Tony Musumba

Never give up!

For his birthday, this little boy surprised the garbage collectors he looks up to with breakfast

“You’re going to lose business,” my neighbor warned, staring at the baby in my arms like he was a mistake. I had flour on my hands and Danny pressed against my chest, warm and quiet. Orders were stacking up. The ovens were full. My cousin had just given birth—and just as quickly, she walked away. “They say I can’t raise a child with Down syndrome,” she told me. I didn’t argue. I brought him home. The bakery kept running. I learned to knead dough with one hand and rock him with the other. I opened before sunrise, baked through the morning rush, and let him nap in a basket behind the register. Sometimes he giggled at the sound of the bell on the door. Sometimes he cried while I frosted cakes. We figured it out together. Some people stared. A few complained. But many stayed. They watched him grow up between sacks of flour and warm trays of bread. His first steps were on the tile floor near the ovens. His first words floated over the hum of mixers. He learned customers’ names before he learned to read. He memorized recipes the way other kids memorized cartoons. The bakery wasn’t just where he grew up. It was where he belonged. Fifty years later, my hands ache before the morning rush. I move slower now. I can’t carry the business the way I once did. But Danny can. He runs the ovens. He greets every customer by name. He remembers who likes extra icing, who needs their bread sliced thin, who just lost a spouse and needs a kind word with their coffee. People walk in and ask, “Is Danny baking today?” And if he is, they smile. “If Danny’s baking, I’ll wait,” they say. “He makes it better.” They were wrong all those years ago. This bakery didn’t survive despite Danny. It survived because of him. ❤️ Credit: creamyposh

From Magarini to Ganze, land injustice has turned citizens of Kilifi into tenants of the state. This must end. Register to protect your land, your future, your children. #RegisterToRestore. #Maragamashinani. #UkatibaNdioTiba

This kid can seriously play basketball

As 16-year-old Justus Eichhorn shows, young men become great by being formed by sages, not isolated in rooms with peers playing games and eating pizza. Get your kids to some sages!

Love the creative nonviolent protests we are seeing in Minnesota.

Grandparents are the unsung heroes in childcare. This is so special!! 🥰👳🏻

“I had a lot of problems with Wakanda.”- New York Times Bestselling author Nnedi Okorafor on writing for Black Panther. #DohaDebates

Christopher Columbus failed every step of the way and still got a public holiday.

«Teachers who make physics boring are criminals» — Walter Lewin

Update: New Israeli Settlement in Beit Sahour: From the Shepherds’ Field to a Settlement Corridor Reshaping Space, Memory, and Existence – Balasan Initiative For Human Rights balasan.org/new-israeli-se…

Ta-Nehisi Coates asks Palestinian scholar and writer Tareq Baconi “what is it about this genocide particularly” that has changed us? Baconi, who has written extensively on Hamas and the history of Palestinian resistance, points to three factors. It’s happening in full view of the world, yet still allowed to continue. The gaslighting by governments and major media creates a “dual reality” that denies what people can see for themselves. And at its core, he says, the genocide exposes the colonial foundations of Western power. Baconi stresses that the path between a fascist or decolonial future runs directly through Palestine. via @PalFest

💥 BREAKING: Kenya just made history. 🚨🌱 Farmers WON - they can keep saving, selling & sharing their Indigenous seeds. Farmers stood up to corporate giants… and won. Seeds belong to the people. Share & demand full implementation of the ruling. ✊🏾🌾

Richard Feynman explaining atoms and stars in this ‘Fun to Imagine’ BBC series, recorded at Feynman's home in Altadena, California, ca. 1983 🧠

Here’s a prayer for Thanksgiving Day… or any day. From our book Common Prayer. You can find it and others here: CommonPrayer.net

In order to see the true nature of gravity we have to remove the air. ✍️

🇺🇳UN Women Geneva Office Director Sofia Calltorp: “To be a woman in Gaza today means facing hunger and fear, absorbing trauma and grief, and shielding your children from gunfire and cold nights..”

A child cries while carrying his younger sister on his shoulders, walking along the long displacement route from northern Gaza to the south... a scene that captures the suffering of innocent children under the horrors of war.

Disgrace. Cruetly. Let history remember: "The US has for the sixth time vetoed a draft resolution at the United Nations Security Council that would have demanded an immediate and permanent ceasefire in Gaza and the release of hostages." bbc.com/news/articles/…