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Great work Ellen, happy to support it!
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Please send us great material :-)

A reminder that Authora Issue 10 ‘Aquatic’ is now open for submissions - close Dec 31!

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Please send us your best stories, poem and art-work about all things on, in, under, about the sea!

Subs Open for Issue 10 Authora 'Aquatic':

"Seafarers expanded horizons and enabled civilisations to flourish. Now, those vast bodies of water, once teeming with animal and plant life, are jeopardised by human activity on an industrial scale" - Jena Woodhouse, Guest Editor

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Call for Submissions for Issue 10 'Aquatic; out now, with special Guest Editor Jena Woodhouse! Subs due 31 December

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Call for Submissions for Issue 10 'Aquatic; out now, with special Guest Editor Jena Woodhouse! Subs due 31 December

Call for submissions - Issue 10 'Aquatic' Authora Australis now open, with Guest Editor Jena Woodhouse. Submissions due 31 December!

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Nice work Ellen, good way to start the day with a dawn poem #Poem #PoetrySky #PoetryCommunity

Happy to support your work Philip! #Poem #PoetrySky #PoetryCommunity

Happy to support your work Carmella, thanks for trusting us with the work #Poem #PoetrySky #PoetryCommunity

Please enjoy Marius Grose's new poem 'The Oasis at 3am' in Authora Australis Issue 9 'Cracks'

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Great work Ellen, happy to support it!
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Great work Philip, happy to support it!

Happy to have two poems published in the new @ausauthora.bsky.social

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Thrilled to learn I will have a poem featured within the next issue of Authora Australis!
Looking forward to the release of this, as it's one of my most beloved poems, and also because the journal reads all entries blind.
Many thanks to the editors for homing this piece.❤️
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Wonderful work Carmella, happy to support it!

Out at last! Authora Australis Issue 9, 'Cracks'. We have some great works included here, please enjoy!

Authora Australis Issue 9 'Cracks' is now out!

Please read and enjoy:

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Why Trump’s 25% tariffs on autos could backfire | Steven Greenhouse Nearly half of the cars sold in the US are imported and Trump’s 25% tariff will add at least $6,000 to the sticker price of the average car, industry experts say

Good bit of analysis here. Trump's chaotic approach to introducing, repealing, and reintroducing tariffs may undermine exactly the business confidence needed for big US auto to invest in re-shoring - and bring on a recession instead of creating jobs

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French scientist denied US entry after phone messages critical of Trump found France’s research minister said the scientist was traveling to Houston for a conference when his phone was searched

Wow. I wonder if I should risk visiting America in the next four years or not?

Have these border denials and arrests really become as common as the news suggests? Does anyone else have a story to share about getting stopped at the airprort?

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At some point the opposition needs to say what is happening here: Donald Trump is a tyrant in the full sense of the term, an American fascist dictator who believes the law flows directly from his command. And he is also a deeply unwell, unfit, and criminal man with nonsensical whims

Fascinating Atlantic article on patrimonialism as Trump's style of authoritarianism: "running the state as if it were the leader’s personal property or family business." Vulnerabilities: incompetence and corruption--this is a message Dems should hit back with.

The city of Bakhmut in Ukraine seen in ruins as a result of the Russia’s illegal and murderous invasion. Buildings are seen destroyed by bombing with some still smouldering. The photographer was Roman Playshko, supplied to Shutterstock

“Why don’t you wear a suit?”

Pentagon guts national security program that harnessed social science Dozens of U.S. academics lose grants from Minerva program for studies related to terrorism, drug trafficking, and other threats

The war on social science advances in the US - what was that line from the Simpsons? “Let’s all go burn down the observatory to make sure this never happens again”!

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Pentagon guts national security program that harnessed social science Dozens of U.S. academics lose grants from Minerva program for studies related to terrorism, drug trafficking, and other threats

NEW: The Minerva Research Initiative, established by the Pentagon to fund social science relevant to national security, is being gutted. Dozens of researchers studying threats from extremist groups, misinformation or climate change have received notices that their grants are being terminated.
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This scrum of pot-bellied, sunken-chested betas trying to bully an all-black clad badass Eastern European wasteland survivor while dressed like Men’s Wearhouse mannequins is peak cinema.

Wow! A pre-planned lynching - they invited him onto US national TV to supplicate himself, and then yelled at him for 20 min when he wouldn’t do it to drown out his basic common sense point - how can you trust any ‘deal’ with an invader who has broken every peace treaty? With no security guarantee?