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[Maryam @hell_line0]

a friend of mine just got a late term abortion. Her very desperately wanted baby girl was developing without entire portions of her brain, and some of her organs were growing outside her body. She was found to have a rare genetic condition that would make her completely unable to survive outside the womb. My friend made the gut wrenching decision to end the pregnancy. She deserved the right to make that decision.

[Not Your Average Liberal @NotAvgLiberal]

Imagine a country where you can get a 10 year prison sentence for removing peeling paint from a pool…

And receive no prison sentence for raping a child.

Welcome to America.

[Alfred ‘The Great’ II @d_black_messiah]

Let me educate you slowly, so nothing is lost in translation.

You said Europe was rich before colonisation. Rich by what standard? The same Europe that was crawling through the Dark Ages? Illiterate, plague-ridden, eating off dirt floors, while Timbuktu was running a university that enrolled 25,000 students?

Let’s talk about what “rich” means.

While Europe was in intellectual darkness, the Moors (Africans and Arabs from North Africa), crossed into Iberia in 711 AD and civilised them. They brought algebra, astronomy, medicine, architecture, philosophy. The University of Al-Qarawiyyin in Morocco, founded in 859 AD, is the oldest continuously operating university on earth. Not Oxford, not Cambridge, but Africa!

When European scholars wanted to learn, they went to Cordoba, a city the Moors built, where the library held 400,000 volumes at a time when the largest library in Christian Europe had maybe 400 books.

Four hundred books!

The Greeks you love to quote, Pythagoras, Thales, Solon, Plato, all travelled to Egypt to study. Herodotus documented it, Diodorus Siculus documented it, even Aristotle acknowledged it. The mystery schools of Egypt were the intellectual foundation of what Europe later called “Western civilisation.” Greece didn’t invent wisdom, they imported it from us.

And before any of that,

Mali Empire, Songhai Empire, Great Zimbabwe, Kush, Axum, Carthage, the Kingdom of Benin, whose bronze casting in the 13th century was so precise that when Europeans first saw the Benin Bronzes, they refused to believe Africans made them. They invented a mythical lost civilisation to explain it. Because the alternative, that we were brilliant, broke their entire narrative.

Now here is what your argument conveniently omits.

When Europe arrived, they didn’t meet savages. They met civilisations. So they did what colonisers do, they destroyed the evidence.

The Great Library of Mali in Timbuktu, Sankore University, housed between 700,000 and 1 million manuscripts covering mathematics, astronomy, medicine, law, and theology. French colonial forces and subsequent chaos burned, looted, and scattered what centuries had built. Scholars are still recovering manuscripts from the sand.

The Benin Bronzes (3,000 to 5,000 masterworks) were seized by British forces in the Punitive Expedition of 1897. Stolen, carted to London, sold to museums across Europe. Some are only now being returned, 130 years later, after the world shamed them enough.

The Alexandria Library? Burned.

Carthage? Rome didn’t just defeat it. They salted the earth, they wanted no memory of it.

The Museum of Cairo, Nubian sites, burial monuments… looted systematically, catalogued in European museums, repackaged as their discovery of our heritage.

And Timbuktu’s Ahmad Baba Institute, one of the greatest repositories of African intellectual heritage, the jihadists who attacked it in 2012 were themselves downstream of the chaos that colonial border-drawing and resource extraction created.

This is not clout chasing , this is accounting.

A man burns your house down, takes your furniture, and then mocks you for being homeless. That is not a victimhood mindset.

You want us to “fix our shithole countries”? We are. But let’s be honest about who broke them. The Berlin Conference of 1884, where Europeans sat in a room and divided a continent they did not own, splitting ethnic groups, merging enemies, designing dysfunction… that was not ancient history. The grandparents of people alive today were born into that world.

[dane 🚩 @buckadeath]

We're about to find out what real sanctions look like

[blue @bluewmist]

Our house rule is you don't have to go to sleep if you're reading. So my 8 year old is now reading 6th grade reading level because he likes thinking that he's getting away with staying up after bedtime. Win/win.

[#taola ⚕ @angiechuma]

To imagine that children endured this while diamonds were at their peak?

