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The sharply conservative Supreme Court, reshaped by President Trump’s three appointees, is the first since at least the 1950s to reject civil rights claims in most cases involving women and minorities, according to an analysis conducted for The Post. https://wapo.st/4tCkcJB

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The only president stupid enough to do it.

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Melania Trump wants these photos and emails to be scrubbed from the Internet. Please stop liking and sharing them. Thank you for your attention to this matter.

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Turn it off and turn it on again. 🤞

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Lainie Anderson’s novels about a real pioneering policewoman invite us to play historical detective Miss Kate Cocks, the real-life first policewoman in South Australia, is the star of Lainie Anderson’s historical crime novels – with a Phryne-Fisher-like offsider.

theconversation.com/lainie-ander...

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A very Australian development is getting a fairly good op-ed raising awareness about rising insurance premiums from "extreme weather" but no mention of climate change or the underlying cause of this crisis.

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Moreover, even in times of lawlessness, or periods where the ability to enforce law is strained, being able to object to an action and having a baseline on which it is possible to judge it when things stabilise is important. At the Nuremberg trials, the ability to hold Nazi war criminals...

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to account when there was no written law outlawing their actions was partly the existence of people, even peers, who objected or set a standard against which their actions could be measured. Law and the exercise of law is important even in times of apparent lawlessness.

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ICE detains five-year-old Minnesota boy arriving home, say school officials Superintendent says Liam Ramos and his father were taken into custody while in their driveway and sent to Texas

‘Terrible things are happening outside… Families are torn apart; men, women and children are separated. Children come home from school to find that their parents have disappeared. Women return… to find their families gone.’
Anne Frank, The Diary of a Young Girl.

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will skip the signing of US President Donald Trump’s “Board of Peace” in Davos after Switzerland confirmed it would enforce the ICC arrest warrant over war crimes in Gaza.

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Apparently we have to destroy the arts to save them. Though as we all know by now after more than a decade of hostile arts policy, what "we" want is a culture with no memory, no freedom and no conscience, endless reruns of a starveling so-called western canon, background noise for the suits

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Authors withdraw from festival after Palestinian Australian author dropped After Randa Abdel-Fattah was dropped from Adelaide Writers' Week by the Adelaide Festival Board, a slew of authors, including Michelle de Kretser, have withdrawn from the event.

This is just the start of the backlash

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Just want to share with my American friends how the Australians respond to a shooting tragedy. Action, rather than thoughts and prayers.

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Rob and Michele Reiner are posing for a photo. A headline reads: "‘Apparent Homicide’ Under Investigation After Rob and Michele Reiner Are Found Dead." Photo by Charles Sykes/Invision, via Associated Press.

Rob and Michele Reiner are posing for a photo. A headline reads: "‘Apparent Homicide’ Under Investigation After Rob and Michele Reiner Are Found Dead." Photo by Charles Sykes/Invision, via Associated Press.

The actor and director Rob Reiner and his wife, Michele, have died. The police are investigating what they described as an apparent homicide at the Reiners’ home. Follow live updates. www.nytimes.com/live/2025/12...

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The trashing of State Library Victoria My 17-year career at State Library Victoria ended two years ago, after months of white-anting by management and the most miserable time of my working life. When news of the library’s most recent restr...

The definitive stories of some of the astonishing travesties at the State Library of Victoria in recent years, from its former Chief Curator. I witnessed some of it first hand. Rally 12.30 today at the Library. www.thesaturdaypaper.com.au/comment/topi...

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Just gunna repost this everyday until the rally to save the State Library of Victoria. Do try to come. I will draw you a Hermoine the Modern Girl if you ask me nicely at the rally. For ID purposes, this is a photo of me:

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Poverty is not evidence, the presumption of innocence must apply to everyone In the final days of October, the Federal Government quietly inserted a last-minute amendment into an unrelated bill. It has been trying to rush through a change that would allow police and the Home A...

Every day this government is more of a disappointment thepoint.com.au/opinions/251...

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Photo of Sean Kelly and Amy Remeikis at a meet the author event

Photo of Sean Kelly and Amy Remeikis at a meet the author event

Listening to @amyremeikis.bsky.social talk to @seankelly.bsky.social about how Albanese pretty much prevents cabinet ministers from doing anything he doesn’t want…. And pondering how long they will allow that to keep happening

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Royce Kurmelovs is one of our best indie journalists. He is on the ground in Belem reporting on Australia’s reasonably pathetic efforts at COP reneweconomy.com.au/after-a-delu...

