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FT Exclusive: The error was missed by two staff before a third employee caught the payment 90 minutes after it was posted. www.ft.com/content/9921...

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Opinion | University Australia's backing of a new definition of antisemitism will be devastating to the principles on which all universities are supposed to be built. Among them, equality.

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This is happening today in the US. We can’t let this happen in Australia! Let’s vote with our conscience, our country, our next generations to come, to protect the earth and fight climate change, be an equal opportunity place for all Australians www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

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Breaking news: A federal judge ordered the Office of Personnel Management to rescind directives that initiated the mass firing of probationary government workers in several agencies across the government, ruling that the terminations were probably illegal.

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I have airport disease. My doctor says it's terminal. I'll stop now.

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NEW: Who’s guiding Elon Musk as he navigates life in DC—and uses DOGE to dismantle key parts of the government? Stephen and Katie Miller, multiple sources tell WIRED. An inside look into the couple who have become integral to the world’s richest man and his ambitions in Washington.

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De Niro came a little later, but not much, so probably should be included.

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Ahh yes, remember when people were trying to tell us that Musk was actually going to save us from climate change

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Very sad news.

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🚨 BREAKING: Austria’s conservative Peoples’ Party (ÖVP), center-left Social Democrats (SPÖ) and liberal Neos have reached a coalition agreement. The deal would prevent the far-right Freedom Party (FPÖ) from taking power. Full story: ow.ly/hiFg50V7q89

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Just want to reiterate it is NOT NORMAL FOR THE WORLD'S RICHEST MAN WHO HAS NO OFFICIAL GOVERNMENT ROLE TO ADDRESS THE PRESIDENT AND HIS CABINET. And, also, casually joke about accidentally cutting Ebola prevention for a hot minute.

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Little by little, after an initial period of stunned confusion, the broader resistance to President Donald Trump is beginning to wake up.

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Complete batshit lunacy on the president's Truth Social account. Yes, he really posted this.

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I guess the authorities are targeting Middle East and Southeast Asia tourists as they figure they'll be less concerned about national security/free speech concerns than folks from Japan, Taiwan, the West, etc. But would many people for whom pigs are haram be attracted to visit pork-loving Hong Kong?

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Sometimes I feel sorry for Satan Imagine going through existence being compared to Trump

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Taiwanese authorities said they had detained a cargo ship crewed by Chinese nationals, which investigators believe may have severed an undersea communications cable near the island on Tuesday.

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A fake video of President Trump sucking the toes of Elon Musk briefly appeared on monitors at the Washington, D.C., headquarters of the Department of Housing and Urban Development on Monday, according to department employees and others familiar with what transpired.

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Over 1,000 musicians including Kate Bush, Annie Lennox and Damon Albarn have released a silent album in protest at proposed changes to UK copyright law around artificial intelligence (AI) which they say will legalise music theft. https://u.afp.com/SJhN

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An alleged job scam, led by “Aiden” from “OpenAI,” recruited workers in Bangladesh for months before disappearing overnight, according to FTC complaints obtained by WIRED.

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What’s worse? That the US Attorney’s office for DC call themselves “Trump’s lawyers” or that they don’t know where to put the apostrophe?

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Hollywood titans have appealed to Italian prime minister Giorgia Meloni to block a new law that could turn Rome's oldest cinemas into shopping centers.

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Ita Buttrose has savaged ABC managing director David Anderson in a remarkable letter to the ABC's lawyers. Here it is, in full.

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“If you think Musk a mere court jester, you would be wrong. He is no longer a laughing matter. Both Musk and Trump have compromised the stability and security of the United States by their inane and insane capers.” theaimn.net/first-man-el...

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Himes: "It just looks like an episode of The Sopranos. 'Give us your minerals or we're not gonna help you fight a bloody butcher.' I mean, is this really we want the greatest country in history to be known for -- some mafia thing? ... this president is standing with the bad guy"

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UN human rights chief Volker Turk has called for an investigation into “grave violations of international law” in Israel and the occupied Palestinian Territory. 🔴 LIVE updates: aje.io/hi4ilp

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Trump's goons apparently didn't explain to him that the party that won the German election wasn't the one they'd spent the last month gassing up.

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There’s some excellent options here. You can also listen to @birmo.bsky.social talk about other things in this podcast episode, “The 9pm Nostalgia for Corruption with John Birmingham”. the9pmedict.com/edict/00243/

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Top Ten Likely Outcomes for the AUKUS Submarine Deal "No. 8: Elon Musk offers to repurpose thousands of unsold cyber trucks as the world’s first chainsaw-armed cyber-sub-mesh-network running on Dogecoin and firing torpedoes via Neuralink. His medical team quietly increases the dosage."

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The new deputy director of the FBI recently said Trump should “set up a courtroom” in the White House and “just start making judicial decisions”

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“I’ve never seen the level of unity and anger as this” www.smh.com.au/culture/art-...

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Donald doesn't even know the difference between AfD and CDU. The U.S. is the truest example of a kakistocracy.

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Remember when Gerry Harvey said the homeless should be left to die. He said they shouldn't get assistance because it was just helping "no-hopers" to survive? That's the mentality we're dealing with. That will happen under a Dutton/Rinehart government. #auspol

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Gold

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Multiple US agencies told employees not to respond immediately to a demand by Elon Musk to list their accomplishments in the past week or be fired, as a chaotic campaign to cull the federal workforce pushes forward reut.rs/3XewdXW

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"Many American scientific institutions are engaged in anticipatory obedience of the Trump administration’s demands that diversity and anti-discrimination programs be abolished, or climate change stop being mentioned. Many even go beyond what is explicitly sought." theconversation.com/two-in-five-...

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I find it incomprehensible that so many Democratic politicians post on Twitter but NOT on Bluesky. I post on both platforms whenever possible, but I’ll post on Bluesky FIRST. I mean, WTF? 🤬

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MAGA influencer Jack Posobiec, whom Pete Hegseth brought on his trip to Europe, told CPAC that Trump isn’t violating the Constitution because “Trump is the living embodiment of the American Constitution.” This is what fascism looks like.

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Wow! What a great cover!

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Brilliant protest. Yosemite National Park workers hung an upside-down American flag — traditionally a symbol of distress or a national threat — thousands of feet off the ground on the side of El Capitan.

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ICONIC: Yosemite National Park workers just hung an upside-down American flag—THOUSANDS of feet up on El Capitan. That’s not decoration. That’s a distress signal. They’re telling us the country is in danger. Are you paying attention? www.sfchronicle.com/outdoors/art...

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🚪 ✊🏻 Door knocking in the AM 🎡 🎉 Bentleigh Festival-ing in the PM with @zoedaniel.bsky.social & fellow volunteers 💪🏼 #independencefights #independenceacts #independenceworks

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Found joy Upset a few people Completed tasks Kicked some goals Undermined the status quo

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It is not clear whether OPM has the authority to force federal workers to resign if they do not respond to the email. “I don't know that anybody can assess what’s legal right now because the agencies that are supposed to act as watchdogs are being dismantled,”… www.wired.com/story/doge-e...

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I expect when Trump is no longer useful to Putin, and Putin wants to humiliate the USA, that's when the "US President pee-pee tape" will be anonymously released online. In the meantime, I could see Trump funding Russia to "bring an end to the war" in Ukraine. #USPolitics #SlavaUkraini 🇺🇦

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Just a little reminder that as Germany (the largest economy in EU) heads to the polls there’s almost no chance of a ‘majority government’ Indeed they almost never have ‘majority governments’…power sharing parliaments are the norm in so many counties…just sayin www.independent.co.uk/news/world/e...

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