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[Maama Uganda @MaamaUganda02]

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[Alessi Allaman @AlessiAllaman]

"Howard Lutnick lost 658 Cantor Fitzgerald employees who were killed on 9/11..."

Within days — before many were even confirmed dead — Howard Lutnick cut off their paychecks to their families without warning.

He wept on national television. The families were furious.
Years later Cantor Fitzgerald won a $135 million settlement from American Airlines.

Lutnick told senior executives the bulk of the money would go to the firm's partners — not the families of the 658 dead.

He is now Trump's Secretary of Commerce.
He is also the man who lied to Congress about visiting Jeffrey Epstein's island with eight children.

[Gloria DeGeorge @DeGeorgeG]

THIS might be the meme of the day! 👊

[Herod Priovolos @herodpriovolos]

Dear Christopher Nolan,
My name is Herod Priovolos and I want to tell you what #TheOdyssey truly means to me and to generations of Greeks who grew up with Homer’s story.
Homer did not sing of Odysseus simply to entertain us with ships, storms, gods and monsters. He told the story because he understood what war, time, distance and loss can do to the human soul.
Odysseus leaves Ithaca as a king, a husband and a father. He returns twenty years later alone, exhausted and disguised as a beggar, carrying the memory of every companion who never made it home.
The monsters are not merely creatures created for spectacle.
The Cyclops is power without justice. The Sirens are the beautiful voices that tempt a person to abandon their purpose. Circe represents the danger of losing our humanity. Calypso offers Odysseus immortality, but even eternal life becomes a prison when the price is forgetting his wife, his son, his homeland and his own identity.
And Ithaca is not merely an island.
Ithaca is the place that remembers you when the world no longer recognizes your face. It is the home that remains alive inside you after everything else has been taken away. It is Penelope growing older while she waits. It is Telemachus becoming a man without his father. It is Argos surviving long enough to recognize his master one final time.
Odysseus is not great simply because he defeats monsters. He is great because he is proud, frightened, wounded, clever, imperfect and deeply human. He loses his companions, his youth, his name and twenty years of his life, yet he refuses to forget who he is.
When he finally returns, Penelope does not recognize him through strength, glory or appearance. She tests him. Odysseus proves his identity by remembering the bed they built together around the roots of a living olive tree.
That is the heart of The Odyssey.
Not the battles.
Not the ships.
Not the monsters.
Two people standing before each other after twenty years, asking whether love, memory and identity can survive everything time has done to them.
That is why this poem has survived for almost 3,000 years. Every human being is trying to return to something: a home, a person, a lost part of themselves, or the life they had before the world changed them.
So use Homer’s seas, gods, heroes and monsters. But please understand what you are touching.
The Odyssey was never truly about how far a man could travel.
It was about how much the world could take from him before he stopped being himself, and whether, after losing almost everything, he could still find his way home.

[JD @ju22703]

@lowles_nick Being gay is not a life style choice it’s who you are, these 2 are trying to deny that in themselves by extreme behaviour towards women. Bros be honest & drop the act YOU ARE BOTH GAY AS FUCK.

[IRISH PATRIOT @irishpatriot91]

North/Northern Ireland, County Tyrone!

I’m sharing this because of another failure by institutions inside this country, this is disgusting and this family made the following statement. I believe it should be shared, as our leaders do absolutely nothing, many young children are committing suicide over this stuff, but this girl has already suffered so much and it’s heartbreaking 💔

“Wee Caitlin became part of our family as a quiet wee girl shortly after loosing both her parents when she was just 6 years old.
Tragically she further lost her brother the following year.
Caitlin is very much apart of all of our family and is very much loved.

The wee critter has been through more in her short life already than many people could tolerate.

Unfortunately since she started Holy Cross school her quiet and shy mannerisms hasn’t gone unnoticed by half reared bullies who tend to identify vulnerable children.

This incident happened yesterday evening in the canal area of Strabane after Caitlin was lured there by someone acting friendly to her.

This is one of 4 serious assaults that Caitlin has suffered since May. The last one was only weeks ago outside Mc Donald’s in Strabane when she was set upon and dragged by the hair and threw in front of a car.

As a family we have exhausted every avenue and have been let down by both the school and the Police. The scumbags who are doing this have no worries sharing and gloating over these videos so I have no problem sharing what Our wee Caitlin is having to put up with in this town!

When I get the full list of everyone involved I will be naming them and their parents as I’m not fucking having this anymore. And if any of yous see this and know your child is involved I’m telling yous now to put a stop to it or everything that was done to Caitlin by your dragged up brats will be done to yous
To see this video this morning has broken us all. Evil demonic bitches”

[ᜰ 🇦🇷 @markklfc]

Ashley Cole on England’s World Cup semi-final elimination.

