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Interested in maintaining the world as a fit place for humans to live. Need comedy & art to keep me sane & to keep on believing in integrity and justice
And long may it stay that way
February 17, 2026 at 9:02 PM
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is no alternative) seemed to be becoming real by then. Globalism and oil shocks were pressuring the basis of New Deal thinking. The solution wasn’t neoliberalism but that was the one with the big money & machine to normalise. Read this. Aussie academic tracked that.

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Alex Carey: a century of business taking the risk out of democracy
Jeff Bezos recently announced that the Washington Post would henceforth dedicate its op/ed pages to “free markets and personal liberties”. His Whole Foods business also asked the National Labor Relati...
johnmenadue.com
February 16, 2026 at 8:20 PM
Hypocritical media at their lowest
February 16, 2026 at 8:43 PM
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This is a long standing structural bias in political reporting. I wrote about it here: “Trump can be lawless — Kamala must be flawless”. Right wing men can do what they want (apparently even abuse children). And left wing women are never good enough.
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Trump can be lawless — Kamala must be flawless
Kamala Harris and Donald Trump are not taking the same exam.
independentaustralia.net
February 16, 2026 at 8:28 PM
Julie K Brown doesn't believe it, for one...
February 16, 2026 at 3:17 PM
Totally dangerous weirdo
February 16, 2026 at 3:13 PM
Pretty damned outrageous. Where is the Islamophobic training then?
February 16, 2026 at 2:45 AM
How history will see these institutions and their cowardice
February 15, 2026 at 12:37 PM