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🏆 @rollingstone.com wins the Headline of the Day Award This is how it’s done. At least someone understands the assignment. www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

submitted 23 hours ago • 896 comments

important context about the concentration camps in el salvador:

submitted 1 day ago • 318 comments

It's important for people to understand that we're on a trajectory that eventually leads to political prisoners (first non-citizens, then citizens) being sent to these camps.

submitted 23 hours ago • 80 comments

We are in the seat of Wills today for the Asylum Seeker Resource Centre asking people to Vote with Refugees. To vote for fairness, justice, safety and freedom and to support candidates that hold and live those values. Learn more here: action.asrc.org.au/act_now

submitted 1 day ago • 2 comments

WHOA! #WhiskyPete has banned books by Maya Angelou from the US Naval Nimitz Library but kept Adolf Hitler's Mein Kampf. #BannedBooks #booksky💙📚

submitted 2 days ago • 0 comments

'There are so many redflags with this remote burn in the Mitchell River Nat Park. A desktop survey brings up threatened, rare & endemic flora & fauna records. Large areas of old growth forest, & the most southern occurrence of warm temperate rainforest'. themountainjournal.com/2025/04/13/p...

submitted 2 days ago • 4 comments

Canada out here dropping truth bombs on us 🇨🇦

submitted 2 days ago • 89 comments

How to blow up a campaign in two easy steps www.thesaturdaypaper.com.au/comment/topi... via @thesaturdaypaper.com.au

submitted 4 days ago • 6 comments

State department staff told to report colleagues for ‘anti-Christian bias’

submitted 4 days ago • 23 comments

BREAKING from @science.org: The Trump admin is seeking to kill nearly all climate research at NOAA, its climate science agency. Its near-final budget proposal would end all NOAA research labs, academic institutes, and regional climate centers. And it wants to fully end the NOAA Research division.

submitted 4 days ago • 122 comments

The President’s unprecedented Executive Order yesterday targeting Messrs. Chris Krebs and Miles Taylor for nothing but the exercise of their First Amendment rights is the President’s most constitutionally corrupt Executive Order to date.

submitted 5 days ago • 605 comments

extinction ideas have drawn on 19 century narratives of race and colonisation. Some interesting new research pointing that the causes of extinction are different to an invasive new species. theconversation.com/extinctions-...

submitted 4 days ago • 0 comments

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submitted 6 days ago • 54 comments

OMFG!!!! Nazis in the House no longer hide who they really are. At least now we know who the real Rep Self is.

submitted 4 days ago • 2 comments

De-extinction is the carbon removal of biodiversity world Promises to magically undo the harm that in reality can only be prevented before it occurs.

submitted 5 days ago • 6 comments

How to Survive the Broligarchy broligarchy.substack.com?utm_campaign...

submitted 4 days ago • 0 comments

"Stop procrastinating" in cuneiform: "Why don't you write your tablet and do your homework? If you don't, they will say: "Is *this* the sister of Sheru'a-eṭirat, eldest daughter of the Succession Palace of Ashur-etel-ilani-mukinni, the great king, mighty king, king of the world, king of Assyria?"

submitted 5 days ago • 22 comments

in case you're wondering, "what's the harm in claiming an extinct species has been brought back from the dead" when it most certainly has not, our interior secretary is already using it to justify taking animals off the endangered species list

submitted 7 days ago • 19 comments

Australia is in an extinction crisis – why isn’t it an issue at this election? www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

submitted 6 days ago • 16 comments

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Shout out to the home of my monthly column, @newscientist.com, which nailed their headline about the genetically modified GREY wolves www.newscientist.com/article/2475...

submitted 7 days ago • 50 comments

If you need a ‘good laugh’…👇 Since. Ancient. Times. 😂✨

submitted 7 days ago • 1052 comments

An airstrike on a media tent in Gaza has reportedly killed two journalists and injured seven more, as well as dozens of non-journalists. The IDF said it was targeting a photographer who had been with Hamas on October 7. cpj.org/2025/04/isra...

submitted 7 days ago • 5 comments

the bird-namers were really sick of this bird's shit

submitted 223 days ago • 39 comments

“In other words, the future MAHA wants is a eugenic one. They dislike that there are so many elderly, chronically ill, weak, overweight and disabled people in our society. Diseases might ensure that those people were, rather than sick, dead.” 💯💯

submitted 7 days ago • 8 comments