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Stop listening to these idiots
This is just astonishingly great reporting.
All of the crises the White House has claimed over the last 14 months were planned in advance. All of them.
And however much contempt you have for media outlets who reverently relayed Trump's claim to have no relation to Project 2025, it isn't enough.
A photograph of the cover of a zine, titled The Road to Prairieland The Crackdown on Anti-ICE Activists in Texas Reflects a Pattern of Intensifying Repression
The verdict in the first Prairieland trial is due any day now. The prosecution aims to lay the groundwork to criminalize all forms of confrontational protest.
To share information about this case and the broader patterns of repression, print and distribute this zine:
crimethinc.com/zines/the-ro...
Police are murdurous babies
If it's sometimes hard to tell the difference between fossil-fuel lobbyists and the billionaire press, that's because there isn’t one.
My column on the politicians, journalists and junktanks using the Iran crisis as an excuse to extract our remaining gas and oil.
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Gutfeld and Watters are two men that have not been punched in the nose enough.
#OtD 11 Mar 1975 there was an attempted far right coup in Portugal, following the overthrow of the dictatorship the year prior. The coup was defeated by revolutionaries, and under pressure from workers 1/3 of the economy was nationalised. More in our pod: workingclasshistory.com/2020/08/13/e...
IT'S NOT A TEST OF SAFETY REGULATIONS IT'S A TEST OF A "SELF-DRIVING" SYSTEM THAT STILL DOESN'T WORK AFTER A DECADE OF BLOWN DEADLINES
Ditto. Not sure what your comment was aiming to express either. Yeah, no one wants to moderate or gatekeep, which is what moderation effectively is. Doesn't change the fact they've done a pretty abysmal job of something they need to do. No one forced Bsky as a company to ship. They made that choice
They're operating a public social media site, they need to moderate. It is just a requirement, doesn't matter if they don't want to do it. Yeah it sucks cos people suck. But too bad, you need good and thorough mediation.
NEWS: The Trump administration confirmed it bombed a girl’s school in Iran.
It's one of the most devastating military errors in decades.
Trump lied about it. Pete Hegseth gutted the office preventing civilian casualties.
175 are dead. Most were kids. Hegseth should be fired.
The troubles
What a fucking crock.
Two mid-level officials found to be corrupt by the NACC, but the big guns get off scot-free forever.
Bsky staff have continually managed to make these bad decisions/actions and it's honestly impressive how much they are squandering a good opportunity.
Get this to the High Court asap, these laws are so unconstitutional it's embarrassing
"The government might be wishing Australia taxed its LNG exports as much as the royalties on iron ore, and better still, coal.
"LNG prices are soaring, but we only get 2% of that on top of the company tax, compared with 7% for iron ore and 13% for coal."
👏👏👏 @alankohler.bsky.social #auspol
Recommendations and outcomes The investigation made findings of serious corrupt conduct against 2 individuals. It also concluded that there was insufficient admissible evidence to establish the alleged offences against either Mr Withnell or Ms Wilson beyond reasonable doubt. Key admissions and statements made during this investigation are not admissible in criminal proceedings. It is therefore not appropriate to refer either to the Commonwealth Director of Public Prosecutions. The NACC Act invests the Commission with corruption prevention and education functions and the power to make recommendations as part of the Commission’s investigation reports aimed at preventing corrupt conduct from occurring again. In this case, however, the Royal Commission made a number of recommendations to improve the budget process and agency responses to the Commonwealth Ombudsman, and they have since been implemented.
NACC clears Morrison, Campbell, Musolino, & Halbert of corrupt conduct.
Withnell & Wilson were found guilty of "serious corrupt conduct", but aren't referred to the Director of Public Prosecutions because statements they made to NACC "are not admissible in criminal proceedings"
The system works!
You can read NACC's investigation into the Robodebt Six here. I'll post some "highlights" in this thread www.nacc.gov.au/sites/defaul...
Hearings 62. Private hearings were held pursuant to section 62 of the NACC Act extending over 35 sitting days between 5 August and 3 October 2025. During those private hearings, each of the 6 referred persons and a further 33 witnesses were called to give evidence. See Witnesses. 63. The Deputy Commissioner considered the use of public hearings and applied the statutory test established under the NACC Act. The statutory threshold for public hearings in this investigation was not met. For more
NACC decided it wasn't in the public interest to make its corruption hearings with Morrison, Campbell, Mussolino etc public
I would conservatively estimate that 90% of Australians would disagree
In the present context, however, of an investigation into allegations of corrupt conduct, we are not so much concerned with Diceyan theory of ministerial accountability and Cabinet solidarity as with personal obligations of honesty and good faith. Thus, although Mr Morrison may have been responsible to Cabinet for the failings of DSS – in particular for DSS’ failings in not preventing the shortcomings of the NPP and checklist – it by no means necessarily follows that Mr Morrison was personally at fault for not detecting the failings of DSS or that he set out to act dishonestly or in bad faith. The question of any personal shortcoming requires consideration of the system and circumstances of ERC’s operation at the time of its adoption of the NPP.
The passages clearing Morrison of fault are extraordinary
NACC says Morrison is technically "responsible" as cabinet Minister, but not "personally at fault"
If responsibility exists without consequence...then what does "ministerial accountability" even mean anymore?
Fair to say they might as well roll up the NACC.
What a disgrace.
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As AI has upended the way students learn, academics worry about the future of the humanities - and society at large
You're damn right it is
a calf wearing a party hat and surrounded by different colored balloons
this is the future liberals want
"Don't Forget Gaza and the Palestinians"
"Israel is using the illegal war on Iran to continue to kill and starve Gaza, steal more Palestinian land, and restrict movement in the West Bank, writes Diana Buttu for Zeteo. "Don't look away."
It’s unfathomable to me that we don’t see the dangers of automating everything with AI or that we don’t care. Years from now we’re going to be begging to put the human back into everything.
The reviews used to justify this excluded nearly 97% of all studies from inclusion in their analysis. This is an absolutely obscene hatchet job by the NHS specifically created to eliminate access to hormones for trans youth.
Waj, there was also a similar incident during our "Invasion Day" (an anti-colonial/first nations protest to Jan26, our "Australia Day") rally this Jan. Took over a week for it to be classed a terrorist attack
www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
