masako fukui @masakofukuisydney.bsky.social · 20/09/2026zeteo.com/p/noura-erak...zeteo.comNoura Erakat On Why She Was Arrested for Protesting Israeli Bond InvestmentsThe Human rights lawyer is joined by the executive director of the Internationalist Law Center to shed light on the largest government investor in Israeli bonds. 001
masako fukui @masakofukuisydney.bsky.social · 09/09/2026Vale Gloria Steinen www.newyorker.com/culture/essa...newyorker.comGloria Steinem Gave It AllEmma Watson remembers Gloria Steinem, who understood that you may spend your whole life walking toward a world you will never enter, but that does not relieve you of the obligation to walk. 000
masako fukui @masakofukuisydney.bsky.social · 10/08/2026www.abc.net.au/news/2026-08...abc.net.auHow a simple request for AI to book a gym class exposed a major threatWhen Andrew asked his AI personal assistant to book him a spot in a gym class, he had no idea he would accidentally initiate an autonomous cyber attack. 000
Reposted by masako fukuiPolitico @politico.com · 29/07/2026BREAKING: Former Covid czar Anthony Fauci invoked his Fifth Amendment right at the Senate hearing on the pandemic.politico.comFauci takes the FifthThe former Covid czar was at a Senate hearing at which Sen. Rand Paul pressed him on his handling of the pandemic. 12476189982
masako fukui @masakofukuisydney.bsky.social · 20/07/2026Explore this gift article from The New York Times. You can read it for free without a subscription. www.nytimes.com/2026/07/19/o...nytimes.comOpinion | A Billion Eyes. One Shared Experience. (Gift Article)The number of people who attend the World Cup is nothing compared with the sheer world-buckling biomass of those who experience it on a screen. 000
Reposted by masako fukuiPearls and Irritations @johnmenadue.com · 20/07/2026AUKUS avoids the short-term need for domestic refuelling infrastructure, but it backloads major decommissioning, dismantling and waste-disposal risks onto future Australia, Peter Briggs writes in the second of a two-part series. #auspol #AUKUS #Nuclearpearlsandirritations.comAUKUS leaves Australia with the long nuclear goodbye – part twoIn the second of a two-part series, Peter Briggs examines the decommissioning, dismantling and waste-disposal risks Australia will inherit from AUKUS reactors. 02113
Reposted by masako fukuiPearls and Irritations @johnmenadue.com · 08/07/2026Australia and New Zealand rightly criticise China’s nuclear-capable missile tests in the Pacific. Their silence on repeated US tests exposes a glaring double standard, Jeremy Rose writes. #auspol #Pacific #NuclearWeaponspearlsandirritations.comThe hypersonic hypocrisy of Pacific nuclear politicsAustralia and New Zealand rightly criticise China’s nuclear-capable missile tests in the Pacific. Their silence on repeated US tests exposes a glaring double standard. 1209
masako fukui @masakofukuisydney.bsky.social · 06/07/2026'After years of explosive expansion, U.S. growth for Spotify and TikTok have shown signs of slowing, likely because of market saturation.' 'The revolution has been won—the audience is in charge. And what the audience wants to do, at mass scale, is scroll.' www.theatlantic.com/culture/2026...theatlantic.comHow Lizzo Became One of Pop Culture’s Great FlopsThe singer is experiencing a new form of downward mobility—and she’s not alone. 000
masako fukui @masakofukuisydney.bsky.social · 06/07/2026www.politico.com/news/magazin...politico.comHas Trump Changed Democracy Forever? We Asked 11 Historians.Experts on U.S. history look to the past — and the future. 000
Reposted by masako fukuiThe New Yorker @newyorker.com · 05/07/2026The Odyssey has become the most imitated of forms—a model for “The Wizard of Oz” and James Joyce’s one-day Dublin epic, “Ulysses,” alike. Yet the story has troubled filmmakers for decades. Do we need a big movie of the Odyssey at all? newyorkermag.visitlink.me/ow7pThnewyorkermag.visitlink.meWhy the Odyssey Keeps Defeating FilmmakersFull of violence, desire, monsters, and magic, Homer’s epic has tempted directors for decades. Can Christopher Nolan’s new adaptation survive the voyage? 3332
Reposted by masako fukuiPearls and Irritations @johnmenadue.com · 05/07/2026As East of Eden becomes a Netflix series, Steinbeck’s sprawling Californian saga still holds power through its moral ambition, regional depth and slow contest between destiny and choice, Paul Giles writes. #Books #Netflix #Literaturepearlsandirritations.comWhy Steinbeck's East of Eden still stands the test of timeAs East of Eden becomes a Netflix series, Steinbeck’s sprawling Californian saga still holds power through its moral ambition, regional depth and slow contest between destiny and choice. 081
