if you drink soda, wear makeup & use watercolors, it's your responsibility to know about El Obeid, a city lush with acacia tree forests that produce gum arabic—a crucial ingredient used in all these products. & today it's a city under siege by the UAE-funded RSF. #KeepEyesOnSudan
Local traders at a historic British market are in a race against time to raise £15m to stop it falling into the hands of private equity firms.
Brixton Market dubs itself “London’s most diverse and vibrant market”, with over 100 vendors representing more than 50 countries.
The market began life on Atlantic Road in the 1870s, with covered arcades built in the 1920s and 1930s.
In 2018 it was purchased by global investment firm TPG Angelo Gordon and property management company Hondo Enterprises, who put it up for sale last year.
Under their stewardship, traders have repeatedly complained that the market was being turned into a “ghost town” on the back of soaring rents.
The market is now being pitched to unnamed private equity firms for £50m as part of “a plan to drive £1.2m in increased profits by evicting tenants paying lower rents,” Londonist reported.
The original six-month consultation window was scrapped without warning, leaving only days before bidding closes on 22 June.
In response, the Brixton Traders and Community Association have launched a 'Buy Back Brixton' counter-bid, with support from The Advocacy Academy.
They have set a fundraising target of £15m to launch a bid to bring the market into community ownership.
"Brixton Market as we know it could disappear," the two groups said in a joint statement.
"Local traders actively create the wealth that is then taken out of the community by private interests, and yet are told time and time again that their needs don't matter and that they are replaceable by other businesses/chains who can compete with rising rents, despite being the ones to build this space into what it is.
"We now have two choices. We can either accept that the market will always be run by developers who don't live here, don't have any ties to the community, and only see our people as cash cows – or we do something about it. For us, the choice is clear."
WTF!
Familie Liebl kam mit deutschen Pässen nach Deutschland.
Sie bekam deutsche Ausweise. Sie erhielt Wahlunterlagen.
Die Kinder gingen zur Schule, spielten im Verein und planten ihre Zukunft. Heute sollen sie als „unerlaubt eingereiste Ausländer“ behandelt werden.
Der Grund? Eine Ehe aus dem Jahr 1908 in der damaligen deutschen Kolonie Togo wurde von deutschen Gerichten nicht anerkannt. Weil damals eine zusätzliche Genehmigung der Kolonialverwaltung bzw. des Kaiserreichs gefehlt haben soll.
Anders gesagt: Im Jahr 2026 hängt die Zukunft von Kindern in Deutschland an einer kolonialen Vorschrift aus der Zeit Kaiser Wilhelms. Ein Junge macht gerade Abitur. Andere Kinder wollen später in die IT-Branche oder ein eigenes Unternehmen gründen. Statt über ihre Zukunft zu sprechen, kämpfen sie nun darum, überhaupt bleiben zu dürfen.
Das ist nicht nur ein juristischer Fall. Das ist eine Frage von Menschlichkeit, historischer Verantwortung und gesundem Menschenverstand.
Die Familie erhält nach Angaben der Unterstützer aktuell keine Leistungen mehr, während Miete, Schulessen & laufende Kosten weiterlaufen.
Wer die Familie unterstützen möchte: https://t.co/i3c4ct1Rg2
#KeinVergessen: Heute vor zwei Jahren, am 25. März 2024, verübt ein Rechtsextremer einen rassistischen Brandanschlag in Solingen, bei dem İsmail (Kancho) Zhilov & Kıymet (Katya) Zhilova sowie ihre Töchter Elis (Emily) & Gizem (Galia) ums Leben kommen. 1/12
https://t.co/WIchW1DWiw
Let me explain what just happened 👇
5 minutes before the President announced a halt to attacks on Iran… someone placed a $1.5 BILLION bet on stocks going up and dumped $192 million in oil.
5 minutes…
These trades were 4 to 6 times larger than anything else in the entire market. Whoever did this wasn’t guessing. You don’t risk $1.5 billion on a hunch.
