In a democracy, secrecy is the enemy of trust. CNN Africa BBC News Africa Mail & Guardian Times LIVE News24 🇿🇦 Nimi Princewill Larry Madowo Sarah Dean Wycliffe Muia 🇰🇪 Pumza Fihlani BBC News (World) Al Jazeera English southernafricalitigationcentre.org/not-in-our-nam…

You can’t build your Holy Land on the mass graves of children.

Not to add to the discourse, but… It’s ‘toe the line,’ not ‘tow the line.’ It’s ‘free rein,’ and not ‘free reign.’ It’s ‘eke out,’ not ‘eek out.’ It’s ‘sleight of hand,’ not ‘slight of hand.’ It's ‘Anchors aweigh,’ and not ‘Anchor's away!’

Iranian activist Sharifeh Mohammadi has been sentenced to death by the Islamic regime for supporting women’s and workers’ rights. She is going to be hanged for ‘rebellion and corruption against Islam and the state.’

Capitol Police Officer Michael Fanone was tased on January 6th until he went into cardiac arrest and his heart stopped. Donald Trump pardoned his assaulters and called them “patriots.” RETWEET if you stand with Officer Fanone against Trump and the GOP!

Mexico’s first woman president, Claudia Sheinbaum, just banned ALL marine mammals in captivity for entertainment. #EmptyTheTanks 🐬

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🚨Rep. Maxwell Frost after touring “Alligator Alcatraz”: “Thirty-two bodies crammed per cage, six cages per tent. People screaming ‘Help me, I’m a U.S. citizen.’ Drinking water pumped from the same toilet they’re forced to use. It’s filth, it’s cruelty, it’s America’s name on

BREAKING: An Edmonton woman has chained herself inside the Edmonton Zoo demanding freedom for Lucy the elephant, who's endured 48 yrs in captivity, & lives in solitary confinement 💔 She is refusing to leave until the zoo finalizes a plan to move her to sanctuary 🐘 #SaveLucy

Calling every Palestinian in Gaza “Hamas” has normalized every killing, rape, torture and act of destruction. Forgive us, Marwa, Motaz, Montaser,& the dozens of thousands already lost -along with the millions still trapped in this genocide- for being so late, slow, and complicit.

Almost 10 years ago, at least 144 mental healthcare patients died in the Life Esidimeni tragedy. Now the NPA is considering the prosecution of two top officials for just two of the deaths, a decision that has angered the families of the victims. dailymaverick.co.za/article/2025-0…

As though one needed to say this but it seems in this age you do 😢

One day humankind will look back at the way we abused & destroyed our natural world, in utter horror & shame

Justice for Wolves! 🐺🎉 A Sublette County grand jury has indicted Cody Roberts on felony animal cruelty for the brutal wolf incident. He faces up to 2 years in prison—a powerful step proving cruelty won’t go unpunished.

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Jillian Green, the Daily Maverick editor, informed me this morning that they will not publish the reflection piece I wrote on Gaza. First time DM has ever spiked a piece I submitted to them. I published the piece on my Blog instead: constitutionallyspeaking.co.za/a-story-about-…

"Authoritarianism isn’t just policies, it’s an aesthetic.” Jon Stewart on Trump’s despotic decor

It's Thursday. Here's a thread of women liberators we should know. Florence Mkhize was 16 years old when she participated in the Defiance Campaign of 1952. She would go on to be a FEDSAW founding member. She led the Beerhall boycotts of 1959 📸: Ranjith Kally

In the last 20 years, a 40% decline in those who read for pleasure. Can there be any doubt that this coincides with the rise of the empty-headed pussyhound in the White House?