Imagine how Reforms votes would plummet if we had this sort of messaging on vascular risks FROM COVID

Western Cape residents are battling stormy weather which has seen roads across the metro under water, the roofs of houses blown off, and informal settlements flooded, leaving many households without electricity. Read groundup.org.za/article/stor... by GroundUp Staff

Cape Town was the third most congested city in Africa in 2025, ahead of Johannesburg which sits at number six, and Cairo at 12th place. Read groundup.org.za/article/why-... by The Outlier and GroundUp Staff

Join us in Largest-Ever Rally by Iranians in Paris Over 1⃣0⃣0⃣0⃣0⃣0⃣will join to say: 📣NO TO EXECUTIONS in IRAN 🚫Shah 🚫Mullahs ✅Democratic Republic June 20, 2026 14h00 Paris

Palestine is the moral issue of our time, as was apartheid in the 1970s and 80s. your stance and your silence define you.

If the most annoying choice Larry Ryan has to make is to lug around a heavy tome or try to remember when the paperback version is coming out, then he may have provided a new definition for privilege, in a world where access to food, let alone to books, is scarce and living conditions unspeakable.

Starvation was the cause of death for a 17 year old Palestinian who died in an Israeli prison. Walid Ahmad had been held for 6 months without being charged. He suffered from extreme malnutrition, and also showed signs of inflammation of the colon and scabies. www.timesofisrael.com/doctor-says-...

NEW: I’ve written a call to arms. Journalists are being murdered in unprecedented numbers by a Western ally that operates with total impunity. Enough. Publishers & editors have failed us. But if we can’t speak up about this, what is journalism even for? open.substack.com/pub/broligar...

Genocide in Gaza. Slaughter in Lebanon. War crimes, broadcast in real time.

“The settlers now are launching a campaign to take as much water from the Palestinians as they can,” said Jad Isaac, the director general of the Applied Research Institute-Jerusalem, which promotes sustainable development in the occupied Palestinian territories. edition.cnn.com/2026/04/28/c...

Australia: where you can go to prison for saying #RiverToTheSea but boo at a 60 thousand year old Indigenous culture and completely get away with it. Disgraceful.

I've rarely seen a documentary filmmaker or journalist be this blunt before www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie...

We’re going to the ConCourt next month to challenge the passing of the Public Procurement Act. Read our latest piece on the challenge and watch this video to see why we are so concerned about South Africa’s procurement system. 

Please can one of them be less supportive of Israel?

"The coolest thing about solar energy is that you don't need to invade another country to get it. Solar power is democratic, abundant, and borderless. No pipelines. No tankers. No resource wars. Just the sun shining on everyone. #SolarRevolution #EnergyIndependence

New Bloomberg satellite data analysis reveals the scale of US-Israeli strike damage and the heightened stakes of a return to all-out-war. www.bloomberg.com/graphics/202...

Book launch: 11 May 5pm, 26 Crozier Road, Journalism Dept, Stellenbosch Uni @imidibaniso.bsky.social My chapter with Darlene Ajeet Miller highlights Ikhaya Garden and Ujamaa Garden, and the importance of beauty for community healing and solidarity available at: doi.org/10.7765/9781... #scicomm

Imagine a world where we trust one another, where we didn't need passwords for every little thing or QR codes or to prove that we are human by detecting some illegible letters or getting a one time pin to access our own information or use our ID to open an account online.

Extortion threats are affecting rubbish collection in informal settlements in Nyanga, Philippi and Samora Machel, according to the City of Cape Town. Read groundup.org.za/article/exto... by Sandiso Phaliso

When will there be good news?

Spanish PM Pedro Sánchez: “Here in Spain, we are approving and advancing a process to regularise half a million immigrants. “And I want to say to the Right and the Far Right who oppose this: Spain is the daughter of migration and will not become the mother of xenophobia.”

Why exactly is Israel still killing people in Gaza? How is this "defending Israel"? On average, the IDF has killed 37 women and children a day in the war. It has been over one thousand days, so 37,000 women and children killed. news.un.org/en/story/202...

Israeli Defense Minister Katz said he wants to do in Lebanon what was done in Rafah.

I've seen firsthand how the Netanyahu government razed Rafah to the ground.

No American taxpayer dollars should be used to support this.