Reposted by masako fukuiThe New York Times @nytimes.com · 05/07/2026The Vatican on Thursday excommunicated the clergy of a breakaway conservative faction of the Roman Catholic Church, as well as any worshipers who do not leave the group.nyti.msVatican Excommunicates Breakaway Group, in Biggest Schism in 156 YearsThe move against the Society of St. Pius X followed its defiance of Pope Leo XIV by consecrating new bishops against his wishes. 1213826
Reposted by masako fukuiProPublica @propublica.org · 05/07/2026We released a trove of disclosure records that detail the finances of more than 1,600 Trump appointees, including former lobbyists, industry executives and at least a dozen officials who declined to identify former clients. Explore the database:projects.propublica.orgExplore Financial Disclosures From President Trump and 1,600 of His Appointees - ProPublicaUse this database to explore potential conflicts of interest for President Donald Trump and his team. The documents disclose positions officials have held outside government, their assets and their de... 18916468
masako fukui @masakofukuisydney.bsky.social · 05/07/2026Interesting article and reporting from ABC Verify www.abc.net.au/news/2026-07...abc.net.auShe claims to be helping children around the world, but is it real?Receiving millions of views online, the Lily Jay Foundation claims to help children across the world. She was even given an award for her work. But what is real and what is AI-generated? ABC NEWS Veri... 000
Reposted by masako fukuiThe New York Times @nytimes.com · 27/06/2026A doctor in the Netherlands assisted in the death of a terminally ill child between between 1 and 12 for the first time, a Dutch minister told lawmakers. The practice has been legal in the country under certain rules since 2024. trib.al/BFD4gZItrib.alThe Netherlands Records Its First Assisted Death of a Child Between 1 and 12Physician-assisted death for terminally ill children in that age group has been allowed in the country since 2024. 7468
Reposted by masako fukuiPearls and Irritations @johnmenadue.com · 27/06/2026The World Cup offers a simple answer to a complicated political debate: a nation is strongest when people with different pasts choose the same future, says Sirwan Barzanji. #auspol #multiculturalismpearlsandirritations.comWhere 'we' begins: the World Cup and multicultural AustraliaThe World Cup offers a simple answer to a complicated political debate: a nation is strongest when people with different pasts choose the same future. 11410
masako fukui @masakofukuisydney.bsky.social · 26/06/2026Took me 2 weeks to read, so disturbing was this article. Kudos to @heidiblake.bsky.social Fine reporting In light of #KarlStefanovic link with Robinson...this article's links with #manosphere men/Trumposphere is seriously frightening www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...newyorker.comAndrew Tate’s Empire of AbuseHow the defining figure of the manosphere built a fortune—and became a political force—by systematically exploiting women. 021
masako fukui @masakofukuisydney.bsky.social · 15/06/2026substack.com/@naomiklein/...substack.comIsrael's Tech Boom & the Economy of GenocideFrancesca Albanese, UN special rapporteur, joins Naomi to discuss calls for her removal and her latest report documenting the 'corporate machinery sustaining Israel’s settler-colonial project.’ 000
masako fukui @masakofukuisydney.bsky.social · 11/06/2026www.nytimes.com/video/us/pol...nytimes.comVideo: How the Epstein Files Paralyzed the Trump White HousePresident Trump’s advisers gathered in secret in the Situation Room without him as they struggled to handle the Epstein files scandal, our reporters Maggie Haberman and Jonathan Swan learned while res... 000
masako fukui @masakofukuisydney.bsky.social · 09/06/2026White House journalists need to defend their colleagues open.substack.com/pub/historyn...open.substack.comWhite House journalists need to defend their colleaguesTrump attacks yet another female correspondent. 000
masako fukui @masakofukuisydney.bsky.social · 31/05/2026Explore this gift article from The New York Times. You can read it for free without a subscription. www.nytimes.com/2026/05/30/w...nytimes.comHow Curry Shops Got Caught in Japan’s Immigration Crackdown 000
Reposted by masako fukuiHamish Sewell @hamish-sewell.bsky.social · 07/05/2026Landscape is hewn with stories. Our stories are hewn into landscape: if we slow down, we'll hear it all around us. www.facebook.com/share/p/1Dqe... 011
