How The New York Times uses a custom AI tool to track the “manosphere” www.niemanlab.org/2026/02/how-...

At least one Meta employee thinks it's a good time to add facial recognition technology to glasses because we're too distracted by fascism to effectively protest www.nytimes.com/2026/02/13/t...

Some children in Dilley were so distraught they cut themselves or talked about suicide, parents told ProPublica. They said kids lost their appetites after finding worms and mold on their food, had trouble sleeping, and were constantly sick.

A new video obtained by ABC NEWS Verify shows the full minute leading up to a man in a white business shirt being punched several times by NSW Police at Monday night’s protest against Israeli President Isaac Herzog. www.abc.net.au/news/2026-02...

every single day

Really nuts how many men were like "Me Too went too far, and I need to email Jeffrey Epstein about it."

🔥 scoop 🔥 from @keanebernard.bsky.social: travelled overseas? your biometric data + potentially everything from your Medicare card to your drivers licence is being handed to US agencies like ICE

i don't know if i've ever seen a chotining where chotiner gives up in the middle and goes "ok buddy. here's your petard." www.newyorker.com/culture/q-an...

"Writing this piece is a losing game. In order to criticize the Free Press’ failures, I have to do something they refuse to do with so many of the subjects they write about: I have to be interested in them." open.substack.com/pub/internet...

The White House posted a digitally altered image of a woman who was arrested on Thursday in a case touted by the US attorney general, Pam Bondi, to make it seem as if she was dramatically crying, a Guardian analysis of the image has found. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

The head of Trump DOJ's Civil Rights Division boosts prediction markets placing 36% odds she'll be able to prosecute Don Lemon for his journalism, after a federal magistrate judge found no probable cause of a crime.

ICE detained a 5-year-old Minnesota boy coming home from school + took him and his dad to Texas, school officials say. The family has an active asylum case + entered the US at a port of entry. "They’re taking children. They're not violent criminals. They're little kids," the superintendent told me.

oh it's going to be a Recession recession

BREAKING: We've found 40+ cases of agents using banned chokeholds & other moves that can cut off breathing People have had seizures. They passed out. “I felt like I was going to die” said 16-yr-old citizen Admin won't say whether any agents have been punished www.propublica.org/article/vide...

Federal Liberals are discovering the price of having been so brazen in their politicisation of the Bondi terror attack and many appear to have buyers' remorse. Analysis from Clare Armstrong: www.abc.net.au/news/2026-01...

As the internet shutdown in Iran endures, FP has taken a look at how this latest bout of technological repression stacks up against other bans domestically and globally.

The man cops overlooked in Eloise Worledge disappearance: https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-01-14/eloise-worledge-disappearance-alistair-webster-beaumaris/106221614

Louise Adler has now quit as director of Adelaide Writers’ Week. She says 180 writers have now withdrawn from the 2026 festival (the 2025 festival had 231 writers on its program) www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Has anyone tried Eyeball? Or any good alternatives to Pocket?

It's wild that they (I assume) thought this would be a better outcome than a hyperbolic article in The Australian if they hadn't cancelled her.

Fifty years after schoolgirl Eloise Worledge disappeared, could new leads solve one of Australia’s most haunting cold cases? Read Maddison Connaughton's long read: www.abc.net.au/news/2026-01...

"For years, this is what our authoritarianism has looked like: not autocratic socialism, but the worst kind of primitive capitalism. In Venezuela, we have long faced a brutal paradox: an absent yet omnipotent state. It is everywhere and nowhere." www.nytimes.com/2026/01/04/o...

What should you be watching in 2026? Here's what the ABC's foreign correspondents think: www.abc.net.au/news/2026-01... And our political journalists: www.abc.net.au/news/2026-01... And our economics writers: www.abc.net.au/news/2026-01...

Great article by Gina Rustin in @abcnewsbot.bsky.social and one of the best I have seen distilling the issues and effects of pregnancy criminalization. Really glad I got to speak with Gina and to be part of this group of people telling their stories and their fights. www.abc.net.au/news/2025-12...

