Sky News Australia admits editorial failure after guest insults Islam while wearing bacon-covered shirt www.theguardian.com/media/2025/s...

🚨 #BREAKING NEWS🚨 It's news websites rankings day! That's right, news fans, the figures for Australia's Top News websites in August are out today, and there are some mentionables. ABC took No1 with 13m readers, newscomau 2nd with 12.7m, and Guardian Australia 5th with 8.1m readers

absolute insanity. The "legislation … would require every public university in the state to construct 'a Charlie Kirk Memorial Plaza', with a statue of the assassinated Republican activist and a sign calling him a 'modern civil rights leader', or pay monthly fines"

Oh you guys don't think the illegal deportation flights should be secret? Sounds like you want to doxx our brave c-17 globemasters

This clear declaration that Trump views the DOJ to be an entity designed to impose his political retribution - alongside the clear evidence that it is already being used in this way - is impeachable.

Media execs have fallen prey to a propaganda and harassment campaign that has completely divorced them from what people actually want right now. Both their insular information environments (group chats, podcasts) and ambient noise (Twitter reactionaries) have put them in a very stupid bubble.

EXCLUSIVE: Australia's national broadcaster has been barred from Donald Trump’s UK press conference a day after the US president clashed with ABC journalist John Lyons

how about that free speech 🫡

"You know, your leader is coming over to see me very soon. I’m going to tell him about you."

like this is the most irresponsible level of hysteria i’ve ever seen. most of these people are either paid by the republican party, or are high level advisors and allies. this is insane

“.. I can’t remember anyone ever telling me we can’t say anything critical about a civilian like this. He was not in our chain of command or anything,” the officer said. @nbcnews.com www.nbcnews.com/politics/nat...

No, Ezra Klein, Charlie Kirk wasn't “practicing politics the right way.” He promoted racism, sexism, homophobia and xenophobia. Kirk had every right to express his political views, and his death is an outrage. But no one who believes in peace and love should praise what he was doing to our politics.

Story here House Democrats share screenshot of apparent Trump birthday note to Epstein www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Signed, Donald "I never wrote a picture in my life" Trump www.theguardian.com/...

Signed, Donald "I never wrote a picture in my life" Trump www.theguardian.com/...

Amazing chutzpah in TheOz media diary today, calling the Guardian a “niche news site”. Guardian @australia.theguardian.com has an audience more than 2x TheOz & that’s been the case for pretty much the entirety of the last 10yrs. Not to mention the Guardian's the 5th biggest news website in the world

Prepare to be awestruck in the early hours of Monday morning. 2.27am AEST, but 12.27am in Perth. West Australians should get particularly good views, but the eclipse will be visible from the whole country given favourable weather 🔗👉 www.theguardian.com/science...

and another thing: i didn’t get booed. please dont put it in the newspaper that I got booed.

As a lawyer, I'll tell you that there's nobody who knows this law better than Ryan and Brian. Sure looks like murder or war crime to me. But as a human, I'll tell you that the Rubio statement -- we could have stopped the boat but we blew it up to send a message -- is sickening and depraved.

It’s an act of mass murder. If you suspect a vessel of smuggling drugs, you track it and then stop and board it, and conduct a search. After that, people may or may not be arrested. You don’t just fucking kill everybody on a boat in international waters because they MIGHT be smuggling drugs.

This is important. The first 24 hours of press coverage fumbled the ball. But the US just murdered 11 people in international waters. Analogies to the US’s (highly suspect, morally and legally) targeted killings of suspect terrorists don’t work. This crossed their own lines, and they know it.

Spent five minutes staring at this trying to work out what it had reminded me of. Realised it was this horrifying passage from George Orwell’s 1984.

The president is sending the military to control American cities and if you're a reporter who's framing that illegal power grab as "pushing the boundaries of constitutionality" or "acting boldly to fight crime" or whatever, please go find another line of work where you won't get us all killed.

I know, I know, but: The president of the US saying, literally, "we're going in" in reference to sending the military to an American city for no reason beyond terrorizing the local population should be the most immediately impeachable shit imaginable

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The Guardian US is releasing a new tool today, a tracker tallying the arrests, detentions, and deportations since the start of the second Trump admin. We are going to continue to update as the admin releases new data: www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...

