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[Charles M. Blow @CharlesMBlow]

Hypocrisy hunting is one of my favorite sports.

Over 15 months ago, former gambling industry executive Randy Fine was running for Congress in Florida. Trump had endorsed him. Then he tweeted: “‘Palestinian’ is another word for demon.” He wasn’t widely condemned for it. He didn’t apologize. The president didn’t retract his endorsement. In fact, the tweet remains up to this day. Fine won his race and is now a sitting U.S. congressman.

On the other hand, conservatives can’t stop talking about people like New York’s Darializa Avila Chevalier, also running for Congress, who has since deleted her controversial tweets.

Why the different treatment for a similar offense? Because these people don’t really care about hate; they care about using any and everything as a weapon against their opponents.

So, I had one mission that night: make them condemn, on air, their own Republican hate speech. They didn’t have a choice. Mission accomplished!

[Sony Thăng @nxt888]

Empire rots the soul at home.

Not with dramatic, visible corruption.

With the slow normalization of the unacceptable.

The homeless person outside the office building of the wealthiest corporation in human history. Normal.

The insulin-rationing. Normal.

The politicians who enter public service at a middle-class salary and leave as multimillionaires without anyone in the serious press treating this as something requiring serious explanation. Normal.

The children in the richest country on earth doing active shooter drills. Normal.

The veterans sleeping under bridges in the cities of the country that thanks them for their service at every football game. Normal.

Normalcy is the most powerful political force on earth.

Not ideology. Not propaganda.

Just the daily, accumulated, habituated sense that this is how things are, this is how they have always been, this is the weather, not the architecture.

Empire produces this normalcy deliberately.

It requires it.

A population that sees the abnormality clearly would ask questions about the infrastructure of the abnormality.

The infrastructure prefers not to be questioned.

So it makes the abnormal normal, and the normal invisible, and calls the people who point at it idealistic, naive, or dangerous.

And the rot continues.

Quietly. Politely. On schedule.

[JIKAN WAZIRI 🌶️🌶️🌶️ @mkadamu3]

The Dark Secret behind Nigeria's "Bandit " crises (Exposed)

YOU ARE NOT SUPPOSED TO KNOW THIS CONTENT.

[Going Underground @GUnderground_TV]

Prof. Jeffrey Sachs on the farce of Western countries telling Congo to ‘just govern properly’:

‘The Kingdom of Belgium created a slave colony in Congo for 30 years. The government of Belgium ran the slave colony for another 40 years.

The CIA assassinated Congo’s first popular leader Patrice Lumumba, and then installed another dictatorship for the next 30 years.

And then Glencore and others now suck out your cobalt without giving Congo tax income. We don’t reflect on that. We say what’s wrong with you? Why don’t you govern properly?’

[ɠɧıʂɧ @rirokpik]

One of THE BEST Mike drop moments.

[Black, Blessed & Unbothered @MelanatedTalk]

The biggest trick America ever pulled was convincing Black people that we are the face of crime… while statistics continue to show who commits the majority of violent crime in this country.
And every time someone states facts, people get uncomfortable.
#BlackFacts
#BlackPeople

[Sony Thăng @nxt888]

They exported color revolutions to countries whose governments stopped cooperating.

They exported culture war to their own citizens who might have started asking questions.

Same machinery. Same purpose. Same result.

Foreign population too busy surviving a destabilized economy to organize politically.

Domestic population too busy fighting each other about symbols to notice they've been economically gutted.

The target is always the same: any form of collective consciousness that might look upward instead of sideways.

Sideways is safe.

Sideways is neighbors fighting neighbors.

Upward is dangerous.

Upward is class.

[Sony Thăng @nxt888]

Take any population on earth.

For several generations, remove their most physically capable members by force and sell them abroad.

Destroy their existing political institutions and replace them with administrative structures designed to extract rather than develop.

Draw their borders to maximize ethnic conflict and minimize political coherence.

Extract their mineral and agricultural wealth for a century at prices you set unilaterally.

When you leave, install governments that serve your economic interests rather than their populations.

Fund civil wars when those governments are threatened by leaders who want to redirect resource revenues toward domestic development.

Then, three generations later, administer a cognitive test.

Compare the scores to those of the populations who spent the same period accumulating capital, building universities, developing public health infrastructure, and compounding the advantages of political stability.

Put the results on a map.

Call the map a "nature documentary."

Tell yourself the scores show something biological.

Tell yourself the history had nothing to do with it.

Tell yourself you arrived at this conclusion by following the evidence.

You did not follow the evidence.

You followed the map to the place you had already decided to go.

And the evidence, the entire, documented, sourced, cross-disciplinary evidence, is the invoice you refused to open.

[Dr. Sh. Haifaa Younis @DrHaifaaYounis]

When you don't see salah as a duty, you'll see its real purpose. It makes you reflect, relax, and not be overwhelmed by what's happening around you. Allahﷻ didn’t command salah as a burden. Salah is a break. The forceful break Allahﷻ gives us to pull us out of this rat race.

