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Wed, 13/05/2026 - 14:15

The court decision striking down NSW Premier Chris Minns’ anti-protest laws in April was a victory for the Palestine movement and all those who stood up and defied them.

The post Court victory halts Minns’ offensive against Palestine movement—now turn the tide first appeared on Solidarity Online.

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Wed, 13/05/2026 - 14:10

There has been an outpouring of anger by nurses and midwives in New South Wales following the long-awaited IRC decision on NSW public system nurses and midwives’ pay.

The post NSW nurses rage as legal case fails to deliver pay rise needed—now start planning for serious strikes first appeared on Solidarity Online.

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Wed, 13/05/2026 - 14:08

After the Victorian teachers’ strike on 24 March where tens of thousands marched, the Australian Education Union (AEU) announced that action would escalate in Term 2. But escalated action was not planned at all. Instead of another 24-hour strike, AEU branch council voted for local rolling stoppages with schools striking for half a day. Industrial […]

The post Teachers in Victoria: vote to reject any bad deal, keep up the fight first appeared on Solidarity Online.

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Wed, 13/05/2026 - 05:29

Two days before Khalil's arrest, an anonymous tip accused him of calling for violence. The FBI found it did not “warrant further investigation" — but the Trump administration kept calling him a threat.

The post FBI Quietly Closed a Probe Into Mahmoud Khalil While He Was in ICE Detention appeared first on The Intercept.

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Wed, 13/05/2026 - 03:02

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Tue, 12/05/2026 - 23:00

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Writer and McSweeney’s contributor Maeve Dunigan has poured a lifetime of effort into seeming effortlessly chill. The results have been… mixed. Nonetheless, Maeve still believes she’s one pair of leather pants, one perfect use of the word “bespoke,” and one jar of expensive olives away from self-actualization. She’ll never stop trying, no matter how bespoke things get (was that right?).

With sharp wit and unflinching honesty, Maeve shares her own misadventures—like the time she quietly endured a ruptured appendix at McDonald’s so she wouldn’t come off as dramatic—and explores the universal desire to belong. She invites readers into her world of One Direction fanfiction authorship and passive-aggressive yogurt mind games, detailing the anxieties that come with living in an age of constant visibility.

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Tue, 12/05/2026 - 03:01

“Harvard is quietly asking donors for $10 million gifts to establish new endowed professorships in a sweeping bid to reshape its faculty under the banner of ‘viewpoint diversity,’ according to two people familiar with the initiative.”
The Harvard Crimson

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On behalf of the university, I’m pleased to announce our earnest and long-overdue commitment to diversifying our faculty. No, not the reckoning we broadcast to great fanfare in 2020, which we have repudiated in exchange for federal funding. No, I refer instead to “viewpoint” diversity.

For too long, the university has ignored the wisdom of the donor class and hired based on academic excellence. Regrettably, this has led to the underrepresentation of discredited viewpoints in elite higher education. Many ideas that enjoy enormous popularity among billionaires—cryogenic immortality, disregard for punctuation, the Antichrist—have scandalously been excluded from our labs and classrooms.