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"[T]he first peer-reviewed study on the ['Sephora kids'] phenomenon ... found that skincare routines posted by teens and tweens on TikTok contained an average of 11 potentially irritating active ingredients per routine, which risked causing acute reactions and triggering lifelong allergies."

OH no, hope you are doing ok🤗

Sorry Em, would hope the coach will follow it up with the club his child is with

So sorry to hear, awful behaviour, the parent should be banned from kids games, terrible.

On a pristine Australian island the birds are so full of plastic they crunch — ABC News On a pristine Australian island, the seabirds have become so full of plastic they crackle and crunch.

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On a pristine Australian island the birds are so full of plastic they crunch - ABC News 😢

Time to delete my threads account

Aussie corn chips in sausage role and meat pie flavour - yeah nah!

"The death of human empathy is one of the earliest and most telling signs of a culture about to fall into barbarism."

Hannah Arendt

The absurdity of using a child cancer survivor who got cancer from chemicals & wants to be a cop as your prop when you:
-Cut child cancer funding
-Gut the EPA
-Deregulated sewage in our water
-Pardoned J6 insurrectionists who killed cops

Every MAGA Accusation Is A Confession

NSW public schools to be fully funded by 2034, leaving Queensland as only state outside deal Commonwealth will pay for a quarter of public school funding, up from a fifth, replicating an agreement reached with South Australia and Victoria last month

It’s hard to celebrate public schools gaining full funding. Its hard because kids now in kindergarten must wait till Year 10 before their education is fully supported. Its also hard when most private schools remain overfunded. Its hard to celebrate inequality. www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

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Excerpt from the linked story

Remember when the WH insisted that global HIV prevention & treatment was exempt from the freeze? When it seemed MAYBE they understood that cutting off medicine could put the entire planet at risk of drug resistant HIV strains?

Wrong. Elon Musk’s interns were simply shutting payments off manually.

Balint: And now the United States stands with Russia and North Korea against Ukraine and all of our allies in Europe? It’s sick

Freezing USAID programs to battle Malaria and laying off the workers or canceling contracts means we are in a poor position to put this in action.

Chris fears his brother may carry out a 'lone wolf attack'. He's pleading for help Experts and families are warning that the current system to intervene and rehabilitate people who have joined extremist groups is flawed.

We've spent years discussing this issue, CVE and police and state deradicalisation programs do not work. We're relieved that desperate families of radicalised people are finally being heard. They need early intervention and community-based support. www.abc.net.au/news/2025-02...

Our national parks generated over $55.6 billion in economic output to our country in 2023. This is a $5 billion increase from the previous year. Yet, in an effort to “cut government corruption”, decision-makers may be creating a situation where the economic damage far outweighs any savings.

ASRC’s Heidi Abdel-Raouf spoke with ABC about the humanitarian crisis facing the 100 refugees & people seeking asylum already on Nauru at a time where the Albanese Gov is about to forcibly deport more than 200 more people there. Have a listen here. Listen www.abc.net.au/listen/progr...

The irony of the richest man in the world almost single-handedly destroying an agency designed to help the world’s poor, so that the U.S. federal budget has more room for another giant tax cut for the richest man in the world and his pals, should not be lost on anyone. [Cartoon by Mike Luckovich]

Trump officials fired nuclear staff not realizing they oversee the country’s weapons stockpile, sources say | CNN Some of the fired probationary employees included on-the-ground staff at facilities where nuclear weapons are built.

More details on this shockingly sloppy episode.

NEW: The CDC is currently removing all the influenza resources from their website during the worst flu season in decades.

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:

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Incompetence in Washington puts every American at risk, no matter how you voted. No one should be happy that the DOGE team - the same folks who randomly published classified U.S. security information online today - wants access to your bank account & Social Security numbers.

Because how dare a woman excel in a traditional man’s domain, eh?

This trial had always reeked of misogyny and emasculated male vengeance

A leading pediatrician was already worried about the future of vaccines. Then RFK Jr. came along In a new book, pediatric infectious disease specialist Dr. Adam Ratner details the history of measles, a virus that’s often a bellwether for public health disasters.

"The best and the worst thing about vaccination is that it 'makes nothing happen.'

A child successfully inoculated against measles doesn’t fall sick with that condition, doesn’t miss school, doesn’t go to the hospital. They don’t suffer life-changing complications. They don’t die prematurely."

A screenshot of a tweet from the account "Department of Government Efficiency" (@DOGE) stating, "Adjustment to DHS website." The tweet includes a side-by-side comparison of two screenshots of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) website. The left screenshot shows a page titled "LGBTQI+ Community Resources," containing information on safety resources and support for LGBTQI+ individuals. The right screenshot shows a "Page Not Found" message with a DHS logo and an image of a K-9 dog wearing a vest. Below the tweet, engagement metrics indicate 1.1 million views. The post includes suggested questions: "Why was DHS page removed?" and "Why was the adjustment made?"

They removed resources for LGBTQ institutions to get support when threatened with violence.

The message is clear, MAGA can now threaten and commit terrorism against the LGBTQ community with impunity.

The US was cleaning up its deadly mess in Cambodia – then came Trump’s call The United States dropped millions of tonnes of bombs on Cambodia. Now efforts to get rid of them have been thrown into disarray.

The US was cleaning up its deadly mess in Cambodia – then came Trump’s call

The United States dropped millions of tonnes of bombs on Cambodia. Now efforts to get rid of them have been thrown into disarray.

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