Day 7 of Albania’s Flamingo Revolution 🦩 Locals are blocking Jared Kushner & Ivanka Trump’s billion-dollar resort.
They’re destroying a protected lagoon for luxury villas—while flamingos lose their home.
Shame on these vulture capitalists. Solidarity to the protesters! ✊🔥
Bulldozers and excavators were withdrawn from the construction site of a billion-dollar resort development in Albania after protesters rejected plans for the Jared Kushner and Ivanka Trump-backed project.
Activists dubbed the weeklong movement against the construction as the "Flamingo Revolution," and say wildlife in the Vjosa-Narta protected zone will be destroyed if the project goes ahead.
However, Albanian Prime Minister Edi Rama, who has led the country since 2013, has insisted the project will go ahead despite rising public pressure and has championed it as a potential economic boon for the country, which has one of the lowest GDP per capita rates in Europe.
Saturday marked the seventh day of protests over a planned luxury resort in Albania linked to Jared Kushner and Ivanka Trump. Activists call it the "Flamingo Revolution." They've adopted the pink bird as a symbol of the wildlife they say will be destroyed if the billion-dollar project goes ahead.
The late, great character actor and Army veteran Charles Durning describes in vivid, excruciating detail his traumatic #DDay experience. This moving story is worth every second of your time. Thank you, sir, for your incredible service.
‘My 15-year-old relative was killed for refusing to marry her cousin. My family celebrated by dancing in the street’ - The Guardian https://t.co/XSdJQwnb9A
Jamie Dimon, complaining about the Clarity Act and Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong this AM: “He’s spending hundreds of millions of dollars in Washington in this thing.”
Maria: “He said he’s representing the whole —”
Dimon: “He’s full of shit.”
Maria: “…well.”
In the era of #ArtificialIntelligence, when human dignity is threatened by new forms of dehumanization, ours is the pressing duty to remain profoundly human. We must lovingly safeguard the grandeur of humanity bestowed upon us and revealed in its fullness in Christ, the splendor of which no machine can ever replace. #MagnificaHumanitas
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Xi is humiliating Trump —and spinning this only makes it worse
First Iran negotiators refuse to meet Trumps envoys
Then German leader Metz publicly says Trump is being humiliated
Then Saudi Arabia pulls away
Trump facing massive LBJ problem.
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Life is like a guitar. @ericchurch offers a brillianct commencement address (and guitar lesson) at his alma mater, UNC, that belongs in the pantheon of addresses of this sort with those of Steve Jobs (Stanford) and David Foster Wallace (Kenyon College).
Iranian navy seized the oil tanker "Ocean Koi" in the Gulf of Oman
This is Iran’s answer to Trump, effectively:
“We control Hormuz— take it if you can”
Iran’s power is growing by the day
@Super70sSports He was ONCE better but not over the entirety of their careers - one kept growing, pushing m, changing and the other got more comfortable with car jingles … but first 10 years of their careers, Uncle Bob ruled - 1975 silver bullet band could have taken on peak E Street