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From noted expert in international law, Professor Miller.
He’s completely wrong, obviously. The test is ‘effective control’ and it is not necessary to demonstrate control over ever square inch, especially for remote or inhospitable territory.
Plus there is no valid competing claim by the US.
He’s completely wrong, obviously. The test is ‘effective control’ and it is not necessary to demonstrate control over ever square inch, especially for remote or inhospitable territory.
Plus there is no valid competing claim by the US.
January 17, 2026 at 5:00 AM
From noted expert in international law, Professor Miller.
He’s completely wrong, obviously. The test is ‘effective control’ and it is not necessary to demonstrate control over ever square inch, especially for remote or inhospitable territory.
Plus there is no valid competing claim by the US.
He’s completely wrong, obviously. The test is ‘effective control’ and it is not necessary to demonstrate control over ever square inch, especially for remote or inhospitable territory.
Plus there is no valid competing claim by the US.
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“Grok is generating at least one non-consensual sexual image every minute”
Grok Is Undressing Women and Children. Only Elon Musk Is to Blame
The abuse is widespread. But instead of apologizing, Musk has gleefully encouraged the behavior, praising Grok’s ability and promoting the tool.
zeteo.com
January 7, 2026 at 12:35 PM
“Grok is generating at least one non-consensual sexual image every minute”
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When a leader becomes so weak & unstable, lies need to be amplified even more. Without them his cult of personality weakens. This might be insane but it needs to be understood historically. Fascism is more than ever the main ideological precedent for Trump's lies.
December 26, 2025 at 6:44 PM
When a leader becomes so weak & unstable, lies need to be amplified even more. Without them his cult of personality weakens. This might be insane but it needs to be understood historically. Fascism is more than ever the main ideological precedent for Trump's lies.
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Foreign medics shunning NHS because of anti-migrant rhetoric, says top doctor
Foreign medics shunning NHS because of anti-migrant rhetoric, says top doctor
Exclusive: UK an ‘unwelcoming, racist’ country for overseas health workers, according to medical colleges leader
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‘The NHS would collapse within hours’: BME staff say Britain fails to appreciate their roles
Foreign doctors and nurses are increasingly shunning the NHS because anti-migrant rhetoric and rising racism have created “a hostile environment”, the leader of Britain’s medics has warned.
The health service is being put at risk because overseas health professionals increasingly see the UK as an “unwelcoming, racist” country, in part because of the government’s tough approach to immigration, Jeanette Dickson said. Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
December 26, 2025 at 8:18 PM
Foreign medics shunning NHS because of anti-migrant rhetoric, says top doctor
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Couldn’t have said it any better.
November 29, 2025 at 1:19 AM
Couldn’t have said it any better.
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Impeach and remove. Indict and convict.
November 29, 2025 at 1:13 AM
Impeach and remove. Indict and convict.
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I’ve been thinking about the post that accused me of supporting fascists, because I was continuing to engage with people that were trying to turn back the clock to 2019…
November 29, 2025 at 12:59 PM
I’ve been thinking about the post that accused me of supporting fascists, because I was continuing to engage with people that were trying to turn back the clock to 2019…
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How low we have sunk as a country. The US Department of Defense is now run by a rabid war criminal.
Ordering the execution of helpless survivors of an attack is ALWAYS a war crime, whether they civilian or military.
Pure, mindless, barbarism.
www.thedailybeast.com/pentagon-pet...
Ordering the execution of helpless survivors of an attack is ALWAYS a war crime, whether they civilian or military.
Pure, mindless, barbarism.
www.thedailybeast.com/pentagon-pet...
Pentagon Pete in Legal Peril Over ‘Kill Them All’ Orders
A follow-up missile allegedly killed survivors of a U.S. strike on a drug boat.
www.thedailybeast.com
November 29, 2025 at 6:06 AM
How low we have sunk as a country. The US Department of Defense is now run by a rabid war criminal.
Ordering the execution of helpless survivors of an attack is ALWAYS a war crime, whether they civilian or military.
Pure, mindless, barbarism.
www.thedailybeast.com/pentagon-pet...
Ordering the execution of helpless survivors of an attack is ALWAYS a war crime, whether they civilian or military.
Pure, mindless, barbarism.
www.thedailybeast.com/pentagon-pet...
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Australia: Deaths due to acute respiratory infections.
Published: 28 November 2025
🔸Registered deaths by 31 October 2025
🔹2025 - COVID: 2,004
🔹2025 - Influenza: 1,385
🔹2025 - RSV: 506
Source: www.abs.gov.au/statistics/h...
