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@ginarush.bsky.social
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gina rushton @ginarush.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
This week I’m in Maddison Connaughton’s excellent newsletter where people recommend One Good Thing. Honoured to make my OGT debut the week the font changed. Subscribe here: www.maddisonconnaughton.com/one-good-thing 💌
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Nick Evershed!? @nickevershed.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
‘Scary’: how misinformation and AI hallucinations are infiltrating Australia’s parliament - Guardian analysis reveals that dozens of policy submissions from across the political spectrum incorrectly summarise real research and invent or wrongly cite sources www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
theguardian.com
‘Scary’: how misinformation and AI hallucinations are infiltrating Australia’s parliament
Exclusive: Guardian analysis reveals that dozens of policy submissions from across the political spectrum incorrectly summarise real research and invent or wrongly cite sources
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gina rushton @ginarush.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
Great profile of Stephen Mayne and his obsession with battling corporate Australia. Who else would attend 1400 shareholder meetings?! www.afr.com/markets/equi...
afr.com
The ASX’s last gadfly: Inside the frenzied world of Stephen Mayne
He’s picked fights with some of the biggest names in corporate Australia and lives on a brutal 48-hour body clock, but the serial AGM pest will not change his ways.
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ABC News Australia @news.abc.net.au · 30/07/2026
Gaza's babies suffer deadly chickenpox outbreak
abc.net.au
'Her skin is bleeding': Devastating virus wreaks havoc in Gaza
As chickenpox spreads through Gaza's tent camps, the race to contain the virus is made harder by a lack of sanitation, overcrowding and summer heat.
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ABC News Australia @news.abc.net.au · 24/06/2026
Hanson's 'monoculture' own goal should have been a free kick for Taylor
abc.net.au
ANALYSIS: Hanson's Socceroos own goal should have been a free kick for Taylor
Pauline Hanson has chosen one of Australia's most popular national sporting brands and visible expressions of cultural diversity in her pitch for a "monoculture". 
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Soraya Nadia McDonald @soraya.press · 16/06/2026
approximately 7 unregulated tech companies have turned us all into goddamn content sharecroppers
niemanlab.org
News sites are the new newspapers: People are abandoning them for social media
Facebook for news is on the rebound, impartial news isn't dead, and other findings from RISJ's 2026 Digital News Report
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gina rushton @ginarush.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
Interesting! Would love to see the same research in Australia www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/...
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Emily Nussbaum @emilynussbaum.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
Masterful & sickening reporting on the Tate brothers by Heidi Blake: A Web of Abuse www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
newyorker.com
Andrew Tate’s Empire of Abuse
How the defining figure of the manosphere built a fortune—and became a political force—by systematically exploiting women.
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Taffy Brodesser-Akner @taffyakner.bsky.social · 31/05/2026
Woke up this morning wanting to swallow your own tongue? Here, then, I wrote this for you!
nytimes.com
I Profile Celebrities for a Living. Nothing Prepared Me for Tilly Norwood.
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Maya Kaufman @mayakaufman.bsky.social · 09/06/2026
INVESTIGATION: 🚨 A Polymarket exec used a personal PayPal account to pay major political influencers like Riley Gaines and Brian Krassenstein, who then hyped how "accurate" Polymarket is at predicting outcomes. We uncovered $350,000+ flowing to influencers this way www.politico.com/news/2026/06...
politico.com
‘Unbelievable how accurate’: How paid influencers hype Polymarket’s odds
The company’s chief marketing officer, Matthew Modabber, used a personal PayPal account to send money to content creators, according to records reviewed by POLITICO.
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gina rushton @ginarush.bsky.social · 09/06/2026
Great journalism here from Ariel and Nino! www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
theguardian.com
Revealed: the ‘less lethal’ weapons Australian police don’t want you to know about
Launchers that shoot ‘bullet-like missiles’, chemical irritants and stinger grenades: experts say these weapons can cause serious injury or even death. But they are deployed by police against crowds w...
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 02/06/2026
Autopsies show how hard doctors tried to save babies who died after not getting a vitamin K shot: tubes inserted in their airways, blood transfusions. They’re excruciating to read because they underscore how preventable these deaths could have been.
propublica.org
What I Can’t Forget About the Babies Who Died After Not Receiving a Vitamin K Shot
Babies have died after not receiving the vitamin K shot at birth. Their autopsy records underscore how preventable their deaths could have been.
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gina rushton @ginarush.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
I got to interview David Szalay and he was great!
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gina rushton @ginarush.bsky.social · 01/06/2026
I honestly enjoyed the viral 'post-literate society' essay but this piece from James Ley, which interrogates some of the assumptions it was based on, is really worth reading www.themonthly.com.au/may-2026/ess...
themonthly.com.au
Canon fire
The decline of literary studies, and reading in general, is really about a mistrust of intellectual curiosity
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gina rushton @ginarush.bsky.social · 01/06/2026
I sort of blindly accepted programmatic ads as a necessary evil to fund many models of journalism but this is interesting. The American Prospect decided to do away with them and a month later, people are spending nearly twice as much time on the site. www.cjr.org/analysis/dep...
