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Zelenskyy isn’t disparaging anyone. Our president is dishonest and has betrayed the Ukrainians.
Any reasonable person can see it pretty easily.
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Replying to @SecRubio
I suggest the Trump administration stop betraying America's fundamental values and stop supporting Russia's invasion of Ukraine and the murder of innocent Ukrainian civilians, including children. Over the last two days, all of the civilian deaths in Ukraine were caused directly by your hostile actions against Ukraine. Disgusting.
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Replying to @Republicans
Republicans have lost all morality and decency in the continuing fealty to a demented orange man.
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God already built a wall through Big Bend — it's called the Chisos Mountains.
We don't need to give billions of our tax dollars to out of state vendors.
We don't need to desecrate this sacred land.
We don't need this useless, disgraceful, corrupt Big Bend border wall.
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Replying to @ChairmanGruters @GOP
Republicans are the most anti religious on earth
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This is insanely naive.
Putin, Ushakov, and team lie all the time.
And doesn't our chief negotiator with Russia and Iran have security clearances that would allow him to see what the "intel people" are saying?
Why he thinks he needs to be on tv is also another mystery to me. What US interest is being advanced here?
QUINTANILLA: Do we think the Russians have shared intel about the location of US military assets, and if so, why would we be giving waivers on Russian oil sanctions?
WITKOFF: I'm not an intel officer, so I can't tell you. I can tell you that on the call with the president, the Russians said they have not been sharing. That's what they said. We can take them at their word.
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Memory, unlike helmets, cannot be banned.
Yevhen Malyshev, biathlon
Dmytro Sharpar, figure skating
Maksym Halinichev, boxing
Andrii Kutsenko, cycling
Oleksii Lohinov, hockey
Karina Bakhur, kickboxing
Mykyta Kozubenko, diving
Roman Polishchuk, athletics
Andrii Yaremenko, Greco-Roman wrestling
Taras Shpuk, Invictus Games
Fedir Yepifanov, fencing
Kateryna Troian, athletics
Volodymyr Androshchuk, athletics
Oleksii Khabarov, shooting
Daria Kurdel sport, dancing
Ivan Kononenko, strongman
Alina Perehudova, weightlifting
Kateryna Diachenko, rhythmic gymnastics
Viktoriia Ivashko, judo
Mariia Lebid, ballroom dancing
Nazar Zui, boxing
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.@iocmedia is telling Ukrainians that there's no acceptable form to their mourning. Just pretend you don't have any losses to mourn or remember. Forget about them. This approach has something to do with who the victims and perpetrators are.
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When it’s not murdering the kids, Russia is locking up the pensioners in occupied Ukraine. khpg.org/en/1608815509
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Trump is a Putin-loving POS. nitter.cf/Acyn/status/2022361268…
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Putin puppet Trump puts no pressure on Russian invaders and insane pressure on Ukrainian defenders.
Trump works for the Kremlin, not Americans.
murdering, raping, thieving, lying russia out of Ukraine now and so-called “neutral athletes” out of the olympics now
@iocmedia @Olympics @NBCOlympics @CBCOlympics @milanocortina26
🇮🇹 The speech that all of Italy heard. And that the world must hear.
In a country that will host the Olympic Games, Italian Senator and Vice President of the Human Rights Commission Filippo Sensi took the floor and said what should have been said out loud long ago.
He called it a disgrace that the International Olympic Committee disqualified Ukrainian skeleton athlete Vladyslav Heraskevych.
Not for doping.
Not for violating fair play.
But for… memory.
For a helmet bearing the faces of Ukrainian athletes — his friends, colleagues, champions — killed by Russia.
The IOC stated that the helmet “did not comply with regulations.”
And then Sensi asked a question that brought silence to the chamber:
Does aggressive war comply with regulations?
Is there a separate technical protocol for it?
The correct angle of a missile strike?
The permissible size of a crater?
An athlete prepares for the Olympics for years.
A Ukrainian athlete trains between air raid sirens, in shelters, under news of the dead.
He overcomes fear, exhaustion, and loss.
