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We can learn about the universe without conquering it.
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A new data release from the ABS gives us insight into how population is changing in small areas across Australia. This post includes an interactive map of population growth and decline for all local...The following is probably mostly obvious to anyone who had been using Twitter for the last decade. But for those who are just confused what the whole hubbub around Twitter “verified checkmark” is all about, here goes!
DeSantis formally raised the age of his “Don’t Say Gay” bill to the 12th grade. Apparently, he and the rest of his right wing hate squad think they can keep LGBTQ out of high schools. Lol. This is going to be quite the battle: not between the teachers and the government, between the kids and the government. As you’ve probably heard by now, Ron DeSantis is currently on a quest to inflict his antigay, antitrans, antidrag, antiabortion, antidiversity, antifacts, anti-free-speech, anti-anything-that-Ron-disagrees-with agenda on the people of Florida, which he seemingly believes will win him the presidency. To that end, it apparently wasn’t enough to sign the bigoted “Don’t Say Gay” bill into law last year, which banned classroom instruction in kindergarten through third grade. No, Ron had to do one worse. On Wednesday, the Florida Board of Education expanded that ban through grade 12, at the request of the Florida governor.
Part of a national backlash against criminal justice reforms, the move takes away local control and hands it to unelected officials appointed by Republicans.
The post Mississippi to Create Special Justice System for Just One City: Majority-Black Jackson appeared first on The Intercept.
A younger demographic seeking change, along with a shift in the popularity of Independents and minor parties, could see the demise of our traditional two-party system. read now...In a stunning rebuke to the state’s attorney general, the appeals court refused to vacate Glossip’s conviction, clearing the way for his execution.
The post Oklahoma Court: We Want Richard Glossip Dead and Evidence Be Damned appeared first on The Intercept.
Paranoid men with guns. What could go wrong? The old man who shot the 16 year old kid who rang his doorbell is described by his grandson as a right wing crank: Ludwig said he and his grandfather, who goes by the first name Dan, used to be very close. “But in the last five or six years or so, I feel like we’ve lost touch,” he said. “I’ve gotten older and gained my own political views, and he’s become staunchly right-wing, further down the right-wing rabbit hole as far as doing the election-denying conspiracy stuff and COVID conspiracies and disinformation, fully buying into the Fox News, OAN kind of line. I feel like it’s really further radicalized him in a lot of ways.” Ludwig said his grandfather had been immersed in “a 24-hour news cycle of fear and paranoia.” “And then the NRA pushing the ‘stand your ground’ stuff and that you have to defend your home,” he said. “When I heard what happened, I was appalled and shocked that it transpired, but I didn’t disbelieve that it was true.
The Opposition’s shadow Treasurer Angus Taylor (yep, him) has called on the Government to explain why the country relies on a Reserve bank instead of an actual playing bank. ”It’s high time Treasurer Jim Chalmers explained to the Australian people... Read More ›
As the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals gets ready to hand down a decision in...
Gain a fresh perspective on climate change and ecological sustainability with author Keith Akers as he delves into the impacts of fossil fuel extraction, the ecological crises facing our planet, and the radical changes needed for a sustainable future.
The post Peak oil and the Flawed Logic of Infinite Economic Growth, with Keith Akers appeared first on MintPress News.
Join Lee Camp and Ben Norton as they delve into the changing world order, the rebellion of Latin America against Western hegemony, the ongoing proxy war in Ukraine, and much more.
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The fact that he has been the subject of one scandal after another and is being pursued in numerous legal challenges at every level of government in various parts of the nation, means that he is the most honest and honorable man in the history of the world. And tens of millions of our fellow Americans believe this must be true.
Party at centre of storm yesterday after false claims in local election campaign on social media platform The Labour party’s ‘blue tick’ marking it as an authentic account has disappeared from its Twitter account. The party was at the centre of a storm yesterday when the social media platform had to attach warnings and ‘context’ […]
by John Mirisch
Times are evidently rough for our natalist, growthmaniac friends.
More people than ever are questioning their agenda of increasing the planet’s population beyond the current 8 billion people (double the level of less than fifty years ago) in the name of “progress” and profit. Yet the growthmaniacs’ only response to anyone who links human population and ecological overshoot is to scream “Malthus!” at the top of their lungs (although some Marvel fanboy growthmaniacs have been known to respond “Thanos!” instead).
The post “I Know You’re Malthusian, But What Am I?” appeared first on Center for the Advancement of the Steady State Economy.
Australia now has an adventurous and activist foreign policy again. But it has not answered the questions that the former prime minister raises. For the foreign minister’s National Press Club speech this week, we need to thank the interventions of former prime minister Paul Keating. Australia is at last having the foreign policy debate it has Continue reading »
When there has been so much loose talk about what would be a catastrophic war between the world’s two major powers, it is both significant and welcome that Foreign Minister Penny Wong has authoritatively stated her position that the Asia-Pacific is a multipolar region, and that this is Australia’s national policy at this time. In Continue reading »
In 1974, the Whitlam Government decided to exclude dental care from Medicare for two reasons. The first was cost. The second was political. Whitlam felt that combatting the doctors would be hard enough without having to combat dentists as well. Forty-six years later, with Australia much richer and the proven success of Medicare, it is Continue reading »
The abolition of the Administrative Appeals Tribunal (AAT) is a crucial part of Attorney General Mark Dreyfus KC’s integrity platform. In the last decade of Coalition governments it had become overwhelmed by partisan appointments, creating a bedlam of incompetence and politically-motivated decisions. Many of these Coalition appointments were unqualified, with no legal training or experience: Continue reading »
“The splitting of the atom has changed everything, bar man’s way of thinking, and thus we drift toward unparalleled catastrophes” – Albert Einstein Of all the explored solar system bodies, Earth is the only one known to harbour life, where evolution from unicellular organisms to intelligent arthropods, birds, mammals, and humans has taken place. Circling Continue reading »
When I first visited New York last September, I did not anticipate being physically assaulted in broad daylight within my first 24 hours in the country. In the short time I was in New York, I was sexually harassed and discriminated against multiple times, setting a precedent to be mindful of my safety. Almost six Continue reading »