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Folks who drafted D’Andre Swift in their fantasy leagues 😭💀

I could watch these MJ stories all day

Why do Egyptians get upset when anyone insinuates anything Black about Egypt? Well he certainly checked her.

Steph hitting clutch threes, Draymond clamping Kawhi in crunchtime, LeBron has to carry his team again, Bieber is topping the charts Welcome back summer 2016

A cheat code for peace: Assume it’s not about you. Someone’s tone. Their mood. Their short reply. Feels like it’s aimed at you. 99% of the time, it’s not. Sometimes people are just busy. Sometimes they’re off. If you take everything personally, you’ll spend your life exhausted.

I recently heard someone say: "The amount of good things in your life depends on your ability to notice them." I can't see it any other way now.

Happy Pascha to all Orthodox Christians celebrating today! Whether you are marking the resurrection of Jesus Christ with roasted lamb, lit candles in the streets, playing tsougrisma, or all of the above, I hope this day fills you with the spirit of renewal and joy.

Imagine seeing 9/11, the dot-com bubble, the 2008 financial crash, COVID, the Epstein files the Iran war and STILL trusting the government and mainstream media.

THE UK DID THIS 2 WEEKS AGO ‼️ THEY ABSTAINED FROM RECOGNIZING THE SLAVE TRADE AS THE GRAVEST CRIME AGAINST HUMANITY AND NOW THEY’RE TALKING ABOUT MORALS AND ACTING LIKE THEY STAND WITH HUMANITY.

“For a time is coming when people will no longer listen to sound and wholesome teaching. They will follow their own desires and will look for teachers who will tell them whatever their itching ears want to hear. They will reject the truth and chase after myths.” 2 Timothy 4:3-4

@m_takewaka The Michelin Guide contains 58 BBQ restaurants, 31 are in Texas. Texas has 19 of the 33 with a Bib Gourmand recommendation, and all 4 BBQ restaurants in the world with a Michelin star are in Texas. The BBQ war is over, Texas won. guide.michelin.com/en/us/restaura…

The Bible openly acknowledges the tension of seeing wicked people prosper while the righteous suffer. In passages like Psalm 73 and Jeremiah 12, people question God honestly and feel discouraged by this apparent injustice. The turning point is realizing that this success is temporary, while faithfulness has lasting, eternal value. Jesus reinforces this in Matthew 5 by redefining “blessing” beyond immediate, visible outcomes. what you see now isn’t the full picture..justice and meaning unfold over a longer timeline. 🙏🏿

"A lie told once is questioned. A lie repeated often enough becomes accepted. And once it becomes 'common sense,' people stop investigating it. That is how deception survives." ~ Malcolm X

Arab states that permanently host U.S. military bases have, as a matter of black-letter international law, forsaken their sovereignty and no longer qualify as fully sovereign states. They therefore cannot invoke the rights and protections reserved exclusively to states that actually meet the legal definition of sovereignty, and they have no say about Iran's right to defend itself against US aggression. The Montevideo Convention on the Rights and Duties of States (1933), Art. 1, defines statehood by four cumulative requirements, the decisive fourth being “the capacity to enter into relations with other States.” This capacity requires exclusive and independent authority over territory and external affairs, without subordination to any other power (Island of Palmas arbitration, 1928; Lotus case, PCIJ 1927). Numerous Arab states — including Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Bahrain, Kuwait, UAE, Jordan, and others — host permanent U.S. military bases and facilities under Status of Forces Agreements. These agreements grant American forces extraterritorial immunity, exclusive operational command, and control over large areas of sovereign territory. Local courts cannot prosecute U.S. personnel, local legislatures cannot inspect bases, and host governments cannot unilaterally order eviction without risking severe economic or military retaliation. CIA operational centers embedded within or alongside these bases conduct intelligence, surveillance, rendition, and lethal activities beyond effective Arab oversight. A state that cannot control who bears arms on its soil, who conducts intelligence operations, or who decides when foreign forces depart has, by definition, surrendered the exclusivity of authority required by Montevideo. It is no longer exercising the functions of a state “to the exclusion of any other State.” It has become, in legal terms, a semi-sovereign protectorate, leased territory, or a modern vassal in all but name. Arab states hosting permanent U.S. military bases have voluntarily (or under duress) forsaken the fourth Montevideo criterion. They therefore fail the legal definition of fully sovereign states and cannot invoke the full protections of sovereign equality (UN Charter Art. 2(1)) or non-intervention (Art. 2(7)) against the very power whose bases and intelligence apparatus they host. The Arab world must confront this stark legal reality: symbols of statehood such as flags, UN membership, and national anthems confer no genuine sovereignty when the fundamental attributes of independence have been surrendered — least of all the standing to object when Iran exercises its inherent right of self-defense against American aggression emanating from bases on Arab soil.

@PontiacMadeDDG Yooo preciate you showing Ethiopia so much love! Would love to send you a hat on the house! HMU & I’ll send you a code! BackHomeVibes.com

W Ethiopia 🇪🇹 until next time! ♥️

This is why the most perceptive people are often the loneliest. You can't unsee what you've seen, and you can't unknow what you know – so you just sit there, watching everyone enjoy a movie you figured out in the first five minutes.

And one major problem with knowing too much or seeing things clearly is that you lose the ability to participate in certain illusions that make life easier for everyone else.

The older I get, the more I notice something… intelligent people are polite to everyone. But they trust almost no one.

Wow, I always assumed prostration/sujud was uniquely Islamic… but Ethiopian Orthodox Christians (and broader early Oriental Orthodox) were doing full forehead-to-the-ground prostration in prayer centuries before Islam even existed! Christianity took root in Ethiopia in the 4th century AD. The first Muslims only arrived there as refugees during the First Hijra around 615 AD. This ancient Christian practice of humility before God predates the Muslim salat by 250–300+ years. History really does surprise you sometimes.

Israel has closed the Church of the Holy Sepulchre indefinitely for the first time in the history of Christianity. Holy Week and Easter services will be prohibited. Sunday masses and liturgies cancelled. A church that should be packed with hundreds of thousands these coming weeks is being forcibly shut and silenced. Israel cites it is for ‘security concerns’ while Jewish Israelis are allowed to celebrate in mass gatherings. Alongside the forced closure of Al-Aqsa mosque, reports cite priests aggressively being turned away to perform daily services. Throughout history, wars, tensions, or even the pandemic limited access to the sanctuary, but they had never prevented liturgical celebrations in this central place of Christian faith indefinitely. Christians must not remain silent.

The internet constantly tells women that men are terrible listeners because the second a woman starts venting about her day, the man immediately interrupts to offer a logical solution. We are taught to view this as him being dismissive, emotionally unintelligent, or invalidating our feelings. ​The strict, unpopular truth is that to a man, fixing the problem is his absolute highest, most desperate form of empathy. ​Women vent to connect; we want our partner to just sit in the dark with us and validate the emotion. But men are hardwired to view the woman they love being in distress as an active threat. When he immediately offers a spreadsheet, a strategy, or a solution to your problem, he isn't trying to silence you. His brain has recognized that something in the world is hurting his partner, and his immediate, visceral instinct is to assassinate the thing causing you pain. We constantly shame men for "not just listening," completely ignoring the fact that his attempt to fix your life is his most profound declaration of love.