🗣️ “England have bottled it. There’s no sugar-coating this. You don’t spend years building one of the most talented squads in world football only to crumble the moment you’re asked to show courage. They gifted Argentina belief and paid the ultimate price.”

“They went into their shell after taking the lead. Instead of finishing the game, they started protecting it like a small nation hanging on against a giant. That mentality is embarrassing for a team with England’s quality. Champions kill games—they don’t hide from them.”

“The manager completely lost his nerve. His substitutions, his tactics, his message to the players—it all screamed fear. Sitting deeper and inviting Lionel Messi and Argentina onto you is football suicide. Everyone watching knew what was coming except the people on the England bench.”

“And the players deserve criticism too. Too many disappeared. Too many hid instead of demanding the ball. When Argentina raised the intensity, England folded like a pack of cards. You cannot call yourself world-class if you vanish when your country needs you most.”

“This wasn’t bad luck. This wasn’t the referee. This wasn’t fatigue. This was a complete collapse of mentality. England threw away a place in the World Cup final because they lacked the courage to keep playing football.”

“If you’re satisfied with reaching the semi-finals, then keep making the same mistakes. But if you genuinely want to become world champions, performances like this should haunt every single person in that dressing room. They didn’t lose to a better team—they lost to their own fear.”

[Acyn @Acyn]

AOC: This is an inhaler pump. We’ve seen that AstraZeneca had this treatment where the actual medication inside did not change at all… But they filed a new patent to maintain exclusivity.

Can you guess what the great innovation was that made it worth preventing this from going generic? It’s this little plastic piece right here. One of the big features of that new patent was this thing to keep the cap from coming off.

That was a major part of the new patent they filed to extend exclusivity and prevent this life-saving drug from going generic, bringing down costs for ever

[Marco Foster @MarcoFoster_]

Hunter Biden on Trump: “I would tell him to go fuck his fucking self. And please leave. This man has tried to torture me for fucking ten years. The shit that he says about my dad. His obsession with tormenting my dad. Hanging a picture of an autopen on the colonnade. Demeaning him and all the things he said about him. What the fuck kind of man would I be if I didn’t tell him to go fuck himself?”

[Haggis_UK 🇬🇧 🇪🇺 @Haggis_UK]

Ed Davey(LibDem leader): "I cannot back joke figures with ridiculous policies, which is why I'm supporting Count Binface." 🤣

#PMQs

[♙Aad Juijn♙ @AJuijn]

Het is bloedheet en u moet werken, maar plots krijgt u een ingeving... 😊🤭

[Wholesome Side of 𝕏 @itsme_urstruly]

may you always be the type of person who points out cows in a field, watches bees on flowers and gets excited when the moon looks extra big.

[Zealand @theoldzealand]

FIFA saying the ball sensor didn't detect hitting the camera wire really just causes problems for them

Because you can see it hit something and move, so how can we trust the sensor

And where's Croatia in all of this

[Mustafa @oprydai]

i often think about this…

[The Sting @TheStingisBack]

Yul Brynner was the First Terminator
11 years before Arnie, Yul Brynner (born OTD in 1920) was the original unstoppable robot that can’t be bargained with, can’t be reasoned with, feels no pity, remorse, or fear, and absolutely will not stop until you’re dead. In Westworld

[Vfynn_🥷🏼 𐙚 @Vfynn_]

🚨🗣️New: Erling Haaland on why England’s equalizer through Bellingham against Norway should not have stood:

“I don’t care how big the moment was, that goal should never have counted. The Laws of the Game are there for everyone. If the ball hits a camera cable and it changes the flight, that’s outside interference. Play stops. It’s a dropped ball. Simple.”

“Instead, England score, the whole momentum changes, and suddenly Norway are chasing a completely different game. Moments like that decide international tournaments.”

“Now imagine the exact same thing happened in a match involving Argentina and Messi. Be honest with yourselves, football wouldn’t hear the end of it. Every TV show, every podcast and every social media account would be calling it one of the biggest refereeing scandals of the tournament. But because it’s England, somehow people are expected to move on.”

“Consistency is all players ask for. Either the Laws apply every game, or they don’t.”

[Paul Bronks @SlenderSherbet]

Me: Why am I always broke?

Amazon: Your cat's car has been delivered.

[Oluwatimileyin✨🦋 @Timmysofine]

A grammar tip:

When choosing between “and me” or “and I” in a sentence, choose the one that works if you drop the other person.

“My sister and I went to the store,” becomes, “I went to the store,” which is correct.

“My sister and me went to the store,” becomes, “Me went to the store,” which is incorrect.

[Carlow Weather @CarlowWeather]

Sí Gaoithe, the Fairy wind helping to turn the hay in Borris, Carlow this afternoon.