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Roads washed away. Villages cut off. Families searching for missing loved ones. The flash floods in Nepal have shattered communities already rebuilding from past disasters. The EU stands with them, releasing €1MIL. to bring urgent healthcare, food, water & shelter #EUSolidarity https://t.co/QjjB99QxV9 #NepalFloods #EUSolidarity #DisasterRelief #NP #EU

🇷🇴🇲🇩🇪🇺 Freedom and independence have always been earned through human sacrifice. Today marks 35 years since the Republic of Moldova chose to break away from its Soviet past. For 35 years, Moldovans have been fighting with dignity, day in and day out, against Russian pressure and https://t.co/V8oQONGrv0 #Moldova #Independence #Freedom #RO #MD #EU #RU

📰 Echoes from @Cop17Mongolia Every piece of waste we throw away today, every growing waste site, and every patch of contaminated soil and water can become part of the larger problem of #landdegradation. Read more about waste management in #Mongolia 👇 https://t.co/yx2U1154Ww https://t.co/HyQ886uzFV #landdegradation #wastemanagement #Mongolia #MN

What if the graph of a linear function started with ants crossing a beach? 🐜🏖️ Instead of telling children, “Vacation is over. Pay attention — today we start with formulas and graphs,” imagine following the paths of a few ants across the sand. One ant walks steadily in one direction. Another starts farther away. Their trails become lines. Their starting points and directions begin to matter. And suddenly, y=ax+b is no longer just a formula on the board — it describes a journey. Maybe mathematics works better when curiosity comes before notation. #math #LinearFunction #MathForKids #MathEducation #Graphs #Learning #Curiosity #BackToSchool #ChildPsychology #LearningMotivation #EverydayMath #DiscoveryLearning #20260820 #MrNumberwise #20260821 #0013 #MrNumberwise #English

More than 8 hours of russian missile & drone terror against Kyiv last night. Shelters packed with families & children as explosions shook the city. At least 12 people killed, a children’s hospital hit & 40 thousand people without power. All in one night. We must not look away. https://t.co/e8BncjJnvT #Kyiv #RussiaUkraineWar #StandWithUkraine #RU #UA

