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Marianne mania is gripping TikTok.

The post Marianne Williamson, Fusing Bernie Sanders and (Early) Jordan Peterson, Is Taking Over TikTok appeared first on The Intercept.

That’s his latest “policy” statement. Trump Greene 2024?

In August, it will be three years since Australia’s China-based correspondents were harried out of China. In an extraordinary over-reaction, the ABC, Fairfax, and News Corp closed their offices in Beijing and Shanghai. The ABC opened its Beijing office in 1973. It was one of a handful of European and Canadian news organisations to have Continue reading »

It is understandable that Australian leaders may feel insecure, even paranoid, about Australia’s future in the Asian twenty-first century. As Western power recedes from the world ­– especially from East Asia – Australia and New Zealand will be left stranded as lonely Western outposts in Asia. But it’s fatal to find emotionally comfortable solutions to Continue reading »

Staffing and skill mix is at a crisis point in private aged care, and it must be fixed. We must show solidarity for the needs of our ageing population, because how we treat our elderly says everything about our values as a nation. When Gerardine (Ged) Kearney MP, now Assistant Minister for Health and Aged Continue reading »

The Liberal Party is moving further to the right; The arithmetic of referendums; and the sorry demise of suburban socialist communes. Read on for the Weekly Roundup of links to articles, reports, podcasts and other media on current political and economic issues in public policy. The Voice The Liberal Party is moving further to the Continue reading »

The first Hawke Cabinet has been described, correctly, as the most talented since Federation. As a Minister outside the Cabinet I could observe it closely. The indominable researcher Phillip Adams explored John’s family history: Count Leo Tolstoy had another blazing row with his wife, flounced out of Russia and holed up in the Healesville Hotel Continue reading »

The last Federal election in 2022 saw a massive swing of voters of Chinese heritage away from the Coalition to Labor and Independents. The pattern was the same in the recent NSW state election and the Aston by-election in Victoria. All these indicate is that a long suffering marginalised victim of Australia’s geopolitics has finally Continue reading »

In East West relations it has become something of a habit. First you reach an agreement promising flowers and chocolates. The other side reacts with concessions and hopes for a brighter future. Then your hawks move in. They say you should never have made those promises. The agreement is forgotten or denied, but only after Continue reading »

Francia Márquez Mina is a renowned land defender and the first Afro-Colombian to be elected Vice President of Colombia. In this Special Issue of The Internationalist, we publish the very first translation of Márquez’s speech at the Permanent Forum on People of African Descent, in which the Vice-President calls for reparations, recognition and protection of Continue reading »

Jamie Raskin is a fighter. You love to see it. Punchbowl reports: A messy confrontation between House Oversight and Accountability Committee Chair James Comer (R-Ky.) and Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-Md.), the ranking member, over panel rules dominated coverage last week. But the spat can’t change an uncomfortable reality for Democrats — when it comes to GOP investigations, there’s not much they can do in the minority. So as Comer plugs away at his controversial, high-profile investigation of President Joe Biden’s family members and their business dealings, Raskin is doing his best to try to reorient the narrative. The progressive firebrand is crying foul at Comer’s methods while making sure the biggest committee news comes from the Democratic side, not from the Kentucky Republican. The fight spilled into the open last week, incensing Oversight Republicans who argue Raskin is trying to distract from GOP breakthroughs in reviewing bank records tied to questionable Biden family deals.

~ Today's Water Cooler ~

Now, the verified Sneetches had checks of pure blue.
But the unverified Sneetches, they wanted checks too!
Those checks weren’t so big. They were really quite small
You might think such a thing wouldn’t matter at all.

But you only had clout if you rocked a blue check,
And most Sneetches in Tweetland didn’t have that connect.

Then one day as the Twitterverse was tweeting and fave-ing,
And plotzing and cloxing and doxing and raving,
And wishing their accounts had the blue checks of the stars…
A stranger zipped up in the strangest of cars.

“My friends," he announced in a voice cocksure and keen,
“My name is Elon McMusky McPeen.
I’ve just purchased this site
For a cool 44 bill,
And I’ve got empty coffers that I must refill!”

“You know me from Tesla.
I got dumped by Grimes.
I’ve shot my wad into space
Many hundreds of times!”

“I work day and night, and I work at great speed.
My algorithm’s like a self-driving car: guaranteed!”

. As I was writing this song one Sunday, I imagined myself floating into space and looking down at my own body. I was imagining myself dying. Morbidly obsessed with these thoughts, I wrote this song about death. The next day I was told that Guy [Burchett], our 17-year-old messenger boy, had been tragically killed […]

If the electron’s charge wasn’t perfectly round, it could reveal the existence of hidden particles. A new measurement approaches perfection.

The post The Electron Is So Round That It’s Ruling Out Potential New Particles appeared first on Nautilus.

If you are following the issue of abortion right now you almost surely have a headache. There is just so much happening all over the country that it’s very hard to wrap your head around what’s going on and how to fight it. This was the predictable outcome of overruling Roe v. Wade to “send it back to the states” because it was always part of the anti-abortion movement strategy. Instead of fighting on one front at the national level, pro-choice advocates would be forced to fight on many different fronts in many different ways while at the same time battling back one attempt after another in the federal courts to degrade the right in the states where it is legal. The final goal remains a national ban even if they have to get it done incrementally. This was always obvious by the fact that while they always piously proclaimed that abortion is murder while at the same time insisting that they merely wanted to return the issue to the states, as if it was fine with them if some states decided to keep it legal. What they really wanted to do was disperse the resources and energy and wear down the opposition. So far, it isn’t working.

Presidential candidate Marianne Williamson is taking on Joe Biden and gaining a massive following on TikTok.

The post Marianne Williamson on Being a TikTok Phenom appeared first on The Intercept.

Not only does the racist thug Ben-Gvir walk around with an entourage of armed guards, but now he has an entire "National Guard" made of armed settler gangs.

The post Itamar Ben-Gvir: The Worst of a Terrible Bunch of Israeli Politicians appeared first on MintPress News.

Chris Chibnall has no expectations that Russell T. Davies will follow up on any of his storylines in the new series of Doctor Who adventures.

Wanted to impress his friends, did he? Airman 1st Class Jack Teixeira, 21, has been arrested by the FBI as the suspect in the leak of hundreds of classified military document to the internet (Washington Post): The leak, probably the military’s largest in at least a decade, has revealed secrets about everything from gaps in Ukrainian air defenses to the specifics of how the United States spies on its allies and partners. […] The crisis has blindsided the Pentagon, which did not become aware until last week that secrets had for weeks been spreading online, and forced the Biden administration to have awkward conversations with allies and partners about explosive issues. The FBI did not descend on the Teixeira home until after The Post revealed numerous details about the still-anonymous leaker on Wednesday night, and after the New York Times followed up on Thursday by naming Teixeira. The FBI’s lag in response time may be explainable, but when they did after the press got there first, boy howdy! He’s from a patriotic family — and allegedly leaked U.S. secrets, reads the Post headline. The irony is not lost on you, Dear Readers, nor is it on Jeff Sharlet.

Calling her post as Associate Justice “a job I’ve loved for the past three decades,” she said, “I’m hopping mad that Clarence would do anything to jeopardize that.”