PLEASE READ. Please share. 2 pages in English 1 page (original) in German

Just a little poll in The Express. You know what to do —> xd.wayin.com/display/cont...

Holy FRAK I still reel at these phenomenal and atmospheric images of the comet 67P/Churyumov–Gerasimenko from the Rosetta spacecraft. Just spectacular art.

Raptors fans boo the hell out of the Star-Spangled Banner (video via the Toronto Star)

We never imagined that 80 years after the liberation of #Auschwitz we would see such appalling levels of antisemitism and Islamophobia, and a resurgence of the far right, in Europe. #HolocaustMemorialDay

NEW video 🎥😎 The right wing press has been up in arms this week about a Telegraph report that claims 1 in 12 Londoners is undocumented 😱😱 Is it true? youtu.be/8N-DWUHRM_s?...

Germans are in the streets demonstrating against the extremist right there and here (note the language of their message). Where are our rallies in defense of democracy? Where is our resistance? Sie wollen die Brandmauer www.zeit.de/politik/deut...

Great reporting. The Israeli army said that most people killed in bombing a Beirut apartment block were Hezbollah. The BBC found that nearly all were in fact civilians, and a third were children. www.bbc.com/news/article...

Medical research and public health policy is a prime target paulkrugman.substack.com/p/donald-tru...