Ibrahim S.Ringim

[Papa León XIV @Pontifex_es]

Mañana comenzará el Mundial, y muchos estarán atentos a los partidos. El fútbol nos recuerda algo que no debemos olvidar: la vida no es una carrera para lucirse en solitario, sino un camino que aprendemos a recorrer juntos. Quien no sabe pasar el balón, aunque tenga talento, todavía no ha entendido el juego. Y quien no sabe vivir con los demás y para los demás, todavía no ha entendido la vida. #ViajeApostólico

[Pedro Sánchez @sanchezcastejon]

Hoy se cumplen ocho años desde que fui investido presidente del Gobierno.

Ocho años en los que hemos transformando profundamente la realidad y mejorado la vida de las personas.

Desde 2018 hasta ahora, nuestro PIB ha crecido un 12,3%, tres puntos más que el promedio de la UE, casi el doble que el de países como Italia o Francia y 10 veces más que el de Alemania.

Hemos creado tres millones y medio de empleos.

Hemos cruzado por primera vez la cifra histórica de los 22 millones de afiliados a la Seguridad Social y la tasa de paro es la más baja de los últimos 18 años.

Hemos subido el salario mínimo un 66%. Dando a empresas y trabajadores herramientas como los ERTE para evitar que los despidos sean la respuesta natural a las crisis.

Hemos aprobado una reforma laboral que ha reducido la temporalidad en 12 puntos y ha hecho que el salario medio crezca un 23%, cuatro puntos por encima de la inflación.

Hemos impulsado una profunda transformación estructural de nuestro tejido productivo de la mano de los Fondos del Plan de Recuperación que negociamos en Bruselas. Ya hemos desplegado 67.000 M€ para la modernización de nuestra economía, que han permitido impulsar la digitalización y la transición verde.

Nuestra apuesta por la energía limpia y barata nos ha permitido más que duplicar la potencia instalada de renovables desde 2018. Las energías renovables han pasado de generar el 39% de nuestra electricidad en 2018 al 56% en 2025. Y seguimos.

Hemos redoblado nuestra apuesta por la educación y la innovación. Hemos superado por primera vez los más 2.500 millones al año dedicado a becas y ayudas al estudio. Y hemos culminado la reforma de la Formación Profesional, financiando la creación de 400.000 nuevas plazas, lo que ha permitido que hoy tengamos casi un 50% más de alumnos que en 2018.

Hemos expandido los derechos sociales. Cuando llegué al Gobierno, los padres tenían un permiso de poco más de un mes cuando nacía su hijo. Hoy tenemos un sistema de permisos igualitarios e intransferibles para padres y madres de 19 semanas.

Hemos aprobado una reforma de pensiones destinada a dar certidumbre a los pensionistas presentes y futuros, mejorar las pensiones mínimas y fortalecer su sostenibilidad. Hoy los pensionistas tienen garantizado su poder adquisitivo, lo que ha permitido que la pensión media haya pasado de 950€ al mes en 2018 a 1.400€ hoy.

Hemos creado un Ingreso Mínimo Vital que ha servido para proteger las rentas de más un millón de hogares vulnerables, y que ha permitido que la desigualdad y la pobreza estén hoy en los mínimos de las últimas dos décadas.

Y hemos fortalecido el Estado del bienestar: incrementando un 174% la financiación a la dependencia, aumentado un 54% las plazas de Formación Sanitaria (MIR), y multiplicado por ocho la inversión estatal en vivienda.

Queda muchísimo por hacer. Pero estos ocho años demuestran lo mucho que podemos hacer juntos y juntas. Seguimos.

[Esmaeil Baqaei @IRIMFA_SPOX]

The #EU’s statement blaming Iran for exercising its right to self-defense against U.S. aggression launched from bases in neighboring countries is a masterclass in selective moral outrage; it is hypocritical and reckless.

The EU (@eu_eeas) must remain faithful to the rule of law and the principles of the UN Charter that it has long claimed to uphold. It must stop appeasing aggressors while blaming those who respond to unlawful attacks.

