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[JGum @jayaygum]

For our birthday, we’re getting some weird shit.

[Idrees Ali @idreesali114]

TYRE/BEIRUT, Lebanon, June 28 (Reuters) - A crown was blown off an ancient column in a UNESCO-listed site in Lebanon's port city of Tyre. A pilgrimage site for Muslims and Christians alike was destroyed in another southern town. Israeli strikes pummelled the Mamluk-era market.

[Volcaholic 🌋 @volcaholic1]

Volcán de Fuego in Guatemala is one of the most active volcanoes in Central America. It regularly produces ash plumes and explosive eruptions.

📹 Locos por Guate/FB

[Farrukh @implausibleblog]

Zack Polanski, "When I studied history at school. Tudors, Romans, a bit of WWII. I don't remember talking about empire or colonisation"

Historian William Dalrymple, "It is possible to do at A'Levels modules on the British empire, but very few people do them"

"Which means most British people are entirely ignorant for what is for better or worse the most important thing Britain ever did"

"Britain drew it's empire, completely changed the face of the world over the course of 300-400 years"

"Not only did they change it within a local European context, but they completely upended flows of global trade and eco-systems which had existed for millinia"

"For most of history, India and China dominated the world economy, and Europe was an add-on"

"They were producing about 70% of the world's GDP, that's still the case in the 18th century"

"When we're looking at the world today, China already the world's number two economy, and India about to be number three overtaking Japan and Germany"

"What we're seeing is a reversal of the trading system to a pr colonial period - it's taken 80 years since the British left India"

"We're seeing the world recover form this brief blip where Europe smashed its way around the globe moving populations and natural resources around, looting some places, bringing wealth to Europe"

"If you look at the big National Trust country houses, if it's a big palladian house, the sort you'd see in a Jane Austin Sunday night drama"

"If it's on the east coast of the country, quite probably it was built by the East India company money, in other words the looting of India"

"If it's on the west coast, near Liverpool or Bristol, it's more likely to be slave money, from the Caribbean"

"These two sources of wealth brought capital into Britain, and cotton into Britain, which was then milled in the industrial revolution, which gave the seed capital for Britain to accelerate massively through the industrial revolution"

"Which catapulted England from an upper middle position in Europe"

"It transforms Britain and the world"

"But what gives us great prosperity often detracted from the prosperity of the looted countries, or countries that have been plundered for enslaved people"

"And it remains a strange quirk of our history system that we learn more about the wives of Henry VIII, than we do about the entirely looting of India, or the Caribbean slave trade"

"Two crucial moments in Britain's and the world's history"

"The reason we don't learn it, is because when the British empire ended, it became something people stopped talking about"

"By the time you get to Monty Python in the 1970s or late 60s, the Empire is a joke"

[dr. mohammed hamad - Gaza @Medo198518]

The suffering of displaced people in tents in the Gaza Strip has worsened due to the extreme heat and power outages.

[رُضوان @radwanmortada]

بات لديّ اقتناع راسخ بأنّ السلطة اللبنانية التي شاركت في جلسات التفاوض الخمس لم تكن تسعى فعلياً إلى وقف إطلاق النار، بل إنّ أداءها اليوم يكشف أنّها لم تكن تريده أساساً. وعندما فرضت إيران وقف إطلاق النار بالقوة، شكّل ذلك صفعة لهذه السلطة، التي بدا أنّها كانت ترى في استمرار الحرب فرصة للقضاء على المقاومة والتخلّص منها.

لهذا السبب، جاء بيان الإطار الثلاثي الصادر في واشنطن منسجماً بالكامل مع المصلحة الإسرائيلية. والدليل الأوضح كان تصريح بنيامين نتنياهو، الذي وصف الاتفاق بأنّه "إنجاز لإسرائيل"، مؤكداً أنّه "أفشل المخطط الإيراني لإجبارنا على الانسحاب من جنوب لبنان"، ومضيفاً أنّ لبنان والولايات المتحدة اعترفا بحق إسرائيل في الاحتفاظ بمنطقة أمنية داخل الأراضي اللبنانية.

كلام نتنياهو لم يترك مجالاً كبيراً للشك في حقيقة توجّهات جوزيف عون وفريقه. فبالنسبة إليهم، يشكّل وقف إطلاق النار والانسحاب الإسرائيلي خسارة سياسية، لأنّه يبدّد الهدف الذي راهنوا عليه، وهو القضاء على حزب الله ويمنحه فرصة جديدة. ومن هنا التقت مصالحهم مع المصلحة الإسرائيلية، فكان هذا الاتفاق بصيغته الحالية.