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The American Prospect decided to do away with programmatic ads. A month later, people are spending twice as much time on the site.
The American Prospect decided to do away with programmatic ads. A month later, people are spending nearly twice as much time on the site.
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gina rushton @ginarush.bsky.social · 18/05/2026
This is cool! Journalists from ABC's Parliament House bureau are answering questions about the budget on Reddit rn www.reddit.com/r/australian...
reddit.com
From the australian community on Reddit
Explore this post and more from the australian community
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gina rushton @ginarush.bsky.social · 11/05/2026
Let’s gooooo 🥰
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gina rushton @ginarush.bsky.social · 22/04/2026
A deeply good and deeply curious broadcaster. What a great tragedy and loss. Vale.
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Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 13/04/2026
The Pope is WEAK on crime is so gd funny; I am HOWLING
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Politico @politico.com · 31/03/2026
She spoke out about Gaza. Now she can't use a credit card. The UN investigator for Palestinian territories is facing U.S. sanctions and accused of antisemitism by the State Department.
politico.com
She Spoke Out About Gaza. Now She Can’t Use a Credit Card.
After accusing governments and corporations of complicity in Gaza, the U.N. investigator for Palestine territories now finds herself in Washington’s crosshairs.
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Nolan Void @wolter.bsky.social · 01/04/2026
Oh so now copyright matters.
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404 Media @404media.co · 16/03/2026
A newly published study of how college students interact with chatbots and human strangers showed talking to a random person offers more connection than an LLM.
404media.co
Texting a Random Stranger Better for Loneliness Than Talking to a Chatbot, Study Shows
A newly published study of how college students interact with chatbots and human strangers showed talking to a random person offers more connection than an LLM.
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gina rushton @ginarush.bsky.social · 30/03/2026
Really great update on where the social media ban is at. A lot of insidery bits sprinkled throughout.
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Jacob Bacharach @jacobbacharach.bsky.social · 09/03/2026
A country built on losers: I reviewed two books on sports betting and wrote about gambling, the vile vice that's eating the world, for @newrepublic.com newrepublic.com/article/2073...
newrepublic.com
How Gambling Ate the World
In less than a decade, betting apps swallowed sports. And now they’re doing the same to the news.
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gina rushton @ginarush.bsky.social · 30/03/2026
Really interesting study that found AI use is concentrated in opinion articles (rather than straight news) at top newspapers arxiv.org/pdf/2510.18774
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gina rushton @ginarush.bsky.social · 30/03/2026
Some amazing photos around from the No Kings protests - this one taken near the Metropolitan Detention Center in LA. 📸Credit: Etienne Laurent / AFP / Getty www.theatlantic.com/photography/...
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gina rushton @ginarush.bsky.social · 29/03/2026
Such a useful lecture at this moment in time
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Crikey @crikey.com.au · 26/03/2026
Exclusive | The leadership of the National Anti-Corruption Commission will for the first time be grilled on its work by a major parliamentary inquiry. www.crikey.com.au/2026/03/26/f...
crikey.com.au
First major probe of NACC will allow MPs to 'drag body into the light'
Long-standing gripes about the NACC's lack of public hearings will form part of a parliamentary inquiry into the body.
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gina rushton @ginarush.bsky.social · 25/03/2026
Incredible stuff. Never change Sky News
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Andrew Deck @andrewdeck.bsky.social · 24/03/2026
I took a closer look at the ProPublica union’s vote to strike, including their demand for protection from AI-related layoffs. The vote marks the first time a major U.S. newsroom has authorized a strike, at least in part, over AI protections. www.niemanlab.org/2026/03/prop...
niemanlab.org
ProPublica’s union authorizes the first U.S. newsroom strike over AI protections
The Guild has voted to walk off the job if ProPublica doesn’t agree to a ban on AI-related layoffs, as well as “just cause” for firings, seniority provisions during layoffs, and wage increases.
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Phil Klay @philklay.bsky.social · 22/03/2026
“A veteran of Iraq like Mr. Hegseth should know better. The enemy always gets a vote, and even after a victorious campaign, the effect of war on a population may have complex, unwanted and sometimes catastrophic consequences” I wrote about Iran for @nytimes.com www.nytimes.com/2026/03/22/o...
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Opinion | Trump Has Made a Fundamental Miscalculation about Iran
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gina rushton @ginarush.bsky.social · 23/03/2026
"If Labor merely manages, does it win the short-term while sacrificing the long term, steering the country through one crisis while steering it into another?" www.smh.com.au/politics/fed...
smh.com.au
Only one party can defang One Nation, and it’s not the Libs
The political circumstances for the government are treacherous right now. But that’s why opportunity knocks so loudly for Anthony Albanese.
