pmgeducator.bsky.social - Profile | ThreadSky | a Reddit-style client for Bluesky

On Musk's old-fashioned, backwards-looking futurist/techno-authoritarian ideas, all borrowed from failed thinkers of the 20th century from Jill Lepore www.nytimes.com/2025/04/04/o...

submitted 1 day ago • 39 comments

Meanwhile, South Korea has successfully impeached their president www.nytimes.com/live/2025/04...

submitted 2 days ago • 524 comments

The U.S. poultry industry has a tariff-free quota allocation in South Africa. We are not blocking their poultry. But they have never fully utilized their allocated quota. In recent years, they used just under 60% of the 71,632 tonnes quota.

submitted 2 days ago • 0 comments

Mini-grids and household solar solutions now account for more than half of all new electricity connections in sub-Saharan Africa. The region is leapfrogging the traditional, centralised electrification model. theprogressplaybook.com/2025/04/03/i...

submitted 3 days ago • 3 comments

Evidence of ‘execution-style’ killings of 15 Palestinian aid workers by Israeli forces, doctor says

submitted 3 days ago • 28 comments

One of the hazards of the trump show is that gaza and sudan etal get overshadowed.

submitted 3 days ago • 0 comments

if the united states ever has even a hope of recovering we have to destroy the idea of american individualism. "they don't owe you anything" we owe each other everything actually

submitted 3 days ago • 81 comments

This is the first reporting I've read from Sudan since the army re-took the capital, Khartoum, from the RSF rebels. It's heartbreaking. The bloodshed & destruction have been immense. www.bbc.com/news/article...

submitted 3 days ago • 0 comments

Watch Cory Booker's filibuster on YouTube - makes even Hon. Buthelezi's best efforts into the shade guinnessworldrecords.com/world-record...

submitted 4 days ago • 0 comments

Had more white people acknowledged that they benefited from apartheid, South Africa might actually be much further in its reconciliation project.

submitted 7 days ago • 1 comment

In other news, the Cosmos are flowering in Johannesburg - vestiges of the occupation of South Africa by a British army and their horse fodder.

submitted 6 days ago • 0 comments

How far is the White House from a new Bebelplatz! www.visitberlin.de/en/book-burn...

submitted 6 days ago • 0 comments

For a pacifist White House, they spend a lot of time taking about war, don't they? Is it business or pleasure?

submitted 7 days ago • 0 comments

In the dark old days when calling a spade a spade could get you buried, Kenyans used to refer to "the appointing authority" rather than the President - and the US now understands what that means.

submitted 7 days ago • 0 comments

"The American imperialism directed towards Denmark and Canada is not just morally wrong. It is strategically disastrous. The United States has nothing to gain from it, and much to lose."

submitted 7 days ago • 0 comments

Before some clueless teenager starts using find and replace - enjoy one of the wonders of America www.si.edu/visit/museums

submitted 7 days ago • 0 comments

I’ll have a lot more to say on this, but eliminating USAID while a dozen officers were responding to the earthquake in Myanmar is so on brand for this nightmare of an administration.

submitted 8 days ago • 91 comments

The Quakers are a really important & authentic voice for humanitarian values, have been for over 300 years. Unless the police had credible evidence that the Meeting House had been infiltrated by terrorists, this should be treated as an attack against religious freedom & peaceful protest.

submitted 8 days ago • 8 comments

“The range of actions taken by South African civil society showcases how these groups can serve as both partners and watchdogs, promoting reliable information while protecting free expression from disproportionate restrictions.” Learn more ⬇️ freedomhouse.org/article/prot...

submitted 8 days ago • 0 comments

For those looking to support #Congolese orgs responding to the crisis in eastern #DRC check out this site: www.africandiasporaconnection.org/congodevelop...

submitted 9 days ago • 0 comments

Scientists in the US are facing the growing threat of government funding freezes. But the real tragedy is that it hardly matters whether the guillotine falls or not. Once researchers begin to be deterred by fear, the damage is already done www.ft.com/content/7065...

submitted 10 days ago • 10 comments

Delta Park - Sunday... Wednesday

submitted 10 days ago • 0 comments

Civil society organisations worldwide face political backlash after #Trump & #Musk link #USAID grantees to 'terrorism', with investigations, crackdowns – as well as loss of income, according to survey by EU SEE ⬇️ @hivos.bsky.social @hrw.org healthpolicy-watch.news/civil-societ...

submitted 11 days ago • 0 comments

In South Africa, we would call what the US govt is going through as #StateCapture - the takeover of govt by proxies. And in this case, the proxy is #Russia

submitted 11 days ago • 0 comments

A more accurate headline (to an excellent article): "Big Corporate Law Firms Betray the American System of Justice" @fairmediawatch.bsky.social @froomkin.bsky.social @garrettepps.bsky.social @petermshane.bsky.social www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

submitted 11 days ago • 0 comments

It’s war and peace with Donald and Pete – and the worst group chat the world has ever seen | Marina Hyde

submitted 11 days ago • 27 comments

6-month closure of the #Lesotho Highlands #Water Project (#LHWP) to be extended by 3 weeks due to delays on the Lesotho side of the tunnel maintenance. No problems for #Gauteng water, however, due to recent massive rains that have dams at full pool: www.citizen.co.za/news/full-va...

