Bernedette Muthien

Northern Cape work and beauty

Awe

This Northern Cape
Will strip you
To your marrow
And leave you naked
And shiny
Before your god

3 Sept 2025

There must be something strangely sacred in salt. It is in our tears and in the sea.
Khalil Gibran

Norway wealth fund sells Caterpillar stake over Israel allegations World’s largest wealth fund says it has excluded bulldozer maker and five Israeli banking groups on ethics grounds

Norway wealth fund sells Caterpillar stake over Israel allegations

World’s largest wealth fund says it has excluded bulldozer maker and five Israeli banking groups on ethics grounds

www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...

Respiro (2024) by Anna Madia.
Oil on MDF.

UK has got ‘fat’ on decades of free labour by women, says MP Jess Phillips Minister points to ‘sexist’ practice of country relying on women to provide services so government did not have to

“It comes from a fundamentally sexist place in that women didn’t have these services, so a load of women across the country got together and made these services and offered them to other women for free, and they didn’t get paid for their labour." www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

UK has got ‘fat’ on decades of free labour by women, says MP Jess Phillips Minister points to ‘sexist’ practice of country relying on women to provide services so government did not have to

Women's unpaid labour to care for society when government should provide and pay for these services.

www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

What is Dudula? Who is behind it? Who leads and funds it?
Thanks for info.

Operation Dudula has brought fascism to South Africa Dudula is not a response to the actual nature of our crisis; it's a diversion from it, writes Imraan Buccus.

🔒 Operation Dudula has brought fascism to South Africa. Dudula spreads conspiracy theories and tries to stoke moral panic to justify its actions. www.timeslive.co.za/sunday-times...

@rosie.com I too grew up in NYC and agree with every word you just said.

[INAUGURATION] Emergency Conference of States to Halt Israel’s Genocide in Gaza YouTube video by Progressive International

Link: www.youtube.com/live/BfZXQK0...

Livestream Hague Group meeting, chaired by SA and Colombia, about interventions to stop genocide in Palestine. From Colombia.

Boxing is not a sport.
It is institutionalised violence.

#boxing #sport #violence

Happy Bastille Day

Boxing is not a sport.
It is institutionalised violence.

#boxing #sport #violence

“What is the UK doing to prevent acts of genocide?”
~Francesca Albanese @FranceskAlbs

MiddleEastEye

Oof that’s fascist.

Growing up in a low-income family: Children's experiences | Children's Commissioner for England This report should not have to exist. Shining a light on children’s experiences of poverty in 2025, in one of the wealthiest countries in the world,

Last week, Children's Commissioner Rachel Da Souza released a report on child poverty in England. There were a few stories in the press, but I've yet to see a deep dive from any of the 'news' organisations supposedly holding government to account. 🧵
www.childrenscommissioner.gov.uk/resource/gro...

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‘Such good English’: Liberians confused, angry at Trump comments to Boakai US president appeared surprised by his counterpart’s ‘beautiful English’, despite it being Liberia’s national language.

There's an irony here: President Boakai is having to pretend he doesn't understand what Trump said rather than admit Trump's embarrassing, insulting ignorance.
www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/7/...

Trump to President of Liberia: Such good English. Where did you learn to speak so beautifully?

English is the official language of Liberia.

"phenotypic plasticity: the capacity for organisms to produce different outcomes from the same genes, depending on their environment. These outcomes, called phenotypes, can include stress sensitivity and body shape."

UN report lists companies complicit in Israel’s ‘genocide’: Who are they? UN Special Rapporteur Francesca Albanese has named several US giants among the companies aiding Israel.

The Economy of Genocide - Albanese names the corporations profiting in Gaza

aje.io/1hxnz0

If Israel had no military or financial support from the U.S., there would be no crisis in the Middle East because Israel would be politely getting on with its neighbours knowing full well that any other attitude would be a disaster.