Federal prosecutors just dropped charges against 3 MORE defendants who were falsely accused of damaging the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool www.cbsnews.com/news/lincoln...
Greg Jericho
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Chief Economist at @australiainstitute.org.au Columnist on economics and politics for Guardian Australia. Dollars & Sense podcast https://australiainstitute.org.au/news/category/podcasts/dollars-sense/
The effective federal corporate income tax rate: 1950: 50% 1990: 25% 2020: 13% Stop asking "but how we will pay for it?" Restore the corporate tax rate. That is how we will pay for it.
Its embarrassing how many grown ass adults live in these fantasies where people work for some nonsense like the artificial cultures oligarchs manufacture over survival.
Sarah Hanson-Young savages Sportsbet GM Jules Norton Selzer after he refuses to answer whether they've ever returned money to victims after it’s found to have been stolen. SHY “I have to take that as a No”💥 Is it because they thrive on criminal money? Shocking.
I recognise the specific context here but “Please, I need my car to meet criminals” is a very funny plea for leniency.
Author Lynda La Plante banned from driving for six months
WWII shells surface in wildfire-ravaged French village Around 400 shells and pieces of ammunition have been recovered in the area where over 180 homes were ravaged by flames u.afp.com/SHUK
President Trump is banning students majoring in degrees that don’t make enough money from taking out college loans. Degrees for social work, art, religious studies, teaching aides, and music will be hit the hardest. trib.al/aaAEu6v
Trump Moves to Cut Off Student Loans for Tons of Degrees
Under a new rule, if your degree doesn’t make enough money, you won’t be able to get a student loan.
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The richest person in the world, an avowed white supremacist, today again posted "the next step is getting rid of 'source code' entirely and just making an efficient binary directly with AI" because he has no idea how anything works, not even the basics of industries he is in.
“Petrol price increase delivers rate-rise-sized impact ahead of RBA meeting” me for @thepointau.bsky.social thepoint.com.au/off-the-char...
Petrol price increase delivers rate-rise-sized impact ahead of RBA meeting
From today, with the end of the cut in the fuel excise, petrol is back at full price. And over the past month, Australians have experienced economic pain equivalent to around one and a half RBA rate r...
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“Public health might sound appealing, but what if you’re not sick? Youre paying for other people. Have you thought of that????”
Opinion: Mamdani's idea may sound appealing, but it's NYC taxpayers who will take the hit, subsidizing discounts they may never even use.
I have, with my own eyes, watched my tax dollars in the form of missiles as they hit buildings inhabited by civilians. I'd much prefer subsidizing a grocery story I don't use.
Opinion: Mamdani's idea may sound appealing, but it's NYC taxpayers who will take the hit, subsidizing discounts they may never even use.
"Vote Liberal, get Pauline" is going to go gangbusters in the Teal seats
There is just an amazing desperation to paint lower house prices as awful
Do you like well-reasoned arguments and pithy retorts? Well bad luck because it's time for the great climate debate hosted by disgraced breakfast flake Karl Whatsisface! www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
It’s the debate of the century! Two climate ‘denialists’ battle it out to see who agrees the most denialistly | First Dog on the Moon
What a vibrant marketplace of ideas
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An initiative on the ballot in Washington state in November would require all athletes seeking to play girl's sports from kindergarten to high school to undergo "genetic screening, a testosterone-levels test, or an examination of their reproductive anatomy" before they can play
You know who else has criticism about Greenblatt? His predecessor, who actually gave a shit about the issue. Only surprised the folks who want to ban criticism of Israel here haven't tried to import him before. www.timesofisrael.com/former-adl-c...
Former ADL chief Abe Foxman blasts group for muted response to Trump’s MSG rally
American Jewish groups afraid to anger ex-president should he win again, Foxman charges, after 'bizarre' statement by ADL about campaign event that avoids naming Trump himself
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this is an interesting interview and if i were clipping it for social media i would have excerpted "We're still a place where we don't downrank links. We love sending traffic to people. We send two million clicks a day to publishers" rather than the part that'll just piss people off lol
Bluesky's new CEO Toni Schneider on the platform's reputation for being a liberal bubble: "Yes, we definitely want that to change. It is already changing. It certainly wasn’t designed to attract one specific group of people."
Before everyone gets mad thinking he wants Nazis here - he’s talking about trying to get more people posting about sport.
Bluesky's new CEO Toni Schneider on the platform's reputation for being a liberal bubble: "Yes, we definitely want that to change. It is already changing. It certainly wasn’t designed to attract one specific group of people."
Good lord I wish some of you could read on this text based social media website.
Bluesky's new CEO Toni Schneider on the platform's reputation for being a liberal bubble: "Yes, we definitely want that to change. It is already changing. It certainly wasn’t designed to attract one specific group of people."
there are definitely downsides to the nuclear block but the reason I keep coming back to it as necessary and good is that it completely ruined the whole MAGA engagement model to the point that they prefer to mock us from the nazi bar rather than come here to troll us directly
Bluesky oldheads will remember that brief period of time when the conservative trolls tried to storm the place and were flummoxed by the idea they would have to organically grow an audience and that someone who didn't want to talk to them could nuke every interaction they ever had from orbit
it's interesting how many men get satisfaction out of knowing that other men can beat elite female athletes. like ok, maybe the best high school boys team in the country can beat a WNBA team, but YOU can't
What sort of delusional BS is this??? www.mediaite.com/media/news/c...
Bloke who infamously had no issue with Musk doing a Nazi salute has thoughts and ABC decides they’re worth repeating?
Top US Jewish leader issues stark warning to Australia on antisemitism
Australia’s eSafety commissioner buried a report (released Friday afternoon) that shows the under 16 social media ban didn’t tangibly reduce teen social media use, and also resulted in parents tuning out of kids usage. We traded our privacy for no reason. theconversation.com/more-than-80...
More than 80% of kids still using social media despite ban, new eSafety report finds
The report provides more evidence Australia’s world-leading social media ban isn’t going to plan.
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"Why data centre greenwashing is about to explode” by climate analyst, @ketanjoshi.co Read the full piece on The Point: thepoint.com.au/opinions/260...
Environmentalist and author Tim Flannery exposed how carbon offsets are being used to excuse fossil fuel expansion in Australia's Biggest Book Club! Watch the full video here! ⤵️ youtu.be/BCVAWn5ZGMw
The thing that haunts you after being there is that it's their nightly reality. Lying in a hotel room listening to air defense frantically tearing up the night sky or waiting it out in a shelter and knowing that unlike them, for you this is 4 nights of horror and then you're back on a train home.
🇺🇦‼️Jesse Eisenberg witnessed the Russian shelling of Ukraine during a visit and reacted to it: “What if they bombed New York?” "We were woken up by anxiety, we went down to the shelter, and in the morning I saw the consequences of the shelling. It was devastating, terrible, outrageous, tragic. 1/2
www.starobserver.com.au/news/heres-h... good. excuse me, just going to prank call eric abetz and laugh at him.
Here's How Tasmanians Can Access Redress Payments For Historic Homosexuality Convictions
Tasmanians convicted under former laws criminalising homosexuality and cross-dressing can have their charges expunged and receive financial redress.
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