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keefe murren

@keefemurren.bsky.social
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Storytelling strategy 🎥, narrative power, resource mobilization, and program design primarily with displaced and immigrant youth in the US and East Africa. Also ⚽️ Formerly FilmAid, UNICEF, SundanceTV, HRW. Always Barça

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keefe murren @keefemurren.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Karl Marx's utopian fantasy was ahead of its time: "[AI makes it] possible for me to do one thing today and another tomorrow, to hunt in the morning, fish in the afternoon, rear cattle in the evening, criticise after dinner... without ever becoming hunter, fisherman, herdsman or critic."
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keefe murren @keefemurren.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
"False and dehumanizing claims about Somalis spread rapidly... Millions of people hear about Somali Americans every day, yet relatively little reporting captures the full range of who we are, how we live, and what our communities experience." - Mukhtar M. Ibrahim, founder The Somali Brief
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keefe murren @keefemurren.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
You have to renew your Medicaid insurance every year. Also, I doubt this guy has used every room in his mansions in Ireland, Turkey, NJ and Florida. We should just start removing rooms until he notices that he doesn't have a house anymore.
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keefe murren @keefemurren.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
We can start using Office of Remigration headshots as mug shots now since sending someone to a place where they might be tortured is outlawed in the Immigration and Nationality Act (8 C.F.R. §§ 208.16–208.18), which incorporates the Convention Against Torture (CAT) into US Law...
Christian Ehrhardt leads the Office of Remigration, a division of about 15 employees at the State Department.
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keefe murren @keefemurren.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Turns out my mental health can be treated with a strong dose of income. So my doctor gave me a script to take to the bank. Guess now all I gotta do is slip a note to a bank teller...
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Alvaro M. Bedoya @bedoyausa.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Today, billionaires yet again bribed, censored, and bullied their way to the top. As a result, a billionaire media company closely allied with the president will soon own one of its closest rivals, including some of the nation’s critical news outlets. Saudi Arabia will co-own those outlets, too.
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keefe murren @keefemurren.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Jack Johnson used to hold up his opponents so they wouldn't call the fight before a full reel of film was shot. The majority of the payout came from distributing the film of the fight. Too short, then no distros take it. He's got a distinctly American content creator boxer story. This guy doesn't.
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keefe murren @keefemurren.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
This seems like a clear argument against media consolidation. There's a ready audience. The media will devour it, but it might make a few powerful men unhappy. Will another streamer take it? Or do we just get more Melania movies from the big guys for the next 2 years...
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keefe murren @keefemurren.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
So instead of making $32 trillion in GDP each year, we'd make $1.5 trillion? I think that's what he's saying...
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keefe murren @keefemurren.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
A young woman I work with just got invited to a 3-day Peace and the Arts event. They only gave her 2 weeks notice to get a visa. When she reminded them she's a refugee, they said oops sorry, never mind. She's in tears, I'm livid. And can only think of this “hope him to death, and keep him running”🤬
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keefe murren @keefemurren.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
"no matter how loudly I confessed who I am I was told I am only what they imagine me to be—not American, not American enough. For years I held onto a faith in others, in their willingness to wake up, to change, to be truly free. For years I existed only in the haunted ugliness of their imaginations"
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Lina Srivastava @linasrivastava.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
25 years ago today, Balbir Singh Sodhi was murdered in the first act of post-9/11 hate. That crisis was met with collective action by AMEMSA communities, a model of care that we honor in "An Imprint Left in the Dust," the third volume of our political hope zine series: tinyurl.com/politicalhope3
Title page of the third volume of the Political Hope zine series, "An Imprint Left in the Dust: Reflections on the Past 25 Years" from the Center for Transformational ChangeDetail from the zine: Photo of a Peace Pole, a mini wooden obelisk, with the words "May Peace Prevail on Earth" in English and Hindi
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keefe murren @keefemurren.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
These kids are alright.
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keefe murren @keefemurren.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
Small Plate Socialism
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keefe murren @keefemurren.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
World Bank to the developing world: Trust us, we promise! Even tho: "definitive evidence that AI is accelerating economic growth, generating more and better jobs, and improving service delivery at scale—the outcomes that shape people’s daily lives—is hard to find." www.worldbank.org/en/publicati...
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WDR 2026: The Promise of Artificial Intelligence
The World Development Report 2026 explores how artificial intelligence is reshaping development as a general‑purpose technology.
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keefe murren @keefemurren.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
The only way this type of movie can work is if they take Lucas' approach and tell the Beatles story from R2D2's point of view.