And he steps to the start line not only for a medal — but for the right to exist.
And he is suspended… for remembering.
Because memory is the most dangerous substance. It is hard to add to a prohibited list. But apparently, someone would very much like to.
The senator named names. Just a few among more than 650 Ukrainian athletes killed by Russia:
▪️ Yevhenii Malyshev, 19, biathlete — killed in Kharkiv.
▪️ Mariia Lebid, 15 — missile strike in Dnipro.
▪️ Dmytro Sharpar, 25, figure skater — killed in Bakhmut.
▪️ Volodymyr Androsiuk, 22, track and field athlete — also Bakhmut.
▪️ Daria Kurdel, 20 — missile strike in Kharkiv.
▪️ Alina Perehutova, 14 — standing in line for water with her mother in Mariupol.
▪️ Maksym Halinichev, 22, boxer — killed defending Luhansk region.
▪️ Viktoriia Ivashko, 9, judoka — missile strike in Kyiv.
▪️ Kateryna Diachenko, 11, gymnast — airstrike on Mariupol.
▪️ Karina Bakur, 17, world kickboxing champion — shielded her father with her body.
These were the faces Heraskevych wanted to carry with him to the start line.
So that they would “compete” alongside him.
So that their dream would not die with them.
And for that, he was punished.
Because it turns out that the faces of murdered athletes violate regulations.
But their absence on the track does not.
In his speech, Sensi said the most important thing:
The Olympic Committee did not lose an athlete.
It lost its most valuable medal — its conscience.
Sport without memory is just a show.
Sport without humanity is just decoration.
Sport that fears truth is not about peace.
The Olympic movement was born from the ideals of honor, dignity, and unity.
Yet today Ukrainian athletes must prove not only their strength — but their right to remember their fallen.
And if memory becomes a violation of regulations — then the problem is not the helmet.
The world must hear this.
Because silence is also a position.
And indifference is also a choice.
Memory cannot be disqualified.
And conscience cannot be added to a prohibited list.
🇺🇦 We remember every one of them.
And we will not allow their names to be erased.
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Garry Kasparov @Kasparov63:
If you listen to what Russian propaganda, Putin himself, and his entourage are saying, there are no signs that the war could end tomorrow. And we're not even talking about the end of the war, but about a ceasefire, because any cessation of hostilities means that Putin will have to decide what to do with the army.
That's a million people - most of them drug addicts, murderers, people who are used to a completely different way of life. Bring them back to Russia? We see what happens when even a few thousand people return - a sharp rise in crime, the creation of wild tension in society. A million people? Never ever.
That means Putin would have to look for other targets for war, most likely the Baltic states. The war will continue as long as Putin has the resources to continue it.
Comment from me: this is spot-on. I've said multiple times that Putin is afraid of his soldiers returning home, so he needs them to keep fighting.
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During the Summer Olympics in Tokyo in 2020, athletes took a knee in support of the Black Lives Matter movement — a movement that emerged after the death of George Floyd, a man with a criminal past.
That gesture was considered acceptable. It was called a “social message.”
No one was suspended.
A few years later, a Ukrainian athlete appears wearing a helmet in memory of people killed in the war.
He is suspended.
Maybe the issue is that those who took a knee were members of the teams from the United States and the United Kingdom?
As the saying goes, “What is permitted to Jupiter is not permitted to the ox…” 😡
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I just exercised my right as a Member of Congress to conduct an unannounced oversight visit of the ICE field facility in Baltimore. The staff I met with respected my right to visit, but what I saw was disgraceful. Kristi Noem has a budget of $75 billion she could use to ensure humane conditions, but we saw 60 men packed into a room shoulder-to-shoulder, 24-hours-a-day, with a single toilet in the room and no shower facilities. They sleep like sardines with aluminum foil blankets. Whether it’s for three days or seven days, nobody would want a member of their family warehoused there. The room set aside for dangerous criminals and violent offenders was empty. We’re demanding immediate answers and action.


































