ICE Nazis in Chicago tried to kidnap a food delivery worker but my man was too fast for those slow bastards

Some good news. London is meeting legal limits for toxic NO2 pollution for the first time – almost 200 years earlier than predicted – following the Mayor’s "world leading air pollution policies," City Hall announces. The Ultra Low Emissions Zone - and similar policies - really do work.

There are 2 massive corruption and killings stories emerging simultaneously in South Africa, both of which reports link to one man, Vusimuzi "Cat" Matlala: First, the #Madlanga Commission exposes "the Big 5" who do drugs, hijackings, tender fraud and extortion x.com/Sli_Masikane...

Gaslighting...the early years

Good morning South Africa. So, who invited winter back?

On the blatant double standards the media - BBC included - deploys while showcasing Nigel Farage. He is constantly given a free pass not granted to other politicians. bylines.scot/news/the-far...

He should just do the reverse Trump and go from politics into reality tv. Do a show where he pretends to be NYC mayor. He'll kill it.

this archetype remains undefeated

Some of us do.

🤩😍

The @washingtonpost.com has changed its slogan again, from “Democracy Dies In Darkness” to “Know Your Place.”

The first US-born leader of the Catholic church singled out the Tesla chief as an example of the kind of wealth he said was undermining 'the value of human life, of the family, of the value of society' on.ft.com/4653oC8

And the Labour government - *Kinnock voice* the LABOUR government - thinks that's all just a wonderful display of free speech, while they also go about arresting pensioners for wearing Palestine Action t-shirts. Because the parasite-king Morgan McSweeney decided he wants racist votes.

email from mom fml I'm so cooked

“It almost feels like we're back in the late 1990s, right where we're begging for supplies and we're begging for price affordability and we're begging for transparency.” - Fatima Hassan, human rights lawyer

Chaos with Ed Miliband (2025)

FFS. Hard to be mote hypocritical than this

The notion that doing anything good in public ever was in itself proof you are actually a bad person because virtue signaling is the worst sin you can possibly commit has to be the most destructive psyop in human history.

🔒Joburg MMC in Hawks’ crosshairs over R186 000 ‘facilitation fees’ from housing developer www.news24.com/southafrica/...

I don't disagree with the first two sentences, but I think in general there's been far too much movement from 'not really noticing the problem' to 'despair'. Let's experiment with 'people and organisations try and enforce the norm' and then see if it is actually hard for it to be re-bottled.

I don't see an alternative to trying, I mean, what else is there?

Innovation makes useful things smaller and smaller. Overconsumption makes things bigger and bigger (and more dangerous with bigger costs & consequences). Bigger vehicles and larger homes for fewer people is not progress. HT @fietsprofessor for graphic

These cases - all heard by the Con Court in 2024 - are still awaiting judgment. The longest is now outstanding for close to 18 months, while most of the others are outstanding for close to a year. Incomprehensible.

Pritzker on Trump sending troops into cities: "He has other aims other than fighting crime... he would like to stop the elections in 2026 or frankly take control of those elections. He'll just claim there's some problem with an election and then he's got troops on the ground that can take control."

Have we considered the possibility that he used so much bronzer that ICE accidentally deported him to El Salvador?

Spectacular article, all the major insights captured, but an early one here into how sincerely these men care about protecting our women and girls.

Is it the official stance of the SPCB that a trans person going about their business is more of a worry than an MSP actually charged with filming people in the toilets? Just so we're clear on that one way or the other

This, from the Quakers, is a pretty good example of how to resist pressure from bigot lobbying groups. Effectively “we legally can allow trans people to use the loo, we morally should, and we tried it and nothing bad happened”

The EHRCs legal experts are so bad they've had to add a disclaimer to their own advice to remind people not to follow it

I think a lot about the phrase "a well armed society is a polite society" because it's implicitly premised on this kind of "freedom as domination" that everyone will be polite to you otherwise you shoot them

Former Japanese Internment Camp Used As Immigrant Detention Center https://theonion.com/former-japanese-internment-camp-used-as-immigrant-detention-center/

six word horror story

Just for fun: Just a short distance from the city of Sandwich is the village of Ham, Kent (pop. 63), which means the world is blessed by this lovely signpost that gives directions to a Ham Sandwich. Darn, now I'm hungry.

Don't mean to be too controversial, but there's light at both ends of a tunnel.

I love you Sir, this is an erupting volcano

Calum Miller, MP for the constituency where Nigel Farage delivered his repatriation speech today, says Oxfordshire is “thriving thanks to overseas talent” – and criticised him for not meeting residents living near Campsfield House detention centre, next to the venue for Farage’s event.

A green carpet of Salvinia minima, a free-floating, rootless aquatic fern native to South America covers an area near the Hartbeespoort Dam wall in North West province. Read groundup.org.za/article/muni... by Ihsaan Haffejee

The Enforcement Directorate (ED) on Tuesday carried out search operations against businessman Piyoosh Goyal of World Window Group and South Africa’s Gupta brothers, as part of a probe into the country’s “State Capture” scandal. #SouthAfrica #News

I want nothing but bad things to happen to the people who built these fucking garbage machines

Sounds like a fun visit

Vigilante group Operation Dudula unlawful blockades deny migrants access to at least 53 clinics. "We’ve seen people with SA IDs, valid visas, even passports, being ordered to leave. South Africans who forget their IDs at home are also barred." www.dailymaverick.co.za/article/2025...

i was listening to snoop dogg with my grandson and now i have to explain doggystyle. not what i signed up for

When my grandfather, a European Jewish refugee and WWII vet, passed away in 2007, I remember talking to a family friend at the funeral. The friend, a former Leo Strauss student, worried about how few people even then were still alive who remembered the struggle of that time. 1/4

🔒Top cop behaving like a (conservative) politician. Unions blast Mkhwanazi for blaming them for jobs crisis and complaining that there are too many things wrong in the country, and labour laws are one of them. www.news24.com/southafrica/...

These fascist goons are mobilizing the whole power of the US government to persecute this one man and ruin his life, because he embarrassed them.

“Papers, please”

Just yesterday four ground runs were performed on the Oryxes at Lubumbashi. Three are in perfect condition, one Oryx just has an engine issue. 🚁😎 They are not abandoned.

Racist tropes and abuse directed at people seeking asylum, indulged and appeased by the Labour government and actively encouraged and instigated by the Conservative and far-right opposition, are a threat to all people of colour in the UK, and ultimately to all hope for a more just and equal society.

Family in fear after Tommy Robinson shares video of black man with white granddaughters. Exclusive: Olajuwon Ayeni racially abused and falsely labelled a paedophile as far right weaponises clip of family in park www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...