AI & blockchain since 2016.Autodidact.Conscious rebel. Synthecist without illusion. Fractional CMO. Head of Strategy for OneThread Africa. Ops my darned own.
@ihtesham2005@DSBatten I always take handwritten notes, even if the call is being recorded, not for the sake of the notes but bc I found it made recall much easier.
Wow! @SenatorLujan just completely torched Scott Bessent and Donald Trump for their corruption.
"President Trump's sons signed a deal, as you know, with World Liberty Financial with a bunch of folks you sanctioned. And now, as part of this, there's an addendum that says President Trump and his kids and anyone affiliated with him, I don't know if it's current wives, former wives, people that just did transactions with him, they're off scot-free... You're telling me as the Secretary of U.S. Treasury, you don't know that the President of the United States, who I think you work for, got a sweetheart deal from the Department of Justice, who's your lawyer. You're in line for the Presidents, Scott.
"Here's a list of all the insider trading right here... You should apologize to the American people for fleecing them and giving this a way to Donald Trump, man. That's what you should do."
Carney’s antisemitism talk in the throes of an Israeli genocide is so cringe - will go down in history as the most awkward failed attempt at mass gaslighting in Canadian history. The elite are tone deaf.
I keep thinking about this photo taken yesterday.
Prime Minister of Canada, @MarkJCarney, stands in front of an Israeli flag speaking about how hate against any group of peoples is wrong. While, the International Court of Justice has ruled that Israel is committing the crime of apartheid and illegal occupation in the West Bank and genocide in Gaza against Palestinians. This is hate and discrimination translated into systematic legal injustice and mass death and slaughter.
There is an obligation for Canada as a third party state to not be complicit in Israel’s crimes against humanity and violations of international law.
Standing in front of a flag of a state committing apartheid and genocide, while still sending weapons to Israel to commit these crimes, should demonstrate to all humanity and peace loving people in Canada to seriously question our politicians and confront this current reality for what it truly is.
Canada is deeply committed and embedded in the structural oppression against Palestinians, entrenching the systematic colonial rule of Western settler colonial states in a world where the rich and powerful can choose to continue to break all the international laws and obligations because they know consequences are beneath them.
I know so many good and decent people who refuse such a world and reality where impunity is enjoyed by the war criminals. Rather we fight for a world where human rights for all is defended without exception. Where our obligations to international law and the global community actually means something.
🚨WOW! Trump just LOST IT on CNN’s Kaitlan Collins for asking if the $1.8 billion DOJ slush fund is on hold or completely dead.
"You should be ashamed of yourself, you used to be a Conservative...
It was the greatest thing because people like you have abused our people so badly, like CNN, the NYT, oh my god.”
Then he started rambling and gushing about the Jan. 6 rioters.
"There was so much love and friendship; it was amazing people were crying.
"Those people have been abused by you."
We're witnessing on live TV the downfall of a powerful narcissist who's used to everything going his way.
Leen Hijaz, valedictorian at her high school in North Carolina, said the following in her graduation speech:
"Before I leave the stage, I have one last thing to say. Every single person here has a voice; we have the privilege to use it when millions around the world are struggling and suffering to be heard. Whether it’s the millions suffering in Palestine, Sudan, Congo, Afghanistan and so many other countries around the world, or families being torn apart by ICE. These are not just an issue here; they are happening there, they’re happening right here as I speak. My point is, we’re not given a voice to stay silent."
Corey Robin, a political theorist at Brooklyn College, writes: "The mere mention of Palestine—maybe ICE, too—sent the high school principal, Melissa Moore, hurtling across the stage to seize the microphone from Hijaz, and stop her from saying these unapproved words.
Just look at this photograph: A young Muslim woman, speaking out, and a desperate, terrified principal trying to shut her down, lest the student say something unauthorized, disapproved, discordant with the views of an increasingly small clique of government officials and voters.
It's so pathetic. It reads like a comic play by Václav Havel. It looks like the desperate last days of the Soviet Union. I can only hope Hijaz speaks for a generation that will, one day, sweep all this garbage into the dustbin of history".
Albania’s parliament must launch an immediate investigation into Prime Minister Edi Rama’s controversial sale of Sazan Island. Valued at $1.4 billion, this protected national treasure was sold to Jared Kushner, Donald Trump’s son-in-law.
@Nacra165465@DaniMayakovski Thank you for this. Will search for their publications. Cited research is so important not to get mired into red herrings. 680k Palestinians murdered, more than half literally babies and toddlers.🥺😭
Scott Pelley looked his new corporate bosses dead in the eye, accused them of murdering "60 Minutes," and was fired.
Thanks for standing up for what’s right Scott!
Story here:
https://t.co/Kq7ehjDg7L
Congressman @tedlieu just demanded that Marco Rubio come clean about President Trump's health!
"Instead of holding North Korean style cabinet meetings where everyone goes around the room kissing Donald Trump's ass, I'm going to ask you to come clean with American people and the White House as well. There's something wrong with Donald Trump's health or cognitive abilities. There's a reason he keeps going to the hospital and they keep giving him cognitive tests."
@db_maggi@YVaw123 Shameful. Especially from writers and so-called intellectuals. Without compassion and empathy, how can you create anything with depth, or resonance about the human experience? Then it becomes pretty sounding mental masturbation. This South African author is a hero.
South African 🇿🇦 -Canadian author Kagiso Lesego Molope was heckled and ejected from the Writers’ Trust of Canada “Politics and the Pen” gala - packed with Canada’s most powerful elites -after highlighting that 31% of children under two in Gaza suffer acute malnutrition.
Her powerful response: “I don’t want to break bread with people who are happy to know that children are dying.”
The people of Albania are not messing around and are not going to allow their country to be sold off to Israel, Ivanka Trump, or Jared Kushner. This is what class consciousness looks like, and it is a beautiful thing!
Whoopsie: Jared Kushner & Ivanka Trump are taking over protected Albanian land in a $1.4 billion project to build luxury resorts and an Israeli-linked development.
The Albanian prime minister changed the law to make it happen. Now his house is burning.
The Trump's don't know how hated they really are.
So let me get this straight.
Jake Tapper is focused on attacking my Mom.
Jared and Ivanka are building a private island paradise on Albanian protected land.
Don Jr married the daughter of Epstein’s banker, and a startup his fund backs just got a record $620M Pentagon loan.
Eric is taking an Israeli drone company public for $1.5B in the middle of a war with Iran that nobody wanted.
And I know: “But what about your paintings, Hunter?”
Please.
🚨 BOMBSHELL: Jewish leader Avi Lewis exposes a massive government coverup. He confirms the Canadian arms embargo on Israel is a total lie.
He reveals weapons are secretly funneled through the US military-industrial complex to directly arm the Zionist regime's horrific genocide!
I stood at this pool, at both monuments and saw both reflections…
He’s a God damn idiot, as are the fools that support him. The “Reflection Pool” wasn’t designed by American architect Henry Bacon a hundred years ago to look like a swimming pool. It’s designed to have a darkened characteristics that has reflective qualities to reflect the monuments.
That way, the Washington Monument is reflective to you when at the Lincoln Memorial, and when at the Washington Monument, the Lincoln Memorial is reflective to you.
It’s designed to enhance the grandeur of monuments, create an illusion of reflection, and inclusion of expansive space of unity.
He’s a tacky vulgar person that vulgarizes everything he touches. America isn’t becoming great, it’s becoming vulgar.
Credit - Mathew Reed