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John Aerni-Flessner @lesothojohn.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Great piece from Anusa Diamon, Zoe Graves, Henry Dee, and Julie Wiese on @theconversation.com about the history of #migration to #SouthAfrica and local reactions to #immigrants. How it has changed over time. Ebbed and flowed. theconversation.com/have-south-a...
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Have South Africans always been hostile to migrants? Historians map a chequered history
South Africa’s history shows that anti-immigrant violence is neither an aberration nor the country’s only possible path.
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pmgeducator.bsky.social @pmgeducator.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Trying to recover my abysmal Greek by reading Cavafy in a parallel text - and finding again how apposite he can be.
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pmgeducator.bsky.social @pmgeducator.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
While the average gap falls within the limits one might countenance in a corporate environment, the spread hides some serious inequalities. But affluent South Africans constantly fail to understand how inequality impacts their own life styles.
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pmgeducator.bsky.social @pmgeducator.bsky.social · 28/06/2026
Surely this should become a social media challenge?
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pmgeducator.bsky.social @pmgeducator.bsky.social · 18/04/2026
@iom.int ACMS is launching the multidisciplinary study - atlas of uncertainty
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Digital Brain @yourdigitalbrain.bsky.social · 08/04/2026
It's migration season! Monarch butterflies travel over 4,000 km to winter in Mexico's stunning oyamel forests. Witness the beauty of nature's incredible journey.
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John Bistline @bistline.bsky.social · 01/04/2026
This is my favorite climate change chart. Japanese monks, aristocrats, and emperors kept meticulous records of cherry blossom festivals for 1,200 years and accidentally built the world's longest climate dataset.
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 21/03/2026
BREAKING: Former FBI director and special counsel Robert Swan Mueller III has died. He was 81. www.ms.now/news/former-...
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Former special counsel Robert Mueller has died
Mueller, who served as special counsel in the investigation into Russia’s interference in the 2016 election, was 81.
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pmgeducator.bsky.social @pmgeducator.bsky.social · 16/03/2026
Late summer, Cape Town
Sea Point public baths at sunset. Photograph by Paul Graham
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Max Berger @maxberger.bsky.social · 26/01/2026
The people of Minnesota have executed one of the most impressive civil resistance campaigns I can remember: - Organized a city wide general strike - Maintained nonviolent discipline amidst violence - Mobilized 10,000s in subzero temps to protest and watch ICE - Flipped public opinion against ICE
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pmgeducator.bsky.social @pmgeducator.bsky.social · 19/01/2026
What troubles me is that there is no one in the white house to fix his grammar before an official missive goes out - this is symptomatic of presidential power with no administrative, institutional or legal guardrails.
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GroundUp News @groundup.org.za · 15/01/2026
The Will for Peace 2026 joint naval exercise between South Africa, China, Russia, and Iran, which started in Simon’s Town last weekend, is a bad idea. Read groundup.org.za/article/we-s... by GroundUp Editors
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We should not be playing war games with Iran, Russia and China
Repressive regimes should have no place in our military strategy
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All In with Chris Hayes @allinwithchris.bsky.social · 08/01/2026
@chrislhayes.bsky.social: “A 37-year-old American citizen, the mother of a young child is dead tonight. She was shot in the face by an agent of the federal government, and that government has spent the day telling despicable lies about her.”
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James Ball @jamesrball.com · 03/01/2026
Marco Rubio is reportedly saying Maduro will stand trial in US courts. Which means it’s now the US administration’s position that US courts can hold foreign presidents, but not the US president, accountable for crimes.
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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 03/01/2026
Migrants are at the heart of our art, our music, our whole history. That’s what the right won’t admit to you | Rowan Williams
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Migrants are at the heart of our art, our music, our whole history. That’s what the right won’t admit to you | Rowan Williams
From Britain’s medieval buildings to western pop and contemporary art, these creations showcase our interwoven stories, says former archbishop of Canterbury Rowan Williams
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johnedwinmason @johnedwinmason.bsky.social · 02/01/2026
Out of the blue, Copilot popped up on my computer screen. "What can I do for you," it asked. "Tell me how to disable Copilot," I wrote. It didn't answer. But it turns out it's easy to do in the app's settings. It's surprisingly easy to delete it, too. This has been a public service announcement.
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pmgeducator.bsky.social @pmgeducator.bsky.social · 01/01/2026
"The Swedish museum had not done any research on the cloaks - and the National Museums Board of Zambia was not even aware they existed." - the hidden history of Africa collected and ignored www.bbc.com/news/article...
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Zambia's lost language invented by women but almost killed by colonialism
How social media is pushing back against the still common idea that African societies never had a knowledge system.
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John Aerni-Flessner @lesothojohn.bsky.social · 17/12/2025
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...
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South Africa banishes Kenyans working illegally for US to process Afrikaner ‘refugees’
As hundreds more Afrikaner ‘refugees’ prepare to settle in the US, Home Affairs Department raids processing site employing Kenyans on holiday visas.
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Kim A. Wagner @kimatiwagner.bsky.social · 09/12/2025
Artist: Bill Sanders. Milwaukee Journal, 1972
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Skye @simplyskye.bsky.social · 07/12/2025
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—"
Ilhan Omar speaking at a microphone
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pmgeducator.bsky.social @pmgeducator.bsky.social · 08/12/2025
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...
