Connections Puzzle #945 🟦🟩🟦🟦 🟦🟦🟦🟦 🟪🟪🟪🟪 🟨🟨🟨🟨 🟩🟩🟩🟩 A rare pleasant surprise

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Statement from @australiainstitute.org.au on Adelaide Festival.

Looks like ICE is now cracking down on … Native Americans. This letter was just posted by the chairman of the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe in North/South Dakota: “Our Nation is a sovereign government and our members are not immigrants. We are not subject to immigration enforcement on our own lands.”

rare to see an american politician speak in these terms and it rocks

Any writer’s festival that would let politicians dictate who is allowed to speak isn’t an event worth associating with

Please support the Sikh Volunteers...

"Face masks ‘inadequate’ and should be swapped for respirators, WHO is advised" "Experts are urging guideline changes on what health professionals should wear to protect against flu-like illnesses including Covid"

There is no moral equivalence between bullies and the bullied, between tyranny and democracy, or between brutality and decency. No individual can be free in a society devoid of justice. There can be no liberty where brutality reigns.

For those who have forgotten the past 40 years: Tax cuts for the rich ...don’t trickle down Boosting military spending ...doesn’t bring peace Slashing regulations ...doesn’t create jobs Folks, we’ve seen this all before.

Chilling comparison.

On day 8 of our Administration, @governor.ny.gov and I announced the beginning of universal childcare in NYC. No longer will New Yorkers be forced to choose between starting a family and continuing to live in the city they love. This only happened because of you.

11. Dennis Goris

9. Dave Whamond

Political cartoonists are not fuckin’ around this week. (thread) 1. Pat Bagley

2. Michael de Adder

Due to almost every writer withdrawing from the Adelaide Writers Festival, the Zionist Board has decided to rebrand the event 'Drawing Festival' and invites applicants. #auspol

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Love it!

For the record as I am being asked, I made a personal decision as an author to send this to my friend Louise Adler earlier today. #Adelaidewritersweek

Statement: Jewish Council Condemns Adelaide Festival Removal of Dr. Randa Abdel-Fattah

Connections Puzzle #943 🟪🟪🟪🟪 🟦🟦🟦🟦 🟨🟩🟩🟩 🟨🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟨🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟨🟨🟨🟨 Well, this is a first - figured them out in reverse 😯

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As a former Director of Adelaide Writers' Week I am appalled that the Adelaide Festival Board has rescinded Dr Randa Abdel-Fattah's invitation to the 2026 AWW, explicitly linking its decision to the shattering crimes in Bondi. A shocking decision that will and should have far-reaching consequences.

AOC: What we saw today was a criminal murder a woman while she was trying to flee for her life. What we saw today was a manifestation of every American’s worst nightmare: their government turning into a tyranny.

Grass roots. My @smh cartoon.

Naoufal Lahlali

There is currently an enormous protest in the streets of Minneapolis in response to the murder there today by the American Gestapo, ICE. I take some comfort in this.

Oh no! Not accountability for Trump, not that!

Mask up, kittens! 😷

Trump says he will force Venezuela to hand over millions of barrels of sanctioned oil, which the U.S. will sell off under his control. Hello? This is naked extortion of a sovereign country. It’s far past time for Congress to grow a spine and rein in our tinpot dictator.

This glib statement is all the more risible when you recall how many law enforcement officers used their vehicles as weapons against protesters in 2020... and how many Republican-dominated states *sought to legalize killing protesters with vehicles* as a reaction to the demonstrations

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see, the thing is, I need to read the whole document otherwise I am not doing my job properly you freaks

Long COVID is best described as a cluster of overlapping symptoms rather than one single condition, according to a review of 64 studies from 20 countries covering 2.4 million people. Fatigue was most common, often alongside muscle and joint pain, cognitive symptoms, or shortness of breath.

"Government by organized money is just as dangerous as Government by organized mob." —FDR, 1936

Best of 2025: The Trump administration has yet to clarify its policy for the relationship with China. China is now truly integrated into the global economy. Be very afraid, but not of China. #auspol #usPol

A new study suggests babies exposed to COVID in the womb may have impacts on brain development, cognition, and emotional health. Researchers found brain changes and a higher risk of delays, with 52% at high risk by age 2 compared with 14% of children born before the pandemic.

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Oligarchy (noun): A government of and by a few at the top, who exercise power for their own benefit. Their power and wealth increase as they make laws that favor themselves, manipulate financial markets, and create monopolies that put more wealth into their pockets.

Another way too long post about the season of surprises during my very quick trip back to Australia. I'm exhausted. Keeping secrets is hard work! rick-morton.ghost.io/surprise-so-...

Victorian Weekly Respiratory Surveillance Report: 26 Dec 2025 From 14 Dec to 20 Dec 2025: 🔸COVID positivity rate: 3.2% (+0.1%) 🔹COVID: 493 (Stable) 🔹Influenza A: 1,970 (-12%) 🔹Influenza B: 27 (-31%) 🔹RSV: 161 (-6%) Source: www.health.vic.gov.au/infectious-d...

Let’s be clear: When it comes to Venezuela’s giant oil reserves, America’s oil companies will be making money for themselves. During the 2024 campaign they made a deal with Trump on which they’re still cashing in. Everything is for sale.

Professor Paul Griffin says Australia’s new CDC will be ready for the next pandemic. Ready for the next pandemic? We’re still in an ongoing COVID pandemic. Source: www.dailymotion.com/video/x9wu3au

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Truth

Okay incredible news: MOST of the workers everywhere I went today, including two trendy sneaker stores, were masked up!