The week that was for the GOP.
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Criticism aimed at a café employing child workers is unwarranted since no complaints of exploitation have been made and the children work willingly. read now..."Utes will cost $4 million"
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DETROIT — Today, Congresswoman Rashida Tlaib (MI-12) led Congressmembers Jamaal Bowman (NY-16), Cori Bush (MO-01), Greg Casar (TX-35), Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (NY-14), Ilhan Omar (MN-05) and Ayanna Pressley (MA-07) in a letter to Attorney General Merrick Garland calling on the Department of Justice to uphold the First Amendment’s protections for the freedom of the press by dropping the Trump-era charges against Australian publisher Julian Assange and withdrawing the American extradition request currently pending with the British government.
Australia’s official media watchdog has found three-quarters of recent complaints upheld for violations of media ethical principles were against News Corp. read now...And yes, the cops were completely irresponsible in saying there was a manifesto which is by definition “a published declaration of the intentions, motives, or views of the issuer, be it an individual, group, political party or government.” I think it’s fair to assume they were pimping the right wing line…
One question for Sönke Dangendorf, a coastal flooding researcher at Tulane University.
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Even when we know they’re “fake,” placebos can tame our emotional distress.
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More hypocrisy Keir Starmer has rightly been under fire since Labour last week exploited abused children by publishing a Twitter post claiming Rishi Sunak doesn’t care about protecting children from paedophiles. Sunak is abysmal, but he has no role in the sentencing of offenders – and Starmer himself, as then-Director of Public Prosecutions, played a […]
With a compliant mainstream media failing to hold it to account, the Liberal Party is completely out of touch with voters' opinions and its own failures. read now...Also, they should probably ban pregnancy. That’s about 118 deaths per million, by far the worst of all developed nations. Also guns. Of course, guns.
The Albanese Government has come up with the novel solution of solving Australia’s gas shortage by selling the mining rights to niche news network Sky News After Dark ”The gas reserves coming out of Paul Murray’s show alone is enough... Read More ›
The coming federal budget, to be tabled in May, would be Treasurer Jim Chalmers’ first opportunity to build what he calls “values-based capitalism”.
In an essay published in The Monthly, Chalmers envisions an Australian capitalism that is not defined by just one notion of value (presumably economic value), but by values, or “our (Australian) values”.
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Observing his glee in humiliating Floridians who don’t agree with him — from high school students to immigrants to Disney to well, everyone — this does not surprise me: The torture regimes is well documented. We know what they did. And apparently, DeSantis was part of it, assigned to “ensure that the prisoners rights were upheld” but in fact, he oversaw torture, specifically the force feeding tactics to stop the prisoners from staging hunger strikes, (which the Pentagon fatuously defined as a form of “asymmetric warfare.”) DeSantis has been accused of overseeing the force feeding of massive amounts of Ensure causing the inmates to vomit and choke. (Don’t read this link about his time at Gitmo if you have a weak stomach.) I don’t know if it’s all true but the mere fact that DeSantis was part of this grotesque program disqualifies him from ever holding office as far as I’m concerned.
CDC turns out to be superb at scientific communication....