Today in Lithuania is a day of mourning and hope. On June 14, 1941, the Soviet Union began mass deportations of Lithuanian population to Siberia. A total of about 17,485 people were deported to gulags. We remember 🇱🇹😞

Exactly 93 years ago, Steponas Darius and Stasys Girėnas bought a Bellanca CH-300 airplane for $3,000, later renaming it "Lituanica," and flew across the Atlantic Ocean without intermediate landings in 1933. Unfortunately, they crashed in Soldin, Poland, not reaching Kaunas.

No. Someone took a bunch of existing leaks, threw it all together, and slapped a NEW stick on it.

History really likes to rhyme on the morning of June 22nd...

I’m going to be brutally honest with you. As a Ukrainian, I don’t know exactly what I feel about America’s strikes on Iran. Let me explain. 1/7

Lenkai vagia mūsų vasarą! Ten +27°C, kai pas mus tik +16°C.

Highly enriched uranium and nuclear weapons, as objects, are not as inherently radioactive as some people seem to believe.

Can you help us? We are looking for summer! Last seen a few days ago but has not been seen since Any assistance appreciated

A kindergarten worker asked a volunteer to 3D-print models of dangerous objects like mines and grenades, to show children and their parents what must not be touched and should be immediately reported to emergency services. That’s what childhood in 🇺🇦 is like because of 🇷🇺.

Chancellor Merz: For far too long, we in Germany didn’t want to hear our Baltic neighbours’ warnings about Russia’s imperialist policies. We have recognised this mistake – and there is no going back from this realisation.

For the most of my life, my language knowledge wouldn't have intersections with my DNA test.

⚠️Important! THREAD How to distinguish AI-generated crap from genuine pictures in the context of the Ukraine war. It is crucial not to fall for fake content that aims to scam people and generate engagement. Please amplify.

Out of that NYT best 100 movies of this century

Dear Anglos, just because a certain spelling of a foreign word or a name became the most common in English, doesn't mean that alternative transliterations are misspellings.

💪🏻 On this Statehood Day, we honor King Mindaugas’ legacy and celebrate the strength, unity, and resilience of our nation. 🇱🇹 Lithuania stands proud and free — firmly committed to defending its people and values.

Fubar🇨🇦 back in 2016, right after the election, Trump had his first meeting with Obama and briefly changed a bunch of his stated positions someone- I forget who- posted "oh god, we just elected a Markov chain as president" this model has consistently held up for almost a decade

Well, we exist, that's how we taste food. Our sense of taste doesn't have to correspond to your imaginations or attemts to find a system.

"There’s a reason why we have over 60 F-18s. We just bought 64 F-35s. There’s a reason why we have long-range missiles, air, land and sea. And there’s a reason why we have the biggest artillery in Europe, with Poland. And the reason is not Sweden." — Alexander Stubb, President

And some Germans were still very salty about it even 5 centuries later. So salty in fact, that during WW1 they stretched deliberately called a battle they won a "Second Battle of Tannenberg" to signify a revenge for the past loss. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of…