For my UK friends, what happened in Sydney was not terror-related. Julia Hartley-Brewer should be ashamed of herself for spewing this BS.

As Iran launches drones toward Israel, the WH announces that President Biden will gather in the Situation Room this afternoon with his national security team. Earlier he was briefed by NSA Sullivan & Deputy NSA Finer.

#UPDATE Iran launched drones at Israel directly from its territory Saturday, the Israeli army said, marking a major escalation of the long-running covert war between the regional foes.

This is awful and upsetting. I knew and worked with Margot’s deceased husband, Paul. A man I liked and respected. He would have been devastated by this. He was a firm feminist. abc.net.au/news/2024-04-1…

Utterly heart-breaking and many cross-overs with Jess Hill’s work on the Family Court here.

New from @Fernpub! This books argues that solidarity between unions and community movements is absolutely necessary to make the transition away from fossil fuels a just one. buff.ly/49vpts0

This child’s death from sexual extortion was entirely preventable. As Julie Inman Grant says, the tech sector has “failed to take organised and systemic action”.

smh.com.au/national/nsw/o…

🚨 Huge news: The European Court of Human Rights has ruled that Switzerland's efforts to meet its emission reduction targets have been woefully inadequate.

The ruling is binding and could influence the law in 46 countries, including the UK.
bbc.co.uk/news/science-e…

Your head will hurt from reading the email Seven's Bruce McWilliam fired off to some reporters today, and that's just from the wild illiteracy. smh.com.au/national/bruce…

It is so good to see the stories I was told as a child finally make it out into the world and be recognised for the bravery and resilience they held.

A new essay of mine on the social contract and domestic violence – the state's attempts to limit men's public violence by containing it within the household. Can a new social contract emerge that rejects this brutal bargain?

grantwyeth.com/p/domestic-vio…

If the world is feeling a bit grim, I can highly recommend disappearing into the the wonder that is Andrew Hickey's A History of Rock and Roll in 500 songs podcast. He's only up to 173 but it's absolutely worth starting from the beginning. Great social and musical history

This is one of the most important pieces of reporting since Oct. 7th:

According to Israeli army sources, Israel will kill 20 Palestinian civilians if it means killing a low-level target & it will kill 300 Palestinian civilians for a high value target. 972mag.com/lavender-ai-is…

A fantastic example of a family court judge recognising a father’s coercive control behaviours in the reasons for judgment.

What is the myth of child witness? The myth of the child witness is the primacy of the idea that children are mainly impacted in domestic violence situations by seeing or hearing violence. In reality, this represents a fraction of the way children are harmed by perpetrator's…

The decision by some financial institutions to back away from emission pledges comes at “precisely the moment when we need to be accelerating the transition to renewable power,” Bill McKibben writes. nyer.cm/gEQxFQP

Perspectives.

🚨Absolutely stunning new investigation by Yuval Abraham יובל אברהם of +972 Magazine. TLDR: In Oct, IDF expanded kill lists from 'top commanders' to 'everyone Hamas'—37k ppl.
Via a slap-up AI bot.
And it increased quota of permitted collateral damage from 'zero' to '20' civilians per target.

I have a story in The Atlantic today that I have been thinking about for years.

I've written a lot about shocking discoveries from 23andMe and AncestryDNA tests, but several years ago, I heard about a support group for what might be the most shocking discovery of all.