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Chris Minns talked about the caravan plot as a mass casualty terror event and used it to pass repressive laws while he knew the entire time it was a hoax. Why exactly hasn’t he been forced to resign?

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Not aimed at anyone specific but noticing a lot of writers/women’s/ideas festivals that still don’t include issues around fatness or fat women speaking on other things! With ozempic & TikTok’s rising pro anorexia shit, it’s a very good time to include fat ppl in your thoughts, projects & politics!

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the escalating amazingness of the maths of 2025

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One of the greats! He wore a Palestine pin last year too. edition.cnn.com/2024/05/29/s...

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The 2025 Oscar winner for best documentary "No other land" which describes the horrors of living under Israeli occupation and settler efforts to expel the Palestinian citizens, hasn't found a distributor in the USA. You can watch it LEGALLY FOR FREE here. nootherland.mekomit.co.il

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this ‘jurassic park’ story 😭

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Pure Pop Poetry For Now People!! This is great. The words of Brian, the music of the Wires. 'Alexa, What Is There To Know About Love?' now on the Late Show, to much applause and throwing of hats in the air. buff.ly/4kciqLc

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In retrospect it was no surprise who won in the cast of Friends unmotorised water vehicle race. Lisa Kudrow

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Doc Neeson's family has condemned the National Socialist Network's hijacking of the classic The Angel's song "Am I Ever Gonna See Your Face Again." Link to post: www.facebook.com/615415007/po...

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one day an ugly guy will shoot a health insurance CEO and I'll finally feel represented

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If anybody out there has a copy of the 2002 CD “The Ticket,” by New York subway performer Ron Raffel, please contact me! I’ve been searching for this album since 2008 when I realized my disc was badly scratched/unplayable. It’s an obsession! I want to hear it again!

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Arts Minister Tony Burke made some remarks earlier this week about Creative Australia’s decision to ditch Lebanese Australian artist Khaled Sabsabi as the pick for the 61st Venice Biennale. They didn’t get much coverage but I can’t get them out of my head. So here you go.

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Creative Australia should have seen the attack on Khaled Sabsabi coming a mile off - and been ready to defend both the artist and the integrity of their process. Instead - they folded. @beneltham.bsky.social and I on the failure of Creative Australia to meet the moment.

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Today in my newsletter I'm exploring the importance of language in sport and wading into the battlefield of the "gentlemen's game" of cricket to take a look at why the language we use across both men's and women's cricket matters

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I tried to resist writing about this particular white gazed book, but couldn't. Here's my essay on Evie Wyld's dehumanisation of Blak people, and co-option of Blak trauma for her latest sad white girl novel. Harmful white gazed novels need to be left in colonial eras. overland.org.au/2025/02/echo...

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If you read one thing today let it be Karen Wyld’s brilliant critique of The Echoes ‘Using dehumanising racial stereotypes and tropes, [Evie] Wyld, like [Eliza] Fraser, has turned Blak people into mere extras in a white woman’s drama’

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“I've just injected steroids into my arm" "Anabolic?" "No, just my arm"

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#JusticeforCassius

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What's it like getting old? If you enjoy forgetting stuff, you're going to love something I can't recall

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Ecuador's constitutional court has ruled that coastal marine ecosystems have legal rights that must be protected. Ecuador became the first country in the world to enshrine the rights of nature into its constitution.https://buff.ly/4heDnmQ #ShareGoodNewsToo

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Evergreen writing tip from John Swartzwelder (creator of a tons of classic The Simpsons episodes, plus some very funny novels). This is from a rare interview, by Mike Sacks of The New Yorker, 2001. www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...

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That AI summit has me stewing with how delusional it was so here’s something I believe in my cells about storytelling and how & why we need to do it… From an interview with novelist David Mitchell on how creativity might be making connections in our existence… www.theparisreview.org/interviews/6...

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thank you to the union leadership, who negotiated so well on our behalf; thank you to everyone who shared their support and signed the walkout pledge alongside us (paul! schrader!); thank you to frank sobotka, whose hype speeches I watched more than once during this process

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The trial had been examining Ms Kerr's words to Metropolitan Police officer Stephen Lovell during a drunken dispute about a taxi ride in January, 2023.

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Never misses

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this is the most loser shit I’ve ever read

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It’s getting real y’all. 97% of New York Magazine Union members just signed a pledge to walk out of work if we don’t get a fair contract from Vox Media. If you love @nymag.com and the work we do, sign our solidarity pledge to support us in the event of a walkout: nymagunion.org/reader-pledge

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One consequence of Trump's approach, that the left should seriously think about, is that you can just do things. Liberalism led to him and now it's been blasted away. Ditch the traditions people hate anyway, and do what you want. Jail billionaires, nationalise things, build stuff.

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Why did they call it a bayonet and not a knifle

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Despite Trump claiming Head Start funds were unfrozen, it looks like the real president — Elon Musk — was illegally blocking them anyway. Musk claims to be a pro-natalist. This move exposes the lie. LIke all "natalists," he's just a misogynist. www.salon.com/2025/02/06/e...

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The deputy chair of the Walkleys judging board casually criticising Arab states for not aiding in forced displacement and ethnic cleansing. No one will even remark upon this, it’s so normalised in Australia media. Compare to the treatment of journalists who oppose genocide.

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Looking over this list of Martin Scorsese’s 10 Oscar nominations (ranked by Tim Grierson—I mostly agree with the numbering) what is most striking to me is that in all but 3, possibly 4 cases, his filmmaking is superior to that of the person that actually won. www.rogerebert.com/festivals/ma...

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This is Winston Smith’s job in “1984.”

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Column: What classic movies can tell us about our current moment I write a little about 1940’s “The Great Dictator” (photo seen here) but mostly interested in the less famous 1942 film “To Be or Not To Be” starring Carole Lombard & Jack Benny. Both are comedies, which is all I can stomach right now

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“A young woman has pleaded guilty to harassment in the UK’s first ‘cyber-farting’ case after bombarding her boyfriend’s ex with videos of her breaking wind.” metro.co.uk/2025/01/29/w... HT @thesizzleau.bsky.social, of course.

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Gustavo Petro mando pa' la puta mierda a la Trump. Had a feeling he was going to do this. He’s of new generation of Leftist Latin American Presidents since 1960s. Former teen guerrilla fighter who was imprisoned & tortured. Ran on transforming Colombia away from a foreign exploited petro state…

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