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Coates is just incredibly on point in this. No one in his cohort of big ticket intellectuals has met the moment anywhere near as well as he has. www.youtube.com/watch?v=rZrX...
"Palestinians are wholly excluded from the room" w/ Ta-Nehisi CoatesYouTube video by Makdisi Streetwww.youtube.com
.. "Consumers should brace for hefty increases in the cost of generating electricity as data centres suck up vast quantities of power faster than new plants can be built" www.abc.net.au/news/2026-07...
'Mismatch' between data centres and power projects that has experts worriedConsumers should brace for hefty increases in the cost of generating electricity as data centres suck up vast quantities of power faster than new plants can be built, experts say.www.abc.net.auIve been watching Younger as a background show and the number of times they reference leaking something to Gawker, or that ‘someone from Gawker’ is sniffing around something etc has really had me thinking on this. A real bummer
Tim CarvellGawker would’ve gotten the fake Ghislaine audition interviews by now and that’s why there isn’t a Gawker anymore.
Some decent media coverage of the Victorian Socialists teachers who've helped lead the rank-and-file revolt in the AEU and who will be standing as candidates in the upcoming election - challenging a swathe of sitting Labor MPs including Minister for Education and leadership contender Ben Carroll.
"What is hard to ignore is the disparity between the government’s response to Islamophobia and its response to antisemitism." @deepcutnews.bsky.social What's also hard to ignore is how readily Albanese caves in to almost every demand of the Israel lobby. #auspol www.deepcutnews.com/p/labors-res...
Labor’s response to Islamophobia was disappointingly predictable – Najma SambulThe government acknowledged the problem while ignoring key recommendations to address itwww.deepcutnews.comBW/DR is fantastic; after I watch something new to me it’s the first place I go to find someone engaged and with a POV writing about it. Cheap sub and well worth it
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lmao at “bargain bin Elon Musk” but rachel has a point. there’s no reason for anyone avoiding substack because of politics to keep using shopify except that they simply don’t care as much when the political effects are felt in canada instead of the US.
Rachel GilmorePeople claim to be doing progressive work and then do ad reads for the platform that literally keeps Canada’s bargain bin Elon Musk loaded. I get most Americans don’t think about Canada hardly ever but could you please, this once, think about the impact your actions have outside your borders?
People claim to be doing progressive work and then do ad reads for the platform that literally keeps Canada’s bargain bin Elon Musk loaded. I get most Americans don’t think about Canada hardly ever but could you please, this once, think about the impact your actions have outside your borders?
Rachel GilmoreVery cool that Shopify’s CEO thinks the poor should have far less of a vote than the rich. Still worth that ad read money, folks?
For those who don't know Melbourne's south east, this is a data centre that is six times larger than the largest shopping centre in the southern hemisphere (and worst in the world).
Mega datacentre planned for outer Melbourne will be six times bigger than a large shopping centreMore than 3,600 people sign petition for careful assessment of proposed AI hub, now a flashpoint for national debate on datacentre boomwww.theguardian.com
Just imagine if an ex-ALP senator in an organisation called Labor Friends of Palestine shared the same content about Israelis or Jewish people. Just imagine.
Former Labor senator Nova Peris accused of ‘amplifying’ anti-Muslim social media postsOlympian and Labor Friends of Israel patron shared posts about Palestinians that were ‘dehumanising’, Muslim advocacy group allegeswww.theguardian.com
Gareth Evans telling it like it is, namely AUKUS is: “more likely than not to prove one of the worst defence and foreign policy decisions our country has made” www.thesaturdaypaper.com.au/comment/defence/2026/07/25/case-against-aukus
The case against AUKUSAs this week’s ALP National Conference will confirm, the Albanese government remains strongly wedded to the AUKUS nuclear-propelled submarine project. But the project was misconceived from the outset ...www.thesaturdaypaper.com.au
Trying and failing to think of other reporting that illustrates how blatantly surveillance can be something applied to most of us without recourse but that the elite can choose to opt out of.
For Taylor Swift, Madison Square Garden’s Controversial Cameras Briefly Went DarkMSG’s sprawling surveillance system can monitor guests down to the second. Its owners made an exception for the pop star’s rehearsal dinner.www.wired.com
"She’ll make a claim – that she supports mass deportation – and then let her lieutenants clean it up by claiming that’s not what she said. And she’ll jump on any criticism – like her other political half supposedly yelling at a dog – as proof the media is against her." And the media lets her.
Amy RemeikisHanson continues to pretend she's new to all of this. In which case, her internship has gone for 30 years. She's one of our most experienced political players. So much so there isn't a single issue she doesn't have a history of controversy in - including DV www.thenewdaily.com.au/news/politic...
