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[cui bono/who benefits? @BerkeleyEve]

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[Dimko Zhluktenko 🇺🇦⚔️ @dim0kq]

I was at a university graduation and one speech stopped me cold. From my friend Anna.

She's from Mariupol, a city Russia occupied and tried to erase. Her class is the first to study all four years under full-scale war.

She spoke about choice: to defend and build Ukraine. 🇺🇦

[Dimko Zhluktenko 🇺🇦⚔️ @dim0kq]

I feel like we have to push 500% stronger, for the best people we have lost in combat - so that they are proud of us.

I myself keep them in my prayers every day and they motivate me years after becoming KIA.

[Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan]

This is the guy they want you to believe is a radicalized, Islamist, creeping-sharia secret terrorist.

[holocene @holo_cene]

last night i held the second-ever mask-required covid-conscious show in france. i organized this event all by myself to be able to perform safely, and 130+ people showed up 🤍 to those of you who bought online tickets, the delayed broadcast will be available from july 4th!!

[#LandIsNotProperty Mwalimu Wandia @wmnjoya]

The extraction of Kenyan labor isn't about minerals. It's about the mindset on which the Kenya government was founded. Our country was built on the feudal mentality that some people must be at the top (whites) and they have a right to profit from, and extract labor at the bottom (Africans). And Africans are at the bottom because we're uncivilized.

That mindset is built into our institutions, especially into the government. If you listen carefully to GoK people justifying these draconian rules, they will say two things:

1) it's being done by wazungu in their countries, so it must be done here, aka "international standards,"

2) we're doing this for your own good (in this case "safety"), because you Kenyans are not in the modern world (the west) and don't know how special Kenya is to be the only African country earning this privilege from wazungu.

The civil servants will rarely say this out loud, but that's what they mean. Especially when they talk of benchmarking.

The second problem is, even if we have minerals, Kenyan civil servants are hostile to work and manufacturing. It takes WORK to get minerals out of the ground. The Kenyan elite is hostile to work. What they want is things to own and rent, like land and buildings. That's why, when oil was discovered in northern Kenya, they rushed to get title deeds of the surrounding area, presumably to build hotels, malls, petrol stations and rental apartments.

Then remember, Kenya has one million of these guys. That's how big the civil service is. IOW, about 1 out of every 50 or so Kenyans is employed by GoK.

It's easy for one person to control 50 people if they have a monopoly of weapons and state power. That's why GoK is this extractive. We will have to demolish it because, as @m_ogada said, it's not sustainable for parasites to be the biggest member of the ecosystem. We are running out of strength to bear the weight of the Kenyan state.

[B.M. @ireallyhateyou]

"The open-fire instructions I was given were... Man, no matter what age, just immediately kill. They told us 'If it's a woman or a child, you make your own judgement... They even told us that about donkeys"

The Israeli soldier who shot Israeli captive Yotam Haim to death in Gaza in 2023 (in the incident where two more Israeli captives were murdered by the force), describes the rules of engagement ordered by the battalion commander Daniel Luria, who is currently busy blowing up villages in Lebanon.

The woman speaking with the soldier is Iris Haim, Yotam's mother and a genocide propagandist.

Aired on Channel 13 on May 8.

[Carl Bovis @CarlBovisNature]

Bumble Bee standing on one bloom to feed on another! 😍😍🐝🌸

[Jacqueline Charles @Jacquiecharles]

These last few weeks I've been struck by the disconnect between #Haitians in the diaspora who fly the flag but don't want to address or know the problems in #Haiti or over simplify a complicated crisis. They want a sanitized version or none at all. Observed it during World Cup, saw it here in Atlanta. So are we becoming the immigrants who change the spelling of their last names and profess no identification with their roots?! https://t.co/Bsqmp21cdr

[Jacqueline Charles @Jacquiecharles]

https://t.co/DxE25CkGRf

[Daniel Swain @Weather_West]

A serious and still-escalating wildfire outbreak is now underway across interior West, and has today expanded beyond NV & UT into western CO & AZ/NM. Extreme fire behavior and rapid spread is widespread; adverse conditions expected for 7+ days. #UTwx #COwx #AZwx #NMwx [Thread]

[Kate from Kharkiv @BohuslavskaKate]

Explosions in Kharkiv ‼️ our city is under russian attack right now. I'm too tired and sick to move, fuck this shit.

[Seyed Mohammad Marandi @s_m_marandi]

"(Strike) Gaza. Break it all apart. Along with the soldiers who got abducted."

[‏Martyrs of Gaza @GazaMartyrs]

The body of this sweet looking 18 year old boy, Muhammad Abu Al-Bayd, was found in Gaza City after months. He was murdered by occupation agents who riddled him with bullets.

[Acyn @Acyn]

FOX issues an apology: Kevin O'Leary appeared as a guest on the show and discussed the ongoing controversy surrounding his planned data center project in Utah and made claims relating to the opponents of his product. 

Mr. O'Leary has now corrected the record and explained he has “no evidence” that they are funded by the Chinese communist party. Fox News media is aware of no evidence they are funded by or acting in the direction of or were in coordination with Chinese interests in opposing Mr. O'Leary's project.

Fox News Media also apologizes for the error.

[cui bono/who benefits? @BerkeleyEve]

@pepel_klaasa happening in Amsterdam too...

[Charles Booker @Booker4KY]

Kentucky, it is hard to find the words. We have seen the floodwaters rise before, and we know all too well the devastation it can cause. Today’s news is absolutely harrowing.

My heart is with everyone affected by the flooding across the Commonwealth, especially those grieving unimaginable losses today.

To everyone on the front lines and every family facing the uncertainties that lie in the days ahead, I am praying for your strength and sending you love. No matter what comes, I know we’ll find our way through it together.

[Harry Sisson @harryjsisson]

Fox News can’t cope with the fact that nobody showed up to Trump’s fair

[Taghrid Al-Mawed تغريد الموعد @TaghridAlMawed]

The ‘force and beatings’ policy used to break the bones of hundreds of Palestinians was documented during the First Intifada in 1988, when Jewish supremacist yitzhak rabin adopted it. This conduct constitutes a grave breach of the Geneva Conventions and meets the legal threshold of torture, inhuman treatment, and collective punishment. Under international law, it is classified as both a war crime and a crime against humanity under the Rome Statute and the Convention Against Torture.
Those responsible must be held accountable under international criminal law, and Palestinian survivors must be able to testify and preserve their experiences as part of the historical and legal record.
#PalestinianRefugees #Palestine #RightToReturn1948 #Nakba #Gaza

[Kevin Malone @Malone_Wealth]

The Boise, Idaho area was hit with one of the worst summer storms ever recorded yesterday evening. Some areas had more than 8 inches of hail in less than an hour.

[Good Shepherd Collective @Shepherds4Good]

READ: Our latest data analysis covers developments shaping the situation on the ground in real time, as well as attempts to shape it in the future through a US-Israel "defense partnership" that would be hard for any future Congress to repeal. Full piece: https://t.co/9utZc3rf1M