Published: 28 November 2025
🔸Registered deaths by 31 October 2025
🔹2025 - COVID: 2,004
🔹2025 - Influenza: 1,385
🔹2025 - RSV: 506
Source: www.abs.gov.au/statistics/h...
November 30, 2025 at 1:18 AM
Australia: Deaths due to acute respiratory infections.
Published: 28 November 2025
🔸Registered deaths by 31 October 2025
🔹2025 - COVID: 2,004
🔹2025 - Influenza: 1,385
🔹2025 - RSV: 506
Source: www.abs.gov.au/statistics/h...
Published: 28 November 2025
🔸Registered deaths by 31 October 2025
🔹2025 - COVID: 2,004
🔹2025 - Influenza: 1,385
🔹2025 - RSV: 506
Source: www.abs.gov.au/statistics/h...
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Australia: "COVID-19 has been the leading cause of acute respiratory infection related mortality across the majority of 2023-2025."
#COVID19Australia #COVIDisNotOver #COVIDisAirborne
#COVID19Australia #COVIDisNotOver #COVIDisAirborne
November 30, 2025 at 1:18 AM
Australia: "COVID-19 has been the leading cause of acute respiratory infection related mortality across the majority of 2023-2025."
#COVID19Australia #COVIDisNotOver #COVIDisAirborne
#COVID19Australia #COVIDisNotOver #COVIDisAirborne
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Making one of my favourite home-made ice-cream flavours, vanilla and finger lime (basically like a bougie lime splice) - but for the first time using finger limes I grew in my own garden 😎 (also vanilla pods that my brother imported, but that’s another story)
November 27, 2025 at 11:04 AM
Making one of my favourite home-made ice-cream flavours, vanilla and finger lime (basically like a bougie lime splice) - but for the first time using finger limes I grew in my own garden 😎 (also vanilla pods that my brother imported, but that’s another story)
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Peter Swenson, a Yale professor and one of about 20 million Americans with long COVID, says calling chronic illness a “journey” needs to stop. He feels “pinned down by it, stuck with it,” calling it a “bad trip” with fatigue, brain fog, dysautonomia and heart problems.
Source: archive.md/CgY81
Source: archive.md/CgY81
November 26, 2025 at 5:06 AM
Peter Swenson, a Yale professor and one of about 20 million Americans with long COVID, says calling chronic illness a “journey” needs to stop. He feels “pinned down by it, stuck with it,” calling it a “bad trip” with fatigue, brain fog, dysautonomia and heart problems.
Source: archive.md/CgY81
Source: archive.md/CgY81
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The latest corrective services data is out today, and it points a horrific picture of the systemic racism in our judicial system #PointLive
live.thepoint.com.au
live.thepoint.com.au
November 27, 2025 at 4:29 AM
The latest corrective services data is out today, and it points a horrific picture of the systemic racism in our judicial system #PointLive
live.thepoint.com.au
live.thepoint.com.au
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Nauru president accused in parliament of corruptly siphoning off millions of Australian funding www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
Nauru president accused in parliament of corruptly siphoning off millions of Australian funding
Senator uses parliament to accuse Albanese government of knowing David Adeang was ‘seriously corrupt’ yet still signing $2.5bn deportation deal
www.theguardian.com
November 25, 2025 at 11:52 PM
Nauru president accused in parliament of corruptly siphoning off millions of Australian funding www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
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Patient came in with sore throat. While waiting for rapid Strep test result we glanced back at the Covid-19 RAT result: positive. Reminder that masking in health care makes sense, if you don’t want everyone in your waiting room to go home sick, your staff to get sick, and physicians to get sick.
November 25, 2025 at 4:35 PM
Patient came in with sore throat. While waiting for rapid Strep test result we glanced back at the Covid-19 RAT result: positive. Reminder that masking in health care makes sense, if you don’t want everyone in your waiting room to go home sick, your staff to get sick, and physicians to get sick.
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My work on SARS-CoV-2 variants informed a recent piece in The Lancet: "Epidemiological and virological update on the emerging SARS-CoV-2 variant BA.3.2".
The authors were kind enough to mention me and the Variant Hunters Ryan Hisner and Federico Gueli.
www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
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The authors were kind enough to mention me and the Variant Hunters Ryan Hisner and Federico Gueli.
www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
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Epidemiological and virological update on the emerging SARS-CoV-2 variant BA.3.2
The constant emergence of novel SARS-CoV-2 variants has driven the COVID-19 pandemic
and sustains the current endemic. Saltation variants, such as BA.2.86,1 encode highly
mutated spike (S) proteins th...
www.thelancet.com
November 25, 2025 at 1:30 AM
My work on SARS-CoV-2 variants informed a recent piece in The Lancet: "Epidemiological and virological update on the emerging SARS-CoV-2 variant BA.3.2".
