“We must defend our artists wherever we can”. Sarah Henderson - thank you. #730report

We actively are seeking hosts for future Women and the Silent Screen conferences, including WSS 2027! A helpful potential host info sheet & the application form can be found here: www.wfhi.org/about-wss. If you are interested in hosting WSS 2027, please submit a proposal by 𝐍𝐨𝐯𝐞𝐦𝐛𝐞𝐫 𝟏𝟕, 𝟐𝟎𝟐𝟓.

★★★★ "Kim A. Snyder’s vital documentary sounds the alarm over the banning of books in American libraries." - Film Review Daily. www.filmreviewdaily.com/new-reviews/...

“We apologise for any insensitivity or offence caused to the white supremacist community at this time”

Cool cool. So perhaps you'd like to stand in front of a moving vehicle. Or is that kind of science magically settled somehow?

‘More than half of Reform’s donations in 2024 came from people with homes in low-tax jurisdictions or with offshore business interests; 40 per cent came from climate sceptics or investors in fossil fuels.’ @petergeoghegan.bsky.social at the Reform UK conference: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

Care about Australian stories? Want to see your own country and people on screen and have a thriving industry? Consider signing this petition. chng.it/nk9kFbMK7R

A Palestinian medical charity said Tuesday that Israel destroyed its main center in Gaza City after ordering its evacuation. https://to.pbs.org/42a8Lxv

President Donald Trump said he was delivering his speech to the United Nations General Assembly without the use of a working teleprompter. https://to.pbs.org/3IrmSb2

What will the US and Israel do when they can’t blame everything on Hamas? It’s really grotesque listening to a US ambassador deny there is starvation in Gaza and any responsibility by Israel.

Listening to Mike Huckabee’s disapproval of Australia makes me feel proud of my country for not bending the knee to the US. #rnbreakfast

The view from the ground - Dr Aziz. Devastating but essential listening www.abc.net.au/listen/progr...

Sometimes you really have to ask what use politicians are when they demonstrate no moral compass and speak “truth by omission”. #gaza

It’s hard to listen to any politician, even Penny Wong, after listening to an Australian doctor working in Gaza and what she’s witnessing. Economic sanctions and arms embargo now. It’s a genocide. We haven’t done enough. It’s truly shameful. #Gaza

Am I mistaken? Wasn’t #4Corners this week supposed to be about John Lyons’ investigation into the Trump family’s businesses and the presidency? Was it delayed, spiked or put on the back burner because our PM is in New York? @abcnewsbot.bsky.social

I wish Bluesky critics would acknowledge this simple, somewhat horrifying fact

Non-binary, deeply provocative multi-artist from Britain lived a life full of colour and excitement, and held a commitment to her work even after a terminal cancer diagnosis Now available on VoD: dmovies.org/2025/06/09/s...

The true question right now is whether you believe in the moral character of the British public. If you do, you'll want to have the fight with Reform. You'll believe that the public will hate the idea of breaking up families, spying on & deporting people who've worked here for years.

I’m in Vienna right now. A city which went from being the intellectual and cultural capital of the world to a “provincial backwater” (to quote Brian Barry) in a couple of decades due to nationalism, anti-semitism and fascism which drove away the leading scholars and artists it didn’t murder.

Please consider signing — Australian stories by Australian filmmakers we can no longet take for granted. And if we want new generations of makers, action is necessary.

There’s some truth to this

No woman has ever been appointed to lead the United Nations. Not in 80 years. #UN #women #unitednations

When Fox can't ignore it, you know it's bad.

LOST writer-producer Damon Lindelof says he won’t work with Disney unless Kimmel js reinstated. I’m hearing other talent weighing similar pledges.

Thank you @australiainstitute.org.au The arts sector is suffering and so too the independent film and television industry. The streaming quotas never arrived despite the government’s promises and there is less and less $$$ from funding bodies and broadcasters. It’s brutal for us all.

Between this and Kimmel, fascism is really ramping up in the US

We strongly condemn the actions taken by Nexstar and Disney-ABC to pull JIMMY KIMMEL LIVE! off the air.

A must read. I’m a republican not monarchist and King Charles remains Australia’s king but if we have to have one, grateful for Charles.

That's how it's done.

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When America was great…

Why is Matt Canavan given airtime re environment when his family is in the coal mining business? #ABCRN And why are both main parties not asked by journalists about political donations by fossil fuel companies? Labor continues to back the opening of coal mines and gas ventures

Good god I hope so

Record numbers of Americans seeking UK citizenship because of London’s values, says mayor Ahead of Donald Trump’s state visit, Sadiq Khan hit back at US critics of the capital’s crime rates and diverse population www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Google’s defense of AI summaries in search results was robustly challenged by a panel of media leaders at WIRED’s AI Power Summit today. Read more: www.wired.com/story/wired-...

Start your day with Gian Maria Volonté being arrested in 1971 for supporting the workers.

As all artistic women know … pins, needles, sewing, storytelling and editing are connected

Christ alive, this guy. What a four-square copper-bottomed rotter.

Somehow the Death Stare Returned...

What fresh hell is this?

Gerry Howard made the resurrection of this essay possible and we are all the better/wiser for it. www.dissentmagazine.org/online_artic...

When I was 15, a friend gave me the Collected Works of Dorothy Parker. I have it still and the pages are stained and worn… so loved reading this @lrb.co.uk

Duh

Why when mining employees comprise less than 3% of Australian workforce, and have successfully pushed for their mines over the health of the planet, have any influence at all? Now their hiding reports on lead levels in children’s blood

Every girl’s dream

Cough it up fossil fuel and mining companies … oh wait, the “carbon tax” that wasn’t a tax? Killed off by then PM Tony Abbott and Peta Credlin. What a legacy And the Albanese government failing on climate emergency #globalboiling #australiafails

Support for Trump amongst his youngest voters is already collapsing. And, trust me, we’re gonna keep dragging it down. 🫡

As another part of the Trump administration's mass deportation push, immigration enforcement officials have conducted arrests outside courtrooms as people show up for hearings. Here's part of our conversation with a photojournalist who documented arrests at federal facilities in Manhattan.

Why is it that politicians when they are running specific policy lines that echo the PR approach of those who contribute funding to their political parties, are not asked by journalists to declare that #insiders