Standard fare from the most corrupt administration in American history.

With Richard Marles staying in the Defence portfolio ‘it seems unlikely the Defence Dept will face any pressure to end the incompetence and, quite possibly, corruption that marks its management of major procurement processes.’ 👇 #auspol

When two Popes dislike you, it’s a divine sign.

Peace deals: 0 Trade deals: 0

Wearing a bright blue suit, texting, and then sleeping at Pope Francis’s funeral. What an embarrassing mess.

Trump has no idea how to deal with Putin on war and no idea how to deal with Xi on trade. Total clown show.

China is shit posting about manufacturing and supply chains over on TikTok. www.tiktok.com/t/ZP8jAdCeP/

China is giving up all our manufacturing secrets on TikTok. It's been gold.

The propaganda war TikTok is so strong right now since Trump attacked China with tariffs.. videos on Chinese manufacturing, how they make much of what we buy and how American brands they add their logo and up charge us. Videos of their super trains and massive high tech cities & low food prices

Good question. Why DOES Pete Hegseth have a Russian phone number? 🤨

Nothing but Deflection, Evasion, and Inversion. Lying to cover up for your crimes that jeopardized our national security is despicable and irresponsible. Pete Hegseth must resign now.

More from Signal chat 👀🇺🇸

“We are currently clean on OPSEC” is objectively one of the funniest texts you could send in this particular groupchat

Mic drop 👏🏼 "The statements by #Hegseth, #Gabbard, #Ratcliffe, and #Trump [...] have led us to believe that people should see the texts in order to reach their own conclusions." #Signal #GroupChat www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...

Since they were just attack plans and not war plans shared on an unregulated Signal groupchat, it's all good right?

The Atlantic published detailed attack plans shared by Trump advisers in a Signal group chat. Meanwhile, the White House has tasked Elon Musk with investigating an incident in which Trump adviser Waltz accidentally added a journalist to a secret military chatroom.

AUKUS, Trump and independence - how Australia must respond to the USA’s public and petulant global meltdown Hint, it’s not offering tribute and begging for special treatment Bullies smell weakness and right now Canberra is giving off a very strong stink. johnmenadue.com/aukus-trump-...

President Macron humiliated Donald Trump on live television. He shut him up and fact checked him mid sentence. Trump sat there and smiled. #StandWithUkraine

New in PN: Despite the hype, DOGE hasn't found a shred of fraud "With nothing to show for its efforts to find actual fraud, it has become clear that DOGE is the enforcement arm of a Trump administration that has no interest in working with Congress to implement its policy priorities."

The Danish government is limiting parliamentary oversight to speed up arms purchases and creating a multibillion-dollar rearmament fund. The decision to prepare a foundation for rapid rearmament and procurement was made after two threats to Denmark emerged. #Denmark #Europe #NATO #US #Russia

A lone Leopard 2A4 of the Ukrainian 33rd Brigade at the front near Kurakhove obliterated a Russian armored column made up by tanks, BMPs and truck. In some cases you can see how the impacts trigger ammunition inside the Russian vehicles, certainly incinerating the crews inside.

Cancel AUKUS. It compromises our sovereignty. The subs are not going to arrive. There’s no waste solution. It sucks millions from the things we actually need - and can be delivered: essential health, dental, well funded public schools, early childhood education and care.

This is absolutely chilling. He truly is a sociopath.

"Revenues of top European arms companies totalled $133 bn 2023. This was 0.2 per cent more than 2022, the smallest increase in any world region. But: European companies producing complex weapon systems were mostly working on older contracts 2023 and their revenues do not reflect orders influx."

Well, this is officially the stupidest component of Elon Musk's long con that I've seen in, oh, the last 24 hours at least Of all the things that are not going to happen and should not happen and have only been dreamed up for marketing purposes, this is... on the list No person will ever ride this

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Every single story about AUKUS and how bad it is could have been an opportunity to absolutely smash Dutton over how bad the Libs are on defence. Instead Albanese and Marles decided - "Hey that Scott Morrison, he's a sharp guy. We should do what he thought was a good idea"

UK industry is struggling to deliver nuclear reactors for the UK’s submarine fleet. Relying on the UK’s degraded industrial base to deliver key components for #AUKUS subs is a big risk. @albomp.bsky.social’s gift of billions to Rolls Royce won’t be the last. #auspol

To be clear Musk buying TikTok would be an incredible nightmare for democracy

The AUKUS Retirement Fund. Retirees from the U.S. Navy are being given astronomical sums in consultancy fees to divulge wisdom they do not have on junkets Down Under. The price Australia is paying is already savagely burdensome. It may well, in the long run, prove worse. #auspol #AUKUS

We need a balanced industry policy that prioritises manufacturing here. Throwing another $200M at one of billionaire Gina Rinehart’s mines to export processed rocks for foreign value-adding while the Whyalla steelworks withers away shows @albomp.bsky.social’s got the balance wrong. #auspol

TikTok users are pushing back against the looming TikTok ban Sunday by downloading a Chinese app called RedNote, which some users are calling “China’s TikTok.”

This is literally the funniest way the TikTok ban could've played out

Trump doesn’t have even a shred of class or decorum.

China is building at least five new special purpose barges which appear tailor made for amphibious assault. The barges may provide China with a unique way to offload large numbers of tanks directly onto Taiwanese roads. www.navalnews.com/naval-news/2...

pirate 🏴‍☠️ patrol

Can someone please explain why all those commentators and politicians who keep talking about AUKUS being needed to uphold the “rules-based international order” are silent about Trump’s threats to invade Greenland and Panama?

The full article. #AUKUS #auspol

Here’s the modelling results that show that, even in the best #AUKUS scenario, transferring US subs to Australia causes a shortfall in the US Navy from 2032 to 2052. Almost certainly a show stopper. 3/3 #auspol

Yet Richard Marles, drunk on Defence Department Kool-Aid, assures everyone that there’ll be no issues. We’ll be flushing our non-refundable $4.7B to US industry and risking our own national security if we allow this folly to continue. 2/3 #AUKUS #auspol

Under US law, the US Navy can’t transfer #AUKUS subs to Australia unless the President certifies to Congress the transfer “will not degrade the US’s undersea capability”. New Congressional Budget Office modelling shows it will be impossible for a President to do so. 1/3 #auspol

The correlation between distance from Moscow and military aid to Ukraine / #defence spending is quite strong. This and more in my latest for @economist.com on divisions within Europe. www.economist.com/finance-and-...

Taiwan began three days of military drills on Tuesday as concerns rise over potential cuts to the defense budget due to legislative wrangling between the island’s two major political parties.

🇬🇧 The U.K-led Joint Expeditionary Force has set up a tracking system to alert allies if a ship poses a threat to undersea cable infrastructure and to monitor Russia's shadow fleet of tankers. kyivindependent.com/uk-led-coali... #Britain

Cable cutting ship route ....

Defence company Rheinmetall has announced it will supply Ukraine with 180,000 rounds of 35mm 'High Explosive Incendiary with Tracer' ammunition for the Gepard anti-aircraft gun. ukdefencejournal.org.uk/rheinmetall-...

Taiwan Coast Guard Blames Chinese-Owned Ship For Cutting Undersea Communications Cable Taiwan has seen multiple incidents of damage to its underwater infrastructure in recent years, with China widely suspected of being the culprit. www.twz.com/news-feature...

This is a national security issue. It's not that the two men sound exactly alike and have the same opinions and mannerisms—or even that the fake identity often slips and admits to being Elon—it's that Elon's a DoD contractor who abuses drugs, has a fake identity and secretly communicates with Putin.

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