Great reporting here from @carienduplessis on the arrest and deportation of #Kenyan workers from #SouthAfrica who were processing #Afrikaner "refugee" applications for the US Embassy while on tourist visas: www.theafricareport.com/402668/is-th...

Artist: Bill Sanders. Milwaukee Journal, 1972

Ilhan Omar: "When I think about Stephen Miller & his white supremacist rhetoric — it reminds me of the way the Nazis described Jewish people in Germany—"

Before it was just talk or tweet, but these 33 pages make it very clear that the rest of the world is in its own and, worse, countries are being set against one another - www.whitehouse.gov/wp-content/u...

RIP Frank Gehry

So true. One tiny example. I once spent two happy days visiting small Kansas towns just to look at their New Deal-era post office murals. They're very cool. www.kcur.org/talk-show/20...

They need to get some advice from the early days of Syriza in Greece.

The war will end when Russia stops fighting. Therefore, pressure has to be put on Russia, so that they stop believing that they will win. Why is that so hard to understand?

Breaking: Viola Ford Fletcher, the oldest living survivor of the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre, has died. She was 111 years old

1) Start the worst European war since 1945 and commit every imaginable war crime 2) Decide how you want to be rewarded for your aggression 3) Leak the list of your desiderata to the US press 4) Wait for the US president to enforce your wish list on your victim. Russian policy 2025

Terrible news from Nigeria. Another mass kidnapping — over 300 schoolchildren & a dozen teachers. It's part of a wave of mass kidnappings motivated by ransom demands & struggles over access to resources. The government lacks the capacity to end them. www.bbc.com/news/article...

Vaccines based on mRNA can be tailored to target a cancer patient’s unique tumor mutations. But crumbling support for cancer and mRNA vaccine research has endangered this promising therapy

Trump is refusing to send US representatives to the upcoming G20 meeting in South Africa. Two reasons. He believes far-right lies that whites, especially Afrikaners, are persecuted. And he's a racist mfer. Good reporting here: www.npr.org/2025/11/10/n...

The BBC is facing a coordinated, politically motivated attack. With these resignations, it’s given in | Jane Martinson

“He promised things that Europeans take for granted, but Americans are told are impossible.” I increasingly think that the most powerful act we can take right now is to truly believe a better society is possible. Then fight for it but first we have to really internalize that better options exist.

Autumn bee

Autumn in Judd Cove, Orcas Island

Chihull fall foliage

Neither Barcelona nor Los Angeles - Seattle.

"... los organismos de élite como el estado, el ejército y las ONG internacionales son incapaces de crear un cambio real y, de hecho, están alineados en su contra. En cambio, el verdadero poder se manifiesta a través de movimientos de masas organizados de personas comunes."

An October 7 memorial with South African, Palestinians and Jewish poetry - a mourning vigil.

Tonight in Johannesburg

Arrest this man

South Africa celebrates Heritage Day on September 24 - it has become very much the people's holiday with many dressing up at their own volition - here is our security guard

Read the story of a tree that has it's own museum thetreeographer.com/2018/03/08/t...

In a country without a gun culture, this politician only gets milk shakes and eggs thrown at him.

Spring irises

DIRCO director-general Zane Dangor says South Africa will approach the UN General Assembly and Security Council “in the next couple of weeks” for enforcement of the existing ICJ measures. Read groundup.org.za/article/fami... by Matthew Hirsch

Dombeya Rotundifolia - Wild Pear - for September 1

Mad TV was spot-on three decades ago.

Haircut Sofa - with a famous face - thanks to www.instagram.com/generalis_st...

Red hot poker (Kniphofia) - making sure pollinators can find it in the veld.

'With friends like this, who needs enemies' seems to be a democratic slogan.

American politics continues its descent into theatre with guns and money.

"We’re creating something even more dangerous to the country: A masked monster of a law enforcement agency, one uniquely unsuited for its new power, authority, reach, and funding levels."

Spring is on its way in Johannesburg

South Africans call this kicking for touch - a rugby metaphor for when you are under pressure and don't really know what else to do.

Just a reminder that immigrants are good for society and the economy. https://youtu.be/LCl9-uaKzv8?feature=shared

Katalin Kariko won the Nobel Prize for mRNA vaccine technology. She is certain that RFK Jr is endangering public health by killing $500 million in mRNA research www.thetimes.com/us/news-toda...

Books, books, & more books. Plenty of booksellers, too. From Johannesburg, South Africa, a slice of the city's life that will surprise you & delight you. From the excellent @carteblanche.co.za. youtu.be/P4W9Y-1IhXs

At Saheti school for a pre Larnaca Biennale show with Iannis Generallis - and a faded icon.

Yinka Shonibare's Satyr on Stilts at the Goodman Gallery in Johannesburg.

I remember Greenham Common, and more recently Extinction Rebellion - is it this particular cause which the UK government opposes, or have they become generally opposed to direct action? I suspect the former.

In light of Tulsi’s recent ridiculous claims, a friend just posted this old explainer from 6 years ago about the scope of the Russia investigation that I’d completely forgotten about! 😂 youtu.be/o-CCxLmkn-w?...

Since at least the time of Greek philosophers, many writers have discovered a deep, intuitive connection between walking, thinking, and writing.

St George’s Cathedral in Cape Town was packed on Friday evening for a concert to mark Mandela Day and raise money for Palestine Read groundup.org.za/article/st-g... by Matthew Hirsch

The ICC needed a guaranteed neutral venue and have decided that England will again host the final of the World Test Championship in 2027, 2029, and 2031. Fair enough.

“Perhaps the most fundamental and vital labor, of all liberatory organizing,” Kern writes, “is the act of explaining hard truths. In your own words. To your own people. As clearly and compellingly as possible. Over and over and over and over.”

A purple heron in greater Johannesburg.

It is aloe season here on the highveld.