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I was with our warriors who are receiving treatment and rehabilitation after injuries in one of the medical facilities in the Rivne region. Spoke with the defenders. They defended Ukraine across various areas – the Kharkiv, Kherson, Dnipro, and Donetsk regions – and participated in the Kursk operation. I presented the warriors with state awards. Thank you for your service and for defending our country. It is extremely important that we continue developing rehabilitation infrastructure for our veterans. This is about respect for our people. I am grateful to our doctors, resuscitation specialists, and everyone who works every day to ensure our warriors have access to high-quality treatment, recovery, and support.

Hungarian PM Péter Magyar said that the international community "didn't really do its job" and failed to "guarantee Ukraine’s territorial integrity and independence" under the 1994 Budapest Memorandum. "Now we need a peace agreement with real guarantees, security guarantees. I think it's crucial for Ukraine as well," he added.

Erin Brockovich is back, and this time she's coming for the AI industry, calling out Big Tech's data center boom as the next great environmental shakedown of American communities. She launched a self-reporting map at brockovichdatacenter.com, and within a week over 1,600 residents had filed complaints spanning noise pollution, skyrocketing utility bills, and serious water depletion concerns. The pattern she's seeing looks awfully familiar: corporations dangle promises of jobs and tax revenue, municipalities wave projects through with minimal environmental review, and the people who actually live there get left holding the bag. The water issue alone should be setting off alarm bells. Data centers gulp enormous amounts of water to keep their cooling systems running, and some are being planted directly above critical aquifers. As Brockovich put it plainly, "Wasting heat is wasting water. We can't afford either." The technology to capture and reuse that waste heat already exists, it's just not being required. That's a policy failure, not a tech failure. A recent Gallup poll found that 7 in 10 Americans oppose data centers being built in their communities, with many saying they'd rather live near a nuclear plant. Brockovich's demand is straightforward: if Big Tech is going to drain public water supplies and jack up utility bills, the public deserves full transparency. "If you're using public resources, the public has a right to know how much. Sunlight is the best disinfectant."

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Graduation Waltz 2026, Lyceum 159. #Kharkiv Despite everything, life goes on. And we really hope that these lovely children will continue to choose to live and study in their native city of Kharkiv. Glory to Ukraine!

Children, mothers, and wives of fallen Ukrainian defenders received “Honor. Glory. State.” medals. The heroes fought on the most difficult fronts — Donetsk, Kherson, and Zaporizhzhia The youngest of the defenders honored today was only 22 📷 Klitschko

Ukrainian Su-27 combat pilot, known as "Air Hooligan," marked Vyshyvanka Day on May 21 by flying a mission in the traditional Ukrainian embroidered shirt. The annual occasion celebrates the garment as a living symbol of Ukrainian national identity and heritage. Video: __air_hooligan__ / Instagram.

Former Trump White House lawyer Ty Cobb rips Trump’s $1.8B defense fund: "this is really just a criminal conspiracy to steal money from the taxpayers."

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Senator Tillis fires back at Trump: “Mr. President, completely agree about having a lot of fun over these next seven months.  But nitpicking? Some of your advisors are telling you to support things like:     - Using billions of taxpayer dollars to compensate convicted felons and thugs who attacked police. (Ed Martin)    - Pushing 50-year mortgages and Elizabeth Warren's housing bill over sound conservative housing policy. (Bill Pulte)    - Using taxpayer money to transform publicly traded companies into state-owned enterprises. (Howard Lutnick)    - Firing our very best generals and not holding Putin accountable for his systematic kidnapping, rape, torture, and murder of Ukrainian civilians. (Pete Hegseth)  If opposing these things makes me a RINO, then I gladly accept that nickname.  We need Republicans to do well in November, but the stupid stuff is killing our chances!”

Update—MAGA man caught texting "ICE needs to raid this graduation!" at high school was actually a long time school administrator. He was—but now he's been fired. Worked for the past 15 years at multiple school districts in North Texas. Commerce ISD rescinded his job offer.

Ukraine’s positions are stronger now than in previous years. Since the beginning of the year, 590 square kilometers of our territory have been liberated and brought under Ukrainian control. The trend is certainly not in the occupier’s favor. We continue to increase the rate at which Russian personnel are being eliminated, and together with sanctions in all their forms, this is forcing Russia toward diplomacy.

‼️Something very important is happening on the Mariupol direction. ZELENSKYY: A Ukrainian soldier from Mariupol gave me this chevron, with a clear desire for Ukraine to return to Mariupol and to all of its territory. And we really, really want it to be so. This statement from Zelenskyy is especially symbolic, as Ukraine’s mid-range strike campaign is causing havoc to multiple critical Russian supply routes deep behind the front in southern Ukraine this month. Numerous Russian military transports have been hit on the E105, M14, and H20 highways connecting Rostov to Crimea, which is effectively disrupting supply lines to Mariupol and cutting off logistics to the area. "Dear Rivne region! Today I was here, with our soldiers, I awarded, our guys. Wounded soldiers who are recovering here. One of them from Mariupol, Maksym, gave me a chevron. Here is this chevron. He gave me this with a clear desire for Ukraine to return to Mariupol, to return to its entire land. And we really, really want it to be so. Thank you, thank you to all our soldiers, our defenders. Glory to Ukraine!"- Ukrainian President on Friday, May 22, 2026.

Castro: CoreCivic is getting $13 million a month just for Dilley, and they run all these other detention facilities. If you think about what that represents, we’ve commodified child imprisonment. You’re allowing people to invest in child imprisonment—the imprisonment of two-year-olds, five-year-olds, and seven-year-olds who haven’t committed any crime.

Oklahoma just became the 17th state to ban child marriage. But what is shocking is how hard Republicans fought against it. The bill stating that children under 18 should not be allowed to marry passed the Oklahoma House by a 51–36 vote. All 36 lawmakers who voted against it were Republicans. What is wrong with the Republican Party?! Some lawmakers even tried to use Biblical passages to justify the marriage of children. Are you completely morally bankrupt or insane?!