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Go watch my Tiny Desk performance RIGHT NOW and let me know what it’s giving.. did you laugh? Did you cry? Vibe? All of the above??? youtu.be/HYA9e0XOUGk?is=hmDZ…
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Ever since Burkina Faso, Mali and Niger took control of their resources, France has been in serious economic sh!t.
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This is a clear sign that the devil is trying to destroy marriages.
You can tell in his voice that he is on the verge of tears which is the perfect time for him to enter the war room and cry out to God.
He should forgive her, the devil used him when he left her for 2 weeks.
Please break every chain. She didn’t mean it.
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Men are far more emotional than women, they just pretend anger, impatience, boredom, and jealousy are not emotions when experienced by men. So, when men feel these emotions—like if their team loses or a woman writes something online—they insist they are being un-emotional.
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Men are so angry about this because the ability to permanently alter, or even ruin, a woman’s life and push her (& her children) into poverty by impregnating her is a important part of how women are systematically oppressed.
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men have been saying for YEARS that they don’t want daughters because they don’t want them to become “hoes” but women joking about not wanting a son cause of how men treat women is suddenly where y’all draw the line 😭 you’d think woman aborting male fetuses is a every day thing
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The question should be: Who told you one gender is superior to or more deserving of rights than the other?
When women talk about equality, you think we are talking about physical strength?
Men have never had to fight for the right to be men. They didn't have to prove they were human enough to deserve rights, opportunities, education, or a voice in society.
Yet women have had to fight for many of these things. So, who decided that women should have less in the first place?
Equality is simply saying, “I deserve to be treated as a human being, with the same dignity, rights, and opportunities as you.”
I am not less because I am a woman. I am human before I am a woman.
My rights are not privileges you grant me. They are not favours you can withdraw. And they are certainly not up for negotiation.
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Let’s all remember the sage wisdom of Omar El-Akkad- “One day, when it's safe, when there's no personal downside to calling a thing what it is, when it's too late to hold anyone accountable, everyone will have always been against this.”
Kamala Harris says her and Biden’s administration should have acted “sooner and more forcefully” regarding Israel’s attack on Gaza — and that the Trump administration “offers Netanyahu a blank check”:
“America has at times fallen short on [moral obligation to human rights and international law]. Most recently, the failure to use our leverage to curtail the Israeli government's horrific conduct in the war in Gaza, both under the current administration, which offers Netanyahu a blank check, and our administration before, where we should have acted sooner and more forcefully.”
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it's so crazy how long it took me to realise, back in the day, that this video is referencing Apartheid South Africa.
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Congo's suffering isn't invisible. What gets obscured are the imperial interests stealing its wealth while its people bear the costs. Palestine exposes the machinery of occupation. Congo exposes the machinery of extraction. Both demand our solidarity. Neither should be forgotten.
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Sylvanus Olympio was shot on January 13, 1963. He was two days away from pulling Togo out of the CFA franc, when the imperialists struck.
The story that gets told is simple. A group of Togolese soldiers, led by Sergeant Étienne Eyadéma, stormed the presidential residence in Lomé. Olympio fled, hid in a car outside the US embassy, and was found and shot at the gate. Eyadéma admitted it: "He could not stay there. There would have been demonstrations. He would not move. I shot him" .
That is the version that fits the official record. It is also incomplete.
Olympio was not killed over a military pay dispute, though that is the trigger the soldiers used. He was killed because he was about to sign Togo's withdrawal from the CFA franc zone and launch a national currency backed by the Deutsche Mark. He had already founded the Banque Centrale du Togo in 1962. The agreement was days from being signed .
France had reasons to want him gone. De Gaulle's Africa advisor, Jacques Foccart, said it plainly after Olympio's death: "Sylvanus Olympio was not one of our friends" . The French ambassador in Lomé knew the coup plotters personally. They were former French army soldiers. France opposed an independent investigation into the assassination .
After Olympio was killed, his brother-in-law Nicolas Grunitzky was installed as president. He immediately abandoned the national currency plan and signed cooperation agreements reaffirming Togo's use of the CFA franc. The currency Olympio died trying to leave is still in use today .
The scholarship is careful. Historians like Skinner and Glasman argue the coup was rooted in the discontent of ex-French soldiers Olympio refused to integrate into Togo's tiny army. The monetary story is "an underlying factor," not the single bullet . But the timing is hard to ignore. Olympio was killed while negotiating monetary independence. The negotiations ended with his death. Togo stayed in the franc zone.
His brother-in-law took power. The man who pulled the trigger, Eyadéma, ruled Togo for 38 years after overthrowing Grunitzky in 1967.
Olympio's chair at the founding of the OAU in May 1963 was left empty. It was meant to be a warning. It became a template .
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Saudi Arabia has been bombing Yemen for over a decade.
Bombing it with American-made planes, American-supplied targeting intelligence, American-sold munitions, American diplomatic cover at the United Nations.
Hundreds of thousands dead.
The worst humanitarian catastrophe on earth, for years running.
And then, after ten years of this, Saudi Arabia points at the Houthis firing back and calls them the threat to regional stability.
The entity that has dropped more bombs on Yemen than anyone in the conversation gets to frame itself as the victim of Yemeni aggression.
That reframing requires a specific kind of political infrastructure to maintain.
That infrastructure is called American power.
And some Arab capitals have decided it is worth whatever it costs.
The United States strongly condemns the recent attacks on the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia by the terrorist Houthis, including today’s strike on King Khalid International Airport in Riyadh that took numerous innocent lives, including an American citizen.
These reprehensible attacks demonstrate a blatant disregard for innocent civilian life. They must stop now.
We stand with the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia and its people and extend our condolences to the victims and their families.