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Australian public lawyer/sociologist. Earthlover. Democracy lover. AUS/US focus. Culture, change, politics, history, law—the bits & how they fit together. #Dylanista #Janeite #Cricket fiend. Life is not theoretical. Personal acct. 🌏 Sydney, Australia

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Indrani B. 🕯🌸🌷🐧🐻‍❄️🐈🌿🇺🇦 @theotherindrani.bsky.social · Nov 18

This is a photo of me, aged 4, at Monash University during the tea break (hence no bails on the stumps). My dad was playing in the match and took and developed the photo. (He also gave me my first camera for my 4th birthday)

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Jess Calarco @jessicacalarco.com · 1h

UPDATE: Following the firing of the director of the student newspaper, Indiana University has now cut the print edition of the newspaper entirely.

www.idsnews.com/article/2025...

Indiana University cuts IDS print entirely, hours after firing student media director
By IDS staff
Oct 15, 2025 1:23 pm · Updated Oct 15, 2025 1:23 pm

IU previously directed the Indiana Daily Student to stop printing news coverage in our newspaper. Upon pushback, the university fully cut print, including our special editions. The IDS was not involved in the decision.

Media School Dean David Tolchinsky sent the order to IDS leadership in an email responding to its appeal that the school not censor the newspaper. And the dean attributed the decision to “the campus.” He has not yet responded to a message for clarification.

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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 1h

Breaking News: Brown University became the second college to reject a White House deal offering preferential treatment for federal grants.

Brown University Rejects White House Deal for Special Treatment

Brown was the second university to turn down the deal, which would have given a funding preference to universities that agreed to certain requirements.

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Indrani B. 🕯🌸🌷🐧🐻‍❄️🐈🌿🇺🇦 @theotherindrani.bsky.social · 17h

The High Court's summary. #auspol

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Bolts @boltsmag.org · 23h

Pennsylvania Supreme Court justices up for retention this fall are adapting to a challenge neither they nor their peers in the state have had to face for decades: how to run a political campaign while insisting they’re not politicians.

Inside the Clunky Elections to Control Pennsylvania’s Supreme Court

The GOP is making an expensive push to end Democrats’ majority on a court at the center of election lawsuits, sparking a fledging campaign season with little precedent or template.

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Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie @audrelawdamercy.bsky.social · 1d

“While we are bound by United States Supreme Court precedent, we are not bound to stay silent as to the underlying racism and prejudices that are woven into the very fabric of those opinions,” said Sal Mungia, a Washington Supreme Court justice

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A Washington State Supreme Court Justice Condemns Federal Indian Law as Racist and Awful

"Each time a court cites a case that has as its foundation such racist fallacies, it is incumbent on us to call out that racism, even if just in a footnote."

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Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie @audrelawdamercy.bsky.social · 1d

wrote about last week's super interesting tribal sovereignty decision in Washington Supreme Court

one justice wrote a standalone concurrence basically saying 'the court applied the law correctly, but also the law is terrible and it's our responsibility to say so'
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A Washington State Supreme Court Justice Condemns Federal Indian Law as Racist and Awful

"Each time a court cites a case that has as its foundation such racist fallacies, it is incumbent on us to call out that racism, even if just in a footnote."

ballsandstrikes.org

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WIRED @wired.com · 1d

The malicious app required to make a “Pixnapping” attack work requires no permissions. www.wired.com/story/a-new-...

A New Attack Lets Hackers Steal 2-Factor Authentication Codes From Android Phones

The malicious app required to make a “Pixnapping” attack work requires no permissions.

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Scott Nover @scottnover.bsky.social · 1d

"The Supreme Court rejected a bid by conspiracy theorist and Infowars founder Alex Jones to set aside the historic $1.4 billion jury verdict against him for defaming families of victims of the Sandy Hook Elementary mass killing." www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

Supreme Court rejects Alex Jones’s bid to set aside $1.4 billion verdict

The Supreme Court rejected a bid by conspiracy theorist and Infowars founder Alex Jones to set aside the historic $1.4 billion jury verdict against him for defaming families of victims of the Sandy Ho...