Iran’s strikes against those bases & assets that are used to launch unlawful attacks against Iran are a lawful exercise of self-defense.

States have an established legal obligation not to allow their territory or assets to be used for invading other countries.

[Pope Leo XIV @Pontifex]

Artificial intelligences do not undergo experiences, do not possess a body, do not feel joy or pain, do not mature through relationships, and do not know from within what love, work, friendship or responsibility mean. Nor do they have a moral conscience, since they do not judge good and evil, grasp the ultimate meaning of situations, or bear responsibility for consequences. They may imitate or even simulate, but they do not understand what they produce, for they lack the affective, relational, and spiritual perspective through which human beings grow in wisdom. #MagnificaHumanitas

[Pope Leo XIV @Pontifex]

No nation, no society, and no international order can call itself just and humane if it measures its success solely by power or prosperity while neglecting those who live at the margins. Indeed, Christ’s love for the least and the forgotten compels us to reject every form of selfishness that leaves the poor and the vulnerable invisible.

[Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @NYCMayor]

Today marks Nakba Day, an annual day of remembrance to commemorate the expulsion of more than 700,000 Palestinians between 1947 and 1949 during the creation of the State of Israel and the year that followed.

Inea is a New Yorker and a Nakba survivor. She shared her story with us — one of home, tradition and memory over generations.

[Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @NYCMayor]

Inflation is at a three-year high. Everything costs more — groceries, gas, healthcare, a plane ticket.

The math is simple. Every American dollar spent overseas on war is a dollar that could’ve been spent here at home to pay for a dignified life. It's time we change the equation.

[Former Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene🇺🇸 @FmrRepMTG]

This video grieves my soul.

America, how can we stay silent? How can we fund this?

Even more so, American Christians how can you turn your head and not care?

These are God’s children too.

[António Guterres @antonioguterres]

For too long, Africa’s resources have been extracted, the value captured elsewhere, the environmental damage left behind.

No more exploitation. No more plundering.

The people of Africa must benefit - first & most - from the resources of Africa.

[Abu bakar @abbkar_ai]

List of Major Industrial Companies That Have Collapsed or Become Inactive in Northern Nigeria…

•Nigerian Paper Mill, Jebba
The company collapsed in 2005

•Lafiagi Sugar Company, Kwara
The company collapsed in 2003

•Bacita Sugar Company
The company collapsed in 2002

•Arewa Breweries, Kano
The company collapsed in 2000

•Northern Oil & Allied Products
The company collapsed in 1999

•Kano Mattress Factory
The company collapsed in 2000

•Kano Plastic Company
The company collapsed in 2000

•Nigeria Bottling Company
The company collapsed in 2004

•Goldline Biscuit Factory, Kano
The company collapsed in 2009

•Arewa Metal Containers (AMECO)
The company collapsed in 1998

•Durbar Hotel (Kaduna/Kano)
The company collapsed in 2000

•Kano Tanneries (mills)
The company collapsed in 1990

•Kaduna Fertilizer Company (KFC)
The company collapsed in 2002

•Nigerian Romanian Wood Factory
The company collapsed in 2000

•Nigerian Tanneries Limited
The company collapsed in 2000

Some Other Companies:

1. KADUNA STATE
•Kaduna Textile Limited (KTL) — collapsed in 2002

•Arewa Textiles — collapsed in 1996

•Finetex Nigeria, Kaduna — collapsed in 2003

•Supertex — collapsed in 2000
•Unitex / United Nigerian Textiles — collapsed in 2005

