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It's written in the village rolls
That if a plow team wants an oxen
And that oxen is lent
Then the villeins and the plowmen got to have the lord's consent

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screaming, freezing, struggling to breathe: this is what politicians and racists and corporate media want police to do to kids when they shout about youth crime. www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

Screaming, freezing, struggling to breathe: confronting Queensland watch house footage exposes anguish of children locked in isolation cellswww.theguardian.com Exclusive: Cache of videos obtained by Guardian Australia and SBS’s The Feed lays bare distressing treatment of teenagers – many of them disabled – in police custody

Jon Stewart is the Waleed Aly of US media. In this essay I w

apparently Jon Stewart figures Bill O'Reilly is what passes for a Reasonable People Can Disagree* republican and is happy to help him sell books *as long as we don't talk about grotesque sexual harassment and toxic workplace abuse

'Find a respectable conservative': Jon Stewart slammed over Bill O’Reilly interviewwww.rawstory.com "The Daily Show" host and comedian Jon Stewart was under fire Tuesday night for having former Fox News host Bill O’Reilly on the popular show to talk about political fanaticism and extreme rhetoric. ...

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When you add a profit motive into social services, profits will always trump service provision. www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

Aged care homes accused of ‘short-changing’ Australians as nearly two-thirds fail to meet care-minute targetswww.theguardian.com Study finds providers making profits off government funding despite falling short on mandatory care targets

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Hot take: The US anthem is such a shit song that it is often impossible to tell a good rendition from a bad one www.theguardian.com/music/articl...

‘I was drunk’: Ingrid Andress responds to criticism of national anthem performancewww.theguardian.com Country singer says she will enter rehab after off-key performance before the MLB’s Home Run Derby

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“Every $1,300 New York invested in building bike-lanes in 2015 provided benefits equivalent to 1 additional year of life at full health over the lifetime of all city residents, according to a new economic assessment.” Bike-lanes are a sound public health investment. www.reuters.com/article/busi...

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Remember when Kyle Rittenhouse killed those people and all the conservatives were like “but that one guy was a child molester”? No connection to current events at all of course just reminiscing

It's like when you find out who's in shows like "I'm A Celebrity, Get Me Out of Here" or "Masked Singer" -- it seems an impressive list, until you consider all the people they didn't get.

more to the point none of the coverage seems to note this fairly remarkable fact, especially amid all the talk of unity or whatever

One of the vastly underrated benefits of Arts degrees is the ability to come up with decent analogies

"Climate and energy policy can be built around economics and engineering. Nuclear in Australia fails on both tests – economics, because it is so expensive, and engineering because it takes so long to build."

Bowen says asking Australia to go nuclear is like asking the Swiss to take up surfingreneweconomy.com.au Bowen says suggesting Australia take up nuclear is like suggesting to the Swiss they should take up surfing.

Considering that in the quoted case (and many others) the debt being chased is workers' super contributions, or wages, I say bring it on

Are they implying that such an outcome is a “bad” thing www.abc.net.au/news/2024-07...

The ATO is cracking down on former company directors in a blitz some say will send them bankruptwww.abc.net.au The ATO has issued tens of thousands of director penalty notices that make people personally liable for debts, and is also more commonly using garnishee notices, which allow it to take money directly ...

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Everybody also needs to watch this reel from “liberal redneck” comedian Trae Crowder who has some personal experience with Vance www.instagram.com/reel/C9febBe...

Trae Crowder on Instagram: "JD Vance hates hillbillies #traecrowder #sorryIfilmedthislastnight #seemelive #linkwherethelinksgo"www.instagram.com 3,678 likes, 141 comments - officialtraecrowder on July 16, 2024: "JD Vance hates hillbillies #traecrowder #sorryIfilmedthislastnight #seemelive #linkwherethelinksgo".

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I will never forget the interview, shortly after Ozy Media Inc. was formed, where Carlos Watson said he named it after the poem, because "the lesson you take from [Ozymandias] is that you have to dream big." So that's why liberal arts education is important.

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This. This. This a thousand times

The reason that the language of domestic abuse and the language of authoritarianism looks the same is because it's just the same thing on a different scale.

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Just a reminder: Trump inherited the lowest homicide rate of any president in 50 years. He was the first president in 30 years to leave office with a higher homicide rate than when he entered. And the rate has dropped every year since he left. www.foxnews.com/video/635815...

