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Latest on #AbregoGarcia case explained (brilliantly!) by his lawyer

The extraction of minerals is not discrete from the extraction of life. When coal burns to sustain military occupation abroad, when ports and rails move materials to sites of violence, we are implicated. mg.co.za/friday/2025-...

Most of the people expected to die from soaring temperatures in coming decades live in poor, hot countries in Africa and South Asia. Many emitted relatively little of the pollution that causes climate change and are least prepared to cope with increasing heat. www.propublica.org/article/trum...

Just after Christmas, on his birthday, JJ found his mom draped over her bed, lifeless. An autopsy would later confirm what she had feared: Preeclampsia killed her at 20 weeks pregnant. www.propublica.org/article/texa...

“For generations, families have lived in the same houses. Now, rising property prices and short-term rentals are displacing long-term residents, including the elderly,” groundup.org.za/article/bo-k...

“Our presence in these spaces is not granted, but earned through generations of struggle, resistance and organisation. Every step towards recognition and access has been the result of our persistent efforts to raise our voices and defend our rights." www.opendemocracy.net/en/cop30-ind...

People love this city because it feels possible. Diverse. Messy. Alive. That spirit is worth defending. It won’t survive if every flat becomes a mini‑hotel and every lease becomes a gamble. groundup.org.za/article/cape...

Short-term letting through various platforms, including Airbnb, locks up 70% of residential units in the central city groundup.org.za/article/inne...

I’m out here at Broadview ICE detention center where a group of inter-faith leaders just got arrested trying to deliver pastoral care to those locked up inside. Peg Haar from Grace Lutheran Church in Evanston says both her son and her pastor were arrested just now.

"A really significant chunk of our community is one financial emergency away from being evicted.” www.denver7.com/news/state-n... #housing+ #urbanism+ #urbanism

No-fault evictions will be outlawed in England from 1 May, the government confirmed, as it set out the timeline for sweeping renters' reforms. www.bbc.com/news/article...

Mayor Gaskins, City Council ask sheriff to cease voluntary inmate transfers to ICE | ALXnow #ICEOutofAlexanddria www.alxnow.com/2025/11/13/m...

“We call upon the Sheriff to cease his transfer of persons in his custody in response to ICE administrative detainers and warrants" #ICEOutofAlexandria www.alxnow.com/2025/11/13/m...

"There is no genocide in South Africa, there's absolutely no persecution of anyone based on race. Our constitution has iron-clad protection of every citizen's human rights. Not a square inch of white-owned land has been confiscated since we became a democracy in 1994." www.npr.org/2025/11/10/n...

Yeah ... Yeah ... virginiamercury.com/2025/11/04/b...

Titi Mashele: “It is a political statement to see people of colour on bikes, in suburbs." www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...

I've never seen the real monsters until now ... www.nytimes.com/2025/10/31/o...

Francesca Albanese: "Alone, we are fragile, like butterfly wings, but when we flap those wings all together, that’s when we can make a storm. And may justice be our storm" www.dailymaverick.co.za/opinionista/...

When people vote for austerity, women suffer, women die ... That's not a side effect, it's a constitutive element of the policy .. www.theguardian.com/global-devel...

Red sprites ... wow! www.nytimes.com/2025/10/25/s...

Yep, this is what an African friend told me today basically

“This is a dictatorship disguised as a democracy. People’s lives are a joke to those in power.” www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...

@polgreen.bsky.social : "Now is a time of reckoning." www.nytimes.com/2025/10/23/o...

This is what compliance with ICE, any compliance, looks like ... www.propublica.org/article/immi... #ICEoutofAlexandria

Vusi Mahlasela: “Hope is very important. But hope is also difficult, unlike cynicism” groundup.org.za/article/musi...

More good news ... ! www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

When the Birmingham, Alabama, march is packed, you know something is up in America!

We’re in the middle of a nationwide frog costume supply chain crisis. Thanks, Trump.

As far as the eye can see ... and beyond ... www.nytimes.com/2025/10/18/u...

Portland, Oregon, has had their fair share of run ins with the Trump administration over the past few weeks. On Saturday, it was clear Portlanders are not happy about it. Thousands—an early estimate—gathered to participate in the countrywide "No Kings" rally. @kevinhfoster.bsky.social reports:

This is what democracy looks like. #NoKings

Update

“This is what democracy looks like.” “This is what America looks like.” NYC

Storytelling is integral to all social movements. @lfelizleon.bsky.social reports on how the organizers of #NoKings selected the country’s founding as a touchstone to mobilize resistance against what they describe as an authoritarian regime.

Millions ... ! www.theguardian.com/us-news/live... #NoKings

They mark the consolidation of a new phase of politically motivated gender violence, in which far-right discourses align with those of the online ‘manosphere’ and translate into fatal real-world actions. www.opendemocracy.net/en/pablo-lau...

Good news: The University of Virginia became the fifth school to rebuff a White House proposal to give universities preferential treatment if they uphold a set of White House demands. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/17/u...

Josue Castillo, an organizer with @newvamajority.bsky.social, said, “We know that Richmond is a city that values and celebrates its diversity, but folks in the community don't feel like words are enough at this point, the threat of authoritarianism is very real” www.vpm.org/news/2025-10...

Qui sont les nouveaux visages et les vétérans du gouvernement Lecornu 2 ? ➡️ https://l.humanite.fr/VQd

In the last 70 years, federal jobs fell from 4.5% of all employment to below 2%. Civil servants aren't what's driving government debt, and firing them won't address it.

‘Alongside 44 historical buildings and seven archaeological sites, all three depositories of historical and archaeological material in the Gaza Strip have been damaged or destroyed.’ @josephinequinn.bsky.social on an exhibition of Gazan antiquities: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

"I think it’s the most natural thing; I know what happens in my town, we live quietly, we live in peace and we learn from each other” www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...

“You came here today with a witness who knows nothing about Costa Rica, I mean, less than nothing,” Judge Xinis told a government lawyer, referring to Mr. Schultz. “Help yourself dig out of this hole.” “This is a joke for anyone who’s listening,” she added. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/10/u...

“What we’re seeing is that poverty was the barrier keeping these women from resting during pregnancy. As soon as they got the money, they did what was right for them. They are responsible for the nearly 50% reduction we’ve seen in infant and child mortality” www.theguardian.com/global-devel...

“Some people say we need a longer table. We say, ‘Make the kitchen longer’.” mg.co.za/friday/2025-...

The children’s names below appear on a list of victims of Israel’s offensive in Gaza. As of the end of July it ran to 60,199 names, of whom 18,457 were under 18s. The list does not include the thousands still buried under the rubble of destroyed buildings www.theguardian.com/world/ng-int...