The government hates protests because they give a glimpse of the pedestrianised city
"Talking straight here, the big problem in this case is that the cabinet secretaries and, ostensibly, the president of the United States are not honoring the First Amendment,” Judge William G. Young said. www.nytimes.com/2026/01/15/u...
Judge Proposes Restricting Deportation of Scores of Noncitizen Academics
nytimes.com
“We regret that our transparently racist act created division. And also that it predictably destroyed the thing it is our one job to protect.”
Dare I ask why the Adelaide Festival Board, which oversees Adelaide Writers Week, featured zero writers?
Hard to see the Adelaide Writers Week decision as anything other than appallingly racist, grotesquely illiberal.
Trump's new travel policies send a clear message. For visitors to the US, self-censorship is your ticket to ride. My piece in the Fin. www.afr.com/world/north-...
I was detained and deported for opinions Trump’s America didn’t like
The message for visitors to the US is clear from Donald Trump’s new social media rule: self-censorship is your ticket to ride.
afr.com
Man I know so many people who should quit their jobs and go do this instead
Zohran Kwame Mamdani@zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 9mo agoWe’re hiring! Our new resume portal is live, and we’re looking for top talent in NYC to help build this administration and deliver on our affordability agenda. Could that be you? Apply using the link below. transition2025.com/apply
I for one think it’s good Tame Impala now sounds like Enya
I have a piece in the @thesaturdaypaper.com.au today about how superannuation disadvantages women www.thesaturdaypaper.com.au/news/economy...
Confronting the superannuation gender gap
Advocates say more needs to be done as the tweaks made to superannuation tax offsets for low-income earners will barely help the quarter of women who retire in poverty.
thesaturdaypaper.com.au
Imagine kicking the former national rugby captain out of your sports club instead of the gambling lobby. To paraphrase Groucho Marx, who'd want to belong to a club that would accept Responsible Wagering Australia as one of its sponsors?
Bill Browne@browne90.bsky.social · 10mo agoMaking his point for him -- just asking about the power of the gambling lobby gets Senator David Pocock booted from sports club the Prime Minister heads. www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
Read @sarahschwartz.bsky.social personal letter in The Guardian today | When you first heard me speak against this genocide, you heard my words as betrayal. But they were meant as love www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
When you first heard me speak against this genocide, you heard my words as betrayal. But they were meant as love | Sarah Schwartz
Not speaking would go against everything I was taught to honour: the righteous among the nations – those who refused to be bystanders to injustice
theguardian.com
In today’s @crikey.com.au, I wrote about the furore over Albanese’s appearance at the UK Labour conference. The problem wasn’t that it was partisan, but that he intervened in the internal politics of UK Labour, backing Starmer against a rising chorus of critics. www.crikey.com.au/2025/10/06/a...
Albanese’s speech to UK Labour wasn’t partisan — it was factional
Why has Albanese stuck his neck out for the incumbent? Because Starmer has, in many, ways emulated Albanese.
crikey.com.au
"It took more than an hour after the story broke, and was covered by several mastheads, to receive official notice from MUP; a group email confirming Meanjin’s immediate closure." ~Emma Sutherland, Archives Editor at Meanjin in @artshub.bsky.social this weekend. www.artshub.com.au/news/opinion...
I was the Archives Editor at Meanjin – its closure is baffling
As Archives Editor, Emma Sutherland had ‘read everything’ in Meanjin's past, but was unprepared for its troubled present.
artshub.com.au
I wrote about the man everyone loves to hate, @mattyglesias.bsky.social . www.kitchencounter.blog/p/mr-opinion
Mr Opinion
Matt Yglesias and his discontents
kitchencounter.blog
Wrote this the day Mahmoud Khalil was arrested. I was later deported for it. Today a US federal judge confirmed what I wrote. open.substack.com/pub/alistair...
On the deportation of dissent
When I, an international student in the US, began writing dispatches from the protests at Columbia last year I felt as though good things were once again possible.
open.substack.com
Very proud of my colleagues right now--especially @ramyakrishnan.bsky.social and @alexabdo.bsky.social. But we could not have got this far without the superb trial lawyers at Sher Tremonte. Grateful to them for all of the time and energy they put into this case. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/30/u...
Judge Rules Trump Unlawfully Targeted Noncitizens Over Pro-Palestinian Speech
nytimes.com
This is such a useful resource from @penamerica.bsky.social "What To Do If You’ve Been Doxed Or Placed On A Watchlist" Please consider letting others know that this exists. pen.org/what-to-do-i...
What To Do If You’ve Been Doxed Or Placed On A Watchlist
We map out steps you can take right away, and steps you can take to build resilience longer term against doxing.
pen.org
A lot of non-Americans feel embarrassed by their own fixation with the US. They shouldn’t.
Alistair Kitchen@alistairkitchen.bsky.social · 11mo ago
"Far from being an amoral free-for-all, liberalism is, in fact, extremely difficult and constraining, far too much so for those who cannot endure contradiction, complexity, diversity, and the risks of freedom.” ― Judith N. Shklar, Ordinary Vices
Jess O'Thomson@jessothomson.co.uk · 11mo agoI think fundamentally, the ability to care about the rights of a small and vulnerable minority (of whom you might know no members) is an important sign of whether you are committed to human rights out of principle, or out of mere convenience.
Hi all. An essay I’m very proud of, an elegy to the Queensland rainforests I grew up in, will appear in @islandmag.bsky.social 175.
