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[ryan @typeRyan]

If you over the age of 12 and still celebrating your "birthday month", block me back.

[ESPN @espn]

Filipino American representation in the NBA Finals 🇵🇭

Dylan Harper of the Spurs and Jordan Clarkson of the Knicks will face off for all the marbles 🔥

[Anish Moonka @anishmoonka]

That photo costs about $17. The premium version, where the tiger’s head rests in your lap, goes for around $140. Selling these poses made Thailand’s Tiger Temple roughly $3 million a year, until police raided it in 2016 and pulled 40 dead tiger cubs out of a freezer.

Thailand has about 1,960 tigers locked in cages right now. Almost all of them are at places that sell tourist photos. The most recent Thai government count of wild tigers came back at 179 to 223. There are eight to ten times more tigers in the photo business than tigers out there hunting deer in the forest.

Police forced their way into the Tiger Temple in May 2016 and walked out with 137 live tigers. They also found 40 frozen cubs in a kitchen freezer. Twenty more cubs were floating in jars of preserving fluid. Authorities stopped a temple staff member trying to drive off the property with two whole tiger pelts, ten tiger fangs, and around 1,500 small good-luck charms made from tiger skin.

Speed breeding is what keeps the supply going. Mothers get their cubs taken at two to three weeks old. The females come back into heat much sooner and pop out another litter long before nature would let them. World Animal Protection investigators walked through Thai tiger parks and found half the cats they saw in cages smaller than a one-car garage. A wild tiger covers 10 to 20 miles in a single night.

Cubs work the photo line for a few months. They get passed from tourist to tourist hundreds of times a day. Most are declawed, which is exactly what it sounds like: amputating part of each toe so they cannot scratch a paying customer. Once a cub grows too big or starts pushing back, it is finished with the photo business and too expensive to feed.

The same animals start a second life as product. In 2007, Thailand signed an international treaty banning the sale of tiger parts. Other tiger countries signed too. Authorities still seized 641 tigers, dead or alive, in smuggling busts across Southeast Asia between 2000 and 2011. DNA tests traced 275 of those straight back to the same kind of farms that sell tourist photos. China and Vietnam are the destination, where the parts are sold as tiger bone wine, tiger skin rugs, and traditional medicine.

After the 2016 raid, the government took custody of all 147 rescued tigers. Eighty-six died within three years. Decades of speed breeding had inbred their bloodlines so badly that their immune systems were already gone by the time anyone tried to save them.

[‏ً @omgsidewalks]

Not to brag but what a time to be childless

[Owen Shroyer @OwenShroyer1776]

Here's 30 years of Netanyahu telling you Iran is days away from a nuclear bomb.

[MusChampion @Less_HumbleTeej]

Yeah turn this shit UP

[The Associated Press @AP]

Israel’s military said Wednesday that the ceasefire was back on in Gaza after it carried out heavy airstrikes overnight that killed 104 people, including 46 children.

The strikes, the deadliest since the ceasefire began, marked the most serious challenge to the truce to date.

[Ari Drennen @AriDrennen]

I have watched this video a hundred times. The way they all back away from the frog like they’ve just realized he’s a superhero takes me out every time

[Oliver Weilein, Iowa City Councilor @Ollie_XVX]

ICE murdered someone and lied about

[fortunate ramen @FortunateRamen]

this what bro had to say about empathy so don’t give him any

[Bleacher Report @BleacherReport]

J HERBO CALLED GAME

(via @NFL)

[LakeShowYo @LakeShowYo]

LUKA IS DESTROYING ISRAEL 🔥 🪄

https://t.co/JwaqKLaQUE

[Sulaiman Ahmed @ShaykhSulaiman]

JUST IN: THE LEVEL OF DEVASTATION IN GAZA WAS CAPTURED FROM THE AIR AS THE UAE AIR FORCE DROPPED HUMANITARIAN AID BY PLANE

[Furkan Gözükara @FurkanGozukara]

This is the best ever true news BBC ever made about Israel, 4 minutes but every minute is extremely important

[Kyrie Center @kyriecenterig]

Kyrie had to set the record straight about Kobe Bryant on his stream 👀

[Los Angeles Chargers @chargers]

philip rivers forever.

[Pablo Manríquez @PabloReports]

ICE Has Deported at Least 70 U.S. Citizens https://t.co/6GYh2AeJkX

[💛September💜Rayne🖤 @EndFascism90069]

ICE is melting.

[Jennifer Get In Good Trouble @TheJenniWren]

Martin Diaz came to the U.S. as a toddler, fleeing cartel violence. His family had proof of the danger—and hope for safety here. He married a U.S. citizen, and after years of waiting, their visa case finally moved forward.

Days later, ICE showed up at their Spokane home with no warrant, no ID, and no regard for the law. His wife wasn’t home, but a roommate filmed everything. When he asked for badge numbers, agents said, “None of your business.” Then they assaulted Martin and dragged him away.

Now ICE is charging him with assault. But the video tells the truth. This is what ICE does—lie, escalate, and disappear people. Kendall Diaz spoke out at the Spokane Fights Back rally. We echo her call: Deportation is not an option. We demand justice.
#OnYourSide #DemsUnited

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