Good examination of the most bizarre and embarrassing event in the US’ current Age of Bizarre and Embarrassing.

Dear mutuals and followers: I am an atheist no more. (Thank you for your attention to this matter)

Upside Down World. Hedge fund trader gets $100m. Most people struggle to make ends meet. Speculators who gamble with other people's money, produce nothing, get mega rewards. Profits are privatized. Failing banks are bailed out. Govts punish people for failed gambles. archive.ph/vNVDB

UK inflation is caused by profiteering Since the pandemic electricity generation companies hiked profit margins by 198%. Electricity/Gas supply margins up 363%. Shipping up by 650 times. Health and social work up by 118%. People impoverished. Can't rebuild economy without ending profiteering.

Disabled Post Office Horizon scandal victim offered 15% of compensation claim Due to the illegal conviction for fraud she lost her home, served time in prison. No end to the misery. Why penny pinching? No culprit charged, forced to pay any compensation to victims.

Since privatization, shareholders of water, rail, bus, energy and mail have received £200bn in dividends. Plus £bns more through intrgragroup transactions. In public ownership this would have gone into infrastructure and lower bills, alleviated poverty. Govts still don't curb profiteering.

These bloody New Zealanders, interfering in our politics ... 😡

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This bastard is back in the news again ... www.abc.net.au/news/2025-07...

“[Common Wealth’s] report shows that privatisation has been one of the key drivers of the cost-of-living crisis & growing inequality.” — @zackpolanski.bsky.social 🔗👇

And yous all thought they were just a myth, eh ? www.abc.net.au/news/2025-09...

A councillor referred to business owners who have to suffer from having rough sleepers out the front of their shops as “the dark side” of homelessness 🙃 (Pretty sure the dark side of homelessness is sleeping rough, not being petty bourgeois)

And the Americans voted him in (or almost in) three times! And they have (or should have) known what he was like, for DECADES. As have many of us in the rest of the world. Shame, America, shame. 😡

'Trump-licking billionaire fills private lake in Wiltshire with tanker water while hosepipe bans leave households parched Furious locals brand it “one rule for them, another for us” as convoys of tankers drain supplies' www.ourfairfuture.org/p/trump-lick...

This is from 35 years ago. R.Crumb on Donald Trump. (If you look around, you can find the whole thing online) It's been obvious what trump is, for DECADES. Shame, America, shame.

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Thank you. Solidarity with everyone tilting at banks, Centrelink, ATO, Super companies etc for bewildered elderly folk. Unless you get to speak to a real person, you're cactus. The real people are almost always lovely & helpful but out of reach behind an AI labyrinth phone system unfit for purpose.

Australian Tax Office, the third circle of hell. Call centre won't recognise option numbers pressed, says to go to Live Chat and hangs up. Live Chat AI can't recognise the problem, and tells me to ring the call centre. An infuriating fiasco.

The nuns got their revenge on me too when I came first in 5th class. They gave me this little dinky statuette of the Virgin Mary instead of the book on fossils I requested

Crikey !

They are blessed indeed. 😔 🙏 🧀

A dying octopus in a Southern California aquarium is receiving an outflowing of love and well wishes as she spends her final days pouring her last energy into caring for her eggs.

Biden channeled billions toward reducing the carbon footprint of concrete & other construction materials. Trump reversed course. In January, the EPA canceled 21 grants aimed at reducing greenhouse gas emissions from concrete, cement & other construction materials. floodlightnews.org/cement-is-a-...

Dementia is now the #1 killer of women and 2nd biggest killer in Australia, yet families are still being turned away from care. This Guardian piece shows just how broken the system is.

US. Attacked Boat Near Venezuela Multiple Times to Kill Survivors #CorruptTrump theintercept.com/2025/09/10/u...

I've just now discovered this: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1948_Na...

Friends, let’s do this: www.aph.gov.au/e-petitions/... @apnews.com @australia.theguardian.com @chaos0s.bsky.social @janecaro.bsky.social @euanritchie.bsky.social @jessielilley.bsky.social @davidshoebridge.bsky.social @zoedaniel.bsky.social @davidewart.bsky.social @peterfitz1.bsky.social

Only in America...

In October 2012 Julia Gillard made her famous misogyny speech and cut welfare payments to thousands of single mothers on the same day. This week Anthony Albanese denounced the weekend's anti-immigration rallies as racist while condemning asylum seekers to a lifetime of detention on Nauru.

And we're paying these bastards to make their submarines for them ? 🤬 www.abc.net.au/news/2025-09...

Back in my day, we'd clip a coupon from the back of a comic book, and send it off to buy "X-Ray Specs".

RALLY TO SAVE MEANJIN Thursday 11 Sep 9am Outside the Melbourne University Publishing office, 715 Swanston St, Carlton. A number of Australian writers and editors will speak in support of this vital cultural institution

Sarah Huckabeast is standing under a tent giving a speech while kids are forced to stand in the rain.

www.abc.net.au/news/2025-09... 😐

Ironically when the Zionists blew up the King David hotel in Jerusalem in 1948 among the hundreds they killed was Swedish Count Bernadotte who had negotiated to transfer thousands of Jews from concentration camps to Sweden in 1944