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It took just 15 years to get from Citizens United to this

Aircraft carriers of the world USA UK France Ukraine

Glory to Ukraine! 🇺🇦

2 Junio, estoy y seguiré del lado de UCRANIA ¡¡¡HASTA LA VICTORIA!!!! 💙💛💙💛💙💛💙💛💙💛💙🌻🌻🌻🌻🌻🌻🌻🌻🌻🌻🌻 #StandWithUcrania🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦 #SkyShieldNow

Frontline report: Romania and the US just drew a red line as the Black Sea boils over As the Black Sea war between Russia and Ukraine intensifies, NATO allies are tightening defenses. euromaidanpress.com/2025/05/28/f...

Germany will finance the purchase of Ukrainian long-range weapons worth hundreds of millions of euros, — Umerov. 🇩🇪🇺🇦 German Defense Minister Pistorius & Ukrainian Defense Minister Umerov signed an agreement on Berlin's financing of long-range weapons production in Ukraine. #UkraineNews #MilitaryAid

Russia is building power lines to connect the occupied Ukrainian nuclear power plant Zaporizhzhia to its own electricity grid.

Putin wants a buffer zone in Ukraine — Kyiv says put it in Russia As Russia ramps up threats of new invasions, Ukraine’s Foreign Ministry says such a zone could just as well exist inside Russia, referencing Ukraine’s operations in Kursk Oblast. euromaidanpress.com/2025/05/23/p...

May 19th is the deadline to submit comments. Please tell them NOT to rescind the current definition of “harm.”

Today is Endangered Species Day. Instead of upholding the Endangered Species Act, Trump's @USFWS wants to delete the word "harm” from the regulation, meaning no penalties for destroying critical habitat needed for survival & recovery-the largest rollback of ESA protections ever.

🇷🇴 Bucharest: Supporters of Nicușor Dan are gathering and celebrating in the city center as he looks set to win Romania’s presidential election. Vote counting is still underway, but the momentum is clearly on his side.

On this day in 1944, soviet russia started forcefully deporting Crimean Tatars from their homeland. Hundreds of thousands of people in a matter of days. 81 years later, russian war criminals continue the genocidal legacy of their ancestors. We honor every victim’s memory🕯

Thursday marks 80 years since Victory in Europe Day, when the Allies accepted Nazi Germany's unconditional surrender. The day will be marked with memorials and moments of silence across Europe.

"We are not ending a war — we are indulging a war criminal. And the longer we pretend this is a conflict to be negotiated, rather than a criminal aggression to be terminated, the more respect — and security — we will lose." kyivindependent.com/a-minerals-d...

The Spencer Foundation is offering rapid response bridge funding for those who lost NSF research grants. www.spencer.org/grant_types/...

“Research that happens at one university doesn’t stay in those walls, it has a ripple effect.” I would add that it’s not just science but the full research enterprise, more robust, and with broad advantages to civic health when we account for humanities and social sciences, too.

Breaking: The Administration abruptly dismissed hundreds of scientists from the U.S. National Climate Assessment today. Our future depends on science — not censorship. IMPACTS is tracking what’s at risk. 📢 Share your story: bit.ly/SnTIMPACTS 🌎 fedscienceimpacts.org #ClimateCrisis #IMPACTSSurvey

Nepal's Terai Arc Landscape, recognized as a UN World Restoration Flagship, showcases the power of community-led conservation. Through this initiative, forests have been restored, locals have been empowered, and the tiger population has tripled. This is #GenerationRestoration in action!

When power tells you to forget what you know is true, remembering becomes an act of resistance.

Robots defending against drones Ukraine military are the only military in the world at this stage With Russia trailing and copying That means everything Europe are nowhere near this In practice Nor are the USA UK China rubryka.com/en/2025/04/2...

🇺🇦 President Zelenskyy visits the site of a Russian rocket attack on April 24, as representatives from over 50 diplomatic missions also attend the site to lay flowers & pay respects to the Ukrainians killed in Kyiv, Ukraine on April 25, 2025. Russian attack resulted in 12 fatalities and 87 injuries.

NEW: The total loss of NOAA’s office of Oceanic and Atmospheric Research —a nerve center of global climate science, data collection and modeling — represents a setback for climate preparedness that experts warn the nation may never recover from. By @abrahm.bsky.social

If they proceed with this plan, it will effectively choke whatever life is left out of the health research academic community. To put it bluntly it will kill any possibility of a grant funded career doing health research in the U.S. www.statnews.com/2025/04/21/t...