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Introvert, looking through the screen each day to see if I can find myself... Igbo in and out

[Soureh 🟩☫🟥 @Soureh_design2]

Iran didn't stop developing its infrastructure even during the war

One of the spots with traffic builds up in Tehran now has this underpass and people are happy about it

[Nwanyi Ocha @nwanyi_ocha]

I want to be fair to @PeterPsquare . He is not wrong that French opens doors Igbo does not. He is not wrong that parents get to decide how they raise their own children. But I guess he underestimates the fact that he is not just any parent. P-Square is a name millions of Igbo people grew up admiring, their success made them proud to be who they are. People all over the world sang their songs using Igbo words. So when a voice like that says Igbo is not worth passing on, it does not land like one man’s private choice. It gives permission for a belief a lot of people were already quietly carrying, that English and French, in short anything foreign, sits above Igbo, that their native language is something to graduate out of rather than something to hold onto.

I am not Igbo. I am Swiss. But my husband made it clear from the beginning that our children would speak Igbo, and I have never once seen that as a burden or a complication. Our children speak Swiss German, English, and Igbo at home, German at school, and now French as well, since that is part of their school curriculum too. Five languages, and none of them fighting each other for space. That is the part people forget when they frame this as a choice. Children do not need to pick one language to be strong in. They can navigate several at once, easily.

It is adults who turn language into a competition. Children just absorb what is spoken to them and grow fluent in all of it.

A language is not only a tool for getting ahead. It is also a rooting tool, the place where love, memory, and belonging live. It is the specific way a grandmother scolds you and forgives you in the same breath. It is a joke that only works in the original. Lose the language, and you do not just lose a skill. You lose a room in your own house, one you can still visit as a guest but never quite live in again. That is what worries me most in this conversation. A child who cannot speak their father’s or mother’s language will, at some point, stand in that homeland and feel like a stranger. Not unwelcome, not unloved, just outside something that was supposed to be theirs by birth.

One day, my sons will be handed a kola nut, and in that moment, no one should have to do it for them. They should know how to receive it, how to speak over it, how to break it themselves, not pass it along to someone else because they never learned the words or the meaning behind them. That is such a small moment, and yet it says everything. It is the difference between being someone’s guest and being someone’s own.
So when I hear “Igbo is useless,” what I actually hear is a wound that has not healed.

From the outside, I have watched how often English or French get treated as the languages worth keeping, while Igbo gets treated as the one you can afford to let go of. That preference did not come from nowhere. It is a colonial hierarchy that convinced generations of people that closeness to their own culture was a limitation rather than a foundation. I don’t say this to shame anyone, least of all a man raising his own family the best way he knows how. I say it because the people who shape how we see ourselves carry a weight beyond their own households, whether they asked for it or not.

My hope is simple. That we stop treating our children’s languages as a competition with only one winner. That we let them have both the world and their roots, and trust that they are capable of holding both without ever having to choose.

[Zionism Exposed @ZionismExposedx]

The Hamas fighter has no parents to hug because the woman on the left murdered them

[Ambassade de Cuba en France @EmbaCubaFrancia]

Les États-Unis et Israël mentent, peu importe la date et l’heure auxquelles vous lirez ces lignes...

[MonitorX @MonitorX99800]

🇺🇸🇮🇷⚡– News roads are being laid on dry river beds in areas where US bombed the bridges in Iran. This makes the US strikes on these bridges useless, as traffic continues as normal.

[RT Intl @RT_on_X]

'I asked Witkoff, have you ever been in a meeting where there was a chance of being BOMBED at any moment?'

Araghchi adds Iran wasn’t scared by US threats:

'This isn’t Venezuela where you take 1 person and everyone else gets scared and backs down'

[vœð⚡️ @voed_dd]

Please, I’m begging you to read this.

My senior brother has been very sick for over a month .
His kidneys have failed and his whole body started swelling badly.

3 years ago we lost our dad.
Our mom left us when we were still very young.
So it’s just been me and my brother

[dart @poordart]

The madman really did it

True man of and for the people!

