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[Mark Kenny @markgkenny.bsky.social @markgkenny]

Rage against the machine. Just why are people shifting to One Nation? It is not what you think. A terrific discussion here. Check it. https://t.co/odxzadYD8I

[William Dalrymple @DalrympleWill]

Not good news...
"Trump laying groundwork to impose national emergency by sowing election distrust"
https://t.co/L4li1exmO1

[ICRICT @icrict]

$500 billion more in corporate tax a year.
That's what governments would collect by taxing multinationals where they actually operate, not where they declare their profits.
ICRICT Co-Chair @Jayati1609 on @RadioNational (Australia)
🎧https://t.co/5gTFKHbNTa
#UNTaxConvention

[Yuen Yuen Ang @yuenyuenang]

I encountered intellectual history late in my career.

Before that, I had a world-class, mainstream, technocratic education. I learned to build on accepted canons and invest my energies in more advanced techniques.

Only decades later did I begin asking a different set of questions: Why these canons? How did they become canonical?

Ideas do not emerge in a vacuum. They are shaped by power.

Economics prizes neutrality. But neutrality can become a myth that keeps us from seeing the hand of power in deciding:

* Whose experiences become universal theories, and whose remain culturally bound?
* Whose crises are global (think polycrisis), and whose are merely regional?
* Whose priorities become everyone else’s priorities? (think industrial policy)
* What counts as knowledge?
* Who gets to speak with authority?

https://t.co/QQj37XXDQ9

[The Fabian Society @thefabians]

🎙️COMING UP: Fabian Thinking

Our next guest is political campaigner and former Labour candidate for Clacton, @JOwusuNepaul

We will hear from Jovan about his political journey, factionalism in the Labour Party, Andy Burnham’s premiership and tackling populism.

🗓️ Wednesday 19 August
⏰ 18.00
📺 Streamed LIVE into your home wherever you are in the country!

[Ash Sarkar @AyoCaesar]

Why was Jason Arday's plagiarism a front-page story, and not Johann Hari's? Or Dr William O'Reilly's?

Because when white people do wrong, they're seen as individuals, and not stand-ins for their entire race.

[Treasury Department @USTreasury]

Today, @FinCENnews issued a final rule that permanently removes the requirement for U.S. companies and U.S. persons to report beneficial ownership information. FinCEN today also announced that it will delete previously reported information by U.S. persons from the beneficial ownership information database.

[ProPublica @propublica]

New: Nick Adams’ Foundation for Liberty and American Greatness has brought in millions in donations and helped him land a State Department appointment, but records show there is almost no indication FLAG was spending that money on its stated mission. https://t.co/OpYb23OXa9

[David Shoebridge @DavidShoebridge]

Did you see this? Home Affairs has denied a visa to the ex-ASIO source who tried to warn about the Bondi gunmen. This is a deeply political decision, and now the Royal Commission may never hear his evidence.

It looks like a stitch up by those who don't want this on the record.

[NYTimes Communications @NYTimesPR]

This is inaccurate and taken out of context. Here’s the full quote Joe Kahn gave when asked if Nick Kristof’s column would have run in the news report:

“I mean it’s a little bit of a hypothetical. Nick, as you know, is an opinion columnist. He’s also a very accomplished New York Times foreign correspondent who made his name in various overseas assignments, in China, around the world, reporting out of Africa, Japan. He’s a very accomplished journalist. In his opinion column he also does a lot of original reporting, on the road. So Nick has his own brand and area of expertise. And that piece was edited by our opinion section, it wasn’t edited by our newsroom. So it’s distinct but it’s not a categorical difference.

It’s impossible to say whether we would have done the identical piece. We probably wouldn’t have because it’s not — you know Nick has a particular focus on human rights and war and it is kind of part of his area of focus as a columnist. So to say, ‘would we have done that exact piece?’ No, we wouldn’t have done that exact piece. But we have reported very similarly on abuses in the Israeli prison system.

We have also reported on sexual abuses by Hamas against Israeli prisoners or against Israelis during the October 7 attack. So we’ve reported on sexual abuse on both sides of that, and every time we do it excites a lot of controversy. Nick’s piece did as well. This one happened to be done by the Opinion section, by him as a columnist.

You know, I have confidence in my opinion colleagues that they edit with rigor.”

[Kenneth Roth @KenRoth]

Australia's antisemitism envoy complains that Australian public broadcasters are presenting too negative a view of Israel's genocide. There must be a brighter side to the genocide that the journalists could come up with, no? https://t.co/7v6tzfjbAU

[Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan]

Did Dana Bash ask him about his war crimes indictment at the ICC? Did she ask him about the openly undeniably genocidal members of his government that he refuses to fire? Did she ask him about UN reports about sexual violence against Palestinian detainees by his forces?

[David Milner @DaveMilbo]

Here's @lucyham.

"Hanson is just the tip of the oligarchs’ far-right iceberg"

https://t.co/v5bpIk5wtH

[Dr Monique Ryan MP @Mon4Kooyong]

2027 university fees were announced today. Next year an arts degree will cost $54 000, a combined degree $90 000.

The Job-Ready Graduates scheme doubled the cost of arts, law, finance and economics degrees.

It's now been in place longer under Anthony Albanese than Scott Morrison.

It's been described as the worst thing ever to happen to HECS.

It has contributed to a cost-of-learning crisis which is preventing graduates from buying homes and starting families.

The Job-Ready Graduates Scheme must go.

https://t.co/sKibzyNUhk

[Sopo Japaridze @sopjap]

European values in action

[Adam Johnson @adamjohnsonCHI]

Again the Iran deal is not the “defeat,” it’s **an acknowledgement of defeat**, the defeat already happened and was decided on the battlefield because the US attempted regime change/civil war and failed. The MOU is simply acknowledging reality and thus a necessary and good step.

[Nesrine Malik @NesrineMalik]

The UK govt talks a big game about human rights abuses in Sudan, then denies visas for Sudanese journalists recognised for reporting on those abuses. Mohammed Amin wins journalist of the year but couldn't receive it in person. He has all our admiration and respect @AminSikka

[Donald J. Trump @realDonaldTrump]

What a rotten deal we made with Iran. We get nothing (except laughter at our stupidity). They get everything, including delay and big cash!

[David Milner @DaveMilbo]

A few weeks ago we broke news Thales and the Australian gov are making explosives for the IDF. I assume you've noticed mainstream press hasn't followed this up? Anyway, I'm sure it has nothing to do with anything, but Thales is a sponsor of the National Press Club.