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.

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

🔴 NEW 🔴 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. 📝 @desmog.bsky.social report 👇🏻

Have a great weekend. It could be our last.

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

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.

Masters scholarships for Palestinian students at Sussex. Please disseminate? www.sussex.ac.uk/broadcast/re...

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?

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.'

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

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...

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, 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...