The Republican president is a pedophile who has doubled my healthcare costs and let scores of violent criminals out of jail. But a Democratic mayor-elect wants to make busses free in a city I don't live in. I have never felt more politically homeless.

The actual conspiracy theory is that multiple women independently lied, with apparently nothing to gain, and much to lose, about Trump’s entanglement with Epstein. katemanne.substack.com/p/the-actual...

Also, just a reminder, anyone emailing Epstein regularly after 2008 knows he's been convicted of felonies related to sex with minors.

This isn’t even the stuff they’re trying to actually stop from getting out.

To recap: Jeffrey Epstein offered a NY Times reporter photos taken in Epstein's kitchen of Donald Trump and girls in bikinis *and* implored the NYT reporter to put this information in the public discourse in 2015 What did the NY Times editors know about this offer?

BBC headline is verbal Escher

The worst person in the world just got worser

going to be awesome to be 15 years old in victoria, where you won't be allowed to watch youtube but will be allowed to go to prison for a thousand years

Getting pretty sick of state governments trying to get “tough on crime” and ramp up the number of kids in detention when they also treat them like this. Do we not have a federal government that ensures basic human rights for children?

labor strategically lurching to the right when they feel like the liberals are breathing down their neck is one thing, but doing it while the vic libs are decimated, drooling in a corner unable to tie their own shoes, just means you agree with them

Did not expect Meet the Feebles

Indeed.

Why on earth would anyone fight to save him?

Did he leave with a large brown paper bag?

Some astonishing details in here. It’s like reading a recipe for pure corruption.

The Dems have caved to this guy

How about that. And we wonder why the AFP haven’t got to the bottom of the problem.

Ezra Klein’s head is so far up his own ass that he now invites people onto his show to interview HIM. Incredibly, while ostensibly opining about the Mamdani election and other recent results, Klein fails to observe anything interesting at all in them.

It would be difficult to identify a more unambitious government. Committed to holding onto incumbency rather than doing anything big, bold, and transformational with it. Time Albanese retire to his Central Coast clifftop pad. His mind has already moved there #auspol

Btw this isn’t the only whistleblower who’s tried to alert authorities about wrongdoing by Home Affairs

Corruption watchdog being watched by its watchdog again. Would be good if they investigated corruption as much as they investigate their own conduct imo

This perfectly encapsulates how I feel living in the US. The republican party is an insane death cult, the democratic party is 3 corporations in a trench coat, and the "socialists" are just the completely normal left-wing capitalists you'd find in any of 2 dozen European nations.

1/ wtf is going on at Home Affairs? I’ve lost count of the number of offshore detention-related scandals 2/ check out how hard the whistleblower tried to alert authorities, only to be ignored 3/ both Labor and Lib govts have actively turned a blind eye to this corruption. Prob the NACC too.

HE'S APPEALING TO THE SUPREME COURT OF THE UNITED STATES THAT HE BE ALLOWED TO STARVE AMERICANS

Universities, state education, welfare system, mental health, transparency/accountability, youth justice reform…

Do any Labor MPs or senators (besides Albanese and his handful of praetorian hacks) have any say over anything? Do they care about their own collective and individual impotence? Evidently not.

“Experts say the proposed legislation is full of problems, including excessive ministerial discretion and relaxing like-for-like offset rules.” Another Labor special then. Try to legislate a do-nothing policy, pat yourself on the back for being so sensible.

“Labor sources have told ABC Investigations the prime minister's office has been putting pressure on advocates for gambling reform within the parliamentary Labor party to prevent them from speaking up.” So pathetic. Backbenchers scared of taking a moral position, Albanese scared of any reform.

The world thanks you Mr President, both for large tariffs and stopping so many imaginary wars.

Exclusive from me: The mascot Carlton fired for alleged anti-Semitic comments and “storming” out of a bar mitzvah breaks his silence to share his version of events. Shockingly, but unsurprisingly, the Herald Sun didn’t speak to him before writing their story. www.lamestream.com.au/exclusive-ca...

Little known fact about Jesus: he was also very close to the gambling lobby, and fought hard to shut down freedom of information requests

So, @tanyaplibersekmp.bsky.social lost the public argument on this wretched amendment, allowing police to cancel Centrelink payments for ppl who have not been found guilty So she went on Sky News to defame legal, disability, & community advocates as well as Senator Thorpe revolting stuff

The latest edition of @osmanfaruqi.bsky.social and @scottmitchell.bsky.social's Lamestream is a cracker. As progressive parties around the world are handed more and more platforms, Australia's Greens could learn a great deal by listening in:

AND Dick Cheney died.

The Woolcott Review report is a remarkable document. For anyone interested in the complexities of how govts (mis)handle allegations of abuse involving public sector workers, it's a masterclass. #politas Hope the Tas government acts on its advice, because we will be observing...

Ten tonnes of diseased dead fish. Ample warning but they still had no mass mortality response plan. More tragic ineptitude by the TAS govt.

Or as Sarina Russo says, “Check out my Louis Vuitton!”

"Net zero" is a signifier with no actual meaning. And that, of course, is why it is so beloved of the major parties and the press gallery. They can sound serious and committed without actually promising to do anything. Net zero commitment indeed. -- Have you subscribed to my blogletter yet?

Another historic achievement in transparency by the Albanese govt: cratering the FOI system. thepoint.com.au/off-the-char...

Absolutely pointless contribution from Zoe Daniel here. Like a columnist who’s already run out of ideas so just keeps repeating the same thing. In this case: centrism no matter the cost.

Taking out the trash at ten to 5 on a Friday afternoon. Feel the transparency and respect. Please read this thread BECAUSE they don’t want you to read about it.👇

Taking out the trash at ten to 5 on a Friday afternoon. Feel the transparency and respect. Please read this thread BECAUSE they don’t want you to read about it.👇

Big question mark over the veracity of the texts that the SMH claims were sent by Mahmood Fazal. If the SMH can't verify them and they're false (as Fazal said), they have defamed him terribly.

Labor’s proposed environmental reforms are a recipe for corruption and political manipulation. Inviting special treats for ministerial intervention.

Getting the distinct impression that the thing holding up US markets is the lack of official numbers. (I guess the govt shutdown is serving its purpose.) Also: the AI bubble, which is going to burst soon.

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...

Remarkable piece. “Never in history has so much of the Jewish leadership been stained with this much guilt – a guilt that can never be washed out.”

But we need a stadium at any cost. 🤬

Release the Epstein files

🚨 In Newcastle today, Rising Tide painted “TAX ME” on a coal ship named Climate Justice, calling for a 78% fossil fuel profits tax to fund a just transition for workers + communities. Australia’s biggest polluters pay less tax than nurses. #RisingTide #ClimateJustice