Lindsey Graham was one of the main subjects of a @TheAtlantic cover story I wrote in 2020, on why people collaborate with regimes they know are immoral. Here's a gift link: theatlantic.com/magazine/arc…

Africa’s greatest leader was murdered just 10 days before his 36th birthday. The CIA sent the poison. Belgium sent the firing squad. Then they dissolved his body in acid so there would be no grave, no ashes, no place for his people to mourn. 🇨🇩💔 His name was Patrice Lumumba. And his only crime was believing that the Congo belonged to the Congolese. On Independence Day, Lumumba stood before his people and declared: “We are going to make of the Congo the centre of the sun’s radiance for all of Africa.” Six months later, he was dead. Here is how they silenced him: 🔸 In August 1960, President Dwight D. Eisenhower authorised the CIA to eliminate Lumumba. CIA chemist Sidney Gottlieb personally carried poison to the Congo to place in his food or on his toothbrush. 🔸 His closest ally, Colonel Mobutu Sese Seko, became the CIA’s principal agent — paid to betray the very man who trusted him. 🔸 On January 17, 1961, Lumumba was tortured, beaten, humiliated, and handed over to a Belgian-backed firing squad. 🔸 Belgian officers cut his body into pieces and dissolved his remains in sulphuric acid. Patrice Lumumba has no grave. No tomb. No resting place. 🔸 Before they killed him, they forced him to swallow the paper containing his Independence Day speech — as if they could erase his words by forcing him to eat them. 🔸 The CIA then installed Mobutu, who ruled the Congo for 32 years while foreign powers looted its diamonds, gold, copper, and cobalt as millions suffered in poverty. 🔸 Years later, CIA Director Allen Dulles admitted: “I think we overrated the Soviet danger in the Congo.” They destroyed a man. They destroyed a nation. And they did it over a lie. Today, the Congo holds some of the world’s largest reserves of cobalt — the mineral that powers smartphones, laptops, and electric cars across the globe. Yet its people remain among the poorest on Earth. That is not an accident. That is exploitation disguised as geopolitics. 🌍 Patrice Lumumba dreamed of an Africa that controlled its own wealth, wrote its own destiny, and bowed to no empire. They killed the man, but they could not kill the dream. If Lumumba had lived… what would Africa look like today? #PatriceLumumba #Congo #AfricanHistory #NeverForget #AfricanLiberation

If your employer paid you 80.1% of your pay, I'd wager you'd think that was a pretty big deal. I'm from a company of 260 employees, and we spend over $500,000 per year on employee events. This is much lighter than I would have expected.

You don't just mean "choose to." You mean "happen to."

Want me to find the document which the government of SC signed which states that they relinquished all rights to that land?

“Although I spent many of my formative years living in the White House, I always knew it wasn’t my house. It was my home, absolutely, but not my house. The White House belongs to the American people, and that’s why we call it the People’s House.” usatoday.com/story/opinion/v…

1-11 in the final season

It's always been libertarian.

Just in: conservatives are now finding out South Park is in fact not conservative.

I report on OF you dipshit. Try not being horny for like two minutes

"Pocahontas": First racial slur in a Joint Address

❤️💙❤️💙 Congratulations to @JoshAllenQB and @HaileeSteinfeld on their engagement!!