Pritzker: Throughout history we've learned that tyranny doesn't arrive with dramatic proclamations. Most times it comes quietly wrapped in the language of law and order, with fingers pointed at someone who doesn't look like you, promising safety while demanding that we sacrifice our neighbors.

Breaking: Today is officially one of the biggest days of protest in American history. Over 7 million Americans turned out to No Kings events to stand up against MAGA fascism.

Our federal tax dollars are being used to fund a network of government social media accounts that pump out disinformation 24/7. Even during a government shutdown. It’s definitely not essential work.

A Statement from NPR’s Editor in Chief on the Pentagon’s Press Policy. Read More: www.npr.org/2025/10/13/g...

The ALP might as well merge with the Minerals Council of Australia

Peaceful assembly isn’t an insurrection. Storming the Capitol to hang your own vice-president and end democracy is.

Guess who just got both the updated COVID vaccine and flu shots today? Your dear Leader Trump. Maybe you should get them too. Sincerely, An Epidemiologist Who Told You Trump Would Get COVID Booster.

What the fuck do you mean I got a longer prison sentence than Diddy

WATCH — @aoc.bsky.social : “At some point we’ve gotta call these people’s B.S. for what it is. You can’t believe everything a con man is gonna tell you. We cannot live in perpetual fear of these clowns.” #TrumpShutdown

If you, like me, are the parent of a neuro-atypical child dreading this autism press conference, please remember: These are the people hurting our kids. Not us. They are the ones stigmatizing and pathologizing them. They are the ones peddling untested science. And we should be very, very angry.

IKR? The meeja hyperventilating at him not getting a meeting is unhinged. We have an out on #FUKUS we should be taking. #auspol

This is very good news. Meeting Trump is a bad idea that never helps anyone or any country. Stay as far away from the fetid, racist, sex pest as you can. www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

DISNEY: "OK, we are putting Jimmy Kimmel back on the air. You can resubscribe now." ME: "I unsubscribed because you immorally bowed to fascism. I'm not going to resubscribe because you immorally bowed to finances."

There is no world in which it is normal for the president to publicly call upon his attorney general to hurry up and prosecute his political foes. It’s like the Watergate tapes but posted on social media. Let’s get a grip on what’s happening here.

#Auspol #FUKUS #EpsteinFiles

Today the Oversight Committee sat down with Alex Acosta. What we heard only confirmed what we already knew: he cut a sweetheart deal for Epstein, silenced victims, and let a predator walk free.

Power is the rock on which truth founders. The mainstream media, with a few exceptions, is a single-issue lobby group, whose purpose is to assert the rights of capital. Here's what I've learnt about the industry in 40 years in journalism. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Hiding the truth.

> @cnbc.com 🇬🇧

They cry “free speech” when it’s hate, violence, and lies. But the second we tell the truth or call them out, suddenly we’ve gone too far. That, my friends, is what you call selective outrage.

Tim Walz: "I'll tell you what doesn't make people feel safe -- a tank next to Chipotle. It's stupid and it's for the cameras ... where are the 'don't tread on me' people?"

Lessons from being online since 1995 1. Brandolini's law: "The amount of energy needed to refute bullshit is an order of magnitude bigger than that needed to produce it." 2. Chill before serving. (Mine) 3. It's irony when the actor or observer is "confidently unaware." 4. On the Media's rules.

Just three days after approving an extension of one of the largest fossil fuel export projects in the world, the North West Shelf, the National Climate Risk Assessment reveals the devastating consequences facing Australia. #auspol Media release:

I plan to post this ABC News supercut video of Trump calling Harris and Democrats "fascists" (and "communists"!) everytime I see a Republican on TV whining about Trump being called a "fascist" by the left. Oh, the hypocrisy! Oh, the gaslighting!

Just to be clear: Brian Kilmeade *did not* endorse euthanizing homeless people. He advocated MURDERING over 700,000 of them. And on a network that has been *beside itself* over the murder of just one man this week.

An excellent example of the environmental cost of billionaires. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Not content with normalising racism and nazism for the last two days, the ABC Landline now running and anti renewables program. The ABC Board is a threat to Australia and all Australians.

New Mexico's economy is a fraction of the size of New York City's. If they can enact universal childcare — and relieve working families of a crushing cost burden — surely we can too. It's just a question of political will.

Imagine if we gave as much attention to every innocent man, woman, child murdered every day in Palestine as we have to Charlie Kirk.

A big part of why white centrist journos can call this a tragedy with a straight face is because to them it is; Kirk etc pose no viable harm to them, their interests, their fetishisation of 'robust debate' and both sidesery - this violence thus feels realer than the violence Kirk's views embodied

Albanese arguing in Pacific meetings that gas is important transition fuel is pathetic, wrong and disingenuous. He is captured by Woodside and is parroting fossil fuel industry lines. But no use just complaining, Pacific leaders should notify @UNFCCC that they withdraw from bid for COP31.

This was LITERALLY last month. I feel like I'm losing my mind seeing rightwing posts over on Twitter tonight. nytimes.com/2025/08/13/u...

This was just last month and we have already memoryholed it. A cop killed by an antivaxxer.

The president of the United States just declared war, actual military war, not a metaphorical one, on a major American city, and one governed by his political opponents. In any other period, this would be impeachment-worthy.

Makes me wonder what ASIO is for, and if we still have an AFP doing things outside Liberal Party protection? #AusPol

Stratton: This is a manufactured crisis. They’re deliberately stoking fear and knowing people will react. And then, when people do react — when they raise their voices, when they resist and protest — the Trump administration will claim, “Now we have to come in and restore order.”

Gavin Newsom makes me smile.

PRITZKER: “.. The President of the United States is threatening to go to war with an American city. This is not a joke.” @nbcnews.com www.nbcnews.com/politics/don...

Authoritarians thrive on your silence — be loud — for America.

The Coalition is choosing to ignore its own history. Labor isn’t brave enough to push back. And now we’re having an immigration discussion that is AT THE BEHEST OF LITERAL NAZIS. FFS www.thenewdaily.com.au/news/politic...

The ‘antiwar’ president today tried to rename the Department of Defense the Department of War. Can’t make this stuff up.

#Melbourne #Naarm get to #CampSovereignty for the festival of support today. Artist lists and donation link below. Fight Nazis in every way. A big part of that is supporting the targets of these creeps. #SpringSt #Melbourne #FirstPeoples #Treaty #Reparations #AlwaysWasAlwaysWillBe #Auspol

ASRC deputy chief executive Jana Favero said the deal would build on the $13 billion of Australian taxpayers' money "thrown down the toilet in outrageous deals". "This deal is discriminatory, disgraceful and dangerous," www.abc.net.au/news/2025-08...

"If we thought the smoking lobby was strong, they are minnows compared to the carbon lobby. "The integrity of our government & our ability to make sensible decisions which are good for the planet is seriously compromised." - Geoff Crittenden, CEO of Weld Australia 🎧 theaus.in/4fVKGQJ #auspol

Why, you might ask, do the BBC and Sky News, casting their editorial guidelines to the wind, keep giving massive airtime to the far right, while shutting out leftwing voices? Don't their bosses understand the likely consequences? Only one explanation now remains. They do. And it is what they want.

Well done to the ABC for publishing this statement on Richard Boyle. 👏👏👏 #auspol www.abc.net.au/about/media-...