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American universities are appendages of the corporate state. Educators are increasingly poorly paid, denied benefits and job security while senior administrators pay themselves obscene salaries.

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Charlie Pierce on the recording obtained by the Tennessee Holler which shows the conversation among those pigs in the legislature after they expelled the two Justins: Much of the first part of the recording consists of a re-education session aimed at Rep. Jody Barrett, who jumped the fence after voting to expel the two Black guys and voted against expelling the white lady. The other members of the congregation jumped all over Barrett allegedly because he didn’t give the GOP leadership a heads-up, but really because expelling the two Black guys and not expelling the white lady made the rest of the House majority look…racist. Rep.Jason Zachary found his dudgeon achieving orbit status. They then dogpiled on Barrett for a while. But the full aria came from Rep. Scott Cepicky, who looked out from the height of his seat representing District 64 and saw armageddon approaching from all sides. Cepicky sought to steel his comrades against the onslaught of wokeness, inconsistent pronouns, and books about gay penguins. And, Lord have mercy on him, he actually resorted to profanity. This, ladies and gentlemen, is the Republican farm team.

Even small rural towns balk at destroying libraries: It isn’t every day that the ruminations of local bureaucrats in a small rural Texas county become national news. But when commissioners in Llano County — population 21,000 — voted Thursday to keep its three-branch library system open, the moment was closely monitored by the biggest news organizations in the country. That’s because Llano County has become a national symbol of local right-wing censorship efforts after officials threatened to close its libraries entirely rather than allow offending materials to remain on shelves. Under intense scrutiny, the commission blinked. Its leader acknowledged feeling pressure from “social media” and “news media.” The commissioners’ apparent reluctance for Llano to be seen as a locus of censorship points to an unexpected development: Skirmishes emanating from book bans at schools and libraries in red states and counties, once localized affairs, are becoming viral national sensations. And the American mainstream appears to be paying attention.

Just a couple of years ago the NRA was on the skids, overwhelmed with scandal and financial malfeasance. Apparently its members are fine with all that. Wayne LaPierre, who stole vast sums from the organization is still at the helm and he spoke to rapturous applause — as did a bunch of others. Some highlights from Aaron Rupar. (You can subscribe to his substack here.) Wayne LaPierre says at the NRA event that "gun hating politicians should never go to bed unafraid of what this association and all of our millions of members can do to their political careers" 😳 holy shit Pence is getting booed loudly at the NRA event "We don't need gun control" — Pence at the NRA forum blames recent mass shooting on trans people and mental illness and tries to absolve guns Pence calls for armed guards in every school in America Pence calls for mass shooters to be put to death within months the NRA forum is not especially pumped about Asa Hutchinson's veiled shots at Trump DeSantis is doing a video message to the NRA forum instead of being there in person. Low energy.

Rich countries and rich people have incredibly high greenhouse gas emissions. Arctic sea ice is shrinking. Tasmanian government plans to make fish farms more environmentally destructive. High income = High emissions I’ve previously discussed how wealthy countries are responsible for a disproportionately huge share of greenhouse gas emission and how rich people, wherever they live, Continue reading »

I don’t indulge in religion, but in this instance and at this particular time of the year, I feel I must. Let us agree from the start that we are all accidents of birth. None of us had a choice as to our parents, in what country we were born or into what religion. This, Continue reading »

The implication of AUKUS is that China constitutes a danger to Australian security. It borders on official Australian policy that China is an aggressive power bent on domination. But the history of the People’s Republic suggests its military is for defence, not aggression and that the cases where it has used external military force are Continue reading »

‘The market’ and ‘life-changing interventions’: two phrases that aren’t normally seen in the same sentence. But increasingly, the market, through innovative design, is leading to life-changing, even life-saving, results. As calls grow for better services and outcomes for Australians, innovative market designs have a key role in providing a bigger bang for the buck in Continue reading »

