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Visa denials and travel delays are creating serious complications for the teams, officials and journalists ahead of the World Cup. ⁠
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There's also the matter of the DRC’s Ebola outbreak affecting team staff. ⁠
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@margaretfleming12 has the details.

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HR 8800 passed. Section 224 is now law. The same J.P. Morgan that accepted 13,000 enslaved people as loan collateral organised the Dawes Plan bonds in 1924 that rebuilt Vereinigte Stahlwerke and IG Farben . The same Dillon Read partners who underwrote those steel bonds became the first US Secretary of Defense and the head of the postwar German reconstruction . The same Allen Dulles who sat on the Schröder bank board — the bank whose German cousin hosted the meeting that made Hitler Chancellor — became the first civilian CIA director . The same institution that financed the Third Reich's industrial base ran the pardons that restored that base's management to power . The same financial architecture was then used to dismantle your pension and route your retirement savings into the next war's contractors . And today, that architecture was formally written into US law, merging the military of a state currently facing genocide charges with the most powerful military on Earth — sponsored by the successor firms of every institution documented in your essays . #USMilitary #marines #Congress #usa

Soooo we made a song for @remedygames 🌟

Manalan mailla is based on Ingrian ensemble runolaulu tradition. My favourite way to build vocal harmonies 💞

Lyrics by @vilma.jaa and @teemu_brunila
Composition by @vilma.jaa
Production by @juketrx

Manalan mailla is available to stream now so go listen to the full song while you wait for the game 💖

Karmelo Anthony’s Self-Defense Claim Falls Apart As Jury Convicts Him In Fatal Track Meet Stabbing

🎥: @CBSNewsTexas

Blogged by: Draggy

A rainy high school track meet in Texas has now become the center of a murder conviction, a rejected self-defense argument, and a sentencing battle that could send 19-year-old Karmelo Anthony to prison for life. Anthony was convicted Tuesday in the track meet stabbing death of 17-year-old Austin Metcalf, after jurors sided with prosecutors who said the fatal confrontation was not self-defense.

The case started at a 2025 track meet in the Dallas suburb of Frisco, where students from different high schools had gathered during rainy weather. According to testimony cited by the Associated Press, the confrontation began after Anthony sat under a tent belonging to Metcalf’s Memorial High School track team and refused to leave when athletes told him to move.

From there, what could have stayed as a teenage argument turned fatal. Several student witnesses testified that Metcalf told Anthony to leave the tent before Anthony reached into a bag and pulled out a knife. One teenage witness recalled Metcalf telling Anthony, “You don’t have anything in that backpack. It’s Frisco.”

Prosecutors painted the stabbing as deliberate escalation, not panic. Prosecutor Bill Wirskye called it a “sneak, surprise attack” and argued that Anthony fueled the confrontation before using the knife. Defense attorney Mike Howard pushed back, telling jurors Anthony acted in a “split second of fear, chaos” after Metcalf made the first physical contact.

That physical contact became a central point in the trial. Witnesses testified that Metcalf pushed Anthony after Anthony allegedly reached into his bag and said, “Touch me and see what happens,” according to reporting on the police report and trial testimony. Prosecutors argued a shove did not justify a fatal stabbing, while the defense framed the moment as the point where Anthony believed he had to protect himself.

Three Photographs.
Ten Years.
One Dress.

For four years, the public has been told Marilyn Monroe’s “Happy Birthday, Mr. President” dress was undamaged by being worn at the Met Gala in 2022.

Facts age better than headlines. Photographs age better than opinions.

The three images in this reel were taken over a ten year period and document the condition of Marilyn Monroe’s iconic “Happy Birthday, Mr. President” dress.

The first photograph was taken at Julien’s Auctions in November 2016, before the gown was sold to Ripley’s.

The second photograph was taken on June 1, 2022, shortly after the dress was worn at the Met Gala.

The third photograph was taken on June 7, 2026, at Ripley’s Grand Prairie, where the dress is currently on display. Image 3 shows the back of the dress reflected in the glass of the display case.

What is particularly striking in the most recent image is the condition of the rear fabric. The separation visible today was not apparent in the 2016 photograph and was not visible to this extent in the images I released in 2022.

Notably, panels have now been added to the sides of the display case, obscuring direct views of the rear of the garment from many angles. As a result, documenting the current condition of the back of the dress has become more challenging than in previous years.

Taken together, these photographs provide a visual timeline of one of the most famous garments in American history.

When I first released comparison photographs in 2022, the discussion centered on missing crystals, stressed fabric, and visible changes to the garment. Some accepted the evidence. Others disputed it.

Four years later, the dress continues to tell its own story.

Marilyn Monroe performed in this dress for only a few minutes on May 19, 1962. More than sixty years later, it remains one of the most recognizable garments of the twentieth century.

The photographs speak for themselves.

Some objects are simply too important to risk.

The damage is clear.

And I ask again:

Was it worth it?

📸 Image 3 courtesy of @historyundressed , photographed June 7, 2026, at Ripley’s Grand Prairie.

#marilynmonroe
#ripleys
#happybirthday

I’ll be there the moment they take Trump’s name down.