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Someone asked how Rick Ross has money with "one hit twenty years ago." I pulled the documents. ⭐ His album *Set in Stone* debuted at No. 39 with ~2,000 pure sales. His catalog does **3,587,654 Spotify streams a day**, ~1.3B a year, with no release required. ⭐ I searched...

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🚨 DJ Akademiks Reacts To Rick Ross’ Reported First Week Album Sales, 50 Cent’s Trolling & Ross’ Response 👀📉 DJ Akademiks weighed in after reports claimed Rick Ross’ new album Set in Stone is projected to debut at No. 45 on the Billboard 200 with approximately 17.2K first-week units. Ak said he isn’t surprised by the reported numbers, explaining that he expected Ross to land somewhere in the 20K range based on his current momentum. 🗣️ Akademiks: “I think this is about par for the course for Rick Ross. You need a current hit record to really move albums today. I wasn’t expecting much more than 20 to 30 thousand.” Ak also said fans have every right to clown Ross after the rapper spent months criticizing Drake and calling his latest album Iceman “horrendous.” 👀 50 Cent also joined the conversation, posting several jokes about Ross reported sales, including: Claiming the album “went wood.” Mocking Ross’ projected numbers. Poking fun at reports surrounding ticket sales for Ross’ upcoming tour. 🎤 Rick Ross Responded: Instead of addressing the sales directly, Ross fired back at 50 Cent by questioning his business ventures in Shreveport, accusing him of borrowing money and claiming local officials didn’t approve his proposals. Ross also stood by his album, calling Set in Stone the “Album of the Year,” saying he’s still independent with ownership of his catalog and plans to celebrate regardless of where the final sales numbers land.

Cousin Tino ™️

38,504 次观看 • 1 个月前

Everybody has a theory about why André 3000 stopped making rap records. Nobody has a theory about this one, because as far as I can tell nobody reported it. Recordation V9991D471, recorded 15 July 2021. First party, verbatim: Andre Lauren Benjamin, professionally known as Andre 3000, individually and dba Gnat Booty Music, and Wedontplayevenwhenwebeplayin LLC. Second party: Primary Wave Music IP Fund 3. Roughly 570 compositions. It is publishing rather than masters, and the document is 33 pages for 570 titles, which means it is a short form sitting on top of a long form nobody recorded. The share he actually assigned is not stated anywhere I can see. Now search the other man. Antwan Patton returns 511 hits and 150 recordations, and he is a party to none of them. Every hit is his name appearing as a writer inside somebody else's paperwork. Recording a transfer is optional and plenty of deals never get filed, so the only sentence I can support is that no recorded transfer names him. One of them shows up in the register as a seller. The other shows up only as a name inside other people's documents. Which raises the obvious question: André sold publishing, so why not the records. Because the records were never his to sell. SR0000340520, registered 6 October 2003. Claimant: "© ℗ Arista Records, Inc. (employer for hire)." Two solo albums, two number one singles, one registration. There is no separate registration for The Love Below anywhere. I looked. A sound recording registration follows the claimant's unit of commerce. Arista sold one product, so Arista registered one work. What makes it worth showing you is that the register was perfectly willing to give this catalog two numbers when it wanted to. Stankonia has two registrations. Aquemini has two. Go look at what separates each pair, and it is a profanity. Watch the claimant line move across the catalog. ATLiens 1997, LaFace. Aquemini 1999, Arista, with LaFace named as employer for hire inside the authorship line. Stankonia 2001, back to La Face. The double album 2003, Arista Records Incorporated. The singles in 2004, BMG Music. Idlewild 2006, LaFace Records LLC. Six filings, five versions of the same corporate family, and one thing that never changes. Employer for hire is on every single one. Across every sound recording OutKast ever released, Antwan Patton and André Benjamin appear as claimant exactly zero times. One filing is not like the others. Southernplayalisticadillacmuzik came out in April 1994. It was not registered as a sound recording until 2 February 2018. Twenty four years. And the claimant on that 2018 filing is Arista Records Incorporated, which is strange, because Arista had assigned the whole thing to Sony 9 years earlier. The address on the form is 25 Madison Avenue, 22nd floor, New York, which is Sony's building. Here is how it got to Sony. Recordations V3582D733 and 734, filed 3 September 2009. First party Arista Records LLC, second party Sony Music Entertainment, executed as of 27 December 2008. 734 pages, 1,702 titles. Speakerboxxx/The Love Below is one row in that schedule. The next day, a second document, LaFace Records LLC to Sony, 67 titles, carrying ATLiens. Both executed as of the same December day, because that is a corporate closing date rather than anything to do with music. Last thing, and it is live right now. Section 203 lets an author terminate a grant 35 years on and take the work back. It is how Victor Willis got the Village People songs. Termination notices filed under OutKast, André Benjamin, Antwan Patton: zero. Before you decide that means nothing, I checked whether the system would show me one if it existed. Victor Willis returns 10. LaFace Records returns 3. One of those 3 is Usher. He served his notice on 23 June 2025, on Sony, as successor to LaFace. Same label. Same era. Same successor company. He filed. They have not. Southernplayalisticadillacmuzik turns 35 in 2029. Every document above is free and public.

