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[Massimo @Rainmaker1973]

The kids wanted to prank their dad, and he did exactly what they wished for.

[Scott Robertson @sarobertson_]

Haberman: [Trump] has become so invested in the idea that things always work out for him ... Part of why he believes that's true for him is because, as we describe it, he's been something of a walking moral hazard his whole life, where he takes actions and somebody else holds the bag.

[ibtisem 𓂆🕊️ @ibti_16]

The back of a Namibian laborer covered in scar tissue from years of whipping by a German farmer named Ludwig Cramer, (1912–1913).

Taken by the Rhenish missionary Johann Jakob Irle.

[David Lewis Rubongoya @DavidLRubongoya]

Suddenly, the people who always mock our fight against abductions are decrying the very abductions they have always defended and christened 'arrests'. They will soon have lawyers filing Habeas Corpus and other applications for their rights to be upheld. All of a sudden, they will remember that there is a document called the Constitution with guarantees of liberty and fair trials.

EVERYONE eventually realises that they need to or needed to have fought for the rule of law. The things we say every day about good governance, human rights, and the rule of law are not mere academic concepts. They're like breath - all of us need them to live and thrive. Sadly, many people learn this when it is too late!

[Winnie Byanyima @Winnie_Byanyima]

We have witnessed the obscene accumulation of wealth - cars, mansions, designer clothes, lavish parties, and the brazen use of money to buy political power. financed through Parliament’s own budget, with the active complicity of many MPs.

Parliaments are meant to guard the public purse and to hold governments accountable. Ours has become a den of thieves, no longer a House of the People.

It is time to restructure Parliament, reduce its size and cost, tighten financial controls, and restore public trust.

#ATrustedParliament
@AgoraCFR @FOWODE_UGANDA
@ccgea1

[Winnie Byanyima @Winnie_Byanyima]

The women beside you are dressed like ordinary professionals, you are wrapped in regal extravagance while preaching against corruption.

In our country where millions struggle to survive, this is not just extravagance. It is a loss of shame. You will be remembered for greed, abuse of power, and Machiavellian dishonesty. What a sad legacy.

[Angelo Izama @Opiaiya]

It is mostly a redundant legislation. Uganda is sovereign. That is the constitution. Almost all aspects of what is deemed foreign influence is covered in legislation administering commerce, information, organisations and also targeting specific threats like terrorism @xcenneth This proposed law is also retrogressive and will create a ground for corruption so fertile we will never recover from it.

[Mario Nawfal @MarioNawfal]

🇪🇬 Egyptian opposition politicians tore up a freshly paved road with their bare hands.

Their verdict: goat excrement, not asphalt.

Built to last… about 5 minutes.

[Charles Onyango-Obbo @cobbo3]

The Mali military junta was plunged into crisis this weekend. In a stunning reversal, Tuareg rebels (FLA) have retaken the strategic city of Kidal, reportedly negotiating a withdrawal deal that saw Russian Africa Corps forces abandon their positions. Simultaneously, JNIM (al-Qaeda) and the FLA launched coordinated attacks across the country, hitting Gao, Sévaré, and the capital Bamako's doorstep.
In a particularly devastating blow in the garrison town of Kati, a car bomb levelled the home of Defense Minister Sadio Camara (in photo). Camara was considered the primary architect of Mali’s pivot to Russia. He was killed along with his wife and TWO GRANDCHILDREN!
Jihadists in Mali last exercised significant control over Timbuktu, Gao, and Kidal between April 2012 and January 2013. This time feels different, and if they seize power in Bamako, they would be the first Jihadist alliance to control a whole country in Africa.
This time, even ECOWAS cannot help Mali because together with twoother of the “coup belt” states – Burkina Faso and Niger - they left the bloc in a huff in 2023, and formed the Alliance of Sahel States (AES). All the three AES are currently on their backfoot.

