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Taking Advantage of A national Tragedy | The West Report - Michael West Who to blame for the Bondi Beach mass-shooting? Not Muslims, not Arabs, not peace protestors marching on the Sydney Harbour Bridge. It was the men who fired the bullets. In the aftermath of the Bondi...

It's the murderers to blame for Bondi; not Muslims, Arabs, leftists, or peace marchers on the Sydney Harbour Bridge
#bondi #auspol
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Hustle, muscle and grift: how the manosphere has grown into a money-making machine No longer relegated to an obscure corner of the internet, manfluencers have found ways to expand their audiences and exploit them for profit.

Great to have had the chance to write this piece for the Conversation's Mapping the Manosphere series with @debbieging.bsky.social, @joshroose.bsky.social and @michaelgflood.bsky.social
Big thanks to @erincooperdouglas.bsky.social for her vision and curation.

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Australia is one of the richest countries in the world, yet our tax system is delivering underfunded services and growing inequality.

Making giant gas companies and millionaires pay their fair share would be a step towards a better Australia.

@richarddenniss.bsky.social #auspol

If you don’t know the details about Dutton’s flip flopping policies, vote No to Liberal National candidate in the federal election.

☀️ Good morning, IRMS fam!
It’s Day 2 of #IRMS2025, and we’re just getting started.
Today brings more powerful panels, critical conversations, and opportunities to connect across borders in the fight against male supremacism. #IRMSConf

🌍✨ Today’s the day!
Welcome to #IRMS2025 — our virtual global gathering on confronting male supremacism begins today! Whether you’re joining from your morning coffee or late-night tea, we’re so glad you’re here. 📲 Stay tuned here for updates & highlights all day.
Let’s go! #IRMS2025 #IRMSConf

If you accept that non-citizens have no right to due process, you are accepting that citizens have no right to due process. All the government has to do is claim that you are not a citizen; without due process you have no chance to prove the contrary.

Five Failures in the Oval Office (video) America hurt itself badly today.

Here I react to the shameful encounter between American leaders and media and the Ukrainian president. No doubt there were more, but I saw five failures on our side: of hospitality, decency, democracy, strategy, and independence. Please watch and share.
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Something is shifting. They are still breaking things and stealing things. And they will keep trying to break and to steal. But the propaganda magic around the oligarchical coup is fading. (1/2)

It highlights some key developments that have been particularly striking in wellness spaces over the past 5 years as we endure in a world increasingly bereft of trust in governments and institutions

My chapter includes an analysis of the radicalization trajectories of wellness influencers Pete Evans, Christiane Northrup and JP Sears.

A privilege to have chapter on conspirituality and radicalization published in this exciting new collection edited by colleagues Michele Grossman and Hisham Hellyer.

Open access here: www.bloomsburycollections.com/monograph?do...

As a Sociologist, I need to tell you

the chaos cascade (200+ exec orders) isn't dysfunction — it's disaster capitalism's playbook. your confusion = their strategy.

Albanese’s inaction drives his own party towards extinction Under Anthony Albanese, Labor gives the ever stronger impression that it has never seen a corporation that it won’t prostrate itself to.

Richard Flanagan bells the cat. #auspol

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Tomorrow!
All welcome to experience Local Positioning Systems, a sonic art installation by Sonia Leber and David Chesworth made from archives of local precariously housed individual voices.

The message to Democrats is clear: you must dump neoliberal economics | Joseph Stiglitz The party must return to its progressive roots. A new economy is needed with new rules and new roles

The message to Democrats is clear: you must dump neoliberal economics |
‘The party needs to provide a new vision of a society that offers education and opportunity to all…’
Joseph Stiglitz www.theguardian.com/business/202...

Democrats should stop mocking Trump’s ground game and start learning from it Cable ads and bussed-in volunteers don’t cut it any more. If the party wants to win, it must engage voters in a collective push for change

Crucial piece by @astra.bsky.social on how MAGA deployed the tactics of basic community organizing to base build, which beats a lot of knocks on doors from strangers and endless texts... www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...

Struggling Australians being forced into poverty with 'nowhere affordable to live' More than 20 per cent of Australian renters are living in poverty after their rent has been paid, a new study has found.

One in five Australian renters are living without essential items and in poverty, peak body study finds www.abc.net.au/news/2024-11...

YouTube video by Al Jazeera English Why is Australia trying to ban social media for children? | The Take

It was a privilege to be interviewed on Al Jazeera's The Take podcast exploring 'Why is Australia trying to ban social media for children?', with some real space to unpack the many challenges with a blanket ban (noting, this is a call for more & better regulation, not none!) youtu.be/Wf_zq8j7Hds?...

I have already posted about this ~elsewhere~, but I was very excited to recently receive my copy of this edited volume I contributed to with a number of incredible colleagues in the conspiracy theory research space. Peek Chapter 10 - “QAnon as a Contemporary Re-emergence of the Satanic Panic”. 🎉🥳

How to survive the broligarchy: 20 lessons for the post-truth world | Carole Cadwalladr In the wake of Trump’s unnerving appointees, the investigative journalist and veteran of the libel court offers pointers on coping in an age of surveillance

NEW: The great Trump-Musk crackdown is coming. And it will hit hard & fast. Journalists will be first. But everyone else is next.

I urge you to read my 20 lessons in How to Survive the Broligarchy, inspired by & featuring the great @timothysnyder.bsky.social
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