Eric Jackson

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Nas is the guy everybody points to as the smart one. Mass Appeal. Into Coinbase before most people had heard of it. Ring, Dropbox, PillPack. When people argue about which rapper understood business first, his name comes up before anybody else's. So I pulled Illmatic on the government's copyright register. It's free. Anyone can do it. Registration SR0000207177, filed June 28, 1994. The claimant line reads: Sony Music Entertainment, Inc. (employer for hire). That's the most revered album in the genre, and on the federal record it's registered as work made for hire. It Was Written, two years later, SR0000220016. Same phrase. Sony Music Entertainment, Inc., employer for hire. Then something changes. Stillmatic, 2002, SR0000305698. Claimant is still Sony. But the words "employer for hire" are gone. Same label, same artist, 8 years apart, and the authorship language is different. Nobody explains that in a documentary. Now the part I didn't expect. Pull the song instead of the recording. It Ain't Hard To Tell, the track that closes Illmatic. Registration PA0000921815. The claimants are Zomba Enterprises, Skematics Music, and Ill Will Music, Inc. That's his. Named for his friend Willy Graham. So the same album sits in two different places in the same government database with two different answers. Sony holds the recording as employer for hire. His own company is a named claimant on the song underneath it. A master is the recording. A composition is the song inside it. They get owned separately and sold separately, and almost nobody says which one they mean. One more thing. There's a 2009 filing that pulls Illmatic into a document covering 832 titles across 663 pages. Sony BMG renamed itself Sony Music Entertainment in January of that year. Every number above took about 20 minutes and cost nothing.

Eric Jackson

34,078 次观看 • 8 天前

Interlink Name Service us now live on mainnet: what is it and how does it work? InterLink Labs 👤 + 🌐 Name Service (INS) is now live on mainnet INS goes beyond simply being simply an app: it is InterLink’s first move toward making human-readable identities available through a name service for InterLink, where names such as yourname.itl may represent long wallet addresses. At the time of launch, there were already 44 domains registered by 10 different owners. In addition, a price promotion period was promised to take place soon. INS is the way that InterLink has chosen to place a name between a human and a hex address. What INS really is INS is a decentralised naming system on InterLink Chain. A registered name is not a rented username in some corporate database. Instead, a registered name is minted as IRC-721 NFT, meaning its ownership is on chain and can be transferred or sold like any other NFT. After that, the name could be wrapped via the NameWrapper smart contract and transformed into IRC-1155 tokens with “fuses” that limit the ability to revoke subdomains for this name. The name is supposed to function as an identity passport, not only an address to pay. How it works INS uses an architecture similar to DNS and Ethereum Name Service, but it is built on top of InterLink Chain's smart contracts. Registry: The registry smart contract maintains information about name ownership, resolver used by this name and cache configuration. Registrars: Above the registry are registrar smart contracts responsible for implementing rules for name registration in a particular TLD like .itl including its duration and price. Resolvers: It's here where the resolver does the real job – it translates name into an address, content hash or other information. How to buy and configure a name The intended process flow is straightforward and takes place within the InterLink app: - Launch the InterLink app using Mainnet. - Open INS app from Core Team Apps / Mini Apps. - Link a compatible wallet. - Look for the desired name. - If the name is available, select a period of time to register it (for instance, one year or two years) and make a payment of the fee in ITL. - Configure the record data: at least the InterLink Chain address to which the name will resolve. Set up the primary name for reverse resolution.