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keefe murren @keefemurren.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
🧵 We all need to seek new ways to be misunderstood: “The more static, standardized, and uniform a population or social space is, the more legible it is, and the more amenable it is to the techniques of state officials....
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keefe murren @keefemurren.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
"How many more life-changing mistakes will be made? What other decisions will AI make for the country? And how many more of our tax dollars will be spent on technologies that make the US government dependent on Silicon Valley without regulation to protect us?"
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keefe murren @keefemurren.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
Something I learned today. Members of the O'Keefe Clan claim to be decended from Clíodhna, aka Queen of the Banshees of the Tuatha Dé Danann (the divine tribe). So I got that going for me, which is nice.
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keefe murren @keefemurren.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
In 1981 Mobutu changed the citizenship laws to deny citizenship to people of Rwandan decent. That move is still playing out today in Rwanda-backed M23's occupation of Eastern Congo. Doing this always bring violence or must be done using violence. Awful. But thankfully unconstitutional.
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keefe murren @keefemurren.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
"I am thinking about how people often talk about the steadfastness of our people like they are superhuman, how unintentionally dehumanizing this is. People speak like this, I think, to comfort themselves; if someone’s doing more... maybe it is okay for the rest of us to do less."
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keefe murren @keefemurren.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
NYC has subsidized private grocery stores with millions of tax payer dollars per year since 2009. We also subsidize food pantries. But if we subsidize the rent for 5 grocery stores run by private operators, that's communism? Get serious. edc.nyc/program/food...
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Food Retail Expansion to Support Health (FRESH) | NYCEDC
Access to affordable, quality food is critical to building strong neighborhoods. The Food Retail Expansion to Support Health (FRESH) program brings he
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keefe murren @keefemurren.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
I think this captures the design aesthetic pretty succinctly: "Now open even wider Mr. Stevens. Just out of curiosity, we're going try to see if we can cram in this tennis ball."
Far Side comic panel depicting a dentist and his assistant. In the dentist's chair is a man, Mr. Stevens. He has tubes and other implements sticking out of his open mouth. The dentist holds a tennis ball and says, "Now open even wider Mr. Stevens. Just out of curiosity, we're going to see if we can also cram in this tennis ball"
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keefe murren @keefemurren.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
This would be incredible.
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keefe murren @keefemurren.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
His whole approach to the world is tilting at windmills - misperceiving his opposition, misjudging his own abilities, misapplying concepts. Ironically, he's doing it here, but for actual windmills.
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keefe murren @keefemurren.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
"The United States has signed the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child (UNCRC); however, it remains the only United Nations member state to have not ratified it after Somalia ratified it in 2015." - Wikipedia.
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keefe murren @keefemurren.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
everyone deserves a performance bonus for just being alive these days. And then a vacation so they can take a break from being alive in the ways that are demanded of us all right now.
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keefe murren @keefemurren.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
FIFA is working with the FBI to track down these haters and losers who said mean things about water breaks, ticket prices, and peace prizes. Infantino added, it's not the fans job to ruin the game, that's why we have FIFA.
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keefe murren @keefemurren.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
The education minister and longtime ally of Modi called Indian students cockroaches for complaining about a cancelled exam. Then Abhijeet Dipke posted a simple question on the social media platform X: “What if all cockroaches came together?” and the CJB was born. www.nytimes.com/2026/07/26/w...
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The Accidental Hero Who Faced Down India’s Government (Gift Article)
Abhijeet Dipke founded the Cockroach Janta Party as a joke after a judge insulted young people. The idea snowballed into a generational movement that has challenged the country’s leaders.
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keefe murren @keefemurren.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
Penn Station will be Brunson Burner Station I'll be taking no questions.
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Timothy Burke @bubbaprog.xyz · 23/07/2026
Buglarian correspondent Ivo Ivanov, who happens to live in Lawrence, reveals his favorite moment of the World Cup to Bulgarian TV viewers. Watch this if you need a reminder about what, or actually who, really constitutes the United States of America. (auto-transcribed & translated as usual)
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keefe murren @keefemurren.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
Watching a webinar from The New Humanitarian (@tnh-j26.bsky.social) about refugee representation and storytelling featuring Khaleda Popal, an Afghan soccer player and brilliant communicator. Her advocacy is so powerful. Can't wait to read her book.
In August 2021, Kabul fell under the control of the Taliban, a militant political and fundamentalist religious faction. For Khalida Popal, it signaled the beginning of the most important battle of an already extraordinary young life—to get female soccer players out of a city where they faced imminent threat of execution simply for playing sports.

