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[Nicholas Opiyo (Pronouns He/Him) @nickopiyo]

If, or should I say when, the current status quo changes in Uganda, we’ll have to live with its proponents.

Besides the very few members of the ruling elite who can flee the country, the vast majority of its supporters have nowhere else to go. Uganda is our only home. They, and their families, will be here.

It therefore behooves the supporters of the current establishment to take a long-term view, and to educate themselves, that patriotism is not a forced love of the country, but our ability to accommodate each other in our diversity - knowing that power is transient, a revolving door - and that our collective security lies in our abilities to accommodate each other.

Today’s Muhoozi’s are tomorrow’s Malyamungus (Amin’s dreaded henchman), today’s Birungis (now Otto -the (in)famous CMI) are tomorrow’s Rwakasis or Buturus (Obote’s vicious enforcers).

As Martin Luther King Jr. said, we must learn to live together as brothers (and sisters) or perish as fools.

[Mark Tilbury @marktilbury]

I’m a millionaire.

If I wanted to get rich in 2026, this is how I’d do it:

[Agather Atuhaire @AAgather]

Let me respond to all the inquiries I’ve been receiving here at once: no, unfortunately I haven’t heard a single word about the whereabouts of @NinyeTabz😭 and it isn’t because I haven’t made calls and asked. The most concerning and dangerous reality of our country is the decentralized anarchy and the fact that the very security agents that are supposed to protect us are for sale to the highest bidder. Anyone with money now can hire them to abduct you and harm you. So it’s hard to even establish whether Tabz is being held by the state or by individuals he has rubbed the wrong way. We know a couple of them here. Either way, the burden is on the state to produce him or search for him. If they don’t, all of us as his friends will get up and march in search of Tabz. For God and my country. #FreeTabz #FreeAllPoliticalPrisonersUg

[AIDEN KALIISA @AidenKaliisa]

kabuleta tells it to you raw and real take it or leave it

[Timothy Kalyegira @TimKalyegira]

INNER STRENGTH - part 3

We often hear that military coups in Africa are staged by the CIA or French intelligence.

And yet as the coups unfold, we don't see any CIA, MI6, or DGSE agents in action or on the streets.

So how do they cause these coups?

(Ever thought of that?)

[Timothy Kalyegira @TimKalyegira]

I'm struck by the number of people who yesterday mocked Lukwago but who are now coming out, one by one, to apologise to the country, without anybody forcing them to.

It shows the degree of public anger and trauma.

MK has successfully united the country...against himself.

[Timothy Kalyegira @TimKalyegira]

A few days ago, I posted a comment by former Mossad Director, Yossi Cohen, who said a nation's greatest power is in a society's INNER STRENGTH.

Ugandan society lacks this inner strength.

So, what is "inner strength"?

Understanding it is key to how we face the current crisis.

[Agather Atuhaire @AAgather]

All the actions speak very loudly for themselves about who the fool and coward is.

[Nicholas Opiyo (Pronouns He/Him) @nickopiyo]

We’ll not reshare the torture images of @EriasLukwago, as to do so would be to further the interest of the folks carrying out the unlawful actions and to perpetuate his undignified and humiliating treatment.

We’ll say, though, that such actions are a daylight manifestation of the state of our country, captive to the shallow interest of a small clique to whom the law is a suggestion, rather than a command.

You humiliate the man, torture him, but you’ll never match the power of his ideas; the high moral grounds on which he stands will be a summit you will only glance from afar.

We’d demand that he be set free or taken to court through a lawful process if he has committed any crime, but i doubt you’ll heed to such calls. It is out of your grapes. So we will only ask that when you have satisfied your cheap desires, leave him alive to return to his family, cause, and country. He’ll meet and vanquish you in the arena of ideas, law, and morality.

[Crystal Kizor @crystal_kizor]

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These 8 principles can reduce your energy consumption between 30 and 40%. Aim for at least 6.

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[Tulsi Gabbard 🌺 @TulsiGabbard]

I am deeply grateful for the trust President Trump placed in me and for the opportunity to lead @ODNIgov for the last year and a half.

Unfortunately, I must submit my resignation, effective June 30, 2026. My husband, Abraham, has recently been diagnosed with an extremely rare form of bone cancer. He faces major challenges in the coming weeks and months. At this time, I must step away from public service to be by his side and fully support him through this battle.

[TOKO @GodwinTOKO]

I’m now at a point of feeling empathy, even pity, for Among. She shouldn’t have become the deputy speaker at that time she did. Worse still, Oulanyah’s death made her speaker at a time she needed at least 20 years’ to get the position. The speakership was a poisoned chalice; the rope she used to hang herself.

The more information comes out about her, the more even her biggest defenders will see a lady drunk on power, supplied by her own naivety. Her favourite symbols of power were cars & proximity to the first family. Of these things she dreamt, and lived for. She could have done anything to prove she loved the first family, and cars. In many ways, she thought she got them.

In the end, the same things she worked so hard for, the things she coveted, her raison d’etre from the time she became speaker, became her biggest undoing. It seems they didn't love, or care about her as much as she loved and wanted them! Poor lady!