BDP was the red buttocks of satanas

[Esethu Hasane @lEsethuHasane]

I was at Dischem last week and had a chat with the cashiers about the cost of living and the crazy pricing there. One of them said every day they see people swiping their exact salary with no bother or care, because that money is nothing to them.

This tweet reminds me of that; some people don’t know the value of money because they have too much of it, then turn it into an economic debate.

There are people whose salary is just that 5,000, and it sustains them for the entire month.

[sarah @sahouraxo]

Israel is shooting and killing civilians returning to their homes in Nabatieh, South Lebanon.

Read that again.

Invading Israeli soldiers are opening fire on Lebanese residents on Lebanese soil.

There is no “ceasefire” when civilians are being shot for going home.

[George Galloway @georgegalloway]

This doesn’t leave much room for doubt, does it?

[Kingmaker @MindHealthMaker]

Good people have high levels of empathy, but once that empathy is exhausted, they switch to a state of objective observation. They see you for exactly who you are, without the filter of their love. This is why their anger feels so cold, it is the absence of the warmth you took for granted

[‏ً @BALUCIAGA]

that clip of ngizwe asking that german white woman how long she's been in the country and her saying "since 2007", only for him to reply that she’s “part of us now". did y'all catch how she immediately went, "but i live in cape town-” that’s code for i’m not part of you at all.

[Mvelase 🇵🇸🏳️‍🌈✊🏾🏳️‍⚧️🇿🇦 @MvelaseP]

The trad wives in their 40s and 50s are online. There are actually a lot of them. But their content is about how they were traded in for younger models, left destitute, and unable to get jobs because they have no work history.

[Sugabelly 🌕 @sugabelly]

Autism in children from advanced parental age is more closely tied to advanced age of the FATHER not the mother.

[𝐏𝐚𝐧𝐀𝐟𝐫𝐢𝐜𝐚𝐧 𝐈𝐧𝐭𝐞𝐥 @SankaraDispatch]

In 1993, this photo of Belgian soldiers roasting a Somali boy alive went viral.

The soldiers were in Mogadishu as part of a 5,000-strong UN-led "peacekeeping" mission codenamed Operation Restore Hope in Somalia.

The image shocked the world.

What happened in November 1997, was even more shocking — A Belgian court acquitted the two soldiers.

[𐌁𐌉Ᏽ 𐌕𐌉𐌌𐌉 @OrevaZSN]

This is your friendly reminder that data centres don’t actually need water. They need a cooling system and are using water because it’s the cheapest way to do it.

[Emelia🌙 @Emelia8z0]

How will you continue your day after hearing that a father in Gaza, trapped beneath the rubble, begged rescuers not to save him?

Not because he had lost hope in life, but because he could hear his daughters’ final breaths beneath the debris. Their tiny hands were holding his in the darkness, as if pleading with him one last time. He was the father who had always been their safe refuge, yet this time he was powerless to pull them from the dust and shattered concrete.

Only his head was visible above the wreckage. He looked into the eyes of the rescuers, his own eyes exhausted by fear and helplessness, and said:
“Leave me… my daughters are here… I do not want to come out alone.”

What heart can bear such a scene? What language can describe the agony of a father who realizes he is losing his daughters one by one, while still holding their hands until they grow cold, unable to offer rescue or even one final embrace?

How will your day go on after knowing this story? How will you sit at your table in peace, or laugh at something trivial, knowing that somewhere there was a father whose last wish was not to survive alone?

And the question that continues to haunt the human conscience remains:

How much pain must the world witness before it finally hears the cry of a single father there?

[𝗠𝘂𝗵𝗲𝗲 ♛ @muheediva01]

If you call the police because you *think* you saw a mom stealing diapers, you deserve to go to hell

[ALUTHEDON @Mbakaza4L]

A baby. This is a baby who israel attacked and made a double amputee.

[Dr. Allison Wiltz @queenie4rmnola]

A Black girl killed over orange juice, a Black boy killed over bottled water, a Black baby killed over diapers. This is America

[maru is tired 🫩 @marureviere_]

Once again, I love contributing to the declining birth rate.