Trump has posted a photo on Truth Social, of Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro. Maduro’s eyes are covered with a blacked-out covering, and what looks like large headphones are over his ears. Why publish it? Parading a prisoner to humiliate them is a war crime Does this qualify?

Ooh! I just got reminded of Rep Jack Kimble from the other place. He's here. He's not as prolific, but I enjoyed this one:

And that one time we threatened to stop paying in the seventies

I finally worked it out I now know what AUKUS is It’s protection racket run by a mobster Australia keep paying its protection money to the USA and the USA keeps bombing other countries

I am just relly varry tired oftha bullshid

Today as much as ever. My bed isn't made because this boy refuses to get up. I agree with him.

(Just remember - Trump and his support don’t care about being hypocrites)

Questions for Aussies. How many US troops are in Aus? How many of them are in Canberra? How many CIA or "unofficial" US agents are in Aus/Canberra? Since our banks and gas are already out of democratic hands, it's unlikely...but what if we tried to say no to the US. Would that be...safe?

I still want to see the Epstein files, by the way. I don't know about you. I'm more interested than ever.

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Shared because everyone needs some non-WTF-psychotic-criminal-warlord news today.

I've just finished Cactus Pear For My Beloved, by Samah Sabawi. I "knew" the situation in Gaza has a long history. Sabawi tells her family's story, which adds colour and context to dry facts. It's an easy way for me to be encouraged to learn more. Highly recommended.

#Auspol #Australia

I have a simple wish for 2026. I want every single person who can safely do so, to vote in every election at every level, in every country. Just vote. You can change the world. It's up to you whether that's for good or evil. Don't be bystanders to your own existence.

I live about 10 minute's walk from my state capital's main fireworks display. So I predict that at the stroke of midnight I'll be in bed thinking WHAT THE HELL WAS THAT!

"We have to learn to live with covid" always meant we have to get used to taking precautions. It never meant, as so many people believe it did, that we have to get used to being sick. #MaskUp The life you save could be your own.

Book reading invalid. I don't know what's wrong with her, but she's confined to bed in a room with a skylight and three thousand books. #BookSky

I've turned on "labels", and get these incongruous results. A heart, music, and a Christmas tree gets labelled "negative posting" Yeah, I know the label applies to the account, not the post, but it made me laugh.

Another IMAX moment* from Trump. It is not Stephen who is a pathetic trainwreck, who is running on hatred and fumes, who is a dead man walking. (* big projection)

Checked my AUSPOL feed. Of the most recent 20, 8 are Cricket. 4 relate to Christmas or Easter. 4 are international. 2 are Aus or NZ politics 1 is slice of Australian life, and one - "hope they don't kill off Steve" - is too niche to be categorised. I guess it's too early for the boat race.

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I sobbed. This is beautiful

While in Opposition, Albanese backed the Jewish community against the LNP govt who tried to undermine them by weakening hate speech laws. In govt he’s given them the strongest protections a PM has ever implemented. Anyone booing clearly listens to too much of Sky News or the AJA

Got it!

Epstein Files release, as predicted a month ago.

Meet people where they are. Recognize systems for what they are. Value progress over perfection.

I want Donald Trump to live until he is 100. Long enough to see his name removed from every public monument his sycophants are defiling with it. Long enough to see his name reviled. Long enough to see how even his closest followers will repudiate him.

There has been a Bondi Beach massacre committed nearly everyday in Gaza since the ceasefire was declared. Scores of children. Bombed, starved, sickened, frozen. But there are no vigils being held in the West by city governments.

I think we can all agree that Australia needs policy advice from the guy wanted by the ICC for war crimes & crimes against humanity.

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You know, I once, maybe twice, but once, and many people know this, you know this, but once I listened to, and he's an addled old man by the way. Did you know he was married three times? Four kids, wow! Once I listened to him speak, not with the best words, but maybe they were words. Next question?

Less than 48 hours after the deadly attack at Sydney's Bondi Beach that left more than a dozen dead, Australian authorities announced proposals for sweeping new gun laws. n.pr/48UTa7g

Jews didn’t deserve this attack and Muslims aren’t responsible, full stop. Both narratives just serve to preserve Christian supremacy, and they’re both collective guilt. Happy Hanukkah, everybody, this is a rough year to be celebrating

Busy moving, almost didn't do todays Pedantle. But at 23:00 I opened the puzzle, glanced at the format of the first 3 lines, & made an educated guess. Solved it in one.

I lived on an island that is close enough to the mainland to have a bridge, but controversially Does Not Have A Bridge. What it does have is a dozen facebook groups. They all fall apart acrimoniously when the possibility of The Bridge is mentioned. There's a new group now.

First of all, Dems need to state that Trump is insane and a traitor, a Russian agent and a damn LIAR!

Isn't this what triggered the collapse of the Soviet Union? They got militarily overcommitted in Afghanistan. Putin should have learned from that. "Oh, but it's different this time, Ukraine is going to be a pushover."

We all want this shirt.

I'm in a moon boot for a month, because of an unexpected encounter with a concealed bandicoot hole. Now that's a sentence you don't encounter that often.

Yes, Mr Atlee nailed it

Ah yes, money launde-(!)-sorry'sorry, charities - charities as a concept remains a social ill. 😐

I am being forced to become tidier, against my will. The cats have escalated their "who owns the human" war to the point where they pee on any clothing I leave on or near the floor. This includes the laundry basket. So it goes in the machine or in the wardrobe. *sigh*. That's not what I do.

Does Putin have the photos? I really don't care if Trump gave a bloke called Bubba a blowie. I don't care if Bubba is Clinton or a Texan dude. The question with real, international significance is, DOES PUTIN HAVE THE PHOTOS. #Bubbagate

humbly proposing that vape pens are quietly one of the most evil inventions in the past 25 years and that everyone involved should be tried at the hague

@theonion.com pitchbot: Chuck Schumer kills 50,000 disabled Americans, making Israel 🇮🇱 proud.

Oh, FFS, this was posted 8 months ago and reads fresh today. America, your elected representatives are meant to represent you! If they can't or won't act in your best interests, get rid of them. You guys have primaries - get off your asses and make sure you get the representation you deserve.

I was on the phone to the office at St Rita's, my local Catholic parish church, and they put me on hold, and their hold music was The Can Can. 🤣 It's more accurately known as Offenbach's Galop Infernal from Morpheus in the Underworld, which frankly is not much better. I doubt that they know.

I've long thought that a strategy for mass killers is to treat them like Hurricanes. Have a list, published in advance, of names that will be used by media and law enforcement, for future killers. Never use their real name. Pondscum Weakling Flyspeck Trashworm www.theguardian.com/books/2025/n...