❗ ΣΗΜΕΡΑ, ΣΤΟΝ ΒΟΑΚ, ΣΤΑΜΑΤΗΣΑΜΕ ΓΙΑ ΝΑ ΣΩΣΟΥΜΕ ΜΙΑ ΖΩΗ. ❗ Κινούμενος σήμερα στον ΒΟΑΚ, στο Ρέθυμνο, αντίκρισα ένα Όρνιο καταμεσής στον δρόμο. Ένα υπέροχο άγριο πλάσμα, εμφανώς εξαντλημένο, ενώ γύρω του τα αυτοκίνητα περνούσαν με μεγάλη ταχύτητα. ❗ Σταμάτησα αμέσως. Μαζί με άλλους ανθρώπους που βρέθηκαν στο σημείο, διακόψαμε για λίγο την κυκλοφορία και, με μεγάλη προσοχή, καταφέραμε να το απομακρύνουμε από το οδόστρωμα πριν συμβεί το χειρότερο. ❗ Είχα μαζί μου μόνο λίγο νερό και λίγη γατοτροφή. Του έβαλα νερό και του έδωσα λίγη τροφή, κυρίως για να παραμείνει στο ασφαλές σημείο και να μην ξαναβγεί στον δρόμο. Και μείναμε εκεί μαζί του, προσπαθώντας να το προστατεύσουμε από τα διερχόμενα αυτοκίνητα. ❗ Επικοινώνησα αμέσως με την ΑΝΙΜΑ στην Αθήνα και, κατόπιν της καθοδήγησής τους, κάλεσα τη Δασική Υπηρεσία Ρεθύμνου. ❗ Η ανταπόκρισή τους ήταν πραγματικά άμεση. Έφτασαν πολύ γρήγορα, παρέλαβαν το Όρνιο με ασφάλεια και μας ενημέρωσαν ότι φαίνεται εξαντλημένο και πιθανότατα χρειάζεται ενυδάτωση και ηλεκτρολύτες. Θα λάβει την απαραίτητη φροντίδα και, όταν είναι έτοιμο, θα απελευθερωθεί ξανά εκεί όπου πραγματικά ανήκει: στη φύση. Ελεύθερο. ❗ Δεν μπορώ να γνωρίζω τι ακριβώς το έφερε σε αυτή την κατάσταση. Η ζέστη, η έλλειψη νερού ή τροφής, κάποιος αποπροσανατολισμός ή ακόμη και οι πρόσφατες φωτιές στην περιοχή μπορεί να έχουν παίξει κάποιον ρόλο. Αυτό θα το γνωρίζουν οι ειδικοί. ❗ Εκείνο όμως που ξέρω είναι ότι για αρκετή ώρα άνθρωποι που δεν γνωρίζαμε ο ένας τον άλλον μείναμε στο ίδιο σημείο για έναν και μόνο λόγο: ❗ ΝΑ ΜΗ ΧΑΘΕΙ ΜΙΑ ΖΩΗ. ❗ Ένα μεγάλο ευχαριστώ σε όλους τους ανθρώπους που σταμάτησαν και βοήθησαν και ιδιαίτερα στη Δασική Υπηρεσία Ρεθύμνου για την εξαιρετικά άμεση ανταπόκριση και την ασφαλή παραλαβή του πουλιού. ❗ Και τελικά ίσως αυτό είναι το σημαντικότερο: ❗ Για να σωθεί μια ζωή δεν χρειάζεται πάντα να κάνεις κάτι σπουδαίο. Χρειάζεται, μερικές φορές, απλώς να μην την προσπεράσεις. ❤️ ❗ TODAY, ON CRETE’S NORTHERN HIGHWAY, WE STOPPED TO SAVE A LIFE. ❗ While driving today on the BOAK highway near Rethymno, I came across a Griffon Vulture standing in the middle of the road. A magnificent wild creature, visibly exhausted, while cars were passing by at high speed. ❗ I stopped immediately. Together with other people who happened to be there, we temporarily stopped the traffic and, very carefully, managed to guide the bird away from the road before the worst could happen. ❗ I only had some water and a little cat food with me. I offered it some water and a small amount of food, mainly to encourage it to remain in a safe place and prevent it from returning to the road. We then stayed beside it, making sure it remained protected from the passing traffic. ❗ I immediately contacted ANIMA Wildlife Rescue in Athens and, following their guidance, called the Rethymno Forestry Service. ❗ Their response was remarkably fast. They arrived shortly afterwards, safely collected the vulture and told us that it appeared to be exhausted and would probably need hydration and electrolytes. It will now receive the care it needs and, once it has recovered, it will be released again where it belongs: back into the wild. Free. ❗ We cannot know exactly what caused its condition. Heat, lack of water or food, disorientation, or even the recent fires in the area may have played a role. The experts will determine that. ❗ What I do know is that, for quite some time, people who had never met one another stayed together at that roadside for one single reason: ❗ TO MAKE SURE A LIFE WAS NOT LOST. ❗ A heartfelt thank you to everyone who stopped to help and especially to the Rethymno Forestry Service for their exceptionally swift response and the safe rescue of the bird. ❗ And perhaps this is what matters most: ❗ Saving a life does not always require something extraordinary. Sometimes, it simply requires us not to pass it by. ❤️ #Όρνιο #ΆγριαΖωή #ΠροστασίαΖώων #Κρήτη #Ρέθυμνο #GriffonVulture #WildlifeRescue #Crete #AnimalProtection #ΆγριαΖωή #ΠροστασίαΖώων #WildlifeRescue

🚨🇷🇴ROMANIAN SENATOR: “THIS WAS A COUP D’ÉTAT” Romanian Senator Andrei Dîrlău is making an extraordinary accusation about the annulment of Romania's 2024 presidential election. He alleges that multiple institutions — including the presidency under Klaus Iohannis, Romania's Supreme Council of National Defence (CSAT) and the Constitutional Court — were involved in what he describes unequivocally as a: “COUP D’ÉTAT.” His argument is explosive. Dîrlău says the election was cancelled because those in power “didn't like the result” and argues that the process that followed leaves Romania's current political leadership without democratic legitimacy. And Romania's election annulment didn't go unnoticed internationally. JD Vance subsequently used Romania as a central example in his criticism of the state of European democracy. Whatever your view of the original decision, cancelling a presidential election is one of the most consequential actions a democracy can take. It therefore demands an extraordinary level of evidence and transparency. What evidence justified overturning the vote? Who made the decisions? What role did each institution play? And ultimately: Were Romania's democratic institutions protecting an election — or overriding the will of its voters? A serving Romanian senator is now calling what happened a coup d'état. That allegation cannot simply be waved away. Romania deserves answers. @andrei_dirlau #Romania #Coup #Democracy

