Best book title of the week award goes to...

Unlikely collaboration... #MassiveAttack and #TomWaits made a protest song (based on old prison songs)!
davidfpresents.com/blog/massive...

With Trump Novices, Can the U.S. Win the ‘Art Olympics’?

Before: museum curators, independent experts [select] representations of American cultural excellence.
Now: 'Art world veterans are out. Taking their place: a months-old nonprofit run by a woman whose most recent job was owning a luxury pet food store in Tampa, Fla.'
www.nytimes.com/2026/04/19/a...

Next step for national digital sovereignty? Adopt open and transparent #digitalcommons solutions @dcpcouncil.bsky.social

Israel escalates attacks on medics in Lebanon with deadly ‘quadruple tap’ Lebanese health ministry says killing of 91 healthcare workers shows ‘total disregard’ for international law

#terrible 'killed 91 healthcare workers and wounded 214 more in Lebanon... little justification for its repeated attacks... apart from accusing Hezbollah of using ambulances and hospitals to transport fighters and weapons without providing evidence for the claim'
www.theguardian.com/world/2026/a...

J D VANCE und VIKTOR ORBAN auf einem Bild. Orban schaut, als hätte er Kacka in der Hose und Vance schaut, als wäre es seine.

"Ich habe Viktor Orban in die Hose geschissen."

Trump Was Watching a U.F.C. Fight in Miami While Iran Talks Collapsed

Essence of youth
www.nytimes.com/2026/04/11/u...

Proud to share that the report on misinformation interventions I co-wrote with three psychological science colleagues for the Australian Chief Scientist has been released. Other reports deal with democracy, communities, and neuroscience. #academicsky #auspol
www.chiefscientist.gov.au/news-and-med...

Damming indictment of the managerialist infiltration of Australia’s universities resulting in job cuts #auspol #4corners
youtu.be/quc24Ot9Qwg?...

Nancy Fraser | After Habermas Jürgen Habermas may be variously described as the moral conscience of postwar Germany, the last great systematic...

Nancy Fraser: “On the colonisation of the lifeworld, I felt that, in essentialising the system/lifeworld distinction, Habermas masked historically specific forms of male domination and missed the transformative potential of feminist movements.”

"We would be using the Iranian barrels against the Iranians"
#ubu
#pèreubu
#uburoi

What the!?
Billionaires fund far-right media?
YOU MUST BE JOKING

Surely this can only happen in the UK... or the US... right?

#auspol

Someone went and looked at that world of woke, wikipedia

Can't hear, what

Shoutout to the pit boys Wallace, Poot, and Bodie

Silver lining #energytransition #auspol

Trump’s call for allied deployment to strait of Hormuz meets muted response UK and Japan among countries that are considering options but yet to commit warships to blockaded shipping route

www.theguardian.com/world/2026/m...

#noshit
"the international response to Trump’s call for the dispatch of warships has so far proved vague and reluctant"

Actually, the first peoples the English colonised were the Welsh, not the Irish. But apart from that, #kneecap are the shiznit no doubt.
PS. Unfortunately my #IAMCR proposals were both rejected so looks like l won't be visiting Ireland (for the first time!) In 2026. :-(

New-Look National Party Vows To Appeal to Broader Cross-Section of Australian Coal Lobbyists — The Shovel “There’s a perception we only represent big coal lobbyists. I want to change that. I want to lead a party that also stands up for medium coal lobbyists, boutique coal lobbyists, and the next generatio...

"There’s a perception we only represent big coal lobbyists. I want to change that. I want to lead a party that also stands up for medium coal lobbyists, boutique coal lobbyists, and the next generation of coal lobbyists coming through the system". #auspol theshovel.com.au/2026/03/11/n...

One week to go to order your free copy!

"Why has author ignored literature x?"

Again: when US authoritarianism goes international we are all Minnesottan

First Saturday nite 8pm showing of Raiders of the Lost Ark at Studio Hautefeuille (Paris Latin quarter). At the beginning when lndy jumps in the river, makes it to the plane and they take off the packed cinema clapped and cheered.

Jeffrey Sachs: We Are Now in the Early Days of World War III YouTube video by Glenn Diesen

[Jeffrey Sachs re Hegseth's dismissal of rules of engagement as 'PC and weak'] 'We have not seen this brutality of sentiment, of rhetoric and of action since 1945.'
#auspol
Not sure about that but surprising that so few point out that recent US actions are authoritarian.
youtu.be/DeRETBWnNWA?...

Zali Steggall tears into racist political group Advance for platforming ‘far right, white supremacist’ views
“What’s more frightening is a former PM Tony Abbott openly supporting & being at that conference in support…& current Liberal senators.”🔥 #auspol

folks, the Wall Street Journal is not the NYT, it is a paper for people who want a headline like "New Dictator Installed, Stock Market Up." they do not mess around

if they're getting worried, there's reason to be worried

How OPERATION EPSTEIN FURY is going so far:

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‘Cultural monstrosities!’ The thrilling visual legacy of punk and post-punk – in pictures From bold anti-Nazi posters to an acid-drenched take on Jean Cocteau, a new exhibition, curated by writer Philip Hoare, shows how influential the DIY designs of the 70s and 80s became

Great images and interestingly the author felt obligated to clarify that 'New Order [took] their name from an article in the Guardian titled The New Order of Kampuchean Rebels' NOT a different 'New Order' (as was assumed by some at the time)...
#wellwell
www.theguardian.com/artanddesign...

Turns precious bodily fluids don't matter as much as the fluid carrying the super tankers #browar #generalripper

Trolling the UN