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Scott Nover @scottnover.bsky.social · 1d

Here's an updated list of who has signed and who is refusing to sign the Pentagon's press policy. www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...

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Indrani B. 🕯🌸🌷🐧🐻‍❄️🐈🌿🇺🇦 @theotherindrani.bsky.social · 1d

Must be read to be believed. @politico.com names names: "The 2,900 pages of chats, shared among a dozen millennial and Gen Z Republicans between early January and mid-August. Many of the chat members already work inside government or party politics, and one serves as a state senator." #MAGA #GOP

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Brennan Center @brennancenter.org · 1d

The Trump administration is engaging in an unprecedented strategy to undermine elections. From rolling back the federal role in protecting the electoral process to threatening local election officials, our new interactive timeline is tracking it all: bit.ly/3IZMSdG

Timeline of the Trump Administration’s Efforts to Undermine Elections

Together, these actions form a concerted strategy to interfere with elections.

www.brennancenter.org

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Ted Mann @whereisted.bsky.social · 1d

“This is essentially despotism as a service.”

Clara Jeffery @clarajeffery.bsky.social · 1d

1/Stop everything and read/watch/bookmark this massive investigation between @motherjones.com @lighthousereports.com Le Monde, Der Spiegel, Paper Trail Media a vast global surveillance empire used to target politicians, journalists, tech CEOs, and... Jared Leto.
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The surveillance empire that tracked world leaders, a Vatican enemy, and maybe you

We uncovered a massive data trove. It revealed the hidden world of First Wap, whose untraceable tech has targeted politicians, journalists, celebrities, and activists around the globe.

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Bailey McCann @baileymcc.bsky.social · 1d

These people are not going to magically become normal if they lose an election

Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 1d

POLITICO: “.. They referred to Black people as monkeys and ‘the watermelon people’ and mused about putting their political opponents in gas chambers. They talked about raping their enemies .. and lauded Republicans who they believed support slavery.

@politico.com
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Seth Cotlar @sethcotlar.bsky.social · 1d

This dynamic of Young Republicans staking out positions far to the right of older, more "normie" Republicans has been a feature of the US conservative movement since the 1960s. Over time those further right elements just got incorporated into the mainstream. bsky.app/profile/seth...

Seth Cotlar @sethcotlar.bsky.social · Mar 11

In 1966 the New Jersey Young Republicans had a habit of singing racist and antisemitic songs at their gatherings. The lyrics to one went “Riding the Reich in my Mercedes Benz, shooting every kike, saving all my friends." Hartford Courant, 13 February 1966.

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Indrani B. 🕯🌸🌷🐧🐻‍❄️🐈🌿🇺🇦 @theotherindrani.bsky.social · 1d

As his extra-judicial killings have been endorsed by the 2025 @nobelprize.bsky.social Peace Prize recipient, he's clearly doing God's work?

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Trump announces another strike "just off the Coast of Venezuela" that killed 6 people

Under my Standing Authorities as Commander-in-Chief, this morning, the Secretary of War, ordered a lethal kinetic strike on a vessel affiliated with a Designated Terrorist Organization (DTO) conducting narcotrafficking in the USSOUTHCOM area of responsibility — just off the Coast of Venezuela. Intelligence confirmed the vessel was trafficking narcotics, was associated with illicit narcoterrorist networks, and was transiting along a known DTO route. The strike was conducted in International Waters, and six male narcoterrorists aboard the vessel were killed in the strike. No U.S. Forces were harmed. Thank you for your attention to this matter!!!!!!

