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There are a lot of people invested in the idea that Epstein and all the other powerful perpetrators got away with it for so long because they’re so powerful.
But I can’t emphasize enough that almost all perpetrators get these protections. As long as they pick a victim with less power than them.
But I can’t emphasize enough that almost all perpetrators get these protections. As long as they pick a victim with less power than them.
July 22, 2025 at 5:48 PM
There are a lot of people invested in the idea that Epstein and all the other powerful perpetrators got away with it for so long because they’re so powerful.
But I can’t emphasize enough that almost all perpetrators get these protections. As long as they pick a victim with less power than them.
But I can’t emphasize enough that almost all perpetrators get these protections. As long as they pick a victim with less power than them.
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It triggers disaster response payments for those affected (including business), as well as help for local governments et al and more access to federal agency assistance. It IS a natural disaster, just not one our definitions allow for, but will become more common as climate change continues
July 22, 2025 at 1:34 AM
It triggers disaster response payments for those affected (including business), as well as help for local governments et al and more access to federal agency assistance. It IS a natural disaster, just not one our definitions allow for, but will become more common as climate change continues
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for every like i will keep an opinion to myself
July 21, 2025 at 11:28 PM
for every like i will keep an opinion to myself
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Unwelcome? This is literally your policies working as designed.
Cool, if you expect them to rise then we expect unemployment payments to rise as compensation for being fodder for your "economy"
"Chalmers says unemployment figures ‘unwelcome but unsurprising’, expects numbers to rise"
#NobodyDeservesPoverty
#RaiseTheRate
www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
"Chalmers says unemployment figures ‘unwelcome but unsurprising’, expects numbers to rise"
#NobodyDeservesPoverty
#RaiseTheRate
www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
July 17, 2025 at 10:40 PM
Unwelcome? This is literally your policies working as designed.
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This is why there has been so much celebration from them around being promoted to being included in the dirty deal greenwashing pacts big tech is doing for its data centre expansion
Not a real or substantial change, but has the aesthetics of a comeback, so that's enough.
Not a real or substantial change, but has the aesthetics of a comeback, so that's enough.
Nuclear advocates have mostly shouted their environmentalist opponents into submission, but it turns out that didn't solve the real problem, which is that the nuclear industry is a f'ing disaster with long, rich history of subsidies built on false promises, failures, & cost overruns.
Republicans and Democrats Finally Agree on Nuclear. It’s the Industry That’s the Problem.
The atomic age is perpetually on the verge of dawning.
www.politico.com
July 17, 2025 at 9:21 PM
This is why there has been so much celebration from them around being promoted to being included in the dirty deal greenwashing pacts big tech is doing for its data centre expansion
Not a real or substantial change, but has the aesthetics of a comeback, so that's enough.
Not a real or substantial change, but has the aesthetics of a comeback, so that's enough.
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this is symptomatic of a general vulgar leftism that reduces all of capitalism to simply the profit motive and misses all the ways domination and control both material and nonmaterial are the prime directive that overrides mere exploitation and is willing to accept shortfalls and productivity losses
Yes, connects to Ruth Wilson Gilmore and Craig Gilmore’s point about “hollowing out of the term” prison industrial complex: “the meaning of ‘industrial’ shrank to ‘profit’ and the state disappeared behind the specter of immoral gain.” When we only focus on profits, we miss a lot about the economy!
July 16, 2025 at 5:11 PM
this is symptomatic of a general vulgar leftism that reduces all of capitalism to simply the profit motive and misses all the ways domination and control both material and nonmaterial are the prime directive that overrides mere exploitation and is willing to accept shortfalls and productivity losses
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honestly assaults against officers (a charge which is almost always bullshit, like you kick an officer while they’re tasing you) is a much better metric of officer aggression than it is of aggression towards officers
We now know that an “830% increase” is an increase from 10 assaults in 6 months to 93 assaults in 6 months, at a time when DHS has *massively* increased at-large arrests and officers deployed in the community.
For comparison, NYPD is averaging 194 assaults on officers per MONTH.
For comparison, NYPD is averaging 194 assaults on officers per MONTH.
July 15, 2025 at 8:10 PM
honestly assaults against officers (a charge which is almost always bullshit, like you kick an officer while they’re tasing you) is a much better metric of officer aggression than it is of aggression towards officers
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Now look at the domestic violence rates
Divorce rates are near 50-year lows. The high cost of housing could be a big factor.
Soaring house prices may be locking people into marriages, new research shows
theconversation.com
July 13, 2025 at 11:47 PM
Now look at the domestic violence rates
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Turns out cost of higher education probably is a deterrent to accessing it, despite Labor pretending it isn’t.
Insane that under a Labor government an arts degree cost $50K, law $100K.
Insane that under a Labor government an arts degree cost $50K, law $100K.
July 14, 2025 at 12:51 AM
Turns out cost of higher education probably is a deterrent to accessing it, despite Labor pretending it isn’t.
Insane that under a Labor government an arts degree cost $50K, law $100K.
Insane that under a Labor government an arts degree cost $50K, law $100K.
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"Democrats keep “getting caught in this stupid doom loop in which our pollsters say: ‘Well, climate’s not one of the top issues that voters care about, so then we don’t talk about it’”, said Whitehouse. “So it never becomes one of the top issues that voters care about"
Democrats and climate groups ‘too polite’ in fight against ‘malevolent’ fossil fuel giants, says key senator
Sheldon Whitehouse of Rhode Island gives 300th climate speech on the US Senate floor
www.theguardian.com
July 13, 2025 at 12:01 PM
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There is a worldwide 'slump' that's been happening for three years, but Australia is quite unique in that the slump is much, much more severe
Elsewhere, coverage has dipped to early 2020s levels, or late 2010s - never lower than COVID19 (like in Aus)
mecco.colorado.edu/world/index....