[Charles Onyango-Obbo @cobbo3]

From European Kings to Mussolini, Hitler, and Nicaragua’s Ortega: The Scary Lineage of Uganda’s "Foreigner" Bill
The Ugandan government continues to defend the controversial and divisive Sovereignty Bill (2026). While a case can be made for national security and preventing external bad actors from pouring money into the country to foment civil war, for example [ironically it would have caught President Museveni out because his rebel movement in the 1980s received money and arms from Libya's Muammar Gaddafi, and German-British tycoon Tiny Rowland etc.], its re-categorisation of all citizens living outside the country as "foreigners"—simply due to where their residence —is perhaps its most politically noxious provision from a nationalist point of view.
President Yoweri Museveni and diaspora organisations have stated there are 4 MILLION Ugandans, including descendants and undocumented residents, abroad, while more conservative estimates put the figure at 2 MILLION. This particular provision is unusual because, in almost every other legal system, a citizen remains a citizen regardless of where they sleep.
Some countries distinguish between NATIONALITY (one's legal status) and residency (where one lives). A citizen living abroad is typically a non-resident citizen, which is not the case under Uganda’s proposed law. So, why isn’t the law designed that way?
Perhaps because it it passes, a citizen living abroad would be legally defined as a FOREIGN POWER. This allows the state to apply laws intended for espionage or foreign interference to its own people.
While few countries use the specific word "foreigner" for citizens, some use residence to strip rights in similar ways, and this could be the political subtext in Uganda. In some semi-authoritarian regimes, citizens may even lose the right to vote locally, yet they retain the right to enter their country and receive consular protection.
To find anything nearing the Sovereignty Bill’s treatment of its citizens abroad, one must go back 200 years first. In the 18th and 19th centuries, some European monarchies decreed that any subject who stayed abroad for more than a set period (for example, five years) without permission was "considered a foreigner" and lost all property rights.
The more recent historical ancestors of this logic are found in the 1920s and 30s. In Italy in 1926, the fascist leader Mussolini passed a law revoking the citizenship of Italians abroad who performed actions "calculated to cause a loss of Italian prestige." In Adolf Hitler’s Nazi Germany, the Reich denationalised those who fled or opposed the regime, seizing their property and treating them as "enemies of the state."
In 2023 and 2024, the government of Daniel Ortega in Nicaragua—a once-progressive leftist turned dictator—stripped the citizenship of hundreds of political opponents, journalists, and activists, declaring them "traitors to the fatherland."
The use of the term "foreigners" is attractive for regimes transitioning to excessive control because foreigners usually have "conditional" rights. By legally re-classifying the diaspora as foreigners, the Kampala government can seize their land, freeze their bank accounts, and criminalise anyone who talks to them without needing to prove "treason" in a traditional court.
A parliamentary committee is currently hearing views on the controversial bill; while some cosmetic changes in the language and some extreme provisions might occur, it is unlikely to stray far from the spirit of Ortega, Mussolini, Hitler, and 18th-century European monarchs.

[FactCheckBritain @FactCheckBrit]

@maddenifico Oh, they've posted worse than that since he TACO'd off earlier...

[Bill Madden @maddenifico]

Iran is now releasing cartoons that Trump can understand. 😂🤣👇

[Alex Jacquez @AlexSJacquez]

Remember that 20 million people saw their health care premiums double because $30 billion was too expensive.

[Ro Khanna @RoKhanna]

$200 billion would pay for free college for every American, $10 day childcare, 1000 new trade schools, the 40% federal share of special needs education and a lot more.

What are we even doing here?

MAGA is now Iran first?

[Michael McFaul @McFaul]

Wow. Thank you Ukraine.

[OSINTtechnical @Osinttechnical]

Ukraine has deployed roughly 200 personnel across the Middle East to aid gulf countries in shooting down Iranian drones

Ukrainian teams are already in the United Arab Emirates, Qatar and Saudi Arabia, and are on the way to Kuwait -Zelensky to the British Parliament

[Jamie Bonkiewicz @JamieBonkiewicz]

I miss the version of my life where I didn’t know who Pete Hegseth was.

[Timothy Snyder @TimothyDSnyder]

Phillips is completely right here. It is absurd to repeat an obviously false framing. And it is harmful, because once stated in the NYT it becomes credible.

[Masih Alinejad @AlinejadMasih]

This should have been on the front page of The New York Times.
I speak to students in America and most have no idea that more than 30,000 Iranians were killed for protesting and demanding freedom.
No names. No faces. No coverage. This silence kills me.💔

Thank you, Australia.

[Barak Ravid @BarakRavid]

Contrary to Trump’s statements, senior Israeli and U.S. officials said that the United States had prior knowledge of the Israeli strike and even approved it in an attempt to pressure Iran. After the Iranians retaliated against Qatar’s gas fields, Trump is now changing course