Gentrix

🇰🇪 Don't wish it were easier, wish you were better.

[USATF @usatf]

THE. MASAI. RUSSELL. 👑

The first woman to EVER break 12.1 in the women’s hurdles 🐐

[CNN Breaking News @cnnbrk]

Japanese artist Yayoi Kusama, famous for covering her colorful installation designs with polka dots, has died at 97. https://t.co/9CbatIeyfk

[The Associated Press @AP]

CCTV footage showed floodwaters and debris sweeping through Gyirong Port near the Nepal-China border on Wednesday, after massive flash floods struck the area.

[Christiane Amanpour @amanpour]

My first thought was... finally.

My second thought was that he died, probably peacefully in his bed, which was a luxury that he did not afford the tens of thousands of women, men and children who died because of him.

[Christiane Amanpour @amanpour]

One of the world's most brutal murderers is finally dead.
At 84 years old the former Bosnian Serb general, Ratko Mladić lived way longer than he allowed his tens of thousands of victims.
The more than 7000 Muslim men and boys he had slaughtered in Srebrenica will be his enduring shame.
At least he was tried by an International Criminal Tribunal and found guilty of his enormous crimes of genocide.
I am proud of the work we journalists did in the 90s to document his crimes against humanity, to finally hold him accountable.

[The Associated Press @AP]

BREAKING: The U.S. is preparing to rescind up to 200,000 business and tourism visas in the largest mass visa revocation ever, officials say. https://t.co/TZzszWyv4z

[Track & Field Gazette @TrackGazette]

HISTORY IN SILESIA!!🔥🔥

For the first time ever, 9 men broke 10 seconds in a single men's 100m race!

It was also only the 2nd time in history that every athlete in a 100m final broke 10 seconds, after the 8-man final at the Paris 2024 Olympics.

[Karen Attiah @KarenAttiah]

Wearing @PostGuild red today.

I was able to challenge my @washingtonpost firing — and win reinstatement plus back pay — all thanks to being a part of the @WBNG32035 Guild.

Binding Arbitration is a part of our contract.

This is why unions matter!!!

[Blackish Press @blackishpress]

In a recent conversation with The Observer, Chaka Khan responded to being described as a “straight icon for queer visibility.”

“A straight icon? What’s the straight part? What do you mean, straight in what way?” she asked.

When the interviewer clarified the term as “heterosexual,” Khan replied: “Am I? How do you know what the f**k I am? I don’t ever share that part of my life. That’s nobody’s business but mine.”

She later stated that she is “for everybody,” adding: “I don’t care what you sleep with at night. If your heart is in the right place, that’s all I care about.”

[Gentrix @gentrixle]

I LOVED Chewing Gum! Had to have the subtitles on the whole time but it was a whole vibe

[TIME @TIME]

"It had a very small audience but that audience felt like the size of the entire universe to me." Michaela Coel, the creator and star of 'Chewing Gum', reflects on how the show was first received and what it meant to people. It's one of TIME's most underappreciated TV shows of the 21st century.

See what else made the list here: https://t.co/ApmgNYpJvT

[ABC News @ABC]

BREAKING: Two people have died in Pennsylvania from measles, the state health department said Tuesday. Both were unvaccinated.

Read more: https://t.co/Oh4f13GlEK

[Karen Attiah @KarenAttiah]

BREAKING:

The Washington Post fired me last year for speaking the truth after Charlie Kirk's killing. I fought back.

I'm happy to announce: I won my case against the Washington Post.

They have been ordered to reinstate me immediately. ✊🏾

https://t.co/TISoTvFFO9

[The Associated Press @AP]

Israeli strikes killed at least four people in the Gaza Strip on Monday, including two children, hospital officials said.

[Usain St. Leo Bolt @usainbolt]

A Million Moments led us to here 👑👑

[🇯🇲 Kadeem 🇯🇲 @KadeemBarrett99]

Happy 40th birthday to the Honorable Usain St Leo Bolt OJ, the greatest sprinter of all time!

FLASHBACK!!!

In honor of Bolt's birthday, here he is breaking the 100m world record for the first time at the Reebok Grand Prix in 2008 running 9.72 (+1.7 m/s)

[Variety @Variety]

Mark Ruffalo's latest attack on the Paramount-Warner Bros. merger slammed the Ellison family's ties to Israel and their role in “what we now have come to see as a genocide” in Gaza.

Ruffalo shared a video of Oracle’s executive vice chair Safra Catz boasting about the company’s efforts to "advance the agenda for the Israeli military" by making "really profoundly scary technology" available to them.

"This is the company that Larry Ellison is using to fund his son David’s Warner Bros acquisition," Ruffalo wrote in a fiery post. "These 'really profoundly scary technologies; will most likely be merged into one of the largest media conglomerates in the world and one day used on you... From one of the biggest tech companies in the world. Powering some of the most destructive and inhuman forces in the world. Why has Trump pushed this illegal merger through? Larry Ellison will own most of 'Para Bros.' Larry is a classic Oligarch. They are crushing workers and consolidating the wealth of the world for their own power and concentrated dominance..."

https://t.co/QbUQCCmiHz

[Mark Ruffalo @MarkRuffalo]

The accusation that I am antisemitic is appalling and fundamentally dishonest. Criticizing the actions of the Israeli prime minister, a military technology contract, or the executives who supply it is not the same as criticizing Jewish people. This critical and necessary dialogue is then dishonestly framed as being anti-Israel. To be clear, my views come from my own political convictions and should never be interpreted as hostility toward Jewish people, for whom I have deep love and respect.  Everything I know about acting, activism, and humanism has been profoundly shaped by the Jewish friends, colleagues, and loved ones who have been integral and family throughout every point of my life.

This merger has real consequences for real people, and for the entire country. Scrutinizing the Ellisons, including Oracle’s business built on data, surveillance technology and government contracts, and the serious threat to editorial freedom and the loss of a livelihood for thousands of families, is fair and necessary. The $111 billion deal would hand one family control over CNN, HBO and Warner Bros., backed in part by foreign money whose influence on editorial decisions has never been fully explained to the public. 

Lawmakers on both sides of the aisle have called for serious national security review, and regulators still haven’t given the public a real answer. Until they do, the merger shouldn’t move forward. Now is the time to dive boldly into all these issues, not step back or concede.

[UK Prime Minister @10DowningStreet]

Joint statement from the leaders of the United Kingdom, France, Germany, Italy, Netherlands, Norway and Canada.