Hegseth to packed briefing room: Operation Glorious Destiny was successfully completed at 0500 this morning by an elite squadron from Smol Bean Company

Other Presidents at least made attempts to manufacture consent before their wars. Trump’s innovation is to just get to bombing and leave it to The Unitary Dipshit to ‘yes and’ some post hoc shit about why actually this war is a good war actually

In the lead up to their very stupid and infinitely illegal war with Venezuela it’s shocking how much the American manufacturing consent industry has declined

Was ‘Colonel’ Harland Sanders really a Colonel? No, not in a military sense. ‘Colonel’ is a title bestowed by the Commonwealth of Kentucky on noteworthy citizens of the state. Sanders’ highest military rank was Generalleutnant of the 4th Panzer-Division

The pub chat consensus on AI seems to be that yeah okay it doesn’t work like it’s supposed to yet but we should be helping it get better so that one day, fingers crossed, it might be good enough to take our jobs

‘Six-seven’ is actually a reference to Scott Boland’s brilliant Boxing Day spell at the MCG in 2021

You’ll never guess how the IDF decided to talk about killing these two kids, 8 and 11 years old, in its official statement

From: [email protected] To: [email protected] Subject: Re:re:re:re:funny! it was just the Never give You Up song ?!

This is some story. After Andrew Bolt announced he was leaving Melbourne "for good" due to his Covid tantrum etc, the taxpayer-owned NBN Co arranged a special high-speed internet connection for Sky News at his Mornington pad so he could broadcast his bile from home...

OOoh you think I’m a Nazi? (Steepling fingers) Ahaha. Well you see, I’m actually a fucking idiot

Trump calls out Kirk ‘skill issue’

Van Jones repeats “dead Gaza baby” as a punch line. New York Times columnistThomas Friedman laughs along.

This is so British (derogatory)

Deeply unserious party

“Counting or not counting gang violence?”

The Vessel has been prepared

The FBI is preparing to label transgender people as “violent extremists” in the wake of Charlie Kirk’s murder: www.kenklippenstein.com/p/fbi-readie...

Most salient: - JBay - Superbank - Trestles - Padang - Skeleton Bay

BREAKING: At least 25 Palestinians have been killed in Israeli attacks across Gaza since dawn, medical sources have told our colleagues. 🔴 LIVE updates: aje.io/4176es

The President has ordered all flags to have their features concentrated into the centre

Odds for topics Trump brings up during his rambling 92min speech at Charlie Kirk’s funeral: - How well his tariffs are working ($1.21) - Ilhan Omar’s marriage ($1.90) - The 1993 film ‘Sliver’ ($1.87) - How he’s a better shot than the shooter ($1.10) - Charlie Kirk ($4.50)

“No cap for real?”

Incredible clip of tech CEOs fawning over Donald Trump. Someone store this clip in the underground archive vault

The Environment Minister has approved a coal mine extension overnight – the first of the new Parliament. This is a decision that will lock Australia into providing coal for decades, and put threatened wildlife at risk. This is not climate action. This is a climate crime.

If there’s one good thing social media has given us, it’s the collective understanding that rich guys are just as dumb or maybe dumber than the next person you sit beside on a bus

Some people already starting to refer to a "Liberal/Green coalition" on account of the Greens stating they will not support Labor's proposed motion. To put it mildly this is incorrect. I'll put it less mildly if it persists beyond the next few days. #politas

You are, in the next few months, going to see a few pro-AI people who start trying to morph into "thoughtful cynics" on the issue, and I can't wait, because I've been taking such detailed notes

We live in hell now, sorry if you just found out

Glencore, a company that's expanding a massive coal mine in Queensland, Australia, is going to destroy a massive amount of koala habitat - and plans to buy 'koala offsets' to claim they've undone that damage www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

The more we hear from the extremely wealthy, the more we realise they’re just like us, but dumber

Free Palestine protest across Sydney Harbour bridge. 50,000 maybe? more walking in the rain.

MORNING AUSTRALIA I found a fun and frightful little chart buried in the government's own data, revealing that even they expect domestic gas consumption to never return to its glory days THE GAS SHORTAGE IS A BIG LIE USED TO JUSTIFY EASING APPROVALS = SUBSIDIES FOR HUGE NEW FF PROJECTS

Gaza: More than 30 people killed 'as Israeli troops open fire towards Palestinians waiting for aid'

When liberals say leftists need to abandon ‘purity tests’ and vote for a shitty centrist, they’re saying millions of people should change their values so a single politician doesn’t have to think about theirs

when you, years out from an election, say "i will vote for that triangulating shitbag throwing minorities under the bus because they'll still be better than the other guy" you need to understand that the triangulating shitbag is Watching You: "they'll still vote for me! no need to change course!"

Gosh, good thing our supposedly left-wing government didn’t create a special position in public life expressly for this person as part of its big push for ‘social cohesion’. That would have been pretty daft.

it’s insane that real antisemitism like this is intensely normalized and endorsed by the most powerful people in the world but you can’t say free palestine without people trying to ruin your life

I met the Compare the Market meerkats at a work function thing once. The accents are fake

Israel is a genocide state

The people whose job it is to do something refuse to do anything www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Israel has taken Greta Thunberg. www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

They were always on-again, off-again. One was on ketamine, one got off on Epstein’s island

Lot of people think this is all very funny. But remember: it is

There's "a false perception that Labor values the environment movement & its endorsement. In reality, Labor only wants to neutralise it. [..] They want to be able to name-drop supportive organisations in press conferences, but they’re far less willing to adopt those same groups’ policy proposals"

2024 set a grim record for tropical forest loss, with Bolivia losing 1.5M hectares, a 200% surge and Brazil clearing 6,288 km² of Amazon, largely due to fires set for soy, cattle, and sugarcane production. Climate-driven droughts also turned these fires into megafires, fueling a cycle of destruction

There's a reason Advance was well funded by rich mining corps to make sure the Greens didn't keep their seats in parliament

Leftists must vote for centre-left politicians, and are culpable for any election outcomes if they don’t. But centre-left politicians cannot appeal to the left in order to win elections, as doing so would compromise their values (being fucking useless)