لقد أحرق جوزيف عون جميع مراكبه عندما راهن على أنّ الدعم الأميركي والإسرائيلي سيمنحه اليد العليا في الداخل. ومن يذهب إلى هذا الحد في رهانه، لن يتردّد، إذا اقتضت مصلحته، في دفع البلاد نحو صدام داخلي.

لكنّ هذا الرهان يبقى معلّقاً على مسار الاتفاق الأميركي–الإيراني. فإذا أُبرم الاتفاق النهائي، وكانت طهران قد جعلت الانسحاب الإسرائيلي من جنوب لبنان شرطاً لإتمامه، فإنّ الرئيس الأميركي دونالد ترامب سيجد نفسه مضطراً إلى إرغام إسرائيل على الانسحاب، تماماً كما اضطرّ سابقاً إلى فرض وقف إطلاق النار عليه لضمان سريان الاتفاق وفتح مضيق هرمز.

[The Millennial Snowflake 🇵🇸 @Teh_Snowflake]

I’m going to keep reposting this until it sets in.

[Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan]

This is the guy they want you to believe is a radicalized, Islamist, creeping-sharia secret terrorist.

[Kate from Kharkiv @BohuslavskaKate]

Satellite image of the Slavyansk oil refinery in Slavyansk-on-Kuban, Russia, after an overnight drone attack, shown by Dnipro OSINT.

Looks amazing 😎

[Jason Kint @jason_kint]

Makes sense. The president is attacking a free and independent press and the journalists working to inform the public while repeating his usual election lies and misinformation. Meanwhile, the book is backordered because the journalists did excellent work. Lazy Sunday.

[Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus @DrTedros]

Thank you @LopesInsights. This deserves to be said louder. Africa represents 20% of the world’s population and enormous geographic, cultural, and epidemiological diversity. Yet disease outbreaks get generalized to the entire continent while similar issues in Europe are treated as isolated, local stories. That’s not reporting. That’s narrative construction.

[Hamada 🇵🇸🇵🇸 @AHMED_ABUHAMAD_]

رائد (37 عاماً)، أصيب بالشلل الكامل بعد إصابته برصاصة في رأسه أثناء محاولة الوصول للطعام في نقطة المساعدات الأمريكية .

هل تذكرونه ؟

توفاه الله الليلة في مصر أثناء عملية العلاج

لا حول ولا قوة إلا بالله

[MO @Abu_Salah9]

حر قاتل في خيام غزة ،

مأساة لا زال يتجاهلها العالم.

[cui bono/who benefits? @BerkeleyEve]

@PublicDomainRev the astrological system shown here is Chinese.

[Ukrainian Ministry of Accidental Russian Fires @EPICGOPFAIL]

thank you so much for that context, fella!
who doesn't love rainbow trout?
russia, that's who!
why?
rainbow trout 🌈🐟= too gay!

[OSINTtechnical @Osinttechnical]

During a wave of anti-corruption arrests overnight and into this morning, Iraqi authorities found massive amounts of cash hidden in the home of MP Aliya Nassif.

[It's politics @uspolitics1111]

Zohran Mamdani: "Solidarity with a government that is committing genocide is a very different thing than a question of solidarity with people of a specific faith. I'm proud to be a mayor of the city with the largest Jewish population in this country."

[Salwa Abu Azoom @AzoomSalwa]

يحق لإسرائيل حمل السلاح لدفاع عن نفسها
ولا يحق لفلسطين ولبنان إمتلاك السلاح
قانون الإدارة الأمريكية الملعونة
الذي يصفق له بعض القادة العرب والعبيد المملوكيين

[Mike Young @micyoung75]

Kagan's dissent is the legal document that will be read when historians examine what this Court did in this moment. She found that the majority's conclusion required setting aside comments that were "so repellent and racially inflected" that the Court itself would not reproduce them in its opinion - and then ruling anyway that those comments were insufficient evidence of racial animus.

The legal standard the majority applied: courts cannot question the process immigration authorities use to revoke TPS, regardless of the statements accompanying that process. The practical consequence: 350,000 people who have lived here legally, worked, built families, enrolled children in schools - exposed to deportation to a country where four women returned in February were found beheaded. Viles Dorsainvil, who runs a support center for Haitians in Springfield, Ohio, said families are going to work, kids are going to school, and the Court just put all of it on stop. The Senate has a bipartisan House-passed bill sitting in front of it. They could act today.