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Then they came for the porn One of the most heavily contested voting demographics this cycle is the so-called “Bro” vote. Don Jr’s got Trump all over the Bro podcasts trying to grow the gender gap in his favor. But there’s a tensy problem, I’m afraid: Seventeen pornographic film actors on Monday announced that they had launched a $100,000 ad campaign on porn sites warning that Project 2025 — the Heritage Foundation blueprint for a Republican administration that has been a centerpiece of some Democratic campaigns — wants to ban pornography and imprison people who produce it. The online ads will run in the states that will decide the presidency: Pennsylvania, Michigan, Wisconsin, North Carolina, Georgia, Arizona and Nevada. The architects of the “hands off my porn” campaign are nothing if not aware of the polling. Vice President Kamala Harris is losing to former President Donald J. Trump among men, but younger men might be winnable — and pornographic websites are among the most heavily trafficked on the internet.
"The recognition of ecocide as a crime sends a powerful message: the destruction of nature will no longer go unpunished."
Being of voting age in an American presidential election year is messy business. This has...
A scientist’s failed experiment yields a contest-winning photo.
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Joe Scarborough, former hardcore right winger, dealing with what the GOP has become: “The level of un-American activity that you just saw is stunning. That is un-American. They know they’re lying. Donald Trump knows that’s a lie. He will tell you that the Secret Service, he thought, did the best job they could do. The fact that JD Vance and Trump’s family would out and out say what they said takes the threat of violence, takes the threat beyond where it was even leading up to January the 6th. This is an increasingly desperate person, an increasingly desperate family, who is preparing for civil war. They just are.” He’s not wrong. The desperation is just dripping from the Trump clan.
As a result of its belligerence and intransigence, Israel is now almost completely ostracised by the international community, and also faces grave economic and military threats as the regional war expands. Israel rejects the two-state solution because it claims that a sovereign state of Palestine would profoundly endanger Israel’s national security. In fact, it is the lack of Continue reading »
It has been a year of erasing a people, systematically, ruthlessly and unrelentingly. A massacre here and another there. 500 killed yesterday and ‘only’ 140 today. It has been a year of obliterating a culture, an identity and a collective memory. A year of levelling universities, libraries and museums. A year of burning archives, photographs and centuries-old Continue reading »
The massive Iranian rocket response to the Israeli assassinations of Arab leaders raises the question of who began this process of escalation and why? Continue reading »
With less than two months to go, voters may go to the American polls while their nation is at war. If they do, there is a significant chance that Australia will be dragged in, and in accordance with imperial tradition be sent to fight in the Middle East. There are not many nations, after all, Continue reading »
History confirms how the present, destructive militaristic culture of the US-led Atlantic alliance stands on the shoulders of well over a thousand years of Western immersion in extraordinary levels of horrific warfare. Continue reading »
One year on, we renew our calls for a ceasefire, hostage deal and an end to Israel’s impunity and aggression. October 7 marks one year since the Hamas attacks which led to the killing of over 1,000 people in Israel. This week also marks the start of Israel’s genocidal war, which has led to the Continue reading »
If any lesson can be drawn at this dismissal juncture, it must surely be that violence engenders violence ... Continue reading »
The nature, and agenda, of Journalism Australia is clear. It will segregate the washed and unwashed, granting dispensations and protections to the approved while lessening the protections for lesser scribblers. Continue reading »
My dear friend, the great Australian painter John Olsen was, at 77, the oldest artist to win the Archibald Prize. In 2019, over a long lunch at Catalina restaurant in Rose Bay facing the Sydney Harbour, I was with John and Barry Humphries when they yarned about what might happen to John’s 2005 Archibald Prize winning Continue reading »
Will anyone know about it? Look at this: The number of migrants crossing into the U.S. illegally at the southern border reached the lowest point of President Biden’s administration in September, three months into his crackdown on asylum claims, according to internal Department of Homeland Security statistics obtained by CBS News. In September, U.S. Border Patrol agents recorded nearly 54,000 apprehensions of migrants who crossed into the country between legal entry points along the border with Mexico, the government figures show. It’s a smaller figure than the previous Biden-era low in July, when Border Patrol processed roughly 56,000 migrants who crossed the border without authorization. Border Patrol’s tally of migrant apprehensions in September is the lowest number recorded by the agency since August 2020, when the Covid-19 pandemic and the travel restrictions countries enacted in response to it led to a sharp decrease in migration to the U.S. southern border. It would be nice if there were screaming headlines about this but there are a lot of screaming headlines about everything right now.
As Columbia braces for October 7 anniversary protests, an email to faculty over the weekend instructed them to call security if students disrupt classes.
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Good evening, and thank you all for attending this important town hall meeting. Due to budget cuts, we’re excited to announce our groundbreaking merger with Spirit Halloween.
Yes, you heard correctly—Spirit Halloween, your go-to for spooky décor and flimsy costumes that disintegrate in a light breeze, is the new future of this hospital. But don’t worry, patient care is still a top priority. Half of the ER will still handle medical emergencies. The other half will be a fully functional Spirit Halloween pop-up store. I realize this is an unconventional decision, but let’s be real, the only part of this hospital turning a profit has been the parking lot. It’s time to expand our portfolio.
I know some of you may be concerned about the optics of a giant inflatable ghost hovering outside a hospital. Does it send the wrong message? Maybe. But when weighed against the message of “We’re shutting down, and the closest emergency room is 178 miles away,” Casper here doesn’t seem so bad. Plus, it’s a friendly ghost. Sort of.
I happened to spend some time with a highly intelligent 17 year old over the weekend who’s taking AP Government and is keenly interested in the election. She’s following all the polling and the punditry and knows the ins and out of the battleground map better than most adults I talk to. And she said something that struck me because I hadn’t really considered it before. We were talking about the VP debate and she found it odd that it was so civil. She kept waiting for something to happen. And I realized that there are millions of people for whom Trump’s brand of demagogic politics is normal. They are either young like this person and have literally grown up in this era of bad feelings or they are those for whom politics wasn’t of interest until Trump came along. That’s a lot of people who don’t know that it isn’t supposed to be this way. Granted we have had more spirited arguments in televised political debates than the one we witnessed last week between JD Vance and Tim Walz. But we never had the kind of debates like those that Donald Trump has participated in since 2016.