This is another quiet area where we don’t talk about how pre-Civil Rights Movement white domestic life was created with cheap domestic labor by people excluded from other work.
It’s a big reason housework was cut out from Social Security - to keep it affordable for the middle class.
And listen your Granny lied for your Granddaddy's ego, but US census data doesn't give a damn about his feelings. Women have always worked because that's the norm.
Roseanne was a decent representation of the common white American experience financially. Two incomes, a revolving set of debts and an expectation that everyone pitch in. Even the 50's & 60's TV shows that created this mythos were explicitly highlighting the lives of men making 5 times the average
Photo of a cuneiform tablet fragment shaped a bit like an irregular diamond. It preserves nearly 20 incomplete lines of text separated by a horizontal ruling
There's a broken cuneiform tablet from the Old Babylonian period, nearly 4,000 years ago, which preserves a tiny portion of a dialogue between two friends.
It feels a bit like the conversations I've been having for the past week, so I wanted to share it.
So the 5 Iranian footballers they helped today (rightly given asylum) was to distract u from their plan to slam the door on the rest who could have safely got even temporary sanctuary from war here
Labor is ramming thru new laws to stop people from #Iran with current visas to lawfully enter Australia, from doing so. Labor fear they would now meet the criteria for being refugees. www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
The Albanese Labor Government's new law is designed to stop people seeking asylum who come from places like Iran.
In fact, this new power seeks to prevent people like the Iranian women's football players from seeking asylum in the future.
Except soccer players? 🤔
Woops, the @societyofauthors.bsky.social have a new scheme to put 'Human Authored' into new books and Tracey Chevalier (author of Girl With A Pearl Earring) goes on the BBC Today Programme to promote it... and promptly admits that she uses genAI for historical research.
As violence spreads across the Middle East now more then ever we need our Government to be a force for peace. That starts with withdrawing support for US-backed forever wars.
Patient safety the slippery slope?
If you protocol tasks that have nuance and unseen complexity then it becomes more likely that errors will occur. I’m afraid that this is happening across healthcare systems.
Each profession is being seen as more simple than it is, including GPs & Pharmacists
The GP employment paradox: why GP trainees are worried about finding jobs in a system short of GPs
Most see struggles ahead
That’s not great for the future @rthonwesstreeting.bsky.social
www.kingsfund.org.uk/insight-and-...
same as it ever was
So saying "from the river to the sea" is now a hate crime, but threatening children and barging inside a Muslim dinner to "throw punches and abuse" just gets you a nice move-along-son from the police?
Visitors to the Twelve Apostles on Victoria’s Great Ocean Road will soon pay an entry fee, despite only seven of the original limestone stacks remaining
www.theage.com.au/national/vic...
Historian of French Revolution here to say that in periods like this, squeamish compromisers do as much to drive radicalization as do ideologues. If you keep making excuses for the unfit king, eventually folks come for you and him.
Now substitute another group in this situation and imagine the outcome.
#auspol
*Wonder if the cops know him socially?
The hypocrisy is so dangerous. While signing us up for an illegal war & claiming it champions human rights of the Iranian people, the Albanese Gov is ramming thru new laws to ban people from #Iran with valid visas from entering Australia.
www.abc.net.au/news/2026-03...
Labor has just further committed Australia to an illegal US-led war, based on a lie.
Labor is being cheered on by the Coalition and One Nation, the other war parties, as it follows the United States into yet another disastrous conflict with no exit strategy.
Just reading about how the ASRC was robbed over the weekend and their power shut off, meaning they have had to throw out a dumpster's-worth of food. If people could chip in a buck or two to help them recover, it would be good:
donate.asrc.org.au/thrive
Picture of a news headline: Littleproud says Iranian footballers shouldn’t bring the values of tyranny into the country. Not pictured, the gigantic flaccid penis, emerging from his head while he spoke.
Could this guy be any more of a fuckwit?
The Australia I'm working for shows empathy & compassion for all asylum seekers - not just those where it's politically convenient to do so
We also look after Australian citizens overseas & those wanting to come home from war zones inc 23 women & children in Syria #auspol #qt
What folk seem to forget is that the same people [surgeons & anaesthetists mostly] who work in public health part-time, also work in private part-time. The key limitation is access to a fully staffed and functioning theatre. Just where does Brown think he will magic the people from?
#RealHeroes Vs #FascistFluffers and #Genocide supporters, #Australia - #auspol
No the clocks have not actually changed because they have not shifted Stonehenge yet
As a former digger myself, israel bulldozing hundreds of ANZAC graves told me everything I needed to know about how much israelis value Australian soldiers. Our forces will be sacrificed and our names welded to genocide and cruelty, inseparable from the idf.
As the intensity and reach of the US and Israel-led forever war increases, PM Albanese - not satisfied with being the first to back it - has now decided to get Australia’s hands bloodied by joining in.
You don’t protect people with missiles, you kill them.
Trump says US Navy sank Iran's warship off the coast of Sri Lanka because "it's more fun" to sink ships than capture them.
Tweet by Philip Proudfoot saying Switzerland stopped being neutral after condemning U.S.–Israeli attacks on Iran as a violation of international law, quoting an Al Jazeera Breaking News headline.
A Swiss kick in the ass.
reminded of my most dad coded political opinion which is that we need a universal Naps and Lil Snacks For All program
