In the wake of last week's horrific shooting, @jordanmck.bsky.social and I unpack the similarities and differences between preppers, Sovereign Citizens (aka Karens), small-s survivalists (bushcraft) and Big-S Survivalists (anti-govt)... theconversation.com/what-is-prep... @jocaseau.bsky.social

My article in the Conversation today with @tomdoig.bsky.social on prepping culture in Australia. It’s not all guns and bunkers.

Excellent overview of prepping in Australia, in the context of Dezi Freeman, by @tomdoig.bsky.social & Jordan McKenzie. (Tom's writing a book on prepping.) Here, prepping is distinctive: less about guns than food, water & community. @aunz.theconversation.com theconversation.com/what-is-prep...

And yet everyone is clutching pearls over a former premier being in a photo in China www.theguardian.com/world/2025/s...

I went to the USA last year and covered the 2024 Republican National Convention for Crikey. I entered 3x photos into an Aus journalism comp, "The Kennedy People's Choice award". Vote for 1-finger salute here: kennedys.awardsplatform.com/entry/vote/r... Deadline: midnight Thurs (AEST), 7 Aug 2025

Compton, CA: A masked, heavily-armed man wearing body armor jumped out of a SUV today to kidnap a local resident. He forgot to put the vehicle in park, causing it to roll down the street damaging other cars. He jumped in the vehicle (which had no platess) and drove off without identifying himself.

this used to be the home of alex jones productions and now it is a place where dogs go to learn manners, in case you're worried that progress isn't possible

1 in 12 Americans live in California. 1 in 35 Americans live in LA County. LA is America

#LosAngelesProtests #LosAngelesRiots #lariots2025

On what would have been his 67th birthday week... May all your berets be raspberry. May all your corvettes be red. May all your rain be purple. And if De-elevator tries to bring you down, go crazy, punch a higher floor. johnpavlovitz.com/2016/04/21/1...

The news today that EnergyAustralia had admitted that offsets are the wrong way to go is a win that has been a long time coming. In 2023 at our first #ClimateIntegrity Summit, Allan Fels, fmr Chair of the ACCC, explained that there are gas companies that are 'net-zero' certified by Climate Active.

#nzpol new reckon: any economic proposal by the Greens is definitionally taken by the commentariat as the far left boundary of the Overton window. It follows that no Green policy suggestion is ever worth evaluating as it is automatically extreme. (There is no Overton boundary on the right.)

That's my takeaway from this as well. Everything we now (rightfully) recognise as cringe would (by some - not you Cam) have been treated as genius/the secret sauce if the Tories had won. We need better means of measuring impact than credulously swallowing campaign PR. bsky.app/profile/came...

Tomi Lahren: "Trump has managed to isolate China from the rest of the world." BTC: "There's reporting now that Japan & South Korea are negotiating trade deals with China... the EU is eliminating Chinese EV tariffs. I'm concerned you're not familiar with which country is being isolated."

China really upping their trolling game since the tariffs.

I finally got around to reading AI 2027. Calling it "science fiction" seems like an insult to science fiction; perhaps "singularity erotica" is more apt? ai-2027.com

AOC: We saw Majorie Taylor Greene buy that dip. How much did you make? How much did you make off of people’s despair? How much did you make off of that panic? How much did you make off of that suffering? No more. We can’t accept it

The great thing about fighting back against this stuff is that if you end up losing anyway you get the same outcome you’d have gotten from complying but you don’t have to fucking hate yourself too.

1/4. On the White House’s theory, if they abduct you, get you on a helicopter, get to international waters, shoot you in the head, and drop your corpse into the ocean, that is legal, because it is the conduct of foreign affairs.

this is a staggering amount of money to build camps—suggesting that building & running a gulag will be the primary function of the otherwise gutted Trump-state in last fiscal yr: "D.H.S. allocated about $3.4 billion for the entire custody operation overseen by ICE" www.nytimes.com/2025/04/07/u...

Dutton's promised, then not promised, cut to 41,000 public service jobs a complete shambles. Analysis shows Dutton's latest version - cuts by attrition not redundancies - would mean cuts to frontline services which Dutton promised wouldn't be cut #auspol www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

Tariffs xkcd.com/3073

Oh hello, Force Majeure.

I don’t even know what to say here. We’re talking about a generational posting crashout. Lmfao NOW you’re concerned about conflicts of interest.

#tariffs #heardmarshallislands

Dutton versus Reality #LNPNeverAgain

Let them eat tariffs

Just watched the President's "Liberation Day" speech. Based on this, I can confirm many Americans will be liberated from: - Being able to afford groceries - Much of their retirement savings - Any hope of buying a home As for lower prices? Just the opposite.

Yes, I've just punched you in the face. But if you retaliate, it will only escalate things.

Labor is raising wages for 3,000,000 working Australians Dutton’s Coalition wants to stop these pay rises. Dutton calls them “disastrous”. Don’t risk Dutton #auspol

Always different rules for us from #Dutton #auspol

"I don't have anywhere near enough charisma" said Dutton Read more: chaser.com.au/national/dut...

Thanks Dutton it was nice

Dutton wants to work remotely if he gets the job

Sick burn - and extremely apt.

WHY is Peter Dutton so supportive of gas????? Maybe ask Gina Dutton…..

Amazing class today on @tomdoig.bsky.social pieces on the Hazelwood coal mine disaster and 'Preppers & the End of Everything'. Can't think of anyone who writes better about this stuff. 'Outside, life went on, until it didn’t.' meanjin.com.au/essays/ten-y...

Kseniia Petrova, a Russian scientist at Harvard Medical School, was detained at Logan Airport after returning from France and sent to an ICE detention in Louisiana, The Insider reports. A big critic of Putin and the war in Ukraine, she may now be deported to Russia.

Countries that have issued a travel advisory this year warning their citizens about visiting the United States: Canada Denmark Finland France Germany Ireland Netherlands New Zealand United Kingdom

Very good summary about how bad this Trump scene is

PETER TRUMP…… or…… DONALD DUTTON??

more evidence peter dutton is backing away from nuclear:

A real cross section of the community

Dutton and the LNP’s dream!!!

America sure is getting great again

Federal election 2025 live: PM calls May 3 election, saying 'your vote has never been more important' www.abc.net.au/news/2025-03... live updates #auspol #ausvotes

Peter Dutton finally has a policy ..... and it's too FIRE 41,000 PEOPLE? What the actual fuck www.theguardian.com/australia-ne... Also, Dutton should visit New Zealand; the recent gutting of the public sector over there went HORRIBLY and has tanked the economy

The dude wasn’t even looking for a leak. A leak was forced upon him.