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Put another way, I wonder how many Trump supporters know that it was the position of Donald Trump himself in December 2015, less than 10 years ago—and every Trump supporter—that any request by the federal government for state government assistance should automatically be rejected as a legal nonsense

Man, I'm sorry, but reading all these AI generated essays from students, it just sucks all the joy out of everything. It's exhausting, makes you into a weird paranoid cop, grinds you down, wastes your time, makes you feel like shit about everything.

Fuck this shit technology and all its enablers.

Keir Starmer

What are my three favourite euphemisms for sex you ask?

Woman awarded $93,000 in damages after 'humiliating' festival strip search A Sydney woman subjected to an unlawful strip search at a music festival has been awarded $93,000 in damages, in a judgement that could see thousands of others also receive compensation.

Huge and important decision. www.abc.net.au/news/2025-09...

Michael Mann, on how the second US withdrawal from the Paris Agreement may alter the world’s climate change landscape "We scientists and academics need to get a handle on the political atmosphere—the world of the larger electorate—and pay attention."

Climate scientist Michael E. Mann @michaelemann.bsky.social has a message for younger scientists: Don't give up.

"Be part of this fight for what's right, for science, for reason, for fact-based discourse and policy making."

Trump's 'climate hoax' comments are part of a well-worn playbook arriving on our shores US researchers have tracked how dark money funds a tangled web of climate denial think tanks with vested interests in slowing climate action. And Australia is not immune.

US researchers have tracked how dark money funds a tangled web of climate denial think tanks with vested interests in slowing climate action. And Australia is not immune.

Reform UK’s ex-leader in Wales Nathan Gill pleads guilty to bribery charges Gill admits to eight charges while an elected member of the European parliament

🚨 BREAKING: The former leader of Reform UK in Wales, Nathan Gill, has pleaded guilty to #bribery, admitting he received corrupt payments as a Brexit Party MEP in exchange for making statements in the European Parliament to promote Russia’s interests in #Ukraine.

Microsoft blocks Israel’s use of its technology in mass surveillance of Palestinians Exclusive: Tech firm ends military unit’s access to AI and data services after Guardian reveals secret spy project

Exclusive: Microsoft ends Israel’s use of its technology in mass surveillance of Palestinians after Guardian reveals secret spy project

www.theguardian.com/world/2025/s...

“Fascism” isn’t a slur for politics we don’t like. It’s a precise word with precise meaning. And in the face of what’s happening right now in America, it’s the most honest one we have.

I’ll lay it out as plainly as I can. 🧵

You’re being played – your part in the culture wars - The Shot When Zack de la Rocha told you to rage against the machine, he didn’t mean take it literally. Agitprop. Fury bait. Yes, you feed it too.

This article by @ronnisalt.bsky.social should be compulsory reading for those of us that are terminally online...

Atlas/The Heritage Foundation: "Here's some rage baiting we prepared earlier..."

Seems like you can't trust anything from the FBI anymore-is that on purpose?
#uspol #epstein #auspol

Advice | Sometimes We Resist AI for Good Reasons Why higher ed needs to listen to the contrarians in setting policies on using tools like ChatGPT in faculty work.

“Either we have copyright law or we don’t. Either plagiarism and the theft of intellectual property are anathema to higher education or they aren’t. We’re either modeling academic honesty and integrity to our students or we aren’t.” —@thetattooedprof.bsky.social
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The Internet Coup Is Here. And the World Is Still Asleep | TechPolicy.Press At UNGA 80, the world’s leaders have a chance to prove that they understand what is at stake, writes Konstantinos Komaitis.

As the UN General Assembly opens with flags, speeches, and talk of rights and democracy, a quiet coup unfolds — not in parliaments, but in the invisible infrastructure of the internet, writes Konstantinos Komaitis. Digital rights and free expression are under attack — who will defend them?

Charlie Kirk's extremism was fossil fueled Big Oil's money gave Kirk a larger platform to spread baseless climate conspiracy theories—as well as other extremist views.

The fossil fuel industry is behind most of the climate disinformation you see and hear today.

Charlie Kirk was no exception.

If you're not totally aware of how bots try to sway minds, here's a good example.

We are so fucked.

Fraud and cover-up Fraud and cover-up

Whoa! Elsevier fired @richardtol.bsky.social, longstanding Editor-in-Chief of the journal Energy Economics. Richard's side of the story should be ringing alarm bells. #EconSky

Fraud and cover-up
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Grok is being sent to the reeducation camp

Today people went around my neighborhood in north east London spray painting St George’s crosses onto people’s homes. Many of these houses have non British people living in them.

This is getting very dark, very quick.

I wrote about the groypers and the Fuentes-Kirk fight years ago, in Hate in the Homeland. Cautioning here that there is still a lot to know about the shooter’s motivation, I’m sharing these two paragraphs here to set the history of this fight in context:

The Russians are laughing at Trump.

Alexei Zhuravlev, first deputy chairman of the Duma’s defence committee: “Trump remains in his normal state. He is either waiting to have a conversation with Putin, talking to Putin, or is explaining how well he spoke to Putin.”

I knew a guy who worked for the military police in apartheid South Africa. The only no-show conscripts he chased up were the low-lifes officially dobbed in by family and friends - because even their family and friends couldn’t stand them. The rest of his job was pure security theatre.

Prague is beautiful. It also smells of cigarettes and dogshit.

There are very, VERY few people who are equipped to talk about this shooter correctly given the brainrot written on the shell casing. You have to understand so much of online culture to get it and also understand how that culture is both connected to and separate from real world ideological spaces

“Charlie Kirk being assassinated is the American Reichstag fire,” said Matt Forney, a rightwing writer and blogger. He said Democratic politicians should be arrested and the party banned. “It is time for a complete crackdown on the left.” He was not alone. Katie Miller, the influencer and wife of Trump’s deputy chief of staff Stephen Miller, said liberals were to blame for Kirk’s killing. “You called us Hitler,” she wrote on X. “You called us Nazis. You called us Racists. You have blood on your hands.”

These two paragraphs, these two statements one after the other is quite something.

Albo tells Pacific leaders what they want to hear then manipulates timing of Woodside approval for after he’s left. Laughing all way to Woodside’s donations.

The whitewashing of Charlie Kirk’s toxic legacy is underway Conservative activist and pundit Charlie Kirk was shot and killed on Wednesday, becoming another victim of America’s epidemic ...

here is the truth the mainstream media doesn't want you to see

The whitewashing of Charlie Kirk’s toxic legacy is underway www.dailykos.com/stories/2025...

Horrors of Trump detention centre: Lisburn man tells his story after arrest for 'looking like a Mexican'

Lee Stinton was lifted by US immigration police on an American street — in an incident he compared to a kidnapping.

Here, he tells us his story.

The Many Ways in Which the Caribbean Strike was Unlawful Legal expert on domestic authority and law most relevant to the US strike on alleged Venezuelan drug boat

To understand the enormous significance of the grave line the U.S. military crossed with the strike on the alleged Venezuelan drug boat

A must-read, brilliant and careful analysis by @martylederman.bsky.social

Article II, UCMJ, international and domestic law.

Tech companies are stealing our books, music and films for AI. It’s brazen theft and must be stopped | Anna Funder and Julia Powles If we don’t refuse and resist, not just our culture but our democracy will be irrevocably diminished

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Fierce and factual from Anna Funder and @juliapowles.bsky.social