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What if Australia were Ukraine? Trump and Putin prove our strategy to trust the US is a roll of the dice Ukraine

What if Australia were Ukraine? Trump and Putin prove our strategy to trust the US is a roll of the dice

Australia’s geographical isolation makes it hard to come up with an exact parallel, but let’s put ourselves in the shoes of Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy watching the Putin-Trump meeting on the weekend unfold. A major power launches an assault on Australia or Australian interests that we are ill-matched to contest, makes…
bubmag
August 18, 2025
TikTok Implements Hashtag Limit TikTok

TikTok Implements Hashtag Limit

If you post to TikTok regularly, you may have seen this notification pop-up over the last few weeks. Yes, as per this example from user @justgee92, some users are now being told that TikTok has instituted a five hashtag limit on posts, restricting the amount of topic tags that you…
bubmag
August 18, 2025
‘Mothers are sobbing’: Jacqui Lambie calls for UN to send peacekeepers to Gaza with aid NATO

‘Mothers are sobbing’: Jacqui Lambie calls for UN to send peacekeepers to Gaza with aid

Senator Jacqui Lambie has said "immediate relief" is needed in Gaza and that the United Nations should send peacekeepers to the region, as concerns grow over reports of starvation and malnutrition. The UN is reporting that thousands of families are enduring "appalling" humanitarian conditions and has estimated that 600 trucks…
bubmag
August 18, 2025
Could you do nothing for 90 minutes? In South Korea, it’s a sport. Space Debris

Could you do nothing for 90 minutes? In South Korea, it’s a sport.

Byung-jin Park, a 36-year-old entrepreneur and indie punk musician from Seoul, understands the power of doing nothing. In May, he and his bandmates outlasted 100 competitors to win South Korea’s 2025 Space-Out Competition, an annual event where participants are judged on their ability to remain calm and motionless for 90…
bubmag
August 18, 2025
TIL: In 1857 a book analyzed census data to demonstrate that free states had better rates of economic growth than slave states & argued the economic prospects of poor Southern whites would improve if the South abolished slavery. Southern states reacted by Slavery Abolition

TIL: In 1857 a book analyzed census data to demonstrate that free states had better rates of economic growth than slave states & argued the economic prospects of poor Southern whites would improve if the South abolished slavery. Southern states reacted by

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bubmag
August 18, 2025
“President applauded the criminal”: Dominik Hašek blasts U.S. for honoring a war criminal as Donald Trump rolls out red carpet for Vladimir Putin Putin

“President applauded the criminal”: Dominik Hašek blasts U.S. for honoring a war criminal as Donald Trump rolls out red carpet for Vladimir Putin

Dominik Hašek has condemned the Alaska summit between Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin (Getty Images) Former NHL goaltender Dominik Hašek, one of the most outspoken critics of Russia’s war in Ukraine, has ignited debate once again — this time over the high-profile Alaska summit between U.S. President Donald Trump and…
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August 18, 2025