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Brennan Center @brennancenter.org · 1d

Trump pushed out the federal prosecutor who refused to bring charges against James Comey, then installed someone who would. Former U.S. Attorney Joyce Vance details how the Comey indictment reflects the flawed process that produced it. bit.ly/46TyPOR

Comey Indictment Shows Danger of Subservient Prosecutors

The political prosecution of a presidential enemy has left the government with a seemingly unwinnable case — and a justice system tainted by politics.

www.brennancenter.org

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Mediaite @mediaite.com · 1d

Fox News to Join Other Networks in Rejecting Pete Hegseth’s Pentagon Media ‘Pledge’: Report

Major television networks, including Hegseth’s former employer Fox News, are expected to release a joint statement rejecting media access "pledge." The post Fox News to Join Other Networks in Rejecting Pete Hegseth’s Pentagon Media ‘Pledge’: Report first appeared on Mediaite.

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b 🌻 @historynerd19.bsky.social · 1d

So musk is now paying for Robinson and the Tate brothers defenses.

Aurelien Mondon @aurelmondon.bsky.social · 1d

It must be so hard to be a member of the censored left behind rebels, only getting constant coverage and the support of the wealthiest people on earth...

www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

Tommy Robinson says Elon Musk is paying his legal costs as trial begins

Far-right activist is accused of refusing to comply with counter-terrorism police request at Channel tunnel

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ProPublica @propublica.org · 1d

NEW: Despite falling crime rates, leaders at a nonprofit argued Dallas was descending into anarchy to sell voters on increasing police.

Some residents now fear the push could be used as a playbook for other cities.

A Year Before Trump’s Crime Rhetoric, Dallas Voted to Increase Police. The City Is Wrestling With the Consequences.

Leaders at Dallas HERO argued the city was descending into anarchy despite falling violent crime rates. Residents, including some law enforcement officials and at least one prominent Trump supporter, fear the push could be used as a playbook.

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The Associated Press @apnews.com · 1d

A Republican attack on a core provision of the Voting Rights Act that is designed to protect racial minorities comes to the Supreme Court this week, more than a decade after the justices knocked out another pillar of the 60-year-old law.

Supreme Court takes up Republican attack on Voting Rights Act in case over Black representation

A Republican attack on a core provision of the Voting Rights Act that's designed to protect racial minorities comes to the Supreme Court this week, more than a decade after the justices knocked out another pillar of the 60-year-old law.

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Shipwreck @shipwreck75.bsky.social · 2d

WHCA Joint Statement on Press Restrictions at the Pentagon

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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 1d

If you put your ear against the Capitol, you can hear the sound of a man who will do nothing to challenge—and anything to justify—presidential violations of the Constitution, as long as the president is of his own party. www.thebulwark.com/p/speaker-mi...

The Speaker of the House Is Abetting Authoritarianism

Every Trump needs his Johnson: a flunky who will rationalize his crimes.

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Eliot Higgins @eliothiggins.bsky.social · 1d

US news outlets refuse to sign new Pentagon rules to report only official information www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

US news outlets refuse to sign new Pentagon rules to report only official information

Defense department policy requires outlets to vow not to obtain unauthorized files and restricts access to some areas

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 1d

The entire incident is infuriating and terrifying. She’s a Latina woman who was working a service job. On her way home late at night, with her headphones in, she was detained for an hour by masked federal agents who wouldn’t give her their names.

Maria Greeley, 44, had just finished working a double shift at the Beach Bar on Ohio Street
earlier this month when she said she was surrounded by three federal agents who grabbed her, forced her hands behind her back and zip tied her.
Headphones in, Greeley had been focused on getting home to her two dogs for a walk.
Instead, she said she was detained by masked agents who did not answer when she asked for names. They questioned her for an hour, she said.

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Indrani B. 🕯🌸🌷🐧🐻‍❄️🐈🌿🇺🇦 @theotherindrani.bsky.social · 1d

Will be interesting to see if Fox/News Ltd signs.

Molly Jong-Fast @mollyjongfast.bsky.social · 1d

Solidarity is the only way