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gina rushton @ginarush.bsky.social · 23/03/2026
Israeli settlers have carried out a series of attacks across the occupied West Bank, setting homes and vehicles on fire and wounding several Palestinians in what witnesses described as coordinated raids on communities. www.theguardian.com/world/2026/m...
theguardian.com
Israeli settlers carry out series of West Bank attacks as security forces stand by
Witnesses describe coordinated raids in which homes and vehicles were set on fire and several Palestinians injured
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gina rushton @ginarush.bsky.social · 20/03/2026
"What we are seeing right now in Lebanon is a rapidly deteriorating and large-scale humanitarian crisis.” www.sbs.com.au/news/article...
sbs.com.au
'The same tragedy, again and again': At 33, Abbas has been displaced three times
Abbas Ayoub has fled Beirut's Dahiyeh for the third time, as more than a million Lebanese people are forced from their homes.
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Defector @defector.com · 17/03/2026
"Seeing Anderson so full of nerves every time he went on stage really drove home how much the moment meant to him, and just how long he's been waiting for this."
defector.com
Paul Thomas Anderson Finally Gets His Coronation | Defector
There are two surefire ways to win an Oscar as a great director. One is to make a movie that crowns you the undisputed king of Hollywood, conquering the box office and the critics alike—in other…
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gina rushton @ginarush.bsky.social · 17/03/2026
Wired has done such incredible stuff recently!!!
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skipperblues @skipperblues.bsky.social · 17/03/2026
SAM KERR DOING WHAT SHE DOES BEST 😮‍💨
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gina rushton @ginarush.bsky.social · 16/03/2026
Extremely vindicating for everyone on the editorial side of a news company who has ever had to collaborate with the business side to make any kind of decision news.cornell.edu/stories/2026...
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Workers who love ‘synergizing paradigms’ might be bad at their jobs | Cornell Chronicle
Employees who are impressed by vague corporate-speak like “synergistic leadership,” or “growth-hacking paradigms” may struggle with practical decision-making, a new Cornell study into “corporate BS” r...
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ABC News Bot (unofficial) @abcnewsbot.bsky.social · 14/03/2026
BACA members accompany kids to court, stand guard outside their homes, and provide a sense of safety with burly presences and deeply rumbling motorbikes.
abc.net.au
The bikers transforming the lives of abused children, one ride at a time
BACA members accompany kids to court, stand guard outside their homes, and provide a sense of safety with burly presences and deeply rumbling motorbikes.
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gina rushton @ginarush.bsky.social · 11/03/2026
"Are we at war? It's a reasonable question for Australians to ask, given the government is sending one of its most sophisticated reconnaissance planes — crewed by dozens of military personnel — to the Middle East." www.abc.net.au/news/2026-03...
abc.net.au
Is Australia at war? Legally, the answer is yes
It's a reasonable question for Australians to ask given the government is sending a sophisticated reconnaissance plane — crewed by dozens of military personnel — to the Middle East. And legal experts ...
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gina rushton @ginarush.bsky.social · 10/03/2026
please let me ghostwrite your substack
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Jason Koebler @jasonkoebler.bsky.social · 06/03/2026
passive voice final boss grand champion honorable mention award for turning slurs into a sentient thing that can do actions www.nytimes.com/2026/03/05/u...
nytimes.com
Slurs Filled a Chat Created by a Republican Party Official in Florida
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Intelligencer @intelligencer.com · 04/03/2026
Air strikes have never dislodged a regime. And Professor Robert Pape, an expert on the limits of such tactics, argues that such military tactics are more likely to deepen Trump’s Iran problem than solve it.
nymag.com
Why Trump Is About to Lose Control in Iran
Air strikes have never dislodged a regime. And Professor Robert Pape, an expert on the limits of such tactics, argues that such military tactics are more likely to deepen Trump’s Iran problem than solve it.
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gina rushton @ginarush.bsky.social · 03/03/2026
This doco is great - Australians can now catch it on DocPlay www.theguardian.com/film/2026/ma...
theguardian.com
‘Some parents said they’d break my knees’: the teacher who exposed Putin’s primary school propaganda
Grenade-throwing contests replaced PE and ‘denazification’ speeches became homework. Pavel Talankin’s undercover film about his school’s indoctrination drive won a Bafta and is tipped for an Oscar, bu...
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Samuel Ashworth @samuelashworth.bsky.social · 27/02/2026
This is a hell of a piece of writing by Sam Kriss
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Child’s Play, by Sam Kriss
Tech’s new generation and the end of thinking
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Alvin Chang @alv9n.com · 26/02/2026
My latest: Happy map
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Happy map
100,000 moments of human happiness, mapped
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gina rushton @ginarush.bsky.social · 28/02/2026
“Democratic consent is lacking. And once again, there are few defined goals by which to gauge success, and no long-term plan.” www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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A world on edge as Trump bombs Iran and triggers war in the Middle East. There was no need for this | Simon Tisdall
We cannot know where this foolish, reckless attack will end – but new hatreds will be seeded, terrorist vendettas sown and, ultimately, little will be achieved, says Guardian foreign affairs commentat...
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