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For those following the story of unidentified men violently dragging a protester from a local Idaho GOP meeting, it turns out they were from a private security firm called LEAR Asset Management. But neither the sheriff (who watched it all go down) or the GOP will take responsibility for hiring them.

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Help! On Friday the National Library of Australia suspended my Trove API keys, threatening 15 year's work helping researchers use & understand Trove. If you use my tools or value my work you might like to let the NLA know. Details here […]

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I’m glad Labour is supporting these workers, who are at risk of losing 400 jobs. Would be nice if they were also supporting university workers, where 10,000 jobs are at risk. In the first week of February alone 1,000 job cuts were announced. Nothing from Labour at all in response.

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The @principlesfirst.bsky.social conference was just evacuated due to a bomb threat. This is after Enrique Tarrio and members of the Proud Boys showed up and tried to disrupt the conference yesterday.

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Remarkable assessment by an incoming German chancellor. “for me it is an absolute priority to strengthen Europe as quickly as possible, so that we achieve independence from the US, step by step.” www.dw.com/en/german-el...

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🔥 SERIES 16 STARTS NEXT WEEK! 🔥 👑 Philippa Langley on Richard III ❄️ @markep.bsky.social on Polar Exploration 🩸 @unamcilvenna.bsky.social on Catherine de Medici 🕵️‍♀️ Claire Hubbard-Hall on Women in Intelligence 🗓️ Kicking off MONDAY! Don’t miss it! 🎧 #History #Podcast 🎙️

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1/2 Despite all the denialism from right wing polemicists, Lyndall Ryan kept going, patiently gathering the evidence proving that Australia’s colonisation entailed hundreds of massacres. www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

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Ackshually... "remotely competent" historians recognize how much of progress and "major events" (e.g. abolishment of slavery, civil rights, women's voting & reproductive rights) are the result of ordinary people organizing and relentlessly demanding their governments to form a more perfect union.

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Elon’s mass harassment email to all federal employees underscores the importance of having unions to represent workers against abusive management.

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These are brown shirts, and this is Nazi behavior. We are not in a fight between right and left anymore. This is a fight between Americans and those who would bend the knee to a king. If you care about the soul of this country, we have to stand for each other.

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There's going to be news about a woman illegally detained and being forcely removed from a Coeur d'Alene Idaho Town Hall meeting taking place at the high school by men that would not identify themselves wearing plain clothes because she opposed the republican viewpoints. youtube.com/shorts/hhJdH...

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It’s arrived! So great to finally hold this volume in the @bloomsburybooksuk.bsky.social Cultural History of Fame series. It’s taken quite a few years but hopefully you’ll think it was worth the wait 🤓 My chapter is on scandal and infamy!

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REVEALED: we identified the operator of an overtly racist X account, "GlomarResponder," as ICE Assistant Chief Counsel James Rodden, based on an overwhelming number of biographical details matched through publicly available documents, other social media activity, and courtroom observation.

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Publication alert! ANU English's own @unamcilvenna.bsky.social is one of the contributors to Bloomsbury's exciting new volume, A Cultural History of Fame in the Renaissance! The book looks at celebrity, scandal, the arts, politics, religion, visibility & the science of fame

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I just signed @australiainstitute.org.au's petition: Demand the gas industry pays royalties! Will you join me? nb.australiainstitute.org.au/collect_gas_...

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I feel so sick. Enough with the lies, enough with the games. They know exactly what they're doing. This is a neo-Nazi movement. Proudly so. The only reason they've kept it coded up until now was to take advantage of those who didn't want to believe it. No more looking away. Face up to what it is.

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Marles at last saying the quiet bit out loud....not sure it's too welcome though.

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Next week The National Gallery and Creative Australia will appear in the Senate to answer for their racist behavior. Let's hope our finest Greens and Independent senators are there to grill them. We need a Royal commission into #Zionist influence! #auspol www.theguardian.com/artanddesign...

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Hey @jimchalmers.bsky.social Instead of bailing out places like Whyalla steel mills and banks and other billionaire's disasters, why not give them a low-interest loan to be paid back once their business has an income... like HECS. Why do the rich get so many freebies & we don't? #auspol

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Completely unrelated, but: 1. You can order abortion pills by mail (at ineedana.org and aid access.org, for example) 2. They keep for about 2 years (and you don't need to be pregnant to order them) 2. USPS (including mail tracking) might not be independent for long.

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Boycotts work.

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Proper old-school scrap about historical fiction in the Telegraph today #earlymodern

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Calling all 18C specialists! ANU English's own Amelia Dale (along with Claire Knowles, La Trobe & Nicola Parsons, Sydney) is convening "The Unliterary Eighteenth Century: Gender and Marginal Texts" symposium. Registration is free, more details here: genderinstitute.anu.edu.au/events/unlit...

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Latest #HeartoftheMatter publication from our fabulous team! www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

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New: DOGE's spending has been secret. No longer. My colleagues have uncovered it. www.propublica.org/article/doge...

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I Did Unpaid Labour For An International Academic Publishing Conglomerate And All I Got Was This Lousy Certificate

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Want to know more about AI's impact on the environment? Read this fascinating new article in NCM by ANU English's own @tynedaile.bsky.social on AI, surveillance & the environment:

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Ex NFL player @chriswarcraft.bsky.social protesting the inclusion of a MAGA acronym in the Huntington Beach library plaque at last night’s council meeting. He was arrested and cited.

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ARE YOU FUCKING KIDDING ME Congress didn’t pass a law requiring NIH-funded trials to include women until 1993. Drug trials with government funding only started including women in the NINETIES And that’s only drug trials! And not ones with private funding! Health research FAMOUSLY excludes women.

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DNC Aiming To Reconnect With Working-Class Americans With New ‘Hamilton’-Inspired Lena Dunham Web Series

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If you want to know why French street protests are more effective than American street protests, it's because the French live in walkable cities - especially Paris! - that can be disrupted with disorder credibly threatened to elites by huge crowds.

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Years ago, after the Cambridge Analytica scandal, I interviewed a former fb employee, and I remember her continually emphasizing that these tech bros weren't evil geniuses, but were, in fact, dangerous because they were utterly clueless, totally reckless, and had too much power.

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Well 12 days later and they’ve walked it back.

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