Discover and read the best of Twitter Threads about #BrittneyGriner

Most recents (6)

Trading Brittney Griner for the merchant of death is not diplomacy. It is idiocy.

Sadly, under the Biden administration, these two words have become synonymous.

#BrittneyGriner
#merchantofdeath twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
Viktor Bout has been indicted as a terrorist four times by the United States, selling tens of thousands of AK-47s and similar weaponry to the “potpourri of global scum”
🤦🏻‍♂️ foxnews.com/us/pentagon-me…
Read 4 tweets
It's Day 288 of #Russia's invasion of peaceful #Ukraine. Where once there were close ties, #Putin has ripped them apart and set his nation back years, maybe decades

Welcome to another daily thread, live from #Ukraine, I'll do what I can but it's difficult to be able to post much
Not too busy so far today (thankfully)

Here's the link to yesterday's thread on the #RussiaUkraineWar:

#Russia's daily losses slowing a little but still on course to hit 100,000 dead soldiers sometime around "western" Christmas (25 Dec)

#RussiansGoHome #StandWithUkraine Image
Read 13 tweets
VIDEO THREAD: This afternoon, cannabis activists with @DCMJ2014 released smoke canisters, inflated a 51-foot joint, and smoked marijuana in front of the Russian Embassy in Washington DC to protest the 9-year sentence of American basketball player #BrittneyGriner in Russia.
"You got bud over there man?" a Secret Service agent asked @aeidinger, who explained that he weighed it, and it's indeed less than two ounces.

"It's a prop," he added.

"It smells like a prop!" the Secret Service officer joked.
The Secret Service officer was more concerned about an unspent smoke canister.

"Why are you sneaky about it?" he asked a protester.

"I'm not being sneaky about anything!" the activist said, picking it up. "This is what he's upset about, a legal smoke-emitting device."
Read 8 tweets
Brittney Griner: Victim of Putin's white supremacist farright culture war / instrumentalised for the dirty war in Ukraine.
#FreeBritneyGriner

Our full statement here: facebook.com/39441104407259… Image
Brittney Griner is. 31yrs old Black / African (American) woman from Texas. While on a visit to do with her professional basketball career she was detained by Putin in Moscow on the 17 Feb this year (2022). Image
She was apparently said to be carrying some hash oil which is legal in the usa but illegal in Russia. She was 'legally' kidnapped and held in prison by Putin, the person and humanity of Brittney Griner has been used by Putin for his twisted racist culture war .. Image
Read 18 tweets
NEW-"Watching the images of Pres. #Putin & #Iran's supreme leader meeting yesterday in #Tehran did not exactly fill me w/nostalgia" @CIA Director William Burns tells #AspenSecurity

But "The reality is Russians & Iranians need each other right now..."
"...both heavily sanctioned countries, both looking to break out of political isolation" per @CIA's Burns "But if they need each other they don't really trust each other in the sene they're energy rivals & historical competitors"

#Russia-#Iran
"Both sides are looking to demonstrate they have options" per @CIA's Burns

Says mtg shows "the deficiencies of #Russia's defense industry today,the difficulties they're having" but notes "there are limits I think to the ways in which they're going to be able to help one another"
Read 33 tweets
June 28th Brittney Griner’s detention in Russia extended for six months pending her trial, which was July 1st.

The @StateDept has been saying BG is being wrongfully detained.

The customs agent said they found 0.7 gram of THC. Image
According to Russian law, she should only be facing a FINE she has been in jail for over 4 months

She’s facing 10 years

Today Brittney Griner pleaded guilty in a Russian court but denied she had intentionally broken the law. Image
A guilty plea would likely be a requirement of any prisoner swap between the U.S. and Russia

US Embassy’s Elizabeth Rood delivered letter from Biden to #BrittneyGriner at trial in Moscow today.

Next court appearance July 14th
Read 4 tweets

Related hashtags

Did Thread Reader help you today?

Support us! We are indie developers!


This site is made by just two indie developers on a laptop doing marketing, support and development! Read more about the story.

Become a Premium Member ($3.00/month or $30.00/year) and get exclusive features!

Become Premium

Too expensive? Make a small donation by buying us coffee ($5) or help with server cost ($10)

Donate via Paypal Become our Patreon

Thank you for your support!