Reposted by masako fukuiForbes @forbes.com · 07/05/2026Traders made over $2.6 billion through four suspicious trades made in March and April, according to an ABC News report.forbes.comJustice Department Investigating Suspicious Oil Trades Timed To Trump Iran War Announcements, Report SaysTraders made over $2.6 billion through four suspicious trades made in March and April, according to an ABC News report. 130869456
masako fukui @masakofukuisydney.bsky.social · 07/05/2026Great reporting @theatlantic.com but thoroughly disturbing to read.... www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...theatlantic.comKash Patel’s Personalized Bourbon StashThe FBI director has been leaving an unusual calling card. 000
masako fukui @masakofukuisydney.bsky.social · 07/05/2026This podcast, The Epstein Files is so creepy... theconversation.com/the-epstein-...theconversation.comThe Epstein Files: the AI podcast that sounds like journalism but isn’tThis first fully AI podcast produces a coherent-sounding narrative. But coherence is not the same as sense making, and pattern recognition is not interpretation. 000
masako fukui @masakofukuisydney.bsky.social · 07/05/2026A good read: historyneverended.substack.com/p/my-brush-w...historyneverended.substack.comMy brush with BanksyAnd the BBC’s decision not to disclose his identity. 000
masako fukui @masakofukuisydney.bsky.social · 07/05/2026...'to fetishize vulnerability and to fetishize confession only takes us back to the most reactionary forms of bourgeois subjectivity'... Catherine Liu www.youtube.com/watch?v=CS1N... 020
masako fukui @masakofukuisydney.bsky.social · 07/05/2026This is worth reading: www.lowyinstitute.org/the-interpre...lowyinstitute.orgHow Trump got Iran wrongTo mark the launch of Thomas Wright’s “Inflection Point: Biden, Trump and the Future World Order”, published by the Lowy Institute in conjunction with Penguin Random House Australia, we present this e... 000
Reposted by masako fukuiGuardian US @us.theguardian.com · 05/05/2026"The American political conversation has moved on from abortion," writes @moiradonegan.bsky.social. "But the state-by-state patchwork of women’s rights remains an untenable reality, and the ferocity of the anti-choice movement’s misogyny has not been abated."theguardian.comAbortion pills are saving women’s lives. The right is trying to eliminate them | Moira DoneganThe supreme court has kicked the can down the road after a federal court sought to ban the mailing of mifepristone 631540618
masako fukui @masakofukuisydney.bsky.social · 06/05/2026c.org/hjpN7Xhf8Cc.orgSign the PetitionSave 2SER-FM 000
Reposted by masako fukuimulboyne.bsky.social @mulboyne.bsky.social · 02/05/2026The Tokai region has it's first three foreign bus drivers with specified skills visas. The three Indonesian men are employed by Meitetsu Bus, and were formally introduced at a ceremony in Toyota City. www.chunichi.co.jp/article/1245... 0273
Reposted by masako fukuiProPublica @propublica.org · 03/05/2026WATCH: The DOJ quietly closed 23,000+ criminal cases in the first six months of the second Trump administration, abandoning hundreds of investigations into terrorism, white-collar crime, drugs and other offenses as it shifted resources to pursue immigration cases. Full story: propub.li/4tHp2Wd 6426031619
Reposted by masako fukuiNic McConnell @mcconnell.bsky.social · 02/05/2026A class at my kids’ school put up little statements about the good they want to do in the world and I was over the moon about this one - then I learned they meant to say “teach people in jail” which is also good! 214237324016
masako fukui @masakofukuisydney.bsky.social · 03/05/2026Boost for language education...too little too late? www.smh.com.au/politics/fed...smh.com.auSpeaking the region’s language: Why fluency is our new front lineWith university enrolments in South-East Asian languages in freefall, Labor is investing in the migrant-run weekend schools that have kept these tongues alive. 000
Reposted by masako fukuimulboyne.bsky.social @mulboyne.bsky.social · 22/04/2026Asako Yuzuki has taken the publishing rights for her award-winning novel "Butter" away from Shinchosha, and given them to Kawade Shobo. It's believed this is a response to a discriminatory column published by Shūkan Shinchō last year. www.yomiuri.co.jp/culture/book...yomiuri.co.jp柚木麻子さん、小説「BUTTER」の版権を新潮社から引き揚げ…週刊新潮の差別的コラム問題が背景【読売新聞】 作家の柚木麻子さんは22日、人気小説「BUTTER」の版権を新潮社から引き揚げ、河出書房新社に移すことを、自身のSNSで明らかにした。この措置は、新潮社の「週刊新潮」に昨年、差別的なコラムを掲載されたとして作家仲間であ 13110