BSCN

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Michael Jackson died $500 MILLION in debt in 2009. His estate has earned $3.5 BILLION since and he is still the highest paid musician on earth. > When Jackson died in 2009 creditors were circling and banks were preparing to seize his assets. > His most valuable possession was not his music. It was a decision he made in 1985. > He paid $47.5 MILLION for the ATV Music catalog. > Inside it were the publishing rights to over 4,000 songs including most of The Beatles’ entire catalog. > Paul McCartney had introduced Jackson to the power of music publishing years earlier. > He then watched Jackson use that knowledge to outbid him for the Beatles catalog. > Jackson’s estate paid off every dollar of his $500 MILLION debt using that catalog as leverage. > In 2016 Sony paid the estate $750 MILLION for the ATV stake alone. > In 2024 Sony paid another $600 MILLION for half of his personal masters and publishing rights. > His own mother opposed the deal saying it went against his wishes. The estate sold it anyway. > In 2023 he earned $105 MILLION. More than any living musician in the United States that year. > MJ The Musical is running on Broadway. > Cirque du Soleil has been running a Michael Jackson show in Vegas since 2013. > A biopic starring his nephew premiered in 2026. > An estate lawyer told Forbes: “When it comes to estate earnings it’s MJ, then an enormous canyon, then everybody else.” > He paid $47.5 MILLION for the rights in 1985. Sony has paid $1.3 BILLION to get them back. He has been dead longer than most artists are famous and is still outearning all of them.

Jeremy

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Americans have had enough of Democrats lying to their faces Abdul El-Sayed said “Abdul is as American as any other name in this country. It's one of the strongest American names that you can have” Jeff Mead “he's just out here lying. Just lying through his teeth. Just lying. This is why I do not like, like the Democratic Party. They look you dead in the face and just lie as if you're too stupid to know any better. Abdul is not one of the strongest American names you can have. Abdul is not an American name. Abdul is one of the strongest Arabic names you can have, not one of the strongest American names. But again, it's just crazy to me that he says this with a straight face. By the way, his name means servant of the most merciful, talking about Allah. His middle name is Muhammad, who is a central prophet in the religion of Islam. When the United States was founded, essentially close to zero amount of people here were Muslims. The vast, vast, vast majority were Christians. America was not founded on Islamic values. It wasn't founded by Muslims. He's trying to get people to believe that his culture, his beliefs, his religion is just as American as everybody else's. No, it's not.” “That's what Democrats do. They will look at you dead in the face and just lie, just lie, just lie” “If you're in Michigan, register to vote, prepare to vote, get ready to vote. Ensure that this man does not become a senator in Michigan” We all learned about the Mayflower in school and the founding of America. Does anybody remember the name Abdul mentioned? No? Because it wasn’t There is no historic figure in American history during the founding named Abdul, I show proof All democrats do is lie

Wall Street Apes

89,306 次观看 • 1 个月前

[WATCH] The question before the Court is short, and it is a question of law. When a political party has completed the Commission’s prescribed forms and uploaded its lists onto the Commission’s own system before the hour, has that party submitted its lists? The movement says it has. The Commission says it has not. That is a disagreement between a political party and a public institution about what a statute means, and this country built a specialist court for precisely that. The Electoral Court will decide it. The ANC will abide by what the courts decide. I say that now, before judgment, so that nobody need ask afterwards. I want to address the judgment the Electoral Court handed down on Friday in the matter of the UDF Party, because it has been reported as a blow to the ANC. The Court held that the Commission has no power to exempt one party from a deadline that binds all others. The African National Congress agrees with that. We have never asked for an exemption. We have never asked for an extension. We are not asking for one now. What the UDF asked for and what the ANC asks for are different things, and Friday’s judgment is the clearest statement yet of that difference. And to those who have warned the Commission against giving the ANC “preferential treatment”, I say this plainly. The ANC wants none. Whatever relief the Court grants, the movement has asked that it apply to every affected party on the same terms — to the forty-four other parties as much as to us. If the ANC succeeds, two thousand and ninety-three candidates who are not ours succeed with us. That is the only kind of relief this movement would accept. Now let me speak about the Electoral Commission again. The Electoral Commission is a Chapter Nine institution of our Constitution. The African National Congress, more than any other organisation in this country, argued for it, negotiated it and built it. Through seven national elections and six local elections, the ANC has accepted every substantive result the Commission has declared — including the result of 2024, which took from this movement the majority it had held for thirty years. We accepted it on the night. We did not go to a stage and call the Commission a thief. That record is who we are, and it is not for sale in a dispute over six councils. So let me be clear about what the ANC is doing and what it is not doing. The ANC is not attacking the Electoral Commission. The ANC disagrees with the Commission on a point of law, and it has taken that disagreement to the court that Parliament created to hear it. Disagreement in a court is how a democracy respects an institution. Disagreement on a stage, with slogans, is how a democracy weakens one. The movement has chosen the court, respectfully. There are parties in this country who have used this matter to relitigate their own grievances against the Commission. The ANC will not join them, and it will not be used by them. Where the Commission is attacked for doing its work, this movement will defend it, as it has always defended it. We have a responsibility to the institutions of this state that the Commission’s other critics do not carry, and we will carry it even while we are in court against it. And there is a responsibility on all of us that goes beyond this matter. Forty-five parties used one channel and had challenges. That is a fact about the channel, whatever the Court decides about the law. After this election the ANC will go to the Party Liaison Committee and propose, for every party, that the electronic route carry a receipt; that its final step be prescribed in regulation, published in the Gazette, where every party can read it, and not only in software; and that a party be able to see the record of what the Commission holds from it. Not so that the ANC is spared next time. So that no party, large or small, ever again stands where forty-five parties stand this morning. #ANCMediaBriefing #SGMbalulaSpeaks #LGE2026VoteANC

