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Former US Attorney Joyce Vance wrote in her newsletter last night: There are lots of attempts to explain the 2024 election. Many voters said something along the lines of, they were unhappy with the government and wanted to try something new. These voters were concerned about the economy (although even The Wall Street Journal conceded it was the strongest in the world), the price of gasoline, and other similar issues that amounted to little more than a permission structure for voting for Trump. It was all summed up for me a few days after the election, in a conversation with an acquaintance who said they’d voted for Harris, but at least “my portfolio is doing great this week.” Voters who ignored the facts about the economy and used them as an excuse to vote for Trump weren’t people who wanted a change. They were people who, actually, didn’t want any change at all. They didn’t like new policies advanced by the Biden-Harris administration, a more inclusive vision of America where traditionally marginalized people had equal opportunity. They didn’t want a new generation of leadership.
A winning photograph of octopus eggs reveals early organs of camouflage.
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In this bonus Lever Time episode, David Sirota and Sen. Chris Murphy discuss the soul-searching Democrats need to do to win back the working class.
Australia has a reputation for egalitarianism. It is not deserved. Extract: Address to the Royal Society of NSW, October 2024. This is a nation based on mercantilist plunder. Two hundred and fifty years after the publication of Adam Smith’s Wealth of Nations, our leaders insist that the prosperity of citizens rests upon a trickling down Continue reading »
‘Joe Biden allows Ukraine to use long-range US-supplied ATACMS missiles on targets in Russia, prompting threat of world war’ – so runs the ABC headline of 18 November. Serious stuff, not to be lightly discounted, and yet perhaps what we are seeing is primarily performative politics, viewed through the smoke of uncertainty and reflected in Continue reading »
Gaza – what can we do about Australia’s complicity in this abhorrence? It is a question that rots the soul… Indiscriminate destruction of civilian populations on an industrial scale as a legitimate weapon for war started, in the West, with the attack on Guernica in the Spanish Civil War. The outage depicted by Picasso’s painting Continue reading »
A major new report has detailed the “extraordinary economic opportunity” for Australia to replace its coal and gas exports with decarbonised commodities, and reap six to eight times more than the typical revenues it earns from fossil fuels, and help other major economies to meet their own climate goals. But renewed calls for Australia to Continue reading »
Trump’s anti-China 60% import tax barrier will weaken China’s economy and is predicted to have flow on effects impacting negatively on Australia’s economy. Will our political leaders now realise that Australia’s involvement in a military war against China for which they are furiously preparing, would have a devastating impact on our economy and Australian life Continue reading »
To reduce social harm, instead of a ban on teens accessing social media, should we consider a ban on over 60 year olds reading and listening to News Corporation outlets? Announcing the Government’s proposed ban on social media for under 16 year olds, PM Albanese said “Social media is doing social harm to our kids. Continue reading »
The ACT Bar Association has confronted Chief Justice (CJ) Lucy McCallum over her self-admitted controversial statements about juries in sexual-assault trials. The Bar, normally somewhat reserved in such areas, issued a statement on 19 November, expressing concern that there may be a perception, based upon the CJ’s words at the Jury Research and Practice Conference Continue reading »
Activist for East Timor, Acheh and Palestine, Vaclava ‘Vacy’ Julie Vlazna was born 31 August 1946 in Susice in the region of Bohemia after her parents survived the German occupation of Czechoslovakia in WWII. As a baby, she nearly died of an infection but received new antibiotics in a trial and fortunately survived. The family Continue reading »
Trump’s shocking cabinet picks are reminiscent of what Mao Zedong did after launching the tumultuous Cultural Revolution in 1966. Under his slogan “revolution is no crime; to rebel is justified,” Mao encouraged the firebrand Red Guards and grassroots loyalists to take over power at central and local government levels across the country, writes Wang Xiangwei. Continue reading »
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A joint resolution from Sen. Bernie Sanders would block arms sales to Israel. The challenge is convincing Democrats to act.
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The idea Alison Pearson should have avoided investigation simply because of her position at the Daily Telegraph is abhorrent to natural justice, argues lawyer Gareth Roberts
From the Armenian genocide to Gaza, survivors face a common struggle: fighting the erasure of their history and identity in the face of calculated annihilation.
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Your families are embroiled in a bitter feud.
Not a red flag. This is a problem that couples have faced throughout history, and most of them have solved it by agreeing to never host an extended family Thanksgiving.
You’re thirteen years old.
Not a red flag, as long as he is also a teenager. But if he is a much older suitor (let’s say, for example, a forty-nine-year-old with a history of never dating anyone over twenty-five), this should probably give you pause.
He was recently in love with your cousin Rosaline, and he has been going on at length about how no girl could ever be as beautiful as her.
Not a red flag. Rosaline’s like a solid nine, so, honestly, you get it.
He crashed your family’s party, and his main reason for doing so was to get another chance at putting the moves on Rosaline.
Not a red flag. Because, again, Rosaline’s a catch. And at the end of the day, you feel confident that fate will be a much stronger force than whatever was drawing him to Rosaline—probably her knockers.