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pmgeducator.bsky.social @pmgeducator.bsky.social · 06/12/2025
RIP Frank Gehry
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johnedwinmason @johnedwinmason.bsky.social · 30/11/2025
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...
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How Murals In 26 Kansas Post Offices Tried To Cheer People Up During The Great Depression
A mural showing a stagecoach crossing a snowy, windblown Kansas landscape once graced the walls of the Olathe post office. Albert T. Reid's "The Mail Must…
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pmgeducator.bsky.social @pmgeducator.bsky.social · 28/11/2025
They need to get some advice from the early days of Syriza in Greece.
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Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu · 27/11/2025
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?
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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 24/11/2025
Breaking: Viola Ford Fletcher, the oldest living survivor of the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre, has died. She was 111 years old
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Viola Ford Fletcher, the oldest living survivor of the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre, has died
Viola Ford Fletcher, the oldest living survivor of the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre, has died. She was 111 years old.
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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 23/11/2025
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
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johnedwinmason @johnedwinmason.bsky.social · 22/11/2025
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...
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Nigeria sees one of worst mass abductions as 315 taken from school
The kidnapping comes amid a surge of attacks by armed groups in the African nation.
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Scientific American @sciam.bsky.social · 18/11/2025
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
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Personalized Cancer Vaccines Are Almost Here—But Federal Funding Cuts Could Derail Them
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
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johnedwinmason @johnedwinmason.bsky.social · 11/11/2025
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...
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Prominent Afrikaners refuse to be 'pawns,' and hit back at Trump's claims about South Africa
Prominent Afrikaners are pushing back after President Trump announced no U.S. officials will attend the G20 in Johannesburg, rejecting his claims of "white persecution" in South Africa as false.
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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 09/11/2025
The BBC is facing a coordinated, politically motivated attack. With these resignations, it’s given in | Jane Martinson
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The BBC is facing a coordinated, politically motivated attack. With these resignations, it’s given in | Jane Martinson
The corporation should have stood up to the Telegraph, Trump and the Tories. Now, its enemies know how little it takes for it to fold, says Jane Martinson, professor of financial journalism
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Annie M Leonard @anniemleonard.bsky.social · 06/11/2025
“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.
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Europeans recognize Zohran Mamdani’s supposedly radical policies as ‘normal’
Critics of New York City’s mayor-elect have said his pledges of free bus service and universal childcare are unrealistic, but in Europe it’s a given
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pmgeducator.bsky.social @pmgeducator.bsky.social · 07/11/2025
Autumn bee
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pmgeducator.bsky.social @pmgeducator.bsky.social · 31/10/2025
Autumn in Judd Cove, Orcas Island
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pmgeducator.bsky.social @pmgeducator.bsky.social · 22/10/2025
Chihull fall foliage
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pmgeducator.bsky.social @pmgeducator.bsky.social · 22/10/2025
Neither Barcelona nor Los Angeles - Seattle.
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Camilo. @juanc29.bsky.social · 14/10/2025
"... 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."
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pmgeducator.bsky.social @pmgeducator.bsky.social · 08/10/2025
An October 7 memorial with South African, Palestinians and Jewish poetry - a mourning vigil.
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pmgeducator.bsky.social @pmgeducator.bsky.social · 07/10/2025
Tonight in Johannesburg
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pmgeducator.bsky.social @pmgeducator.bsky.social · 28/09/2025
Arrest this man
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pmgeducator.bsky.social @pmgeducator.bsky.social · 26/09/2025
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
Collage of a woman in traditional northern shangaan dress.
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pmgeducator.bsky.social @pmgeducator.bsky.social · 13/09/2025
Read the story of a tree that has it's own museum thetreeographer.com/2018/03/08/t...
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The Unfortunate End of the World’s Loneliest Tree – The Tree of Ténéré
The desert is by no means a hospitable place, but a single tree managed to survive the arid wasteland for several hundred years – until it met its end due to an exceptionally careless driver.
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pmgeducator.bsky.social @pmgeducator.bsky.social · 12/09/2025
In a country without a gun culture, this politician only gets milk shakes and eggs thrown at him.
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pmgeducator.bsky.social @pmgeducator.bsky.social · 03/09/2025
Spring irises
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GroundUp News @groundup.org.za · 02/09/2025
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
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Famine in Gaza: what next for South Africa’s genocide case against Israel
UN report confirms hundreds have starved to death despite International Court of Justice ordering Israel to allow humanitarian aid into the Palestinian enclave
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pmgeducator.bsky.social @pmgeducator.bsky.social · 01/09/2025
Dombeya Rotundifolia - Wild Pear - for September 1
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Shane Lear @shanelear.bsky.social · 20/08/2025
Mad TV was spot-on three decades ago.
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pmgeducator.bsky.social @pmgeducator.bsky.social · 20/08/2025
Haircut Sofa - with a famous face - thanks to www.instagram.com/generalis_st...
Image of Mandela in the style of African street barber sign
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pmgeducator.bsky.social @pmgeducator.bsky.social · 15/08/2025
Red hot poker (Kniphofia) - making sure pollinators can find it in the veld.
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pmgeducator.bsky.social @pmgeducator.bsky.social · 15/08/2025
'With friends like this, who needs enemies' seems to be a democratic slogan.
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