Alexandra Brangeon

[MphoDibakoane @mpho_shambie]

One of the certified morons saying nothing...yet thinking his nothing is something!

@EFFSouthAfrica

[Thomas P (TOM) Logan 🇯🇵 🇺🇸 @TokyoTom2020]

The lead article in #LePoint from #France (“The Great Heist”)is an extensive investigation into the intersection of Trump’s second term and his and family’s private business interests. The report argues that the White House under Trump has shockingly been transformed into a "cash machine" for the #Trump family and their associates.

Key themes of the article include:

1. The "Crypto-President": The report examines how the administration’s shift toward pro-crypto policies coincided with the launch of Trump-branded digital assets and "World Liberty Financial," alleging that regulatory decisions are being influenced by the President's personal holdings.

2. Insider Trading Allegations: Le Point investigates "troubling" market fluctuations that occur immediately following the President's social media posts or policy announcements. It suggests that a small circle of "insiders" may be profiting from prior knowledge of these shifts.

3. Real Estate & Private Clubs: The article details how foreign delegations and lobbyists continue to frequent Trump-owned properties (like Mar-a-Lago), creating a system where access to the Commander-in-Chief is effectively a commercial transaction.

4. The "Trumpification" of Washington: Beyond the money, the article describes an "aesthetic of power," where the President’s personal brand—symbolized by the gold coin shown on the cover—is being merged with the official symbols of the American state as the country approaches its 250th anniversary.

The tone of the piece is highly critical, framing these actions not just as ethical lapses, but as a systematic "heist" of democratic norms for private gain.

[Alexandra Brangeon @AlexRFI]

@linazed2 please DM

[Alexandra Brangeon @AlexRFI]

Great photos.. congratulations

[lynsey addario @lynseyaddario]

Honored to share that my work on Sudan has won the @opcofamerica Olivier Rebbot Award for Best photographic news reporting 📷

The war in Sudan has raged on for nearly three years, with 11 million displaced and more than 400,000 killed.

This award is dedicated to all those we met and photographed @TheAtlantic @anneapplebaum

Congrats to all the winners for some incredible journalism!

https://t.co/4HPfBIAOXM

[lynsey addario @lynseyaddario]

Honored to share that my work on Sudan has won the @opcofamerica Olivier Rebbot Award for Best photographic news reporting 📷

The war in Sudan has raged on for nearly three years, with 11 million displaced and more than 400,000 killed.

This award is dedicated to all those we met and photographed @TheAtlantic @anneapplebaum

Congrats to all the winners for some incredible journalism!

https://t.co/4HPfBIAOXM

[Lauren Blanchard @LaurenBinDC]

Some may ask, if the "Sudanese Muslim Brotherhood" is being designated as Foreign Terrorist Organization for, as Rubio says here, its "mass executions of civilians," why hasnt the United States similarly sanctioned the Rapid Support Forces, which has been implicated in genocide?

[Canada Hates Trump @AntiTrumpCanada]

Marco Rubio: "Iran is run by lunatics, religious fanatic lunatics"

Paula White, Trump’s religious fanatic lunatic ‘Spiritual Advisor’…
*You need to see the entire clip just to appreciate how batshit fucking crazy she is.

[Virunga National Park @gorillacd]

Le 3 mars, les jumeaux de la famille Bageni ont atteint l’âge de deux mois — une étape historique pour le Parc National des Virunga. Ils ont été nommés Uzima et Urithi, symboles de vie, de survie, d’héritage et de continuité.

Leur mère, Mafuko, continue de faire preuve d’une résilience remarquable, prenant soin avec attention des deux nouveau-nés malgré les exigences supplémentaires liées aux jumeaux.

Les jumeaux, qui s’agrippent fermement à elle, commencent à effectuer de petits mouvements et à développer leur coordination. Nous espérons qu’à la fin de leur troisième mois, ils pourront se déplacer de manière autonome pour la première fois.

Notre équipe de suivi reste pleinement mobilisée, accompagnant les déplacements de la famille et apportant un soutien quotidien durant ces premiers mois cruciaux.

Nous remercions l’Union Européenne et l’UNESCO pour leur soutien continu, qui rend ces progrès possibles.

📹 Parc National des Virunga

#GorillesDeMontagne #GorillesJumeaux #RDC

@EU_Commission @EU_Partnerships @UNESCO

[Nathaniel Raymond @nattyray11]

Comment from @HRL_YaleSPH on today’s important @UNHumanRights report finding RSF committed genocide after capture of El Fasher in October 2025. #KeepEyesOnSudan

[Mohanad @MohanadElbalal]

“At least 19 women were raped in rooms filled with corpses, including the bodies of their own husbands.” Yet saying that this genocidal militia must be dismantled gets you slandered as a war monger an Army boot licker or an Islamist. Truth is no nation would tolerate these monsters and Sudanese would not be expected to; if it wasn’t for the RSF militia’s wealthy UAE sponsors buying influence.