I declined to participate in this but I'm thrilled my recent long read is recommended in here! You can read it here: www.abc.net.au/news/2025-12...

Bari Weiss, CBS’s new editor in chief, faces widespread blowback across the media for pulling a “60 Minutes” segment she argues was not ready for publication, while a top journalist at the network contends the decision was based on political pressure and capitulation to the Trump administration.

As Sydney marks one week since the antisemitic Bondi attack, the Jewish community is grappling with the question of where to go from here.

Takes time to verify these things and find out, which @donnadlu.bsky.social did. www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

“All three women encountered by the Colorado hospital staff were reluctant to take their monitors off, fearing that doing so would trigger an alert to ICE or BI Inc, the staff said, even if removing the device was deemed medically necessary.” www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

Incredible episode with Perry Duffin, best crime reporter in the country, recounting arriving on the scene at the Bondi massacre after his friend was shot. www.abc.net.au/listen/progr...

"Yes, the population has increased at the same time but there is now a larger number of guns in the community per capita than in the aftermath of Port Arthur, with at least 2,000 new firearms lawfully entering the community every week." www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

Missed this story but v concerning. "The instructional document, circulated among the state’s leading barristers and obtained by this masthead, provides advice on the best time to apply for a gag order and exactly what to ask psychiatrists to include in reports."

We are horrified and shaken in the wake of the mass shooting at a Chanukah event in Bondi this evening, which has left at least ten people dead and injured many more. This is the first night of Chanukah when we gather with loved ones and friends to light the Chanukiah. 1/4

'This was a wanted pregnancy': The mothers facing prosecution in Trump's America: https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-12-07/pregnancy-criminalisation-abortion-fetal-personhood-miscarriage/106097546

Favourite list every year! www.bloomberg.com/features/202...

Incredible. Pro-teen social media ban group 36 Months was selling sponsorship to a United Nations event run by the Australian government with the promise of “influence” and “access” to heads of states, according to a leaked document. www.crikey.com.au/2025/12/11/3...

A lot to be anxious about but to confirm my own biases... I agree scoops are in/explainers are out. The prediction that sports media "gets tougher on gambling" doesn't stick in Australia but will be keen to see what happens in the US in the wake of the NBA scandal www.niemanlab.org/collection/p...

From the very first thought bubble, @cameronwilson.bsky.social has interrogated the government’s teen social media ban policy — here’s how, and why he hopes it works www.crikey.com.au/2025/12/10/c...

I don’t even know what to say about this. It’s just staggering www.abc.net.au/news/2025-12...

ICYMI: such a great story. Best tech reporter in the country by a mile!

The Prime Minister credited 36 Months for convincing him to ban teens from social media. This group accused experts who opposed the ban of being 'bought' by big tech. Meanwhile, it was lining up brand deals, eyeing global expansion & developing an AI tool to track students www.crikey.com.au/20...

"Comment after comment from members of the C-suite around the world (and even a best-selling author on the subject of workplace burnout) berated me for my leadership style and my apparently insufficient knowledge of Italian-American actors." www.capitalbrief.com/article/i-bu...

“How dead did I need to be?” America’s war on pregnant women — a must read by @ginarush.bsky.social www.abc.net.au/news/2025-12...

Good morning! Read my story.

“What are you competing at?” I ask. “Is there a way to be good at this?” “No,” says Paul. “Well . . .” says the Expert, who does seem like an expert. www.nplusonemag.com/issue-51/ess...

The findings are significant not just because of how much the trial reduced domestic violence, but because only a few years ago it drew fierce criticism from women's advocates and politicians.

X's location "transparency" feature showing many MAGA accounts are based internationally reveals what we already knew: The world is using American social media and American politics as a slot machine and social media companies are directly incentivizing this: www.404media.co/americas-pol...

China's escalating confrontation with Japan is colliding directly with its attempt to join one of the world's most demanding trade agreements.

Siale noooo