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Here is my description of last night's brief but terrifying storm, as I experienced it from Red Hook, Brooklyn. My apartment faces west across the Upper Bay to New Jersey, in a building with thick brick walls and enormous windows. It’s an old converted waterfront warehouse. 1/17
The building is right on the Red Hook waterfront. My "next door neighbor" is the Waterfront Museum, which is in a floating Lehigh Valley Railroad barge docked at Pier 44. 2/17
I had gone to bed very early (~ 6:45 or 7), recovering from a long trip. When I was awakened by strange high-pitched wailing noises coming through the seams of my windows, I got up and looked out. 3/17
Gaspar Yanga was a liberator and one of Mexico’s heroes, enslaved from West Africa. He fought for the abolition of slavery in Mexico. He was known as “America’s First Liberator” or “El Primer Libertador de las Americas.”
The town of Yanga, Mexico is named after him.
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The town of Yanga, Mexico is named after him.
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El Yanga was an African abolitionist and a leader of a slave rebellion in Mexico during the early period of Spanish colonial rule. Mexico was called 'New Spain'.
Gaspar Yanga, often called Yanga, El Yanga, or Nyanga, was said to be a member of the royal family of Gabon, Africa, before being kidnapped and placed in the Middle Passage to the new world.
20 Years of NIFG - The Top 20s!
Day 4: 4th of July Secial!
Most Appearances by Northern Ireland Internationals in Major North American Soccer Leagues!
Including the American Soccer League (ASL), United Soccer Association National Professional Soccer League (NPSL), NASL and MLS.
Day 4: 4th of July Secial!
Most Appearances by Northern Ireland Internationals in Major North American Soccer Leagues!
Including the American Soccer League (ASL), United Soccer Association National Professional Soccer League (NPSL), NASL and MLS.
20. Ronnie Blair
5 #NornIron caps (1974-1976)
18 appearances (1978 NASL)
Colorado Caribous
5 #NornIron caps (1974-1976)
18 appearances (1978 NASL)
Colorado Caribous
19. Colin McCurdy
1 #NornIron cap (1980)
19 appearances (1978 NASL)
Philadelphia Fury
1 #NornIron cap (1980)
19 appearances (1978 NASL)
Philadelphia Fury
Happy 4th of July and 250th anniversary of the United States everyone! This is post 42 in my series on Kansas history, today’s story is on one of the survivors of the Battle of the Little Bighorn (or Custer’s Last Stand) who was a Kansan! (but not a human) Enjoy!
Myles Keogh was born on March 25th, 1840 in Leighlinbridge, Ireland. In 1860 he enlisted in the Papal Army and went to Italy to defend Pope Pius IX against the Piedmontese Invasion by the Kingdom of Sardinia. He was made a 2nd Lieutenant in the Battalion of St. Patrick where he served at the Port of Ancona in Central Italy. On September 18th, 1860 the Papal Army was defeated at the Battle of Castelfidarado and Keogh was taken prisoner and held in Genoa. After his release in a prisoner exchange he served in the Vatican Guard. As the Civil War began in America, representatives of the Union were sent to Italy to recruit experienced veterans of the Papal War to serve as officers in the Civil War. Keogh and some of his men took the offer and arrived in Washington DC in April 1863. He was then given the rank of Captain and served under Brigadier General James Shields and Major General George McClellan.
Following the war he joined the 4th US Cavalry in 1866 and later that year he was reassigned to the 7th US Cavalry in Fort Riley, Kansas under Lieutenant Colonel George Armstrong Custer (more on him in a minute). Soon after he arrived in Kansas, he purchased a horse to be used as his mount in battle. In 1868 following a skirmish against the Comanche where his horse was wounded by an arrow but continued to ride, Keogh gave it the name “Comanche” to commemorate the horse’s bravery and strength.
1978: Al-Sa'iqa defends Lebanon against the Sharonist aggressor, whereas the PLO evacuates without barely a shot against the invader!
Sources: Wikileaks, PLO, US Army.
Brief teaser thread. 🧵
Sources: Wikileaks, PLO, US Army.
