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Women globally place higher importance on moral identity than men www.psypost.org/how-culture-...
Women globally place higher importance on moral identity than men
People all over the world consider morality a part of who they are. A large new study explores how age, gender, and cultural background shape whether individuals view their moral traits as a private c...
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If That's What Mayor Mamdani Has Been Doing For NYC,Count Me In...
Russia has lost around 1,459,210 troops in Ukraine since 02/24/2022, Ukraine's Armed Forces reported on Aug. 10. Independent Western think-tank, The Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) estimating the ratio to be "roughly 2.5:1 or 2:1." kyivindependent.com/general-staf...
General Staff: Russia has lost 1,457,740 troops in Ukraine since Feb. 24, 2022
The figure includes 1,470 casualties Russian forces suffered over the past day, according to the General Staff.
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Look at this graph. The share of national income going to the richest 10 percent was lowest (and share to lower 90 percent highest) when union membership was at its highest. As unions have weakened, inequality has widened. This is why we must build back union power.
“Knowing how ICACs work, if they’re going to sensationalise it with Angus, they’ll set it up nicely. I know what NSW is like. It’s a show trial,” a Liberal MP says. "No one has a good prognosis for Angus. It has potential to wound him and his credibility.” thesaturdaypaper.com.au/news/politic...
Exclusive: Tony Abbott’s ICAC comments a ‘warning’ to News Corp
As the ICAC hears evidence of a $2 million conspiracy to take over the NSW Liberal Party, federal MPs believe Tony Abbott’s involvement means he should resign as party president.
thesaturdaypaper.com.au
RFK Jr's CDC reportedly scaled back foodborne disease tracking last year, removing cyclospora from mandatory reporting. The CDC also lost roughly 3,000 employees since 2025. Now a cyclosporiasis outbreak has killed 2 and sickened thousands across 45 states. "Make America Healthy Again."
Brexit kills? The exodus of EU nurses since the Brexit referendum may have contributed an additional 1200 patient deaths in England. The biggest impact was on hospitals heavily reliant on EU staff before 2016. Despite replacing European with other nurses, patient care still worsened. 🧪
Immigration, Workforce Composition, and Organisational Performance: The Effect of Brexit on NHS Hospital Quality*
Abstract. Restrictive immigration policies can force organisations to alter their workforce composition, with unclear effects on organisational performance
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Sexism is still everywhere - win in rare pregnancy discrimination case www.abc.net.au/news/2026-07...
Woman sues for pregnancy discrimination and wins in rare case
Research shows pregnant women and new mothers are routinely let go from their jobs, discriminated against, and, in one case, forced to pump breastmilk in a storeroom. We want to hear your stories.
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Epstein survivor Dani Bensky: You can’t say that you want to make sure sex offenders and sex traffickers are behind bars and then vote for him. Every vote for Blanche is really a vote against survivors. If Thom Tillis wants to call, I’m happy to talk to him. We’ve been trying to get in touch
🇿🇦 Mandela Nelson Mandela Born on this day July 18, 1918 #botd 🇿🇦 “ no one is born hating another person because of the color of his skin, his background or his religion.” #tolerance #NelsonMandela 🇿🇦 Honoring Madiva 🌹 on his birthday
Firefighters 🔥🔥 🌲🌲🌲🌲🌲🌲🌲 “. . .unable at times to distinguish day from night 🔥 we have only a blood red sun and an orange faced moon 🔥 temperatures rise fires rage, a neighboring National Forest becomes a charred citadel. —Terry Tempest Williams #poetry 🔥 #firefighters #fires Thank you, heroes
The largest dinosaur weighed around 85 tons. Some male blue whales weigh as much as 200 tons. A blue whale's heart is 6 feet wide and weighs 400 lbs. The largest animal that ever lived.
What if hostile foreign governments were able to control social network algorithms in the United States, suppressing information vital to our survival as a democracy? That would be weird.
"The price of apathy towards public affairs is to be ruled by evil men." ~ Plato
The payment is an admission of guilt. This should be the biggest news on every platform.
Michelle Grattan eviscerating the Liberals 😘😘😘 www.abc.net.au/news/2026-07...
A gulf has opened up between the Liberals and the zeitgeist
The mismatch between where the public resides and what the Liberals are expounding is a deeper challenge — a gulf perhaps unable to be bridged, at least in the short term.
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28 years of cyclosporiasis testing Screwworms eradicated in the US in 1966. Measles eradicated in the US in 2000. All are back because of this science denying administration.
The Liberal party commission argued the party's base must consider a new tack to regain votes. It sets out the key demographics where the party has lost support: professional women, people with Chinese ancestry, and voters from high multicultural populations. www.abc.net.au/news/2026-07...
Gender quota debate revived in Liberals' soul-searching mission
Liberal Party HQ has admitted it is "in the political fight of our lives" as it canvasses ideas, including reviving gender quotas, to take the party forward.
abc.net.au
there's no Shortage of Intellect -- there IS However a shortage of Motivation to OUT The Bad Guys
An American president being found liable for sexual assault is a national disgrace. It’s a stain on the country that will never wash out.
@australia.theguardian.com It's not worth mentioning he was found liable in a civil rape case??? That he's an unrepentant rapist??? What is wrong with you? I don't subscribe so you can whitewash rapists. www.theguardian.com/sport/2026/j...
Conor McGregor plans to fight again in UFC despite return lasting just 69 seconds
Conor McGregor says he plans to fight again in UFC despite the fact that his return to competition lasted just 69 seconds before he suffered a leg injury
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