BREAKING: New York City reports the lowest levels of shootings, shooting victims, and murders ever recorded for the first two months of a year. Major crime is down nearly 8% citywide, burglary hit a record low, and retail theft dropped 25%

First Draft: 🤬 Is This the Worst-Run War in US History? Trump and his administration are improvising a major conflict in the Middle East, as Democrats keep winning in the 2026 redistricting war that is immensely backfiring on the GOP.

“privately, Trump has voiced extreme unease about how the rising American body count “looks,” and few officials close to him believe he has tolerance for a protracted quagmire, sources with knowledge of the matter tell me” - Swin for Zeteo’s First Draft morning newsletter. Have you subscribed yet?

Homeland Security Wants Social Media Sites to Expose Anti-ICE Accounts

Homeland Security wants Social Media sites to expose Anti-ICE Accounts!!!!

The Government is trampling on our CIVIL LIBERTIES!!!!!

#ICE

#Iran

#Epstein

#EpsteinFiles
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"It is fraud" -- Neguse nails Kristi Noem for lying during her testimony yesterday when she told the Senate that DHS's $220m ad campaign starring her "went out to a competitive bid" (it did not), and tells her "I think there's gonna be accountability" (1/2)

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Free and fair elections are the cornerstone of our democracy. But right now, they’re under attack.

Several Republican-controlled states have redrawn their congressional maps to give themselves an unfair advantage in the midterm elections.

THEIR PLAN IS FAILING AND THIS IS WHY. THEY THOUGHT THAT FEAR WOULD MAKE US COMPLY. IT DIDN’T. THEY THOUGHT WE’D RIOT SO THEY COULD JUSTIFY USING FORCE. WE DIDN’T. THEY THOUGHT WE WERE WEAK. WE’RE NOT.

The fact that they underestimated us will be their downfall.

I haven't said anything about this before, bc in the grand scheme of horrors this only rates as an inconvenience, but since others are experiencing it:

Just three days after CBP arrested me for filming them outside Broadview on 9/27, my TSA Pre & Global Entry were suspended—and so were my wife's.

MAKE LOVE NOT WAR: LOVE IS CROSSED OUT AND REPLACED WITH 'HEALTHCARE AFFORDABLE'.

If only they cared about us.

Maybe no one prompted Claude to make arrangements for fleeing US citizens.

How black slaves were routinely sold as ‘specimens’ to ambitious white doctors The horrors of slavery also spread to research: black bodies provided easy targets for medical experiments.

⚠️WOKE CONTENT⚠️

🧵 The only thing that is shocking about this is that we weren't taught about it. Cruel medical experiments on slaves in the South were common.

Black "specimens" were subjected to (cont)

#ProudBlue
#ResistanceRoots
#USDemocracy
#Voices4Victory

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A couple things…

The “conflict“ in Iran *IS* a war.
It is a war of choice.
It is warfare without conscious.
It was unprovoked.

And I’m sick and tired of people suggesting & implying the only tragedies herein are that US Service Members have died. The people of Iran are innocents in this conflict!

I’m not trying to make a glib or superficial comparison, but this phone message is a grim premonition of what awaits Americans the next time there’s a big natural disaster in the US. Planning for the safety of ordinary people is not something the federal government does anymore, at home or abroad.

#releasethefiles
#operationepstein

Trump demolished more than one wing of the WH.

He added $12.5T to US debt in one term; this is large scale demolition of our entire economy with multi-pronged approach.

Meanwhile, we're not being governed. We're being looted.

Even an enemy could not have done it better.

#TrumpsWarOnOurEconomy

HEAR THE EPSTEIN SURVIVORS BELIEVE THE EPSTEIN SURVIVORS PROTECT THE EPSTEIN SURVIVORS JUSTICE FOR THE EPSTEIN SURVIVORS

Always.

…the US just sank a battleship, and refused to rescue the survivors…😳

The biggest winner Tuesday night was voter turnout.

