88 Kilos of Sunshine

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[88 Kilos of Sunshine @88KOS]

So here goes, the complete thread on "The Tyranny of Pretty Things" https://t.co/q06xeH3r5q

[88 Kilos of Sunshine @88KOS]

It is embarrassing how eager some of the press is to believe any garbage as long as it is critical of South Africa.

[Sherwin Bryce-Pease @sherwiebp]

The South African Chamber of Commerce in the USA (SACCUSA) has issued an urgent warning to the South African government that the country faces a credible risk of losing its preferential trade benefits under the African Growth and Opportunity Act (AGOA), despite the recent extension of the program until December 2028.

SACCUSA President Mr Neil Diamond has called on the South African government to make the preservation of AGOA eligibility and the strengthening of US–South Africa trade relations an immediate national economic priority.

#sabcnews

[88 Kilos of Sunshine @88KOS]

@sherwiebp Dis you check this organisation's credentials? Or do you just repeat nonsense because it gets coverage?

[Clayson Monyela @ClaysonMonyela]

Dear newsrooms, let's bring back basic research into our profession. SACCUSA is a discredited private NPO run by Neil Diamond (🇿🇦 expat)—a simple search lists his past controversies like municipal land-swap probes to bitter property grab disputes with vulnerable widows. He recently reportedly fabricated a fictitious list of "67,000 Afrikaner refugees" to harvest data, only to be humiliated & publicly bypassed by the US Gov. Please speak to legit business organisations in the USA & SA to get informed, credible & reliable views/data on 🇺🇲🇿🇦 bilateral matters.

[88 Kilos of Sunshine @88KOS]

Die Orania Paradoks - n Kwantitatiewe ontleding deur die Universiteit van die Lewe
https://t.co/4mPP7WDdU7

[Lukhona Mnguni - RISE Mzansi CoJ @LukhonaMnguni]

Good Morning Jozi!! 05:20am joining residents of Joburg as they make their way to various commitments.

4 November 2026 #VoteAmaselaOut

[Nick Longrich @NickLongrich]

"University researchers built a satellite that tracks people from low Earth orbit and dispatches a 5 kg payload to within .1 meter of their position, traveling at Mach 25 to anywhere on Earth in under 5 minutes. They suggest it could be used to deliver greeting cards."

[Songezo Zibi @SongezoZibi]

@LungeloN_Zulu I think you mean reading

[Hayden @the_transit_guy]

So the third-largest company on the planet is willing to cut 27% of its workforce due to AI, its stock rises on the news, and I’m supposed to believe this technology is great for the future of humanity?

[suzanna rosanna dana @suzanrosanadana]

@TheWyteRabbit1

[FonsFlacko @FonsFlacko]

🚨Out of the 11 women who tie Donald Trump to Epstein’s sex trafficking operation, 5 of them—Beatrice Keul, Stacey Williams, Jill Harth, Katie Johnson, and a Jane Doe—have directly accused Trump of raping or sexually assaulting them in Epstein’s company or direct physical presence:

• Beatrice Keul credibly alleges that Trump violently raped her at a November 1993 pageant at the Plaza Hotel in New York City and that Epstein, Trump, and others used this pageant as a “hunting ground” to prey on vulnerable young women and girls;

• Stacey Williams, who offered a detailed and corroborated account of Trump
sexually assaulting her in the early 1990s while she was alone with him and Epstein in an office at Trump Tower;

• Jill Harth, who has also publicly detailed Trump aggressively pursuing and violently sexually assaulting her and another woman in 1994 at a Mar-a-Lago party where Epstein and Trump were the only men present;

• Katie Johnson, who gave FBI a detailed account of her repeated rape at the hands of Trump and Epstein in 1994 in New York City when she was a minor;

• A Jane Doe, who offered FBI a graphic account of Trump assaulting her when she was a minor in the mid-1980s in New York by forcibly pushing her head down to his exposed penis.

Beyond these direct allegations of physical assault, three survivors speak of encounters with Trump whose circumstances indicate that he was a participant in Epstein’s crimes, as shown by how Epstein and his accomplice, Ghislaine Maxwell, tried to make (or
made) these women available for sex.

•Two Epstein survivors, “Jane” and “Kate”, told FBI that either Epstein or Maxwell seemingly offered them up to Trump for the purposes of sex or indicated their availability.

Jane and Kate were deemed so credible that federal prosecutors called them to testify as government witnesses, subject to probing cross- examination, against Ghislaine Maxwell at her criminal trial.

• Another survivor, Maria Farmer, described how Epstein had to actively prevent Trump from preying on her late at night after Trump confused her with a teenage girl potentially victimized by Epstein.

[Kenzie Goldberg ✴︎ reflections @KenzieGoldberg]

Next thing you know, the 666 barcode panic from 1994 will make a full comeback. 😭

[Osama Abu Rabee أسامة أبوربيع @dn_osama_rabee]

Do not let the passing days make us forget Dr. Hussam Abu Safiya, the physician who continued fulfilling his humanitarian duty in Gaza amid war and danger, refusing to abandon his patients despite the pain and threats surrounding him.

Hussam Abu Safiya is not just a name that appeared in the news. He is the story of a doctor who chose to stand by his people when staying meant risking his life.

Do not forget him. Do not let his case fade into silence. Keep demanding his freedom. Behind this name is a human being who deserves to remain in our conscience until the day he is free.

[The New Republic @newrepublic]

Kushner also failed to disclose himself as an agent of a foreign government, having been paid nearly $2 billion in total by foreign leaders. https://t.co/kwhRHimvqU

[Patrick S. Tomlinson @stealthygeek]

It was pulled from a "wider release" of less than 500 screens after only one week.

The powers that be really don't want you seeing this documentary.

[Leanne @Leanne75494906]

Jared Kushner/Jamal Kashoggi
Saudi Arabia transfers $100 million to U.S. on day of Pompeo visit to discuss missing journalist.

[Jamie Bonkiewicz @JamieBonkiewicz]

Abdul El-Sayed was born in Michigan. How the fuck is a man born here going to invade and occupy our country? MAGA is dumb and racist as fuck.

[Irfaan Mangera 🍉🇿🇦 @IrfaanMangera]

Wooooahhhhh!!! 😧 This all under a Zuma Presidency.

[Shareen Singh @ShareenSingh8]

No one forces people to eat Halaal or Kosher foods. Woolworths stocks Halaal meat for a reason - there is a market for it. Checkers sells Yahrzeit candles - the ones that last all night that Jewish people use to remember their dead loved ones. Let us celebrate our diversity - go to restaurants that sell alcohol and those that do not. Islamophobia has emerged recently - in whose interests?

[88 Kilos of Sunshine @88KOS]

@Markosonke1 They have given me more freedom than I ever had before 1994. And many of their members died or were tortured to get those freedoms. So some gave their lives, some gave their loves and some gave their peace. I am grateful.
I hope they get rid of the rot inside the organisation.

[Henriette Geldenhuys @h_geldenhuys]

@Markosonke1 They provided more than 3 million free homes to South Africans since 1994. This is an achievement very few countries can match.