16-year-old Gout Gout running a mind-blowing, blistering 200m in the Australian All-Schools Athletics Championships. 20.04!!!!! Australian record. Beats Peter Norman's 20.06 in 1968. Usain Bolt's best run at the same age was only 20.13

DOGE is a fake government agency designed to provide flimsy "innovative efficiency" cover to corrupt robber barons as they dismantle federal corporate oversight and sell the country for scrap off the back loading dock any politicians or journalists helping the performance should be laughed at

Ugh FINE I'll show up to work "sober" to lead the department of defense. YES without "sexually assaulting" everyone, christ anything else?

For future use.

A thing everyone has forgotten is that Donald Trump basically sprang Roger Stone from prison so he could help with the coup and it was maybe a one day story.

I have reached the stage of life where I’m super excited about a new fridge…

Patel, whom the Department of Justice declined to prosecute in order to gain his testimony in a case they eventually also dropped, is now in line to run the entire FBI. The entire Trump administration is lining up to be people Merrick Garland should have prosecuted, but didn't.

There is no “could”

Whose what?

Just insane that the left treated the tech industry with increasing hostility just because they undermined organized labor, flouted the regulatory state, and bragged that they were going to get rid of everybody's jobs for a decade straight.

The most horrendous, harmful stuff I've seen on social media this year has been the countless atrocities carried out by Israel and supported by its Western allies, like us. I would have opted for more pressure to end that, instead of just banning the ability for kids to become aware of the horror.

Well this is the best thing I’ve read in a while.

Passing far-ranging laws without any idea how they will be enforced, kicking the can down the road and saying "we'll figure it out later, should be fine" - good thing that approach has never backfired before or had unintended consequences!! www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

anyother genuine question: treason is a defined crime. if Vindman lives in a per se state, does he have a defamation claim?

Elon Musk's SpaceX and Amazon are trying to claim that a crucial agency is unconstitutional — and it could deal a major blow to workers' rights

Can’t decide what’s more embarrassing, this or Drake suing Kendrick

Trump announces plan to trash the USA economy.

Wow that’s a tough one

i think the part of all this that's been so hard to accept and has been so emotionally devastating is that even the ability to pretend that this country's ideas of equal protection and that "no one is above the law" are real is impossible because they're being refuted by our institutions

I think I would die if I got name dropped in the Simpsons

This really is quite extraordinary. Dreyfus should have grabbed him on the way out of the committee room and sacked him on the spot. But then Dreyfus was the one who thought him a great pick.

“Bluesky is an echo chamber,” he posted on Truth Social.

Whoops!

Oh, is Bluesky an echo chamber? Really? Are we missing out on the valuable contributions to human knowledge from people who post links to YouTube conspiracy videos and give their very important thoughts on White Birth Rates? Wow, that's really sad. I'm so sad about that.

I suspect that some annoyed pundits are insistent in claiming Bluesky is a progressive bubble not because, as they believe, it’s hyper-partisan, but because for them, subconsciously, the remarkably civil tone of the platform feels coded as progressive. And that says quite a lot about their outlook.

Maybe I’m a sick weirdo and the only one who thinks this but I love the #NBA in-season tournament courts. They’re insane but endearing. I enjoyed most of them last year too.

Are we calling them skeets now? 😅

Trump’s election represents the triumph of normal Americans (a South African billionaire who does nothing but post all day) over unaccountable elites (a mid-level functionary in the EPA office of water enforcement with $25,000 in student loans)

A dozen years later and it’s still just as funny. That second replay always cracks me up.

I listened to this whole chat. It was excellent, you should too.

Harassment, racism, and engagement farming are not “a difference of opinion.” Had a chance to talk about BlueSky on Pablo’s pod—and why the echo chamber argument mischaracterizes what’s actually going on. 📺: youtu.be/DFBlec2Exrw?...

LONDON (AP) — A civil jury in Ireland finds that mixed martial arts fighter Conor McGregor sexually assaulted a woman in a hotel.

Trump's new pick for AG, Pam Bondi, was a registered lobbyist for the government of Qatar

an overlooked aspect of all these “bluesky is an echo chamber” pieces is that the writers bizarrely think that the only reason people use social media is to talk about politics, which is true only for a subset of users

Oh, word?

Yes! For 5+ years, especially 2017-20, Twitter was centered around Trump as main character. Professional media covered his tweets as news. The idea that it was ever biased against him and his supporters is absurd. If anything, it was biased towards him, making special exemptions to universal rules.

so the claim here is that it is illegal for private companies to collectively decide how to use their advertising dollars?

They really did not even look around the corner let alone over the horizon on this. smdh

It is staggering that this seismic policy was launched without even the most basic questions of how it would be implemented being discussed internally by the Labor Party.

It would be such a quintessentially Australian own goal for our biggest policy failure (housing) to undermine the political viability of our biggest policy success (mass immigration)

My man RC looks like he should be flipping a coin to determine Batman's fate

Bloke head kicks his opponent after a game of Pickleball. Bloody hell. Some absolute psychos out there.

Hi friends! I just wanted to give a quick update on The Onion’s purchase of InfoWars, which we can’t wait to relaunch as the dumbest website on the internet. The long and short of it: We won the auction and — you're not going to believe this — the previous InfoWars folks aren't taking it well.

tonight in a nutshell

Everyone involved in that Jake Paul versus Mike Tyson bout should be ashamed. Paul got $62m AUD for it. Tyson got $31m AUD. Stealing your money. Bunch of marks. #boxing #tysonPaul

The House Ethics Committee completed an investigation into Trump’s nominee to run the Justice Department — an investigation that reportedly looked at criminal behavior including sex with a minor — and Mike Johnson wants to hide the report from the country. A *massive* red flag.

This sucks… both visually and morally