Brief teaser thread. 🧵
Days before the 1978 Israeli invasion, the Fatah had contacted the IDF-backed gang of Chamoun to express the Fatah’s desire for not fighting the Chamounites and letting the combat to be waged solely by the Syrians, so that the latter may bleed white. Days away from the Israeli invasion, he US intelligence, in a March 3, 1978 document leaked by the Wikileaks, reported:
In 1978, to decimate the Syrian influence, the Fatah terrorists planned the barbaric Coastal Road massacre, during which the terrorist Dalal Al-Mughrabi took hostage civilians in a bus and blew them up en masse, as an invitation for a Sharonist war on South Lebanon.
Hey at least I am only wanting to be with adults so what's the problem 🤷♀️🤷♀️🤷♀️🤷♀️
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Want to know how they quickly got 400 makes extremists in DC?
It's because many of them are Republican staffers.
It's the most overlooked scandal in the US right now:
Want to know how they quickly got 400 makes extremists in DC?
It's because many of them are Republican staffers.
It's the most overlooked scandal in the US right now:
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How are they getting into these roles?
It's part of a far-right extremist lobbying pipeline that's been going on for at least 15+ years, and is now seeing the 'fruits' of its labor.
How are they getting into these roles?
It's part of a far-right extremist lobbying pipeline that's been going on for at least 15+ years, and is now seeing the 'fruits' of its labor.
3/10
Major far-right lobbying groups will spend a large sums of money on what they call 'community outreach and advocacy programs'
This has meant things like running ads & paying people to post 'opinion pieces' on sites like 4chan to 'seed ideology'
Major far-right lobbying groups will spend a large sums of money on what they call 'community outreach and advocacy programs'
This has meant things like running ads & paying people to post 'opinion pieces' on sites like 4chan to 'seed ideology'
The land of the free? Not so much.
As the U.S. turns 250 years old, here's what you should know about that country's carceral system. 🧵
As the U.S. turns 250 years old, here's what you should know about that country's carceral system. 🧵
➡️ The U.S. has the highest incarceration rate of any independent democracy.
Worse, every single state incarcerates more people per capita than most nations.
prisonpolicy.org/global/2024.ht…
Worse, every single state incarcerates more people per capita than most nations.
prisonpolicy.org/global/2024.ht…
➡️ Each year, the U.S. spends $445 billion on mass incarceration.
Since 2017, crime has declined, and fewer people are incarcerated, yet spending on the criminal legal system has still increased faster than inflation.
prisonpolicy.org/reports/money2…
Since 2017, crime has declined, and fewer people are incarcerated, yet spending on the criminal legal system has still increased faster than inflation.
prisonpolicy.org/reports/money2…
ATIKU'S IMF POST IS A MASTERCLASS IN POLITICAL PROPAGANDA. WITH 2027 APPROACHING, I WENT THROUGH IT LINE BY LINE SO YOU DON'T HAVE TO.
PART 1 — WHAT THE IMF ACTUALLY SAID
The IMF's resident representative, Christian Ebeke, said that approximately 2 per cent of GDP in expenditure was not reported in recent official budget documents. He called it a statistical discrepancy. His exact words were that the spending should be recorded so the discrepancy will disappear.
That is the actual quote. Statistical discrepancy. Not stolen. Not hidden. Not secret treasury. Not political war chest. Those words belong entirely to Atiku. The IMF never used them.
Off-budget spending does not mean stolen money, and I want to be very precise about this because it is the foundation of Atiku's entire argument. It means government expenditure on actual projects, roads, infrastructure, capital works, that was executed and physically completed but not properly captured in the official budget document. The work happened. The projects exist. The recording was inadequate. Those are completely different things.
Now here is the part Atiku deliberately left out of his statement.