Even if your candidate didn’t win, Texans should be proud of this. Voters showed up in huge numbers.

Kenya’s democratic mirage: Expulsion of Kagoro as continental symbol The deportation of Brian Bright Kagoro in February 2026 is not the story of one man’s expulsion; it is the unmasking of Kenya’s democratic mirage

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AOC: He impulsively went in on Venezuela. He impulsively went in on Iran. It led to increased global instability and every time he’s done that, it has been consistent with a spike in what is happening with the Epstein files. I think that he feels existentially tied to it.

World War III? Trump's and Netanyahu's illegal war turns global

This is an unsettling time. Glad to read the analysis by @robertreich.substack.com.web.brid.gy but scared to death by the dismal portents. open.substack.com/pub/robertre...

July 23, 2025. Blue sky seen en route to visit my grandchildren.

Text: IN RUSSIA: Russia Exploits Impoverished Africans with False Job Promises to Fuel Ukraine War | Image: A soldier in camouflage stands in a forest holding a rifle. | Tone: urgent, serious

Graphic: A soldier in camouflage stands in a forest holding a rifle. | Text Overlay: "IN A VIDEO, FRANCIS WARNED OTHERS, SAYING, 'MANY FRIENDS HAVE DIED IN THE NAME OF MONEY, REVEALING THE DEADLY REALITY BEHIND THE RECRUITMENT SCHEMES." AFRICAN MEN ARE BEING LURED TO RUSSIA WITH FALSE PROMISES OF GOOD JOBS, ONLY TO BE FORCED INTO MILITARY SERVICE AND SENT TO FIGHT IN UKRAINE. KENYAN MOTHER ANNE NDARUA HAS NOT HEARD FROM HER SON FRANCIS FOR MONTHS AFTER HE TRAVELED FOR WHAT HE BELIEVED WAS ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING WORK. IN A VIDEO, FRANCIS WARNED OTHERS, SAYING, "MANY FRIENDS HAVE DIED IN THE NAME OF MONEY," REVEALING THE DEADLY REALITY BEHIND THE RECRUITMENT SCHEMES. NUMEROUS RECRUITS REPORT BEING UNPAID, STRIPPED OF PASSPORTS, AND TREATED WITH RACISM AND ABUSE WHILE TRAPPED ON THE FRONT LINES. THIS SYSTEM PREYS ON POVERTY AND DESPERATION, EXPLOITING VULNERABLE BLACK AFRICANS FOR A FOREIGN WAR THEY NEVER AGREED TO FIGHT.

“Many friends have died in the name of money”

NEW: Russia is luring African men with false promises of good jobs, only to be forced into military service in Ukraine.

Numerous recruits report being unpaid, stripped of passports, and abused while trapped on the front lines.

Blue sky. July 25, 2025. I was on a walkabout in my neighborhood. Looked up. Stopped and took a few photos. Here's one.

My grandson loves the alphabets. Here's one piece of evidence from a visit a few months ago:

In Tennesee with my high school classmates at the wedding of one of our high school friends' son. In high school together from 1970-74, and still good friends. Groom was born in Tennesee. His parents returned to Naija & live there now. Headtie & wrap duo was the aso ebi. We all wore them in common.

Moroccan city ranked among top global travel destinations for 2026 Taghazout, Morocco has been ranked among the worlds top trending destinations for 2026 by Tripadvisor

I've only visited Rabat, and it was for a conference. I wish I could drop everything and travel! africa.businessinsider.com/local/lifest...

Mojubaolu Olufunke Okome | Achievement See this researcher's achievement on ResearchGate.

Gratifying! 300 people read my paper “State & Civil Society in Nigeria in the Era of Structural Adjustment Program, 1986-93” in addition to many more who've read it elsewhere. It’s one of my early publications, published in the last decade of the 20th Century. www.researchgate.net/profile/Moju...