ANC SECRETARY GENERAL | Fikile Mbalula

14,268 次观看 • 3 天前

I OPEN SOURCED NOVAMP TERMINAL THAT MADE $100K+ FOR ROBINHOOD MEMECOIN TRADERS last memecoin cycle i was buying wrong tokens a lot. six figures in profit and i still have no idea how much i left on the table buying vamped tokens instead of the original. so this cycle i built the thing that tells you, and put it on GitHub for free. i came back with literally a cheat code for robinhood memecoin traders, and i am giving the whole thing away for free. NOVAMP, now open sourced on my GitHub. repo: [ here's what happens to you after u start using it: news breaks. a name catches. sixty seconds later there are 20+ tokens carrying that ticker or that name. you read number one's timeline. you buy number seven. it goes to zero and you write "rugged" in the group chat. nobody rugged you. you bought the copy, and the copy was never going anywhere. that is not a small leak. that is where most of retail's money on this chain quietly goes, and no chart on earth will ever show it to you. so i built the thing that tells you which one is real. paste a ticker or a name. it pulls every launch fighting over it and labels each one: > ORIGINAL - first, and clean > TAINTED - first, but the operator loaded it himself > CONTESTED - not first, but smart money is here anyway > VAMP - a later copy with nothing of its own > DEAD - nothing is trading CONTESTED is the one that pays for the whole tool. first is not the same as real. when the first launch carries a fat dev buy, a stack of wallets exempt from the opening tax, and a deployer with a hundred launches and zero graduations, being first only means he got there first with the bait. the money is on number three. you would never have looked. WHAT YOU ACTUALLY GET: > before you buy one command gives you the whole cluster: who was first, how many seconds behind each copy landed, top 10 concentration with the curve and the pool excluded, dev share, how many wallets were let past the opening tax, and whether wallets with a real track record are already in. every point of the score prints its own reason next to it, so you argue with a line and not with a number. > after you buy point it at your own wallet. it tells you which of your positions are copies and puts the original right next to each one. most people find out they are holding number six. better from a terminal than from the chart at 3am. > the whole chain rank deployers by how many copies they shipped and how many other wallets share their funder. one operator running eleven addresses stops looking like eleven people. > while you sleep put a name on a watchlist, get a telegram the second somebody copies it or the cluster flips to CONTESTED. it reads the ticker AND the token name, so a copy that takes a fresh symbol and keeps the name does not slip past. it folds cyrillic lookalikes, zero width characters, leetspeak, plurals, filler words. no key. no signer. no buy button. the build literally fails if signing code ever enters the repo. free, MIT, runs on your machine and not on mine. robinhood liquidity is back and you don't have to be exit liquidity this time. leaving the full repo below. i am developing it daily, more coming.

Oracle Boar

12,486 次观看 • 2 天前

In 1950 a scientist at Bell Labs admitted, out loud, that he was envious of the geniuses in the offices around him. He was sharing an attic with Claude Shannon. So instead of resenting them, he spent the rest of his career studying exactly what separated the great ones from everyone else, and near the end of his life he laid the whole answer out in a single talk. His name was Richard Hamming. He was honest about where he started. At Los Alamos, he called himself a janitor of science, one of the people who kept things running while the important decisions happened without him. He was, in his own words, plain envious. And rather than swallow it, he turned it into a question. What actually is the difference between the first-class people and the rest of us? His first answer is uncomfortable, because it removes every excuse. It is not luck, though luck plays a part. It is not raw IQ, since plenty of the greats did not test especially well, and Einstein spent seven years in a patent office before anyone noticed him. What it comes down to, again and again, is that the able people simply work on important problems, and they work on them relentlessly, while everyone else stays busy with whatever happens to be in front of them. Then he tells the story that stays with you. For years he ate lunch with the physicists, the Nobel winners, and learned how they thought. One day he turned to a chemist at the table and asked, if what you are working on is not important, and not likely to lead to anything important, why are you working on it? The man was offended. But months later he stopped Hamming in the hallway and admitted the question had gotten under his skin. That chemist went on to run his department and join the National Academy. Of everyone else at that table, Hamming says, he never heard of a single one again. He noticed the same pattern in something as small as an office door. The people who worked with their doors closed got more done in the moment, but ten years later they no longer knew what was worth doing. The ones who left their doors open stayed connected to what actually mattered, even at the cost of constant interruption. And underneath all of it was a habit most people never build. He set aside Friday afternoons, every week, for nothing but great thoughts. No task, no email, just the question of what the important problems in his field really were, and whether he was working on any of them. He was not claiming to be the smartest man in the building. He knew he was not. That was the entire point. He watched the smartest men closely, took what he could use, and made himself into someone who did work that lasted. As he put it near the end, no one ever told him these things. He had to find them alone. You have no such excuse.

