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Peter Dutton is being tested for the first time, and he doesn’t seem to be passing
https://www.thenewdaily.com.au/news/politics/australian-politics/federal-election-2025/2025/04/05/peter-dutton-election-test
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2025 election: The Murdoch media no longer matters
https://www.crikey.com.au/2025/03/31/2025-election-murdoch-media-news-corp-no-longer-matters/
The 2025 Australian federal election could be the first in decades where Rupert Murdoch's News Corp doesn't have much influence.
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Why Movements Fail
https://www.liberalcurrents.com/why-movements-fail/
Horizontalism and its discontents
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Careless People: A Cautionary Tale of Power, Greed, and Lost Idealism, by Sarah Wynn-Williams
https://us.macmillan.com/books/9781250391230/carelesspeople/
Vivian Jenna Wilson on Being Elon Musk’s Estranged Daughter, Protecting Trans Youth and Taking on the Right Online | Teen Vogue
https://www.teenvogue.com/story/vivian-jenna-wilson-elon-musk-trans-youth
In Teen Vogue’s special issue cover story, the estranged 20-year-old daughter of Elon Musk talks about the “cartoonishly evil” Trump administration and being a young trans woman today.
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How Did Silicon Valley Break Bad?
https://paulwaldman.substack.com/p/how-did-silicon-valley-break-bad
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The Pithiest Critique of Modern Conservatism Keeps Getting Credited to the Wrong Man
https://slate.com/business/2022/06/wilhoits-law-conservatives-frank-wilhoit.html
“Wilhoit’s Law” was coined by a different Frank Wilhoit.
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Elon Musk, Apartheid, and America’s New Boycott Movement – Mother Jones
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2025/02/elon-musk-apartheid-boycott-tesla-doge-trump/
If you think mass protests can’t combat evil, remember what we did in the 1980s.
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No One Knows How This Will End (But I Do Not Think It Will End Well for Them)
https://www.meditationsinanemergency.com/no-one-knows-how-this-will-end-but-i-do-not-think-it-will-end-well-for-them/
I can sum up the Trump/Musk/Vance theory of power in five words: "We have power; you don't." Alternative version in six words: "we can do anything we want." They seem to believe that nothing is really connected to anything else and nothing should be. This is why they're
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Trump Can Be Stopped
https://www.readthedetox.com/p/trump-can-be-stopped
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NYT Hypocrisy: Outlet Criticizes Trump's Attacks On Trans People That They Helped Usher In
https://www.erininthemorning.com/p/nyt-hypocrisy-outlet-criticizes-trumps
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The sound of three hands clapping: Further comments on why we need to rid ourselves of two-party politics
https://tdunlop.substack.com/p/the-sound-of-three-hands-clapping
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The War on Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion | The New Yorker
https://www.newyorker.com/news/the-lede/the-war-on-diversity-equity-and-inclusion
Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor writes about what people get right and wrong when they criticize D.E.I., or diversity, equity, and inclusion, initiatives in the workplace.
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What Happened Here: It's Very Simple Dialectics
https://www.unpopularfront.news/p/what-happened-here-c9f
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Let's Get Real: I'm going to use the F-word and the C-word
https://www.unpopularfront.news/p/lets-get-real
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Elon Musk Is Totally Wrong About Population Collapse | WIRED
https://www.wired.com/story/elon-musk-population-crisis/
Tesla’s outspoken CEO thinks the biggest threat facing the planet is people not having enough babies. Demographers disagree.
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Political Parties Are Illegal in the United States – J. W. Mason
https://jwmason.org/slackwire/political-parties-are-illegal-in-the-united-states/
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This Man is a Coward.
https://www.theindex.media/this-man-is-a-coward/
This man is a coward. And no amount of corporate jargon or performative masculinity can make that stain go away.
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The coming battle between social media and the state
https://www.ft.com/content/917c9535-1cdb-4f6a-9a15-1a0c83663bfd
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Mark Zuckerberg Is at War With Himself - The Atlantic
https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2025/01/mark-zuckerberg-free-expression/681238/
Mark Zuckerberg is at war with himself.
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We're getting the social media crisis wrong
https://www.programmablemutter.com/p/were-getting-the-social-media-crisis
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Bad shape
https://www.wrecka.ge/bad-shape/
The idea I keep coming back to is that the big platforms, like Dickens' Marley, were dead to begin with, and are now something particularly bad, which is dead on their feet.
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They Cannot Conquer For Ever | Goldwag's Journal on Civilization
https://nathangoldwag.wordpress.com/2024/11/07/they-cannot-conquer-for-ever/
American Indian Movement flag, Wounded Knee, 1988 (Source) I have not talked much about the election on here this year because I had very little of interest to say. I was hoping Harris would win. I think Trump was a bad president before, and will be a worse one now. I had a very bad…
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LGBTQ+ People Are Not Going Back
https://jude-doyle.ghost.io/lgbtq-people-are-not-going-back/
On identity politics and unreasonable demands.
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