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forgot how white this website is and expected there to be more uproar about the US bombing my home country, nigeria, on christmas day. my mistake!

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Sokoto state, a majority Muslim state in north-west Nigeria was bombed on Christmas day. It is still unclear how many bombs were dropped and where. Confirmed is a bomb dropped on a Mosque in Jabo, killing 5 people.

Trump has claimed that this is in retaliation of the "Christian genocide" happening in Nigeria, committed by "radical Islamists" of the ISIL (ISIS), and the specific choosing of Christmas day was to reify that this is a religious based retaliation.

This Christmas, I am in Nigeria. My family is majority Christian. We are without fear of being persecuted on the basis of our religion. So, what is going on?

There is no Christian genocide in Nigeria. Nigeria is a complex country that faces a lot of violence, exploitation and subsequent neglect from our government. But it is not Christians being targeted in our country. This insidious piece of misinformation has been dutifully organised by US officials for months and gained steam on platforms like X and Truth Social.

I do not believe though, that this action was done to fight Islamic terrorists or protect Nigerian Christians. The reason being:

Sokoto state is not a state with ISIL activity.

This is another display of US throwing its weight around, conveniently, onto the most oil-rich country in Africa.

Do not believe everything the US tells you about its foreign affairs. The US will gladly spill blood on the flimsiest of justifications just to continue gorging its empire.

Please keep love in your hearts for the Nigerian people.

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For those unfamiliar with African geography:

First, I will remind you Africa is massive. This is the Authograph map, the most accurate-to-size and least-distorted map in the world:

Africa is bottom center. North America is that bitty thing near the top. (Turn your head to the side if you need to orient yourself via Florida or Brazil, because lack of distortion meant some stuff Does Not Look how you would expect.)

Now that you have a sense of how big it is, here's Africa.

Now here's the same map, but I circled the countries where ISIL has any kind of significant presence. Please note that "significant presence" in this case means "wow, they control a whole city," and also that the Middle East is too small for me to accurately circle individual states on a phone. As of 2025 there is no significant ISIL presence in Israel, Palestine, Jordan, or that bit of Saudi Arabia I tried four times to avoid and couldn't.

YOU'RE GONNA NOTICE ALL OF THESE ARE PRETTY FAR FROM NIGERIA.

There is an absolutely minuscule stronghold in eastern Nigeria, but if the intent was actually to remove ISIL as a player in the region, it would require a scalpel, not a hatchet, and a quick scan of the Nigeria Wikipedia page shows a history in which Nigeria is doing pretty damn well at driving out terrorist groups trying to get a foothold entirely on their own.

Wiki further tells me that Nigeria has a massive Christian population and that freedom of religion is enshrined in their constitution. Up until the 2023 elections, it was even unofficial-but-standard practice that if a Christian won the presidency, they'd select a Muslim vice-president, and vice versa. (In 2023 a Muslim president selected a Muslim veep. I don't know anything in particular about Nigerian politics, so I don't know why this was--it could be anything from Islamic colonialism to being besties as kids to the veep just being a guy who's really good at diplomatic relations.) The more I'm reading, the more obvious his bullshit claim becomes.

Call your reps, Americans. Those of us who are Millennials and older will remember when the excuse was al-Qaeda and WMDs. History doesn't repeat, but it sure does like to rhyme. And if you're thinking "but he's ignoring the law anyway, so does it even matter if we call?" YES. YES IT DOES. Enough attention can force lawsuits that give troops a nail to hang their hats on to say "can't do it, sorry, unlawful order."

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A short guide I made covering how I approach gradient maps

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HARRIET TUBMAN 🤎🙏🏾🔥🕊👸🏾

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daenerys is sick and burnt and starving, arya and sansa and bran are being manipulated by their evil teachers, jaime is being led to his doom and brienne is forced to lead him there, cersei and margaery are awaiting trial, loras is dying on dragonstone, tyrion and barristan and victarion are in the midst of a giant battle, aegon and the golden company are in the middle of an invasion, sam is about to get attacked by an evil wizard pirate, aeron is being tortured by said evil wizard pirate, stannis and theon and asha and jeyne are freezing to death, davos is headed to cannibal island... meanwhile jon has been lying in the snow for 14 years 🙄 lazy bum

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#repost @extratv Forever in our hearts. “Black Panther” star Chadwick Boseman received a posthumous star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame on Thursday. 🙏⭐️

The ceremony as attended by his widow Simone Ledward Boseman and his brothers Derrick and Kevin Boseman, as well as Michael B. Jordan, Ryan Coogler, Viola Davis, Letitia Wright, and more.

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Damola Ayegbayo -- Free but Hungry

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Beba by Leslie Clark

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“If you have time to watch Netflix you have time for a side hustle” my side hustle is relaxing so that my body and brain can heal from by this nose-to-the-grindstone bullshit. I refuse to feel guilty for being a human with the need to relax sometimes. my side hustle is no.