•Nortex Textile — collapsed in 2001

•Nigerian-German Chemicals, Kaduna — collapsed in 2004

•Peugeot Automobile Nigeria (PAN) — collapsed in 2007

•Premier Breweries — collapsed in 2000

2. KANO STATE
•Kano Textile Printing (KTP) — collapsed in 1998

•Bagauda Textile — collapsed in 1995

•Chedi Textile — collapsed in 1997

•Chalawa Textile Mills — collapsed in 1998

•Gaskiya Textile Mills — collapsed in 1999

•Kano Spinning and Weaving — collapsed in 1990

•Daula Textiles — collapsed in 2000

•SuperTextile — collapsed in 2004
•Hajara Textiles — collapsed in 2002
•Nigeria Oil Mills (NOM) — collapsed in 1999
•Bayero Pharmaceutical — collapsed in 2000
•Dala Foods — collapsed in 2008
•Tofa Textile — collapsed in 2001
•Mambayya Textile — collapsed in 1990
•ANCON Textile — collapsed in 2000

3. KATSINA STATE
•Funtua Textiles — collapsed in 2005
•Daura Textiles — collapsed in 2000
•Kankara Kaolin Processing — collapsed in 2000

4. SOKOTO & ZAMFARA STATES
•Gusau Textile — collapsed in 1999
•Zamfara Textiles — collapsed in 2004
•Sokoto Textile — collapsed in 1993
•Sokoto Ceramic Tiles Factory — collapsed in 2005

5. BAUCHI, GOMBE & NORTH EAST

•Bauchi Furniture Company — collapsed in 2000
•Bauchi Meat Factory — collapsed in 2003
•Steyr Nigeria (Bauchi – tractors) — collapsed in 2007
•Gombe Oil Mills — collapsed in 2001
•Ashaka Textile — collapsed in 1990

[Zagazola @ZagazOlaMakama]

OPINION: If Plateau’s Illegal Arms Factories Belonged to Fulani Militias, the World Would Be Burning

By: Zagazola Makama

The discovery of another illegal arms factory in Plateau State should have shaken the conscience of the nation. But it did not. Not because the development was insignificant, but because it did not fit the preferred narrative carefully marketed for years by crisis merchants, foreign lobbyists, and politically interested actors feeding off the Plateau conflict.

Imagine for a moment if troops had uncovered three illegal arms factories operated by Fulani militias in their harmlet in Plateau within three weeks. Imagine if security forces had recovered fabricated AK-47 rifles, welding machines, recoiling springs, ammunition shells and weapon components from settlements associated with Fulani groups. By now, international media would be flooded with headlines screaming “genocide.” Foreign NGOs would issue emergency alerts. U.S. lawmakers would hold hearings. Social media activists would demand sanctions on Nigeria. Naked women and youths would occupy streets in Jos. Protesters would occupy the streets of Abuja, Washington and London. Religious organisations would organise prayer marches and global petitions. Every recovered rifle would become proof of an alleged grand conspiracy to wipe out Christians.

But reality can be inconvenient. Troops of Operation Enduring Peace (OPEP) raided illegal arms manufacturing sites in Vom, Jos South LGA, and arrested five suspects linked to Berom militia networks. Recovered from the factories were fabricated AK-47 rifles, weapon skeletons, revolver components, magazines, welding machines and industrial tools used for weapon production. This was not a rumour. This was not social media speculation. These were physical weapons recovered by troops during a live operation.

Yet the silence has been deafening. No outrage from the usual activists. No emergency press conferences. No sermons condemning the proliferation of illegal arms within Plateau communities. No viral hashtags. No candlelight protests. No foreign NGO reports warning about ethnic militias manufacturing weapons. The same voices that quickly amplify every allegation against Fulani groups suddenly developed selective blindness.

This is the uncomfortable truth many do not want discussed openly: Plateau’s crisis is no longer a simplistic black-and-white story of innocent victims versus faceless attackers. Armed militias exist on multiple sides of the conflict. Weapons are being manufactured locally. Revenge attacks are organised. Narratives are weaponised. Communities arm themselves while simultaneously presenting themselves exclusively as helpless victims before the national and international audience.

And that is exactly why the crisis has persisted for decades. The dangerous part is not merely the weapons themselves. The dangerous part is the ecosystem protecting the narrative. An ecosystem where facts are filtered through ethnicity and religion before they are accepted. An ecosystem where the deaths of some victims generate global outrage while the deaths of others barely earn a mention. An ecosystem where propaganda travels faster than truth.