RNC day 2 to focus on crime and safety as victims' families speak out | Fox News Videowww.foxnews.com Erin Rachwal, who lost her son to fentanyl poisoning and Sheri and Aaron Sparks, who lost their son in the Waukesha parade attack, on the need to hold criminals accountable and stop the influx of illi...

disappointing

So there we have it .. The NACC is officially a dud thanks to cowardice and a government unwilling to confront the LNP IPA and provide justice to voters. Elections are next year - Australia desperately needs more Independent and Greens representatives!! www.thenewdaily.com.au/news/politic...

Michael Pascoe: NACC finds billion-dollar corruption too hardwww.thenewdaily.com.au If NACC deciding not to investigate Robodebt was “disappointing”, walking away from the Coalition’s grant schemes is another failure.

Teamsters rn

Not a populist: GOP VP candidate J.D. Vance introduced the Team Act (with Marco Rubio) to empower companies to establish and dissolve “employee involvement organizations” (a.k.a., company unions), a long-standing goal of GOP business leaders: www.rubio.senate.gov/wp-content/u...

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Good luck persuading your staff to move to the gated community you're building in Texas ... Imagine being a woman worker living on X ranch, with Elon available to offer you ponies at any time of day or night

Ah the rational forces of the market at work www.bbc.com/news/article...

Elon Musk to move SpaceX and X HQ over gender-identity lawwww.bbc.com Mr Musk has become increasingly involved in US politics and said the new law was the "last straw".

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FYI www.pbs.org/newshour/sci...

When whimsical wildlife photography isn't what it seemswww.pbs.org This photo looks cute, but it reveals the cloudy intersection of wildlife photography, animal welfare issues and photojournalism integrity.

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You didn't know that you needed a picture of a tiny frog riding a giant beetle, but now you do.

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"Surprise"? Why? Failed assassination attempts don't normally boost a presidential campaign - esp when the shooter is 1 of your own supporters. Here's something all the many Biden doomers should consider. TIPP, the most accurate pollster in 2020, has had Biden a few percent ahead or tied all year.

"Following the failed assassination attempt on Saturday, former President Donald Trump did not see a polling boost, in the first presidential survey taken since the event....In fact, Trump's lead has narrowed slightly since an earlier poll taken July 12-14" lol. lmao www.rawstory.com/trump-pollin...

Surprise: Trump did not get polling boost after shootingwww.rawstory.com Following the failed assassination attempt on Saturday, former President Donald Trump did not see a polling boost, in the first presidential survey taken since the event.In the national Morning Consul...

America on Monday: "Violence has no place in our politics!!" America on Wednesday: Back to the usual grind of state murders www.theguardian.com/us-news/arti...

Ohio police fatally shoot man a mile from Republican national conventionwww.theguardian.com Officers in Milwaukee during convention kill man said to be a regular at a local encampment, with no apparent connection to event

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actually going to civil trial on something fucking sucks ass for everyone involved, avoid it at nearly all costs. its mutually assured destruction, no you are not immune and, no, the skill of your attorney barely matters. the best possible outcome is pyrrhic in 95% of cases

okay it's time for a prompt post: respond to this post with a correction to a common misconception about something you know a lot about. if you feel like it, boost your response. (please use a kindly tone about it, otherwise i, your prompt curator, will get anxious.)

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Very disappointed that Tenacious D have been pressured into cutting their Australian tour short, as the moron senator Babet howls from his neo Nazi hilltop. What a country these penny-ante despots wish to establish.

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Most people probably know this, I guess, but dinosaurs aren't "extinct". There are particular species that left no living descendants following the K–Pg impact 66 million years ago, but in a strict phylogenetic sense, modern birds are living dinosaurs, descended from multiple surviving lineages.

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It's fine to split infinitives. It was always fine to split infinitives. That "rule" was made up by some dickheads who thought that as it's impossible in Latin it should be banned in English

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Raymond Chandler and his tyrannical secretary, Taki. www.dailykos.com/stories/2022...

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Missed Sunday night’s Varietopia with Monica Martin, Paget Brewster, Lily Sullivan & Vinny Thomas? Watch the archived stream, still available for a few more days! Link: bit.ly/bastillestream

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this is what you tell everyone who thinks we are doomed and everyone who is scared and everyone who needs some hope THEY BREAK UPON US, THEY DO NOT BREAK US

THEY BREAK ON US, THEY DO NOT BREAK US

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THERE ARE MORE OF US THAN THERE ARE OF THEM, and, by god, none of you should ever forget that. THERE ARE MORE OF US THAN THERE ARE OF THEM.

Finally watched Michael Mann's Miami Vice, and boy is it like Heat 1.5 (complimentary)