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Since ratifying a contract, academic workers at University of California, San Diego have faced what they say is an escalating retaliation campaign.

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A loose coalition of Democrats and Freedom Caucus Republicans are pushing NDAA amendments that challenge Washington’s foreign policy orthodoxy.

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In his 2024 run, Donald Trump is tripling down on his “Muslim ban” — and making the Islamophobia explicit.

The post Trump Revives “Muslim Ban” While GOP Courts Muslim Voters for 2024 appeared first on The Intercept.

“What Biden is doing is politically insane, environmentally bankrupt, and it’s poor economics.”

The post Biden Is Investing in Green Energy Across the South — Throwing Swing State Union Workers Under the Bus appeared first on The Intercept.

The Liberal party has put word out that should their leader Peter Dutton lose the upcoming Fadden by-election, then they will replace him with a pot plant. ”Dutts knows that he needs to pull something out of the bag,” said... Read More ›

Under British rule, elected representation, so widely proclaimed by the usual gang of western governments as being essential for Hong Kong’s people, was as remote as a lighthouse in a desert. As it is now the third anniversary of the first article I submitted to Pearls and Irritations on the subject of Hong Kong it Continue reading »

A well-publicised report on teacher training from Ross Fox, the Director of Catholic Education of Canberra, runs the risk of inferring that a ‘science of learning’ that works for a private school system that has no students with severe behaviours, will work for schools that have a high proportion of these student. Recently Jason Clare Continue reading »

By the time of the referendum on the Voice, No campaigners look likely to have turned it into a referendum on the Albanese government, and, probably into “wokeness.” It may be a tragedy if they do, whether for First Australians or the nation generally, because it will inevitably exacerbate divisions in the community. It is Continue reading »