Crenshaw

Fiscal Conservative.

[Sony Thăng @nxt888]

Here's a thought experiment they don't teach in American schools.

Imagine a foreign power, significantly stronger than the United States, decided after a disputed intelligence assessment that the American government posed a threat.

It assembled a coalition, invaded, removed the government, disbanded the military, releasing hundreds of thousands of armed men into unemployment, and installed a transitional authority composed largely of exiles who had been living in the foreign power’s country for twenty years.

It then spent the next decade conducting night raids on American homes.

It ran detention facilities where Americans were held without charge and in some cases tortured.

It operated checkpoints in American cities where American citizens were stopped, searched, and sometimes killed by foreign soldiers who did not speak English and could not distinguish a civilian from a combatant and in many cases did not particularly try.

A generation of American children grew up in this environment.

Would you describe those children's resulting hostility to the foreign power as:

(A) A rational response to their lived experience

or

(B) Evidence of a cultural pathology that requires theological and anthropological analysis?

You already know the answer.

You knew it before I finished the sentence.

The exercise is only necessary because the question is never asked the right way around.

[LPC @landpalestine]

not only did Erling Haaland do a hat trick on israel and use one of their own players to score a goal

Norway donated all the money made from that game to Palestine

[𒋻 @AdiiiFCB]

Will they ask Christian Pulisic or Weston Mckennie what do they think about their country inflicting a genocide in Gaza and bombing Iranian kids? Why are these type of questions always asked to Asians and Africans?

[Vigilante 🇿🇦 @vigilantersa]

When I am president, Robben Island will be a working prison again, and the ANC leaders will be the first inmates.

So yeah.

[Israel Exposed @xIsraelExposedx]

Mrs Sarah Wilkinson @swilkinsonbc is a 63 year old journalist that has been documenting the Gaza genocide from early on. The UK government is charging her with terrorism crimes for simply posting the news out of Gaza, in an effort to silence her. This is unacceptable. Please follow her & support her during this trial.

[Max Blumenthal @MaxBlumenthal]

"No, on Gaza. Break it all apart. Along with the soldiers who got abducted."

More cold, hard evidence of the Israeli government's stated intention to commit genocide in Gaza while killing hundreds of its own citizens under the Hannibal Directive on Oct 7

[Power to the People ☭🕊 @ProudSocialist]

The captain of Iran’s National Team, Mehdi Taremi, calls out FIFA and the U.S.:

“This is a disaster World Cup. We can’t stay in the country and have to travel every time we play without any recovery. Now we can’t stay in Seattle and have to return to Tijuana. This is not fair.”

[Cenk Uygur @cenkuygur]

The problem with finding out that you've been fed Israeli propaganda your whole life isn't just that Israel took advantage of us, it's the realization that everyone in power, in media and government, have been lying to us all along. And that they betrayed us.

[Ana Kasparian @AnaKasparian]

The IDF is still bombing tents full of civilians Gaza...and I'm supposed to be worried about disarming Hezbollah? Please.

[knick @Knick_RSA]

R500 Billion for COVID Disappeared

R1 Billion for the National Dialogue disappeared

$676 Million for Green Energy Transition disappeared

R600 Million for 30 March will disappear

These are just a few.

[Craig Murray @CraigMurrayOrg]

Kudos to Jose Mourinho, Alan Shearer and many other footballing figures who have called out the outrageous and impossible VAR offside decision against Iran.

But none of them has stated the truth: it was not incompetence, it was FIFA political corruption.

[Ana Kasparian @AnaKasparian]

This man is a disgrace.

[The Kobeissi Letter @KobeissiLetter]

BREAKING: The US Pentagon delayed publicly announcing US strikes on Iran until after the US stock market had closed at 4 PM ET on Friday, per NBC News.

The timing of the announcement was reportedly intended to "reduce the immediate impact on financial markets."

[Ndlombango ka Tomase. @Ndlombango]

If you know how busy China Mall in Johannesburg is, guess what, the whole mall is closed. Closed because of the looming march against illegal immigrants. That says a lot about what is happening in that mall. It is a hub of illegal immigrants.

[Vuyo Zungula MP 🇿🇦 @ZungulaVuyo]

Apartheid government partnered with governments in the SADC region to send their labour to SA in an effort to isolate and weaken black South Africans, the ANC government continued with this practice hence the crisis we have today.

[GBC @GBC_Press]

🚨 BREAKING:

​The United Nations has officially declared Gaza a genocide zone, stating that Israel is deliberately targeting children and infants.

​It took them three full years to reach this conclusion.

[Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan]

Has there ever been a World Cup where a team is playing in the host country on the literal same day that the host country is bombing that team's country?

[͏b͏l͏a͏n͏c @dqveed]

greet his children after having killed other people’s children

[MR. HiMSELF @pushinM15]

South Africa has 17,450 empty teacher posts.

Not 17,450 teachers who couldn't be found.

17,450 posts that simply weren't filled.

Here's what makes it worse.

The Department of Basic Education's own National Recruitment Database has 12,700 qualified, unemployed educators actively looking for work right now. Trained teachers. Ready to teach. Sitting at home.

So this isn't a skills shortage. It's a system failure.

While those posts sit empty, South African learners are paying the price. Over 50% of primary school children are taught in classes of more than 40 pupils. Some Gauteng classrooms have 60 to 70 learners per teacher. KwaZulu-Natal averages 39 learners per teacher. These aren't schools.

They're holding pens.

The remaining teachers aren't doing fine either. Research from Stellenbosch University found that 44% of Grade R to Grade 12 teachers feel burned out "always or very often." Nearly half are considering leaving the profession within the next decade. And over 30,000 already left in just five years.

The pipeline is ageing too.

About 49% of current public school teachers are 50 or older. Retirement is coming. Fast.
We keep asking why matric results are what they are. Why Grade 4 learners can't read.

Why the system underperforms year after year.

The answer is standing right in front of us.

You can't build human capital in a classroom with 70 kids and one exhausted teacher.

[Mukhtar @I_amMukhtar]

A Scottish fan chanted, "Free Palestine."

"I was a nurse in Gaza. I volunteered in Gaza. I’ve seen what happens. There is a genocide. Free Palestine."

She's a hero.