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Australia has become the first country to ban social media for children under 16, blocking access to platforms including TikTok, YouTube, Instagram and Facebook.
Australia begins enforcing world-first teen social media ban
The law drew criticism from technology companies and free speech advocates, but it was welcomed by parents and child advocates.
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December 10, 2025 at 3:03 AM
Australia has become the first country to ban social media for children under 16, blocking access to platforms including TikTok, YouTube, Instagram and Facebook.
Still remember my political philosophy lecturer impressing upon us “it isn’t money or serving the people; it’s all about power always power” Reminds me of a famous quote by Lord Acton and what power does to one. #auspol
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Wells charged taxpayers $1000 for car to wait while she watched tennis – for seven hours
Daily revelations about Wells’ use of travel entitlements have dogged the minister since last Wednesday, eclipsing Labor’s agenda.
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December 8, 2025 at 11:59 AM
Still remember my political philosophy lecturer impressing upon us “it isn’t money or serving the people; it’s all about power always power” Reminds me of a famous quote by Lord Acton and what power does to one. #auspol
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"Consistent with the United States’ continued slide into an economy powered almost entirely by LLM slop, financialization, and ever-pervasive exploitative gambling"
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CNN Partners With a Gambling App That Lets You Wager on Starvation in Gaza
The app company’s two biggest investors are also heavily invested in the Israeli military.
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December 7, 2025 at 9:06 PM
"Consistent with the United States’ continued slide into an economy powered almost entirely by LLM slop, financialization, and ever-pervasive exploitative gambling"
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WTF
American forces attack ships & threatens #Venezuela for being a narco-state: Trump then announces he will pardon the former Honduran president Hernández from his 45-year sentence for actually running a narco-state which exported hundreds of tons of cocaine to the USA.
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American forces attack ships & threatens #Venezuela for being a narco-state: Trump then announces he will pardon the former Honduran president Hernández from his 45-year sentence for actually running a narco-state which exported hundreds of tons of cocaine to the USA.
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Trump says he will pardon ex-Honduras president convicted of drug trafficking
Juan Orlando Hernández was sentenced in the US to 45 years behind bars for conspiring to smuggle cocaine.
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December 2, 2025 at 9:03 AM
WTF
American forces attack ships & threatens #Venezuela for being a narco-state: Trump then announces he will pardon the former Honduran president Hernández from his 45-year sentence for actually running a narco-state which exported hundreds of tons of cocaine to the USA.
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American forces attack ships & threatens #Venezuela for being a narco-state: Trump then announces he will pardon the former Honduran president Hernández from his 45-year sentence for actually running a narco-state which exported hundreds of tons of cocaine to the USA.
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The ruling leaves #Obergefell firmly intact confirming that public officials cannot invoke personal religious beliefs to deny constitutional rights, and will serve as precedent in future 1st Amendment and civil rights cases For same-sex couples it brings renewed legal certainty
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Kim Davis faces ‘crippling’ legal fees after Supreme Court defeat
Kim Davis faces crippling costs and a lasting legacy after the Supreme Court rejects her final bid to challenge gay marriage.
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November 23, 2025 at 6:42 AM
The ruling leaves #Obergefell firmly intact confirming that public officials cannot invoke personal religious beliefs to deny constitutional rights, and will serve as precedent in future 1st Amendment and civil rights cases For same-sex couples it brings renewed legal certainty
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#PEDO-MAGA gaining some traction online. Not surprising as #Republicans are talking a lot about pedophilia. Over the past year, GOP candidates, elected officials, and media influencers have been increasingly obsessed with conversations about childrens’ sexuality
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The GOP's "Grooming" Obsession
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November 19, 2025 at 10:27 PM
#PEDO-MAGA gaining some traction online. Not surprising as #Republicans are talking a lot about pedophilia. Over the past year, GOP candidates, elected officials, and media influencers have been increasingly obsessed with conversations about childrens’ sexuality
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Humans can easily live the entirety of their existence sustained by the distractions of a #technofeudalistic society, never for a minute raising their heads to notice that they, in fact, are inhabitants of an enclosure
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End-Stage Necrocapitalism: Fumbling Towards The Exit
Societies were formed not to evolve, but to obey, and what we tend to affectionately call “social evolution” was merely the aftermath of succumbing, and then adapting to, ever changing forms of oppres...
