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Damning report finds social media giants are failing in legal duties to remove threats

March for Australia held its second round of racist anti-immigration rallies on 19 October. Their overall turnout was mostly lower than the first rallies in August, but they still drew large crowds.

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Labor's Nauru agreement has been triggered with the first non-citizen sent to Nauru on 24 October.

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Labor is spending billions on propping up the metals industry, saying it’s about saving jobs. But the government’s main motivation is its drive to arm Australia for war with China.

The post Saving jobs not the reason for Labor’s industry bailouts first appeared on Solidarity Online.

Gen Z revolts are sweeping the Global South as people take to the streets against corruption and deprivation.

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The Trump administration has escalated its racist migrant deportation campaign as the US President’s approval ratings trend downwards.

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‘Don’t forget,’ Peter Watkins makes a point of telling the participants on the set of his film La Commune, ‘to look into the camera. If the camera’s right in front of you, look at it.’ It’s 1999 in an abandoned factory outside Paris, and the making of Watkins’s monumental final work is being documented by […]

The attack on Sa’ada detention center violated humanitarian law and should be investigated as a war crime, says Amnesty International.

The post Trump’s Yemen Strike Killed 61 Immigrants and No Combatants appeared first on The Intercept.

Illuminating new details of the Red Spider Nebula have emerged

The post A Crisper Look at a Cosmic Creepy Crawler appeared first on Nautilus.

Netanyahu ordered airstrikes on Gaza on Tuesday, raising the question of whether the U.S. would hold him accountable for maintaining the ceasefire.

The post Netanyahu Is Blowing Up the Gaza Ceasefire — and Trump Is the One Losing Face appeared first on The Intercept.

An unexpected behavior captured on film

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Interim Opposition leader, Sussan ”SS” Ley, has condemned Prime Minister, Anthony Albanese, after the PM was spotted in a Joy Division t-shirt that he had not sought approval from Sky news Australia to wear. ”I don’t step out of the... Read More ›

Now, more than ever, we need art to do the heavy lifting of defining our values.

Researchers are learning more about limerence, the term for obsessive, involuntary love that is often unreturned

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Doctor Who Showrunner Russell T. Davies didn't waste time taking to social media to pitch "title ideas" for the 2026 Christmas Special.

Americans increasingly can’t afford their cars, while car insurers are raking in record profits and executive pay.

Los Angeles’ Museum of Contemporary Art and the Brick opened MONUMENTS last week, an exhibit...

Powerful storms like Hurricane Melissa foment an odd phenomenon called the “stadium effect” at their centers

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It all started when Instagram introduced the twenty-slide photo dumps. Trying to post the correct ratio of photos to memes to appear both off-the-grid and clued-in to the minutiae of internet culture is tough. There are only so many selfies, photos of my dog, and funny-shaped carpet stains I can share before I come off as a shallow, boring influencer.

Floundering, I decided to post an image in my dump of a book a roommate left behind—The Picture of Dorian Gray. Then, as always, the case with the danger of expressing an opinion on the internet, a Reply Guy asked me about it, and I found myself in a masochistic corner of my own making. Were they to discover my photo was a plea for attention, my carefully curated online persona would come unraveling. They might wonder if my bed really is made every morning, if that’s my real dog, or if I am even a good person.

Out of options, I read Oscar Wilde’s seminal work in one night, like an executioner was watching me. The book was actually relatable, even good. It made me… think. Perhaps the relentless pursuit of youth ultimately depletes our humanity? Or something. I told my Reply Guy this, and he said, “Nice.”

The BBC announced that Disney will not produce the next series of Doctor Who, and Russell T. Davies is writing a Christmas Special for 2026.

Every year we do a fundraiser. This pays to keep the site and me running, and the site wouldn’t be viable without it. If you read the blog readily, I probably don’t have to sing its praises but I’ll do so anyway, as a nod to tradition.. Generally we’re ahead of most of the media […]

Putin's "human safari" attacks on Ukranian civilians, first reported by Byline Times, are a war crime designed to depopulate the country, a UN investigation has found

“Seven of the nine universities that the White House initially approached about a plan to steer more federal money toward schools aligned with President Trump’s priorities have refused to endorse the proposal.” —The New York Times

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Kamala Harris’s memoir 107 Days succeeds at least in distilling the evasions and weaknesses of the modern Democratic Party.

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