The IMF's own Article IV document states clearly that the January 2026 Repeal and Re-enactment Bills for the 2024 and 2025 budgets incorporated, ex post, some expenditures that had been executed outside the budget perimeter. Ex post means after the fact. The government had already identified the recording gap and corrected it through legislation before Ebeke made any public statement. In late 2025, Tinubu transmitted Appropriation Repeal and Re-enactment Bills to NASS. On January 1, 2026, NASS completed the process, formally incorporating the previously unrecorded expenditures into the official budget record.
The government fixed the problem six months before Ebeke spoke publicly about it. Atiku's statement does not contain a single word about this. Not one sentence. He quoted the problem and buried the correction.
The same IMF Article IV consultation commended the federal government's recent macroeconomic reforms, noting that they had strengthened economic stability and improved investor confidence. Also missing from Atiku's statement. Entirely.
PART 1 — WHAT THE IMF ACTUALLY SAID
The IMF's resident representative, Christian Ebeke, said that approximately 2 per cent of GDP in expenditure was not reported in recent official budget documents. He called it a statistical discrepancy. His exact words were that the spending should be recorded so the discrepancy will disappear.
That is the actual quote. Statistical discrepancy. Not stolen. Not hidden. Not secret treasury. Not political war chest. Those words belong entirely to Atiku. The IMF never used them.
Off-budget spending does not mean stolen money, and I want to be very precise about this because it is the foundation of Atiku's entire argument. It means government expenditure on actual projects, roads, infrastructure, capital works, that was executed and physically completed but not properly captured in the official budget document. The work happened. The projects exist. The recording was inadequate. Those are completely different things.
Now here is the part Atiku deliberately left out of his statement.
The IMF's own Article IV document states clearly that the January 2026 Repeal and Re-enactment Bills for the 2024 and 2025 budgets incorporated, ex post, some expenditures that had been executed outside the budget perimeter. Ex post means after the fact. The government had already identified the recording gap and corrected it through legislation before Ebeke made any public statement. In late 2025, Tinubu transmitted Appropriation Repeal and Re-enactment Bills to NASS. On January 1, 2026, NASS completed the process, formally incorporating the previously unrecorded expenditures into the official budget record.
The government fixed the problem six months before Ebeke spoke publicly about it. Atiku's statement does not contain a single word about this. Not one sentence. He quoted the problem and buried the correction.
The same IMF Article IV consultation commended the federal government's recent macroeconomic reforms, noting that they had strengthened economic stability and improved investor confidence. Also missing from Atiku's statement. Entirely.
PART 2 — THE N800 BILLION LIE
This is where the manipulation is most obvious, and I want to hammer on it specifically because it is the most dishonest part of the entire post.
Atiku described N800 billion as unlawfully deducted from state allocations without NASS authorisation and without constitutional basis, implying the federal government took state money for its own use.
Here is what the N800 billion actually is. NEITI, the Nigeria Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative, documented it in its 2024 FAAC review as total debt deductions for states' foreign debts and other contractual obligations. These are automatic deductions made at source from each state's monthly FAAC allocation to repay loans that those states themselves borrowed. Not federal government loans. State government loans. From foreign creditors. Multilateral institutions. Domestic lenders.
Lagos had N164.7 billion deducted because Lagos has the highest debt portfolio of any state. Kaduna had N51.2 billion deducted. Rivers had N38.6 billion. Bauchi had N37.2 billion.
The money did not go to the federal government. It went to each state's own creditors. This mechanism predates Tinubu by decades. It is how Nigeria has always managed subnational debt obligations at the FAAC level. NEITI flagged it as a concern about state debt-to-revenue ratios. Not as federal government theft.
The N800 billion and the IMF finding have absolutely no connection to each other. The IMF finding is about federal expenditure recording. The N800 billion is about states repaying their own loans. Atiku put them in the same paragraph, combined them in the reader's mind and called it a coordinated looting operation.
This is where the manipulation is most obvious, and I want to hammer on it specifically because it is the most dishonest part of the entire post.
Atiku described N800 billion as unlawfully deducted from state allocations without NASS authorisation and without constitutional basis, implying the federal government took state money for its own use.
