As the Olympic committee searches for new revenue streams, profit-gouging private equity firms move to expand their influence over global sports.
Reading
Palestinians accuse the President of attempting to "pacify the victim" while overseeing a "slow genocide" in Gaza
You’ve Always Been This Way is a column written by Taylor Harris, a late-diagnosed neurodivergent woman and 1980s preschool dropout, who identifies every moment from her past that filled her with shame, and mutters, “Yep, that tracks. I see it all now.”
- - -
“I’ve been thinking about it all wrong,” said the town’s perimenopausal autistic woman every day, upon waking and going to bed. And sometimes whilst she sat alone upon the chamber pot, flipping through daguerreotypes from her bestie.
“What is it, my dear?” her husband asked. He’d once read a pamphlet on the four humors and feared she’d gone mad, oversaturated with black bile. “You’ve been all in a dither for a fortnight now. Shall I send for the doctor? Although… he is most adept at watching patients burn with fever before declaring the deceased, dead.”
“IT is everything, Peter. Don’t you understand?”
“Clearly not, for if I had understood, why would I—”
FREETHOUGHT TODAY January-February 2026 “Spiritual but Not Religious”? Are You Sure? By Alfie Kohn Have you ever come across someone who qualifies her opinions about gender-related issues by assuring her listener that she’s “not a feminist or anything”? That comment wouldn’t be surprising coming from denizens of the Bible Belt or the MAGAverse who are all in for women’s subservience ... Read More
- Glad I went with ominous drumbeats as the beckoning call, all four players looking upon the game with wonder and dread. Woodwinds/sitars would have been a mistake.
- Game instructions clear enough to be understood by players, vaguely threatening enough to unnerve them. Struck a great balance there.
- Two youngest players mystified by the enchanted game tokens. An excellent sign, as I’ll be pitching Jumanji as a game for wayward youths looking to escape the tedium of their daily lives / learn a few things the hard way.
- Turn up sadism levels in monkeys. Antics are WAY too on the playful side. Don’t be afraid to go overboard here either. I’d rather have them throwing knives and stealing police cars than—Jesus—tickling each other.
- Giant flesh-eating plants went smoothly. Creeped into the room through the ceiling and power outlets, went straight for the weakest player, players fought back with fireplace tools / wept uncontrollably.
Defying time and colonial power, a landscape artist layers the deep histories of his ancestors to create hopeful futures
- by Aeon Video
Learning sign language made my face more expressive – and changed how I interact with people in general
- by Hannah Seo
Traditional and tech-based methods can reveal what your practice is doing – and give you the confidence to stick with it
- by Matt Fuchs
Anthony Albanese invited Israeli President Isaac Herzog to visit in the hope of boosting support for Israel. Instead mass protests, and anger at police violence in Sydney, showed the continuing depth of opposition to the genocidal state.
The post Defiant protests disrupt Albanese’s embrace of war criminal Isaac Herzog first appeared on Solidarity Online.
In the wake of the Bondi attack, governments are attempting to repress the Palestine movement, with anti-protest laws, federal hate crime laws and plans to ban chants such as “Globalise the Intifada”. The experience of activists at the University of Melbourne, mobilising hundreds to face down threats of police and academic sanctions, provide a rich […]
The post Defiance at Uni Melb shows how to beat Palestine repression first appeared on Solidarity Online.
The Liberals have a new leader. But they’re still stuck with their old problems—and Angus Taylor isn’t going to dig them out of a deep hole.
The post Liberals’ new leader stuck with same problems as One Nation gains at their expense first appeared on Solidarity Online.
The Reserve Bank pushed interest rates back up in February, as workers face a new cost-of-living shock.
The post New cost of living crunch as Labor and Reserve Bank hit workers first appeared on Solidarity Online.
Violence against protests is not the result of rogue officers. It is part of the basic role of the police.
The post Violent police exist to protect capitalism and the rich first appeared on Solidarity Online.
Tens of thousands of dockworkers across Europe and the Mediterranean shut down 21 major ports in a co-ordinated day of strike action in support of Palestine on 6 February.
The post Dockworkers strike to stop arms to Israel first appeared on Solidarity Online.
While Israel continues to massacre Palestinians in Gaza during the so-called “ceasefire”, at times killing over 20 people a day, it is also stepping up the ethnic cleansing of Palestinians in the West Bank.
The post Israel extends land grabs and genocide in West Bank first appeared on Solidarity Online.
The Epstein files expose the corruption and depravity of some of the world’s richest and most powerful people.
The post Epstein files expose the rich and powerful and their sick system first appeared on Solidarity Online.
Trump’s ICE agents have unleashed an orgy of racist violence in Minneapolis, but also faced a city in virtual uprising against them, writes James Supple
The post Resistance in Minneapolis forces back Trump’s racist violence first appeared on Solidarity Online.
The expansion of US bases here locks Australia in as a key part of the US’s military machine, and its strategy for war with China, writes Tom Fiebig
The post Australia’s growing role in the US’s empire of bases—From Pine Gap to North West Cape first appeared on Solidarity Online.
Ian Rintoul looks at the campaign of defiance that ended Joh Bjelke-Petersen’s ban on street marches in Queensland and draws lessons for the Palestine movement today
The post How defiance defeated Bjelke’s protest ban—Lessons for the Palestine movement first appeared on Solidarity Online.
| archive - contact - sexy exciting merchandise - search - about |
| ← previous | February 18th, 2026 | next |
February 18th, 2026: Thanks everyone who came out to Vancouver Fan Expo! ICE has the money it needs to turn warehouses into prisons for immigrants. But local pressure stopped one project in its tracks. The post Can Trump’s Plan for Warehouse Immigrant Detention Camps Be Stopped? appeared first on The Intercept. Sports can't be separated from politics, and athletes are well within their rights to criticize Trump on the world stage. The post It’s Correct and Moral to Use the Olympics to Speak Out About Politics appeared first on The Intercept. Join us THURSDAY, February 19 at 1pm ET / 10am PT, for our regularly scheduled call to chat about all things Drupal and nonprofits. (Convert to your local time zone.) We don't have anything specific on the agenda this month, so we'll have plenty of time to discuss anything that's on our minds at the intersection of Drupal and nonprofits. Got something specific you want to talk about? Feel free to share ahead of time in our collaborative Google document at https://nten.org/drupal/notes! All nonprofit Drupal devs and users, regardless of experience level, are always welcome on this call. This free call is sponsored by NTEN.org and open to everyone. My dear constituents, Like you, I am deeply troubled by the Atrocity Machine’s recent activity. It is a stain on our nation, and we must take action. With this in mind, I am proud to announce that we are dedicating billions of dollars to the Atrocity Machine. Don’t think this is a giveaway. In exchange for an ever-increasing budget and the state’s parajudicial control, the Atrocity Machine has agreed to key reforms. These include mandatory training for anyone who operates the Atrocity Machine, promises to live-stream the Machine’s apocalyptic terror for all to see, and a fresh coat of paint. If history teaches us anything, it is that modest reform is the most effective way to tame a rogue, fire-spitting Leviathan. Reform takes negotiation, and sometimes that means playing hardball. In this case, that means giving the Machine a budget greater than the GDP of Chile. It is critical that the Machine has a guaranteed pile of money, then we can hash out minor points like disarmament or habeas corpus. | ||