I still don’t know how we elected this.

President Biden presents the Presidential Medal of Freedom to former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi.

A coalition of reproductive rights advocates say they've submitted the required number of signatures to get a proposed amendment to enshrine abortion access in Missouri's constitution on the November ballot.

380,000 signatures were collected — far more than the 172,000 needed.

Omg. The levels of irony here

A thread of clear evidence that Donald Trump knew that he was lying to his supporters while he was spreading election lies & taking their money.
Likely that Cruz, Hawley, McCarthy, Jordan, & other co- conspirators knew they were spreading lies
THREAD 🧵

Ryan J. Reilly It's true. If Trump had not lied and summoned them, it would never have happened. They are at fault, but were operating on deliberate lies by the 'President'. Trump needs to be held accountable.

Here’s the premeditation:

'Donald Trump and his advisers knew that he had in fact lost the election but despite this knowledge they engaged in a massive effort to spread false and fraudulent information to convince huge portions of the U.S. population that fraud had stolen the election from him.'

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The clock has struck midnight in Phoenix. Seeing Mark Hamill at the White House was epic. May the Fourth be with you all. Love you - Thelma

French foreign affairs minister:

Russia has had 500,000 casualties in Ukraine, including 150,000 fatalities.

'And what is this all for? Long story short, it's all for nothing.'

novayagazeta.eu/articles/2024/…

The US and allied nations are in talks to build an aid package for Ukraine worth up to $50 billion, using profits from frozen Russian assets.

Bloomberg reports that the plan is being developed among the G7, with the US pushing for an agreement by the Apulia G7 Summit in June

Read the Joint Statement from the 2024 Trilateral Defense Ministers’ Meeting:
defense.gov/News/Releases/…

Together, we signed a trilateral Research, Development, Test, and Evaluation (RDT&E) Arrangement that will drive forward our collective work on science and tech.

The United States, Australia, and Japan are continuing to deepen our trilateral cooperation in support of a free and open Indo-Pacific.

That’s why I was proud to meet together with Deputy Prime Minister Marles and Minister Kihara in Hawaii today.

⚡USAID allocates over $250 million to Ukraine's agricultural sector.

The funds be allocated to rebuild and expand Ukraine's agricultural sector under the new USAID Harvest program, Deputy Agricultural Minister Denys Bashlyk said on May 3.

kyivindependent.com/usaid-allocate…

#Russia keeps targeting democratic processes & critical infrastructures of the EU, Member States & partners with cyber malign activities. We’ll continue to use all available tools to deter & respond to those who seek to disrupt our democracies & harm us. europa.eu/!8hDW4J

I welcome today's strong statement by Josep Borrell Fontelles demonstrating the EU's determination to resolutely respond to Russia’s continued malicious behavior in cyberspace.

Ukraine has long been a target of Russian cyberattacks, including ones by APT 28. We have acquired significant…

into a downward spiral - even if the current diplomacy is polite. China hopes to pull EU away from alignment with US. But so long as China supports Russia's war effort & fails to do more to open its markets, the EU will stay close to US. And China will stay close to Russia. ENDS

Interesting. China, Russia, Iran and North Korea appear to form an ever tighter anti-Western & anti-democratic alliance. By contrast, Hitler and Mussolini seemed much further from one another in 1937...

Things change, but Kyiv subway still charges you UAH8, or €0.2 for a ride 🥰