The founding secretary of the Department of Home Affairs, Mike Pezzullo, was dismissed late last year for egregiously breaching the public service code of conduct. The man who lectured public servants they should live by that code, broke it in a manner no previous secretary in living memory had done. While that should have provided an Continue reading »
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We should be concerned about conditions for prisoners. Why? The obvious answer is that if the recidivism rate is high then the system is not working. A young unkempt man presented to the community centre at which I worked as a volunteer Chaplain. Struggling to make conversation, wanting to be left alone yet attending because Continue reading »
Australia’s assistance in striking targets in Yemen, obediently abiding by the direction of the United States and United Kingdom, had a certain curious resonance to another event that involved foreign shipping, the wounded pride of imperial powers, and meddling Arabs. From November 2023, the Houthis initiated a number of measures against Israeli shipping and vessels Continue reading »
Australia’s reluctance from afar to recognise Israel’s genocide in Gaza is being challenged by the genocide case against Israel in the World Court. Australia has finally made clear its official position on the genocide case brought by South Africa against Israel in the International Court of Justice (ICJ) in The Hague. Prime Minister Anthony Albanese Continue reading »
From politicised phone hacking to aiding and abetting insurrection, the lawless threat of Murdoch’s organisations to democracy is only now becoming clear
Trump’s win in Iowa showed his weakness The Trump juggernaut rolled into Iowa on Monday and won what the media is calling a “historic” victory. He won 51% of the vote while his closest rival Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis only won 21% and Former S. Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley, 19%. Obviously, it was a tremendous victory for the former president, demonstrating his massive strength going into the 2024 election. Or was it? First of all, this was no surprise. Donald Trump has been destined to win this caucus and frankly, every primary from the moment he announced he was running. Unlike in 2016, he reportedly had a very professional campaign in the state and was polling over 50% throughout the race. It is very probable that he will be the de facto nominee within the next month and will have it all wrapped up by Super Tuesday. However, taking a closer look at those Iowa numbers shows some of the pit falls awaiting him in the general election. If there’s one state in the nation you can call MAGA country, it’s Iowa. It’s something like 95% white, older than most states, extremely rural and the Republican Party there is as conservative as it gets.
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Uplifting the digital experience of your Drupal website by making it accessible is inevitable.
The reason behind digital evolution is its easy availability for all. But unfortunately, the web is still full of inaccessible experiences, which become a hindrance for users with any sort of disability. And that is the reason why Drupal incorporated various accessibility features with time to ensure its website accessibility.
Along with accessibility features, Drupal has accessibility modules as well that are contributed by its active community. The modules improve Drupal website accessibility without having to put much effort into coding.
Let’s know which are those modules that enhance Drupal website accessibility.
Ukraine is working with a founder of the Yippie movement to provide ibogaine to soldiers on and off the battlefield.
The post The Ukrainian Military Is Experimenting With Psychedelic Drug Ibogaine to Treat Traumatic Brain Injuries appeared first on The Intercept.
Join us TOMORROW, January 18 at 1pm ET / 10am PT, for our regularly scheduled call to chat about all things Drupal and nonprofits. (Convert to your local time zone.)
This month we'll be discussing the return of the Nonprofit Summit to DrupalCon Portland 2024! We're currently looking for breakout discussion leaders, and we'll be answering questions about what that involves, as well as throwing around ideas for potential topics.
Has only read paper four times in recent months First, if you didn’t know already, Sinclair Broadcasting is based in Baltimore, David Folkenflik reminds Threads readers: Post by @davidfolkenflik View on Threads About David D. Smith, Judd Legum adds: Smith is the son of Sinclair founder Julian Sinclair Smith and, along with his brothers, controls the company. Sinclair, a publicly traded company, owns or operates 185 local television stations across 86 markets. A 2018 study published in the American Political Science Review found that stations purchased by Sinclair “coverage of national politics at the expense of local politics” and undergo “a significant rightward shift in the ideological slant of coverage.” Smith is the executive chairman of Sinclair Inc., reports the startup Baltimore Banner. [Smith] told New York Magazine in 2018 he considered print media “so left-wing as to be meaningless dribble.” Asked Tuesday during the meeting whether he stood by those comments now that he owns one of the most storied titles in American journalism, Smith said yes.
Xi Chuan has again been translated by Lucas Klein, this time in a volume called Bloom and Other Poems. Xi Chuan’s poems, as they emerge in English, have often a streaming headstrong intensity, and a visual brilliance—he’s a kind of philosopher imagist. Xi Chuan, who wanted to be a painter and these days is working on a series of documentaries about poets, is described in the translator’s foreword as bridging—or maybe the metaphor is “mixing”—the intellectual traditions of Chinese poetry with the populist, in the style of his rhetoric and in the kinds of things he writes about, the stuff of everyday life. There is something of Inger Christensen about his anaphorics and long lines and cosmic but local concerns. Here, for instance, is the first part of “Senses of Reality,” which appeared in Xi Chuan’s previous collection of English-language translations, also rendered by Klein, called Notes on the Mosquito. The lines have a hypnotic, melancholy beauty:
Florida Democrats flip state House seat With few exceptions (Hi, Hillsborough!) Democrats in Florida have not been showing us how it’s done lately. Maybe that’s changing (Daily Kos): Florida Democrats kicked off the new year with a major victory as businessman and Navy veteran Tom Keen flipped a Republican-held seat in the state House―a development that represents Gov. Ron DeSantis’ second electoral humiliation in the span of 24 hours. Keen defeated his Republican rival, Osceola County School Board member Erika Booth, 51-49 in Tuesday’s special election for the 35th House District, a constituency in the Orlando suburbs that Joe Biden carried 52-47. The Democrat will succeed Republican Fred Hawkins, whom Gov. Ron DeSantis appointed in June to serve as president of South Florida State College despite lacking any background in higher education. “Republicans will hold an 84-36 supermajority in the state House,” writes Jeff Singer, with “a similarly lopsided edge in the state Senate.” Keen’s seat will be up for reelection in November, so he had best not get too comfortable.
For the duration of the war, the producers have replaced Shaquille O’Neal on the panel with James McPherson, the legendary historian of the First American Civil War. McPherson himself is substituted by NBA Hall of Famer Dwyane Wade on alternating Thursdays. This is not one of those Thursdays.
We join the action midsegment as Chuck and Kenny spiritedly debate the strategic and tactical wisdom of the Secessionist attack on Shaker Heights, Ohio.
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CHARLES BARKLEY: I am saying—
SMITH: Chuck—
BARKLEY: I’m saying—
SMITH: No, Chuck—
BARKLEY: Let me say—
ERNIE JOHNSON: Let him, let him say it—
Wootton has been suspended from his presenting role on GB News since September after an on-air misogyny storm. Now he is said to be preparing to launch a channel on a controversial video platform
Republican presidential candidate former President Donald Trump speaks at a caucus night party in Des Moines, Iowa. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)
Forty years ago, fourteen civil servants working in Government Communications Headquarters (GCHQ) lost their jobs for being members of a trade union. Margaret Thatcher enforced a ban on trade union membership in 1984, claiming that it wasn’t possible for someone to be in a union and be loyal to their country. During a House of […]
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As the judges at The Hague deliberate on South Africa’s indictment of Israel, a lawsuit against senior U.S. officials for supporting genocide is set to begin in federal court.
The post The Legal Case Against Joe Biden for Enabling Israel’s Genocide Against Gaza appeared first on The Intercept.