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Author (Pig City, Something to Believe In), freelance journalist. Content: music, wildlife/biodiversity, AFL, cats. patreon.com/andrewstafford
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Read this and the world will seem a better place. www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...

submitted 19 hours ago • 22 comments

I don’t think enough people (especially news editors) fully grasped the magnitude of Trump’s executive order on Tuesday. He is not kidding around.

submitted 1 day ago • 1 comment

The Great Replacement Theory hits The Oz, via its least talented nepo-baby

submitted 1 day ago • 3 comments

Anne Twomey gives a thwacking to the amended electoral disclosure, donations and spending changes. Will be a very interesting HCA challenge when it happens. www.youtube.com/watch?v=0kfF...

submitted 1 day ago • 1 comment

Another article about our recent research showing how rat baits are killing Australia’s native carnivores. This piece shows how Bunnings is not willing to take any action on the issue. au.news.yahoo.com/calls-for-bu...

submitted 3 days ago • 3 comments

Tremendous piece by Gideon - this kind of criticism is sadly rare in Australia today

submitted 2 days ago • 1 comment

The worst thing about the absolute stitch up of footy not being on free to air TV on Saturday nights any more is that it is going to work: more people will reward Kayo (and indirectly the AFL) for this disgrace of a deal by signing up

submitted 3 days ago • 2 comments

The characters in Camus' The Plague spent (and wasted) a lot of energy and time debating whether the thing in front of them was, in fact, what it appeared to be. Castel put it best: "These little brutes always have an air of originality. But, at bottom, it’s always the same thing."

submitted 3 days ago • 1 comment

Your regular reminder that Clive Palmer has been facing criminal charges since 2018 (his last appeal to have those charges dismissed was thrown out in February 2024; the court described the delay as an abuse of process; he has since appealed to the High Court) www.smh.com.au/politics/fed...

submitted 3 days ago • 13 comments

We have been careful to avoid using the word coup, but it’s time to call it what it is—this is a coup. Trump signed an executive order granting only the attorney general or the president the authority to interpret laws executed by the executive branch.

submitted 4 days ago • 802 comments

This EO plainly usurps judicial power: "The President and the Attorney General (subject to the President’s supervision and control) will interpret the law for the executive branch, instead of having separate agencies adopt conflicting interpretations." www.whitehouse.gov/fact-sheets/...

submitted 3 days ago • 2 comments

It's about what you don't play. Vale Rick Buckler, who knew not to get in the way of Weller's greatest song www.youtube.com/watch?v=m-H0...

submitted 4 days ago • 2 comments

If you’re still on this Nazi’s site at this point, ask yourself: why

submitted 4 days ago • 2 comments

It’s not enough but please send cute pets and virtual hugs to Lena (reply to her, not me)!

submitted 4 days ago • 0 comments

Thanks to Fiona - subscriptions start from a lousy USD$1/month (***go via website, not app!***) - free piece on Marianne Faithfull from a couple of weeks ago here www.patreon.com/posts/friday...

submitted 5 days ago • 1 comment