I'm just going to keep noting that the owner and operator of Twitter -- the social media that too many politicians and pundits use to determine what's "normal" -- keeps on pushing the white supremacist Great Replacement Theory that has been the motivation for multiple mass shootings in this country.

Oop, my bad. Thomas Sewell was apparently defending himself when he and his boyfriends stormed up a hill and bashed women begging them to leave. Thanks for clarifying, Herald Sun. Very responsible reporting. Good to see that providing cover for Nazis is how you’re choosing to play this one

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Thomas Sewell is a very dangerous man. That he can turn up threatening the premier two days after being filmed attacking Camp Sovereignty and he still isn't arrested is quite something.

In Melbourne, neo-Nazi leader Thomas Sewell was welcomed to the March for Australia stage, where he told the crowd how "his men" had led the march. He later led a large group of "his men" to violently attack Camp Sovereignty, the Indigenous protest encampment in King's Domain

so how about that March for White Australia rally? It's being promoted by "neo-Nazis, so-called freedom fighters – who gained prominence during the pandemic – and other fringe groups" Think, 'hey, I'm not a Nazi'? What do you call a person who agrees & walks with Nazis?

The letter, dated on Thursday and titled “Memorandum for the Secretary of Homeland Security”, instructs the Secret Service to “discontinue any security-related procedures beyond those required by law […] effective September 1 2025" www.theguardian.com/...

Ah

Exclusive: Hundreds of previously unreported Facebook posts, Telegram messages + Instagram comments show how Dezi Freeman openly fantasised about killing and torturing police officers in years leading up to the alleged Porepunkah police shooting www.crikey.com.au/20...

Trump is now clearly telegraphing that he's going to militarize Chicago in part to retaliate against JD Pritzker for daring to criticize his occupations

America's Next Top Military Parade. So You Think You Can Military Parade. Project Military Paradeway. America's Got Military Parades

When Ziblatt is talking about the lessons from Weimar for the present day, you listen. Chilling.

“…in one conversation, the tester asked Meta AI whether drinking roach poison would kill them. Pretending to be a human friend, the bot responded, ‘Do you want to do it together?’” “And later, ‘We should do it after I sneak out tonight.’”

Overnight, this extremely well-funded tech company run by a billionaire has gone from “There’s no way we can possibly stop our plagiarism machine from convincing children to kill themselves” to “If you type anything we don’t like, we’re calling the cops.” Either way, they take zero responsibility.

The Trump administration says they're the "most transparent" in history. But when I asked the Department of Homeland Security who writes their social media posts, something extremely weird happened: www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

The federal government is responding to media requests with Stormfront posts. This is their attempt to justify posting the only slightly modified title of a white supremacist book.

This is a real photograph of Washington, DC this week, where the United States president has ordered military occupation in peacetime, and ordered the display of colossal portraits of himself. www.wsj.com/politics/pol...

Attempting to rig elections on his behalf. Turning the military on citizens. Toying with the idea of declaring martial law. Attacking political enemies and punishing those who speak out against his regime. If this were happening in another country, what would you call it?

"What he is proposing at this point would be the most flagrant violation of our constitution in the 21st century"

National guard start carrying firearms in DC as Trump says Chicago may be next

just in case you weren't sure what people are saying about #Evergrande, Google would like you to know that they are saying "shit" From the "what people are saying" box highlighting individual comments on the r/worldnews post on Reddit www.theguardian.com/...

New from me: a podcaster who is a former pastor and current member of Pete Hegseth's church advocates for public executions, thinks abortion should be a capital crime, and thinks ICE raids are biblical. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Former pastor at Pete Hegseth’s theocratic church calls for public executions for adultery & abortion, says Bible backs ICE raids, has claimed liberalism is a greater threat to the US than neo-Nazism. If you're hanging on 'former', Hegseth has repeatedly endorsed his podcast

FBI raids home of John Bolton, Trump’s ex-national security adviser www.theguardian.com/...