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Be your own cheerleader 💃🏽

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@TheCinesthetic Life is beautiful??

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Piers has really turned a corner in my eyes during this conflict!

[Ashok Kumar @comrade_kumar_]

This was brutal https://t.co/9GXcsDbq6L

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Word!

[Ranga.🇿🇼 @RangaMberi]

“Let me stop you right there…”

Caribbean nation Guyana is booming after discovering oil. BBC’s Stephen Sackur puts it to President @presidentaligy; lobbyists say oil is bad for the climate.

Dude wasn’t having it. Mans was ready!

[talat @talatbby]

Excellent thread

[Arnaud Bertrand @RnaudBertrand]

This might be the best explanation I heard for "why Oct 7" and, surprisingly, it comes from Ami Ayalon, former head of the Shin Bet, Israel's secret service, and commander-in-chief of the Navy.

Here what he says (this is the first video, there are a couple more below which you'll really want to watch):

He says the "most important cause [of Oct 7]" was "the political paradigm", whereby Israel's policy was "divide and rule", meaning Israel "had to make sure Palestinians would not have a unified leadership" and could therefore always say "nobody to talk with, nothing to talk about". Concretely "in order to do it [Israel] had to make sure Hamas would go on controlling Gaza and the Palestinian authority the West bank", and incite them to "fight each other". This is why Israel "enhanced and assisted Hamas, transferred money, etc."

As a result of all this Hamas "got the Palestinians' support" because "they became the only administration who fought against the Israeli occupation and for the purpose of Palestinian freedom" while Fatah and the Palestinian authority became perceived as "Israeli collaborators". In his assessment "between 70 to 80% of the Palestinians are supporting Hamas, only because Hamas is perceived as the one who fight for [their] freedom."

He says Israel completely misunderstood the situation before Oct 7 because it measures "hardware" whilst Hamas measures "software", meaning that after every fight between Israel and the Palestinians, success for Israel is measured in "losses in human life, in military installations, in military infrastructure" whereas what Hamas measures is "the support of the people." As an illustration he says that in May 2021 - when there was fighting during 2 weeks and around 300 Palestinians were killed (to 17 on the Israeli side) - Israel thought that Hamas "suffered a huge loss and a huge military defeat" but from Hamas's standpoint it was "a huge victory" because this led to Hamas, for the first time, getting "more than 50% of the support from the Palestinian people."

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Piers Morgan vs Bassem Youssef Round 2 | Two-Hour Special Interview https://t.co/bYku1n2LnP via @YouTube

Round 2

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Israel-Hamas War: Piers Morgan vs Bassem Youssef On Palestine's Treatmen... https://t.co/eFpe7ITWdY via @YouTube

Round 1

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@IJaising @grumpeoldman Time for courts to bring the hijab.. 😂 problem solved 😂

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@jasonwhitlock @Lesdoggg @ShemekaMichelle This so juvenile… womens rights have been taken away and she starts by attacking another woman’ looks? Even my teenage daughter had the exact same reaction to celebrating 4th.. she asked “what are we celebrating today?“

[talat @talatbby]

:( incomprehensible on so many levels..

[Khadija @khadljasays]

Everyone switch on to Al Jazeera right now. This is one of the most horrifying things I’ve seen.

IOF is attacking mourners carrying Shireen’s body from the hospital right now. They’re using stun grenades and tear gas and charging at them with horses and batons.

[talat @talatbby]

Does the difference matter? It’s shameful in both …

[Ariel Gold אריאל ✡️☮️🕊🍉 @ArielElyseGold]

One of these is condemned by the US. The other financed by the US. Can you tell the difference?

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End of humanity stage…

[Alan MacLeod @AlanRMacLeod]

What stage of capitalism is this?

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What a wonderful way for a teacher to spend his recess ..

[Francis Maxwell @francismmaxwell]

It is incomprehensible how underpaid teachers are! This is incredible.

[Martina Navratilova @Martina]

In what world does this make sense? In which world is this fair?!?

[Sibin @sibinmohan]

She’s awesome! Wait for the ending. 😂

https://t.co/zmOJwNNFWW

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For fair mining in Goa ..

[Rahul Basu @rahulbasu]

Here's a short vid of me on #intergenerationalequity. Thanks @Khaarkhuwa and @LogicalIndians
@thefutureweneed @GoenchiMati @INSEE16 @WorldBasicIncom

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😂… also it came under twitters information security feed😂 algorithm messed up..

[Harpreet @CestMoiz]

Two Factor Authentication!
🤣

[Apurv Nagpal @apurvnagpal]

Hilarious Thread re #Omicorn, received via Whatsapp

In just 48 hrs everything just went upside down. Looking at all the updates and social media posts, a colleague from my legal fraternity outlined the absurd response from the countries. Read On 😀

[talat @talatbby]

I hope that someone did😂or better still .. have her elaborate more😂

[neet @kabhinietzsche]

Who's gonna tell her

[Will Dean @willrdean]

Romance fiction is just as important as literary fiction or crime fiction or science fiction. Storytelling is just as valuable as exquisite language. Superb fantasy novels are just as notable as superb Booker prize winners. A great book is a great book.

[Joy Bhattacharjya @joybhattacharj]

Two hosts. Not shouting, not ranting, not necessarily agreeing, but defending their points of view as best as they could without rancour or anger and with a courtesy that we remember to this day.
One of them left us today.
RIP Vinod Dua, privileged to have grown up watching you