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Baby bears! Just in time for spring break, two male Andean bear cubs named Sean and Ian are now on view at the Smithsonian’s National Zoo and Conservation Biology Institute (NZCBI) in Washington, D.C. Over the past few weeks, the animal care team has worked with the brothers to prepare them for the transition. Cubs Ian and Sean began exploring the yard in mid-March alongside their mother, 4-year-old Brienne. For the past four months, members of the public have joined animal care staff in observing the cubs play and explore via a live Andean Bear Cub Cam and follow along with their growth through online “cubdates.”
DeSantis family values: Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis has doubled down on the state’s restrictions against abortion services. On Thursday, DeSantis announced that he signed the Heartbeat Protection Act into law, which will now require a woman to provide proof that the pregnancy was a result of rape, incest or human trafficking in order to receive an abortion up until 15 weeks of gestation. Documentation can include a restraining order, police report, medical record or other evidence. This restriction is an exception to the new law, which states that otherwise, abortions will be banned after six weeks unless done to save a pregnant person’s life. “We are proud to support life and family in the state of Florida,” DeSantis, 44, said in a news release. He’s supporting the family members who rape their daughters, that’s for sure. And any rape victim who doesn’t properly document her assault like a good little bureaucrat will just have to bear her rapists child. Paperwork is very important. That’s what supporting life and family means in the state of Florida.
Opposition leader Peter Dutton this week made serious allegations about Indigenous communities in Alice Springs. Again, he failed to provide evidence to back up his spurious, race-based claims. read now...Today? Probably not. There was a whole lot less money involved in the Fortas case. Brian Beutler has this to say about Thomas: Sadly, I agree. Nothing is going to happen to Thomas. They are just waiting for him to die. That’s how we deal with corrupt Supreme Court Justices and it’s one of the best arguments for term limits.
I’ve been crying when I drop my six-year-old daughter off at school. It happens whenever...
Marianne mania is gripping TikTok.
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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.
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