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Check out the episode titles released for Showrunner Russell T. Davies's Ncuti Gatwa and Varada Sethu-starring Doctor Who Season 2.
The passing of the Early Childhood Education and Care (Three-Day Guarantee) Bill 2025 marks a major shift in Australia’s early childhood education and care system. For the first time, tens of thousands of children who were previously excluded from early learning will have access to at least three days of subsidised care each week (72 Continue reading »
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Yesterday Columbia University gave in to blackmail by President Trump (see here the letter [HT: NYT]) in order to allow to begin negotiations over the recovery of $400 million in research funding. Its unsigned letter (here HT: Leiterreports) leaves ambiguous which potentially sensible elements they were planning to do anyway (“parts of our comprehensive strategy”) […]
Federal workers are rehired, red states go green, a judge stops a different steal, and states repair consumer protections.
As Doctor Who fans speculate over who will succeed Russell T. Davies as showrunner, we make the case for Ben Wheatley (Generation Z).
In its quest to become a ‘normal’, ‘acceptable’ party, Die Linke has joined the warmongering radical centrists in their rearmament folly This past week was one for the history books. The German parliament amended the constitutional debt brake so as to enable unlimited military spending, irrespectively of how deeply into the red it will push […]
The post Goodbye, LINKE! appeared first on Yanis Varoufakis.
“The World After Gaza” author on what Israel’s war reveals about power, violence, and who sets the rules on the world stage.
The post Israel’s “Culture of Cruelty” Inspires the Far Right Worldwide, Says Pankaj Mishra appeared first on The Intercept.
Former Obama and Clinton staffer Tom Malinowski tells Alexandra Hall Hall why the Democrats' reluctance to push back against the Trump administration is only making things worse
. Wie in den letzten Jahren mehr als deutlich geworden ist, scheint es offensichtlich, dass die meisten Mainstream-Ökonomen glauben, die Modern Monetary Theory sei etwas Neues, das sich einige wilde heterodoxe Wirtschaftsexzentriker ausgedacht haben. Das sagt tatsächlich sehr viel über das völlige Unwissen dieser modernen Mainstream-Ökonomen wie Summers, Rogoff und Krugman bezüglich der Geschichte ihrer […]
Cornell student Momodou Taal’s lawyers said the demand was “retribution” for his lawsuit against the crackdown on pro-Palestine speech.
The post He Sued Trump Over Free Speech. Then ICE Demanded He Turn Himself In. appeared first on The Intercept.
As Damascus turns its guns on Lebanon and minority communities, Israeli strikes go unanswered and Syrian civilians pay the price.
The post Damascus Targets All but Israel as Border Crisis Deepens appeared first on MintPress News.
Divers find hundreds of normally solitary electric rays snuggled together
The post The Mystery of the Pregnant Rays appeared first on Nautilus.
What mangrove migration means in
the era of climate change
The post March of the Mangroves appeared first on Nautilus.
March hasn’t been one of the better months for Kim Beazley, the former Hawke and Keating Government minister, leader of the federal ALP and governor of Western Australia and now chairman of the Council of the Australian War Memorial. In the ABC’s recent 4 Corners program, he was cornered on the AWM’s acceptance of funding Continue reading »
In Asian media this week: AI, green appliances to lead shift to consumption economy. Plus: Myanmar resistance rewrites rules of insurgency; Trump closes agencies that cover China, Cambodia abuses; Widowo works on extending his influence; Japanese PM’s popularity plummets; New church for Phnom Penh 50 years after Pol Pot devastation China has issued a 30-point Continue reading »
The simple fact is that Trump isn’t going to “make America great again”. He’s speed running collapse. The most telling bit is his attacks on America universities at the same time as China has taken the lead in eighty percent, or more, of technologies and appears to have the lead in science as well. He’s dismantling the few good things Biden did, like his industrial policy and his appointment of Lina Khan to attack monopolies and oligopolies.
The big news on house insurance this week was the response of the insurance industry’s peak body to a parliamentary committee’s extensive criticisms of its treatment of people claiming on their policies after the massive floods of 2022. The Insurance Council of Australia accepted some of the committee’s recommendations, announced an “industry action plan” and Continue reading »