This is the Botany bomb threat

'The chances of a violent settler being brought to justice under Israeli law...are extremely low: since 2005, only 3 percent of Israeli police files opened regarding settler violence ended in conviction.' 972mag.com/pogroms-west-b…

What Sebag said.

Like clockwork 😔

In this week's playlist - Lena Horne & Neil Young with Tom Verlaine & Little Simz, sg & Gwen Guthrie with Stevie Nicks+Don Henley, Paul Weller & Shangri-Las with Straightjacket Fits & Caroline Polachek, The Chicks & Elvis Costello with Yeah Yeah Yeahs & Moondog.
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Cripes the CIS going full in on nukes, and wow, what a prize guest speaker. A real expert!

i think beyonce might get her fashion inspiration from betty white: thread

Does politics turn ordinary people into awful people or does it attract awful people in the first place?

This week we are all Brighton & Hove Albion (and a bit Chelsea).

this album is more than twice as long, so Midnights has more swears per minute, but preliminary analysis suggests the TTPD swears are higher intensity #dataviz

AP wrote a riddle for you because it can’t say “Israel killed a Palestinian mother” in the headline - you need to make your own conclusion instead

Language can help us see things as if for the first time. When it fails, though, the problem does not really lie with language but with us.

This week's column - on language, violence and voices not heard.

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Don’t worry if I’m lonesome cause I’m used to that. #morningpop #mondayvinyl #buckowens #theessentialbuckowens

New week, new playlist! Topped/tailed by Francis Albert Sinatra, with yung gra$$hopper 🦗❤️‍🔥 & Lana Del Rey, melanie horsnell & Max Raabe, TV On The Radio & Jess Ribeiro, The Walker Brothers & Shelby Lynne, Caribou & Charm of Finches, Arab Strap & Dugites.
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'Every single resources minister in Coalition and Labor governments since 2001 has gone to work in the fossil fuel sector' - australiainstitute.org.au/post/removing-…

This idea that racism is always hate filled & sounds destructive.
No; it can often sound “nice”-even anti racist.
Cultural blindness for eg is the most dangerous form of racism-“I don’t see colour”; “I treat everyone the same”: “Stop ‘dividing us by race”; “We are all Australians

I opened my Melbourne record shop in 1992. The first time somebody came in and said 'vinyl's making a comeback, y'know' was probably 1994, thirty years ago. I've been hearing it ever since and my patience and capacity for politeness are wearing thin.

It’s a bit rich for Phil Coorey and Samantha Maiden to claim the Fin Review and the Murdoch press are bound by rules and decency😂
Don’t they read their own publications?
#Insiders

Interesting newspaper story framing, describing Sydney’s “affluent east” & “multicultural west” as its twin poles. Presumably the former is a monoculture (wait til they see the shore!) & the latter principally poor.

Falling on my head like a new emotion. #morningpop #sundayvinyl #eurythmics #touch