The world’s richest man and Linda Yaccarino — the former CEO of X — have been summoned for “voluntary interviews,” while other employees of the platform are scheduled to be heard as witnesses throughout this week, the Paris prosecutor’s office said.
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Shooter was wearing a “True Crime Community” shirt during this. These massacre fetishists make one part of the so-called NVE designation—the other three being O9A Satanism, neo-Nazi accelerationist terrorism, and the 764 online child abuse cult.
You ever try to code switch at work and fail? 😂
Lucía Prieto Godino, the scientist who transferred a behavior from one species to another
The Spanish researcher at London’s Francis Crick Institute has manipulated a fly’s neurons to make it obsess over an exotic fruit
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Homeopathy is a placebo and could ‘pose a risk’ to health, Spanish authorities confirm
The Health Ministry has published a review of 15 years of studies on a pseudoscience that has been criticized by scientists for decades
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The man from Mexico City who was the shooter at the Pyramid of the Moon in Teotihuacán celebrated the Columbine massacre and the fascist far right
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First: hilarious.
Second: A core belief of Trump-brand conservativsm is there are and never have been difficult problems, only dumb leaders without the strength to be cruel enough to solve them.
It's why they always look so baffled when pushing the "more cruelty" button doesn't seem to work.
a weird post construct lately is 'saw someone say x' and it's like, okay so you're half stealing the gag for you engagement? think of your own gag, lazybones
*rushes in *
Australind train service set to return between Perth and Bunbury, set to formally resume from Monday, 29 June 2026.
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VA redistricting passes, which should add 4 more Dem seats. Trump started the mid-decade redistricting effort by pushing Texas to do in June 2025 when many Republicans felt it could backfire on them.
It has.
as Orban showed, it's a lot harder to steal elections when you are extremely unpopular.
trump will continue to try to tamper with elections. but people should realize his biggest and most feasible gambit was gerrymandering, and that has been a spectacular failure. 1
EXCLUSIVE: The SPLC indictment, the Klan history behind it, and the ignominy of Todd Blanche.
Another dark day for DOJ.
Tonight, at Law Dork:
Something very similar could be said about the obsession with political parties releasing election costings in #auspol
Start with a simple observation that very few columnists seem willing to make: when the electorate is in flux, different sampling methodologies, different weighting schemes, and different question orders produce larger gaps than they do in stable periods. This is not a flaw in the polls. It is a feature of the moment. The country is in transition. In a settled two-party system, where the overwhelming majority of voters are either rusted-on or weakly attached to one of two brands, polling is a relatively straightforward exercise. You sample, you weight against known preference flows and demographic benchmarks, and you produce a number that will be close to what every other reputable pollster produces, give or take a couple of points. That was Australia from the 1950s through to 2022. That was the environment in which most of our political journalism was professionally formed. That Australia no longer exists. In the current environment, a single respondent’s answer depends on a cascade of variables that have only become decisive in the last five or six years. Whether they are prompted with One Nation as a named option. Whether they are asked about the leader or the party. Whether the survey is conducted online or by phone. Whether the sample is drawn from a panel that over-represents politically engaged Australians or one that catches the soft, transactional voters who now decide elections. Whether the fieldwork was done during a news cycle dominated by fuel prices, or migration, or a terror attack, or another Trump post on social media. In a settled period, all of these methodological choices produce small divergences. In a realignment period, they produce the two-to-five point gaps you are seeing between polls. The polls are not contradicting each other in any meaningful sense. They are each capturing a different cross-section of an electorate that is genuinely, ideologically, psychologically in motion, in a transition from a two party to multi party system. Th…
This somewhat goes against the Newspoll and Resolve polls. With there being movement in the way people say they will vote (especially on the Right side), you are going to get polls bouncing around. Kos Samaras has just written something on it.
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Sky News / YouGov Pulse federal poll
TPP: ALP 53 (-2) L/NP 47 (+2)
TPP: ALP 52 (-3) ON 48 (+3)
Primaries: ALP 27 (-3) L/NP 20 (0) ON 27 (+2) GRN 14 (+1) IND 5 (-1) OTH 7 (0)
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TPP preference calculations are respondent allocated, not as per last election
"The people who tell us that AI will dominate our future and take our jobs are the people who are hoping that will be true. They may be hoping this because it makes them feel important, or because they want to be billionaires, or because they simply do not understand other people."
RIP Desmond Morris, a gifted science communicator whose book The Naked Ape (1967) broke daring new ground in creating elaborate evo-psych justifications for an earlobe fetish
One Nation was deliberately created out of Tony Abbott's office, trying to exploit Hanson to create a Greens of the non-Liberal right with similar high preference flows, but control was lost almost before it started, because everyone involved was a gigantic dickhead operating beyond their station.
Barnaby Joyce is fiercely protective of the CGT discount — a stance which should finally put an end to One Nation’s “battler” charade, writes Rachel Withers.
Read it here: www.crikey.com.au/2026/04/21/c...
"Let's speak to one of our viewers who donated some of his hair for this episode!"
It is, in fact, somewhat of a challenge to find a party with elected MPs that has as little of a plan for almost anything as One Nation, a party that crumples and bickers with itself the moment it has to commit to substantive policy rather than just air half-formed grievances
A brave new direction for Kitchen Cabinet.
Age headline on opinion piece: 'Love her or hate her, Melbourne in needs outspoken icons like Bec Judd' by Stephen Brook. The first par tells us that opinions vary about this woman and the second paragraph tells us she wore a red dress to the Brownlow Medal count in 2004. The rest of the article is similarly insightful.
Breathtaking bollocky bilge in The Age. 'Love it or hate it' is the first refuge of a dull headline writer to sit atop a collection of commentator-extruded paragraphs unburdened by insight.
This only covers some reservists in special high readiness - I'd wager in the Air Force and Navy mostly.
But snap refresher exercises have a special meaning in Finland, because the 1939 mobilisation was done quietly under cover of "additional refresher exercises."
The Finnish #Defence Forces are calling up reservists to snap refresher exercises in order to increase operational readiness. This hasn't happened often.
Fortunately the reason is the need for increased surveillance due to wandering drones, not "real" threat.
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"Tocci highlights a fundamental contradiction in the alliances of the global far right: these are nationalist parties whose creed, on paper, is the defense of national sovereignty, yet they find themselves compelled to cooperate with leaders who seek to undermine that sovereignty, such as Trump."
Trump becomes a toxic asset for Europe’s far right
European nationalist parties were celebrating the White House’s support just months ago. But the war in Iran & the US president’s erratic behavior now risk turning him into a liability.
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Salmon appointed Head of Comedy at ABCTV.
