The big news outlets used to say settlements would encourage more lawsuits. Trump is already targeting smaller newspapers.
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“When you imagine what the FTC is willing and able to do in the service of an authoritarian Trump administration, that takes you to some really terrifying places.”
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Trump wants a bloodbath for the federal employees, but government workers aren’t the only ones who will suffer.
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Everyone from janitors to the Geek Squad could be forced to help the NSA spy — and Democrats barely put up a fight.
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The Opposition’s shadow minister for home and foreign affairs, Barnaby Joyce, has pledged to make it illegal in Australia to sell gingerbread people without baked on genitals, in an effort to combat wokeness. ”I’ve had a bloody gutful, what is... Read More ›
Wait, aren’t these the very same Uyghur separatists that the US State Department said they had “no credible evidence” existed, and that Mike Pompeo decided to remove from the US’s list of terrorist organisations in 2020? How bizarre that this non-existent group were key players in Assad’s fall and are now aiming their gunsights on Continue reading »
If, as seems likely, Anthony Albanese and his government lose seats at next year’s federal election, one thing we can be certain of is that the nation’s economists and econocrats won’t be admitting to their not insignificant contribution to Labor’s setback. Economists have such a limited understanding of how the behaviour of the real-world economy Continue reading »
This is just another example of the exceptionalism that we have come to expect with Israel. That exceptionalism is the Zionist belief that Arab peoples are inferior to themselves — as former Defence Minister Yoav Gallant has described them — “human animals”. Readers may find it difficult to assess just what is happening in Syria. Continue reading »
The BIOSECURE Act, recently passed by the US House of Representatives, seeks to decouple the US from China’s biotech ecosystem by restricting federal funding to US firms that collaborate with major Chinese biotech players like WuXi AppTec and BGI Genomics. This legislative push reflects growing concerns over national security, intellectual property (IP) protection, and supply Continue reading »