Claudia Del Valle

[Claudia Del Valle @claudiadvq]

@gobrightspeed @BrightspeedHelp Holly Springs NC without internet since 6 pm aprox. Can you give an update ? What happened ? Chat is unresponsive, troubleshooting not working, I’ve been on the phone for 30 min with no answer …. Help!!

[# @fiondavision]

This is what @AnonCommieStan’s thread outing Stonetoss looks like now

[Ana Pat Arteaga Massieu @anapatam_mx]

El Gran engaño del Sexenio de MORENA en el manejo del presupuesto :

1. Lo primero que hicieron fue deshacerse de los ahorros que se juntaron por más de 25 años; estamos hablando de cerca de 1 Billón de pesos.

[Leah Remini @LeahRemini]

I have some important news to share.

For two decades, Julian Swartz, a top Scientology ethics official has played a pivotal role in covering up crimes of Scientologists. This includes the sex crimes of Danny Masterson.

But Julian's photo has never been published before. But now, for the first time, I am publishing his photo in a piece I've co-authored with my friend @yashar.

Meet Scientology's obstructor-in-chief. A man who has covered up many crimes involving sexual violence including the molestation of young children.

Please share this far and wide.

Read Our Piece: https://t.co/dfkU1wH0Sw

[Joe G @EastEndJoe]

This video can never be retweeted enough number of times.

Every American needs to watch this and ask themselves one simple question.

“Is this the world we want to live in?”

[Témoris Grecko @temoris]

#Ayotzinapa
Omar García Harfuch se dice "listo para enfrentar cualquier reto en la ciudad", como podría ser la jefatura de Gobierno de Ciudad de México. Y lo hizo en La Jornada, en una de esas entrevistas en las que el reportero hace como que pregunta porque no quiere que parezca que no preguntó... pero en realidad, ni siquiera es pregunta.

¿Qué papel tuvo en el Caso Ayotzinapa? Todo lo que OGH dice es "yo no estuve ahí, no hice nada, no participé en las investigaciones".

El reportero lo deja repetir lo que ha repetido por años y no indaga, lo cual era su tarea. Lo deja escapar sin ningún esfuerzo. Porque OGH era hasta unos días antes el coordinador de la Policía Federal en Guerrero, una policía involucrada en los ataques contra los normalistas y hundida hasta el tuétano en asociación delictuosa con bandas criminales, y si el entrevistado dice que no hizo nada, que no participó, un periodista le hubiera preguntado por qué.

Si no participó en las investigaciones de Ayotzinapa, ¿por qué no? Él era el jefe de los agentes de la PF envueltos en el crimen. Él sabía exactamente quién era quién y qué hacía. Debe haber tenido evidencias o al menos sospechas de sus nexos criminales. Él conocía a las bandas.

Si no hizo nada, ¿por qué no, si sabía que las estructuras a su cargo estaban sirviendo al crimen organizado? ¿O sí hizo? ¿O qué andaba haciendo en lugar de tratar de limpiar el cuerpo que comandaba?

¿O también estaba involucrado?

[CALL TO ACTIVISM @CalltoActivism]

A British writer penned the best description of Donald Trump I’ve ever read:

“Why do some British people not like Donald Trump?”

A few things spring to mind. Trump lacks certain qualities which the British traditionally esteem. For instance, he has no class, no charm, no coolness, no credibility, no compassion, no wit, no warmth, no wisdom, no subtlety, no sensitivity, no self-awareness, no humility, no honour and no grace – all qualities, funnily enough, with which his predecessor Mr. Obama was generously blessed. So for us, the stark contrast does rather throw Trump’s limitations into embarrassingly sharp relief.

Plus, we like a laugh. And while Trump may be laughable, he has never once said anything wry, witty or even faintly amusing – not once, ever. I don’t say that rhetorically, I mean it quite literally: not once, not ever. And that fact is particularly disturbing to the British sensibility – for us, to lack humour is almost inhuman. But with Trump, it’s a fact. He doesn’t even seem to understand what a joke is – his idea of a joke is a crass comment, an illiterate insult, a casual act of cruelty.

Trump is a troll. And like all trolls, he is never funny and he never laughs; he only crows or jeers. And scarily, he doesn’t just talk in crude, witless insults – he actually thinks in them. His mind is a simple bot-like algorithm of petty prejudices and knee-jerk nastiness.

