A gas station in deep blue Washington, DC might seem like a strange place to meet Trump supporters. But beneath the propulsive go-go strains of Chuck Brown, you can hear whispers that DEI, not the war in Iran, is the reason gas prices jumped 30 cents a gallon overnight.

Carney & Albanese seem to be suffering from amnesia. A negotiated process under Biden was making headway on Iran & nuclear weapons. Trumps scrapped it. Both PM’s need to explain why this approach, which has highly disruptive war, with no assurances of success, is better. #auspol #cdpol

Australia doesn’t support it. @albomp.bsky.social supports it because he’s more philosophically aligned to a despotic, likely child sexual abusing, criminal POTUS, than he is to courage, leadership & morality. Don’t drag us into his personal hell. #auspol www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

There’s disregard for the environment here for sure, but a darker implication is disregard for democracy, truth & science. Labor knew perfectly well what the advice was when they moved new legislation but said nothing. Cowards. #auspol www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

Like being at school but with the social worker not the teachers. They kinda follow some of the school rules, but you can call them by their first name and say whatever’s on your mind, even use the word ‘fuck’. They don’t care about that shit; you won’t get in trouble and at least they’ll listen.

A reminder that the Scum is owned by a foreign billionaire moral sludgepit, and the Daily Mail backed Mosley and the Fascists. Like, this is actually on point for both these papers, and they have never been loyal. #ukpol

Somewhat curious to know how a tobacco brand that is illegal in Australia can advertise on YouTube (no VPN). Anyone know how? #auspol

I am genuinely curious as to the mechanism used for her represent the US (which I presume she is doing). Can Trump just appoint anyone? Is it (technically) Rubio’s decision?

Explains why @albomp.bsky.social dumped DCCEEW in his Feb 2025 letter to the salmon industry, in favour of DAFF (ag, fisheries & forests). Was also not mentioned by Murray Watt when he announced his decision in August 2025 (except ‘all relevant information was carefully considered’). #politas

Well, it’s a good thing @albomp.bsky.social didn’t rush in and uncritically support this bombing, because otherwise this would make him look utterly reckless, easily manipulated and…[pauses, checks notes]…oh FFS. #auspol www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

And while it is saddening for families that will be grieving this loss, especially on the worthless altar of fascism, the US bombed a school and murdered dozens of children, amongst many other innocents. Where is your outrage?

Someone send word to #politas

I still believe he’s trying to distract from Epstein

We all knew Labor and the Libs were in a race to the bottom. But who knew how low they’d actually go? Competing over who can dehumanise children the most, kowtowing to fascists, dragging us into illegal wars…. We need these monsters out of Parliament. #auspol

Despite being very clearly given the answer by the voters of Gorton and Denton, #ukpol Labour decide to double down on being utter shitheads. I used to be a member of this party back in the day, but fuck only knows what I’m looking at these days. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...

The Liberal Party is a cold, dark, soulless place of hatred and cruelty. @albomp.bsky.social has the power to do the right thing, but he’s making a choice to enable this twisted, ideological child abuse instead. FFS they are just children. #auspol www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

Since AI can’t do anything without human instruction, this basically means corporations, probably owned by billionaires or their sycophants, are going to mindfuck us. There may be some health benefits hidden away here, but this article doesn’t examine the ethics at all. www.bbc.com/future/artic...

This is one of many reasons why the instinct of a national leader like @albomp.bsky.social should not be to slavishly support the bombing of a country. The people who did this got rich by insider trading on death. #auspol

In fairness, Trump probably didn’t anticipate the #Epstein files would be as big a thing as they turned out to be, so here we are I guess 🤷🏻‍♂️

‘Voters did not like its plan for government-owned nuclear power plants.’ Hasn’t Taylor already said he supports nuclear? ☢️ #auspol

so today @senatorwong.bsky.social said “we have always worked to do what we can to support australians” and yet just last week @albomp.bsky.social said about the 34 women and children in syria “if you make your bed, you lie in it” so which is it penny? just lying straight to our faces??

‘“I will leave it for the United States and Israel to speak of the legal basis for the attacks,” Wong said on Sunday.’ Compare with: ‘I will leave it to Thanos to provide the moral basis for eliminating 50% of all life with a click of his fingers.’ #auspol www.theguardian.com/world/2026/m...

‘The most complex, and most precision aerial operation in history’ Pete Hegseth

Even setting aside the question of moral legitimacy for the attacks, it’s strategically & diplomatically irrelevant saying Khamenei won’t be missed, because he’ll be replaced and no one knows by whom. @albomp.bsky.social is parroting White House lines without any reasonable insight. #auspol

This only *works* if he was given a briefing & knew of the plans in advance (which is unlikely btw), otherwise at best @albomp.bsky.social looks naive, at worst uncritically sycophantic. And all for a guy heavily implicated in the actions of two child sex traffickers, #Epstein & Maxwell. #auspol

I think about this Tony Benn speech much more than I used to

Holy fuck. He looks ILL. (Also funny that when I spelt ILL the autocorrect changed this to ILLEGAL, but JFC that is one bad-looking orange in that photo - look at his sunken cheeks).

