A turkey, terrorizing Washington, D.C. residents, crosses state boundaries into Maryland and is eluding five agencies from as many jurisdictions
Michael Olsen
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"We don't ask you to resist evil instead of us. We ask you to stop feeding evil [with images of a gas pump and oil wells]."
Posted today by Ukraine's president as Europe considers the previously unthinkable: an embargo on Russian oil.
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They’ve been trying to destroy us for 50 days, but the
people are heroically resisting. We fear nothing, we know what we’re fighting for. We are brave enough to put an end to evil. Stop feeding the
military machine. Help
with weapons. Then peace & good will win faster. pic.twitter.com/WdDbZsvZ4e
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Mariupol. Before and after Russian "liberation".
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Desperately sad story from just outside Kyiv, about a woman called Iryna whose son was killed by Russian soldiers. We were the first outsiders she'd seen since the Russians left her village on Friday. Shot and edited by . Produced by
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Mariupol 6 weeks ago vs. Now.
This was a city full of Russian-speaking people. The very type of people Putin claimed he was interested in protecting from "Nazis". Now Russian bombs have decimated the city. Killed thousands.
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Interesting and thoughtful thread.
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How to sabotage Russian war efforts?
There are ways to sabotage Russian war capacities by focusing on its three major bottlenecks: demographic, economic & institutional. Let's start with demography. Russian started this war suffering from the shortage of young draftable males
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President Zelensky shows the United States Congress a video of his nation being destroyed by Vladimir Putin's forces, and tells America: "Being the leader of the world means to be the leader of peace."
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This is so shocking; everyone should read it and know and never forget it.
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"Death is everywhere."
Two @AP journalists have been the only international media present in Mariupol since the war began.
This is their dispatch:
apnews.com/article/russia
Here's her full speech, translated into English. meduza.io/en/short/2022/
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Marina Ovsyannikova, the woman who ran onto a live state TV news broadcast, even recorded a message beforehand. In it, she says her father is Ukrainian. She calls for anti-war protests, says she’s ashamed about working for Kremlin propaganda, and she denounces the war absolutely.
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Apparently, a woman just ran onto the stage during a Russian state television news broadcast with a sign that said, “Stop the war! Don’t believe propaganda! They’re lying to you here!”
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Kyiv Mayor Vitaly Klitschko tells he needs Patriot style missiles and Ukraine will “close the skies” over Ukraine itself. Mayor Klitschko, a heavy weight boxing champ, says he will fight and laughs at suggestion that Russia will kidnap him. Amazing interview.
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From the bottom of our heart and the center of Europe: we need YOUR support
Act now, find ways how to in my Bio
#SaveUkraine
#Kyiv #StopPutinsWar #Standtogether #Ukraine #FreeUkraine #WeAreAllUkrainians #StandWithUkraine #StopTheWar #StopWar #SupportUkraine
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An Al Jazeera team was able to enter the devastated city of Kharkiv in Ukraine after Russia announced a pause in fighting to allow people to leave.
Reporter was shocked by what he saw ⤵️
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Sharing some of the work that our amazing journalists in Ukraine are doing under terrifying and difficult circumstances
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How dumb can a nation get and still survive? Idiotically, we seem determined to find out.
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I love this argument. Our predecessor spent recklessly and drove up the debt irresponsibly! Now it's our turn to spend recklessly and drive up the debt irresponsibly!
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White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki shows a Debt Increase chart during her briefing in the White House. @PressSec
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Fantastic.
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The Norm Macdonald "moth Joke," one of the greatest jokes every told on television.
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I love this kind of crazy stuff. Good to know.
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The longest straw you can drink from on Earth is ~ 10.3 m (33.8 ft) long
Russian State broadcaster RT photoshopped weapons into an image of a refugee family from Afghanistan 😶
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Nothing to see here, just Russian state broadcaster RT photoshopping weapons and explosives onto an image of an innocent Afghan refugee family to portray them as terrorists.
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This article does NOT do justice to the story. He hit a guy, left the scene, and claimed he didn’t know he hit a man. But the mans face was in his windshield and his glasses were found in the attorney generals car.
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South Dakota’s attorney general has pleaded no contest to a pair of misdemeanor charges in the death of a pedestrian last year. Jason Ravnsborg entered the pleas to charges of making an illegal lane change and using a phone while driving. apne.ws/V66vxVW
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"I think it is time where God is separating the sheep from the goats....I'm a goat. Because I am not a sheep. I'm not doing what they tell me to do. I'm fighting against it (the vaccine)."
In Alabama -- the state with the lowest vaccination rate in the nation. w/
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Texas Gov. Greg Abbott tests positive for COVID-19
“I won’t blame others”
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That works.
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One of my all-time favourites. Stare at the red dot on the woman's nose for 30 seconds, then look at an empty wall while blinking quickly. Promise it's worth it... bit.ly/2UbzN7W
THE DAILY BEAST: Anti-Vax Radio Host Who Called Fauci a "Power-Tripping Lying Freak" Dies of COVID-19
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Don’t know who made this but it’s brilliant
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we are losing against covid for now.. that's what's got everyone so jittery.. Locally its just AMC and GME and Tether again...And way too many deals and too much margin..
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Memesters--Mr. Irrelevant is on!!
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Jim Chehanske completed the IM Coeur d'Alene! Time 16:06:49, Run 05:45:39. (UNOFFICIAL) track.rtrt.me/e/IRM-COEURDAL #IMCDA
