There is never any under-layer of irony, complexity, nuance or depth. It’s all surface. Some Americans might see this as refreshingly upfront. Well, we don’t. We see it as having no inner world, no soul. And in Britain we traditionally side with David, not Goliath. All our heroes are plucky underdogs: Robin Hood, Dick Whittington, Oliver Twist. Trump is neither plucky, nor an underdog. He is the exact opposite of that. He’s not even a spoiled rich-boy, or a greedy fat-cat. He’s more a fat white slug. A Jabba the Hutt of privilege.

And worse, he is that most unforgivable of all things to the British: a bully. That is, except when he is among bullies; then he suddenly transforms into a snivelling sidekick instead. There are unspoken rules to this stuff – the Queensberry rules of basic decency – and he breaks them all. He punches downwards – which a gentleman should, would, could never do – and every blow he aims is below the belt. He particularly likes to kick the vulnerable or voiceless – and he kicks them when they are down.

So the fact that a significant minority – perhaps a third – of Americans look at what he does, listen to what he says, and then think ‘Yeah, he seems like my kind of guy’ is a matter of some confusion and no little distress to British people, given that:

• Americans are supposed to be nicer than us, and mostly are.

• You don’t need a particularly keen eye for detail to spot a few flaws in the man.

This last point is what especially confuses and dismays British people, and many other people too; his faults seem pretty bloody hard to miss. After all, it’s impossible to read a single tweet, or hear him speak a sentence or two, without staring deep into the abyss. He turns being artless into an art form; he is a Picasso of pettiness; a Shakespeare of shit. His faults are fractal: even his flaws have flaws, and so on ad infinitum. God knows there have always been stupid people in the world, and plenty of nasty people too. But rarely has stupidity been so nasty, or nastiness so stupid. He makes Nixon look trustworthy and George W look smart. In fact, if Frankenstein decided to make a monster assembled entirely from human flaws – he would make a Trump.

And a remorseful Doctor Frankenstein would clutch out big clumpfuls of hair and scream in anguish: ‘My God… what… have… I… created?' If being a twat was a TV show, Trump would be the boxed set.”

-Nate White

[matt bernstein @mattxiv]

the person who's about to legislate your human rights away

[Jo @JoJoFromJerz]

The state of Tennessee does not require a permit to carry a firearm. Doesn’t matter if it’s a rifle, a shotgun, or a handgun.
Doesn’t matter whether you carry openly or concealed.
They don’t care.
But if you’re a mom, in a courtroom, protesting gun violence, and you’re holding a sign them good ol’ boys just don’t like… guess what — you’re going to jail.
This is NOT what Democracy looks like. So we fight.
And moms WILL win.
Because when it comes to keeping our kids safe, there is no other option.

[The Cultural Tutor @culturaltutor]

Exactly 112 years ago today a man called Vincenzo Peruggia walked into the Louvre and stole the Mona Lisa.

It is the most famous art theft in history, and it's what made the Mona Lisa the most famous painting in the world.

And the man who stole it only spent 6 months in prison.

The Mona Lisa was commissioned in 1503 by a cloth merchant from Florence called Francesco del Giocondo. He asked none other than Leonardo da Vinci to paint a portrait of his wife, Lisa.

But Leonardo — a famously slow worker — didn't finish the painting. When he went to work for the King of France he took it with him, finished it, and gave it to his new employer as a gift.

So the subject of the world's most famous painting, Lisa del Giocondo, never actually saw it herself! The Mona Lisa remained in the possession of French royalty, at the Palace of Fontainebleau and then at Versailles, for nearly 300 years.

But in 1797, after the French Revolution, it was moved the Louvre. Still, it wasn't a particularly famous painting at the time. In the later half of the 19th century certain critics started to acclaim the Mona Lisa as a masterpiece, but it wasn't popular with the public.

Until the 21st August 1911.

Vincenzo Peruggia was an Italian tradesman who had moved to Paris in 1907 in search of work. He got a job at the Louvre, cleaning and reframing paintings.

There he learned how many Italian works of art Napoleon had taken from Italy and brought to France. Inspired to reclaim his country's heritage, Peruggia decided to steal the Mona Lisa.

Of course, although so many works of art all around the world were stolen or at least have murky history, the Mona Lisa was in France legitimately — Leonardo had given it to King Francis as a gift. Whether Peruggia knew this or not is still unclear.

How did he steal it? For what is probably the most famous art theft in history, it was remarkably easy. He entered the Louvre on the morning of 21st August, 1911, on a day when it was closed to the public, dressed like his fellow workers in a white smock.

He went to the Salon Carré, the room in which the Mona Lisa was kept, and simply took it off the wall when nobody was looking. Then he wrapped it in his smock and left the Louvre. Simple as that.

It wasn't until the next day that anybody realised the Mona Lisa was missing, at which point the authorities were alerted, the press heard about it, and the theft became an international phenomenon reported in newspapers all over the world.

