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Over a few beers, Bazza serves up some sweet wisdom for Mick on Peter Dutton and the Opposition. read now...Mifepristone will remain available until further review by the conservative 5th Circuit, which plans to hear oral arguments on May 17.
The post Supreme Court Places Abortion Drug Restrictions on Hold — For Now appeared first on The Intercept.
With Anzac Day approaching, IA music man David Kowalski remembers 'Khe Sanh', an Aussie song that wasn't a hit on initial release but has since assumed the status of de facto national anthem. read now...
Local elections have no bearing on NHS funding or waiting times – yet Starmer repeats claim that was tagged as dishonest Keir Starmer has again claimed that votes for Labour in next month’s local elections will mean shorter NHS waiting lists – just two days after the same claim was tagged by Twitter with ‘context’ […]
Part of supporting LGBTQ+ people is arranging events that include them and finding ways to defend those events with the community in the face of hateful Far-Right hostility. read now...When it comes to AI’s potential future impact on jobs, Camp Automation tends to jump to the conclusion that most jobs will be automated away into oblivion. The progressive arm of Camp Automation then argues for the need for versions of universal basic income and other social services to ensure survival in a job-less world. […]
When a mass shooting happens, and the perpetrator has left a manifesto or text that...
Wetlands store a lot of carbon—but turning that into a business isn’t easy.
The post The Challenge of Blue Carbon appeared first on Nautilus.
The aging of the global population is in the headlines following a report that China's population fell as deaths surpassed births. Pundits worry that a declining Chinese workforce means trouble for other economies that have come to rely on China's exports.
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Doctor Who showrunner Russell T. Davies on the threat that Jinkx Monsoon's big bad poses: "Not everyone is getting out of this alive."
I know it’s before six on Saturday morning. I know your eyes are too crusted shut to look at this stinky piece of cardstock I’m shoving in front of your face.
But today is Persimmon’s birthday party. I found this invitation among coffee grounds and overripe bananas in the kitchen trash, underneath a pristine paper towel, where it surely must have been crumpled by mistake.
Don’t ask why I was looking through the trash. That’s not important.
What is important is that this invitation makes a baker’s dozen of festivities to which my siblings and I have been invited this month, and I fear you are not treating these occasions with the requisite level of respect.
Why are you still in bed? We have so much to do.
Persimmon’s celebration begins at Wacky Jim’s Trampoline Park promptly at two o’clock today, and you need to help me find my rubbery socks. I own at least four pairs, because four of the seven birthday parties I’ve attended this month have been held at this same trampoline park, yet the socks are always nowhere to be found.
The trade union movement has a proud history of standing together to protect workers. From Lesbians and Gays Support the Miners in the 1980s to more recently, when rank-and-file union members mobilised to support hundreds of workers being fired by P&O, it is clear that ‘an injury to one is an injury to all’ retains […]
The relationship between ministers and civil servants is, by definition, an unequal one – it takes courage to stand up to a minister or offer an opinion contrary to their own, writes former diplomat Alexandra Hall Hall
Shameful attack on Liverpool Community Independents councillor and candidate has backfired on Labour. Skwawkbox has unpicked one of its biggest lies Labour’s shameful use of its sewer-campaign tactics in Liverpool to attack a popular young left-wing councillor has predictably backfired – and managed the unprecedented feat of uniting all the city council’s opposition parties in […]