[Sony Thăng @nxt888]

The same Western governments you want to protect from "third world migration" spent centuries in the Third World.

They did not go as tourists.

They built systems of extraction that transferred wealth from those countries to these ones.

The infrastructure gap, the institutional gap, the development gap between the Global South and the Global North is not a natural feature of geography.

It is the documented result of specific policies, maintained over specific decades, by specific governments.

That wealth transfer built the hospitals, the universities, the roads, the pension systems, and the standard of living that make Western countries attractive to migrants in the first place.

The destination is built from what was taken from the origin.

And now you’re telling me that the people from the origin, following the wealth that came from their countries to the countries it went to, are the destructive element in this story.

Not the extraction.

Not the deliberate underdevelopment.

Not the coups, the structural adjustment programs, or the trade rules written to benefit one side.

The people.

Always, in this argument, the people.

The wealth moves freely.

Capital moves freely.

Corporations move freely across every border on Earth, chasing cheaper labor and lower taxes.

But the humans who were made poor by those movements must stay where the poverty is.

That arrangement is not natural.

It was built.

By the same civilization now talking about "destruction."

[Jackie Singh @HackingButLegal]

Everyone needs to watch this video.

[Francesca Albanese, UN Special Rapporteur oPt @FranceskAlbs]

URGENT! For any country where (from Italy to Thailand or Brazil) possible war criminals go on holiday and R&R. 🇮🇱 soldiers must be investigated, evidence assessed, and responsibility determined through DUE PROCESS.

This is not incitement to commit violence. It is accountability.

[Sony Thăng @nxt888]

They sent anthropologists.

After the invasions of Iraq and Afghanistan were not going as planned, the U.S. military launched the Human Terrain System, a program that embedded social scientists with combat brigades to help soldiers understand local culture, tribal dynamics, religious practices, and community structures.

The idea was:

If we understand them better, we can manage them better.

Notice what is missing from that sentence.

Not: if we understand them better, we might reconsider what we are doing to them.

Not: if we understand them better, we might recognize that their resistance is a rational response to our presence.

Just:

Understand them better to manage them better.

To make the occupation more efficient.

To reduce friction.

To make the subjugation smoother.

They sent anthropologists to explain why the people they were bombing were upset about being bombed.

And then were puzzled when the bombing continued to produce upset people.

The program was eventually shut down following criticism that it violated research ethics, after several embedded researchers were killed.

The researchers were killed by the people they were sent to understand.

The people were upset because they were being bombed.

The circle is complete.

[Don Salmon @dijoni]

An Asian man tried to challenge Black people about our dollars. They have to delete that post.. and now they’re complaining say it is racism to not spend our money with them.

[Sony Thăng @nxt888]

Let’s talk about what European colonialism specifically did to African educational infrastructure, since you believe Africans "have access to the same education."

Belgian colonial policy in the Congo explicitly limited African education to the primary-school level. Secondary education was controlled almost entirely by Catholic missions and deliberately restricted. Higher education for Congolese people was essentially nonexistent under Belgian rule.

When the Congo became independent in 1960, a country of 15 million people had approximately 30 university graduates.

Thirty.

Not three thousand. Not three hundred.

Thirty people with university degrees in a country the size of Western Europe.

This was not an accident. This was policy.

The colonial administration made a calculated decision that an educated African population was a threat to colonial order, and structured its educational provision accordingly.

Now, what does a country's educational system look like three generations after independence when it started with thirty university graduates, inherited no developed educational infrastructure, and spent its first decades under a Western-backed kleptocracy that extracted rather than invested?

It looks like the outcome on the map.

The outcome on the map that you are attributing to biology.

[Idris @7signxx]

Ya Allah...

[Don Salmon @dijoni]

Why did the Iranian revolution took place in 1979 because of American intervention in 1953 that get rid of the progressive Prime Minister?, America supported Saddam Hussein invasion of Iran give Saddam Hussein chemical weapon to use against the people of Iran.. 79.

[Drop Site @DropSiteNews]

Ta-Nehisi Coates: Future Congresswoman Chevalier represents actual voters. A district filled with black and brown people. And what James Carville is saying is a “statement on how he feels about black and brown people, and the fact that they are useful to him when they vote the way that he agrees with. When they don’t, kick them out of the party. They don’t deserve representation.”

Coates said the Democratic Party “owes its very present existence to the Black freedom struggle.” “Is it actually honoring the core morality and principles of that struggle?” he asked.

[Sahori Gamez @SahoriIfamosun]

Please watch this beautiful igbeyawo done in Mexico by bàbá Efuwape Olatunji Àràbà Isara Remo. Congrats to the couple!

[Oyíndà @yorubachic]

I pity the future of Yorubas in Nigeria. We’re losing these practices, and even actively calling it demonic. I’ve not seen any recent mainstream Yoruba wedding doing any of these.