Fuck this lowlife dynasty.

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Coming from Japanese companies and investors, this is a red flag ... notwithstanding the investment imbalance.

"... part of rising faith-based pushback to the Trump administration..." religionnews.com/2025/10/07/i...

David Simon, creator of ‘The Wire’, being interviewed by Ari Shapiro (NPR)

No, it couldn't. Once a blockade commences, industrial production and a large chunk of commercial activity will collapse. The existing power reserves could then run the island for months. The nonsense below still circulates despite several articles issuing correctives.

Something not fully appreciated in the Riyadh comedy festival discourse is that in many ways Saudi Arabia is getting *more* repressive www.thenation.com/article/worl...

really can’t say enough about how mike johnson is a sniveling little coward of a man. a bayou-bred pushover with a dignity deficit that would embarrass renfield

"Welcome to the party, pal."

Kristi Noem confronts enemy combatants in the Portland war zone today.

It's amazing that they've produced an entire party of Trumps not just in terms of the fascist politics but in the sense that almost all of these people are incapable of processing anything more complex than lines of tweets Moreover, ICE must be destroyed

Utterly reprehensible. Stirring hate and outrage, endangering people.

Din Tai Fung is America’s top-earning restaurant chain and having taken out a small mortgage for half a basket of xiao long bao in London yesterday, I believe it www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...

From the front lines of the Portland War Zone.

It's encouraging that Saudi sportswashing is proving to be nothing more than a massive and unsustainable boondoggle. I look forward to reporters asking MBS: "If, as you say, this is not sportswashing but investments for the future of the Saudi economy, then why do they lose so much money?"

On top of all of this she is a bad faith actor, responding to dissent with the same smug, all-about-me arrogance as any two-bit podcast bro.

"The Human Centipede of content ... from the very very end of the line". Absolutely, 100% on the money. A metaphor for the ages.

Australia did it and does it with asylum seekers who end up in Nauru. Without the broken car windows and obese ICE Nazis.

Let it never again be said that a woman with no real reporting experience who fell for a Twitter account called "Official Antifa" cannot be the head of a huge news organization

America has a military to remove a criminal government if it crosses the line and combines violence toward citizens with constitutional destruction. When the Basic Law fell apart and was co-opted by chancers, criminals, their triad allies and Beijing, Hong Kong only had righteousness and courage.

I think of Hong Kong's political prisoners often -- and am sure others do too. On hot summer days, I worry that they are baking in their cells. On cold winter days, I worry that they feel like they'll freezing. And this past October 1st, I realised Jimmy Lai (77) is older than the PRC (76). Etc.😔

Linda Jaivin's involvement in ANU annual reports has not been immune from these problems. And Taiwan's plight? Forget it. She was a hero of mine for years and years. No longer.

Hoping there's a question on why a commodified and mercenary Australian Sinology has been all but silent at critical junctures as China descends into cult worship and attacks on Australian interests.

This video of Chicagoans intervening to save a man from being abducted off the streets by ICE is making the rounds on Instagram. Community action works. Source: www.instagram.com/reel/DPZL2AL...

How can this be anything but a crisis moment?

Invoking Whitlam at this time as some kind of intergenerational grand gesture of Labor policy Manifest Destiny is off-putting, to say the least. How does such freedom rhetoric comport with Whitlam's treatment of nearby East Timor and generations of ALP/LibNat ennui over the Balibo Five (Six)?

Australia lacks ‘legitimate objective’ in fast-tracking Nauru deportations, Labor-led committee finds

The Chinese embassy in Manila hired a marketing firm that ran fake social media accounts praising China, undermining the Philippines’ security alliance with the US, and criticizing Western COVID vaccines, Reuters found reut.rs/437dUqn

ICE admits that up to 50% of arrests in its Chicago raids are "collateral.” These aren't statistics. They are parents taken from their children, neighbors taken from our communities. When does a "collateral" U.S. citizen child's trauma matter? This isn't law enforcement; it's a campaign of terror.

One reason of many to be worried about Albo's refusal to retaliate proportionately against Chinese government predations is that it augurs his equally toothless and cowardly response when Trump's fascists start leveraging threats against Australians and Australian companies in Australia.

Things authoritarian states do.

Amazing, rarely seen photos from the Sydney Film Festival archive of David Stratton and his peers over the decades. That shot of Stratton with Kurosawa/Antonioni/Ray is something else. RIP. www.sff.org.au/blog/honouri...

When I think I can’t be surprised, UN does it again.

This by @katmabu.bsky.social is the best speech I've heard yet by any politician about what ICE/Trump/Noem is doing and it's not close.

“'The fact that we don't have money to pay journalists, but we have money to pay Bari Weiss between $100 and 200 million is indicative of what the Ellisons' true goal here is,' a network correspondent said. 'And it's not journalism.'"

Read this whole thread.

💻 The hacker collective Black Mirror has released the first portion of an archive of documents from the Russian state defense corporation Rostec. The tranche contains more than 300 items. 1/2 theins.press/en/news/285517 #russia

As with the Tilly Norwood scam, journalists really don’t have to play along with the AI industry’s propaganda and publicity stunts

BREAKING: Our client Mario Guevara, an Emmy-winning journalist detained by ICE in retaliation for livestreaming law enforcement activity, will be deported tomorrow to El Salvador. Mario and his family are being punished for his reporting. This cruelty is meant to stifle our free press.

I always pay attention to what stories People Magazine and other consumer media outlets cover. That's how you can tell that something has broken through the usual political and news bubbles. This horrific Chicago story has broken through. people.com/ice-agents-o...

The way this made me laugh! 🤣

Today, Oct.2nd, is the anniversary of Jamal Khashoggi’s murder by Saudi agents.

New: Elon Musk’s SpaceX Took Money Directly From Chinese Investors, Company Insider Testifies www.propublica.org/article/elon...

100%.

I have news for Bill Burr: There is also stand-up comedy in Russia and China. And it’s soma for the masses — entertainment — until you accidentally cross some liminal line and get f***ed. When has comedy ever been good when you can’t 🖕 the people in power.

Bill Burr’s gobsmackingly idiotic insight the Saudis are “just like us” because he didn’t see an execution highlights the danger of autocracy / fascism: normal people perpetrate it. Italians and Germans were pretty normie. It’s called the banality of evil, Bill.

Defeat of Ukraine would embolden China towards Taiwan, Taiwanese officer says at forum in Poland – Reuters: ‘Hsieh Jih-Sheng, deputy chief of the general staff for intelligence at Taiwan’s defence ministry, […] attended in person wearing full military uniform and speaking in English.’

The plot thickens www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...

This year's #GoldenHorse Lifetime #Achievement Award goes to Chen Shu-fang (陳淑芳)! Active for over six decades, the 86-year-old actress has starred in acclaimed films ranging from "A City of Sadness (1989)" to "Little Big Women (2020)." Chen has said she has no desire to retire and "wait for death."