‼️OMG 14 elementary school students—children— and 1 teacher are dead after a mass shooting by an 19yo gunman in Texas.
Damn you @GovAbbott and every Republican who with the gun lobby have perverted our laws & society into this daily hellscape of massacres, trauma and grief.
@GovAbbott The 18yo (or 19yo) gunman is dead. He drove to Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas, and killed 14 children & 1 teacher with 2 guns. Kids were 2nd, 3rd, 4th graders.
It's an 80% Hispanic school district, with large immigrant community. So could be a Buffalo style hate crime.
@GovAbbott Senator @ChrisMurphyCT: WHAT ARE WE DOING?? Why are you here? I'm begging my Republican colleagues, DO SOMETHING. It will not solve everything. But by doing something, we at least stop sending the quiet message of endorsement of gun massacres.
@GovAbbott@ChrisMurphyCT Senator Chris Murphy to Republicans: "Why are you here if not to solve a problem as existential as this? This isn't inevitable. These kids weren't unlucky. This only happens in this country.… Nowhere else do little kids go to school thinking they might be shot today."
@GovAbbott@ChrisMurphyCT 💔‼️ 21 dead. Texas school shooting death toll rises to 21: 18 children and 3 adults, Texas State Senator Gutierrez tells @CNN.
Gutierrez says the 18yo gunman shot his grandmother before the massacre at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde. He bought the guns on his 18th birthday.
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"Those who conceived this war want only one thing—to remain in power forever, live in…palaces, sail on yachts…, enjoying unlimited power and complete impunity."
Talking about Putin's war as an ideological mission for Soviet or Russian glory makes for a good story. But it's not true. Worse, it feeds Putin's propaganda myths.
Let's stop using Russia's self-serving framing. Putin's war on Ukraine is genocide w/ ONE aim—kleptocratic power.
💥Russian general who oversaw atrocities in Syria led cluster bomb attacks on civilians in Ukraine. CNN identified 11 Smerch rocket strikes on residential #Kharkiv🇺🇦 launched by rocket artillery brigade led by Col.Gen Alexander ZHURAVLYOV in Belgorod🇷🇺—war crimes under int'l law.
CNN traced 11 Smerch rocket attacks on #Kharkiv on Feb. 27-28 to #Russia's 79th Rocket Artillery Brigade. Based in Belgorod, the brigade reports to Western Military District led by Zhuravlyov—the only officer with the authority to order Smerch launches in his district. #WarCrimes
After Zhuravlyov took command in eastern Aleppo in 2016, Russia's military rapidly ramped up its attacks on rebel-held territory using brutal tactics & munitions that defined Russia's intervention in Syria & now Ukraine: besiege, starve, bombard, grind into submission.
🤨Lavrov: We don't demand Zelensky surrender, just release civilians & end resistance. Our aim isn't regime change—that's US specialty. We only want ppl in eastern Ukraine not to be threatened by Kyiv's military & its Nazis. And we don't want Ukraine to threaten Russian security.
I don't know who needs to hear this but Russia has zero right to demand anything from Ukraine, an independent country w/ a democratically elected govt.
Also, I look forward to hearing Lavrov's despicable anti-Semitic "Jews are the real Nazis" propaganda at his war crimes trial.
💥Pres. Biden Requests $33 Billion in Aid For #Ukraine🇺🇦
🔹$20.4B in #military assistance
🔹$8.5B in #economic help
🔹$3B in #humanitarian assistance
🔹$500M in domestic #food production assistance @NATO allies will do their share to help Ukraine defend against aggressor #Russia
⚡️Biden: "As long as the assaults and atrocities continue, we're going to continue" helping #Ukraine defend itself from Russian aggression.
Biden says $33B supplemental funding will use Defense Production Act to expand US production & preserve materials disrupted by Putin's war.
Biden: Russia can't blackmail or intimidate their way out of sanctions. We will not allow them to use their oil & gas to avoid consequences of their aggression. We're working with other nations to help support our European allies w/ gas blackmail of their energy needs.
🚨‼️#Bucha🇺🇦 mayor confirms Russians had kill lists to hunt down & kill politicians, activists & Donbas war veterans. "I saw these lists… they knew in advance who they were after & their addresses," Mayor Fedoruk said, adding Russians knew that officials lived in #Kyiv suburbs.
@ak_mack@RobbieGramer@JackDetsch@nytimes@washingtonpost Russia's kill lists are of a piece w/ Putin's mafia state terrorism that began w/ apt bombings, continued w/ pretexts for war in xUSSR, dotted in between w/ assassinations & hit squads. That's why Bellingcat's Grozev called @navalny poisoning a "prequel" to Ukraine invasion.
❗️Incredible report from @edlavaCNN. Russian soldiers rounded up villagers at gunpoint into a school basement. 350 ppl forced to live in such horrific conditions, 12 elderly died. Russians held them there for a month—as human shields—knowing Ukrainians wouldn't attack the school.
Sofia took @CNN into the school basement where she was held hostage for a month by Russian soldiers with 350 other Ukrainian villagers. Conditions were so cramped, air so stifling, breathing was hard. She said the Russians told her point blank that they were taken there to die.
Olena says Russian soldiers threw grenades into her windows & defecated on her floor. She was locked in the school basement too. She pleaded w/ the Russians to let her 1-year-old infant out of the stifling basement for fresh air. They refused, saying "Let her die, we don't care."