[Mujuni Raymond @qataharraymond]

On 4th Nov 2017, MBS rounded up 400 of Saudi’s biggest businessmen, politicians & royal family, detained them at the Ritz and told them they couldn’t leave unless they handed over proceeds of corruption.

From the first 87 people, they recovered $107bn, twice Uganda’s GDP 🙌🏽🤯🤯

[陈剑Jason @jason_chen998]

这次美国访华晚宴坐在马斯克和库克中间C位最亮眼的，是蓝思科技创始人周群飞，从农村打工妹到中国女首富，完全没有任何背景全靠自己白手起家。她出生在湖南的一个小村庄，5岁时母亲去世，父亲也因工伤残疾双目失明，家徒四壁，16岁交不起学费被迫辍学去广东打工，在一家工厂流水线打磨玻璃，白天干活，晚上疯狂自学，考了会计证、电脑操作证等技能证书，就这样过了几年，她拿着靠打工攒的2万块，拉上哥哥姐姐、嫂子姐夫等8个亲戚，在深圳开了一家小作坊，做手表玻璃加工，她一个人修机器、跑销售，就这样又干了4年。
到了2000年后手机行业开始大规模发展，一次偶然的机会她的手表玻璃厂接到了TCL手机屏幕的订单，她看到了手机玻璃市场的巨大潜力，于是迅速成立了蓝思科技，专门负责手机玻璃的生产研发和销售，一开始只做国产手机和山寨机，但是直到有一次想谈下摩托罗拉的订单，但外企的质量要求非常严格，她赌上几乎全部的资源配合摩托罗拉，拿下了全球销售超过1亿台的V3订单，直接把蓝思科技推到了行业领先位置，随后顺利拿下诺基亚、三星等外企。
关键的转折点又一次出现在了2007年，当时乔布斯发布初代iPhone，彻底把手机往全玻璃触屏的方向变革，乔布斯那变态的工艺要求全球都找不到符合的厂商，周群飞敏锐的意识到这又是一个巨大的机会，于是带领团队和苹果工程师联合攻关了3个月，突破关键工艺，成功量产了第一代iPhone玻璃面板，从此拿下苹果长期合同，后续的iPad、MacBook等几乎所有苹果设备全部都交给了蓝思科技，也帮助蓝思科技在触摸玻璃面板领域成为全区最大公司。
这也是为什么她能坐在库克旁边，那为什么马斯克也坐在她旁边呢？
蓝思科技在玻璃面板干到全球第一后，开始往更加多元的智能化设备发展，包括汽车座舱和机器人，其中汽车领域包括车窗、中控等已经拿下了特斯拉、宝马、奔驰、理想等30家车企，机器人领域则主要负责关节、传感器等部件，这些都和马斯克的业务有深度重合。
一个15岁辍学只有初中文凭的女生，从湖南农村出来白手起家成为中国女首富，40年后进入中美会谈，坐在了马斯克和库和中间，这就是周群飞的故事。

[Jim Spire Ssentongo @SpireJim]

The Kofi Annan Courage in Cartooning Award 2026 is a humbling recognition! It was also such a big honour for the Geneva event to be graced by Nobel Laureate in Economics, Prof. Joseph Stiglitz. I do not take it for granted. Thank you

[African Hub @AfricanHub_]

Ghana has become the first country to integrate digital payments into its national identity card, ending its partnerships with U.S.-based payment giants Visa and Mastercard in Africa. Well done, Ghana 🇬🇭

[Shehbaz Sharif @CMShehbaz]

With the greatest humility, I am pleased to announce that the Islamic Republic of Iran and the United States of America, along with their allies, have agreed to an immediate ceasefire everywhere including Lebanon and elsewhere, EFFECTIVE IMMEDIATELY.
I warmly welcome the sagacious gesture and extend deepest gratitude to the leadership of both the countries and invite their delegations to Islamabad on Friday, 10th April 2026, to further negotiate for a conclusive agreement to settle all disputes.
Both parties have displayed remarkable wisdom and understanding and have remained constructively engaged in furthering the cause of peace and stability. We earnestly hope, that the ‘Islamabad Talks’ succeed in achieving sustainable peace and wish to share more good news in coming days!

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[Jackson Hinkle 🇺🇸 @jacksonhinkle]

The mother of Mikaeil Mirdoraghi, a third-grade student grade student killed in U.S. airstrike on primary school in Minab:

I had prepared dinner for him and when he was eating he said: “Mom, the food you made tastes like heaven.”

I said: “My son, why are you saying this? You’ve never said this before.”

Around midnight he put pillows around himself and sat with his brother. He said: “Brother, let’s play. I’m Iran and you’re America. Let’s play with guns and tanks.”

They started playing together. He said: “See, Iran won? Brother, Iran won. I was Iran and I won.” My son said Iran was the winner.

All these things seemed to be inspired to him that night. He did all of this the night before his martyrdom.

He also prayed and read the Quran that night.

In the morning he said: “Mom, take a picture of me.”

This child was an angel. He used to say: “My name is Mikaeel. Mikaeel means God’s angel. If anyone has a wish, tell me so I can fulfill it.”

God loved him too and took him to Himself.

It is true, exactly like that. It was the heartless America that launched a missile at this school where there was nothing suspicious.

They just wanted to kill our children.

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