In an astonishing “Fuck you” to the survivors of the 1945 US nuclear bombing of Nagasaki, several Western countries including the US, Australia, Canada, France, Italy and the UK have just dropped a bombshell: reportedly announcing their ambassadors are shunning this week’s commemorations in solidarity with Israel. Last week the mayor of Nagasaki, Shiro Suzuki, Continue reading »
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The evidence shows that the only households whose living costs have risen faster than their incomes are those homeowners with a mortgage. For the other two thirds of households, their incomes have risen faster than their living costs. Policy should therefore focus on why mortgage costs have risen so dramatically. The cost of living crisis Continue reading »
In the last several years, democracies around the world have been led by leaders of low calibre, who displayed little vision, not much courage and in whom voters had shown no confidence. But in strife torn Bangladesh, a country of over 174 million people, the inaugural (1998) Sydney Peace Prize recipient Professor Muhammad Yunus, a Continue reading »
Progressive party scuttled as protection of the monarchy overrides the verdict of the voters. A peculiarly Thai political ritual is playing out in the kingdom this week. In Act 1, the courts disband a popular party that is seen as a threat to the monarchy and ban its leaders from politics. In Act 2, the Continue reading »
The Albanese Government’s apparent unwillingness to properly implement the recommendations of the Parliamentary inquiry into online gambling is, as the Alliance for Gambling Reform puts it, ‘bitterly disappointing’ in the view of St Vincent de Paul Society in Australia. Commenting on media reports suggesting the government will only respond half-heartedly to the Parliamentary Committee’s report “You win Continue reading »
Refugees and asylum seekers are camping 24/7 in Punchbowl outside Tony Burke’s office from Tuesday August 6, 2024 while they wait for answers. The rally is an extension of the ongoing 24/7 vigil outside Clare O’Neil’s electoral office and the Home Affairs offices in Dockside. The freezing protest encampment in Melbourne has now exceeded 22 Continue reading »
I do agree with Ken Russell that inaction on the climate crisis is indefensible and I understand why he believes that climate scientists should be at the forefront of the global campaign to take targeted and effective action. But, until I watched the Graham Readfearn Guardian interview ‘The Weight of the World’, with scientist Graeme Continue reading »
Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar ran Gaza so well, Benjamin Netanyahu once spoke in his own cabinet in favour of supporting Hamas against the Palestinian Authority, Marwan Bishara reminds us. “It’s very important to recall the last six years from 2017 to 2023, until when the October 7 attack happened – for six years Yahya Sinwar Continue reading »
A nonprofit with hate group ties is using a major GOP apparatus to push a controversial employee verification system to crush immigration.
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“X filed a lawsuit on Tuesday against the Global Alliance for Responsible Media, a coalition of major advertisers, claiming that it had violated antitrust laws by coordinating with brands to dissuade them from spending money on the social media platform.” — New York Times
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On April 17, 2023, you submitted a request to deactivate your X (then Twitter) account after previously blocking user @elonmusk, adding the words “elon musk” to your muted-words list, and systematically blocking all blue-check-verified users as well as all companies advertising on the platform.
These actions constitute an illegal one-person boycott that infringes on our client’s constitutional right to free speech, as well as his right to monetize that speech in several ways, and has caused him irreparable harm. To wit:
A few weeks ago, we introduced the concept of "tracks" as the next step in progressing the Drupal Starshot project. Tracks are smaller, focused parts of the project that allow for targeted development and contributions.
At the same time, we put out a call for Starshot track leads, and were overwhelmed by the response. We received nearly 65 submissions, showcasing a wide range of expertise and ambitious vision that made for a difficult review process.
Announcing new track leads
We are proud to announce the newest track leads, who bring to the Starshot team an impressive depth of experience both in Drupal and in their respective track space:
It felt like the system was working. But I’m not sure it was…
by Helene Langlamet
In 2007, the Marcellus Shale Play was opened for production in Pennsylvania. The fracking of the shale unlocked massive fossil fuel reserves previously considered inaccessible. But it also unleashed an especially expensive and wasteful extraction process that involved flushing hundreds of millions of tons of highly toxic chemicals a mile deep into the ground and into the water table. And it brought up natural gas contaminated with unprecedented levels of radioactivity.
More bad news for Team Trump Okay, I’m just now getting to Ezra Klein’s podcast with Gov. Tim Walz of Minnesota. Listen to this guy. He’s sound. I’ll finish after this posts. Meantime, Walz’s opponent for vice president, Sen. J.D. Vance of Ohio, continues to have his woes: Several polls have indicated that Vance has overwhelmingly underperformed among American voters, making him the least popular nonincumbent veep candidate since 1980. Vance’s popularity has sunk by 8.8 percentage points since his vice presidential candidacy was announced at the Republican National Convention, according to a polling average aggregated by FiveThirtyEight. One poll conducted by Public Policy Polling on July 31 found that 47 percent of polled Americans found Vance to be unfavorable, while just 30 percent considered him favorable. An ABC News-Ipsos poll conducted between July 20 and July 27 found that Vance’s favorability had dropped by nine points, and an AP-NORC poll conducted between July 15 and July 29 saw Vance’s favorably drop by eight points. <sad trombone> Okay, don’t get cocky. Get busy.
Jodie Whittaker (Thirteenth Doctor) and Mandip Gill (Yaz) on returning for Big Finish's new Doctor Who audio dramas - including a few clues.
Trump’s nightmare becomes a night terror Ebullient. Is that the right word? Since President Biden passed his party’s baton to Vice President Kamala Harris, the mood among Democratic Party faithful has turned a sharp corner. The energy at rallies for the Harris campaign, now complete with Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz as her running mate, is the stuff of former president Donald Trump’s reality-challenged boasts. And a nightmare for an old con man desperate for the presidential shield to shield him from jail time. (Trump made bank off his glowering mugshot. Wonder what his glower will look like after a prison haircut?) Ed Kilgore reviews a few post Biden polls for the New York Magazine Intelligencer. Trump’s nightmare is headed into night terror territory. The Harris polling bounce is now a trend: According to the FiveThirtyEight national polling averages, Harris is leading Trump by 1.9 percent (45.3 to 43.4 percent), with Robert F. Kennedy Jr. at 5.3 percent. When Biden dropped out, he was trailing in the same averages by 3.2 percent.
There’s a dreamy and appealing naturalism to Alan Felsenthal’s elegy, Hereafter. The poems are electric and vivid, but the book never romanticizes suffering. Voices in these poems have a sadness to them, a melancholy that retains some almost mystical buoyancy. But never treacly. Or maybe it’s just that this mourning is still tempered by a hard sweetness, the sweetness of a friendship that doesn’t end even though one friend has passed on. Here’s how “Cover Letter” begins:
just say my subject is grief
it comes as a strike
leaves stricken
like an aircraft
afflicted
as Jupiter is
in opposition to Mars
and a few lines later, ends:
I can keep this up
as long
as death
a book
unreadable from this distance
go try anyway
the rain heaves
something is not shut
the library downstairs only goes to S
Recent reports reveal Iron Dome's malfunctioning missiles causing civilian casualties and infrastructure damage, exposing the flaws in Israel's touted defense system.
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AIPAC’s relentless funding and smear campaigns lead to the defeat of progressive icon Cori Bush, raising serious concerns about the integrity of U.S. elections.
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