The authors were kind enough to mention me and the Variant Hunters Ryan Hisner and Federico Gueli.
www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
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The authors were kind enough to mention me and the Variant Hunters Ryan Hisner and Federico Gueli.
www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
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"Government investment in social housing is helping stabilise rents" Wow, who knew? (oh, yeah everyone). My column #ThePoint
thepoint.com.au/off-the-char...
thepoint.com.au/off-the-char...
Government investment in social housing is helping stabilise rents
The point.com.au
thepoint.com.au
November 25, 2025 at 1:21 AM
"Government investment in social housing is helping stabilise rents" Wow, who knew? (oh, yeah everyone). My column #ThePoint
thepoint.com.au/off-the-char...
thepoint.com.au/off-the-char...
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What I know for sure is if registered NDIS providers succeed in getting higher rates for complex care, they won’t pass the profit on to the workers who provide the care or use it to ensure better quality of care for clients
this interview, and the subsequent reporting around it, was absolutely infuriating. any other sector's big business lobby wouldn't get this kind of uncritical, uninformed, wildly inaccurate coverage, yet disabled peoples' essential services do [little 🧵]
www.abc.net.au/listen/progr...
www.abc.net.au/listen/progr...
NDIS described as 'trainwreck' - ABC listen
A market failure is happening now in the National Disability Insurance Scheme, with many not-for-profit providers heading to insolvency.
www.abc.net.au
November 25, 2025 at 6:24 AM
What I know for sure is if registered NDIS providers succeed in getting higher rates for complex care, they won’t pass the profit on to the workers who provide the care or use it to ensure better quality of care for clients
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Two miles of ice core on the shelf at our national ice core facility in Lakewood, Colorado. The WAIS Divide core from West Antarctica is a 3400m long (deepest US core, 2nd deepest ice core ever) 68,000 year old record of high resolution climate.
November 24, 2025 at 5:03 PM
Two miles of ice core on the shelf at our national ice core facility in Lakewood, Colorado. The WAIS Divide core from West Antarctica is a 3400m long (deepest US core, 2nd deepest ice core ever) 68,000 year old record of high resolution climate.
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8 years since I published the first investigative piece into gig economy rider safety conditions here in Australia. No one else was writing about it at the time medium.com/@Asher_Wolf/...
November 25, 2025 at 7:14 AM
8 years since I published the first investigative piece into gig economy rider safety conditions here in Australia. No one else was writing about it at the time medium.com/@Asher_Wolf/...
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"My NHS colleagues & I weren’t willing to let the bodies pile high in their thousands. Boris no longer mentions them at all."
My piece on the responses to the UK Covid-UK Inquiry report that try to airbrush the dead away.
Sincere thanks, @theobserveruk.bsky.social.
observer.co.uk/news/nationa...
My piece on the responses to the UK Covid-UK Inquiry report that try to airbrush the dead away.
Sincere thanks, @theobserveruk.bsky.social.
observer.co.uk/news/nationa...
I’ll never forget the horror of the Covid wards | The Observer
observer.co.uk
November 23, 2025 at 9:18 AM
"My NHS colleagues & I weren’t willing to let the bodies pile high in their thousands. Boris no longer mentions them at all."
My piece on the responses to the UK Covid-UK Inquiry report that try to airbrush the dead away.
Sincere thanks, @theobserveruk.bsky.social.
observer.co.uk/news/nationa...
My piece on the responses to the UK Covid-UK Inquiry report that try to airbrush the dead away.
Sincere thanks, @theobserveruk.bsky.social.
observer.co.uk/news/nationa...
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Someone turned up on one of our threads the other day and said something very irritating… but probably a commonly held belief.
“They should only tell us if a significantly different virus turns up..”
Ok. Not irritating. Infuriating. I’ll explain why.
“They should only tell us if a significantly different virus turns up..”
Ok. Not irritating. Infuriating. I’ll explain why.
November 16, 2025 at 1:05 PM
Someone turned up on one of our threads the other day and said something very irritating… but probably a commonly held belief.
“They should only tell us if a significantly different virus turns up..”
Ok. Not irritating. Infuriating. I’ll explain why.
“They should only tell us if a significantly different virus turns up..”
Ok. Not irritating. Infuriating. I’ll explain why.