passive voice final boss grand champion honorable mention award for turning slurs into a sentient thing that can do actions www.nytimes.com/2026/03/05/u...
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passive voice final boss grand champion honorable mention award for turning slurs into a sentient thing that can do actions www.nytimes.com/2026/03/05/u...
Air strikes have never dislodged a regime. And Professor Robert Pape, an expert on the limits of such tactics, argues that such military tactics are more likely to deepen Trump’s Iran problem than solve it.
This doco is great - Australians can now catch it on DocPlay www.theguardian.com/film/2026/ma...
“Democratic consent is lacking. And once again, there are few defined goals by which to gauge success, and no long-term plan.”
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
In @nytopinion.nytimes.com
By attacking Iran, President Trump “is telling the American people and the world that he expects their blind trust,” the editorial board writes. “He has not earned that trust.”
An ABC investigation has obtained distressing videos and victims' accounts of IS sympathisers hunting and bashing gay and bisexual boys on camera in Sydney.
interesting from @maxtani.bsky.social on the future of the economist ->
The latest cache of documents released by the DOJ reveals that Jeffrey Epstein had an established system for making sure the women in his orbit were tested for STDs, prescribed birth-control pills, and inoculated against HPV‚ including making regular payments to gynecologists.
The Washington Post’s Leaders Missed the Point www.theatlantic.com/books/2026/0...
reading this and thinking about the many other culture desks that were gutted over the last year. it's all a shame.
Oscar-nominated co-writer of It Was Just an Accident released from Iranian prison
How The New York Times uses a custom AI tool to track the “manosphere” www.niemanlab.org/2026/02/how-...
“We will launch during a dynamic political environment where many civil society groups that we would expect to attack us would have their resources focused on other concerns,” according to the document from Meta’s Reality Labs, which works on hardware including smart glasses.
At least one Meta employee thinks it's a good time to add facial recognition technology to glasses because we're too distracted by fascism to effectively protest www.nytimes.com/2026/02/13/t...
Some children in Dilley were so distraught they cut themselves or talked about suicide, parents told ProPublica.
They said kids lost their appetites after finding worms and mold on their food, had trouble sleeping, and were constantly sick.
A new video obtained by ABC NEWS Verify shows the full minute leading up to a man in a white business shirt being punched several times by NSW Police at Monday night’s protest against Israeli President Isaac Herzog.
www.abc.net.au/news/2026-02...
every single day
Really nuts how many men were like "Me Too went too far, and I need to email Jeffrey Epstein about it."
🔥 scoop 🔥 from @keanebernard.bsky.social: travelled overseas? your biometric data + potentially everything from your Medicare card to your drivers licence is being handed to US agencies like ICE
i don't know if i've ever seen a chotining where chotiner gives up in the middle and goes "ok buddy. here's your petard." www.newyorker.com/culture/q-an...
"Writing this piece is a losing game. In order to criticize the Free Press’ failures, I have to do something they refuse to do with so many of the subjects they write about: I have to be interested in them."
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The White House posted a digitally altered image of a woman who was arrested on Thursday in a case touted by the US attorney general, Pam Bondi, to make it seem as if she was dramatically crying, a Guardian analysis of the image has found.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
The head of Trump DOJ's Civil Rights Division boosts prediction markets placing 36% odds she'll be able to prosecute Don Lemon for his journalism, after a federal magistrate judge found no probable cause of a crime.
ICE detained a 5-year-old Minnesota boy coming home from school + took him and his dad to Texas, school officials say. The family has an active asylum case + entered the US at a port of entry.
"They’re taking children. They're not violent criminals. They're little kids," the superintendent told me.
abcnews.go.com/US/lawyers-a...
oh it's going to be a Recession recession
BREAKING:
We've found 40+ cases of agents using banned chokeholds & other moves that can cut off breathing
People have had seizures. They passed out.
“I felt like I was going to die” said 16-yr-old citizen
Admin won't say whether any agents have been punished
www.propublica.org/article/vide...
Federal Liberals are discovering the price of having been so brazen in their politicisation of the Bondi terror attack and many appear to have buyers' remorse.
Analysis from Clare Armstrong:
www.abc.net.au/news/2026-01...
