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Are you curating your feed or is something else? A medical professional at a friend’s party recently asked if I’d had any contact with a mutual acquaintance. No, not since before the pandemic. But I’d been horrified a year or so earlier when I glanced at her Facebook page and found a stream of anti-vax and “do your research” style postings. He knew. It’s why he asked. He’d run into her at the gym. She told him she’d not received the Covid shots and had lost friends over it. And she’d been a medical professional as well. What happened? Perhaps the isolation during the pandemic. Perhaps too much time exposed to an algorithmically generated diet of such stuff. David French this morning cautions about the dangers of creating our own curated bubble realities. Conspiracy theories have been with us forever. Rachel Maddow’s “Prequel” recounts tales of Depression-era Americans convinced that Jews and communists had taken over the government. They stockpiled canned good and weapons for when the Jews came marching down the street to make slaves of them.
A damning new poll finds that three quarters of voters now see the Prime Minister as weak, Adam Bienkov reports
Hello there, neighbor. We are your friendly corporation moving in next door. We’re taking over this six-story building that used to house various small businesses, artists, and families. Integrating into your community is extremely important to us during this transition, so we’re removing all your parking for the next month.
We’re working with the best designers and engineers to ensure that we bring value to your community. It’s obvious that you don’t need any public spaces, cafés, restaurants, dog parks, playgrounds, or a new fire station. Your nearest grocery store is a mere thirty-minute drive away. What you’re lacking here is corporate offices.
We are committed to keeping you 100 percent in the loop about our construction plans. In fact, we mailed a certified letter to all you abutters—sorry, neighbors—about a Zoom meeting to discuss the project and voice any concerns you might have. You’ll receive this letter promptly three days after the meeting has occurred.
Former BBC producer and reporter Patrick Howse explores why the cuts announced to the corporation's flagship news programme are another damning, but unsurprising, blow to its reputation
In today's BCTV Daily Dispatch: Star Trek: Discovery, Chappelle/Boebert, Battlestar Galactica, SNL, Doctor Who, The Boys/Saga, and more!
- by Psyche Film
They discuss Grim’s new book, “The Squad: AOC and the Hope of a Political Revolution.”
The post Krystal Ball and Ryan Grim on the Squad appeared first on The Intercept.
- by Nick Hunt
During the Homer Jones Memorial Lecture on Nov. 2, 2023, economist Isabel Schnabel shared her assessment of the factors that could impact disinflation in the euro area.
There is blood on Anthony Albanese’s hands over Israel’s murderous assault on Gaza.
The post Step up the fight as Albanese backs Gaza genocide first appeared on Solidarity Online.
AI is not just disrupting our lives but our very language too, writes Dan Clayton
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has vowed to continue to decimate Gaza “with full force” following the brief ceasefire.
The post Israeli terror state preparing savage new assault on south of Gaza first appeared on Solidarity Online.
Organising for Palestine in the unions continues to step up. Teachers and School Staff for Palestine in Sydney and Melbourne have held solidarity photos in schools and a vigil in Melbourne.
The post Unionists take Palestine solidarity into schools and workplaces first appeared on Solidarity Online.
Another week another tedious attack on “wokery” in the New York Times. This is by the conservative David Brooks, but I’ve seen it endorsed by “class-struggle” anti-wokists. Anyway, Brooks helpfully lists the characteristics of wokery in bullet-points, enabling some immediate commentary: “We shouldn’t emphasize what unites all human beings; we should emphasize what divides us.” […]
The so-called truce did not end the violence against Palestinians in the West Bank, where Israeli settlers and troops are terrorising and killing with impunity.
The post Israeli state and settler violence grows in West Bank first appeared on Solidarity Online.
A stark warning from the UN has revealed the world is on track for a “hellish” three degrees of warming this century.
The post Labor still expanding fossil fuels as world heads for ‘hellish’ heating first appeared on Solidarity Online.
On 8 November, the High Court ruled indefinite immigration detention unlawful, overturning a 20-year-old precedent.
The post Labor’s grovelling to Dutton fails the character test first appeared on Solidarity Online.
Polling of so-called 'Red Wall' Constituencies shows those voters that abandoned Labour in 2019 are now returning to the fold
MPs have warned Michael Gove that large numbers of councils could soon be in severe financial distress
A genocide of Palestinians is happening in Gaza now, in tandem with Israel’s methodically opportunistic ethnic cleansing in East Jerusalem and the West Bank. We are here because our humanity is being tested – because future generations will censure us for letting the death count exceed 10 thousand, mostly children and women. We are here […]
The post As bombs are raining down on Gaza again, it is no longer about Hamas or Netanyahu. It is about OUR humanity being tested – video message appeared first on Yanis Varoufakis.
Workers at all four DP World port terminals around the country, members of the MUA, took strike action on 16 November as part of their escalating bargaining campaign.
The post DP World workers strike against attack on rosters and pay first appeared on Solidarity Online.
Thousands of South Australian teachers, members of the Australian Education Union (AEU), went on a state-wide strike again on 9 November against a poor pay agreement offered by the Malinauskas Labor government.
The post SA teachers strike again for more staff and pay first appeared on Solidarity Online.
The war in Ukraine has become a bloody stalemate that continues only because both Russia and the US are pouring in weapons to continue the killing.
The post US and NATO prolonging a bloody stalemate in Ukraine first appeared on Solidarity Online.