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Byron Writers Festival

In August a workshop for @byronwritersfestival couldn’t go ahead. We’re trying again this Saturday and spots still available. Great advice for prepping your submission over summer! shorturl.at/CylkH #amwriting

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He was quite fun on stage!

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The Australian Government makes more money from HECS repayments than it does from the PRRT.

‘Norway taxes its fossil fuel industry and gives their kids free higher education… we subsidise our fossil fuel industry and we charge our kids a fortune to go to uni.’

@richarddenniss.bsky.social #auspol

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260,000 volumes from Vanderbilt’s Heard Libraries to be digitized by Google Books A new collaboration between the Jean and Alexander Heard Libraries and the Google Books initiative will make it possible for users worldwide to access works that are rare, out of print, or generally u...

Google Books. It's still going on. Still new libraries working on it. 📚 (Tennessee)
newsonline.library.vanderbilt.edu/2025/09/2600...

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The Angel in the House An experienced senior editor explores the dire state of the publishing industry.

The numbers speak volumes.

www.killyourdarlings.com.au/article/the-...

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Nib Literary Award 2025 longlist announced | Books+Publishing Purchase a subscription to view job ads and other premium content on Books+Publishing.

And in other good news, Slick has made the long list at The Nibs:

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What’s all that noise? 💥🎧
Ah, I know: it’s the whirring of printers and riffling of pages for a final edit before submitting when our window reopens on 15 August. Got to website, check requirements & use Query portal. Looking forward to some quality reading! 📚📖

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To whom it may concern, and it should concern the editor:

I was quoted in your publication:

https://cosmosmagazine.com/earth/oceans/can-we-engineer-our-way-out-of-ocean-acidification/

Still, others aren't convinced that good intentions are enough. Dr. David Ho, Professor of Oceanography at University of Hawaii at Manoa, a cofounder and the Chief Science Officer of |C|Worthy, a non-profit that works on verifying ocean-based carbon dioxide removal, believes carbon removal efforts like ocean alkalinity enhancement shouldn't be left solely in the hands of private companies.

"They have no way to prove that what they're doing is effective - that's a big problem," Dr Ho said.

The crux of the dilemma, he explains, is that we are fighting a planetary-scale problem, but are doing it with tools that are still being built and tested. Geoengineering is not inherently good or bad, but it is inherently powerful. And power, especially when exercised in ecosystems as complex and fragile as the ocean, must be handled with caution.
However, I have never spoken to your reporter, nor would I have said those things. I would like you to remove my quote from your story, and issue a public correction and apology. Furthermore, you should look into whether the other parts of the article are also factually correct. Thanks.

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To whom it may concern, and it should concern the editor: I was quoted in your publication: https://cosmosmagazine.com/earth/oceans/can-we-engineer-our-way-out-of-ocean-acidification/ Still, others aren't convinced that good intentions are enough. Dr. David Ho, Professor of Oceanography at University of Hawaii at Manoa, a cofounder and the Chief Science Officer of |C|Worthy, a non-profit that works on verifying ocean-based carbon dioxide removal, believes carbon removal efforts like ocean alkalinity enhancement shouldn't be left solely in the hands of private companies. "They have no way to prove that what they're doing is effective - that's a big problem," Dr Ho said. The crux of the dilemma, he explains, is that we are fighting a planetary-scale problem, but are doing it with tools that are still being built and tested. Geoengineering is not inherently good or bad, but it is inherently powerful. And power, especially when exercised in ecosystems as complex and fragile as the ocean, must be handled with caution. However, I have never spoken to your reporter, nor would I have said those things. I would like you to remove my quote from your story, and issue a public correction and apology. Furthermore, you should look into whether the other parts of the article are also factually correct. Thanks. d.

WTF? I was quoted in this story but I have never spoken to the reporter nor would I have said those things. Is everything just generated by LLMs these days?

cosmosmagazine.com/earth/oceans...

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Hi, I worked at USAID. 👋

Airdrops are universally acknowledged as probably the worst and least efficient way to get aid to people. You airdrop when you a) want to want to so something but can’t, or b) you don’t want to do anything but want to look like you are.

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Are you working on a manuscript and unsure what comes next?🤔 Live around Byron? Maybe come to my workshop, a fortnight away today, at #ByronBayWritersFestival for guidance on editing and pitching to agents and publishers. #amwriting

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