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November 11, 2025 at 6:45 AM
Humans can easily live the entirety of their existence sustained by the distractions of a #technofeudalistic society, never for a minute raising their heads to notice that they, in fact, are inhabitants of an enclosure
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In a world increasingly under the sway by billionaires, the public good risks being defined by private interests, without oversight, accountability, or consent
#wealth #musk #inequality
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#wealth #musk #inequality
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Visualising Elon Musk's record-breaking pay deal
Elon Musk's latest pay package has just been approved, which will make him the world's first trillionaire in the next 10 years. How can one person wield such tremendous wealth?
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November 8, 2025 at 9:15 PM
In a world increasingly under the sway by billionaires, the public good risks being defined by private interests, without oversight, accountability, or consent
#wealth #musk #inequality
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#wealth #musk #inequality
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The 400 richest Americans are now worth a record $6.6 trillion.
The entire bottom 50% of America is worth just $4.2 trillion.
Read that back.
When 400 people control more wealth than half a country’s population, we have a very serious problem.
The entire bottom 50% of America is worth just $4.2 trillion.
Read that back.
When 400 people control more wealth than half a country’s population, we have a very serious problem.
November 3, 2025 at 1:30 AM
The 400 richest Americans are now worth a record $6.6 trillion.
The entire bottom 50% of America is worth just $4.2 trillion.
Read that back.
When 400 people control more wealth than half a country’s population, we have a very serious problem.
The entire bottom 50% of America is worth just $4.2 trillion.
Read that back.
When 400 people control more wealth than half a country’s population, we have a very serious problem.
To back that claim, #Paxton relies on the “considerable body of evidence… recently highlighted by the #Trump Administration in Trump's rambling, incoherent press conference last month, in which he spoke of a “rumor” about #Tylenol and his “opinion” on the matter.
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If things in America weren’t stupid enough, Texas is suing Tylenol maker
Texas sues Tylenol maker over unproven claim the pain medicine causes autism.
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October 28, 2025 at 9:12 PM
To back that claim, #Paxton relies on the “considerable body of evidence… recently highlighted by the #Trump Administration in Trump's rambling, incoherent press conference last month, in which he spoke of a “rumor” about #Tylenol and his “opinion” on the matter.
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The #Python Software Foundation rejected a $1.5 million Trump administration grant as it conflicted with the foundation's goal to support and facilitate the growth of a diverse and international community of Python programmers.
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Python plan to boost software security foiled by Trump admin’s anti-DEI rules
National Science Foundation said grantees must not operate any DEI programs.
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October 28, 2025 at 9:05 PM
The #Python Software Foundation rejected a $1.5 million Trump administration grant as it conflicted with the foundation's goal to support and facilitate the growth of a diverse and international community of Python programmers.
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Project 2025 is a detailed roadmap for transforming the federal government and implementing conservative policies in a future Republican presidential administration. #project2025 #trump #GOP
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Project 2025 Tracker
A comprehensive, community-driven initiative to track the implementation of Project 2025's policy proposals
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October 26, 2025 at 2:25 AM
Project 2025 is a detailed roadmap for transforming the federal government and implementing conservative policies in a future Republican presidential administration. #project2025 #trump #GOP
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Wilsons Promontory National Park, the southernmost tip of mainland Australia
October 25, 2025 at 11:38 PM
Wilsons Promontory National Park, the southernmost tip of mainland Australia
The meeting at Quantico was a transformation point in the second Trump presidency. It turned the assembled admirals and generals into a de facto enemy of the people.
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Trump’s tragedy: the US becomes an autocracy and the presidency, a dictatorship
Blood-and-soil style violent nationalism infuses everything the Trump administration is doing.
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October 10, 2025 at 2:10 AM
The meeting at Quantico was a transformation point in the second Trump presidency. It turned the assembled admirals and generals into a de facto enemy of the people.