There is a gap between Kim Beazley’s assurances about how the Australian War Memorial will properly recognise and commemorate the Australian Frontier Wars and what is actually being planned at the Memorial as it continues its $548m redevelopment. Action is needed now to get the Memorial on track. The Honourable Kim Beazley AC has been Continue reading »

Recently a writer for the Sydney Morning Herald claimed to have solved the mystery of why Sr Liguori fled her convent in Wagga Wagga one frosty evening in July 1920. In its day the Liguori affair was one of the most sensational episodes in Australia’s sectarian history. As the Herald writer notes, ‘It seems every Continue reading »

Introduction by Croakey: So much of our day-to-day attention is focused on the problems facing healthcare systems now. Lifting our gaze to envision the likely future challenges – say in 2050 – can help set a course forward. In the first of a two-part series, Croakey editor Jennifer Doggett gazes into a health policy crystal ball, Continue reading »

What fresh hell is this? On Saturday morning, Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene launched into a creative explanation for how climate works, providing a graph on fossil fuels in an effort to prove her points. “If you believe that today’s ‘climate change’ is caused by too much carbon, you have been fooled,” Greene wrote on Twitter. “We live on a spinning planet that rotates around a much bigger sun along with other planets and heavenly bodies rotating around the sun that all create gravitational pull on one another while our galaxy rotates and travels through the universe. Considering all of that, yes our climate will change, and it’s totally normal!” She went on the extol the virtues of fossil fuels because they’re “natural. This is the heir to the MAGA movement. She’s even dumber than Dear Leader. Texeira is anything but “antiwar” by the way. But he and Marge are definitely on the same page: The people in the online spaces where Airman First Class Jack Teixeira spent his time and allegedly leaked highly classified documents had many things in common.

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Transitioning is 1,500 years old Who knew? DocDawg, aka Bill Busa of EvE Bio.

Modelling by the construction of analogue economies is a widespread technique in economic theory nowadays … As Lucas urges, the important point about analogue economies is that everything is known about them … and within them the propositions we are interested in ‘can be formulated rigorously and shown to be valid’ … For these constructed […]

Directing shame outward “One of the great ironies about 2016,” writes The Bulwark’s Jonathan Last, “is that Hillary Clinton was right,” if impolitic, in how she described a third of the GOP. Over at The Atlantic, Peter Wehner writes about the attack of Trumpism we all witnessed last week by Republicans in the Tennessee House of Representatives. “[C]oming from a party whose sensibilities and racial attitudes are embodied by Donald Trump,” we should hardly have been surprised by their overreaction to Black activist members. Memphis wasn’t exactly hospitable to Rev. Martin Luther King in March of 1968, either. The more things change, etc. MAGA Republicans want not only to roll back the 20th century, they want to roll back Reconstruction. Nullification is back, fof heaven’s sake. Wehner suggests that the GOP knows it made a deal with “a demonic force” and is secretly ashamed: The human mind’s capacity to rationalize such things is extraordinary, but not limitless. Some Republicans have the sense, even if it’s only in their quiet moments, that they have acted not only hypocritically but dishonorably.

Fresh from exploiting abused kids for political gain, Starmer tries to exploit memory of 97 Hillsborough victims and hijack campaign of Scouse left-wing MP he tried to deselect – but it blows up in his face Keir Starmer has been blasted Liverpool fans and other right-minded folk after trying to exploit the memory of the […]

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When asked about the prospect of US companies jointly producing arms with Taiwan, a Biden administration official expressed support for the idea.

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The sanctions against Russia and Russia's kinetic war in Ukraine have produced great changes in and outside. But what are their implications?

Plaintiffs plan to appeal the decision to the DeKalb County Georgia Superior Court as the movement expands nationally.

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Today marks the 34th anniversary of the Hillsborough disaster, the greatest loss of life at a sporting event in British history. The death of Andrew Devine in 2021 meant that 97 people in total had died as a result of the events that day, with a further 766 injured. In the wake of the tragedy, […]

Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas has been caught out engaging in serious misconduct. But what to do?