🌍 A representative map of Africa prior to the “Scramble For Africa” in 1885. Independent African entities ranged from large empires to smaller chiefdoms/kingdoms, a couple thousands of them

🗺️ It gets the job done to give us an idea of what the borders roughly looked like but theyre obviously not fully accurate as borders in Africa have always been remarkably blurry, especially in deserts and dense jungles, since these usually lack visible landmarks. Our clever readers know that rivers are the ideal border demarcation tool and remain unbeaten since the dawn of history

🇹🇷 Can’t tell for certain how the lines on this map were decided, but i can tell you for certain that the southern borders of Ottoman Libya look that way to include oasis and small desert settlements present alongside major trading routs that lead to Ottoman areas from areas south of the Sahara, as some mappers assume those were under constant ottoman control.

BREAKING:

Adelita Grijalva wins Arizona’s 7th district special election 📝

While it was no surprise that a Democrat would win this deep blue district, the increase in signatures for the discharge petition for the Epstein files from 217 to 218 allows the petition to pass through the House of Representatives.

Where republicans in the Senate are likely to block it and say there's nothing to see here 👀

This also brings the total number of representatives in the house to:

🔴 Republicans: 219
❄️Democrats: 214
🥲 Vacancies: 2

(R-TN) Mark Green (resigned)🚪

(D-TX) Sylvester Turner (Died 03/05/2025)💀

I love this rom com 💋

➕ 7 injuries including 1 in critical condition

Hehe who did I piss off here 😘

Meanwhile the great JD Vance posted this on his official Twitter account

This guy is really weirding me out I don’t know how much longer I can take this 🙅‍♂️