🕵️ New: U.S. embassies to coordinate with Pentagon psy-ops unit and Elon Musk:
🔹Secretary of State Marco Rubio signed a cable Monday ordering all U.S. embassies and consulates worldwide to run coordinated campaigns against what it calls foreign “anti-American propaganda,” according to The Guardian.
🔹Embassies are instructed to recruit local influencers, academics, and community leaders to spread messaging that appears locally driven rather than directed by Washington. The cable also promotes X’s “Community Notes” feature as a crowdsourced way to counter anti-American narratives “without compromising free speech or privacy.”
🔹The directive tells diplomats to work with the U.S. military’s psychological operations unit and use X—owned by Elon Musk—as a key tool, describing it as an “innovative” way to counter disinformation.
The Faux Pas By Sheikh @DrIsaPantami in this video is quite unfortunate:
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I was deeply uncomfortable watching the attached video of the Sheikh attempting to force a reconciliation between two former close associates—Ex-Governor @elrufai and current Governor @ubasanius—at the burial ground of the former’s late mother.
It felt tactless, insensitive, and frankly, indecorous.
Performative optics are not what anyone wants when burying a parent.
I questioned my own reaction at first—after all, this is a learned Islamic cleric. But our faith does not diminish our humanity; it only refines and elevates it.
Everything I struggled to articulate was, in fact, perfectly captured by Malam Muhammadu Bello Buhari in the Facebook post below.
May Allah (swt) forgive the shortcomings of deceased and give succour to the bereaved.
Inna Lillahi wa inna ilaihi rajiun.
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Says Mallam Muhammadu Bello Buhari:—
There is a point where religious mediation crosses the line into sheer insensitivity. You cannot come to my mother's burial and attempt to force a reconciliation with the very people behind my persecution, the same people I have helped and mentored my entire life, and rub it in my face under the guise of a peace talk. I don't care if you are a Sheikh, a scholar, or a statesman, there is a time for everything, and a graveyard is not a courtroom for forced forgiveness.
It is the height of hypocrisy to overlook the month-long detention, the denial of bail, and the emotional trauma inflicted on a son during Ramadan, only to pull a stunt of bringing them close at his mother's burial— the same mother he didn't get to say goodbye to. Forgiveness is a personal journey of the heart, not a public performance for the cameras. To weaponize a moment of grief to settle scores or save faces for politicians who sat silent while I was in a cell is nothing short of nonsense.
Respect the dead, but more importantly, respect the dignity of the living who are still bleeding from the knives in their backs. You do not ask a man to hug his oppressors while he is still holding the shovel that buried his mother. True Sulhu begins with accountability and justice, not with a forced handshake at a graveside.
Nonsense.
Admit it: Your kid mispronounced a word three years ago and now the whole family says it that way. What's the word in your house? (We still say 'pasketti' and I’m not stopping anytime soon.)
🚨 Israeli lobbying firms are offering massive payments to journalists and influencers across Asia and Africa to promote pro-Israel narratives online.
— According to sources, media toolkit circulated among these influencers & journalists instructs them to refer to Iranian govt as the “terrorist regime.”
— A search of recent posts shows that many influencers and journalists who previously didn't use this phrase have begun adopting it in their content.
— Earlier, it was reported that Israel is paying $7000 per post to influencers for promoting Israeli narrative online.
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I'm sorry but anyone who wanted the US to kill their countrymen is an absolute fucking idiot and should never have the audacity to comment on anything again. They wanted the full force of the US military to prosecute their resentments? And now they're sad that they see what means? Just grotesque.