Kitty Kurth

Political strategist, social justice crusader, communicator. Kurth Lampe Worldwide strategic communications firm -- international reach and Chicago know how.

[Bill Madden @maddenifico]

Seriously, with pedophilia now deeply ingrained as part of the Republican Party platform, is anyone surprised anymore? If Jeffrey Epstein were alive today, he'd probably be a Senator.

[michelawrong @michelawrong]

This beggars belief. The Prince of Wales' favourite soccer team is now being sponsored by Rwanda, whose government and army are sanctioned by UK, US, EU and UN for invading DRC and looting its minerals. Do these soccer clubs do no due diligence? Mind-boggling. @KensingtonRoyal

[Hunter Biden @HunterBiden]

When I heard about Senator Graham’s death last night, the first thing I thought about was not all the things he said and did in service of Donald Trump. I thought of the time before Donald Trump when he was a brother to Senator John McCain.

A time when senators from different parties could fight about politics and still be friends. A time when a conservative Republican from South Carolina could say of my father: “If you can’t admire Joe Biden as a person, you’ve got a problem. He’s the nicest person I’ve ever met in politics. As good a man as God ever created.”

That is the Senator Graham I will remember today. Not because I have forgotten what came after. Because in that memory there is hope. Hope for a country where brothers can fight like hell over policy and still share a meal, and a laugh, and the loss of the people they love.

I will choose to remember the time before Trump. Because I believe in an America after Trump.

[Kitty Kurth @kittykurth]

@BulwarkOnline I’m surprised they object to birth tourism as one of the biggest markets for it is among Russians.

[GET A GRIP @docrussjackson]

Nilatpal Basu posted this on FB:

At the #WorldCup on Tuesday — a man in a red suit stood completely still for 90 minutes in the stands. Then he covered his mouth and pointed a gun to his head.
FIFA’s cameras cut away immediately.
His name is Michel Kuka Mboladinga — known as “Lumumba Vea,” which means “Lumumba Lives.” For more than a decade he has stood motionless at every DR Congo match — suit and tie, arm raised — as a living tribute to Patrice Lumumba, the first Prime Minister of an independent Congo.
Patrice Lumumba gave a stunning Independence Day speech on June 30, 1960 — standing before King Baudouin of Belgium — excoriating Belgian colonialism. Malcolm X called him “the greatest Black man who ever walked the African continent.”
Six months after independence, Belgian officers and soldiers captured Lumumba, tortured him, and executed him by firing squad. His body was dismembered and dissolved in acid. The only known remnant was a gold tooth kept by the Belgian officer responsible for 39 years until his death.
That is what Lumumba Vea stands in tribute to. Every single match. In a suit. Motionless. For 90 minutes.
On Tuesday against Colombia — he added something new. He covered his mouth and mimicked a gun to his head. A silent, devastating protest against the world’s silence over eastern DR Congo — one of the globe’s most severe yet least-covered humanitarian crises, which has displaced millions and claimed countless lives through violence and massacres.
Lumumba Vea went viral this week — covered by USA Today, the Wall Street Journal, Reuters, ESPN, Sports Illustrated, CNN and the BBC. Every outlet explained the Patrice Lumumba connection. Not one mentioned the link between Lumumba’s CIA-backed assassination, the Western strategy to destabilize an independent Congo, and the current humanitarian catastrophe in eastern DRC today.
That connection is not a footnote. It is the entire story.
The same Western powers that assassinated Lumumba in 1961 — because he wanted Congo’s mineral wealth to benefit Congolese people — have spent 65 years ensuring the DRC remains destabilized, its cobalt and coltan flowing to Western technology companies while its people are massacred in the east.
FIFA cut the cameras. The mainstream media covered the gesture without the history. And a man in a red suit stood in the stands and said — without words — what the world refuses to hear.

Lumumba Lives.

[Jim Acosta @Acosta]

Reagan had a different view on immigration. It’s the American view.

[Kitty Kurth @kittykurth]

This was not allowed under Biden nor Obama. Where are the WHCA guys?

[Travis Akers 🇺🇸 @travisakers]

This photo was published of the Prime Minister of Qatar, Vice President JD Vance and Jared Kushner. What’s the problem? Giving a foreign leader visual access to a USG laptop, while using someone else’s CAC to log in. Pure incompetence at every turn.

[Travis Akers 🇺🇸 @travisakers]

This photo was published of the Prime Minister of Qatar, Vice President JD Vance and Jared Kushner. What’s the problem? Giving a foreign leader visual access to a USG laptop, while using someone else’s CAC to log in. Pure incompetence at every turn.

[Judi Rever @JudiRever]

I will be speaking on Wednesday, June 24 at the Centre for Asia Pacific Refugee Studies at the University of Auckland. I will discuss how Paul Kagame's forces have displaced civilians in Rwanda and Congo, as a tactic of war in a bid to seize land and resources. I'll be drawing on research from my latest book, Rwanda's 30-Year Assault on Congo published by Baraka Books, and my previous book In Praise of Blood, the Crimes of the Rwandan Patriotic Front, published by Random House Canada in 2018. Joseph Kimenyi, a Rwandan genocide survivor now living in New Zealand, will share his experiences and thoughts on a conflict that is poorly understood by the international community. @BarakaBooks

[Larry the Cat @Number10cat]

"I have accepted Keir Starmer's resignation as my chief servant and have invited Andy Burnham to lay out details for how many meals a day he'll give me"

[Kitty Kurth @kittykurth]

@JudiRever @MpozeTheo Congratulations @JudiRever

[World Cup 2026 Daily @TotalFootball]

The Senegalese 🇸🇳 delegation gets this treatment on arrival in the USA. Full tarmac searches, shoes off, bags turned inside out like criminals.

This is straight up humiliation and a disgrace. They’d never put white boys through the same.

[Fjore ⏳ @FlowerFjoje]

Albanians scream
IVANKA GO HOMEEEEEE 🦦
#albaniaisnotforsale

[Kitty Kurth @kittykurth]

@maryfiorito @byaliceyin not according to Vatican and state dept protocol. Speaking of respect amendment.There are actual protocol rules for these big events. Cities can’t invite themselves. That is how diplomacy works. Nobody wants.Same for Presidential inaugurals.

[Tim Miller @Timodc]

A truly despicable, corrupt, un-American, rapist, wanna-be-authoritarian “man” is running the country and everyone enabling him should be ashamed.

[Kitty Kurth @kittykurth]

@maryfiorito @byaliceyin Leading a separate Chicago delegation is proper at least according to how the State Dept used to do things.

[Kitty Kurth @kittykurth]

@maryfiorito @byaliceyin Not diplomatic protocol. Only heads of state.

[Alice Yin @byaliceyin]

Mayor Brandon Johnson has entered the Vatican, per photos provided by his photographer Vashon Jordan. Sporting a Chicago flag pin — and was greeted by some tourists in Chicago who recognized him:

[Kitty Kurth @kittykurth]

@thabanisandile3 @CalltoActivism @grok It looks like she is the interpreter at the ready to do her job.

[Kitty Kurth @kittykurth]

@Microinteracti1 Trump is just following Putins orders.