Zyron

15,886 次观看 • 1 个月前

A 15 year old American walked into a barbershop and asked the owner to google his own business. The owner laughed and said why would I google myself, I know where I am. The kid said just do it. He did. His barbershop didn't show up. Not in the AI answer at the top of Google. Not in ChatGPT when you ask for the best barbershop nearby. Not in Meta AI. Three AI systems that millions of people use to find local businesses and his shop was invisible in all of them. The kid turned his phone around and showed him what does show up. His competitor two blocks away. Worse reviews, fewer years in business. But that guy appeared in every AI recommendation because his website had the right structure. The barber stopped laughing. The kid said: I can fix this. $800. Give me one week. He learned the whole thing from Claude Code three months earlier. Asked one question: how do people find local businesses now and what's changing? Claude explained that AI systems are replacing traditional search and most local businesses aren't optimized for it because most marketers don't even know it's happening yet. Claude Code built him a tool that checks whether any business appears in AI responses across ChatGPT, Google AI Overview and Meta AI. He types in a business name and sees exactly where they're visible and where they're not. Then Claude taught him how to fix it. He walked into the barbershop with the problem and the solution already in his pocket. 8 clients at $800 each in month one. Every satisfied owner referred him to the next one. The barbershop told the dry cleaner. The dentist told the orthodontist. The car wash told the tire shop. He didn't run a single ad. $14,000 in month one. By month two he stopped walking into businesses. They were calling him. He's 15. Can't drive to his clients. His mom drops him off and waits in the car while he walks into a business with a laptop and walks out 20 minutes later with an $800 contract. She asked him last week what he actually does in there. He said I show people that they're invisible and then I make them visible. She said that sounds like a scam. He showed her his bank account. She stopped calling it a scam. Most marketers are still selling Facebook ads and SEO packages. This kid is selling something they haven't figured out exists yet. AI visibility. The new front door to every business. And he's the only one in his city with the key. He found that key by asking Claude Code one question. The answer built him a $14,000 a month business before he got his learner's permit.

Marlow

69,200 次观看 • 4 个月前

I honestly can’t get over Vinland Saga I don’t think I’ve had a show hit me as hard as this one? I’ve already seen it twice, Season 2 is legit one of the most impactful pieces of fiction ive ever watched on a personal level. I don’t think I’ve felt as emotional watching anything else in my life, Thorfinn’s redemption arc hit me so hard because its all about the idea of regret, and how despite how far you can fall, it is never too late to start over. Episode 9 when Thorfinn is crying over the people he’s hurt and apologizing to them, then having Askeladd be the one that ultimately pushes him to move forward with his life, to take on the true battle, being the one of moving on, is so BEAUTIFUL. The scene afterwards when Thorfinn makes the choice to move forward, to make up for his mistakes and start a new life made me genuinely cry so much, as its the first time he ever hallucinates his father in a peaceful way, the first time he made Thors proud. All that leads to Ep22 when Thorfinn finally understands what his father told him all those years ago, Aleks Le’s voice acting here is incredible as he finally says what his father tried to teach him so long ago: “I have no enemies.”. I think its not a swear of pacifism but more the idea that violence is no longer the first measure, that there must be a better path than that and Thorfinn will always try that now first. I really hope Vinland Saga Season 3 happens one day, this was such an incredible anime and just an AMAZING story that has had a deep impact on me and my own mindset. I adored it.

