Iceland joins Eurovision boycott. "The decision to allow Israel to take part in the next Eurovision, which will be held in Vienna in May, earlier prompted Spain, the Netherlands, Ireland and Slovenia to withdraw in protest, citing Israel’s conduct in the Gaza war." www.trtworld.com/article/4495...

Trump’s Attack on Somali Americans Is Vile Fascism He’s testing our country’s tolerance for ethnic persecution. And we’re failing the test. @saletan.bsky.social www.thebulwark.com/p/trump-atta...

Anatomy of a settler abduction Ambushed, dragged to a hilltop outpost, beaten unconscious: Palestinian teen Owais Hammam recounts his brutal torture by Israeli settlers and soldiers. www.972mag.com/owais-hammam...

Denmark has labeled the United States as a potential security concern for the first time in an annual report released by one of its intelligence agencies, offering more evidence of the increasingly fraught transatlantic alliance between Europe and the US.

The World Health Organization reports that 73 million abortions occur worldwide each year. 6 out of 10 unintended pregnancies, and 3 out of 10 of all pregnancies end in abortion. The new WHO fact sheet is here: www.who.int/news-room/fa...

He does love a dictatorship

Isn't that your job?

Good headline apnews.com/article/trum...  President Trump's contempt shocks the country's largest Somali community

The question to ask is: who is going to benefit from this sophisticated tech? What's it going to deliver? Our data is already in the wrong hands, the greasy, chubby hands of billionnaires and their cohorts. We should be looking at the next stable door, not worrying about this one.

That's kind of same same in virtually every country these days.

Our Minnesota Senator responding to being called “garbage” by the Orange Dictator 👇🏼👇🏼👇🏼

Even for a President Trump who has long made clear he’s no fan of Somalia, the latest round of contempt for them as “garbage” was a shock in the USA’s largest Somali community.

LONDON, Dec 4 (Reuters) - Malaria killed around 610,000 people in 2024, mostly young children in sub-Saharan Africa, the World Health Organization said on Thursday, warning of the risks of rising drug resistance, climate change and funding cuts.

‘I have been defeated’: hundreds of Palestinians face eviction from East Jerusalem Residents in Batn al-Hawa have all but given up hope and blame the Gaza war which, they say, has created ‘an atmosphere of hate’ towards them www.theguardian.com/world/2025/d...

What does it say about this country that that the kind of open, rank bigotry Trump administration officials regularly express towards black immigrants apparently has no social cost because of the number of Americans who quietly agree or don't care.

Everything about these men is embarrassing.

Africa’s youngest citizens are ruled by leaders in their 80s and 90s. Some are reshaping the system to hold on to power.

WHAT?

Also don't trust anyone who calls people Piggy.

Foreign shopkeepers in Cape Town live in fear of extortion gangs. On the weekend, three Somali shop owners were shot in three separate incidents in Harare, Khayelitsha. Read groundup.org.za/article/exto... by Nombulelo Damba-Hendrik and Phumeza Halonisi

"Little pig, little pig, let me come in!" "Not by the hair on my chinny-chin-chin!"

Men inhabit a different world, with different rules and consequences. All the forgiveness that is bestowed on men who 'stray' from common decency, nothing ever changes. I think about Clinton and @monicalewinsky.bsky.social - how publics his disgrace, yet he's still staggering around being a hero.

I feel you. I was a loser the moment I arrived. My mother told me repeatedly, she only had names for a boy. Neither of us ever really got over that.

'told the news agency he had been hit in the head by a heavy drumstick thrown from the crowd'. This quote distracted me from the more serious issues in a post about crowds storming the COP30 venue. And here was I complaining that chickens get smaller and smaller.

Such a tragedy. We live in one world - Clinton's Global Village, yet it seems the North thinks it can survive or even thrive, with ailing populations in the South.

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This is so unbearable.

Students risk their NSFAS funds on online betting. Bheki Cele’s allegations. And a look inside the secret lives of firefighters who double as medics, midwives and trauma responders — all in the Weekend Wrap.

On this date in 1961, Birmingham Officials Announce Plan to Close City Parks Rather Than Permit Racial Integration share.google/Eg6FAJUgyhWD...

Poverty and economic hardship are among the biggest contributors to the dropout rate in both primary and secondary school. This is despite the introduction of fee-free education in 2016.

BBC propaganda for israel Why is no help being given to the people of Palestine to identify their loved ones? 'The forensic team at Nasser hospital are working with almost no resources to answer vast questions about torture, mistreatment and identity.'

I wonder why direct marketers think that I will change my mind about blocking spam, if they keep sending the same ads from different addresses? Am I expected to be worn down to whip out my credit card? It doesn't work. I just get crosser.

Want some GOOD news, for once? This article will leave you feeling happy end positive about the future

Can't we just send him somewhere we can't hear him anymore?

In 2023, a jury found Trump guilty of 34 criminal felony counts of falsifying business records, hiding from the voters that he paid hush money to Stormy Daniels not to reveal that he also paid her for sex. He should have been imprisoned for up to 4 years.

As interesting, is who has not signed on, so far. “In addition to the AI figures, the names behind the statement come from a broad coalition of academics, media personalities, religious leaders and ex-politicians”

My 14-year-old self would never have guessed that, in 50 years' time, all the world's music would be available at the click of a button, you'd navigate the globe by carrying a tiny computer around in your pocket, and the US President would post a video of himself shitting over American citizens.

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The collision between Albanese and the Trump White House is a conflict between someone who deeply understands the workings of a Mafia state and a U.S. administration that is building a Mafia state. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/16/o...

Sure lets stop the horrible language. That's sure to work.

That's twenty-seven flat-out murders. That's twenty-seven lives taken without even a semblance of a legal justification under domestic or international law. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/14/u...

Someone told me this weekend that a scientist said that there is a chance of earth being knocked out by a meteorite & if its going to happen we'll ONLY get 2 or 3 months warning. I want to campaign for an Opt Out option. I don't want to know!! What would be the point?

www.theguardian.com/politics/202... He needs to be tried in court and imprisoned. But that only happens to us: the little people.

Villagers in northern KwaZulu-Natal are preparing for the rainy season by repairing damaged roads, digging trenches, and installing storm drains themselves. Read groundup.org.za/article/in-n... by Joseph Bracken and Bongane Motaung

Shit

Welp, here it is: maybe the funniest thing we've ever done, in its entirety.

On a short stretch of Antoinette Street in Claremont, the taps are permanently open as residents wait for a stream of water to come out. They have had no regular municipal water for more than 12 years. There are children who don’t know what it is to open a tap to draw a glass of water. There is ...

Boosters: AI saves money! Normal people: Who does it save money? Boosters: *sweating* a lot of money!

I honestly don't think I can manage with Zille in the new every day. When will she ever go away?