Can someone please show this to @albomp.bsky.social www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

The Fellowship of Melania The Two Melanias The Return of Melania

The Aus govt needs to rethink our web of connections with the US. The standard you walk past is the standard you accept. No one should walk past official thuggery and murder on the street.The US should be ostracised not allied.

This has been made available, so for purposes of commenting on Bari Weiss's decision to spike the story, here's a live-post of that segment. It begins with a "you may recall" summary of the deportation to el Salvador. Describes the admin's claim that it could deport the men without due process

DOOCY: Is Operation Southern Spear about drugs or oil? LEAVITT: The Trump administration is focused on doing many things in the Western Hemisphere

I honestly feel sick. Seeing a assassination, followed by reckless, bloodlust-driven reaction that I really fear will lead to more violence. There's no adults in charge, no one bringing the temperature down.

Either @thesaturdaypaper.com.au used the wrong lead paragraph in their newsletter this morning or their politics have taken a surprising sharp turn to the right

Ten dollars says Albo is breathing a deep sigh of relief

It is *nearly* possible to drive from northern coastal NSW to western coastal Victoria without passing through a Liberal or National held seat

SORRY. Sorry. Have we seen this *incredible* news video coming out of Queensland? Wait for the witness/witnesses statement

Hey @albomp.bsky.social @anthony-albanese.bsky.social this is how it's done

From today's Saturday paper. Ok Australia we're screwed How TF hasn't this been more widely reported?!?

So the Guardian reckons cyclists are producing dangerous weather systems now

Am suspecting there won't be a single non-authoritarian world leader willing to be seen in the same room as Trump after that

So uhhh how is AUKUS travelling this morning them

Is it legal for Cummins to bowl with that number of arms

So @mikeduncan.bsky.social how are you feeling about Elon Musk bring placed in charge of the US civil service three weeks after you started a podcast about what happens when the Earth is placed under the direct rule of corporations

Your 'correct pronunciations' were vile manglings of English to your parents; they're were the same to their grandparents. It's just the way language goes over time

This is a glorious metaphor - is it new? "In a digitised news environment power is liquid and it flows around almost any obstruction you put in its way." tdunlop.substack.com/p/sunlight-i...

So our (later teenage) kids found a certificate in their stockings this morning #Christmas