Trump has deployed television’s Dr. Mehmet Oz to auction off the country’s public health care system to the highest bidder.
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Pro-Israel lobbyists spent a year framing campus protests as Hamas-linked. Now, their disinformation campaign has led to the detention and planned deportation of Mahmoud Khalil—despite Trump officials admitting he broke no laws.
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Death at the White Hart, the first book by former Doctor Who showrunner Chris Chibnall, has been picked up by ITV for a TV series adaptation.
Not even two months since Inauguration Day and it’s already been quite a trip. Ping-ponging between vindictive pettiness and unconstitutional overreach while using everything in his power (and much that isn’t), Donald Trump has served up a goulash of dubious orders with a slathering of venom on top. He’s been abetted in the upheaval he promised on the campaign trail by the richest man on Earth, a cabal of lickspittles, and a cabinet filled with people who appear to have answered job ads stipulating, “Only the unqualified may apply.” As it became clearer what the battles to come would be, a friend wrote me: “I feel now like we’re watching it all happen. It being that thing that can’t happen... Read more
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Anonymous activists plaster adverts on Tube trains showing Foreign Secretary David Lammy with “war criminal” Israeli PM Netanyahu
Michael McCarthy’s The Master’s Tools opens with an evocative description of life under a new social order. ‘It’s a sunny Friday morning in 2045, and you’re running late for a meeting to deliberate over and agree on the priorities of the city.’ You ride to the meeting on a public railway network and step off […]
TO: FAM CHAT
Guys—Katie, excuse the use of “guys” for a sec here, but honestly, didn’t we always kind of think that was one notch over the woke line? Well, I did. There’s no suitable uh… alternative and… Anyway…
Okay. So. The thing of it is that a TV writer I know just wrote a memoir. And the fact checkers called because the good news is…
I made the memoir! I’m in it!
And I am described as…
Well, a few ways… network senior vice-president of content, of course. And…
In other language. Colorful language. Writerly language.
That is the complicated part, and why I’m communicating here is to kind of foreshadow to you guys, especially Katie and Thomas, because you didn’t sign up to be our kids, at least Mommy knew what she was getting into, but…
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Dark money groups tied to conservative power broker Leonard Leo are trying to kill a rule forcing them to disclose who’s funding their judicial pressure campaigns.
Hardeep Matharu dissects what the now infamous Oval Office meeting with Volodymyr Zelensky revealed about the American President’s approach – and speaks to political scientist Brian Klaas about why his ‘alternative realities’ don’t stack up against real-world complexities
If Europeans come from Venus, Peter Jukes observes, it’s only because they are aware (unlike Elon Musk) of the bleak devastation of Mars
This week, Australia learned that old geopolitical relationships and so-called ‘free trade’ treaties mean little when it comes to US policy. The obsequious way our political class fawns after the US has been a constant sickening element of our national identity for as long as I can recall. When I was a child, we were…
Geoffrey Watson tells it like it is about Brendan Nelson having an undisclosed paid role with French arms dealer Thales while serving as a director of the Australian War Memorial. Netanyahu joins IDF forces in the takeover of Palestinian homes and posts about it. In our Parliament, just 11 voted No against criminalising “hate” speech Continue reading »
Start with your closet. Identify all the T-shirts you haven’t worn in three years. Then throw away all your clothes, including the ones you’re wearing.
Use a duster to clean off the top shelves above your bed. After that, tear down the shelves and blow them to smithereens.
Do a blanket purge. A purge of all the blankets. You don’t need them.
Flush all your prescription meds down the toilet. If you want them later, it’s not a big deal—you can just wade into the sewers to find them again. They’ll be waiting for you. It’s not like they’ll have found a new job.
Toss 90 percent of the canned beans in your pantry. You only have 10 percent left, which corresponds to half a can of beans. That should be fine; you don’t even like beans.
Remove your plates from the kitchen cabinet and smash them on the floor. Shards are the most efficient way to dispose of them anyway, because there’s a risk of injury, so you’ll act faster.
Pay someone $5 million to come and take away your most expensive furniture.
Bring in a toddler with a history of racist tweets to help you dismantle your fire alarm.
In his new book, Michael Joseph Gross explores how the notion of strength has changed since Homer
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At a press conference today responding to a question about the possibility of Democratic support...
The Coalition’s leading numerologist, Sussan Ley, has called upon American President Donald Trump to add an extra F to the tariffs he has imposed on Australia. ”Whilst tariffs are not ideal it would help in the short term if Donald... Read More ›