For too long, adults with intellectual disabilities and their parents have faced the future with dread, not knowing what will happen after their parents pass away. The successive cruel FF & FG governments will never act unless they are forced to by campaigns like this. #IntellectualDisabilities #DisabilityRights #Advocacy #Therearenospecificcountriesmentionedinthetweet.

15 August 1923 | A Pole, Józef Odi, was born in Brzeziny Śląskie. In Auschwitz from 26 August 1942. No. 61615 In January 1945 he was transferred to Ebensee. He survived. After the was he worked at the Auschwitz Memorial. He passed away in 1989. https://t.co/piix56dvQi #Auschwitz #Holocaust #History

URGENT @Vapi_AI: Incident 1009573 has taken all our production calling down across every platform for ~24h, right after our biggest launch. We’re now working with partner companies on an urgent migration away from Vapi. We need an engineering response, ETA and mitigation now. #IncidentResponse #VapiAI #UrgentMigration #Therearenospecificcountrymentionsinthetweetprovided.

The Transitional Logic of Political Violence A recurring problem in revolutionary and religious political movements is that violence may be justified as a temporary measure for establishing a new political order, while the institutions created to suppress perceived enemies can become permanent. In Marxist-Leninist theory, the transition from capitalism to communism involved a “dictatorship of the proletariat.” The coercive state was ultimately expected to “wither away” once class conflict disappeared. In practice, however, revolutionary governments developed extensive systems of repression. The Russian Revolution was followed by the Red Terror, Stalin’s purges institutionalized persecution of alleged internal enemies, and Mao’s Cultural Revolution demonstrated how political repression could re-emerge long after revolutionary power had been established. A comparable dynamic can be examined in some interpretations of Islamic political thought, although the ideological foundations are different. Ridda (apostasy) has, in certain historical contexts, been associated with both religious and political disloyalty. The early Ridda Wars illustrate how religious and political boundaries could become intertwined. In modern history, the 1988 executions of political prisoners in Iran provide another example of religious or ideological accusations being used to justify state violence. The important question is not whether these traditions are identical—they are not—but whether their political applications can create similar institutional dynamics. When governments define groups as existential threats, extraordinary measures may initially be presented as temporary. Once institutionalized, however, the definition of the “enemy” can expand. The fundamental risk is that a transitional period of coercion may lack a mechanism for returning to normal political conditions. If authorities can continually redefine internal enemies, emergency powers can become permanent. The broader lesson is universal: political systems should be judged not only by the order they promise, but also by the safeguards that prevent temporary coercive powers from becoming permanent.

The United States used journalists as bait while Donald Trump was secretly evacuated in a catering container after a threat from Iran, which has triggered demands for a briefing in Congress from Democrats about the president's security and the risks shared by the passengers of Air Force One. (translated)

“Behind the political curtain, we find a completely different world. A time bomb is ticking, and sooner or later reality will explode in the face of the world. If we are not paying attention, the shockwave will sweep Hungary away with it.” https://t.co/GD8uqQ0cOz https://t.co/TmTm0IFs6S #politics #Hungary #realitycheck #HU

Another Russian Bomb In Europe. When Do We Call It Terrorism? As NATO and European leaders hem, haw, look away and choose to see no evil, hear no evil or say no... err.. Russia, the great @alexzfinley, former intel officer, lays out the evidence. https://t.co/QbhIAE5AzJ #Russia #Terrorism #NATO #RU #EU

Vučić meeting Zelensky in Belgrade isn‘t Marxist dialectic. It’s just cynical realpolitik. He’s played both sides: condemning Russia’s invasion in words, refusing sanctions, denying reports of quietly arming Kyiv. Now talk of EU accession. 🇷🇸 is light-years away from that. #Vučić #Zelensky #Realpolitik #RS #UA #RU #KY #EU