The statistics released by ABC journalist, Stephanie Dalzell on April 20, define a national disgrace and expose a massive hole in the once intact Medicare safety net. The figures are as disturbing as they are worth reading in detail. Only four states release data: Victoria, Tasmania, South Australia and Queensland. As a sample, the average Continue reading »
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I find it deeply disturbing that the tech industry represents 9% of the U.S. GDP and only five Big Tech companies account for 25% of the S&P 500. Prior to Covid, most of the growth in stock market came from Big Tech (not the Trump Administration…). Now, as the U.S. economy is all sorts of […]
The American Hospital Association feted the former House speaker for “advancing health care” following her years-long effort to obstruct Medicare for All.
The lawsuit’s long game — beyond instilling fear — is establishing fetal personhood, the holy grail of the anti-abortion movement.
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I am an AI-generated human female laughing alone with salad. Hahahaha. What could be better? Why are you looking at me like that?
Is it because I have eight fingers on my left hand? Who doesn’t? After all, this is AI. And thanks to AI, we can have all the fingers and salad and finger salad that we want. Anything is possible.
Why are you staring? Is it because my mouth is opened wider than the alien’s mouth in Alien? Is it because I appear to have a million teeth on the roof of my mouth? All the better to catch the leaves that appear to be blasting out of my bowl, my dear. Hahahaha.
President Joe Biden is also considering Sarah Bianchi, Ann O’Leary, Emmy Ruiz, and Carmel Martin to replace Susan Rice as domestic policy adviser.
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Brian Latham reports on the intelligence leak that reveals the extent of Putin's plan to create a 'confederation' of friendly states across the Sahel through his proxy Prigozhin
The Witches of World War 2 is Out (and you can win a digital copy!) #ThisMagicKillsFascists My new original graphic novel from TKO Studios, The Witches of World War 2, is in your comic shops and book stores today, physically and digitally. The artists are Valeria Burzo (pencils) and Jordie Bellaire (colours) and they’re both amazing. […]
To say that Deborah Landau is a poet of the body is to risk obscuring the fact that she is a poet of the urban body, the urbane, the human being alive in the twenty-first-century city. Hers is New York. “Soon we were enthralled, engaged, en route to / Kleinfeld’s, it was hard to find a dress, submit, …” But it’s not the pallor of a wedding dress that lingers here, but the whiteness of bone. Landau’s latest book, Skeletons, is composed of untitled acrostics (s-k-e-l-e-t-o-n-s spelled down the page like ladders of bone) interrupted every so often by poems called “Flesh,” which begin with lines like “To be afraid of every edge, the falling off of it. / Walking at night. Walking under the scaffolding …” Bone and flesh, the inner structure and the outer matter—and so it is a book about death (an “incessant / klepto”), and sex (“red life animal press”), and the persistence of form. And it’s a book of poems that mostly start with the letter “S”—has that ever been done? It makes for a powerful and compelling mixture of repetition—the setting up of an expectation—and variation, a leaping, humming, often anxious weather generated in the unfolding of each poem. The book begins:
Recently, there has been a lot of finger-pointing about who may or may not have sold some poison to a teenager, particularly Romeo Montague—whose life has been cut tragically short. Many of you have named me as the culprit, but I can neither confirm nor deny it as I am bound by doctor-patient confidentiality. It would violate the oath I took as an apothecary to divulge such information.
Sure, I was seen with Romeo the night of his death, but that could have been for anything—some horehound for a cold or perhaps frankincense for early-onset arthritis. I cannot say, because I am bound by law not to disclose what I prescribe for a patient. Why, many of you in this very room have come to me under the cloak of night to buy drams that you hope to keep a secret from your wives and neighbors. Suppose I were to open up about one of my patients, who is to say what other secrets I may spill?
Anthony Yates looks at Rishi Sunak's promises over inflation which might help him cynically suppress public pay demands but do nothing to address the roots of our economic malaise
Sudanese refugees have historically formed one of the largest groups entering the UK via 'irregular routes' – the current conflict will inevitably increase their numbers, reports Lauren Crosby Medlicott
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Democrats back Biden on Ukraine while dissent spreads within the GOP.
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Calvino recognized the digital age as an existential condition as well as a technological one.
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Η γενικευμένη λιτότητα επιβλήθηκε στην Ευρώπη, όχι από τους Χριστιανοδημοκράτες-Συντηρητικούς αλλά, από τo SPD – τους Γερμανούς σοσιαλδημοκράτες. Την αρχή έκανε τo 2002 ο Καγκελάριος Σρέντερ με σκληρές επιθέσεις εναντίον των γερμανών εργαζόμενων εκατομμύρια των οποίων καταδικάστηκαν στην επισφαλή, κακοπληρωμένη, μερικής απασχόλησης εργασία (μέσω των «μεταρρυθμίσεων» Hartz 4 που σχεδίασε ο τότε διευθύνων σύμβουλος της […]
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Keir Starmer has refused to back changing the voting system – but calls to do so are becoming difficult to ignore, Josiah Mortimer reports