There’s something so cursed about an American content machine profiting off someone paying homage to a man who stood against everything that the US represents globally. Something that he paid the ultimate price for.
Further irony is in the fact that Lumumba Vea is missing the game today because of visa/travel issues.
It's DR Congo's first World Cup game in 52 years, so we humbly reintroduce their statue superfan 🇨🇩
He stands still all game in homage to the country's revered first prime minister, Patrice Lumumba, and was even included in the official WC delegation 🐆
#OnThisDay 1984. The infamous police assault upon miners takes place at Orgreave.
At least 79 people were injured in the worst displays of police brutality seen during the #MinersStrike
Nearly every indicator of climate change is flashing red. But we still hold the tools available to bring the planet back into balance.
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The ocean has shielded us from the worst of climate change. Now it is running a fever | Karina Von Schuckmann
We are causing #globalwarming 100 times faster than past natural changes
We are taking Earth’s 🌎 climate beyond natural limits, with CO2 & temps levels not seen for 3 million years.
No time to wait. #ActOnClimate#climate#energy
Map of Hamburg, Germany during WWII, camouflaged to try to get Bombers to drop bombs on the “Binnen Alster” - a lake in the middle of the city, by dragging a painted tarp over the small lake to make it look like city, and draping a fake bridge over the large lake to mimic the actual bridge.
Earth’s oceans have never been this warm in the modern era in June.
The world has now seen two straight weeks of record-warm global sea surface temperatures. Since June 3, every single day has set a new daily sea surface temperature record in data going back to 1981.
“Temperatures in the Antarctic climbed above 15C this month, shattering the previous winter heat record for the usually frozen region and raising concerns about the speed of climate breakdown.”
"Scientists said the high of 15.4C broke the previous record set at the same station in 1998 by 2C. “This is absolutely crazy,” said Raúl Cordero, an Ecuadorian climate professor at the University of Groningen. “It is also about 20C above normal for this time of the year. That is a huge anomaly.”
Record winter temperatures in Antarctic raise fears over speed of climate breakdown kevinhester.live/2026/06/17/…
Radio 4 cutting the news at midnight is the end of the world as far as I am concerned. I live for those chimes at midnight and the measured summing up of the day. Killing Radio 4 in pursuit of some digital dream is deranged