Reposted by masako fukuiThe New Yorker @newyorker.com · 20/04/2026“I continue to hope for children’s shows and movies as brilliant as ‘Bluey’ which more closely reflect my daughter’s reality to her,” Jean Garnett writes. www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...newyorker.comThe Pain and Play of Divorce on Kids’ TVA “Sesame Street” writer once said it was easier to write an episode about death than one about divorce. Where are the shows that manage to do it well? 0527
masako fukui @masakofukuisydney.bsky.social · 20/04/2026www.theatlantic.com/culture/2026...theatlantic.comWhat I Saw Inside the Kennedy CenterI spent 10 months working at the institution because I thought I could help protect it. What I observed there is far worse than the public knows. 021
Reposted by masako fukuiGregg Gonsalves @gregggonsalves.bsky.social · 18/04/2026It’s hard to express how important Iris was to ACT UP’s scientific development. She was the catalyst who started it all. Iris Long, Scientific Mentor to AIDS Activists, Dies at 92 www.nytimes.com/2026/04/17/h...nytimes.comIris Long, Scientific Mentor to AIDS Activists, Dies at 92 493431966
masako fukui @masakofukuisydney.bsky.social · 19/04/2026www.theatlantic.com/culture/2026...theatlantic.comWhat I Saw Inside the Kennedy CenterI spent 10 months working at the institution because I thought I could help protect it. What I observed there is far worse than the public knows. 000
masako fukui @masakofukuisydney.bsky.social · 18/04/2026Just heard the Levittown podcast by @bloomberg.com www.bloomberg.com/features/202... Disturbing...but well crafted podcast.bloomberg.comLevittown: A Bloomberg PodcastThe story of how a New York suburb became the epicenter of the global fight against deepfake pornography. Bloomberg, Kaleidoscope and iHeart media present a new podcast, Levittown. 000
Reposted by masako fukuihitpix+ @hitpixplus.com · 05/04/2026An Italian court just told Netflix the price hikes it pushed from 2017 to January 2024 were unlawful, ordered refunds, and said some users could get up to €500 back. Imagine opening the app and finding out the plot twist is consumer protection.  16184921701
Reposted by masako fukuiJohn Bleasdale @www.johnbleasdale.com · 03/04/2026important note. This “freelance journalist” is a wealthy investment banker. His wife did Kate Middleton’s make up. Aside from AI this is also about careless mediocrity being accepted if you move in the right circles. He was reviewing books for fun & even then couldn’t be bothered to do it properly 218056
Reposted by masako fukuiPearls and Irritations @johnmenadue.com · 03/04/2026US allies in the Gulf are discovering that hosting bases brings exposure, not protection. For countries like Australia, the lesson is clear – alignment without control carries real strategic risk, Paul Malone writes. #auspol #ForeignPolicy #AUKUS #Geopoliticsjohnmenadue.comAllies are learning the cost of relying on the USUS alliances are exposing partner nations to conflict without giving them control over decisions. From the Gulf to Australia, the risks of strategic dependence are becoming clearer. 15129
Reposted by masako fukuiThe New York Times @nytimes.com · 03/04/2026Since the U.S. and Israel launched attacks on Iran on Feb. 28, President Trump has made contradictory statements about the U.S.'s strategy for the war. Read more about what Trump said his aims were hours after those attacks and where the war stands now: www.nytimes.com/2026/04/01/u... 6013944
masako fukui @masakofukuisydney.bsky.social · 02/04/2026www.politico.com/news/magazin...politico.comShe 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 Palestinian territories now finds herself in Washington’s crosshairs. 000
Reposted by masako fukuiGremliny Nussboo @emilynussbaum.bsky.social · 01/04/2026Jesse Eisenberg is very funny! If I Made Novelty T-Shirts www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...newyorker.comIf I Made Novelty T-ShirtsEver wondered why “I’m with Stupid”? Let me explain. 1465
Reposted by masako fukuiPolitico @politico.com · 31/03/2026She 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.comShe 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. 11819761073
Reposted by masako fukuiRachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 01/04/2026elegant, important pieces like this -- at WIRED -- show that the glory days of american magazine writing are not behind us: www.wired.com/story/opposi...wired.comOpposing ICE Might Save the Country. It Could Also Ruin Your LifeFor months, lone vibe coder Rafael Concepcion has obsessively built tools to counter the federal immigration crackdown—pivoting as he’s been outmatched. He’s also lost his job and become a target. 12857211569