Elsewhere, coverage has dipped to early 2020s levels, or late 2010s - never lower than COVID19 (like in Aus)
mecco.colorado.edu/world/index....
July 13, 2025 at 12:01 PM
There is a worldwide 'slump' that's been happening for three years, but Australia is quite unique in that the slump is much, much more severe
Elsewhere, coverage has dipped to early 2020s levels, or late 2010s - never lower than COVID19 (like in Aus)
mecco.colorado.edu/world/index....
Elsewhere, coverage has dipped to early 2020s levels, or late 2010s - never lower than COVID19 (like in Aus)
mecco.colorado.edu/world/index....
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Narrow dataset of a few major print media outlets in Aus, but notable that June 2025 saw the lowest volume of climate coverage since mid-2014 - the last time it was consistently this low was 2004-2005
Exactly how Albanese wants it - out of sight, out of mind.
mecco.colorado.edu/index.html
Exactly how Albanese wants it - out of sight, out of mind.
mecco.colorado.edu/index.html
July 13, 2025 at 11:54 AM
Narrow dataset of a few major print media outlets in Aus, but notable that June 2025 saw the lowest volume of climate coverage since mid-2014 - the last time it was consistently this low was 2004-2005
Exactly how Albanese wants it - out of sight, out of mind.
mecco.colorado.edu/index.html
Exactly how Albanese wants it - out of sight, out of mind.
mecco.colorado.edu/index.html
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A bit of both but it has a lot in common with Mar-a-Lago Face in that it was about appealing to the very specific sexual appetites of an authoritarian patriarch (Roger Ailes, in this case)
On this note I’ve always wondered if the women on Fox News traditionally having similar hairstyles in near-identical shades of blonde was a network mandate or a sign of the coming “tradwife” wave. Or a bit of both.
July 13, 2025 at 4:24 PM
A bit of both but it has a lot in common with Mar-a-Lago Face in that it was about appealing to the very specific sexual appetites of an authoritarian patriarch (Roger Ailes, in this case)
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As we have been saying for 2 years now, despite the government’s deflections and outright lies, this country is deeply complicit—we are supplying essential jet parts to Israel as they carry out a holocaust of Palestinians, starving and burning them to death daily. declassifiedaus.org/2025/07/11/r...
July 11, 2025 at 11:39 AM
As we have been saying for 2 years now, despite the government’s deflections and outright lies, this country is deeply complicit—we are supplying essential jet parts to Israel as they carry out a holocaust of Palestinians, starving and burning them to death daily. declassifiedaus.org/2025/07/11/r...
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Would an Australian newspaper ever gleefully report that people on unemployment benefits or sickness benefits had found a way to rort our system?
The Australian media really do like to put tax dodgers on a pedestal while obsessing about ‘welfare cheats’
The Australian media really do like to put tax dodgers on a pedestal while obsessing about ‘welfare cheats’
July 11, 2025 at 12:54 AM
Would an Australian newspaper ever gleefully report that people on unemployment benefits or sickness benefits had found a way to rort our system?
The Australian media really do like to put tax dodgers on a pedestal while obsessing about ‘welfare cheats’
The Australian media really do like to put tax dodgers on a pedestal while obsessing about ‘welfare cheats’
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Try not to overdo comparisons to robodebt. But this is closest I've seen to a post-robodebt copy of the playbook. NDIS boss demands participant be booted from scheme after conservative radio segment. No evidence. Sham process. Against policy. Gets it WRONG www.thesaturdaypaper.com.au/news/health/...
Exclusive: NDIA chief intervened to throw advocate off scheme
Internal emails show the National Disability Insurance Agency rushed to withdraw access for a disabled person whose funding was criticised on talkback radio, only to reinstate it 10 months later.
www.thesaturdaypaper.com.au
July 4, 2025 at 9:01 PM
Try not to overdo comparisons to robodebt. But this is closest I've seen to a post-robodebt copy of the playbook. NDIS boss demands participant be booted from scheme after conservative radio segment. No evidence. Sham process. Against policy. Gets it WRONG www.thesaturdaypaper.com.au/news/health/...
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This by @jewishcouncilau.bsky.social's Max Kaiser is absolutely on point.
July 10, 2025 at 4:17 AM
This by @jewishcouncilau.bsky.social's Max Kaiser is absolutely on point.
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so, it's not enough that a politics exists where "woman" is taken apart and investigated for its existence (as one should), but "female" too. in fact, conservatives have retreated to defending its machinery via the "defense of femaleness". we ask ourselves - what is "being female"? who defines it?
July 9, 2025 at 7:28 PM
so, it's not enough that a politics exists where "woman" is taken apart and investigated for its existence (as one should), but "female" too. in fact, conservatives have retreated to defending its machinery via the "defense of femaleness". we ask ourselves - what is "being female"? who defines it?
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this is why the "male and female subject" as a mere "fact" of bodies is a technique of instrumentalizing people into the reproduction of the family, state, and capital. this is liberalism.
July 9, 2025 at 7:21 PM
this is why the "male and female subject" as a mere "fact" of bodies is a technique of instrumentalizing people into the reproduction of the family, state, and capital. this is liberalism.
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this is why any politics that simply claims to be for "male and female equality" is a liberal feminism, regardless of whether it calls itself radical. the body has the potential to exist in a much more diverse manner of individual existence and relation beyond hetero-repro teleology.
July 9, 2025 at 7:20 PM
this is why any politics that simply claims to be for "male and female equality" is a liberal feminism, regardless of whether it calls itself radical. the body has the potential to exist in a much more diverse manner of individual existence and relation beyond hetero-repro teleology.
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need
July 8, 2025 at 9:32 PM
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