kcarruthers
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Skeets forever! Sometimes I feel like being a revolutionary cat. PhD candidate at UTS Sydney. Nothing here is the opinion of my employer. I have always hated emdashes.
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Women, leave Queensland. #auspol
Queensland police refused to discipline officer accused of domestic violence against pregnant partner
Police decided there was ‘no tangible benefit’ to conducting disciplinary action against the officer and opted not to investigate
Queensland police refused to discipline officer accused of domestic violence against pregnant partner
Police decided there was ‘no tangible benefit’ to conducting disciplinary action against the officer and opted not to investigate
Queensland police refused to discipline officer accused of domestic violence against pregnant partner
Police decided there was ‘no tangible benefit’ to conducting disciplinary action against the officer and opted not to investigate
www.theguardian.com
February 16, 2026 at 2:32 AM
Women, leave Queensland. #auspol
Queensland police refused to discipline officer accused of domestic violence against pregnant partner
Police decided there was ‘no tangible benefit’ to conducting disciplinary action against the officer and opted not to investigate
Queensland police refused to discipline officer accused of domestic violence against pregnant partner
Police decided there was ‘no tangible benefit’ to conducting disciplinary action against the officer and opted not to investigate
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French prosecutors to set up special team to review Epstein files www.theguardian.com/world/2026/f...
French prosecutors to set up special team to review Epstein files
Magistrates will analyse evidence that could implicate French nationals and re-examine case of Jean-Luc Brunel
www.theguardian.com
February 16, 2026 at 6:22 AM
French prosecutors to set up special team to review Epstein files www.theguardian.com/world/2026/f...
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Dr Jeremy Walker details the “enormous war chest” of Advance & lists funders inc Gina Rinehart, James Packer, IPA board, Woodside’s Charles Goode & “the priv foundation of Jillian Segal” - who pay Advance to “flood social media with aggressive Far Right disinformation”🔥 #auspol
February 16, 2026 at 4:38 AM
Dr Jeremy Walker details the “enormous war chest” of Advance & lists funders inc Gina Rinehart, James Packer, IPA board, Woodside’s Charles Goode & “the priv foundation of Jillian Segal” - who pay Advance to “flood social media with aggressive Far Right disinformation”🔥 #auspol
First kākāpō chick in four years hatches on Valentine's Day! 😍😍😍
I am beside myself with excitement at this news!
www.doc.govt.nz/news/media-r...
I am beside myself with excitement at this news!
www.doc.govt.nz/news/media-r...
First kākāpō chick in four years hatches on Valentine's Day
The first kākāpō chick of the breeding season has hatched on Pukenui Anchor Island.
www.doc.govt.nz
February 16, 2026 at 6:22 AM
First kākāpō chick in four years hatches on Valentine's Day! 😍😍😍
I am beside myself with excitement at this news!
www.doc.govt.nz/news/media-r...
I am beside myself with excitement at this news!
www.doc.govt.nz/news/media-r...
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February 12, 2026 at 5:25 PM
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The candidate for US Senate endorsed by Gov. Brian Kemp didn’t vote for 20 years, including the 2016 & 2020 presidential elections. apnews.com/article/dere...
February 16, 2026 at 12:48 AM
The candidate for US Senate endorsed by Gov. Brian Kemp didn’t vote for 20 years, including the 2016 & 2020 presidential elections. apnews.com/article/dere...
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The higher house prices go as a multiple of median income, the more likely there is a massive market correct correction.
The Government will end up paying for it because the major banks make most of their profits from mortgages and it guarantees bank deposits. #auspol
The Government will end up paying for it because the major banks make most of their profits from mortgages and it guarantees bank deposits. #auspol
February 15, 2026 at 8:56 PM
The higher house prices go as a multiple of median income, the more likely there is a massive market correct correction.
The Government will end up paying for it because the major banks make most of their profits from mortgages and it guarantees bank deposits. #auspol
The Government will end up paying for it because the major banks make most of their profits from mortgages and it guarantees bank deposits. #auspol
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This is hands-down the best thing I’ve read on Epstein‘s worldview and those of his fellow tech, finance, and academic elite. It’s a rough read, but at least every paragraph is a banger. 🔥🔥🔥😭
The billionaires' eugenics project: how Epstein infiltrated Harvard, muzzled the humanities and preached master-race science
Edge - Jeffrey Epstein's favourite intellectual salon - was sold to me as a gathering of the world's finest minds, writes Virginia Heffernan. The files reveal it was something far darker: a decades-lo...
www.thenerve.news
February 15, 2026 at 1:36 PM
This is hands-down the best thing I’ve read on Epstein‘s worldview and those of his fellow tech, finance, and academic elite. It’s a rough read, but at least every paragraph is a banger. 🔥🔥🔥😭
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Epstein & Co HATE humanities:
“It offered intellectually insecure reactionaries a pass. Without opening a book they could dismiss all of feminism, postcolonial & queer studies...& devote their brains instead to the race science & rape apologetics that now pass for scholarship on edgelord podcasts.”
