BREAKING: 🇷🇺 Russia’s Counsellor to the United Nations in Geneva has resigned.
Boris Bondarev: “Never have I been so ashamed of my country.”
UN Watch is now calling on all other Russian diplomats at the United Nations—and worldwide—to follow his moral example and resign.
🧵:
National Gene Bank of Plants of Ukraine destroyed by the Russian army 🧬🌱
It kept more than 160 thousand varieties of plant seeds, and hybrids of agricultural crops, including some of those that no longer exist in Europe, and in the entire world.
My dearest friend, famous Hong Kong singer
@hoccgoomusic
is being arrested for publishing inciting materials.
She is the most vocal artist in the HK movement. She spoke in front of the US Congress and the United Nations to decry Beijing’s crackdown.
Please
#StandWithHongKong
Heroes! Belarusian railway workers disrupted the railway connection with Ukraine so that trains with Russian equipment could not be transferred to Ukraine.
This was confirmed by the head of the Ukrainian Railways, he thanked Belarusian heroes.
#Ukraine
70-year-old Nadiya Trubchninova hitchhiked daily to Bucha seeking her son's body. It took her more than a week to find him.
The people's tragedy is incomprehensible
The main street in St Petersburg, Russia tonight.
The crowd is chanting "No to War!" "Shame!" & "Ukraine is not our enemy!" #янемолчу
From
@Lemmiwinks_III
:
I am devastated and shocked to hear about the news of my peer, Peng Shuai. I hope she is safe and found as soon as possible. This must be investigated and we must not stay silent. Sending love to her and her family during this incredibly difficult time.
#whereispengshuai
REP. BARTLETT (D-INDIANA): “This bill makes erectile dysfunction drugs illegal... If an unwanted pregnancy is an act of God, impotency must be an act of God."
Mike Pence today: “I heard this week that Pres Trump said I had the right to overturn the election. Pres Trump is wrong .. There is no idea more un-American than the notion that any one person can choose the American president.”
Every Gubernatorial candidate who said they wouldn’t have certified Biden’s victory in 2020 LOST tonight (AZ has yet to be called, but Hobbes has a gigantic lead over Lake):
❌ Lake (AZ)
❌ Michels (WI)
❌ Dixon (MI)
❌ Mastriano (PA)
❌ Bailey (IL)
❌ Cox (MD)
❌ Zeldin (NY)
This
#Russia
-dropped bomb would flatten a building — and yet these
#Ukraine
EODs defuse it with 2 hands and a bottle of water, while shells audibly land nearby.
Mind boggling bravery.
Human DNA has remnants of ancient viral infections called Human Endogenous Retroviruses(HERV)
New study: COVID activates HERV-W in immune T-Cells & microglial brain cells, and is found in blood serum and plasma. HERV-W expression is correlated to MS. 1/
Russian hero and test pilot Alexander Garnaev resigned as chairman of the Russian Club of Heroes to protest Russia’s invasion.
THIS should be a bigger story!
An 80-year-old daughter evacuates her 106-year-old mother from Bucha after 24 days of Russian shelling.
Her mother survived 3 famines, including Holodomor, the Red Terror 1918-1922 and the Great Terror 1936-1938.
Now, the Russians are back again.
Zelensky to Putin: "Good Lord, what do you want? Leave our land. If you don't want to leave now, sit down with me at the negotiating table. But not from 30 meters away, like with Macron and Scholz. Sit down with me and talk. What are you afraid of? We're no threat to anyone."
A cultural earthquake. The most well known Iranian actress Taraneh Alidoosti remove her hijab publicly. Another blow lands against gender apartheid regime.
Young women in Iran started this revolution and now popular actress followed their path.
Women Life Freedom.
#MahsaAmini
Here’s what the
@GOP
don’t want you to know:
- 8 of the 10 states with the highest murder rates are Republican states
- CA actually has lower middle class tax rates than TX
- The gun death rate in Texas is 67% higher
@WagnerTonight