NOW - NATO Chief Rutte says next year countries need to give "a lot of money... more than $1B a month" to purchase offensive and defensive U.S. weapons, through PURL, "to keep Ukrainian civilians and civilian infrastructure safe." https://hell.twtr.plus/media/8ad9d2de7196bcdd7edce85841c7aa31770b131169895ab384ebbc9fbbd859ef.file

NEW - Melinda Gates: "I believe we need far more women in our state houses, far more Hispanic people in our state houses, so that our state houses, then grow to Congress, Congress looks like our populace. That's where we need to get!" https://hell.twtr.plus/media/4db1eb9b7d89447ec5ccde8bbc9a1d549d2a34cc44c21d967568ba9619f78f6a.file

NOW - Trump on Somali immigrants: "When they come from hell, and they complain and do nothing but bitch. We don't want em in our country. Let em go back to where they came from and fix it!" https://hell.twtr.plus/media/6265bc8ae3e6bd5149c0b662c7b51e945e7ba7fdbf9305a96d8fde8cc3b64acc.file

NOW - Trump will soon conduct land strikes on cartels and any country suspected of trafficking drugs into the U.S.: "Anybody that's doing that and selling it into our country is subject to attack... not just Venezuela." https://hell.twtr.plus/media/be790f043fdd3bc35858e87b3e2102951d5032260ff4dafd90aa1e43b68c61b7.file

NOW - Trump appears to doze-off and fall asleep several times while Marco Rubio rambles and monologues. Trump's right hand is also bandaged.

NOW - U.S. Education Secretary Linda McMahon: "We've been working really very hard to make sure that we've got antisemitism and DEI out of our universities." https://hell.twtr.plus/media/39b8e2b6d443298c5bdc56f4b13e62e380df6b0c851584694eebd5c6c744104c.file

NOW - U.S. War Department on troops conducting raids in Somalia: "I can assure you, right, this is an America first department of war and president. So we aren't conducting forever wars in Somalia. We're not seeking regime change, or, you know, we're not nation building." https://hell.twtr.plus/media/a3e3240b48442fbe3dd6f25deb0137612dc6774d15717aacd28066748451901c.file

JUST IN - RFK Jr.'s vaccine advisers plan to vote on ending vaccination of all newborns for hepatitis B and reexamine whether vaccines in the childhood immunization schedule are behind rising allergies and autoimmune disorders — WaPo

NOW - Irish Prime Minister welcomes Zelensky to "militarily neutral" Ireland: "We will be with you when peace prevails to support the recovery and reconstruction of your country." https://hell.twtr.plus/media/2945c92bd778d8e1c332978535700519374871a01f7b56126da1b57fdeab6bde.file

NOW - Massive crowds gather in Lebanon to see Pope Leo XIV arrive in the popemobile. https://hell.twtr.plus/media/6c8c6eaf932ae2c10b2ab9126728b355d606cba97e1656665d5d3459773e9eab.file