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Boston Married @bostonmarried.bsky.social · 22m

Good progressive journalism can sells, sells, it is supressed

Citizen.Coping @propcazhpm.bsky.social · Jan 28

Elaine Welteroth, former editor-in-chief of Teen Vogue and youngest editor of Condé Nast ever, and the 2nd African American to hold this position, changed Teen Vogue to be more politically conscious.

Traffic to TeenVogue.com: 2.7M to 9.2M visitors a year, print subscriptions jumped 535%

Ex-Teen Vogue editor Elaine Welteroth: ‘The headlines implied I was a token black hire’

Welteroth was just 29 when Anna Wintour made her editor-in-chief. Months later, the magazine shut down. What did she do next?

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Leroy @leroylynch.bsky.social · 1h

Australian households will be able to access free electricity for three hours every day, in an effort to encourage energy use when excess solar power is being fed into the grid.
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-11...

Australian households to get free electricity three hours a day

Saying there is enough solar power for everyone in the daytime, the federal government will direct retailers to provide three hours of free power every day to consumers.

www.abc.net.au

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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 1h

Teen Vogue eliminated all their Black and trans staff today.

It's resegregation in real time.

Lex McMenamin (they/them) @leximcmenamin.com · 2h

today’s information came out piecemeal, and people should be able to share their own situations on their own time, but I could share this much ^ as it is pretty cut and dry on the facts.

Teen Vogue also no longer has any trans staffers as of today.

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Boston Married @bostonmarried.bsky.social · 43m

Teen young women are often seen as problems, invisible or lacking political credibility. I really liked, that Teen Vogue gained a deserved reputation for rising to the threat of fascism, while showing you can do that with diverse teen women as a core audience

𝑲𝒂𝒔𝒔𝒂𝒏𝒅𝒓𝒂𝑺𝒆𝒗𝒆𝒏 @kassandraseven.bsky.social · 4h

Posting this from September now since Conde Nast is merging Teen Vogue into Vogue and cutting the politics section.

www.teenvogue.com/story/men-dr...

How ICE Raids Are Making It Easier for Civilian Men to Assault Immigrant Women

"This phenomenon is only possible because of the outsized power that state agents have always had to abuse and control women and victims' bodies," argues Kylie Cheung.

www.teenvogue.com

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SBS Australia (unofficial) @sbsaustralia.nzcow.com · 5h

📢 Thousands of Indigenous households across northern Australia live with prepaid power, where disconnection can happen at any moment. Now a new report has warned that without stronger protections, the system could turn deadly in extreme heat. SBS’s Christopher Tan travelled to the Kimberley to see…

When power isn’t guaranteed: Indigenous families in northern Australia face deadly risks in extreme heat

www.sbs.com.au

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Kim Kelly @kimkelly.bsky.social · 4h

Long live Guilloteen Vogue

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Women's History Network @womenshistnet.bsky.social · 8h

Olympe de Gouges was executed #OTD 1793. A pioneering French feminist and abolitionist, de Gouges wrote the Declaration of the Rights of Woman and the Female Citizen in 1791, demanding equal rights for women during the French Revolution.

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Lex McMenamin (they/them) @leximcmenamin.com · 6h

I was laid off from Teen Vogue today along with multiple other staffers, and today is my last day.

certainly more to come from me when the dust has settled more, but to my knowledge, after today, there will be no politics staffers at Teen Vogue.

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Kiwifunknuckle @kiwifunknuckle.bsky.social · 15h

Kinky.

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This roof paint blocks 97% of sunlight and pulls water from the air

A roof paint that can cool your home and pull fresh water straight out of the air? It's within reach, as scientists scale up production of a new kind of paint-like coating that shields roofing from th...

newatlas.com

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Victorian Socialists @vicsocialists.bsky.social · 1d

Instead of further inflating the housing bubble, we should be building more (much more!) public housing to compete with the private market and bring down prices, ditching capital gains and other tax incentives for investors, and immediately freezing rents!

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Victorian Socialists @vicsocialists.bsky.social · 1d

The main beneficiaries of this policy will, just like every other demand-side housing scheme we've seen in recent years, be the big banks, investors and developers.

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Victorian Socialists @vicsocialists.bsky.social · 1d

Labor's 5% deposit scheme contributed to price growth at the lower end of housing market of 14.4% (annualised) in October. This policy, predictably, is going to lock even more people out of the housing market while pushing others to take on excessive levels of debt.

A graphic showing an excerpt from an article in Macrobusiness headlined 'Australia's housing crisis takes nasty turn'. The text reads: The Albanese government’s 5% deposit scheme for first home buyers, effective from 1 October, appears to have significantly boosted home prices...

Cotality research director Tim Lawless noted that Labor’s 5% deposit scheme has stimulated demand and prices at the lower-to-middle end of the market.

Across the combined capitals, dwelling values were up 1.4% across the middle market and rose 1.2% across the lower quartile, while upper quartile values were 0.7% higher through the month.

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Matthew Broberg-Moffitt (any/all) @mbrobergmoffitt.bsky.social · 1d

Absolutely. I was homeless multiple times as a child and recently for most of 2019. It does something to your brain.

Gabrielle A. Perry, MPH @geauxgabrielle.bsky.social · 1d

Being homeless changed me. Irrevocably & forever. I have a book coming out about the things I did to survive. Hitchhiking. Begging. How I was treated. Working multiple jobs. Walking miles to work. How men tried to prey on me sexually. How the church dehumanized me. It changes you

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Nobody Deserves Poverty @nobodyinpoverty.bsky.social · 1d

"It's really focused on building up an asset portfolio - the community housing landlord has more reasons and more ways they can evict you than your public housing, landlord." @kristin8x.antipovertycentre.org from @antipovertycentre.org

www.sbs.com.au/news/podcast...