Khalida first began playing soccer in a refugee camp in Pakistan after her parents fled Taliban rule.

My Beautiful Sisters is a gripping, important memoir, and a compulsively readable one—a harrowing yet ultimately heartening story of survival and sisterhood.
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Sahan Journal @sahanjournal.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
The Immigrant Kitchen dinner series, forced to pause during Operation Metro Surge, returns tonight with a sold-out meal in south Minneapolis. By Sara Hussein
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Immigrant Kitchen relaunches dinners after pause during ICE crackdown
The Immigrant Kitchen dinner series, forced to pause during Operation Metro Surge, returns tonight with a sold-out meal in south Minneapolis.
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keefe murren @keefemurren.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
Anyone want to help Mr. Beast white wash his character? LinkedIn seems to think I would...
LinkedIn Job posting that reads Senior Manager, External Communications and Social Reputation. MrBeast, New York, NY (Hybrid) $135k-180k/year
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keefe murren @keefemurren.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
I saw no WC26 games because $$$, but 16yr me was there for this. The memory is still a thrill. great essay. "when Italy went down a man and a goal against Nigeria in the round of 16, Baggio netted the equalizer in the 88th minute and then the winner from a perfectly executed penalty in extra time"
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keefe murren @keefemurren.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
How can I pick? I like the baby and the baptist. Check out the article I wrote with @linasrivastava.bsky.social about the politics of picking a side.
Baby Lamine being baptized by the Son of El D10S, Lionel Messi.
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keefe murren @keefemurren.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
Wrote a piece about the politics of picking a side in Sunday's World Cup Final with my colleague @linasrivastava.bsky.social linasrivastava.medium.com/the-politics...
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The Politics of Picking a Side
WC2026 | Can we enjoy a beautiful final in an era of ugly politics?
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keefe murren @keefemurren.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
This is great -- The World Cup, Argentina Hate & More from @franifio.bsky.social and author/guest Joey D-Urso, who's so thoughtful and informed. 🙏 www.youtube.com/watch?v=F2wl...
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The World Cup, Argentina Hate & More feat. Joey D'Urso & Wajahat Ali
YouTube video by The Bitchuation Room (with Francesca Fiorentini)
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keefe murren @keefemurren.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
A really good piece pulling together, and apart, all the political implications of Messi's apolitical brand.
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keefe murren @keefemurren.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
Ecce Simia. Just sayin' that monkey might be Jesus...
In 2012, an 82-year-old widow and amateur painter, attempted to restore Ecce Homo, an almost century-old fresco of Jesus crowned with thorns in her local church in Borja, Spain.
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keefe murren @keefemurren.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
When we were savage, fierce and wild She came like a mother to her child ... Now Irishmen, forget the past! And think of the time that's coming fast When we shall all be civilized Neat and clean and well-advised And won't Mother England be surprised? www.youtube.com/watch?v=nDEZ...
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Whack Fol the Diddle
YouTube video by The Clancy Brothers - Topic
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keefe murren @keefemurren.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
Let's go baby! #Spain
Keyne Lamal cheering for his bother Lamine by sticking his tongue out in the stands during a Spain match at the World Cup 2026
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keefe murren @keefemurren.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
Unofficial World Cup Anthem. About creating community across cultures. Featuring Yo-Yo Ma. Entirely written and produced by young refugees in Kenya. Please share. www.youtube.com/watch?v=uhCe...
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Exile Key, Yo-Yo Ma - Yelele Mama (Official Video)
YouTube video by ExileKeyVEVO
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Connect with Jacob Soboroff @connectwithjacob.bsky.social · 11/07/2026
Ronaldo Salgado, the oldest son of Lorenzo Salgado Araujo, the Mexican immigrant who was shot and killed by ICE during a traffic stop in Houston on Tuesday, speaks out. Salgado Araujo, who lived in the U.S. for 35 years, was on his way to work before he was killed, according to his son.
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keefe murren @keefemurren.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
This thing just got an OBE.
fly by wire camera similar to the one that provided the assist for England's second goal.
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CJ Fogler @cjzero.bsky.social · 11/07/2026
Andreas Schjelderup with a banger, 1-0 Norway ARE YOU NOT ENTERTAINED
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keefe murren @keefemurren.bsky.social · 11/07/2026
Norway have beaten Scotland, Ireland a wee tit in the west of Wales, but never England. Today is the day!
map of Viking Homelands and Settlments. Norwegian settlements were in southern Ireland, West coast of Scotland and the far west coast of Wales. The Danish settled England.
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keefe murren @keefemurren.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
The Truths We Hold -- a zine from collecting reflections of artists, writers, activists about political hope. My friend Mohamed who has lived in a refugee camp for >20 years wrote a beautiful poem with this killer line: freedom begins in imagination, long before it arrives in law. Please share.
The Truths We Hold 
My teacher once told me,
that the truth was legible,
written in declarations,
engraved in constitutions,
spoken beneath flags that dance freely in the wind.
 
In kakuma refugee camp,
I learned the truth from mothers
who divide one meal into many hopes,
from fathers whose tired hands
build a tomorrow from almost nothing.

At night when the generators die
and darkness becomes honest,
the camp does not sleep. It whispers,
with thousands of unbreakable murmurs.
 
We hold the truth,
that freedom begins in imagination,
long before it arrives in law.
The truth we hold are whispers in our wind,
and in the night where faces are lit like enemies of fire.