“It offered intellectually insecure reactionaries a pass. Without opening a book they could dismiss all of feminism, postcolonial & queer studies...& devote their brains instead to the race science & rape apologetics that now pass for scholarship on edgelord podcasts.”
February 15, 2026 at 2:31 PM
Epstein & Co HATE humanities:
“It offered intellectually insecure reactionaries a pass. Without opening a book they could dismiss all of feminism, postcolonial & queer studies...& devote their brains instead to the race science & rape apologetics that now pass for scholarship on edgelord podcasts.”
“It offered intellectually insecure reactionaries a pass. Without opening a book they could dismiss all of feminism, postcolonial & queer studies...& devote their brains instead to the race science & rape apologetics that now pass for scholarship on edgelord podcasts.”
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So very sad to see the resurgence of racism in Britain.
The little englanders need reminding that the 'Spirit of the Blitz' they're all so nostalgic for was *anti-fascist*.
Most Brits are sound, decent people, and I really hope this is just a passing phase.
The little englanders need reminding that the 'Spirit of the Blitz' they're all so nostalgic for was *anti-fascist*.
Most Brits are sound, decent people, and I really hope this is just a passing phase.
February 15, 2026 at 6:32 PM
So very sad to see the resurgence of racism in Britain.
The little englanders need reminding that the 'Spirit of the Blitz' they're all so nostalgic for was *anti-fascist*.
Most Brits are sound, decent people, and I really hope this is just a passing phase.
The little englanders need reminding that the 'Spirit of the Blitz' they're all so nostalgic for was *anti-fascist*.
Most Brits are sound, decent people, and I really hope this is just a passing phase.
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"Israel says" is not journalism, @australia.theguardian.com.
And you know it's not journalism. #GazaGenocide #GazaHolocaust
And you know it's not journalism. #GazaGenocide #GazaHolocaust
February 15, 2026 at 4:54 PM
"Israel says" is not journalism, @australia.theguardian.com.
And you know it's not journalism. #GazaGenocide #GazaHolocaust
And you know it's not journalism. #GazaGenocide #GazaHolocaust
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Farage has said he wants to throw the NHS to corporate vultures. The UK won’t get that back. How could they be so reckless 🤯
February 15, 2026 at 8:55 PM
Farage has said he wants to throw the NHS to corporate vultures. The UK won’t get that back. How could they be so reckless 🤯
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🔴 BREAKING | Israeli PM Netanyahu, who is facing an arrest warrant from the ICC, said he has handed the U.S. pres. five “necessary conditions” for any future deal w/ Iran. He is demanding:
1. All enriched uranium removed from Iran’s territory.
2. Removal or destruction of all uranium enrichment...
1. All enriched uranium removed from Iran’s territory.
2. Removal or destruction of all uranium enrichment...
February 15, 2026 at 8:38 PM
🔴 BREAKING | Israeli PM Netanyahu, who is facing an arrest warrant from the ICC, said he has handed the U.S. pres. five “necessary conditions” for any future deal w/ Iran. He is demanding:
1. All enriched uranium removed from Iran’s territory.
2. Removal or destruction of all uranium enrichment...
1. All enriched uranium removed from Iran’s territory.
2. Removal or destruction of all uranium enrichment...
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One thing about the Republican destruction of academia is their shallow vision of what should replace it. They don't want anything like academics, scholarship, or research to exist, they want it to be nothing more than right-wing pundits spouting off whatever lazy nonsense is needed that week.
Devastated to learn that Univ of Texas at Austin is closing the American Studies dept. The years I spent there earning my PhD were formative, making me the teacher, thinker, and writer I am today. I've passed on what I learned at UT to thousands of students over the past 20 years. Just awful.
February 15, 2026 at 8:26 PM
One thing about the Republican destruction of academia is their shallow vision of what should replace it. They don't want anything like academics, scholarship, or research to exist, they want it to be nothing more than right-wing pundits spouting off whatever lazy nonsense is needed that week.
You can always count on VicPol’s racism if nothing else 🤷♀️
February 15, 2026 at 8:54 PM
You can always count on VicPol’s racism if nothing else 🤷♀️
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In the middle of a once-in-a-generation attack on academia and the humanities by the right in the US, as people are losing funding and jobs, and we don't even know if our disciplines will make it out alive, Tyler Austin Harper decides that it was time to attack the Mellon Foundation.
hey cool man while you were deep in research or whatever you might want to catch up on some other stuff that has happened in the world in the past year
February 15, 2026 at 8:34 PM
In the middle of a once-in-a-generation attack on academia and the humanities by the right in the US, as people are losing funding and jobs, and we don't even know if our disciplines will make it out alive, Tyler Austin Harper decides that it was time to attack the Mellon Foundation.
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Mere words are totally inadequate. Israelis will probably demand his release.