Synth Potato🥔

60,184 次观看 • 4 个月前

The cold is British. They just never told you. ❄️🇬🇧 Every air conditioner, every fridge, every freezer on earth, the cold inside all of it was first made by a Scotsman. In 1756. ❄️🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 His name was William Cullen, a doctor in Edinburgh. In a warm room, with no ice and no winter, he drew the air from a glass of ether until it boiled cold and drank the heat from the water around it, until the water froze. No one had ever done it before. Then he wrote it down and walked away. No machine, no patent, no fortune. Just the proof, on a bench. It sat there the better part of a century. A British bench built the first machine that worked, and a Scot carried it across the world to Australia, where it froze meat and cooled beer. But cold was only half the story. ❄️📖 To master the air itself took another Scot. When the Houses of Parliament burned down in 1834, David Boswell Reid made the new building breathe, its gothic spires its lungs. At St George's Hall in Liverpool in 1851 he built what is often called the first air-conditioned building on earth. It should have made him. He died forgotten in America instead. 40 years on, Willis Carrier built the machine and earned his name as the father of modern air conditioning. He earned every bit of it. But he did not make the cold. The cold was British. America took that inheritance and cooled the world with it, and that is no theft. That is what an inheritance is for. We are the home of British heroes. Not built by ads, not by the government, built by us. There's a place for you with us. Be part of us. ☝️🇬🇧 Be Proud Of Us. 🙏🇬🇧

Proudofus.uk

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NIGERIANS, THIS TINUBU CHICAGO CASE JUST TOOK A NEW TURN. 👀 Take your mind off the FBI filing for a moment. Focus on this VIDEO evidence. What makes this video particularly interesting is who is speaking. Von Batten-Montague-York, L.C. has just released another update on the Tinubu Chicago case. But unlike everything we’ve seen so far… This one isn’t a court document - it’s a video. Recorded at an APC political event in Nigeria. With President Tinubu present. And in that video, a man identified as Adewale Tinubu - reportedly President Tinubu’s nephew - publicly discusses the Chicago case. Now listen carefully to what he says. He reportedly states: “I did that case in Chicago. It was one of my first legal matters.” He then describes personally urging President Tinubu to settle the case. Interesting, right? But here is where things get VERY interesting. The official court record for that Chicago case identifies Patrick S. Coffey, Esq. as the attorney representing Tinubu. Not Adewale Tinubu. There is no court appearance under Adewale Tinubu’s name. No pleading bearing his name. No signature. No filing identifying him as counsel. At least, not in the official court record identified in this filing. So we have a very simple question: Why does a man publicly describe himself as having “done” the Chicago case when the official court record does not identify him as Tinubu’s attorney in that proceeding? There may be an explanation. Perhaps he was involved in some capacity that did not require appearing as counsel of record. Perhaps “I did that case” was being used loosely. Or perhaps there is something else we don’t yet know. That is precisely why this needs to be clarified. And this matters because of what is happening in the FBI FOIA case. Remember the last post I made on this case? Von Batten argued that Tinubu’s privacy position is weakened by the fact that the Nigerian Presidency itself publicly discussed the FBI records and the court case. Now there is another piece of public material. A VIDEO. At an APC political event. With Tinubu present. And his own reported nephew publicly discussing the Chicago case. So the question of privacy becomes even more interesting. Tinubu is asking a US federal court to protect records as private. Yet people within his own political and family circle are publicly discussing matters connected to the case. Can you claim something is private in court while people close to you are publicly discussing it? That is now an issue the court can potentially consider. And Von Batten is not simply posting the video on social media. He is seeking to put the video transcript before the court as part of his supplemental evidentiary exhibits. If the court accepts the filing, the judge will have before her: ➡️ The FBI’s confirmation of 399 pages of responsive records ➡️ Investigative material involving surveillance, undercover operations, cooperating witnesses and other matters ➡️ Wiretap recordings the FBI says were compiled during an investigation involving heroin-trafficking crimes ➡️ Von Batten’s argument concerning the Nigerian Presidency’s public statement ➡️ And now, a video in which Tinubu’s reported nephew publicly discusses the Chicago case Think about that. This case has moved from: “What does the FBI have?” to: “What does the FBI have - and what have people connected to Tinubu publicly said about it?” And there is one question I really want answered: If Adewale Tinubu was involved in that Chicago case, in what capacity was he involved? Because the official court record identified in the filing does not show him as counsel of record. That discrepancy deserves an explanation. And if the video is being presented to a US federal court as evidence, the court can decide what weight, if any, to give it. We don’t need to speculate. We need to look at the documents. Watch the video. Read the transcript. Check the court record. And ask the questions. We deserve the truth.