[Mohamad Bazzi @BazziNYU]

“Under any other president, a UAE royal secretly paying $500 million to the Trump family’s crypto business would cause a political earthquake in Washington. There would be an investigation by Congress, televised hearings, and months of damage control” — my latest @guardian

[Alexandra Brangeon @AlexRFI]

Bobi Wine: «Je suis en fuite», l’opposant ougandais conteste l’élection et appelle à la désobéissance civile https://t.co/YLxnLkD5Ej via @RFI

[Nathaniel Raymond @nattyray11]

To everybody still trying to deny the irrefutable evidence of the wide scale and intentional massacre of civilians in El Fasher, Sudan, please watch the statement today from @IntlCrimCourt. I’ll wait.

[Hala Y Alkarib @Halayalkarib]

#KeepEyesOnSudan
Where is Muammr? The journalist who reported #ElFasher news before it was captured by RSF. The last time he was seen was in a video shared by RSF, filming his capture. Is he alive or dead?

[Thomas van Linge @ThomasVLinge]

Iran: footage from the city of Kermanshah, shot a few days ago and posted online by someone through an Iraqi SIM, showing the intensity of gunfire by regime forces as they were cracking down on protests.

[Cameron Hudson @_hudsonc]

The full Security Council session on #Sudan today. I'm grateful to the A3+ for inviting me to brief on a subject that I have worked on for more than 20 years. It all culminated in this. I hope it helps makes a difference to the people living through hell. https://t.co/J7zOH4H0ST

[Amgad Fareid Eltayeb @Amgad_Fareid]

Nathaniel Raymond, Executive Director at Humanitarian Research Lab (HRL) at Yale School of Public Health @nattyray11 :
“For what happens in al-Fashr. And so I’m going to say some things that I’ve never said publicly before here in a second. We got ground photos from al-Janina pretty early on in the killing that we had not made public. And that became very important, because we were using them to measure the bodies, because there were so many body piles of Masalit men and boys. They basically caught this one neighborhood and blocked it off. And they raped the women and the girls, but the women and the girls would gather the bodies and put them in basically a mausoleum they created out of a schoolhouse. And so we could navigate and follow the RSF killing from space using the body piles as navigation points. They were killing so many. And so we got very good measurement that the average dead Masalit boy was 1.3 meters and dead Masalit man was 2 meters in 30-centimeter, very high-resolution satellite imagery. And so we then detect, through NASA sensors, thermal plumes exploding to the north and a little bit to the south, but mostly the north-northwest. The village of Serba goes up. We watch that from space as they attack like hyenas. They come in on one side to lead the people in one direction. Then they attack from the other direction very closely. And so what I’m saying is we assessed at that point for the US government that the RSF was using the fighting in the capital to finish the Darfur genocide beginning with the Masalit. And we sent a very important secret warning saying that al-Fasher would likely be under attack by the end of the 2023-2024 dry season. So an important thing here. Any Sudanese people in the house? Yeah. So you guys know that the fighting in Sudan is seasonal. And the weather patterns are essential to assessing and predicting what people are going to do. And so we sent a message to the US government up to National Security Council, National Intelligence Council, that al-Fasher was going to be under attack probably earliest November ‘23 into the beginning of ‘24. And we briefed the UN Security Council in private session in July 2023. So we were two and a half years from the massacre in al-Fasher that would happen on October 26 until now. And so we had two and a half years of warning. And we could see from how they were moving the forces out of Jenana. They were attacking the critical SAF garrisons, but also the communities around Zalengi, Nyala, Kass, Ardmada, the Bulbul massacre. And so they were basically creating this net that the focus was al-Fasher. And the reason why al-Fasher was so important to go back to the first genocide is that the Zagawa and the four, really because of, in a way, success of UN peacekeeping, had run to al-Fasher as the safe haven. And around al-Fasher, you have al-Salam, Abu Shuk, and most importantly, Zamzam camp, 12 kilometers to the south. So on one hand, they go into the safe haven, and they become sitting ducks. And so we could see, by the time we get to the spring of 2024, so we sat the siege watching from space for 18 months. The siege lasted 18 months. I want to put this in perspective. Al-Fasher was under siege for three and a half times Stalingrad, and three quarters the siege of Leningrad during World War II. Gaza was under IPC-5 for, I think, a month to two months. Correct me if I’m wrong. We were under IPC-5 and al-Fasher, integrated phase classification level five, highest level of famine, for 15 months, OK, 15 months. And now that the massacre has happened and the city has fallen to the RSF, the aid workers that we talk to, and this is a good lead-in to my friend, that those who have arrived in Tawila, which Nick mentioned, which is the last safe haven out of al-Fasher, those very few that have arrived have one of the highest rates of malnutrition we have ever recorded in my knowledge as a humanitarian. And who arrived out of the massacre?…

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[Nathaniel Raymond @nattyray11]

@RAlshallal None of the imagery this man is showing is the actual imagery and analysis performed by @HRL_YaleSPH that shows discoloration consistent with blood. This is the actual image:




[Umut Çağrı Sarı @umutcagrisari]

One year before the #Sudan war began, in 2022 look who is sitting in the back seat of the room where Israeli President Isaac Herzog met with UAE leader Zayed Al Nahyan in Abu Dhabi.

UAE backed RSF militia Hemedti.

Credit: @salihcumaydin