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Fri, 23/01/2026 - 00:00

Early in President Trump’s first term, McSweeney’s editors began to catalog the head-spinning number of misdeeds coming from his administration. We called this list a collection of Trump’s cruelties, collusions, corruptions, and crimes, and it felt urgent to track them, to ensure these horrors—happening almost daily—would not be forgotten. Now that Trump has returned to office, amid civil rights, humanitarian, economic, and constitutional crises, we felt it critical to make an inventory of this new round of horrors. This list will be updated monthly between now and the end of Donald Trump’s second term.

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Thu, 22/01/2026 - 23:00
Carney gave an important speech yesterday, which you can read here. That lead to a lot of people praising him for his honesty in noting that the rules-based order was accepted by developed nations because they benefited from it, even though everyone knew it was bullshit: if you weren’t in the club, the rules didn’t […]
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Thu, 22/01/2026 - 20:00
Edward Egan Headlines warn of a looming ‘jobpocalypse’, but the reality is more complex. Rather than simply causing a wave of job losses, the economic literature suggests generative AI could influence the labour market through several – potentially offsetting – channels: productivity gains, job displacement, new job creation, and compositional shifts. The balance between these … Continue reading Generative AI: degenerative for jobs?
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Thu, 22/01/2026 - 14:28

Over 400 people gathered at Sydney Town Hall on Friday 16 January to rally against Chris Minns’ anti-protest laws and genocidal Israeli President Isaac Herzog’s planned visit to Australia. It was the first Palestine solidarity protest since NSW Premier Chris Minns introduced his draconian restrictions on protest on Christmas eve and was co-hosted by Stop […]

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Thu, 22/01/2026 - 13:15
Today (January 22, 2026), the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) released the latest labour force data – Labour Force, Australia – for December 2025 – which showed a relatively strong increase in employment and the rising participation rate – both good signs. Taken together the demand-side of the labour market outstripped the growth in the…