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Akon City: Wakanda-style $6bn project abandoned by Senegal Something more realistic will replace ambitious plans dreamt up by singer Akon, officials tell the BBC.

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Crypto, delusion and greed.

Literally don’t care about your opinion of me.

Quite literally.

A mugshot registration photograph from Auschwitz. A man with a shaved head wearing a striped uniform photographed in three positions (profile and front with bare head and a photo with a slightly turned head with a hat on). The prisoner number is visible on a marking board on the left.

5 July 1884 | A Polish Jew, Szymon Silbiger, was born in Wieliczka.

In #Auschwitz form 29 December 1941.
No. 25126
He perished in the camp on 17 January 1942.

Gay superstar Jean Cocteau, a French poet, playwright, novelist, designer, filmmaker, visual artist & critic was BOTD in 1889 & died in 1963 at 74. Cocteau's longest-lasting relationships were w/ French actors Jean Marais & Édouard Dermit, the latter whom Cocteau formally adopted

The great Warren Oates was BOTD in 1928 and far too soon of hard living in 1982 at the age of 53. Peckinpah's "Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia" (1974), in which he starred, is the ultimate incarnation of his screen persona

Pam Grier, Berlin, 1973

Im not blaming the victims. Don’t put words in my mouth. It is possible to disagree with someone without resorting to lying about what they said.

Reductive reasoning won’t fix this. Figure out how Texas - and others - vote against their self-interest and fix that. The rest of us aren’t the prob

Good luck with the “no one is to blame for the actions they took”.

Grief is real. Loss is truly horrible

But this was all preventable and predictable.

Texas didn’t want it. Texas will be sacrificing more at the altar of the MAGA Death Cult. This is a down payment, not a final accounting.

The job of government is to keep us safe.

Their parents voted against that.

Story as old as the old testament.

Texas voted for suffering. Suffering came. Why am I supposed to care if they don’t care enough to prioritize their actual safety and well-being?

They voted for this. They voted Trump. They voted Cruz.

I am sending prayers that they figure out how their heartbreaking selfishness made this a reality. But it’s Texas and they truly are idiots.

It is the job of government to keep us safe. Clean water, clean air, stable bridges, roads that are safe. When Texas voted to end the work of government…. they made a choice.

The FO is gonna be real and grim these next years. No one has the stomach for it. But here we are

Their parents did. The FO of FAFO is real. And grossly unfortunate.

Texans wanted this level of service. They got it!

Not crying for texas.

Texas voted Trump. Texas voted Cruz. Texas voted for a congress that stripped funding for FRMA and medical care

Why am I supposed to care? They got exactly what they voted for

The FO of FAFO is real.

Piss off, Texas.

👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾. Exactly.

Texas voted Trump. Texas voted Cruz.
Texas voted to end FEMA and deny tens of millions of citizens access to healthcare

I’m not shedding a single tear. Not one.

Measles 'out of control,' experts warn, as Alberta case counts surpass 1,000 | CBC News Alberta's measles outbreaks have now eclipsed the 1,000 case milestone and infectious diseases specialists are warning the virus is likely "impossible to contain," given the current level of transmiss...

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He won’t do shit.
I 🙏🏾 for the good people of Ukraine. #RussiaIsATerroristState

❗️"Trump's Favorite Newspaper" Calls on US President to Urgently Resume Military Aid to Ukraine

The New York Post, a publication that has long supported Donald Trump, has published a sharp appeal to the US President calling for him to resume arms supplies to Kyiv.

Utah residents vote for people who promised to end funding for FEMA and remove health coverage from tens of millions of Americans.

If no one is around to take the call, they can always ask Ted Cruz to pray for them. I am content with that service response.

Let the leopard eat their faces.

intage black and white photo of a young child

5 July 1934 | A French Jewish girl, Jacqueline Rajter, was born in Villerupt.

In September 1942 she was deported to #Auschwitz and murdered in a gas chamber after the selection.

Vintage black-and-white portrait of an elderly person with a long beard, wearing a dark suit.

5 July 1878 | Polish Jew, Isaak Herschthal, was born in Wieliczka. He emigrated to Belgium.

He was deported to #Auschwitz from Kazerne Dossin in Mechelen on 15 January 1943. He was murdered in a gas chamber after arrival selection.

A mugshot registration photograph from Auschwitz. A man with a shaved head wearing a striped uniform photographed in three positions (profile and front with bare head and a photo with a slightly turned head with a hat on). The prisoner number is visible on a marking board on the left.

5 July 1912 | Polish Jew Josef Pejsakowicz was born in Radom. A shoemaker.

In #Auschwitz from 20 February 1942.
No. 23101
He perished in the camp on 30 March 1942.

Old sepia-toned photograph of a young child standing outdoors,

5 July 1941 | A Hungarian Jewish girl, Eva Herkovitz, was born

In 1944 she was deported to #Auschwitz and murdered in a gas chamber.

Vintage black and white photograph of two individuals wearing Star of David badges, seated closely together

5 July 1910 | Czech Jewish woman, Stela Ehrlichová, was born.

She was deported to #Auschwitz from Theresienstadt ghetto on 23 January 1943 with her daughter Aviva. They did not survive.

A mugshot registration photograph from Auschwitz. A woman wearing a striped uniform photographed in three positions (profile and front with a bare head and a photo with a slightly turned head with a headscarf on). The prisoner number is visible on a marking board on the left.

5 July 1890 | A Polish woman, Stanisława Zięba, was born in Poręba.

In #Auschwitz from 22 July 1943.
No. 50395
She perished in the camp on 7 December 1943.

Russia hammers Kyiv in largest aerial attack since war in Ukraine began | CBC News Waves of drone and missile attacks targeted Kyiv overnight into Friday in the largest aerial attack since Russia's invasion of Ukraine began more than three years ago, injuring 23 people and inflictin...

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Or you could assume all franchises run out of gas and greed kicks in.
you could watch an actual movie instead of super hero crap. But your feeble brain can’t manage a story that isn’t a white dude saving the world, right?

You get the culture you deserve. Aim higher.

There's a vintage shop about an hour away from me named after Warren Oates.

More importantly, they have a framed poster of my Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia drawing hanging there.

What an honor 🙏

Pipelines supplying Russian military explode in far east near Vladivostok, intelligence source says Explosions near Russia's Vladivostok damaged a gas pipeline and destroyed a water pipeline that supplied military facilities in the area, an unnamed intelligence source told the Kyiv Independent on Ju...

⚡️Pipelines supplying Russian military explode in far east near Vladivostok, intelligence source says.

Explosions near Russia's Vladivostok damaged a gas pipeline and destroyed a water pipeline that supply military facilities, an unnamed intelligence source told the Kyiv Independent on July 5.