Over the past months, security operations in Plateau have exposed repeated evidence of armed local militias, reprisal cells, illegal weapon possession, and coordinated attacks hidden beneath carefully crafted emotional narratives. Troops have recovered weapons from local youths. Active shooters were seen in viral videos previously circulated as evidence of “attacks.” Security personnel have repeatedly intervened to stop reprisals between communities. Yet these realities rarely make international reports because they complicate the preferred storyline.

[Mohamad Safa @mhdksafa]

There is no rise in anti-Semitism. There is a rise in the number of people who are very angry at what Israel is doing. Your inability to separate the two is equally problematic.

You cannot continue killing thousands of children and expect the world to stay silent.

[Piers Morgan @piersmorgan]

This Iran War is such a mess, and will only get messier.
President Trump should get out before it inflicts even more economic, political and presidential legacy damage.
Trust your gut, Mr President, not the war hawks. Thankyou for your attention to this matter! PSM.

[Dan Bilzerian @DanBilzerian]

.@RepFine came into government to help jews and Israel, not you. He wants to spend money to kill foreigners instead of helping Americans.

He is the problem

[Mohamad Safa @mhdksafa]

You cannot commit genocide in Gaza, invade Lebanon, bomb Iran, Syria, Yemen, and Iraq, violate Geneva and Vienna Conventions, international law, human rights, and state sovereignty, then hide behind anti-Semitism.

There is no rise in anti-Semitism. There is a rise in the number of people who are very angry at what Israel is doing. Your inability to separate the two is equally problematic.

[Tucker Carlson @TuckerCarlson]

Why would an Israeli soldier use a sledgehammer to smash the face of Jesus? Because there are a lot of people in Israel who hate Christianity above all. How can American evangelical leaders support this?

[Bernie Sanders @BernieSanders]

It's not just Gaza, Iran and Lebanon.

In the West Bank since October 2023, Israeli soldiers and settlers have:

Killed 1,071 Palestinians
Demolished 6,000+ homes
Built 200+ illegal outposts

No more U.S. military aid to Israel.

[Andrey X @the_andrey_x]

I think this is the best picture I've ever taken

[Joe Kent @joekent16jan19]

POTUS is laying out two courses of action—a negotiated settlement, or a major escalation.

There is a third option, and he should take it: recognize there is no way to force a positive outcome and simply leave.

The region is not ours to fix. President Reagan chose this path in Lebanon in ‘84, withdrawing U.S. forces after the Beirut barracks bombing once it became clear the mission’s stabilization goals could not be met, effectively ending direct American military involvement and avoiding a deeper quagmire and long-term entrenchment in the region.

A negotiated settlement is unlikely to work or be taken seriously by the Iranians unless we make concessions on the enrichment issue. As we saw yesterday in the SOH, the IRGC is empowered to act without the consent of the civilian leadership, so it’s likely they won’t honor any deal reached.

A major escalation will lead to a very destructive outcome for Iran, the region, and eventually the U.S. If POTUS chooses brute force and targets civilian infrastructure, we will create another generation of radicalized Iranians who will rally around the regime and escalate the war by any means possible.

If POTUS opts to strike the civilian infrastructure, declare victory, and then leave, we will only further erode our standing in the world, the petrodollar, and eventually our status as the world’s reserve currency holder. We need to get out now.

Don’t double down on failure. Avoid the sunken cost trap, leave now, and put America’s interests first.

[Glenn Tunes @glenn_tunes]

YOU MAY DISAGREE, BUT THE 168 IRANIAN GIRLS WOULD BE ALIVE AND THE STRAIT OF HORMUZ WOULD BE OPEN, AND THE AMERICAN SOLDIERS WOULD STILL BE ALIVE AND GAS WOULD BE $2.58 A GALLON IF TRUMP HAD BEEN HELD ACCOUNTABLE FOR HIS CRIMES AND LOCKED UP AFTER J6✊✊✊✊✊✊✊✊✊