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heavenly minded = earthly incredible

[Khaya Sithole @CoruscaKhaya]

In other news...

[Dr M Shujat Rasool @DrMShujat]

A child accidentally swallows a small button battery from a toy.

What is the FIRST safe thing to give while rushing to the ER?

A) A glass of warm milk
B) Two teaspoons of pure honey
C) A spoonful of mustard
D) Plenty of plain water

[Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @NYCMayor]

Benjamin Netanyahu is a war criminal.

[OFootball @ofootball__]

Thank you Cape Verde! 🇨🇻❤️

[Pato Bonato @patobonato]

- Su arquero tiene 40 años y juega en la segunda división de Portugal
- Nadie del plantel juega en su liga local (que es semiprofesional)
- Los convocados son hijos y nietos de emigrantes criados en Europa.
- A un defensor lo buscaron por LinkedIn.
- Medio millón de habitantes (hay más caboverdianos viviendo fuera que en el propio país)
- Le sacaron un punto al campeón de Europa y llevaron al tiempo extra al campeón del mundo

Mis respetos para Cabo Verde 🇨🇻

[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.

[Mntaka God🙏🏾 @g0dsvryown]

TRC Episode 12, Part 06

[Arlin Medrano @arlinmedrano_]

El equipo nacional de Irán llevó mochilas escolares al campo del #2026WorldCup para honrar a los 175 niñas asesinadas en la escuela por Estados Unidos e Israel en Minab.

No solo están jugando futbol, están llevando un mensaje, uno que EE.UU no quiere escuchar.

[Kim Heller @kimheller3]

💔💔💔 June 16 🔺 1976

[welearnSA @welearnSA]

The moniker "Tokyo" is so widely used that many forget it isn't his birth name. He was given the nickname during his youth due to his intense involvement and passion for karate. The name stuck with him through his schooling, his time underground, and his eventual public life, completely eclipsing his birth name, Mosima.

[Red Media @RedMedia_us]

Lupita Nyong'o while racists argue about her role as Helen of Troy in the 'Odyssey' 🔥😍:

[yu_007 @YVaw123]

When Institutions In America forced students to remove keffiyehs / Palestinian symbols during graduation ceremonies amid that Ongoing genocide in Gaza,South African 🇿🇦Students From our Honorable,admirable institution,The University of Cape Town , Showed the world🌎how its done🥹

[Mbuyiseni Ndlozi @MbuyiseniNdlozi]

#FindOmphileNow

[Kim Heller @kimheller3]

South Africa baby Omphile is still missing 💔💔💔 Let’s pray for her safe return

[Not Jerome Powell @alifarhat79]

Trump threatening Iran for weeks

[J R ❤️‍🔥 @ResilienceX3]

There’s something sinister about forcing black girls to cut their hair

[Mohamad Safa @mhdksafa]

The 21st century will go down in history as the century when they tried to make us believe that killing thousands of children is self-defense and morally justifiable.

[UCT @UCT_news]

UCT researchers have built MzansiLM, an AI language model covering 11 of South Africa’s official languages, addressing a critical gap in AI tools for low-resource languages.

Read more: https://t.co/Z0q8rAzdaH

@UCTscience

[bonita bandida @kwaneIe_]

broccoli had such bad pr growing up. what an elite vegetable 🙂‍↕️