Oluwakemi Oyefeso

74,252 次观看 • 4 天前

🐤: When I asked, "What is my name?", they told me, "Leeteuk." I cried immediately. "Leeteuk"? Not even "E.T."... what kind of name is "Leeteuk"? I really cried a lot. I said, "I won't debut, I can't promote and work under the name Leeteuk." At that time, the members teased me so much: "Isn't it E.T.? E.T." I think Yesung teased me the most, I still remember. He said, "Woah! Hyung, what are you going to do? What are you going to do?" while my tears were falling... I said, "Ah, I really can't do this, what is Leeteuk? What is E.T.?" However, since a dinner meeting was already scheduled, I decided to ask to change the name during that dinner. I sat next to Teacher Lee Soo-man. It was while we were eating grilled tripe (yangdaechang) or something like that... I don't remember the exact name of the restaurant, but I remember its location clearly. When we met and started eating, I wanted to take the chance and said, "Teacher, but... isn't Leeteuk..." At that time, I had a few names that I brought with me, as my mother had gone to naming centers and brought me several options. Among them was the name "Sehyun", "Sehyun-i", and there was a name starting with "Ye...", about three names in total. I asked him, "What do you think of names like these?" He said, "No, Leeteuk. Isn't the name Leeteuk so great?" So I asked him, "What meaning does the name Leeteuk carry for it to be this nice?" He replied, "Hey! Kangta was like that, Junjin was like that, and Hyesung was like that... Aren't their names so cool? Didn't they love their names when I named them? They liked them very much. And you will like it too, right? Don't you like it?" I told him, "Yes, but... don't you think the name Leeteuk or E.T. sounds a bit heavy or sharp to pronounce? Will it be suitable?" He said, "No, it's a great name. It means (the special kid in this world). Leeteuk... isn't it great? The special kid in this world. This name carries a very beautiful meaning. You are going to become a special person in this world. Your seniors (sunbaes) loved the names I chose for them, and you will like yours too, right?" So I answered, "Yes..." Then I went back to the dorm that day, and I think it was Yesung - according to my memory it was Yesung - who asked me, "Hyung, what happened?" I told him, "It's over... I couldn't change it." When the teacher asks you, "Isn't it pretty? Your seniors loved it so much, and you will like it too, right?"... who could say to his face, "I hate it so much, I can't do it"? He put me in a situation where I had no choice but to agree. As long as he said my seniors loved it and I would like it too, I had no choice but to say, "Ah... yes, it's really great." And because of that, even though it's a stage name, I have been working and promoting under this name for 21 consecutive years. But what I like about it is that I have my real name, and whenever I need to write my name somewhere I can use my real name, so I think that's a good thing.

