Claire Connelly

Exclusive: National Press Club cancelled Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist for being “in favour” of Palestine Correspondence obtained by Lamestream shows the NPC confirmed Chris Hedges as a speaker, before cancelling him due to "balance".

Exclusive: Correspondence obtained by Lamestream show the National Press Club confirmed Pulitzer Prize winner Chris Hedges as a speaker, before cancelling him because was “in favour” of Palestine.

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Statement on Cancellation of Chris Hedges’ confirmed appearance at the National Press Club of Australia  — Australian Friends of Palestine Association AFOPA is responding to the Statement published on 4 October 2025 by the National Press Club of Australia ( NPC) in relation to their cancellation of Chris Hedges’ confirmed appearance at the National ...

It looks very much like the National Press Club statement lied about their cancellation of Chris Hedges. His appearance WAS confirmed, and even listed on the website, according to this.
(Hedges believes his talk on Gaza was cancelled following pressure from the pro-Israel lobby):

Bari Weiss Takes Her Grift Mainstream Journalism's biggest fraud takes the reins at CBS

I wrote about the ascendance of Bari Weiss from a hack columnist to media royalty, and what it means for the future of CBS News.

To be fair, he’s really overestimating the centre / left’s ability to respond to this. The right has never known vengeance, let alone repercussions for its actions, how do they think they got this far? Liberal inaction is key to its power

Off you pop, then. There’s a good chap

Dear New York Times editors: I’m sorry that you thought Portlandia was real and we disappointed you when it wasn’t. We cover our city just fine.

What Happens When Socialists Are in Charge? Portland Offers a Glimpse.

Not only does this story get a number of basic facts wrong, it doesn’t take time to actually explore why Portlanders elected these folks. Coming in with a pre-baked PDX story to fit a NYT narrative about NYC is harmful, especially at this moment.

The Saturday Paper can reveal that the prime minister and other ministers from NSW intervened in cabinet to constrain the operations of the country’s leading integrity body. Read more: satpa.pe/iH3a9VJ

feels a bit weird that we keep having these stories about individual cyber attacks but without anyone really joining the dots and going "okay, shall we maybe talk about this as a major global story"

This one hurt

‘Morrison’s own windfall, paid out to ensure a “certainty and seamless” separation from the public service, was never pursued. No “welfare cop” was sent to his door.’

‘The FOI documents expose the hypocrisy at the heart of the matter: how the political class take care of their own while the innocent are fair game to be hunted, harassed and bullied.’

Revealed: Scott Morrison's big secret 'handshake' on sacking by Tourism Australia - Michael West Scott Morrison, former PM and architect of Robodebt got a large 'secret handshake' payout when sacked by Tourism Australia. FOI.

After a 4 year FOI battle, @jommytee.bsky.social finally has the facts on Scott Morrison's sacking from Tourism Australia & the brawl behind the scenes is fascinating
#auspol
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well then stop using his website my good man!!!!!!! you can't hang out on someone's lawn all day every day then complain that he happens to also be on the lawn!

FBI boss Kash Patel gave New Zealand officials 3D-printed guns illegal to possess under local laws | CNN On a visit to New Zealand, FBI Director Kash Patel gave the country’s police and spy bosses gifts of inoperable pistols that were illegal to possess under local gun laws and had to be destroyed, New Z...

On a visit to New Zealand, FBI Director Kash Patel gave the country’s police and spy bosses gifts of inoperable pistols that were illegal to possess under local gun laws and had to be destroyed, New Zealand law enforcement agencies told The Associated Press.

This sounds terribly familiar… 🤔

“Then to see all that came out of the royal commission and realise that they knew, and they kept going, was the shattering of the last of my youthful naivety."

“I had this latent belief that the government wouldn't lie about something like this, and wouldn't hide this evidence, and if it was illegal, then they would have stopped it.”

Writing the book on Robodebt drove Rick Morton mad, but it won him $80k Journalist Rick Morton didn't want to write a book about Robodebt. Now that book, Mean Streak, has won the Prime Minister's Literary Award for non-fiction.

"[Covering Robodebt] radicalised me in a weird way that I hadn't expected," Morton says. "It's like I saw the world the way it was for the first time in my life.

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Ah that makes me sad

if your klein be naomi, relax homie
if your klein be ezra, it’s your duncecap era

(I have become obsessed with this podcast since coming across it this morning. The whole thing she says about the media ecosystem being completely tuned out to what it was Kirk actually did, is so spot on, it’s almost too on the nose).

Can Free Speech Survive the Charlie Kirk Backlash? (ft. Kat Tenbarge) Podcast Episode · Cancel Me, Daddy · 25/09/2025 · 52m

“I would really love to know Ezra, how much of Charlie Kirk's content have you watched?

Because I think he's just making up a version of someone in his head and talking about that person, and it is completely detached from reality.”

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Defiant Netanyahu Denounces Palestine Recognition, to a Mostly Empty U.N. Hall

Israel is now a pariah state, due to its own actions - and this will only change when its remaining supporters acknowledge and address its crimes

Gonna have to teach everyone from scratch that the president isn't your boss, he's your employee

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He also doesn’t write for the Murdochs. The New York Times is majority-owned by the Ochs-Sulzberger family.