There was zero public indication this announcement was coming. No leaks. No press. Nothing. The only people who knew were in the room when the decision was made.
Someone in that room picked up a phone.
And within minutes they made more money than most Americans will earn in a thousand lifetimes. In a single trade. On a war that cost you $4+ a gallon gas and $16 billion in tax dollars.
American citizens funded this war. Politicians are profiting from it.
This is not the first time. Every major announcement from this administration has had massive suspicious trades right before it dropped. Tariff reversals. Policy shifts. War decisions.
This is the most blatant insider trading operation in the history of American politics. It’s not even close. And it’s happening over and over in broad daylight.
You would go to federal prison for trading on a tip from your cousin. These people are front running war decisions with billion dollar bets and nobody will ever ask a single question.
Nobody will be investigated. Nobody will be charged. By tomorrow this will be buried under the next satisfying headline. Just like last time. And the time before that.
The game is rigged. And they’re not even trying to hide it anymore…
01.03.17, Döbeln: Ruth K. stirbt an den Folgen einer Rauchvergiftung durch einen rassistisch motivierten und vorsätzlich entfachten Hausbrand. Hintergründe: https://t.co/2rCKof2lVu
Jeff Bezos wealth in 2024: $194 billion
Jeff Bezos wealth in 2025: $215 billion
Jeff Bezos wealth today: $249.4 billion
Net increase in Bezos wealth since 2024: $55.4 billion
Cost of Bezos’s 417-foot superyacht: $500 million
Amazon investment in "Melania": $75 million
Original Bezos purchase price of the Washington Post in 2013: $250 million
Bezos net worth in 2013: $25.2 billion
Net increase in Bezos wealth since buying the Post: $224.2 billion
Last reported annual losses of Post: $100 million
Number of years Bezos could absorb those losses with what he makes in a single week: 5
@JeffBezos
A statement from the family of Alex Pretti, obtained by CNN:
"We are heartbroken but also very angry.
Alex was a kindhearted soul who cared deeply for his family and friends and also the American veterans whom he cared for as an ICU nurse at the Minneapolis VA hospital. Alex wanted to make a difference in this world. Unfortunately he will not be with us to see his impact. I do not throw around the hero term lightly. However his last thought and act was to protect a woman.
The sickening lies told about our son by the administration are reprehensible and disgusting. Alex is clearly not holding a gun when attacked by Trump’s murdering and cowardly ICE thugs. He has his phone in his right hand and his empty left hand is raised above his head while trying to protect the woman ICE just pushed down all while being pepper sprayed.
Please get the truth out about our son. He was a good man. Thank you."
Das Überleben der kurdisch geprägten Selbstverwaltung steht in #Syrien auf dem Spiel. Wir sind zur Zeit stündlich im Austausch mit unseren Partner:innen vor Ort. Zur aktuellen, dramatischen, Lage in #Rojava mein Kommentar:
https://t.co/SnhSFvcx9u
Heute kommt die People's Caravan auf dem Weg nach Kobanê durch München. Um 12 Uhr im Ligsalz8.
Beteiligt euch!
Alle Informationen zur Karawane:
https://t.co/OUbyEsJpWF
In der Haberssathstraße sind Truppen vom Eigentümer in zahlreiche Wohnungen eingebrochen. Türen wurden eingetreten, obwohl Bewohner dahinter waren, Einrichtungen und Bäder zerstört
Menschen quälen:
"Mehrere Videos, die dem NDR vorliegen, zeigen, wie ein Mann einen Jugendlichen tritt und erniedrigt. Bei dem Täter soll es sich um den AfD-Kommunalpolitiker Philip Steinbeck aus Jessenitz im Kreis Ludwigslust-Parchim handeln."
https://t.co/jwMe3NHpzz
Ab heute online:
„Das soll Gerechtigkeit sein? Die Tötung von Mouhamed Lamine Dramé“.
Mit vielen unerzählten Details über den polizeilichen Mord in Dortmund.
https://t.co/NujspGS3Tf