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53,317 次观看 • 1 个月前

I've become a missionary with one message. Every time I meet a young person, the same words: have children, get married, build a family. I did not decide on this calling. It overtook me. And it overtook me for a single reason. I had no idea. I genuinely did not understand how much joy, how much meaning, how much sheer beauty pours out of a child until I was holding one of my own and felt the floor of my life drop into something deeper than I knew was there. I grew up white, affluent, secular, comfortable, and insulated. That world does not put babies in front of you. None of my friends were starting families. Out of my whole circle, almost no one has a big one. We were not formed by the presence of children. We were formed by their absence, by the strange quiet of homes built for two careers and no cradle. And a person believes what his world shows him. So we believed. What we believed was a lie. It is a lie with an author, and that the author is the enemy of joy himself. It is the gospel of the world, and its commandment is wait. Wait until you are older. Wait until the career is built and the savings are stacked and the twenties are properly spent. Enjoy your freedom. You are not ready. It does not arrive sounding like temptation. It arrives sounding like wisdom, like prudence, like the responsible thing, and that is exactly why it works. The most effective lies are the ones that wear the face of virtue. And the maddening thing is that it collapses from every angle at once. It is not rooted in biology, because the body is made for this work precisely in the years we are told to postpone it. The flesh keeps a calendar the culture pretends not to see. And it is not rooted in theology either. You will not find this deferral anywhere in the Christian imagination, in any of the fathers, in any of the scriptures. So choose whatever lens you like. Take the cold secular measure or the ancient sacred one. By either light the counsel is rotten. It is bad for the body and bad for the soul and bad for the society downstream of both. This is why I have come to see it as one of the central tragedies of my generation. Every age carries its own wound. The Great Depression was a depression of bread, a scarcity in the world of matter, hunger you could measure. Ours is a depression of a different order. It is a famine of the spirit in the middle of abundance. We have more than any people who ever lived and we are starving in a way our ancestors would not recognize, because the thing we are refusing cannot be bought and cannot be banked. The ones most made to give and receive this love are quietly declining it. They are walking away from the one inheritance that actually compounds, and the cruelest part is that they do not feel the loss as loss. You cannot grieve what you were taught not to want. That is the deepest cut of it. The lie does not only steal the thing. It steals the capacity to know the thing was stolen. A man can spend his whole life on the far side of a door he never knew was a door, mistaking the wall for the edge of the world. Because this beauty is not ordinary beauty. It is not the pleasure of a good meal or a clear morning. It is participation in something that comes down from above, the same generative love that spoke everything out of nothing and called it good. To make a person, to be undone and remade by loving that person more than your own life, is to be drawn for a moment inside the very act that holds the cosmos together. A child does not merely add to your life. A child reorders the soul. It teaches you what you are by asking everything of you, and you discover, kneeling there exhausted at three in the morning, that you had a capacity for self gift you never suspected, a depth in yourself you had no other way to reach. In the Gospel of John, on the last night, Jesus prays, these things I have spoken to you that my joy may be in you, and that your joy may be complete. And I have come to understand why family is the road into that fullness, why it is not one path among many but the one most fitted to the shape of the promise. Consider who is praying. Christ does not come to us as a lone figure dropped out of the sky. He comes out of a family older than the world, the eternal communion of Father and Son, the love between them so total and so alive that theologians dared to call it a third person. Before there was anything, there was a family. The deepest fact about reality is not a force or a law or a void. It is a household. It is begetting and being begotten, giving and receiving, a Father who is only a Father because there is a Son. So when Jesus speaks of joy made complete, he is not pointing away from family toward something higher. He is pointing toward the very thing he came from, the life he has known from eternity and came to share. His joy is the joy of belonging utterly to a Father and pouring himself out for those he loves. When you marry, when you bring a child into the world, when you wear yourself down in the small unseen labors of a home, you are not stepping outside that divine life. You are stepping into a small image of it. Your family is a created echo of an uncreated one. The love you give your child rhymes with the love the Father has for the Son. The exhaustion, the tenderness, the way a parent would tear the sky open to protect a sleeping infant, all of it is the heavens pressed faintly into flesh, the eternal household leaving its fingerprint on yours. That is why the joy is not merely added to family but completed in it. We were made in the image of a God who is, at his very root, relation and gift and generation. To found a family is to do the most Godlike thing a creature can do, to participate from below in the begetting that God does from all eternity. Your home becomes a window. Through it, dimly and imperfectly, you glimpse the country you came from and are going to. And now a word for the young people reading this, the ones who do not yet have children. I want to tell you what it is like from where I stand. When I am out somewhere, a restaurant, anywhere, and a large family comes through the door, the noise and the chaos and the small bodies of them, something happens in me on two levels at once. The first is joy. A pure gladness at the sight, the way you feel watching something good and alive. But underneath it, almost in the same instant, a sadness reaches up and takes hold of my heart. Because I know now, at my age, after my own years of waiting, that I will never have that. I will never know the particular fruit of a family that large, the fullness of that table, the weight of all those lives gathered under one roof. The door to it has quietly closed, and I felt it close. And I am telling you plainly, because I love you and have no reason to lie to you: you will feel this too. You will. The day will come when you see what you passed up, and you will recognize the ache for what it is, and it will be too late to answer it. So please, learn from a man who got it wrong. Let my regret be worth something by becoming your wisdom. Do not wait yourself into a grief you cannot undo. Choose now, while the door is open, so that you may step into a joy that does not end.

Kirk Rollins

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RFK Jr. was previously asked about how it felt to be condemned by his own family. He told a story about how his father gave him a book just two weeks before he died. RFK said he read the book multiple times, trying to figure out what lesson his dad wanted to give him. Here is what he said: "Camus had written this book called The Plague. My father gave it to me and he told me, with this kind of peculiar intensity, 'I want you to read this'." "He said this with this directness that after he died, I ended up reading that book about three times, trying to figure out kind of what the message was that he was trying to give me." Breakdown of the book: - "The Plague" is set in a North African city hit by an unprecedented plague. - The city is quarantined, and the story begins with a focus on the doctor's internal conflict. - The doctor initially considers not helping because there is no treatment the unknown disease. - Despite the risks, the doctor decides to comfort and serve the people. - Camus, an existentialist, draws from Stoicism, focusing on duty and service. - The doctor's actions bring order to the chaos, reflecting Stoic philosophy. - RFK then discussed Sisyphus, a figure in Stoicism, who is happy despite his eternal, futile task. - Sisyphus's happiness comes from fulfilling his duty (protecting people from a rolling stone), regardless of the outcome. "For eternity [he] pushes a rock up a hill. He can never get it over the top. It always rolls back down and on top of him. And then he goes up and does it again," RFK said. "Sisyphus is a happy man because he put his shoulder to the stone. He was given a duty and he does his duty. And that self-sacrifice that he makes, brings order to a chaotic universe." "So for me to have kind of a concrete task that I know is right, and I'm open to criticism, I have a critical mind. If somebody shows me where I got it wrong, I'll change. I'm not dug in, I'm not hardheaded in that sense." "But until somebody shows me that I'm gonna try to help these children and, you know, and I feel like it's a gift. So, and the more people that abuse me, the bigger the gift is in some way." Video: Liam McCollum

Collin Rugg

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