Interesting how goulishly people are hoping PreviouslyKnownAs & LordM go to prison. Prison is a terrible concept. It achieves nothing but misery, at enormous cost. Doesn't change behaviour, brutalises everyone, is about the only thing that hasn't changed since Victorian times. We need a new way.

It's a fucked up world

What you get when you start with false & ugly assumption. We have many complex intractable problems, most a hangover from Apartheid - but do we need to prove something made up by Trump? Far right wing Afrikaners dancing at the Union buildings? How is this useful or relevant?

Residents of rural Dannhauser Local Municipality say they struggle with prolonged water shortages. Communal taps frequently run dry and households have to rely on untreated water from streams, springs and wells. Read groundup.org.za/article/resi... by Bongane Motaung

It's almost as though the mayor and his cohorts WANT to be voted out. Which is fine, except the current alternatives are - if possible, which is debatable, even worse. I dream of a new leader: young, with a proper vision, integrity, energy, teamwork, transparency and good communications skills.

Barbara Holtmann | Creative solutions to our fear of crime www.news24.com/citypress/vo...

Today's news roundup: -Israeli settlers kill 19-year-old Palestinian American -HUD moves to end assistance for families with mixed immigration status -Poland withdraws from treaty banning antipersonnel mines and will use them to defend against Russia 👇 www.justsecurity.org/132019/early...

On this date in 1956, local officials issued warrants for the arrests of civil rights activists, including Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., Jo Ann Robinson, Rosa Parks, and the Rev. Ralph David Abernathy, for organizing the Montgomery Bus Boycott. share.google/lH6ziRbA1kra...

Only Congress can authorize this: Trump vows $10 billion contribution to his own Board of Peace www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

Evil doesn't quite cover it .

Tony Blair at the so called Board of Peace summit blaming conditions in Gaza on the Palestinians. No mention of Israels decades long occupation, 20 year siege & regular attacks (mowing the lawn) that turned Gaza into an open air prison.

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And Jimmy Savile and his history with the royals.. 'advisor to Prince Charles' - sounds like Epstein.

Or re anything, really.

Yes. Perhaps there were better choices.

Could we maybe not use the word seminal? A bit close to the bone of the story.

There's a big space between poncing around being important and entitled and having your head chopped off. I'm hoping that on the continuum between the two, he gets closer to head lopping than to swanning about.

Take extra deo.

Plus Norway's former PM charged with gross corruption over Epstein links www.bbc.com/news/article...

I’m not big on punishment as a rule, but oh my I’d like to know this arrogant, entitled (literally) and misogynist man suffer. No redeeming features. No excuses. Just gross.

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“GO BACK, YOU FOOLS!!”

War must surely be the last resort of even the least intelligent. I can't cope with all this talk of war. We're supposed to learn from the past, yet previous wars are romanticised and future wars planned. Nobody wins wars. Everyone loses.

So today's biggie from the dep pres about Joburg's water problems is to institute a strategy for 'water shifting'. I must admit, I see water as shifting itself pretty successfully. If only our darling government would spend more energy on delivery & less on making up new words for not delivering.

It's totally weird how forcefully we are constantly being told to embrace our own replacement by AI that is based on work we've all contributed to over years of sharing the internet. I'm hoping that sanity will prevail and alongside it our own diverse usefulness, learning and innovations.

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One of the most worrying thing about awful men is that someone has their children. Serially.

What an unutterable waste of resources and human capacity, to fight a war. The last thing the world needs. Where has patriarchy taken us, that this is even possible?

People living in villages around Cofimvaba, Eastern Cape, say they have been using polluted water from the river to cook and do laundry. Read groundup.org.za/article/cofi... by Nombulelo Damba-Hendrik

Norway's former PM charged with gross corruption over Epstein links www.bbc.com/news/article...

And she hung in there, presumably in the hopes that it wouldn't come out?

Gender studies courses are shutting down across the US. The Epstein files reveal why | Joan Wallach Scott

Wonderful!!

WATTERS: "Do I come across as ... [a fascist?]" @jessicatarlov.bsky.social: "Yes!"

To die with dignity and at a time of our choosing should be a human right. @dignityindying.org.uk news.sky.com/story/my-mum...

Trent: Immigrants are far less likely than native-born citizens to commit crimes. That is not who we need to protect ourselves from. It actually turns out that we need to protect ourselves from the rich, the powerful, the oligarchs — the Epsteins of the world, the Trumps of the world.

I mean this woman, does she really mean what she says? Is she AI?

Are the people interviewed on this programme real?

SURPRISE!!

Ah yes. Found it. Australia news live: protesters chant ‘we have the right to demonstrate’ at rally outside Sydney police station after alleged brutality at Herzog protest www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

This is Mykhailo Spitsin, he was only 10. Last night, russia mercilessly killed him and his mother, Svitlana, by bombing their home in Bohodukhiv, Kharkiv region 🕯

A 14-year-old Palestinian Bled to Death for 45 Minutes as Israeli Soldiers Stood Nearby www.haaretz.com/israel-news/...

He’s so unlikable. Add that to the fact that the MAGA base will not transfer to him. Good luck in 2028. And let’s start doing to him what they did to Kamala: “What has JD Vance actually accomplished since he’s been VP?”

"Quite frankly, I think it’s time to question our society’s stigma about eating people. It was perfectly acceptable in many cultures in the past."

Epstein was not ostracised for his crimes. To some powerful men, he became even more appealing | Moira Donegan

ProPublica received letters in mid-January from several children at Dilley. All but two of them had been living in the United States when they were detained. www.propublica.org/article/ice-...

Quite possibly. A question that troubles me - why (not how) does this Zionist lobby have such an outsized influence on our body politic? At some levels it does not make logical sense. Two phases: 1862-1948; then 1948 to now. The US became the new Balfour benefactor after WWII.

Hat tip all of you who are physically there protesting Criminal Herzog visit. Especially @drsally.bsky.social @ournewhomecoach.bsky.social @ingridm.bsky.social I protest on SocMed