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Writer, journalist, researcher, troublemaker. Current research focus: how to end domestic violence.

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Entire Staff Is Fired at LIHEAP The move threatens to paralyze the Low Income Home Energy Assistance Program, which helps to offset high utility bills for roughly 6.2 million people nationwide.

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.

04.04.2025 01:30 πŸ‘ 2122 πŸ” 989 πŸ’¬ 193 πŸ“Œ 122
Sen. Cory Booker putting his hand over his heart as he beats Strom Thurmond's floor address record

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.

02.04.2025 00:15 πŸ‘ 69947 πŸ” 9440 πŸ’¬ 888 πŸ“Œ 318
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The Five Scandals (and One Fascinating Political Insight) of Signalgate The Trump administration's group chat tells a lot about itself

So smart www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/the-five-s...

28.03.2025 06:37 πŸ‘ 691 πŸ” 151 πŸ’¬ 43 πŸ“Œ 13
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You can download the report at:
Annesummersresearch.com

28.02.2025 04:53 πŸ‘ 10 πŸ” 6 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Revealed: the profound economic impact on women who experience domestic violence New research shows a large gap between women who have experienced domestic violence and those who have not, both in terms of employment and finishing university.

theconversation.com/revealed-the...

27.02.2025 05:49 πŸ‘ 7 πŸ” 4 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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My new report on the impact of domestic violence on women’s employment and education. Grim figures. Published this Friday - the link will be on this page then.

25.02.2025 04:32 πŸ‘ 20 πŸ” 12 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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Infant mortality rises in states with abortion bans, study finds Increases in infant mortality have been found in U.S. states that enacted abortion bans or severe restrictions after the Supreme Court overturned the landmark ruling that guaranteed a right to the procedure, U.S. researchers said on Thursday.

after the overturning of roe, black infant mortality has spiked nearly 11% in states with abortion bans:

www.reuters.com/world/us/inf...

14.02.2025 19:45 πŸ‘ 22044 πŸ” 8962 πŸ’¬ 1244 πŸ“Œ 589
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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

14.02.2025 22:37 πŸ‘ 71 πŸ” 20 πŸ’¬ 3 πŸ“Œ 4
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02.02.2025 19:22 πŸ‘ 61673 πŸ” 15490 πŸ’¬ 1136 πŸ“Œ 551

Being serious, one thing I have just remembered - Kobo is a CANADIAN ebook company. I might do my ereading with them instead of Amazon.

02.02.2025 07:02 πŸ‘ 8858 πŸ” 1411 πŸ’¬ 421 πŸ“Œ 109
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Trump Tariffs Target Loophole Used by Chinese Online Retailers President Donald Trump’s 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 les...

President Donald Trump’s 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.

02.02.2025 07:17 πŸ‘ 168 πŸ” 49 πŸ’¬ 25 πŸ“Œ 8

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. 😠

02.02.2025 07:26 πŸ‘ 7950 πŸ” 1731 πŸ’¬ 342 πŸ“Œ 83
A diverse flight crew of a gay guy, a Black man, and a woman

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€” that’s 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 πŸ’…πŸΌ

02.02.2025 01:19 πŸ‘ 51593 πŸ” 6363 πŸ’¬ 879 πŸ“Œ 417

Trump is dismantling government as we know it. This goes way beyond efficiency reforms.

02.02.2025 00:58 πŸ‘ 4 πŸ” 2 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 1
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How federal agencies have already changed their websites under Trump β€œDiversity” has been deleted. β€œClimate resilience” is now a popular substitute for β€œclimate change.” And β€œpregnant people” has been replaced by β€œpregnant women.”

First you change the language …. Wholescale policy changes towards minorities and orher disadvantaged people signaller by removal of β€˜gender’, β€˜diversity’ and other key terms from all fed govt websites. Plus scrubbing of 30 years of invaluable CDC health data. www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

02.02.2025 00:50 πŸ‘ 4 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 2
Kennedy speaking at his inauguration, looking young and vital.

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.

18.01.2025 03:17 πŸ‘ 20952 πŸ” 5723 πŸ’¬ 675 πŸ“Œ 366
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Bashar al-Assad's wife files for divorce, seeks to move to UK - report Asma al-Assad moved to Syria in 2000 and married Assad in the same year at the age of 25.

She married him for richer or for richer but not for winters in Moscow.
www.jpost.com/middle-east/...

23.12.2024 02:18 πŸ‘ 7910 πŸ” 1500 πŸ’¬ 624 πŸ“Œ 144
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This pic on the front of yesterday’s paper isn’t Gout Gout, it’s Peter Bol.

This shit isn’t hard, and The Age/Nine should issue a public apology to both men.

Christ on a bike, our media are fucking racist.

#StatusBRO
#LifeInTheColony

23.12.2024 01:26 πŸ‘ 226 πŸ” 46 πŸ’¬ 9 πŸ“Œ 4

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 I’ve been in ever since she was elected in 1998. Thank you Tanya.

02.12.2024 07:52 πŸ‘ 12 πŸ” 2 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

In Canada this would cost $6.5 trillion and take 47 years to complete

01.12.2024 05:36 πŸ‘ 37 πŸ” 5 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 0
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#auspol #insiders

30.11.2024 22:42 πŸ‘ 179 πŸ” 44 πŸ’¬ 6 πŸ“Œ 4

Absolutely drop the Scott Morrison imposed fees for Arts degrees. The #LNP hate educated people, especially those who study the Arts (because these people don’t usually vote for them).
Get rid of all the nasty #LNP university fees #RadioSydney

24.11.2024 21:00 πŸ‘ 205 πŸ” 56 πŸ’¬ 12 πŸ“Œ 1

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.

23.11.2024 20:04 πŸ‘ 6118 πŸ” 1760 πŸ’¬ 72 πŸ“Œ 58
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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_...

22.11.2024 06:52 πŸ‘ 326 πŸ” 158 πŸ’¬ 12 πŸ“Œ 8
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Calls for religious organisations to repay JobKeeper millions Dozens of Australia's biggest churches and other religious institutions pocketed millions of dollars in JobKeeper payments while remaining in the black during 2020, research shows.

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.

17.11.2024 07:13 πŸ‘ 102 πŸ” 37 πŸ’¬ 6 πŸ“Œ 3

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 aren’t technically employed by his diocese:
Did your priests accept JobKeeper during COVID pandemic?
If so, why?

17.11.2024 05:24 πŸ‘ 2055 πŸ” 652 πŸ’¬ 105 πŸ“Œ 26

Yes. Not worth discussing.

17.11.2024 04:34 πŸ‘ 8 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

'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...

24.02.2024 08:17 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 2 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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Mais ou menos relevante:

Smith, Jane Monckton. β€œIntimate Partner Femicide: Using Foucauldian Analysis to Track an Eight Stage Progression to Homicide.” Violence Against Women 26, no. 11 (September 2020): 1267–85. doi.org/10.1177/1077...

29.09.2024 19:42 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0