Billions of $$$ in ordnance and arms; major strategic planning and operations; bombing military and civilian targets…vs…hitting the ‘Share’ button on the unreleased #Epstein files. (Y’all understand what I’m getting at yeah?)

American soldiers may die in Operation Epstein Fury — but they will die with the name of Jeffrey Epstein on their lips.

Are any of these world leaders, inc. #auspol, who back the US bombings not going to ask themselves why they trust a guy who has broken his own domestic/constitutional law, broken international law, & is almost certainly implicated in the actions of a dead sex trafficker & his imprisoned accomplice?

Since when? Was Australia calling for strikes before now? How do the strikes stop Iran obtaining a nuclear weapon? How does bombing a country improve peace and security? Does Albanese think the Iranian’s killed in the bombings would share his uncritical support? Questions, questions. #auspol

I’m not sure I get this. Far-right extremism is not a localised phenomenon known only to WA, and it’s been around for a long time. This article seems to be implying state-based societal issues are at the heart of whatever makes someone throw a bomb at people. #auspol www.abc.net.au/news/2026-02...

This is how the conversations that led to Soylent Green originated. (and I’m only half joking. The plot of Soylent Green is most people eating shitty green bars, while the wealthy have the finest available food).

Well that’s a positive message for the thousands of former Labour voters who made a conscious choice to change their vote. Starmer is saying those voters were dumb, or they themselves are divisive. This is a garbage way to respond. #ukpol

Remarkable victory for UK Greens, & defeat for both Starmer AND Farage. Caution here is that by-elections aren’t indicative of lasting change. A great result, but Greens need to replicate on nationwide scale. Doable though, & this results definitely helps. #ukpol www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Shout out to anyone invested in #politas - what issues relating to child safety & rights have not had any real airing in the state? For context, I mean more specific issues on the periphery of public or professional awareness, where they’ve had no discussion or even identification at all. #auspol 🙏🏻

My favourite is that a race of lizard people - the Illuminati - run the planet. Every time I hear it I just think the Stonecutters from the Simpsons, and the crab people from South Park.

I’m going to go ahead and say that, if a person in an executive position has been casually socialising and fraternising with a known sex offender, you should probably rethink the emphasis you are putting on their leadership skills when they resign. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

Albanese’s idiotic comment about Grace Tame distracted us from his vapid statement about Andrew Windsor and their bs announcement about high-speed rail and his grandstanding about “ISIS brides”.

This is untrue and nobody's buying it. Scott Morrison-level gaslighting.

FFS 🤦🏼‍♂️ I did wonder if the @albomp.bsky.social spin machine would get into a whole ‘out of context’ pushback, and sure enough here we are. Utter, utter BS. #auspol www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

I missed this one. I bet Albo was hoping he’d get pats on the back for calling Andrew a ‘grub’(which, btw, vastly understates his behaviour), but now everything I see is about the word ‘difficult’. #auspol

“Difficult” is the misogynist’s code for a woman who won’t comply. History tends to call her “courageous”. 💪🏻✊🏻 #auspol

The word ‘difficult’ is often applied to Victim-Survivors as pejorative, other times it speaks to the courage displayed to demand justice. But a reminder VS never asked to be difficult. The situation demands it, so fuck you & your contempt. Here’s to VS being as difficult as possible. #auspol

So @albomp.bsky.social one word description of Angus Taylor is ‘leader’, but for Grace Tame - Victim-Survivor, activist, author, champion - he goes with ‘difficult’? Yeah, being difficult is how you get change, but there are so many better words I could use to describe GT. #auspol

It’s telling how unspecified the Australian government’s accusations against these children & their mothers actually is. Meanwhile, these children associate Australia with aspiration & better life. What are we doing? #auspol www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

Well, I am surprised. I honestly thought if the Daily Mail came onto Bluesky it would melt like that evil archaeologist guy at the end of Raiders of the Lost Ark, but it appears not 🤷🏻‍♂️

‘Make your own bed, you lie in it’ is the same institutional sexism exhibited when perpetrators of intimate partner violence compel victims (mothers) to remain with them, & the same label is applied to their kids. It reeks of male privilege & misogyny. #auspol www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

If @albomp.bsky.social doesn’t give a shit about these Australian children in this situation, why should we believe that he’ll do anything right for any Australian child in any bad situation ever again? #auspol

The children have the explicit right to family life under the UNCRC. It is incumbent on the #auspol Government to return all the children & their parents. It is abuse to deprive these children of their rights, dignity and safety. www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...