ricky :D

local bingo winner | brother of many

[Dr. Najat Abdul-Aziz @theafroaussie]

Fact: Cuba provides lower income countries with more medical staff than all the G7 countries combined

[Josefina Vidal @JosefinaVidalF]

En este instante, barco de la Armada Mexicana hace su entrada a La Habana con ayuda del gobierno y el hermano pueblo de #México para el pueblo de #Cuba🇨🇺.

Gracias 🇲🇽!!!

[mik★mik⨾ @joyific4tion]

u wanna be filipino but how do u handle ur country being a prime example of us imperialism's ideal dream of sustained colonization🫩🫩

[Irish Unity 🇮🇪🇵🇸 @IrishUnity]

📍 Belfast, Ireland

[B1. @chicagoBRIZ]

Calling Obama a jackass then crying at his inauguration because you never thought you’d see a black president is the duality of man I strive to be. Rest in Power Jesse Jackson your legacy won’t be forgotten

[Black @LilithBlack25]

Having a sane leader who cares about his/her people goes along way .

[AntiDisplacementCoup @AsterZephyrIsis]

Day 4 of a strike is not "dragging on". This is bad writing and bad journalism.

[G. Gamache @The_G_Genie]

why you need a union contract at your job, no matter your job:

[The Last Farm @TheLastFarm]

Every Silicon Valley tech breakthrough is just slavery reimagined

[Arnaud Bertrand @RnaudBertrand]

This is a genuinely incredible story.

The hottest term on Chinese social media right now is “kill-line”: if you go to Xiaohongshu, Bilibili or Douyin, everyone is speaking about it.

Why? It all has to do with the story of Alex, known as “牢A” (“Láo A”, literally “prison A” where A stands for Alex), a Chinese medical/biology student based in Seattle, USA, who worked part-time as a forensic assistant collecting unclaimed bodies (primarily homeless people).

You’ve doubtlessly never heard of him but he probably single-handedly shattered what remained of the “American Dream” myth for an entire generation of young Chinese.

In late 2025, Alex started going massively viral on Bilibili, a Chinese video platform, for videos where he described poverty in America. He coined the term “kill line” (“斩杀线”) - an expression borrowed from gaming describing when a game character's health is so low one hit will finish them. In Alex’s framing, the concept describes how a single shock (illness, job loss, accident) can push middle-class Americans into irreversible poverty.

It’s hard to overstate the cultural impact he’s had in China. In barely a few weeks, “kill line” became part of everyday lexicon. So much so that even Qiushi - the core theoretical journal of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China - published a lengthy theoretical analysis using "kill line" as its central framework (https://t.co/8VRe3xNj8S).

This never happens. Gaming slang coined by a 22-year-old streamer based in the U.S. does not become the analytical framework for Qiushi, the CPC’s core theoretical journal, in just a handful of weeks. That’s normally not how Communist Party theory gets crafted, to put it mildly 😂. And yet here we are - which goes to show just how powerfully Alex resonated.

It didn’t take long for America to notice - and for Alex’s problems to start.

Due to the staggering resonance his content was having in China, Alex became the target of an extremely vicious doxxing campaign by Chinese dissidents.

He also got targeted by Western media with the New York Times, among others, publishing a piece (https://t.co/dOtHBR6Eu3) identifying him as the origin of the phenomenon which they described - unsurprisingly - as Communist propaganda meant to “deflect criticism of [Chinese] leaders.”

I just wrote an article telling the full story. It ends with Alex escaping to China in an extraction worthy of a Cold War spy novel. Think about how extraordinary this is: a Chinese student fleeing to China for safety, because he feared for his life after being harassed for describing poverty in America.

Full story here: https://t.co/3vzUmnGurq

[Sana Saeed @SanaSaeed]

The loss of newspapers, and specifically local newspapers, is terrible for many reasons, but two primarily:

1. It weakens modes of accountability for local politics. Less local papers means less local reporters investigating, asking questions and holding local officials accountable which leads the way for deeper corruption and abuse of power.

2. It allows for bigger papers with vested ideological and financial interests - like the NYT, WashPo, WSJ etc - to tighten their monopoly on covering power, finance and politics.

[ᴘɢ² @angrygavi]

“From the rubble we rise to play” 🥹🇵🇸❤️

[Teortaxes▶️ (DeepSeek 推特🐋铁粉 2023 – ∞) @teortaxesTex]

Africa will have normal railways before California

[Samuel 🇲🇽 @resisres]

🚨🇲🇽 BREAKING — MILLIONS OF DOLLARS WASTED ON WEAK ANTI-SHEINBAUM PROTEST IN MEXICO

The protest was sponsored by the usual NGOs tied to U.S. interventionism — like the Atlas Network — and by Salinas Pliego, the recently humiliated billionaire forced to pay his taxes, who spent millions trying to rival Sheinbaum’s massive crowds and only managed to gather a fraction.

Despite the very violent rioters, they only managed to gather a small geriatric crowd for their supposed “Gen-Z” protest.

Once again, the right wing’s dreams of a color revolution have failed to materialize.

[🇲🇽POVMEXICO @POVMexico]

500 years of Mexican history in 3 wars:

🇪🇸 Spanish conquest (1519–1521, Tenochtitlán)

🇲🇽 Mexican independence (1810–1821, Guanajuato)

🖤 Emos vs Punks (2008, CDMX)

[WANA Visuals @wana_visualss]

Just married a 23 year old Abed (Muslim groom) and 19 year old Arige (Christian bride) walk through the bombed ruins of Beirut, Lebanon, 1983 🇱🇧

Photo by George Semerdjian

[n☘️ @nyxwanga]

Good day to remind you that Dubai does not have any gold mines. This is a direct result of bloodshed from Sudan, facilitated by Kenya.
#FreeSudan

[DiscussingFilm @DiscussingFilm]

Guillermo del Toro says “I’d rather die” than use generative AI

“My concern is not artificial intelligence, but natural stupidity. I think that's what drives most of the world's worst features”

(Source: https://t.co/oWAHxOGBip)