The Trump administration abruptly laid off the entire staff running a $4.1 billion program to help low-income households across the U.S. pay their heating and cooling bills.
The Trump administration abruptly laid off the entire staff running a $4.1 billion program to help low-income households across the U.S. pay their heating and cooling bills.
Sen. Cory Booker putting his hand over his heart as he beats Strom Thurmond's floor address record
It may be breaking, but @booker.senate.gov's voice has never been more powerful.
Thank you, my friend, for speaking out for freedom, justice, and the country we love.
You can download the report at:
Annesummersresearch.com
My new report on the impact of domestic violence on womenβs employment and education. Grim figures. Published this Friday - the link will be on this page then.
after the overturning of roe, black infant mortality has spiked nearly 11% in states with abortion bans:
www.reuters.com/world/us/inf...
The suggestion from Qld Police Union President Shane Prior is to make DV a standalone crime. At present, police have to wait for the victim to make a complaint whereas they could lay charges where DV suspected. The Crisafulli government has not officially agreed to it as yet. #qldpol
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Being serious, one thing I have just remembered - Kobo is a CANADIAN ebook company. I might do my ereading with them instead of Amazon.
President Donald Trumpβs new trade levies against China, Canada and Mexico include a broadside against e-commerce, with apparent plans to extinguish a long-held tariff exemption for packages worth less than $800.
At home, Trump has enabled Musk to stage a coup against the government with his army of unvetted stooges taking over the Treasury.
Abroad, he's shut down aid & canceled malaria/ HIV programs & put 1000s of lives at risk.
Meanwhile, top Democratic leaders are tweeting about egg and priza prices. π
A diverse flight crew of a gay guy, a Black man, and a woman
A gay guy, a Black man, and a woman walk into a flight deckβ thatβs not the beginning of a joke, but just a regular day at work! There was so much DEI on this plane that we could hardly get in the air. Luckily my limp wrists were able to wrestle the heavy jet back to the ground π πΌ
Trump is dismantling government as we know it. This goes way beyond efficiency reforms.
First you change the language β¦. Wholescale policy changes towards minorities and orher disadvantaged people signaller by removal of βgenderβ, βdiversityβ and other key terms from all fed govt websites. Plus scrubbing of 30 years of invaluable CDC health data. www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
Kennedy speaking at his inauguration, looking young and vital.
Jan 20, 1961. A blizzard the day before. Temperatures well below freezing. Without a coat or hat, JFK gave a speech we still quote today. Robert Frost, 86, recited a poem. Steinbeck and Hemingway and Rothko were among the VIPs. A million people gathered in the cold to hear it.
This is the precedent.
She married him for richer or for richer but not for winters in Moscow.
www.jpost.com/middle-east/...
This pic on the front of yesterdayβs paper isnβt Gout Gout, itβs Peter Bol.
This shit isnβt hard, and The Age/Nine should issue a public apology to both men.
Christ on a bike, our media are fucking racist.
#StatusBRO
#LifeInTheColony
Just received a letter from @allegraspender.bsky.social informing me I am now in her electorate of #Wentworth. Looking forward to being in an independent electorate but will miss @tanyaplibersekmp.bsky.social whose Labor electorate Iβve been in ever since she was elected in 1998. Thank you Tanya.
In Canada this would cost $6.5 trillion and take 47 years to complete
#auspol #insiders
Absolutely drop the Scott Morrison imposed fees for Arts degrees. The #LNP hate educated people, especially those who study the Arts (because these people donβt usually vote for them).
Get rid of all the nasty #LNP university fees #RadioSydney
Freddy Mercury died of AIDS 33 years ago today. With modern medical technology, he likely would have lived. Never forget how much progress against major infectious disease has been made in a short time. We are at risk now of rolling back much of that progress.
A bill that could see up to 80,000 people deported from Australia if it becomes law next week. A law that would create a global offshore detention network where refugees could be sent anywhere and then back to danger. Help us stop it: action.asrc.org.au/deportation_...
Jobkeeper :
More than 100 religious organisations qualified for the emergency wage subsidy despite seeing little financial impact from last year's COVID-19 economic shock.
Figures from ATO show about 3,500 religious entities received a total of $627 million in JobKeeper payments.
A question for Bishop Bird, of Ballarat, who instructed his lawyers to go all the way to High Court to avoid paying damages to a complainant of child sexual abuse on basis that priests arenβt technically employed by his diocese:
Did your priests accept JobKeeper during COVID pandemic?
If so, why?
Yes. Not worth discussing.
'In Control' by Jane Monckton-Smith
This is probably a book everybody should read, if not for themselves for friends and family.
www.college.police.uk/article/dang...
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Smith, Jane Monckton. βIntimate Partner Femicide: Using Foucauldian Analysis to Track an Eight Stage Progression to Homicide.β Violence Against Women 26, no. 11 (September 2020): 1267β85. doi.org/10.1177/1077...