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It is no longer just a conflict between the federal government and a state, but between two states. We now have armed soldiers from the state of Texas eagerly volunteered by their governor to impose the president’s will on the citizens of Illinois.
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Jonathan V. Last (@jvlast)
I don’t know that people appreciate what happened today when TX National Guard troops stepped onto Illinois soil.
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October 9, 2025 at 12:08 AM
It is no longer just a conflict between the federal government and a state, but between two states. We now have armed soldiers from the state of Texas eagerly volunteered by their governor to impose the president’s will on the citizens of Illinois.
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The internet has destroyed students’ attention spans and restricted the growth of their vocabularies. They are “post-literate” cohorts of students, who have grown up in the world of short-form video, computer games, addictive #algorithms (and, increasingly, #AI).
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The dawn of the post-literate society
And the end of civilisation
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October 8, 2025 at 9:32 PM
The internet has destroyed students’ attention spans and restricted the growth of their vocabularies. They are “post-literate” cohorts of students, who have grown up in the world of short-form video, computer games, addictive #algorithms (and, increasingly, #AI).
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The scope of information contractors are expected to collect is broad. Draft instructions specify open-source intelligence: public posts, photos, and messages on platforms from Facebook to Reddit to TikTok. #Surveillance #Power
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ICE wants to build a 24/7 social media surveillance team
ICE plans to hire contractors to scan platforms to target people for deportation.
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October 5, 2025 at 6:11 AM
The scope of information contractors are expected to collect is broad. Draft instructions specify open-source intelligence: public posts, photos, and messages on platforms from Facebook to Reddit to TikTok. #Surveillance #Power
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Attacking An Oil Production System
Some Of The Nuts And Bolts--Starting With Refineries
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October 5, 2025 at 5:41 AM
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Georgia has been facing a wave of protests against its government's repressive policies. Authorities have responded with mass arrests, steep fines, and new laws, targeting protesters, rights groups, and media.
Georgia uses detentions, steep fines and other harsh measures to target anti-government protests
Georgia has been facing a wave of protests against its government's repressive policies. The demonstrations began in November 2024 after the government halted talks about the South Caucasus nation of 3.7 million joining the European Union.
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October 3, 2025 at 7:30 AM
Georgia has been facing a wave of protests against its government's repressive policies. Authorities have responded with mass arrests, steep fines, and new laws, targeting protesters, rights groups, and media.
I wonder if it will come to pass that anyone who disagrees with project2025 will be labelled as subversive and disappeared. I think it may.
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Trump admin defiles even the “out of office” email auto-reply
“Radical Left” and “Democrat Senators” come in for attack.
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October 3, 2025 at 7:45 AM
I wonder if it will come to pass that anyone who disagrees with project2025 will be labelled as subversive and disappeared. I think it may.
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A key tactic of the #fascist state is the co-opting of their institutions—especially the military and police—to serve the leader's political goals rather than the state's constitutional order. What we're witnessing are classic hallmarks of #authoritarian consolidation of power.
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Is this the beginning of the end for US democracy?
In Portland, in 2025, we hear echoes of the same beginnings of dictatorships everywhere: protesters recast as “terrorists,” and enemies within, and federal troops poised to turn against us.
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October 3, 2025 at 7:33 AM
A key tactic of the #fascist state is the co-opting of their institutions—especially the military and police—to serve the leader's political goals rather than the state's constitutional order. What we're witnessing are classic hallmarks of #authoritarian consolidation of power.
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tinyurl.com/yjpexuwb
The #pontiff fielded a question from reporters, about the extraordinary hastily convened meeting of senior military leaders in the United States, at which #Trump and #Hegseth gave highly partisan speeches. That Leo shook his head in distaste pretty well sums it up.
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Pope Leo wades into U.S. controversies on military, abortion, immigrants
ROME - Making a rare foray into U.S. politics, Pope Leo XIV described the blustery talk by President Donald Trump and Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth at a meeting of military
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October 3, 2025 at 1:27 AM
The #pontiff fielded a question from reporters, about the extraordinary hastily convened meeting of senior military leaders in the United States, at which #Trump and #Hegseth gave highly partisan speeches. That Leo shook his head in distaste pretty well sums it up.
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