Survivors of alleged sexual abuse by former owner of Harrods want enablers to face justice

The World Food Programme, which helped in various African countries during droughts, is no longer as well-resourced. If the 2026-27 El Niño proves harsh, some African countries will face food insecurity. We must consider key measures to mitigate this possibility now.

You can’t expect Keir Starmer to have known Mandelson was dodgy as fuck. Nobody told him. Probably nobody told him Israel was committing war crimes either. Or that the two-child benefit cap was starving kids. Or that trans people are human beings. Or that immigrants are a net benefit.

💚 this. Thank you.

You need to read this. @timothysnyder.bsky.social has been warning us since 2016 about Trump. He knows: he’s one of world’s leading experts on authoritarianism & always ahead of the game. V proud to publish him in @thenerve.news. He’s an essential voice. www.thenerve.news/p/donald-tru...

Holy shit, you have to be TRULY EVIL to make Switzerland get up off the neutral fence and call you out FOR THE VERY FIRST TIME SINCE 1815?!? trump MUST be removed from office. Same goes for his enablers in Congress.

Oh my word.

Proof that allowing misogynistic, adjudicated rapist thugs to do whatever the fuck they want without any accountability creates psychopathic monsters

CSIRO have now lost more jobs under the Albanese Governmet than under the Abbott Government. We have to do better on research funding and backing our scientists. www.smh.com.au/environment/...

"That’s why we say Palestine will be free from the River to the Sea for everyone. And if you have a problem with everyone being free, because you only want some people to be free, the problem is not the chant, the problem is you." Boom #auspol #WritingCommunity #ReaderSky ##LGBTQIA+

As the US-Israeli war on Iran continues to kill thousands, the Israeli military is continuing to eradicate entire Palestinian families across occupied Palestine.

The Israeli Ambassador Hillel Newman needs to be expelled from Australia ASAP His statements at the NPC regarding Palestinians are abhorrent, dehumanising and outright sickening I don’t feel safe with people like this in the country @albomp.bsky.social What are you going to do about it?! #auspol

“In opting for [his zero-sum negation of a Palestinian future] Netanyahu needed to remove Iran as a regional power balancer – a move that required direct and massive US military engagement alongside Israel.” Daniel Levy www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Péter Magyar victory speech: "We want to make a country where no one is persecuted because they think differently or because someone loves in a different way to others." He may not have campaigned as a liberal. But this is a huge change of direction and rhetoric from Orbán’s anti-LGBTQ+ crusade.

Feminists began raising the alarm about the manosphere decades ago – and we were ignored | Laurie Penny

When I manage to briefly ignore the horror of an American President who is unregulated and basically an awful human being, there are moments in which I am fascinated by the Random Use of Capital Letters in His Utterances. Never Before has the capital letter had such a ride OUT THERE.

Fuck the Forum and fuck the Marriner Group. Today they tore down the "She Matters" mural in Hosier Lane, curated by @sherelemoody.bsky.social as part of the Red Heart movement highlighting Australian femicide. What a shameful thing to do 🤬 australianfemicidewatch.org/database/

More people died in Israel's latest bombing of Lebanon than died in the 2020 Beirut port blast Brilliant reporting by @rayajalabi.ft.com as.ft.com/r/3d576d7b-9...

Anyone looking for a central rental in Joburg for the next year? Please contact me. www.privateproperty.co.za/to-rent/gaut...

Before I became an American, I was Lebanese. Parts of my family live in Lebanon. Anyway, you don't need those bona fides to feel this way, but what is happening in Lebanon right now is a complete outrage. The people there, who mostly are just trying to carve out a living, don't deserve this.

Palantir's UK head Louis Mosley wants us to believe that tech like theirs is neutral until their clients decide how to use it. People who study science, technology and society have long exposed such arguments as fallacious. My latest column for TNW. www.thenewworld.co.uk/philip-ball-...

At OR Tambo Secondary School in Katlehong, Ekurhuleni, learners have to cross raw sewage to get to classes. The sewage is one of many problems learners face at this school, which parents say has been neglected by the education department. Read groundup.org.za/article/ekur... by Seth Thorne

Grandchildren are also the greatest gift ever for grandparents. There is no relationship like it. Infinite love and joy.