Not only does Trump's IRS settlement hand him a $1.8B slush fund. It also bans the agency from auditing Trump and his family, allowing him to avoid nearly $100M in penalties and get away with any future tax-dodging. He is the most corrupt president in American history.

Politics and population panic driving student visa stupidity www.sbs.com.au/news/article...

💗💙🧡💜💚💛

These grotesque humans should do jail time. Period.

A good thing happened today. Not because DJT forced it and probably not because it was the right thing to do. Because people laid down in front of buses; because the police didn’t brutalize them; because advocates forced the issue. I hope more can get free of their handlers. It’s scary business.

Great week starting out down here www.abc.net.au/news/2026-03...

Mark Carney visited us in Canberra this week. 🇨🇦🇦🇺

Minnesotans: you amaze me. I was courageous because I had no choice. You’re courageous because you chose what matters. 💙

As the parent of a deceased child, I feel a special kind of fury at the utter stupidity.

“She’s a very nice woman” is almost always code for “She’s a woman and therefore."

Holy sh$t. It actually is 1939.

Timezones are so weird. Australia is in 2026, Canada is in 2025, and the United States is in 1939.

Pretty much.

Me, 2000-something. “They’re fascists and if you don’t stop them, they’ll destroy American democracy." Responses: “Stop being so dramatic” and “What gives you authority to know this?” 🙄 newrepublic.com/article/2042...

As the mother of a deceased child, I don’t even have words for the rage and sadness and fear I have today, at the utter failure of our leaders. Nothing they can say will fix this. Brown colleagues, I am with you. www.cnn.com/us/live-news...

I’m not a fan of baseball and I’m even less a fan of popes. But this warms my heart.

Good riddance. Too bad he still gets his 401K. www.cnn.com/2025/12/02/b...

This is going to be incredibly important. Without downstream consequences, there is every incentive for governments to be reckless.

ACA insurance for a family of one adult and two kids making the CA median income ($104K per year): 2025: $305 for the cheapest possible policy 2026: $1342 for the cheapest possible policy Anyone with a serious health issue would want much better coverage -- minimum $2K per month.

I’m confident Congress will have a solution to the lapse of healthcare subsidies by Dec. 31. It will involve channeling them only to “Red” and Swing states. I’m also confident Schumer hasn’t even contemplated this.

It’s plausible the Supreme Court strikes down Trump’s tariffs, at least in part, since the majority’s earlier rulings have followed the standard that Trump can break the law whenever he wants except perhaps when doing so causes the Justices, their bribers, and other rich people to lose money.

Chuck Schumer Helps Pull Democrats Back From Brink Of Courage

“Individuals on the ground sent a message that reached us Monday morning that 1,200 were dead,” Nathaniel Raymond, the lab’s executive director, said. “By that evening, they said 10,000. By Tuesday, we couldn’t reach them anymore. We assume our ground contacts are dead.”

Why has no one noticed they burned the Reichstag?

ICE: thug trash.

“although the Cato study shows that although right-wing attacks were more prevalent than left-wing ones between 1975 and 2015, after 2016, they become nearly equal." This is not even remotely accurate. After 2016, it was almost twice as likely an attacker would be right-leaning than left-leaning. 3️⃣

TLDR. Kash gives NZ police chief a 3d printed gun as a ‘gift.’ NZ police say it’s illegal and dangerous and ... destroy it. Not all countries want guns all the time, dude. (Even Americans don’t). www.pbs.org/newshour/wor...

Shanah Tova שנה טובה to those who celebrate!

Oh, you can do that?!

In which the ANU's VC suggests that the Aus Senate asking the only university it founded to produce documents is similar to ... you know ... illegally suspending grants, sending unidentifiable masked agents onto campus, and canceling visas in retaliation against constitutionally protected speech.3️⃣

Amidst all this awfulness, I have to say: kudos to Gavin Newsom and his messaging team. Before 2025, I didn't like him. Slimy, out of touch... Now... well... he's one of few to inspire defiance and a bit of hope. Probably couldn't get elected nationally, but Dems, take some notes.

We took a close look at Split Ticket's WAR metric, which has become influential in Democratic circles for suggesting moderates significantly outperform progressives. Our finding: The metric contains systematic biases that overstate the advantage of moderation. A corrected model shows no advantage.🧵

@schumer.senate.gov I have an idea... 🫠😅

The Trump admin has freed Jose Hernandez Reyes because he can testify against Abrego Garcia. Hernandez, who has been deported 5 times, has also been arrested for: —DUI w/ a handgun; —cocaine possession; —illegally transporting migrants; and —drunkenly firing a gun. Free link: wapo.st/40i4Ttt

Your daily authoritarianism update www.nytimes.com/2025/06/27/u...

A neat summary of how the Democratic Party will be divided, defeated, and dominated by Trump’s war. The sovereign has declared the exception and the Democratic Party’s best response is “you cannot do that.” Any Iranian escalation will only strengthen the sovereign’s case for the exception.

The United States should not wage war against Iran. Donald Trump’s bombing of Iran is unconstitutional. Only Congress can declare war — and the Senate must vote immediately to prevent an another endless war. This is a horrific war of choice.

An unconstrained authoritarian is holding the US nuclear codes. This is really, really, really bad. There really is no other solution than for Congress to stand up and do its job.

Mahmoud has been released.

"Following significant concerns raised by my Labor colleagues from the ACT and the broader community, I wrote to ANU seeking assurances that they are managing these issues appropriately." - @jasonclaremp.bsky.social @nteunion.bsky.social members at #ANU welcome this.

We need to be reading everything we can about German industrialists in the Interwar Period. And listening to experts. I'm starting with this old article, but would love to hear about other options too. Rise and Fall is fantastic, but way too long for my schedule. www.jstor.org/stable/2349826