The police were clueless. They arrested the poet Guillaume Apollinaire, who implicated Pablo Picasso — he was then brought in for questioning. But they were both released and the case remained unsolved for two years.

The American businessman and art collector J.P. Morgan was even suspected of having commissioned the theft. There was a fear in France at the time that French art and heritage was being bought up by Americans, and the loss of the Mona Lisa was seen as a national disgrace.

Tourists came flocking to the Louvre to see the empty spot where the Mona Lisa had been — a relatively unknown portrait had suddenly become the world's most talked-about painting.

All the while Peruggia had the Mona Lisa in a suitcase in his Parisian apartment. In December 1913 he took it to Florence with him, hoping to sell it. At which point an art dealer called Alfredo Geri received a mysterious letter offering to sell him the Mona Lisa...

Immediately suspicious, Geri contacted the director of Florence's Uffizi Gallery, Giovanni Poggi. They pretended to go along with the sale, met up with Peruggia, verified the painting — and then contacted the police.

Peruggia was arrested, newspapers all around the world reported that the Mona Lisa had been recovered, and after being displayed for two weeks in Italy it was returned with great pomp and ceremony to the Louvre.

Thereafter the Mona Lisa became, and has remained, the world's most famous painting. It is undoubtedly a masterpiece, not least because of Leonardo's revolutionary use of a technique he called "sfumato", in which he blurred the colours and lines of the Mona Lisa's face to make it more realistic. But many people rightly wonder why it is *so* famous when there are many other paintings that are more important, interesting, and beautiful.

Well, it's all thanks to Vincenzo Peruggia, whose theft gave the Mona Lisa a unique place in the public consciousness. The Mona Lisa isn't famous because it's the best work of art ever made; it is the world's most famous painting... simply because it's so famous. A self-perpetuating cycle.

What happened to Peruggia? His trial took place in June of 1914, six months after having being first arrested — but by July he had been released.

See, Peruggia was hailed as a patriot and a hero in Italy, and there was immense public pressure for a lenient sentence. There had even been a campaign to raise money for him. He later served in the First World War, during which he was captured and imprisoned by the Austrians. After the war he returned to France, under a different name, and died there in 1925.

So, although he didn't precisely achieve his aim, Peruggia did succeed in making an Italian painting the most famous work of art in the world.

[La Tercera @latercera]

🔴#LaTerceraPM | Nueva denuncia por abuso sexual sacude al Colegio Cumbres: investigan a profesor por actos de connotación sexual contra adolescente de 14 años a https://t.co/b6DV75MNcx

[chris evans @notcapnamerica]

So the whole point of the “Twitter files” was that Biden was colluding with Twitter to remove damaging info from the site but it turns out Musky was served with a warrant from the DOJ for Trump’s account and not only did he refuse to comply but he warned Trump that they were trying to obtain his data.

[ian bremmer @ianbremmer]

this seems less than strongly aligned with free speech on the platform. #freeprofgalloway

[Omar Castrejón @Omar_Castrejon]

Así es, tal cual. 👇

[Franchesca Parra @lagatadelkpop]

Les presento a Luis Miguel Herrera, uno de los sacerdotes acudos de abusos graves en el Cumbres, el q fue capellan del femenino y quien se jactaba de seguir la docrina de Maciel a pesar de su condena, el mismo q usted vio alguna vez predicando en tv!

[Analu Salazar @Ana1uSalazar]

Juan Luis Cendejas cura mexicano perteneciente a la @LegiondeCristo y a la @IglesiaMexico es uno de los violadores de la víctima de 16 del cumbres de Chile.
Ahí lo pueden ver rodeado de niñas y niños!
Hasta hoy sigue en encubierto por la congregación y la #IglesiaCatólica

[Analu Salazar @Ana1uSalazar]

Abusos sexuales en grupo! Por parte de sacerdotes y consagradas de la @LegiondeCristo a una niña de 16 años dentro del colegio #cumbres en Chile!
Y el papa jugando a la #Tolerancia0 cuando la misma iglesia encubre estos casos a nivel mundial.

https://t.co/rkWz9mb8v9

[Alejandro Colin @alejco369]

@mpio_Leones Esto hizo el hdpta, espero con ansias que publiquen sus datos

https://t.co/1FW9HyD5E0

[Katia D'Artigues @kdartigues]

Imaginen que quieren ir a abrir una cuenta de banco. Pero un trámite que tarda para casi cualquier persona menos de una hora, a ustedes les va a tomar en algunos casos hasta mes y medio...

Les cuento la historia en este hilo 🧵