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[Zara Quinn @_Zaraquin]

Spanish goalkeeper in the world cup finals 😂😂

[Birrmetrics @birrmetrics]

PM Abiy Ahmed’s parliamentary address highlighted strong growth, record exports, rising capital inflows, tax reform and tighter debt management. The infographic presents the key figures as stated in the speech, pending detailed verification.

[Tom Nichols @RadioFreeTom]

Free gift link:
https://t.co/vCq7zuzQhz

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[Global Property Guide @GlobalPropGuide]

How home prices have changed over the past year (Q4 2025 vs Q4 2024):

Portugal: 23.6%
Romania: 14.9%
UAE (Dubai): 12.9%
Lithuania: 11.3%
Switzerland: 4.5%
Netherlands: 3.5%
Singapore: 3.3%
Sweden: 0.8%
Thailand: 0.6%
Canada: -6.2%
China: -8.5%

Note: These are nominal figures.

[Today in History @TodayinHistory]

Today in 1945, George Orwell published a devastating critique of Communism.

Animal Farm reveals why every communist revolution follows the same tragic pattern: liberation to corruption to oppression.

Here are 10 truths from Animal Farm Orwell warned us never to forget 🧵👇🏼

[Public Health - Seattle & King County @KCPubHealth]

A measles case has been identified in a King County infant. The individual traveled through Seattle-Tacoma International Airport (SEA) and visited Seattle Children’s Hospital while infectious.

People who are vaccinated are very well protected.

Read more: https://t.co/PrijG4bKJb

[Andrew Yang🧢⬆️🇺🇸 @AndrewYang]

If something goes down 10% and then up 10% are you back where you started?

No because the decrease is from a bigger number.

E.g., 100 - 10 =90 + 9 = 99

[Massimo @Rainmaker1973]

A metaphor of the process of healing

[📹 James Sun / fallinginsand]
https://t.co/SX3ztwUzQQ

[ማህዲ @Ajirew]

@PhysInHistory 😀😀

[Zemedeneh Negatu @Zemedeneh]

43 countries on a proposed list whose citizens will be banned from entering the United States. Via @nytimes

22 African countries listed including 4 of 6 countries in the Horn of Africa: #Somalia, #Sudan, #Eritrea, #SouthSudan

The list has three categories: Red (all travel ban), Yellow (visa sharply restricted), Orange (60 days to address concerns).

[CALL TO ACTIVISM @CalltoActivism]

This is Marco Rubio explaining how the USA promised to defend Ukraine forever if they got rid of their nuclear arsenal left after the Soviet Union fell.

This is why lil marco was sinking into the couch. He was hoping we wouldn’t find it…so don’t RT right now this very second.

[Eric Feigl-Ding @DrEricDing]

INFLUENZA REACHES EPIDEMIC THRESHOLD in New York—Influenza A (Unknown variety) positivity soars (yellow), while hospitalizations stand higher than past 3 years. The rise of unknown subtyping Flu A has led NY to issue new alert to subtype all Flu A immediately for bird flu.

[Eric Feigl-Ding @DrEricDing]

⚠️CDC & NY State is now recommending the IMMEDIATE testing & subtyping of all hospitalized flu A cases & unknown/suspected flu cases—in order to identify human bird flu. ➡️This implies CDC believes avian flu has now crossed into wide community transmission
https://t.co/mqZYE94bap

[The Jammy Show @thejammyshow]

Was USAID shutdown because of Ethiopia ?

[Wendell Pierce @WendellPierce]

President Trump is demonstrating the worst of the American aesthetic of imperialism, colonialism, slavery, and ethnic cleansing. To suggest the purge of Palestinian people off the land they have lived on for centuries, and claim it for America, reminds us we are a nation that committed genocide against Native Americans and stole their land. America enslaved, raped, and murdered Africans for centuries. America has travelled around the world emboldened with imperialism and militarism in the belief that we can forcibly takeover countries at will destroying any semblance of democracy. Is this Make America Great Again? How long are we going to stay silent as this President creates a post constitution authoritarian state? This is a racist, bigoted, call for the elimination of the Palestinian homeland.

[Maria Shriver @mariashriver]

The more I think about Trump’s threat to withhold aid to fire victims, California should think about making its federal taxes contingent on responsible federal action…

[Neal Katyal @neal_katyal]

This is quite incredible. The US Justice Dept, under Trump, is defending its birthright citizenship Order by arguing that immigrant children covered by the Order cannot be citizens because... the children of Native Americans aren't US citizens.

[Zemedeneh Negatu @Zemedeneh]

“The direct sea access #Ethiopia secured with #Somaliland is a WONDERFUL deal for Ethiopia since it diversifies the bottleneck in #Djibouti where everything has to come through at very high prices”: @DrJPPham, expected to be President Trump’s top State Dept. official for Africa.

It’s refreshing and encouraging to hear such enlightened and realty based comments from an incoming senior U.S. government official soon to head African policies for State. Perhaps the U.S.’s new much talked about shift from “aid to investment and trade” has already started.

Glad to know that Dr. Pham and Ambassador @TiborPNagyJr, former U.S. Ambassador to Ethiopia, who just rejoined the state Dept, and who knows the region very well, will influence the big U.S. economic policy changes coming to the Horn.

This should be very good news for implementing pragmatic U.S. policies to support the transformation of the economies in Eastern Africa, including Ethiopia, the region’s largest economy and Africa’s second most populous country.