They ruined Cadbury’s chocolates as well.

A Cambodian man -- old enough to have survived Pol Pot genocide but too young to die -- is the 7th person to die in ICE custody this year. A Cuban man died of asphyxia in Jan, with witnesses saying guards killed him. A Palestinian woman was shackled after a seizure. www.reuters.com/world/us/cam...

Y’all this weeks edition of @thecontinent.org is so good! Yes I already skimmed most of it even though it *just* came out. A truly Pan African paper. And it’s free!

Robert Mugabe’s youngest son arrested for the attempted murder of a Gardner in Johannesburg. 😯

A U.N. fact-finding mission said it collected evidence of deliberate starvation and denial of humanitarian assistance, as well as mass killings, rape, torture and forced disappearances carried about by RSF forces in Sudan.

"The Wagner Group collapsed. Its Russian infowar network lives on" "Russian operatives engineered narrative-change campaigns across Africa, paid for media coverage, and drafted policies for governments. We have papers to prove it" Good digging by @thecontinent.org !

I love that this entire interview is about basketball. Not gossip. Not random drama. Just straight up hoops with two of the best active players right now. #unrivaled

One thing I’ve always wondered about #WNBA salaries - Is it a lump sum for the 4 active months or do you have a pay check year round? It sounds like it’s a lump sum for the 4 months?

Free mag, delivered straight to your phone. Featuring words from me.

“Following reports of Meta’s smart glasses plan, the Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC) sent letters to the Federal Trade Commission and state enforcers requesting a prompt investigation into Meta.”

House Speaker Mike Johnson has denied a request for the late Rev. Jesse Jackson Sr. to lie in honor at the United States Capitol, citing past precedent over how the deaths of other high-profile figures were handled, according to sources familiar with the matter. https://cnn.it/4aZJgn8

NEW How Palantir captured the Ministry of Defence How a close read of public domain documents show how MoD was commercially colonised by Palantir By me, at FT www.ft.com/content/5207...

I don’t watch enough college basketball to have a strong independent opinion but Madina Okot is looking like the highest ever draft prospect for Kenyan to play in the WNBA (Olivia Nelson-Ododa is half Kenyan).

Don't take your eyes off Gaza & the West Bank. The horrors continue. apnews.com/article/isra...

NJ lawmakers introduce the FUCK ICE Act. The bill "permits civil action for violations of US Constitution related to immigration enforcement."

WASHINGTON (AP) — Supreme Court strikes down Trump’s sweeping tariffs, upending central plank of economic agenda.

must-read from @charlottetklein.bsky.social on the disastrous Will Lewis tenure at @washingtonpost.com nymag.com/intelligence...

One thing about Phee is that she’s the ultimate girls’ girl. #wnba #unrivaled

A 19-year-old Palestinian American was killed and four others injured as they tried to stop a group of armed illegal Israeli settlers from stealing their sheep in the occupied West Bank.

Tony Blair at the so called Board of Peace summit blaming conditions in Gaza on the Palestinians. No mention of Israels decades long occupation, 20 year siege & regular attacks (mowing the lawn) that turned Gaza into an open air prison.

All around the mulberry bush…

Amaury Hauchard ✍️ / Michele Cattani 📸, c'est un peu la doublette magique pour raconter le Sahara d'aujourd'hui

Everything is Connected. From Private Eye:

It's funny, if *you* walked into court holding a camera up to your face and trying to film stuff, you would be immediately held in contempt. Zuckerberg is just given a warning, as if he made a lil oopsie poopsie. How could he know his pervert glasses were not allowed, he's just a smol bean?

why would the Mellon Foundation do this?

Climate change is not only a “global south problem”.

DT on the UN: If they need $, we'll help them [US owes $2.3bn in arrears]

This is the eighth death in ICE custody in the last seven weeks.

Tickets for #Unrivaled in Brooklyn have gone down by quite a bit - there’s a number of $55 - $60 tickets which is a pretty decent deal for great basketball.

Rubio is putting Edward "Big Balls" Coristine in charge of this project, which promises to open a portal to funnel favorite texts of Adolf Hitler and Benito Mussolini, the Protocols of the Elders of Zion and loads of kiddie porn to unsuspecting Europeans... all at US taxpayer expense.

a man in Oklahoma was speaking out against a data center in his community. He went a few seconds over time and the city had him arrested for trespassing

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🔴 URGENT - CAN 2025: des peines de trois mois à un an de prison prononcées contre les 18 supporters sénégalais arrêtés au Maroc

Ugh… my eyes are leaking again. 😭Mabruk Dr Öztürk!!

DOCTOR Rümeysa Öztürk has earned her PhD!!

This stuff is *so common* on WNBA social media.

Black women are trying to tell you.

Love this for D’Tigress. I wish other African teams had similar opportunities to prepare for the world Cup qualifiers but the US government denied visas for half of the Senegal WBB team, for example.

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I’m willing to bet that the Chicago management will fire Jeff before they let Angel walk before her rookie contract is up (which would be the correct decision). #wnba

Des proches de Kényans envoyés par la Russie sur le front critiquent la diplomatie de leur pays

Dear US - you can in fact arrest powerful people for doing crimes.

BBC reporting that Andrew Mountbatten Windsor has been arrested on suspicion of misconduct in public office. There is no precedent for a senior member of the royal family being placed under arrest in modern British history. A seismic moment for the monarchy.

The US: 😮

Oh? Let’s talk about how countries where Orange has the largest market share or is dominant coincidentally happen to have the most expensive internet in the world and in markets like Kenya where there was at least in the past a little more competition, Orange could not make it to the 10 year mark.

Cameroon accepting US deportees.

Marco Rubio told the Munich Security Conference that they had already bombed Iran 14 times without Congressional approval and got a standing ovation from the room.

I regularly see people wondering how it's possible that there are so many musicians and writers and film makers and artists from a tiny nation like Iceland. And the answer is really simple: State funding for art education and artists. I literally get a salary from the government to write books.

I would have hoped by now that some dude would have written an op Ed about how straight women’s reaction to Bad Bunny - a man at peace with himself, emoting publicly + queer culture - underscores that the Manosphere bros are performing heterosexuality for other men and have no idea what women like.

Yes to this whole thread.