Mohamed Kiiza Minani, writer, filmmaker
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keefe murren @keefemurren.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
My record collector friend made a playlist of 47 tracks, on for each country in the World Cup. He's a doc filmmaker who has been all over the world. These track are not "Greatest Hits" songs from the countries, but interesting choices. it's full of bangers. Enjoy music.apple.com/us/playlist/...
Track 1 - Corre Riba, Corre Baxo. Abel Lima - Cabo Verde 
Track 2 - Ufikile Unyaka Omusha. Usizwe Namatshitshi - South Africa
Track 3 - Caramelos. Los Amaya — Spain
Track 4 - Tanovar. Turgun Alimatov — Uzbekistan 
Track 5 - The Path (Sorito Edit). Concept Neuf — Canada (québécois)
Track 6 - Cheka Sana. Verckys & L'Orchestre Veve — DR Congo
Track 7 - Leavin’. Misty (Tickets For Doomsday: Heavy Psychedelic Funk And Soul, Ballads & Dirges 1970-1975) - Egypt
Track 8 - Bsslama Hbibti. Fadoul (Habibi Funk: An Eclectic Selection of Music from the Arab World (Habibi Funk 007) — Morocco 
Track 9 - Tiro Al Blanco. Javier Garcia/Afrosound (Cumbiateca Discos Fuentes) - Spain, Ireland, US (??) 
Track 10 - La Gran Orquesta de Curaçao - Hijo Del Sonero. Dj fola — Nigeria (didn’t qualify!) 
Track 11 - Didi. Khaled Hadj Brahim — Algeria
Track 12 - Jet Biguine. Les Loups Noirs D'Haiti (Afro Tropical Soundz, Vol. 1) - Haiti 
Track 13 - Spread Silk On My Heart. Sanullim — South Korea 
Track 14 - Black Sally. The Human Instinct — New Zealand
Track 15 - Kakurenbo. Happy End (Ohtaki Eiichi) — Japan
Track 16 - Underground: Čoček. Goran Bregović — Bosnia
Track 17 - Keleya. Moussa Doumbia — Ivory Coast
Track 18 - Term 17 (Trilby Temperley Remix). The Awakenings Ensemble — Australia
Track 19 - Balek. Placebo — Colombia
Track 20 - Fredereek Hernando. One In A Million (C’mon! C’mon! Vol. 4) — Scotland
Track 21 - Something on My Mind. Titanic (Roy Robinson, Asperud & Loseth) - Norway
Track 22 - La Macarena Ecuatoriana (Transporte). Galo Chiliquinga - Ecuador
Track 23 - Yaylalar. Selda Bağcan — Turkiye
Track 24 - Black Iris. Sven Wunder — Sweden
Track 25 - Nas Paredes da Pedra Encantada. Lula Côrtes & Zé Ramalho — Brazil
Track 26 - Make It Fast, Make It Slow. Rob Raindorf — Ghana
Track 27 - Entezar. Kourosh Yaghmaei — Iran
Track 28 - Dreams (feat. Los Hermanos Duncan). The Duncan Bros — USA (ATL) 
Track 29 - Shikako Maru Ten. Can — Germany
Track 30 - Utrus Horas. Orchestra Baobab — Senegal
Track 31 - Le Lis. Maranata — USA (?) 
Track 32 - Espíritu Fosforescente (Glowing Spirit). Jodi (Pops De Vanguardia) - Paraguay
Track 33 - Save My Soul. Wimple Winch — England
Track 34 - Rám Příštích Obrazů. Flamengo (Kuře V Hodinkách) — Czech Republic
Track 35 - Soul Brother. Dalton (Alech / Soul Brother (Habibi Funk 001) - Single) - Tunisia 
Track 36 - Nostalgija. Grupa 220 — Croatia 
Track 37 - João Nada. Quarteto 1111 — Portugal
Track 38 - The Life I Live. Q65 — Netherlands
Track 39 - El Mar (2023 Remastered Version). NUEVO MEXICO — Mexico 
Track 40 - Al Ethnana Ahsan Men Al Wahid. Seta Hagopian — Iraq
Track 41 - Hypodermic Needle. Novaks Kapelle — Austria
Track 42 - Rakset El Fadaa. Omar Khorshid — Egypt
Track 43 - Al-Yadi (Instrumental). Aqaba Marine Ensemble For Folk Arts - Jordan
Track 44 - Ambiance Vikings. Les vikings de la Guadeloupe - Curacao (?) 
Track 45 - The Way Things Are. Blue — Scotland
Track 46 - Sucio y Desprolijo. Pappo's Blues — Argentina 
Track 47 - Kutjupa Tjuta. Keanu Nelson — Austrailia
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keefe murren @keefemurren.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
Come on baby!! #spain
Messi bathing Lamine yamal as a baby
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