[Rita Sunshine @1RitaSunshine]

My mum is dying, please help retweet😩🙏

[Mohamad Safa @mhdksafa]

Imagine if Iran bombed the White House in Washington and killed the U.S. President and Tiffany, his 14-month-old granddaughter, what would you call it? Terrorists

The U.S. bombed Tehran, killed its head of state and Zahra, his 14-month-old granddaughter. Why do you call it peace

[mustafa yazıcı @myzccc]

World leaders marched in Paris after the killing of Charlie Hebdo journalists

The irony: among them was Benjamin Netanyahu the killer of journalists in Gaza. An even greater irony: the world watches in silence as more than 270 journalists killed in Palestime

[Pop Base @PopBase]

Palestinian goalkeeper Salim Al-Ashqar has been killed by Israeli forces in Gaza.

He leaves behind his wife of 5 months who is expecting their first child.

[Black @LilithBlack25]

FBI and CIA have robbed us so many progressive leaders at their young ages all because it threatens their systems

[Richard @ricwe123]

That time when an unarmed Iranian ship was invited to take part in an Indian naval exercise alongside the United States.
Its sailors were welcomed on land and paraded before Indian President Modi as a gesture of respect.
Then, at the last moment, the United States suddenly abruptly withdrew from the exercise,only to wait and torpedo the very ship it had just stood beside.

What followed was even more grotesque.
After attacking an unarmed vessel, the US refused to rescue the sailors it had blown into the sea, abandoning them to drown.
The grim work of recovering bodies was left to the Sri Lankan Navy.

This wasn’t warfare,it was treachery of the most disgraceful kind: an ambush carried out under the pretense of diplomacy, followed by a cold refusal to show even the most basic human decency to the dying.
It would represent a collapse of every norm that supposedly governs civilized conduct at sea.

And yet, instead of outrage, much of the American media response has been indifference or rationalization.
The bombing of a girls’ school is brushed aside; talk of carpet-bombing Tehran is floated as if it were just another policy option.
When atrocities are normalized and cruelty is laundered into “strategy,” the line between reporting and complicity begins to disappear......

[Sony Thăng @nxt888]

Take any population on earth.

For several generations, remove their most physically capable members by force and sell them abroad.

Destroy their existing political institutions and replace them with administrative structures designed to extract rather than develop.

Draw their borders to maximize ethnic conflict and minimize political coherence.

Extract their mineral and agricultural wealth for a century at prices you set unilaterally.

When you leave, install governments that serve your economic interests rather than their populations.

Fund civil wars when those governments are threatened by leaders who want to redirect resource revenues toward domestic development.

Then, three generations later, administer a cognitive test.

Compare the scores to those of the populations who spent the same period accumulating capital, building universities, developing public health infrastructure, and compounding the advantages of political stability.

Put the results on a map.

Call the map a "nature documentary."

Tell yourself the scores show something biological.

Tell yourself the history had nothing to do with it.

Tell yourself you arrived at this conclusion by following the evidence.

You did not follow the evidence.

You followed the map to the place you had already decided to go.

And the evidence, the entire, documented, sourced, cross-disciplinary evidence, is the invoice you refused to open.

[Osaretin Victor Asemota @asemota]

I have two blind friends who have told me separately how most people don't realize how easy it is for anyone to just go blind from an accident. One Red Bull almost did it for me over two weeks ago. Being able to see without trouble is an underrated blessing. Still recovering.

[Sir Dickson @Wizarab10]

See what Nigeria is doing to its people. He was 26 when APC entered office. 11 wasted years

Look what they have done to him.

[Alex (Sasha) Krainer @NakedHedgie]

I never converted to Islam but doing research had a similar effect on me too. Islamophobia stems from MI6/CIA deliberately distorted, hateful and radicalized versions of Islam.

[Ana Kasparian @AnaKasparian]

Hezbollah are only considered "terrorists" to the invaders and occupiers currently attempting to annex land in their country.

Since Emily is part of that blood thirsty group, which is loathed across the globe, we should all expect a braindead post like this.

[Ana Kasparian @AnaKasparian]

The IDF is still bombing tents full of civilians Gaza...and I'm supposed to be worried about disarming Hezbollah? Please.