#Reagan's pulse

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Convening the people who convene change.

[#Reagan's pulse @ReaganMwebaze0]

There is no nonsense so gross that a certain section of society will not, at some time, make a doctrine of it and defend it with every weapon of communal stupidity.

[Aaron Rupar @atrupar]

Obama: "As algorithms keep feeding us a steady stream of distraction and outrage, as only the loudest most extreme voices get attention, fanning our prejudices, appealing to our basest most tribal instincts, it's tempting to give in to cynicism and even despair, to stop trying."

[Jesse Ozone @Jessseglee]

This Messi-Ronaldo conversation can not be about football 'cos there's nothing to compare. The people who choose Ronaldo over Messi can't do so over football. It's an individual thing. They like the person Ronaldo, his looks, physique, work ethics and style but definitely not over football.

[#Reagan's pulse @ReaganMwebaze0]

@YkeeBenda

[Sir YKEE BENDA @YkeeBenda]

“Mng , dint watch the game but I am sure there was a controversial decision in the game and it went Messi’s way”

That was my message to my immediate football circle on wasap👆🏽.

Now I come here only to find Messi escaped a red card🙌🏻😎 it’s like night and day with him n Refs🙌🏻

[#Reagan's pulse @ReaganMwebaze0]

I want to argue here for an answer that is neither of the easy ones. Not the social platitude that politics doesn’t matter and we should all just love each other, and not the harder, more fashionable position that you cannot in good conscience break bread with someone whose vote enacts harm on people you care about. The truth, I think, is more uncomfortable than either, and it has implications that reach further than the conventional discussion lets on, including into corners of life one might not expect, such as the small, fractious, weirdly consequential world of occult and esoteric practice, where the political fracturing of the last decade has played out with a particular intensity that I think is diagnostic of something broader.

[#Reagan's pulse @ReaganMwebaze0]

I had a conversation recently with someone I am close with. Somewhere in the middle of it, when the talk turned to who should govern us, I realised I was speaking with a stranger. Not in any dramatic sense; they had not transformed. The shape of their face was the same, the laugh, the gestures I had known for years. But what came out of their mouth did not belong to the person I had thought I was talking to. It belonged to a kind of competing inner map of the world, one whose coordinates I could not recognise, and whose moral geography placed things I find frightening in the position of things to be welcomed……

[#Reagan's pulse @ReaganMwebaze0]

I have been thinking about that conversation ever since. Not because I want to relitigate the argument (I do not), but because the encounter raised a question that I think a lot of people are quietly nursing right now, and which the prevailing discourse handles with extraordinary clumsiness. The question is whether political difference, of the kind we are currently living through, is a difference of opinion, in which case adult human beings can presumably tolerate it the way they tolerate disagreements about novels or restaurants, or whether it is a difference of moral substrate: a fundamental misalignment about what a human being is for, what a society owes its weakest members, what counts as freedom, what counts as cruelty. If the first, we can stay close. If the second, intimacy starts to feel like a category error…

[KABUGO @Kabugo_]

The same crowd that called David "just a shepherd" suddenly became military analysts when Goliath fell.

[Meech @MeechSomto]

“We needed an Angel, God sent us Gabriel.”

Nah this is hard 🔥

[#Reagan's pulse @ReaganMwebaze0]

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[YouLead Africa @OneYoungAfrica]

🎥 Day 4 of #YouLead26 was about turning conversations into commitments.

After days of dialogue on leadership, politics, business, peace, climate action and gender equality;

delegates came together to shape the road ahead through the development of the Post-Summit Agenda.

[#Reagan's pulse @ReaganMwebaze0]

Four summits. Four chapters of the same story but not the same story.

From regional roots to a continental horizon. From an idea whispered in planning rooms to a movement finding its feet across borders.

@OneYoungAfrica , I’ve watched a program evolve not just in size, but in soul. And this year, seeing the shift from EAC to continental programming begin to breathe… that’s the quiet kind of joy programs people know: the kind that says we’re building something larger than ourselves.

Growth isn't always loud. Sometimes it's just showing up, year after year, until the map redraws itself.

[Charles Onyango-Obbo @cobbo3]

If you want to know where a country is headed, count the number of conferences it holds with titles like ‘International Symposium on Circuits and Systems’, versus those with titles like ‘The Pan-Continental Symposium on Realising a Paradigm Shift Towards Enhanced Civic Engagement’.

[Dr. Catherine Kyobutungi Muzukulu wa Bityo @CKyobutungi]

Me, I want to see arrest, prosecution, jail.... auction in that order.

[Anita Annet Among @AnitahAmong]

RE: SPEAKERSHIP RACE
I wish to draw the attention of the public to the matters regarding the Speakership race.
After wide consultations and deep introspection, and to maintain harmony and clarity in my beloved party, the @NRMOnline, I wish to categorically and unequivocally state that I will not be offering myself for the Speakership race of the 12th Parliament.
I am greatly indebted to H.E @KagutaMuseveni, my party, the @NRMOnline, and members of the 11th Parliament for giving me the opportunity to serve as Deputy Speaker and Speaker.
I am equally indebted to my family and friends for the solidarity and support they have extended to me over the last five years.
I pledge my total support to the candidates who will be endorsed by the President and the Party, and Implore all colleague MPs of the 12th Parliament to do the same.
I shall remain available to the service of my country as the party and the President may assign me.
In the meantime, I pledge to continue cooperating with all ongoing investigations as initiated by the relevant organs of the state to get to the root of all the allegations raised.
FOR GOD AND MY COUNTRY.
ANITA ANNET AMONG

[#Reagan's pulse @ReaganMwebaze0]

@sasmvn my brother, The ghetto crowns its sons, but exiles its turncoats. For Kenzo, let contempt be the salt that preserves his memory: he does not sit at this table, for he chose to dine with those who starve it.

[Saasi Marvin @sasmvn]

This is what happens when you leave those among whom you were a King to be with those among whom you can only be a servant. Someone abandoned the people who used to worship the ground he would walk on, for those who only see him as stain on their carpet. Sad.

[YouLead Africa @OneYoungAfrica]

We are pleased to officially welcome Patricia Lokwa Servant as the new Program Manager of YouLead Africa.

Patricia is a Congolese-American strategic program leader, cultural organizer, and communications practitioner with over a decade of experience working across Africa, the diaspora and global movements.

Her work spans program management, fundraising, advocacy and storytelling while driving transnational initiatives that strengthen partnerships and amplify narrative power.

Born in the DRC and shaped by experiences across Senegal, Ghana and the United States, Patricia brings a deeply rooted, global perspective to youth engagement, cultural leadership, and community empowerment.