Musa Okwonga

1/ I was asked yesterday by someone to give examples of men who represented healthy masculinity and I thought, "well, it's men who don't think that being a man ultimately involves dominance over everyone in your surroundings".

It really seems as if, after what seemed like a brief period of enlightenment a couple of weeks ago, Germany is going backwards on this issue: more isolated from international opinion than ever, turning in on itself, refusing (unashamed, unafraid) to acknowledge its complicity.

#KeepEyesOnSudan

This stage of the genocide, Israel’s use of mass starvation against Palestinians, now most directly resembles the mass starvation Uganda used against the Acholi people in the late 1990s. It was even called “the secret genocide” by a senior UN official: archive.is/Rv77J

Imprisoned multiple times, and at one time faced execution, Iranian rapper Toomaj Salehi shown love in the streets of Iran. @OfficialToomaj 💚🤍❤️

This is not at all the priority now - of course it's not - but I do not think that Germany's reputation is coming back from this, and I do not think enough people here in Germany understand the scale of what is happening in terms of global disapproval.

Exclusive: The Justice Department told President Trump in May that his name is among many in the Epstein files on.wsj.com/4mcTIKV

Reform will leave us alone for two more years after that 🤲🤲

I have personally reviewed many from the whole gallery of the Russian war crimes on the Malian population in Central and North Mali and it's still grim how completely barbaric the Russians behave.Hanging a whole family on a tree is one of the lighter ones. x.com/SaladinAlDronn…

“My body is breaking down. My mother is collapsing from exhaustion. My cousin cheats death every day for a morsel of aid. Gaza's children are dying in front of our eyes, and we are powerless to help them.” 972mag.com/hunger-gaza-fo…

I’m going to post about these individually but posting a thread of Sudanese fundraisers now. If you have a moment to interact with them (you don’t have to interact with my post!), I’d be forever grateful. 🩷

Exactly. You can tell by the intensity of the rage when they go through a period of poor form, and contrasting that with the anger towards white players (Foden, Palmer, Grealish) who have at times been in similar form. There is a higher level of fury, and everyone knows it.

From the messages we are receiving from Gaza, from the images we are seeing from Gaza, hunger is at its worst, by design. People fainting in the streets. Infants and children dying of hunger.

*taps mic* not sure if this thing is still on or how many people still read stuff on here (especially since the algorithm nuked my account), but just writing this to keep myself accountable for posting more essays this year. If you see anything of interest here, please share.

Brazilian president: "I'd like to say something to the American people; If Trump was Brazilian and did what he did at the Capitol, he'd be on trial in Brazil for violating the Constitution. He would be arrested if he had done that."

The hidden truth of subsahara Africa migrant, in Tunisia. By professor Angelou Happyvidar. Post and repost,

Back in May, I spent time with Eintracht Frankfurt CEO Axel Hellman, and also Timm Jäger, who leads SGE’s built-for-purpose in-house software company. A portrait of a thoroughly modern football club, for @TheAthleticFC. nytimes.com/athletic/63670…

A prominent German columnist recently wrote a column that joked about these massacres, it got deleted after massive backlash, and there was *more* coverage and discussion of the columnist’s right to free speech than there was of constant massacres like these.

I contribute to this discussion of the Sweida violence. bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/w1…