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Mastodon Trends South AfricaApr 22

The following hashtags are trending across South African Mastodon instances:

#hazyviewbodies
#mpumalanga
#kidnappings
#southafrica
#policekillings
#thanks
#giving
#bible
#jesuschrist

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Cliff the Reporter🇿🇦Apr 22

UPDATER: Three burnt bodies have been discovered in a bush, in Hazyview today, they burnt beyond recognition.

Mpumalanga Police spokesman Mavela Masondo says they probing if victims are the 3 people who were kidnapped in Mbombela on 14 April. One suspect taken in for questioning #HazyViewBodies #Mpumalanga #Kidnappings #Mbombela

The Japan TimesMar 1
As U.S. rekindles relations with Pyongyang, what’s Japan’s role? https://www.japantimes.co.jp/commentary/2026/03/01/japan/trump-japan-and-north-korea-relations/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #commentary #japan #sanaetakaichi #kimjongun #donaldtrump #usjapanrelations #northkoreausrelations #kidnappings
Takaichi, Trump and Japan-North Korea relations

North Korea has given no space for engagement on the issues most relevant to Japan — that is, the abductee issue and denuclearization.

The Japan Times
The New Yorker [Unofficial]Feb 14

The Disappearance of Nancy Guthrie

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://www.newyorker.com/news/the-lede/the-disappearance-of-nancy-guthrie

Show threadWilliam Lindsey Feb 6

"The transcript of Tuesday’s hearing in Minnesota federal court in which one overwhelmed government attorney begged to be held in contempt so she could finally get some sleep is worth reading as a window into chaos inside the Trump administration."

~ David Kurtz

#Trump #ICE #MaskedThugs #Minnesota #immigrants #kidnappings #JulieLe
/7

https://morningmemo.talkingpointsmemo.com/p/the-upside-down-world-of-the-buffoonish

The Upside Down World of the Buffoonish Ed Martin

INSIDE: Todd Blanche ... Tulsi Gabbard ... Steve Bannon

Morning Memo
Show threadWilliam Lindsey Feb 6

"The fuller context of her statement captures her frustration with her unsuccessful efforts to get ICE prisoners released. ...

The problem here is not just that ICE is blowing off judicial orders.

The problem is that there are so many orders because the detentions are illegal in the first place."

#Trump #ICE #MaskedThugs #Minnesota #immigrants #kidnappings #JulieLe
/6

Show threadWilliam Lindsey Feb 6

"By now you’ve heard about Julie Le, the ICE lawyer temporarily serving in (and now reassigned away from) the Minnesota US Attorney’s office to deal with the flood of paperwork in the wake of the invasion, who begged a judge to hold her in contempt so she could get some sleep."

~ Marcy Wheeler

#Trump #ICE #MaskedThugs #Minnesota #immigrants #kidnappings #JulieLe
/5

https://emptywheel.net/the-minnesota-lawyer-backlog-arises-from-ice-kidnappings/

The Minnesota Lawyer Backlog Arises from ICE Kidnappings - emptywheel

The reason -- at least one reason -- ICE is having such a difficult time following judicial instructions in Minnesota is because ICE is snatching so many people illegally.

emptywheel
🏳️‍🌈Jamez Re!nert🏳️‍🌈Jan 25
Everything is political because if ICE comes for me you’ll see no more of my posts of BlueSky. #ICE #ICEOut #FuckICE #Gestapo #Nazis #DeathSquads #Fascists #Authoritarianism #ChristoFascists #WhiteSupremacists #Abductions #Kidnappings #Disappearances #MissingPeople #Capitalism
The Japan TimesJan 20
A court has given a man a suspended sentence for transporting a then-high school student to Myanmar last year to have him engage in fraud despite knowing that the boy had been kidnapped. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2026/01/20/japan/crime-legal/student-myanmar-sentence-court/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #japan #crimelegal #miyagi #japanesecourts #myanmar #highschools #fraud #kidnappings
Man found guilty of sending student to Myanmar for fraud

A judge said that transporting the student, including by ship, to a place from which he could not return by himself was 'a malicious act.'

The Japan Times