Dr Una McIlvenna
@unamcilvenna.bsky.social
Associate Professor at ANU who writes about – and sometimes sings – ballads about executions, disasters, military conflicts & politics from the 16th to the 19th century. Personal website: unamcilvenna.com
When America is gone, remember NYT headlines like this and never again ask what role corporate media played in normalizing the most dangerous man on Earth
A Flock camera was pointed directly at a community pool... you know, for reading license plates of course.
Men need to do so much better. Wrote this recently on the hard truth that women are simply not safe around men — and what we men must do to fix this ongoing atrocity: www.qasimrashid.com/p/women-are-...
100 companies are responsible for 71% of global emissions. They told YOU to recycle better while they polluted more. Don't fall for it. Hold systems accountable. #ClimateCrisis
Oooh, this looks awesome, and at the home of English folk dance and song - Cecil Sharp House! Folk arts people, the deadline for abstracts is 21 August, so get cracking! Call for Papers: Folk Arts as Intangible Cultural Heritage Conference www.efdss.org/about-us/wha...
Call for Papers: Folk Arts as Intangible Cultural Heritage Conference
Folk Arts as Intangible Cultural Heritage in England Conference In collaboration with Esbjörn Wettermark and Access Folk (University of Sheffield)Saturday 24 October, Cecil Sharp House, London This on...
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The 60 largest planned data centers could produce the same amount of carbon dioxide emissions as 27 coal plants. Big Tech CEOs are polluting our planet and selling out our future to line their own pockets. We need a data center moratorium — now.
High speed rail between multiple major cities? No can do. But here’s another data center.
🚨 BREAKTHROUGH: 25-year-old Argentinian biologist Pilar Ferrer has developed an injectable gel that helps repair damaged heart tissue after a heart attack
Delta Airlines charging me for my bag? That's obnoxious. Delta Airlines charging me to book a seat? That's obnoxious. But Delta Airlines working with ICE to ship people to concentration camps is COLLABORATION. Boycot #delta
Are you using early modern broadside ballads in your work? If so, please fill in this survey for a student's project on broadside ballad databases and the impact of the closure of the Bodleian's Broadside Ballads Online: forms.cloud.microsoft/e/TQrAhSLXkK Thank you!
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More cops have been arrested for using flock cameras to stalk women than there are transgender athletes in youth sports.
A 60 Minutes probe into Epstein's banking, with Wyden already interviewed, vanished right after Sharyn Alfonsi got pushed out under Bari Weiss. Same editor who stalled the CECOT migrant story until Stephen Miller got a say. CBS keeps calling it timing. Sure looks like a pattern.
60 Minutes Epstein Banking Story Vanished After CBS Ousted Sharyn Alfonsi, Dem Senator Reveals
Wyden revealed he was interviewed for the show in a Senate report alleging the country's largest banks turned “a blind eye” to Epstein's financial activity
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Microsoft: $101 BILLION in profits. $12.5 BILLION in tax breaks. $176 BILLION in stock buybacks. 4,800 workers fired this week. 9,000 workers fired last year. Please don't tell me trickle-down economics works. It never did. Nothing trickles down.
Everyone in politics and showbiz knew about this. They were all complicit. For decades. Those who know and have the power to act, but don’t act, are part of the crime. #AusPol
Alan Jones trial on indecent assault and sexual touching charges begins in Sydney
The 85-year-old former broadcaster faces 22 charges from six different complainants in what is expected to be a four-month trial
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This is VERY bad. Congressional investigation immediately. They’re trying to use Palantir to figure out who you voted for. 0% chance this ends well. Stop it ASAP.
Exclusive: FBI gets voter's IP address in new fraud probe tactic
The move offers a glimpse into how authorities are now digging into voter rolls and registration practices.
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The guy that they want you to be terrified of (Mamdani) is making sure kids in NYC are fed all summer and people have access to cheaper groceries, all while they take food away from kids getting SNAP. Just sayin, feeding kids should make you the good guy.
Mitch McConnell hasn’t been seen or heard from in 6 weeks(!) in the hospital. Yet he still has a job, still getting paid, and getting unlimited world class healthcare. The man who voted against a living wage, against universal healthcare, and against guaranteed paid leave—is now getting all three.
I’m glad that the walls seem to be closing in on Andrew Tate, but it took criminal investigations across three countries, dozens of outspoken victims, and a hit TV show implying he drives boys to murder girls for this to happen—and he still hasn’t been convicted yet. This is why 98% get away with it
I think Zohran Mamdani may be the best thing to haopen to U.S. politics in my lifetime. Every day I wake up to his messages and he’s said done something fun to make life more fun, he’s won $ for NYers’ pockets—and then he uses his office to life humanity. www.instagram.com/reel/DbE6d_i...
McGeehan: The first thing to understand is that World Cups are a scam, right? They’re a complete scam because the U.S. pays for everything, and FIFA walks away with all the profits.…
Don't have time or money to see The Odyssey this week? This documentary on the wreckage wrought by higher education consultancies in Australia is shorter, free and packed with danger, conflict, captives, omens and lotus-eaters. Lots of lotus-eaters. So have a view of it instead, or in the meantime.
Universities $1.8 billion consultancy spending under wraps | Four Corners Documentary
YouTube video by ABC News In-depth
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