I’m proud to say we brought California’s deficit down to $0, not just for THIS upcoming year, but for the year AFTER too. We’re doing this while maintaining California's progress, preparing for the future, and protecting vulnerable communities from Trump’s assaults on our state.

‼️ Kansas voters could soon be denied a say in who represents them in D.C. A 2025 GOP-backed law changed how Kansas fills U.S. Senate vacancies – and if Sen. Roger Marshall’s seat opens up before Election Day, Republicans could leave voters waiting until 2028 to choose a replacement. Here’s how:

A rare voice of reason among Russians: "I don’t need anything else from Ukraine. What do you need there? Why do you need Sumy region? Why do you need Odesa? Look around you. Your building entrances are covered in p*ss. Just look at the sh*t you’re living in."

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Turning point — Crimea isolation: SBU hits two Russian spy ships and an S-400 in occupied Kerch as 2,760 cars piled up trying to get off the peninsula Russia shut the bridge for six hours during the air alert, and the queue never recovered by midday. euromaidanpress.com/2026/06/26/c...

Moscow built another S-400 air defense position less than 10 km from the Kremlin, near Moscow State University on Vorobyovy Gory, Radio Svoboda reports. The site is located on territory tied to Innopraktika, a foundation linked to Putin’s daughter Katerina Tikhonova. #Russia

❤️‍🩹 Freed Ukrainian defender stunned by how much his son grew.

❗️Ukraine’s Commander-in-Chief Oleksandr Syrskyi said the turning point in the war with Russia has not yet arrived. He said Ukraine expects a moment when Russia mobilizes all available forces, resources and capabilities, after which exhaustion sets in and a decisive shift can follow. #Ukraine

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Welcome home, Warriors! Among those returned from Russian captivity today are Defenders from the Armed Forces of Ukraine, the State Special Transport Service, the National Guard of Ukraine, and the State Border Guard Service.

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Russians attack minibus in Nikopol with FPV drone, regional authorities report‼️ ​Two people were killed and 12 others injured in the attack. ​Among the injured are two 12-year-old girls, who are currently hospitalized in moderate condition.

⚡️Think of Disinfolklore.eu as an immune system for the mind. We don’t have to refute every lie — there are too many, and that’s by design. Here, we learn the shapes the lies come in. After that, we recognise the shape - pattern literacy- and the rest follows.

MAGA said they did not want a “woke” president. They definitely got what they asked for.

🔥 Kerch. Local residents are again reporting an attack on the city. NASA's FIRMS service is also recording a fire near the Pantsir S-1 air defense system and the airfield.

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The Tula Oblast is reportedly under attack by drones. Local authorities have reported air defence activity, with residents describing multiple explosions

When reality surpasses fiction! Top: fictional forecast for August 2050, broadcast by French TV in 2014 to warn about the consequences of global warming. Bottom: Real French forecast for yesterday, June 22, 2026.

❗️The Russians continue to install additional Pantsir air defense systems on residential high-rise apartment buildings in 🇷🇺Moscow

Trump’s administration is asking Congress for an extra $21 billion to boost munitions stockpiles, $17.3 billion to pay for operational costs from the conflict with Iran, and $4 billion for high-priority Space Force programs, according a June 24 supplemental funding request.

Full update video here: youtu.be/b9OWUkBvUmU

For the people who give a shit…

⚡️Russia's 4th-largest oil refinery shuts down after Ukrainian drone strike. The Nizhegorodorgsintez refinery is Russia's fourth-largest oil refinery and second-largest producer of gasoline. The facility went offline on June 24 after a drone strike, two industry sources told Reuters.

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‼️ A merchant ship was hit by a projectile in the Strait of Hormuz while using a new Oman-designated route rather than the Iran-approved channel. The incident came hours after 🇮🇷Iran's IRGC warned ships not to use unauthorized routes, prompting several vessels to turn back.

The most important democracy story of the day. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

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Russia cripples tortured 23-year-old Ukrainian POW then convicts him of ‘terrorism’ for defending Ukraine khpg.org/en/1608815862

La Guaira is home to Venezuela’s main international airport...and is also close to some of the hillside communities that came under attack by US forces, when Donald Trump ordered the 3 January attack on Venezuela this year to abduct its president Nicolás Maduro. www.theguardian.com/world/2026/j...

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❗️Ukraine has gone on the offensive and is changing the dynamics of the war by striking Russian energy infrastructure, stated US Deputy Secretary of State Jeremy Levin. Russia is waiting for winter to launch attacks on Ukrainian infrastructure.

🥔❗️Kremlin pressures Belarus, preparing for new escalation, - WSJ Moscow hopes to use the neighboring country as a springboard to expand the war in Ukraine or launch operations against NATO members. 1/3

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Labor share of income--the "fraction of economic output paid to workers as wages and salaries"--is at its lowest-ever level since WWII. @federalreserve.gov

😎 Freedom of Russia Legion conducted an intelligence operation on enemy territory. ➡️ The result was six destroyed gas distribution stations of Gazprom and over $6 million in losses for the Russian energy industry. 📍 The operation was carried out on the territory of the Moscow and Tver regions

🧵 4 years ago, SCOTUS overturned nearly 50 years of established constitutional protection for bodily autonomy. The Dobbs decision opened the floodgates to draconian abortion bans across the country. Today, abortion is banned in 13 states and severely restricted in many more. (1/3)

Ground robots are becoming an increasingly important part of Ukraine’s war effort, helping transport supplies, evacuate wounded soldiers, clear mines, and carry out combat missions without putting troops at risk.

A Ukrainian army Poland blames for killing up to 100,000 Poles in 1943 is now a national hero in Kyiv. Ukraine honored it; Poland revoked Zelenskyy's top medal; and Ukrainian kids are being beaten on Warsaw streets.

The Houthis have built a sophisticated crypto financing network to move money, evade sanctions, and fund weapons, drones and military operations, YNET reports.

⚡️ Putin is heavily pressuring Belarusian leader Alexander Lukashenko to open a new military front against Ukraine to divert Ukrainian forces from other regions. united24media.com/war-in-ukrai...

Ukraine's Military Intelligence (HUR), warns that Russia is creating the conditions for a potential biological disaster in the occupied part of Kherson region, according to Ukraine’s military intelligence.

This should have been done a long time ago

IRGC Commander Ahmad Vahidi to Senior Regime Officials (via Dror Balazada): “We brought President Trump to his knees. We got what we wanted. As usual, the foolish West believes it is getting something in return from us, which of course will never happen.” 1/

“Given the signals that we’ve received from this administration, all of the ways they have acted to intervene in elections and to insert DOJ in election processes in a way that is inappropriate, we would be foolish to not be prepared,” she said. “So we are prepared." www.nbcnews.com/politics/202...

Thx for this thread. I’d like to add baby girls Patience, 9 days, & Élysée, 10 months, who died of Ebola at St Nicholas Orphanage in DR Congo. Another child, a toddler, died recently of Ebola as well, I haven’t found identifying info on that baby yet. USAID represented a big part of Ebola response.

Hungary has reportedly blocked a key EU procedural step needed to advance Ukraine and Moldova’s accession talks. The move follows the June 15 opening of the first accession cluster, but requires unanimous approval for the next steps, leaving the timeline for expansion talks uncertain.

Vodianske, Donetsk region. Destroyed by Russians, like many other Ukrainian cities and settlements. Ruined streets and homes. The Holy Presentation Church, built in 2009, was burned down. This is what the "Russian world" looks like. 📹: Phoenix Border Guard Unit

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