Government housing affordability scheme under pressure

The Housing Australia Future Fund (HAFF) is under intense political scrutiny following the launch of a forensic nine-month federal audit. The $10 billion scheme, intended to boost social and affordabl...

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Moira Donegan @moiradonegan.bsky.social · 21h

The necessary inverse to the myth that the working class is male is the notion that women workers are all management. 🤪

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Moira Donegan @moiradonegan.bsky.social · 21h

*Woman works to support herself and her family.*

“Fucking girlboss.”

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الكسندرا ميراي @lexialex.bsky.social · 21h

Our friend Omar's son has Leukemia and just started treatment. If you can support this GFM it would be fantastic

Omar Sakr @omarsakr.bsky.social · 21h

I forgot how atomised platforms are now - Insta is my primary acc. We have a GoFundMe that has been lifesaving, enabling us to take time off work to manage this crisis. You can read more here about ways to support us and there’s links to cancer charities in my bio x www.gofundme.com/f/help-us-su...

Donate to Help Us Support Our Little Warrior, Nayirr, organized by Jessica Olivieri

Our beautiful boy, Nayirr, is three years old. Just days ago our world ch… Jessica Olivieri needs your support for Help Us Support Our Little Warrior, Nayirr

www.gofundme.com

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Andy Fleming @slackbastard.bsky.social · 1d

"The motivation of individuals within these networks is not financial nor is it for sexual gratification – this is purely for their amusement, for fun, or to be popular online."

www.bbc.com/news/article...

Australian girls 'hunted' by online gangs to commit violent acts

Groups of young men are coercing and exploiting vulnerable girls "for fun", Australian police say.

www.bbc.com

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Reluctant Antagonist (KJ Colt) @moistenedtart.bsky.social · 17h

I would take a bet that what he’s not saying here is that he only wants some humans to survive, and that those people are rich, white, attractive/smart.
And I guarantee many other Silicon Valley billionaires agree with him.

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Purplepingers ☭ @purplepingers.bsky.social · 17h

“it is just the same with the housing shortage. The growth of the big modern cities gives the land in certain areas, particularly in those which are centrally situated, an artificial and often colossally increasing value” - Engels, 1872

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Yung En Chee @yungenchee.bsky.social · 2d

ZoeD:"a bill that’s undoubtedly a vast improvement on what currently exists" ⁉️ 🤯
👎industry carve-outs
👎veg clearing loopholes
👎vague 'unacceptable impacts' & 'national interest'
👎bilateral agreements devolving Fed powers to states/territories
👎NO fully independent EPA
👎pay-to-destroy enviro offsets

Yung En Chee @yungenchee.bsky.social · 3d

Some of the key concerns with Minister Watt's proposed EPBC reforms, as identified by the Biodiversity Council

Read 👉 biodiversitycouncil.org.au/news/environ...

Excerpt of some of the Biodiversity Council's key concerns regarding the Albanese government's proposed EPBC Reforms:

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• The 'unacceptable impacts' test is undermined by vague language and undefined thresholds, leaving critical decisions to the Minister's broad discretionary power.

• The framework for National Environmental Standards (NES) lacks mandatory timelines, binding effect, and clear coverage across all Matters of National Environmental Significance (MNES).

• A sweeping 'rulings' power and loosely defined 'national interest' exemptions retain the ability for the Minister to bypass safeguards - introducing major loopholes.

• The proposed 'restoration contributions' system risks becoming a "pay-to-destroy" model: allowing damage now, payment later, with uncertain ecological outcomes.

• The proposal to add biodiversity offsets into the nature repair market means the market would not deliver net environmental repair benefit - instead, repair projects would be tied to and facilitate destruction elsewhere.

• The reforms fail to embed meaningful Indigenous leadership and knowledge into decision-making, risking continuation of the colonial approach to land and water management.

• Ministerial discretion dominates the proposed legislation, making almost anything legally acceptable
'subject to ministerial satisfaction'. Ministerial satisfaction must be replaced with objective tests of acceptability in line with Graeme Samuel's "binding and enforceable National Environmental Standards".
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Melissa @artistaffame.bsky.social · 2d

I don’t care about what tshirts albo wears I care that under his government poverty and homelessness has increased

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2000s @popculture2000s.bsky.social · 2d

october 31st november 1st

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Nobody Deserves Poverty @nobodyinpoverty.bsky.social · 2d

"In our survey, renters overwhelmingly cited their tenancy as the main reason for not owning rooftop solar. Only 9% of rental homes reported access to solar, compared to 48% of dwellings owned outright.”

www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Australian wholesale electricity prices are falling. So when will power bills stop rising?

The cost of generating power is definitely getting cheaper, but the savings may take time to flow through

www.theguardian.com

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ABC News Bot (unofficial) @abcnewsbot.bsky.social · 2d

In an exhibition exploring the fraught issue of finding a home, artist Alana Hunt is directly inviting owners of multiple properties to solve her own, personal housing crisis.

Housing crisis inspires artist to challenge owners of investment properties

In an exhibition exploring the fraught issue of finding a home, artist Alana Hunt is directly inviting owners of multiple properties to solve her own, personal housing crisis.

www.abc.net.au

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