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‘In Netanyahu’s twisted vision, the Jews are always on the verge of catastrophe. Either you become a killer or you die. One thing seems certain. If you accept these terms, there will never be enough corpses to go around.’ Jacqueline Rose on meeting Benjamin Netanyahu. www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

Last year, Trump promised American oil executives “a great deal” if they donated $1 billion to his campaign. Today, he gave them Venezuela — home to the largest oil reserves in the world. This new war is not only illegal and reckless; it is deeply corrupt.

Quite the unintentionally ironic use of this song about young men whose fathers were rich enough to get them out of the draft!

NYT gonna NYT: "Both Mr. Mamdani and Mr. Maduro identify as socialists, though they have no relationship.” — would be funny if they did this every time you write about two capitalists. www.nytimes.com/2026/01/03/w...

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Alarming, especially as China is very willing to push this technology to repressive governments around the world.

Very worthwhile, everyone please sign.

Absolutely this, and Minns was willing to go even further in selling out to the gun lobby. He had to be pulled back from doing it. #auspol

The Arc-en-ciel (Rainbow) nightclub & restaurant, Cholon (Chinatown), Saigon - a major nightclub in the late 1940s/1950s mentioned in Graham Greene’s The Quiet American (1955). Advertising Chinese & French food as “taxis-girls de Hong Kong” (which may of may not have been the case in reality!)

"I hardly knew the guy." Trump always goes for the big lie.

Will Australia’s social media ban survive a high court challenge from two teenagers? Most likely – here’s why | Luke Beck

The EU has slapped a fine on Musk's X because it is untransparent and supports deceptive practices. Nothing to do with "censorship."

Good wide-ranging analysis. Where he gives his opinions they are always well-supported.

Hahahaha, the comic book emperor.

Yes, this is the posturing of the bros around him. The ones who fancy themselves as world historical geniuses.

It really is amazing that the president has a noticeable an unexplained physical ailment that is disfiguring his right hand and there's no reporting about it. The White House's line is that it's from Trump shaking too many hands! Something is clearly being covered up.

Cringe

As far as I can see, this nat sec strategy is far harsher on Europe than on Russia. There is no mention of a threat from Russia or of deterrence, only that "re-establishing strategic stability" is a priority. Europe is cast as a major threat to freedom. A radical, dangerous document.

Trump has issued 1500+ pardons and counting…a who’s who of drug kingpins, crypto scammers, violent insurrectionists, terrorism financiers & corrupt politicians. In Trump’s oligarchy, the rich and powerful can pay their way to reside above the law.

This man ripped off teachers, nurses, small business owners - people from all walks of life and professions. Some lost their life savings. Not only did Trump let him out of prison, he also doesn’t have to pay back the victims.

Trump is a bloated, useless entity. Kind of appropriate then.

Trump's White House gutted the Institute of Peace, fired its staff and called it a "bloated, useless entity." Now Trump has renamed the institute he tried to destroy after himself. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/03/u...

Really appreciate the clarity of the president saying black people are ruining the country and this entire room of groveling empty suits saying nothing bsky.app/profile/just...

Raccoon gets drunk at a Virginia liquor store and passes out in bathroom

Death cult alert.

" .. there were 4,455 [noise] reports. And there were exactly zero penalties issued by police" Bring on the noise cameras, writes @michaelpascoe01.bsky.social #auspol michaelwest.com.au/big-noise-br...

The DC shooting story is really getting to me because we literally trained this man as a child soldier for a death squad in a forever war and Stephen Miller et al want to blame it on other cultures? It's our culture, American culture, that killed that woman.

narrator: 50 years ago... me: [nods] in 1945 narrator: in 1975... me: what

I wish I didn’t have to share this. But the BBC has decided to censor my first Reith Lecture. They deleted the line in which I describe Donald Trump as “the most openly corrupt president in American history.” /1

We can't exclude the possibility that Trump will agree to a deal that 'gives away' Taiwan.

As a historian, I have been torturing myself by watching some of the series that the White House in cooperation with Hillsdale College produced about American Independence (tellingly, they avoid the word "revolution"). There are so many errors that it is hard to know where to begin. But I'll try

Holy shit. So Elon decides it would be nice to know what region of the world people are posting from. So they add that little feature. 2 hours later they figure out that many Trump supporters with millions of followers are posting from other countries. Surprise! That "feature" is now gone.

"US senators say they spoke with Rubio about Trump’s Ukraine peace plan who denied it is a US plan." Welcome to the Topsy Turvy administration in which six or seven people are pursuing their own private foreign policy, and much of it is scripted by a hostile foreign power.

The entire West comes together to reject the Dmiriev 28-point plan to which Trump affixed his name. This would appear to mark the absolute modern low point of US diplomatic influence on he world stage.

Amazing. Australia, of course, is going in the opposite direction.

The people who make Shein's clothes labor for ten to twelve hours per day (in violation of China's labor laws), some up to seven days a week, and earn as little as 15 to 30 cents per t-shirt.

Just the president of the United States rationalizing that a Washington Post reporter was basically asking to be murdered and cut to pieces with a bone saw because of his reporting. As he sits next to the thug who ordered it.

Such an amazingly bizarre headline. The NYT has a huge talent for anodyne news presentation.

If women are underrepresented in STEM, it's at least partly because men like this offer mentoring, then embarrass themselves by assuming their mentees must be into them, then decide the best solution is to cut ties, which sends the signal to other faculty that the mentee must not be good enough.

Watching right-wingers suddenly discover that Trump is a bad person is wild

That's the problem for Trump, the more he tries to deflect the more attention he draws to himself.

Maybe, just maybe, is not truthful about what he got up to with Epstein. Maybe there's a wonderful secret.

Teal inroads into the Senate, largely at the expense of the Libs, would be a marvellous thing. For one thing Labor would finally have some credible opposition. #auspol

What a sentence.

Thomas Massie to CNN on the Epstein files: "This vote is gonna be on your record for longer than Trump is gonna be president. And what are you gonna do in 2028 and 2030 when you're in a debate … and they say, 'How can we trust you? You covered up for a pedophile back in 2025.'"

thinking about how i get anxious writing emails because i don't want to sound like a moron while larry summers is apparently typing emails like this: u kno she dint want to talk tomorrow. make me bad pheel.