Philipo Mundele @PhilthyFebruary

found what is quite literally the perfect explanation

PK🍓🍉 @PKontwt

3 days ago

I never understood how fried chicken is a negative black stereotype bc who tf doesn’t like fried chicken

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This is Tommy. Tommy had a question about my allegiances. Listen to the end to hear about his.

getting absolutely wrecked by this today

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Since I've summoned boom bap twitter has anyone seen the Arsenio Show's hip hop all star special?

FGHQ | Mall @mallrunner1

a week ago

This verse alone introduced the world to Busta Rhymes

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@native_am_pride I want one please

Dear Secretary Bessent @SecScottBessent, My name is Everett Stern. In 2010 I was a compliance officer at @HSBC. From a back office in New Castle, Delaware, I watched billions of dollars move to drug cartels, sanctioned regimes, and terrorist organizations. The enemies of the United States. I documented it, I escalated it, and when the bank would not act, I took it to the @FBI, the @CIA, and eventually the @SECGov. The result was a $1.92 billion settlement. At the time, it was one of the largest in American history. It was also about five weeks of the bank’s profit. Not one banker was charged. Not one went to prison. I paid a different price. I lost my career, my savings, and my place in the industry I had trained for. I was blacklisted. Every door in American finance closed at once. I slept on a camping cot in a 300 square foot apartment because I could not afford a bed, and I waited tables at @PFChangs to eat. I tell you this not for sympathy, but so you understand that I know exactly what it costs to do the right thing in American finance, and exactly how little the system does in return. I made that sacrifice because I believed it would change something. Yesterday, your department fined @BankofAmerica $1.2 billion for failing to report more than $5 billion in suspicious transactions, some of it tied by your own findings to Chinese laundering networks, narcotics, and the southwest border, alongside 475 apparent sanctions violations touching Russia, Iran, and global terrorism. The bank admitted it willfully violated the Bank Secrecy Act. Fourteen years after HSBC. A bank with “America” in its name. And once again, not one individual charged. Secretary Bessent, I want to say plainly what I believe you already know. The fines are not working. A fine is paid by shareholders, absorbed by the balance sheet, and forgotten by the next earnings call. Bank of America reported earnings this morning. Nobody who set the alert thresholds, nobody who decided the 2024 cease and desist could wait, nobody who chose the backlog over the law will lose a single thing they value. Their lives are untouched. That is the entire reason the behavior repeats. This is money laundering. This is blood money. Money that reaches a cartel buys fentanyl that kills Americans. Money that reaches a terrorist organization buys the next attack. This country has fought a war on drugs and a war on terror for decades, at enormous cost in lives and treasure, and all the while we have allowed the financing to flow through institutions we charter and regulate. Cut off the money and we win. We have never seriously tried. There is also a question of equal justice that I cannot let go. Before I walked into the FBI building to report HSBC, I stopped in front of the Great Seal on the wall and read the words engraved beneath it: “Justice is the defense of our liberty.” I believed that. I still want to. But every day in this country, people go to prison for crimes that are nothing next to moving money for the people who want Americans dead. A suit, a title, and a corporate badge should not be a shield from the consequences that apply to everyone else. If a street dealer goes to prison for what he sells, the banker who moved the cartel’s money should be standing next to him. I also want to raise something that is rarely said in these conversations. Why has no one inside Bank of America come forward the way I did? The answer is that everyone in American banking knows what happened to me, and to the whistleblowers who came after. The last person who spoke up is the only policy anyone believes. That is a culture problem, and it starts with leadership, in the banks and in the agencies that regulate them. This is not a political issue. It has spanned administrations of both parties. It is a national security issue, and I am asking you to treat it as one. Three things would change the math overnight. Refer individuals for criminal prosecution. Not the analyst in the queue. The executives who set the thresholds and chose the risk. One banker in handcuffs would do more than every fine in Treasury’s history combined. End “too big to jail.” An institution cannot be too big to fail and too big to jail at the same time. If it is the first, it must be held to a higher standard, not a lower one. And if Bank of America will not act as America’s bank, review its charter. A national charter is a privilege granted on behalf of the American people. It should be conditioned on not moving money for the people trying to kill them. Secretary Bessent, you said yesterday that these actions send a clear message that even the biggest institutions are not above the law. With respect, the institution was never the problem. The people inside it are above the law, and they know it. Until that changes, I will keep writing letters like this one, and the next bank will keep paying the next fine. I gave up everything I had to stop this. I am asking you to use the power you have to finish it. Respectfully, Everett A. Stern HSBC Whistleblower Founder and Intelligence Director, Tactical Rabbit

If a white person born in Australia can be Australian without Aboriginal ancestry, and a white person born in America can be American without Native American ancestry, why can't a Black person born in England be English without Anglo-Saxon ancestry?

This entire City story - and especially the last stories of Etihad, Burnham and Khaldoon’s diplomatic immunity - crystallises why states and state actors should not be allowed own clubs The longer it goes, the more chaotic it gets independent.co.uk/sport/football…

This is priceless. Check out how local news is reporting on Sen Eric Schmidt’s clown-show grilling of Jack Smith. They found Jack Smith at the game… “Top corner, section 109, row 1. In fact, that seat doesn’t even exist in Atlanta.”

This is the official trailer for NAZA. It’s being suppressed on every social media platform. Please watch and share.

@Ankaman616 Congratulations 🙏🏻

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@JM_Devine @TifoFootball_

Fulham Hub @fulhamhub_

2 months ago

Both Alex Iwobi & Emile Smith Rowe have removed all Fulham related posts from their Instagram accounts. 😬 Kevin with a cryptic post + Tete left out the squad, reportedly telling a supporter to ‘speak to the f*cking coach.’ when asked what was going on. What is going on? #FFC

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TURNING IT AROUND!!!!!!! OWN GOAL BUT WE'RE GIVING IT TO ETHAN! WELCOME TO BVB!!!!! 😫🤩

All Betis fans RIGHT NOW! 🇮🇪

Class. 👏

Some of the actors from #TheWire struggled to get new (or quality) roles after the show ended. “It was so authentic, people thought we weren’t actors. At industry events, people would ask, ‘What are you doing here?’ And I’d say, ‘What do you mean?’ and they’d say, ‘What are you doing out of Baltimore?’ ” Doing shows after “The Wire” was like a theater actor doing a play after Hamlet. “I’d find myself on the set of a show feeling down, and I didn’t know why,” says Akinnagbe. “It took a while till I realized I have to accept that not all work is the same, and I have to find something interesting in each character. With ’The Wire’ we were thrilled every week — we’d read the script immediately and call each other to say, ‘Did you see that?’ ” -Gbenga Akinnagbe (Chris Partlow) 2018 LA Times interview

kimo @kimo77695

2 months ago

Quel personnage de série est tellement bien écrit qu’on oublie que c’est un personnage fictif ?

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I was given my name by the Iroquois Nation many hundreds of years ago. By 1660 my name was printed on maps by the Europeans as they accepted the Native name which means Beautiful waters. In 1867 the Canadian government decided to use my name for their providence.

Becoming blatantly obvious a select group of Premier League clubs have created a system of paying inflated fees to one another to bypass PL/UEFA's financial rules. It has been happening for years & in the normal world would be fraud, but in football? It's just another day.

David Ornstein @David_Ornstein

2 months ago

🚨 Aston Villa strike agreement with Chelsea to sign Nicolas Jackson. Deal for 25yo striker worth £47.5m + £17.5m add-ons for maximum package £65m. Personal terms in process of being finalised ahead of Senegal int’l moving from #CFC to #AVFC @TheAthleticFC nytimes.com/athletic/73298…

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