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Catching up on stories from this week...
"...the killings bore the hallmarks of executions. Medical workers..described receiving bodies with close-range gunshot wounds to the head that had been transferred from hospital morgues while still attached to catheters...
Disappeared bodies, mass burials and ‘30,000 dead’: what is the truth of Iran’s death toll?
Testimony from medics, morgue and graveyard staff reveals huge state effort to conceal systematic killing of protesters
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January 31, 2026 at 8:43 AM
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He's a journalist...

"The White House celebrated Lemon’s arrest with a post on X. “When life gives you Lemons,” the White House account’s official post said, accompanied by a chain emoji."
Ex-CNN anchor Don Lemon released after arrest over Minnesota church protest
Lemon and three others charged with civil rights crimes, DoJ says, as White House celebrates arrest on social media
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January 31, 2026 at 6:01 AM
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This is why I’m voting for Wilfred Gordon McDonald Partridge in the favourite children’s picture book poll
I’ve read this picture book so many times – but only 25 years later do I really understand it | Lenore Taylor
Wilfrid Gordon McDonald Partridge was a favourite when my son was small. Now my father’s in a nursing home – and Mem Fox’s book remains a balm
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January 28, 2026 at 7:43 PM
Oh it's there - there are 50 on the voting list
Four of those are still tattooed on my brain. But where's the green sheep??
January 26, 2026 at 10:52 PM
Reposted by Lenore Taylor
ICYMI, since I posted very late Friday night (and am back at work today after three weeks off), @australia.theguardian.com was the 4th biggest news website in Australia in December
🚨 BREAKING* 📈 Australia's Top News website rankings from December came out on Friday, and GuardianAustralia is now the 4th biggest news website in the country. Grateful to the 8.4 million Australians who visited GdnAus in December 🙏
January 26, 2026 at 10:32 PM
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It's hot. The news cycle is pretty bleak. We're covering all of that. But ALSO we have this joyful happy poll about Australia's favourite children's picture books. There are so many to choose from. I've written about my favourite for later in the week....
Australia’s best picture book: voting now open in Guardian Australia poll
It’s time to get voting for your favourite Australian picture book. Here’s how the Guardian’s poll works
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January 26, 2026 at 10:36 PM
‘Bizarre’ bonuses and sausage sizzles: how Australia’s outsource call centres try to lure in poorly paid workers
January 16, 2026 at 10:15 PM