submitted 11 days ago • 0 comments

"Oscar-winning Palestinian director is attacked by Israeli settlers and detained." "Palestinian co-director of Oscar-winning doc 'No Other Land,' Hamdan Ballal, was attacked by West Bank settlers and arrested by the Israeli army, according to his colleague and an NGO." www.lemonde.fr/en/internati...

submitted 12 days ago • 1 comment

In South Africa, we have white and black “Boere,” and it is super important that they all feel safe and focus on their productive daily work, which helps our rural and agricultural economy thrive. Sound and fair policy, not songs, will resolve the inequities in the sector.

submitted 13 days ago • 0 comments

There’s a whole museum in Greece waiting for the reunification of the marbles. Let the BM display the replicas but repatriate the marbles. Stolen artifacts are a stain. www.theacropolismuseum.gr/en/exhibit-h...

submitted 13 days ago • 3 comments

China is considering joining the potential peacekeeping mission for Ukraine being spearheaded by European leaders, German newspaper Welt reported on Saturday.

submitted 13 days ago • 33 comments

🌳Today is the International Day of Forests. Forests play an important role in mitigating climate change by removing carbon dioxide from the atmosphere. Human practices such as deforestation can contribute to climate change. Take a look at our work focused on forests. www.lse.ac.uk/granth...

submitted 16 days ago • 1 comment

"The American intellectuals who now find themselves alienated from the country that they inhabit aren’t interested in reality. They are interested in a fantasy nation, different and distinct from their own hateful country. "

submitted 15 days ago • 0 comments

Elon-gate - its a long story.

submitted 15 days ago • 0 comments

We will have self driving cars, and be walking on water before anyone sorts out a reliable printer system.

submitted 16 days ago • 1 comment

With an Aardvark in the name, can there really not be a local somewhere in the mix

submitted 16 days ago • 0 comments

Kirsty Coventry elected first female president of IOC as Coe denied in vote

submitted 16 days ago • 7 comments

Africa CDC warns that 2-4 million more Africans per year will die as a result of abrupt #US aid cuts. Dr Tedros calls for US to act in an 'orderly and humane' manner to enable countries to find alternative funding sources. #USAID #PEPFAR healthpolicy-watch.news/africa-cdc-a...

submitted 16 days ago • 0 comments

If you're critical of the US government and you are planning to cross the US border any time soon, today is a good day to review EFF's border search pocket guide: www.eff.org/document/eff...

submitted 17 days ago • 72 comments

South Africa believes in diversity - it is literally our national motto www.gov.za/about-sa/nat... - so anyone telling us to drop it is interfering in our sovereignty.

submitted 17 days ago • 0 comments

Stand with #SouthAfrica against #Trump wrath, urges Former Finance Minister of Greece Yanis Varoufakis ⬇️ mg.co.za/thought-lead...

submitted 17 days ago • 0 comments

Critics say the main flaw in Donald Trump’s approach is his failure to understand the complexities of the players involved and his overconfidence that he can rapidly change the dynamic on the ground. Here’s how his peace efforts have unravelled: www.ft.com/content/7180...

submitted 18 days ago • 58 comments

Researchers funded by the US National Institutes of Health (NIH) are bracing for the worst, after rumours circulated that the agency is planning to cancel grants for South African clinical studies. Read groundup.org.za/article/fear... by Jesse Copelyn

submitted 18 days ago • 1 comment

Don't trust "AI" and also realize that the push to have "AI" in everything happened because some tech people wanted to get rich and other tech people didn't want others to get rich without them, and now they've all spent too much money on a bad product and are trying to scramble out of the hole.

submitted 18 days ago • 256 comments

🚴‍♂️In our new report, authors Dr. Gabriel Okello & Dr. Lambed Tatah evaluate the potential of transitioning to electric motorcycles in Kampala, Uganda and provides actionable recommendations to unlock the environmental and health benefits of this shift. Read 👉 www.cisl.cam.ac.uk/news-and-res...

submitted 18 days ago • 0 comments

COMMENTARY: All in all, Donald Trump and his motley crew of special envoys, family members and presidential pals seem keener to converge with Russia on broader geopolitical issues than really press Vladimir Putin hard on Ukraine.

submitted 18 days ago • 32 comments

Trump message on Truth Social. Do note that he speaks of "a ceasefire on all energy and infrastructure", whereas the Kremlin readout speaks of a ceasefire on "energy infrastructure". No 'and'.

submitted 18 days ago • 0 comments