Here is what the N800 billion actually is. NEITI, the Nigeria Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative, documented it in its 2024 FAAC review as total debt deductions for states' foreign debts and other contractual obligations. These are automatic deductions made at source from each state's monthly FAAC allocation to repay loans that those states themselves borrowed. Not federal government loans. State government loans. From foreign creditors. Multilateral institutions. Domestic lenders.
Lagos had N164.7 billion deducted because Lagos has the highest debt portfolio of any state. Kaduna had N51.2 billion deducted. Rivers had N38.6 billion. Bauchi had N37.2 billion.
The money did not go to the federal government. It went to each state's own creditors. This mechanism predates Tinubu by decades. It is how Nigeria has always managed subnational debt obligations at the FAAC level. NEITI flagged it as a concern about state debt-to-revenue ratios. Not as federal government theft.
The N800 billion and the IMF finding have absolutely no connection to each other. The IMF finding is about federal expenditure recording. The N800 billion is about states repaying their own loans. Atiku put them in the same paragraph, combined them in the reader's mind and called it a coordinated looting operation.
PART 3 — THE ALPHA BETA COMPARISON AND THE STIMULUS CLAIM
Atiku described the IMF finding as the Lagos playbook replicated at national scale, referring to the Alpha Beta revenue management arrangement under Tinubu's governorship. Alpha Beta allegedly involved revenue diverted before it entered the state treasury, intercepted at the point of collection before government received it. The IMF issue involves government expenditure on projects that was not properly documented after it was spent. These are structurally opposite mechanisms. One involves money allegedly intercepted before government receives it. The other involves government spending that was inadequately recorded at the time. Presenting them as identical because the same person was involved is association, not analysis.
Then there is the stimulus claim. Atiku said the IMF has now answered his critics by proving that N8.8 trillion was available to fund his $10 billion stimulus proposal from the 2023 campaign. This is economically illiterate, stated plainly. The N8.8 trillion was spent. On government projects. Roads. Capital works. Infrastructure. It was not sitting in a vault waiting to be redirected. You cannot redirect money that has already been spent on physical projects into a stimulus package. This claim exists purely to make his 2023 campaign look vindicated in retrospect. It does not survive ten seconds of scrutiny.
There is also the question of credibility on this specific topic. Atiku was Vice President of Nigeria for eight years. For eight years, the federal budget had reporting gaps, off-budget spending, FAAC deduction irregularities, and fiscal transparency problems that his administration failed to resolve. He now presents himself as the man who would have solved all of this with the money the IMF found missing. The same institutional framework. The same civil service. The same FAAC mechanism. His eight years in the Presidency produced none of the reforms he is now demanding from this government.
Atiku described the IMF finding as the Lagos playbook replicated at national scale, referring to the Alpha Beta revenue management arrangement under Tinubu's governorship. Alpha Beta allegedly involved revenue diverted before it entered the state treasury, intercepted at the point of collection before government received it. The IMF issue involves government expenditure on projects that was not properly documented after it was spent. These are structurally opposite mechanisms. One involves money allegedly intercepted before government receives it. The other involves government spending that was inadequately recorded at the time. Presenting them as identical because the same person was involved is association, not analysis.
Then there is the stimulus claim. Atiku said the IMF has now answered his critics by proving that N8.8 trillion was available to fund his $10 billion stimulus proposal from the 2023 campaign. This is economically illiterate, stated plainly. The N8.8 trillion was spent. On government projects. Roads. Capital works. Infrastructure. It was not sitting in a vault waiting to be redirected. You cannot redirect money that has already been spent on physical projects into a stimulus package. This claim exists purely to make his 2023 campaign look vindicated in retrospect. It does not survive ten seconds of scrutiny.
There is also the question of credibility on this specific topic. Atiku was Vice President of Nigeria for eight years. For eight years, the federal budget had reporting gaps, off-budget spending, FAAC deduction irregularities, and fiscal transparency problems that his administration failed to resolve. He now presents himself as the man who would have solved all of this with the money the IMF found missing. The same institutional framework. The same civil service. The same FAAC mechanism. His eight years in the Presidency produced none of the reforms he is now demanding from this government.
