Shireen Hassim

But can you learn to say Mamdani ?

Rana Duwaji is not Hindu though.

Deep South

Leonard Cohen. Rufus Wainwright. Martha Wainwright!

Catherine O’Hara!

Sandra Oh!

Exterminate All the Brutes | Official Website for the HBO Series | HBO.com The official website for Exterminate All the Brutes on HBO, featuring interviews, schedule information, behind the scenes exclusives, and more.

More folks should watch Raoul Peck's Exterminate All the Brutes, especially right now. It's on HBO & Max.

It's brilliant, and especially good at connecting slavery in the Americas with Native American genocide, and back further to European antisemitism and Islamophobia.

www.hbo.com/exterminate-...

I repeat: shipping people to forced labor camps in foreign countries based on little more than their ethnicity is a practice with a history.

Great paper. I was talking about it to friends today.

A picture of the University of Cape Town, where SALDRU is based.

Hello, Bluesky #EconSky! We're the Southern Africa Labour & Development Research Unit (SALDRU) at UCT, dedicated to challenging inequalities through policy-relevant academic research. We are one of the leading Labour & Development #Economics units on the continent. Explore our work: saldru.uct.ac.za

Heritage Foundation and Allies Discuss Dismantling the EU The group that drafted a key blueprint for Donald Trump’s second term convened a meeting in Washington D.C. this week to consider proposals for bulldozing the European Union (EU). The Polish investiga...

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The Heritage Foundation, the group behind the radical pro-Trump Project 2025 agenda, held a private discussion this week about how to dismantle the EU.

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Kemi Badenoch's latest bonkers claim about the West being in a crisis made by its own weakness.

Have a great weekend. It could be our last.

sorry about this Zackie. Let's try and figure this out.

"The need to be authentic was greater than the fear to die"
Iman Muhsin Hendricks

Horror as Muhsin Hendricks, "World’s First Gay Imam," Assassinated in Gqeberha South Africa’s LGBTQ+ community is in shock after the assassination of Cape Town’s Muhsin Hendricks, known as the world’s first out gay imam.

South Africa’s LGBTQ+ community is in shock after the assassination of Cape Town’s Muhsin Hendricks, widely known as the world’s first openly gay imam, in what appears to be a targeted killing.

University announces new scholarships for Palestinian students These scholarships will provide fully-funded support for two Palestinian students, with a particular focus on those impacted by the conflict in Gaza

Masters scholarships for Palestinian students at Sussex. Please disseminate?

www.sussex.ac.uk/broadcast/re...

EXTRACT | Farm Killings in South Africa: How the term 'farm attacks' came into use | News24 In her new book 'Farm Killings in South Africa', journalist and violence researcher Dr Nechama Brodie challenges many of the myths used to narrate farm killings.

Book extract: The origins of the use of the term ‘farm attacks’ in South Africa and how its meaning changed and assumed racial undertones

EXTRACT | Farm Killings in South Africa: How the term 'farm attacks' came into use www.news24.com/news24/opini...

From ‘Farm Killings in South Africa’

Why doesn't the NYT have a share to bluesky option yet?

Opinion | The Secret Behind America’s Moral Panic Trans rights aren’t just trans rights. They’re reproductive rights.

Masha Gessen in the NYT:
'... the objective is to control the means of reproduction. That’s usually the goal of movements that purport to protect women and girls.'

Drives me crazy. Fine if you have a good reason to decline. But some people are making a virtue out of refusing to review.

I hate to be such a cynic though.

Yes well, forked tongue and all that. JT has not yet stood up when it mattered on the issue of the Israeli government's impunity. 'Who we are' so far has been kowtowing to US agendas.

Of course they will refuse

Stilfontein’s dangerous and desperate illegal mining industry Zama zamas search for gold in a vast and unmapped underground network of tunnels

Kimon de Greef, Ihsaan Haffejee and Kimberly Mutandiro have been at Stilfontein reporting on the trapped zama zamas.
Here Kimon describes the illegal mining situation (Ihsaan's pics mostly)
groundup.org.za/article/stil...
Here Kimon describes the rescue operation:
groundup.org.za/article/scen...

Chart showing average number of children killed per year in global conflicts. Ukraine - 501. Syria - 4,725. Gaza - 11,355

Assad’s brutal war against the Syrian people was infamously one of the bloodiest campaigns of mass slaughter in recent memory. And yet.

Nothing from Caitlyn Jenner today on the Great Capitol Bathroom Crisis.

Yes. If you wouldn’t sit around the table and share a meal with them what’s the point of allowing them into your other socials?

we did! and delighted to re-connect

my kinda person! add knitting and embroidery...

Goodbye Morning Joe. Shame on Joe and Mika. Meidas has taken your place.

Yes, we are also paying attention to the deafening silence of the MSNBC contributors and frequent guests to this. Will be noted and not forgotten. www.meidasplus.com/p/goodbye-mo...