The West’s greatest moral failure this century? Its support for and complicity with the racist sadistic fascist genocidal ethnic cleansing apartheid Israeli government. We give them $ & bombs to murder babies. BDS Now!
The West’s greatest moral failure this century? Its support for and complicity with the racist sadistic fascist genocidal ethnic cleansing apartheid Israeli government. We give them $ & bombs to murder babies. BDS Now!
February 15, 2026 at 8:38 PM
Mere words are totally inadequate. Israelis will probably demand his release.
The West’s greatest moral failure this century? Its support for and complicity with the racist sadistic fascist genocidal ethnic cleansing apartheid Israeli government. We give them $ & bombs to murder babies. BDS Now!
The West’s greatest moral failure this century? Its support for and complicity with the racist sadistic fascist genocidal ethnic cleansing apartheid Israeli government. We give them $ & bombs to murder babies. BDS Now!
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(also it's why antisemitism isn't really that distinct from other bigotries, contra many claims to the contrary. hatred directed at Black people, women, lgbt people who gain some status works much the same.)
February 15, 2026 at 8:42 PM
(also it's why antisemitism isn't really that distinct from other bigotries, contra many claims to the contrary. hatred directed at Black people, women, lgbt people who gain some status works much the same.)
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fascism is about resentment of those with power, but the key is it's resentment of those who *supposedly don't deserve power*. That's the crossover with antisemitism; it's not that Jewish people are esp rich, but that Jewish people deserve no status or power. (Merchant of Venice is pretty clear here
February 15, 2026 at 8:41 PM
fascism is about resentment of those with power, but the key is it's resentment of those who *supposedly don't deserve power*. That's the crossover with antisemitism; it's not that Jewish people are esp rich, but that Jewish people deserve no status or power. (Merchant of Venice is pretty clear here
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yeah. this is the problem with left wing populist analysis. AOC hits this less hard than Sanders in general, but it's still inaccurate.
far right doesn't care about wealth inequality. they are upset that "elites"—ie marginalized people—are gaining status and supposedly ruling over them. 1
far right doesn't care about wealth inequality. they are upset that "elites"—ie marginalized people—are gaining status and supposedly ruling over them. 1
That is not what right-wing populists say! They blame various out groups for lots of things, but "wealth inequality" is not one of them because they don't care about that, it is not what's driving them, and it is not what they are claiming to solve. That's your issue. People can have other concerns.
We can't fall into right-wing populism’s lie that the most vulnerable in society are to blame for wealth inequality in our countries. We need to build movements that tell the truth: the story of wealth inequality is not a cultural one, but a class one.
February 15, 2026 at 8:36 PM
yeah. this is the problem with left wing populist analysis. AOC hits this less hard than Sanders in general, but it's still inaccurate.
far right doesn't care about wealth inequality. they are upset that "elites"—ie marginalized people—are gaining status and supposedly ruling over them. 1
far right doesn't care about wealth inequality. they are upset that "elites"—ie marginalized people—are gaining status and supposedly ruling over them. 1
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Reading his piece next to this one published the same day really gives you a sense of who he’s aligning himself with
The billionaires' eugenics project: how Epstein infiltrated Harvard, muzzled the humanities and preached master-race science
Edge - Jeffrey Epstein's favourite intellectual salon - was sold to me as a gathering of the world's finest minds, writes Virginia Heffernan. The files reveal it was something far darker: a decades-lo...
www.thenerve.news
February 15, 2026 at 8:41 PM
Reading his piece next to this one published the same day really gives you a sense of who he’s aligning himself with
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The story of the Canada/Denmark Whiskey war of 2022.
And also the story of how a small group of Canadian soldiers stopped the Soviet tanks at the Denmark border and secured the freedom of the Danish people.
Allies.
substack.com/home/post/p-...
And also the story of how a small group of Canadian soldiers stopped the Soviet tanks at the Denmark border and secured the freedom of the Danish people.
Allies.
substack.com/home/post/p-...
How Canada and Denmark "Fought" the Whiskey War
It has been so inspiring to see Canada standing with the people of Greenland and Denmark.
substack.com
February 15, 2026 at 7:14 PM
The story of the Canada/Denmark Whiskey war of 2022.
And also the story of how a small group of Canadian soldiers stopped the Soviet tanks at the Denmark border and secured the freedom of the Danish people.
Allies.
substack.com/home/post/p-...
And also the story of how a small group of Canadian soldiers stopped the Soviet tanks at the Denmark border and secured the freedom of the Danish people.
Allies.
substack.com/home/post/p-...
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This really makes me think of that afternoon in my adviser's office as he reeled off fellowships he'd gotten during grad school and we looked them up to see if I could apply and they didn't exist anymore.
hey cool man while you were deep in research or whatever you might want to catch up on some other stuff that has happened in the world in the past year
February 15, 2026 at 8:40 PM
This really makes me think of that afternoon in my adviser's office as he reeled off fellowships he'd gotten during grad school and we looked them up to see if I could apply and they didn't exist anymore.