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IN BRIEF: Newsroom thesaurus ‘ethnic cleansing’ page getting a workout, after Israel ‘expands offensive’ into West Bank

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This book had as big an impact on my childhood as the D & D handbook Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers Day 11/20 #booksky #bookchallenge #20bookchallenge #wargames #nerdsky

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I wish more people knew about the 1920s Klan because they—perhaps more than European fascists—are the model for Trumpism. This is a good summary and a nice reminder that they do a lot of damage, but in the end, fascists always lose.

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I'm ignoring this story about the caravan full of explosives but FTR, the winker is back fronting Estimates. Ms Foster is still earning the big bucks. 😉 #auspol

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A mosaic with Medusa was found at Halstock #Dorset in 1817 Thinking there was treasure beneath, locals destroyed the floor 😱 Using records made at the time, Stephen Cosh reconstructed Medusa for volume 2 of Roman Mosaics of Britain (2005) published by @antiquaries.bsky.social 🤩 #MosaicMonday

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After such beautiful trolling, looking forward to the US Army Chorus doing a well-targeted version of "Master of the [White]House". Many of the original lyrics apply, but you could add for example: 🎶 Sewer for a brain, cognitively impaired Thinks he's Mussolini but there's not much there 🎶

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Fascinating.

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📷 Opening Ceremony of the Electric Tramway in Damascus, Syria, 1907 #Damascus #Tramway #Railroad #History #TrainHistory

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Oh look it's not going away www.smh.com.au/culture/art-...

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Doesn’t seem to understand consent…

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Hegseth says firing of top military lawyers was about making sure "they don't exist to be roadblocks to anything that happens."

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The senator pre-emptively asked if people can sue cars chaser.com.au/general-news...

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"this is the first time he has argued that non-white migrants are part of a conspiracy to subvert the will of white voters" @keanebernard.bsky.social Not sure what's worse: - Dutton's open racism, or - mainstream media's supine failure to call him out. #auspol www.crikey.com.au/2025/02/24/p...

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I present to you the next deputy director of the FBI!

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THIS IS HUGE! Researchers at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center say results of a Phase I trial of an mRNA vaccine aimed at preventing pancreatic cancer show promise. The vaccine PREVENTED the cancer from coming back in patients who had already received treatment for MORE THAN three years. 🧪🧵⬇️

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In light of everything happening, I wrote about how the KKK in the 1920s felt unstoppable, about the people that fought against them anyway, and about how fascism always fails. dansinker.com/posts/202…

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PM Netanyahu orders Israeli forces to boost “operational readiness,” saying they’re ready to resume fighting “at any moment” as the Gaza ceasefire hangs by a thread. 🔴 LIVE updates:

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Absolutely

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#Lebanon #Syria #FreePalestine #StopIsrael

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St John’s Co-Cathedral in Valletta, Malta. #CeilingsOnSunday 🗃️

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Gonna go out on a pretty solid limb here. Dutton if elected, will do nothing to improve bulk billing. Last time he tried to destroy it. #auspol

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Additionally, surely this action by ASIO shows that they recognise the danger posed to Australia by Mossad and Israeli foreign interference. Why has no ruling been made on the status of the war-criminal nation & their terrorism status wrt operatives in Australia? #auspol

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Not enough attention has been paid to the fact that Pete Hegseth's view of military affairs was shaped in combat as a junior officer under the command Michael Steele, the bible-thumping "buffoon" of Black Hawk Down, an officer whose career was later ended over war crime accusations in Iraq. 🧵

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In a surprising turn of events, an Australian Defence Force officer has been stripped of security clearance due to alleged loyalty to Israel. This raises critical questions about national security and personal beliefs. Australia #NationalSecurity #EthicsInDefense www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

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You really get the impression from Bruce Lehrmann that he believed he could get away with anything. I guess when you have Australia’s largest news organisation on your side - News Corp - you might believe you are untouchable.

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Are folks here following the Grok Scandal? Apparently there’s significant evidence that Grok was compromised at some point in the last 48 hours by a code intrusion that instructed it to avoid disparaging Musk or Trump. And the entity supposedly pointing a finger at Musk for all this... ...is Grok.

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Yep. This is his goal. He’s a black mirror episode.

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A president rapidly sundowning into full-blown dementia ambiguously handed power over the entire government to a delusional billionaire drug addict in a made-up illegal quasi-office and the Cabinet is split over whether their departments have to listen to his mad orders. It's day 34.

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Idiocracy was a documentary

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Will you look at that? COSTCO didn't roll back DEI, and store traffic increased by: 5.8% on the week beginning January 27, 5.7% on the week beginning February 3, 4.6% on the week beginning February 10 Sources: Fortune and Retail Brew

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Dr Assal Rad on Twitter— "Genocide and ethnic cleansing as an act of mercy is quite the argument."

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I appreciate this response from Ed Yong on why he requests that people mask at his events. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/22/m...

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“In some ways that’s even more chilling than firing the four stars,” Rosa Brooks, a professor at Georgetown Law. “It’s what you do when you’re planning to break the law: you get rid of any lawyers who might try to slow you down.” By NYT Greg Jaffe www.nytimes.com/2025/02/22/u...

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The #SundayShot streaming live right now, with the always excellent Josh Bornstein as a guest, hosted by Jo Dyer and Dave Milner. (Main interview to come at end of program I think) www.youtube.com/watch?v=aJcm...

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What I Accomplished Last Week: 5 Bullet Points for My Boss 1. Pondered the great question of our time (“Who is the administrator of DOGE?????”) 2. Read some court filings that did not reveal the DOGE administrator’s identity 3. Asked Elon Musk to tell me who the administrator of DOGE is (no reply)

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It is a twisted combination of funny and frustrating that every Nazi dog whistle they did over the past decade plus, yes, including that OK symbol thing, got downplayed into oblivion by many of the people who feel like they are just all of the sudden heiling out of nowhere.

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#OnThisDay, 22 Feb 1943, Sophie Scholl is sentenced to death and immediately executed, alongside her brother and a friend, for distributing anti-Nazi literature at her university in Munich, Germany. #WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #WorldWar2 #EuropeanHistory 🗃️ 1/2

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Don't let the #cat out! 🐈‍⬛ 🏺 Cosmetic spoon made of bone in the shape of a mouse and dog, Egypt, ca. 1550–1295 B.C.(!) The artist has created the illusion of a sculpture in the round. The dog looks pensive with his chin on his folded paw. 🐾 🏛️ MET 🗃️ #caturday #archaeology #dogs #dogsofbluesky

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Today I am @uni-of-warwick.bsky.social celebrating the visit of Hope the Lego Suffragette from @ukparliament.parliament.uk! 🗃️

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On Feb 22, 1960, students from Virginia Union University, known as the Richmond 34, staged a sit-in at Woolworth’s lunch counter in Richmond, Virginia. This challenged segregation and contributed to the desegregation of public facilities. #StayCurious #Skystorians #DiveIntoDiscovery #BlackHistory

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