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

In an Australia first, I used FOI to get the AI chat logs of Australia's top national security bureaucrat. They show how he used Microsoft Copilot to ghostwrite speeches and messages to colleagues. This comes as the government looks to push AI use in the public service. www.crikey.com.au/20...

“Labor sources have told ABC Investigations the prime minister's office has been putting pressure on advocates for gambling reform within the parliamentary Labor party to prevent them from speaking up.” Worth reading Steve Cannane’s analysis today. www.abc.net.au/news/2025-11...

“Over a dozen Labor MPs, including senior figures in the party, have told ABC Investigations they want action on gambling reform.” www.abc.net.au/news/2025-11...

uh i would say it's mildly alarming that the Trump administration is using its sanction powers to compel tech companies into taking its critics offline. First, the ICC's chief investigator says he was blocked from his Microsoft-hosted email after US sanctions. Now, this

#Analysis So what did Busan actually tell us? If we want to understand US-China-Taiwan after Busan, we shouldn't obsess over what was announced. We should stare at what was deliberately unsaid and ask why leaders who talk so loudly at home chose to stay quiet when they were finally face to face.

Google might be killing the open web, completely ruining most media outlets' chances at survival and making sure no one finds our journalism but I gotta say... Chrome's new split tab thing is so useful as an editor

fun fact: Google's AI summary mentions facts only in my article that are behind the paywall. 👍👍👍

Lmao what (from today's Breaker newsletter)

"A world of creativity without craft". www.theatlantic.com/technology/2...

Scoop: The federal government was warned last month that 1 in 3 parents plan to help their kids get around the social media ban. The risk of "non-compliance snowballing and becoming normalised" could "undermine" the ban, the report says, based on polling done in Feb/March www.crikey.com.au/20...

ok i am about to start filing FOI requests

Journalists turn in access badges, exit Pentagon rather than agree to new reporting rules apnews.com/article/pent...

‘My eyes are stinging, but damn it, they’re open’: surviving a 12-hour Twilight marathon in the year 2025

"News sites are the canaries in the coalmine. This is about the biggest change to the web in 20 years, one that will affect how you access information and what you read and watch." www.abc.net.au/news/2025-10...

People are using AI to research topics, answer factual questions, and ask for advice. In essence, they're increasingly using it for tasks that were once the primary domain of search engines and, by extension, news publishers. www.niemanlab.org/2025/10/peop...

"I wish I had told you, before our dinners grew cold, that one day I would speak loudly. Not to wound, but because not speaking would betray everything I was taught to honour. Because for me, love is not blind loyalty – to an ideology, a state or even a community" www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Google is ramping up AI. Here's why that may be bad for news sites: https://www.abc.net.au/news/science/2025-10-08/how-googles-ai-overviews-are-affecting-australian-news-websites/105839588

Scoop: OpenAI has signed its first ever Australia government contract, quietly inking a deal with Treasury amid the ChatGPT-maker's charm offensive on policymakers. This modest contract is an ideal foothold into future, more lucrative deals, according to one firm's analysis. www.crikey.com.au/20...

Hard to figure out sometimes whether submissions were made using AI, but then sometimes they make it fairly easy.

"Dalton’s fourth novel is a wife-guy manifesto, an uxorious fable. It’s bleakly retrograde: women as redeemers; men as awestruck limpets; love as an unyielding grip." www.theguardian.com/books/2025/o...

Wrote about anxiety about the creep of artificial intelligence into the courts and concerns that the use of these tools could erode Australia’s core judicial values

2 bits of new info in my piece: - eSafety Commissioner will say which platforms that it considers in the teen social media ban - Communication Minister has not asked the Privacy Commissioner for advice on what data social media companies may not collect

RIP Chad Profitz (who was deactivated after posting too close to the sun). Will love you 4eva. www.capitalbrief.com/article/meet...

Research shows police regularly perform inadequate rape investigations and fail to test for DNA evidence. That has led lawmakers across the country to extend their statutes of limitations. This hasn’t happened in Massachusetts. 👉 Read more (w/ @wbur.org): www.propublica.org/article/mass...