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• Post #3274119

  https://open.substack.com/pub/thinkbigpicture/p/trump-authoritarianism-stalled-tide-turning?r=5df98&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=false A free post from a great Substack writer on how the state of play isn’t going well for the regime

• Post #3274118

  "Unless you're a full blood Indigenous Australian, and there's precious few of them left, you've got migrant blood in your veins. "So we are an immigration country. People who want to rail against it are railing against the core, the essence of who we are." Good for her. Vanstone is dead right to shut down this wanna be MAGA. https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-09-25/andrew-hastie-warned-of-division-amanda-vanstone/105817288?utm_source=abc_news_...

• Post #3274117

  https://substack.com/home/post/p-174618749 Our district will not back away from doing what we know is right. So good. Showing prestigious universities up for their cowardice.

• Post #3274116

  @michaelhobbes.bsky.social@bsky.brid.gy snort-inducing. Thanks 🤣

• Post #3274115

  Portugal is so pretty. Just had a fleeting holiday there and will definitely return. And the tarts! ❤️😄

• Post #3274114

  My recent review up at Newtown Review of Books—https://newtownreviewofbooks.com.au/jennette-mccurdy-im-glad-my-mom-died-reviewed-by-jessica-stewart/

• Post #3274113

  https://theconversation.com/why-do-we-think-hard-work-is-virtuous-max-webers-protestant-ethic-gives-a-sharp-answer-257826 Nicely written piece. This took me years of therapy to undo! ‘The result is not just what sociologists – also following Weber – call “disenchantment”, but a deeper void. It is a world where suffering no longer automatically invites compassion and where love begins to look like inefficiency.’

• Post #3274108

  Drinking in Trapido. And I have so many more of hers to read. I love finding new writers like this. Such joy. Not one of the books quite throws at Dinah, as Pride and Prejudice does, how dialogue can lift and dance on points, how sentences can shine and crackle with a concentrated energy and a sharp crystal intelligence. So listening to Miss Barnes read it is like falling in love. It’s like walking on air. It fills Dinah’s mind with a new kind of music. Language is all the music she’s never le...

• Post #3274103

  Wow https://substack.com/@thedreydossier/note/c-174354867?r=5df98&utm_medium=ios&utm_source=notes-share-action

• Post #3274099

  https://www.patreon.com/posts/144925940?utm_campaign=postshare_fan

• Post #3274098

  My latest review, I’m Glad My Mom Died, by Hollywood child star, Jennette McCurdy, is up now at Newtown Review of Books. This one took hold of me in strange ways. Memoir is not my favourite genre and I’d never heard of McCurdy but she writes powerfully and in the voice of the small child, betrayed by the one she loves and trusts the most. It is compelling from the start, where the title lets us know she frees herself, to the end, where we find out how and when and what came next. And laugh-out-...