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In a heartfelt statement, the former television personality said that using the truth was “a problem I never thought I’d have.”

Jessica always wanted to work in academia. The journey there hasn’t come without its challenges. She worked in restaurants and retail to support herself financially throughout her master’s degree, spending eight years on various insecure contracts in the university sector. For the past two years, she’s been on a permanent contract—a job she loves and […]

Two red-state abortion bans fail The conservative rush to turn post-Roe v. Wade United States into Gilead hit a couple of speed bumps on Thursday. The civil war against women halted first in South Carolina (of all places) and again in Nebraska hours later. Washington Post: In lengthy and often impassioned speeches on the South Carolina Senate floor, the state’s five female senators — three Republicans and two Democrats — decried what would have been a near-total ban on abortion. One, Sen. Sandy Senn (R), likened the implications to the dystopian novel “The Handmaid’s Tale,” in which women are treated as property of the state. Senn seems almost peeved about that. She said abortion laws “have always been, each and every one of them, about control — plain and simple. And in the Senate, the males have all the control.” South Carolina and Nebraska currently allow abortions for up to about 22 weeks.

“A Texas state agency told its employees this month that they must dress in a manner that is ‘consistent with their biological gender,’ a directive that seemed to be a thinly veiled attack on transgender employees.” — The Guardian, 4/25/23

In order to keep our workplace running efficiently, we strive to create a professional environment. One in which every employee takes pride in their work and appearance, and also openly makes it clear if they have a pee-pee or a hoo-ha.

Acceptable workplace attire for men:

• Slacks, khakis, or corduroys with the zipper “accidentally” undone
• Dress shirts tucked into the pants, firmly lifting your balls like an athletic cup
• Any formal shoe made of reflective material for routine urinal inspections

Acceptable workplace attire for women:

Anthony Albanese and Treasurer Jim Chalmers are hosing down hopes of any serious action on cost of living, health or aged care in the upcoming budget.

The post Editorial: Labor finds billions for war but won’t fund JobSeeker and health—we need a fightback appeared first on Solidarity Online.

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Iain Overton looks at the hyperbole around post-Brexit Britain, and how nationalist exceptionalism blinds us to our real problems and their remedies

The Victorian Labor government, which claims to be the most progressive in Australia, is laying the ground for a horror state budget on 23 May.

The post Victorian Labor prepares savage budget cuts appeared first on Solidarity Online.

The US and NATO have stepped up weapons deliveries to Ukraine further, aiming to prepare it for a highly anticipated spring counter-offensive.

The post Pentagon leaks confirm Ukraine is a dangerous proxy war appeared first on Solidarity Online.

Spontaneous protests exploded in cities across France in April after its constitutional court, stuffed with elite political and state figures, declared that President Emmanuel Macron’s pension attacks had been passed legally.

The post Resistance in France can still undo Macron’s pensions assault appeared first on Solidarity Online.

Cassandra Pybus’s book, Truganini, highlights the damning treatment and decimation of First Nations in lutruwita—now known as Tasmania.

The post Truganini: the apocalypse hasn’t ended appeared first on Solidarity Online.

Sunak's warm welcome of the far right Italian Prime Minister exposes the increasingly authoritarian direction of his own Government, reports Adam Bienkov

Natalia Kogut and Maren Rohe explore the challenges Ukrainian refugees face accessing healthcare, housing and work under the Government's Homes for Ukraine scheme

Most people don’t expect their job to kill them, but for tens of thousands of people a year, that is sadly the case, and things are only getting worse. Many workers are also surprised when they hear that the biggest killer is asbestos: in fact, more people die from asbestos exposure than from road traffic […]

The Semafor editor-in-chief discusses his new book “Traffic: Genius, Rivalry, and Delusion in the Billion-Dollar Race to Go Viral.”

The post Ben Smith on the Bust of the Digital Media Age appeared first on The Intercept.

The ancient philosophy of monism and the physics of quantum entanglement agree: all that exists is one unified whole

- by Heinrich Päs

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Sinema has grown more friendly to the cryptocurrency industry as investors and industry employees contributed to her congressional races.

The post Crypto Cash Is Powering Kyrsten Sinema’s Reelection Campaign appeared first on The Intercept.

We need a diverse media landscape that recognises the added responsibility of operating in a post-conflict society, writes Emma DeSouza

Mahmoud Fatouh Small banks tend to have more specialised business models, likely focusing on commercial and retail banking activities, and show limited interconnectedness to other financial institutions. Hence, they are likely to show less intense cyclical patterns compared to large banks. This post investigates whether large and small banks in the UK and US differ … Continue reading The pro-cyclicality of capital ratios and credit supply, a tale of two sizes →