Can't think of a stronger endorsement for Erasmus.

Here's me. "Weaponising the Bondi tragedy is a betrayal of all our children"

The vast majority of Australians, everyone I've spoken to, my Jewish friends, my Muslim friends, want to just be good to one another in this moment, and avoid inflaming the endless blame cycle. A loud minority want otherwise. Unfortunately they're among the loudest in the nation

If the conservatives go fully down the path of "the PM is weak on antisemitism" to respond to this tragedy while the government go down the sensible further reforms to gun laws route, I know which approach I'd have my money on most Australians backing.

If the conservatives in Australia don't pull back their culture war bullshit over this, the Australian public will blowback. I've been involved/done polling on how ostensibly foreign issues debated in Australia are politically perceived domestically for 30 years. (1/2)

A pretty large majority support the debate in a 'whatevs' kind of way, but once it crosses into material consequences or even crowding out other issues, a majority clicks into a "send it back to where it came from" response. And it isn't a white person thing, it's an everyone thing (2/2)

Ah yes, that's where a recently unemployed 24-year-old bricklayer, who spent years hanging around Australia's pro-IS network, and his 50-year-old migrant father were radicalised: university anti-genocide protests 🙄 Be fucking serious for a moment.

I think the best way to explain the X vs Bluesky preference is whether a person thinks the left is more annoying than the right is dangerous. The reason so many Noah Smiths end up on the X side of that equation is that while the left annoys them personally, the right mostly endangers other people.

One way that the reaction to Rob Reiner's murder mirrors Charlie Kirk's is that the best way to eulogize each of them is to quote their words, and in both cases, doing so pisses off conservatives.

After much consideration, I have decided to apologize for my past statements, and I have embraced the need for the DoD to adopt the Silicon Valley Mindset. I'm introducing what I would like to call App-Centric Warfare. othermeans.io/p/app-centri...

I’d like to extend an apology to Suetonius. I assumed his mad bad Caligula stories were hyperbole, but now not so sure. 🤦‍♀️

If only there had been signs that a group of below average men who espouse misogynist views and are led by an adjudicated rapist would treat their female colleagues poorly.

Never forget: Art matters.

It’s hard to believe you used to be considered a serious newspaper. I find it hard to believe that I was actually a subscriber for years.

This headline might work better if it stripped him of the title.

ladies and gentlemen...we got him

Something that two years ago would have been a resigning issue for a frontbencher to say isn’t even the headline any more because - well, because those views are everywhere now apparently? I suppose. But they’re everywhere *within a very specific circle*

'Yeah, let's make the whole of England look like Belfast's Shankill Road at the height of sectarian violence in the 1980s', said no one more than five minutes ago.

this was the worst thing about Trump 1.0, every week felt like a year I cannot fucking believe people wanted to go back to this

Probably the most important but neglected scandal about Mandelson. Epstein was close to Peter Thiel. Thiel had secret meetings with Cummings and Johnson before Palantir’s 100m contract Mandelson’s Global Counsel was pitching Thiel’s Palantir to Starmer. What a carousel of cronyism

This is both depressing and spot on - particularly in light of the Shattered Britain report that’s just come out from @moreincommonuk.bsky.social

🧵Spotted While Roaming in Aotearoa New Zealand: Two tiny humans (1 & 2?) are sitting in a red cart pulled by Mum. One is dressed like a crocheted woolly bunny, the other like a dragon. Their expressions benevolent as they survey their subjects, accepting all appreciative looks and adoration. (1)

crush your enemies, see them driven before you, and hear the lamentations of their consultants

Starting to think these folks aren’t the “free thinkers” they think they are

The “millionaire exodus” to which the British press devoted at least 30 stories a day was a myth

Not true. I see you're a luxury watch dealer. I'm also interested in watches. Let me show you how free and easy migration has allowed you to earn a living. 🧵

"Roughly 1,500 babies have been born HIV-positive every day since January 21, because Musk cut off their mothers’ medication." prospect.org/power/2025-0...

This is exactly what I needed today.

Join us for a ripping new adventure, Five Hang About While George Raids The Filing Cabinet

People treat health apps with the same trust as their diaries or their GP and that trust is willingly abused by authorities. This is chilling.

Are we absolutely certain he isn’t trying to raze the party to the ground? Trying to identify the strategy here.

So many questions 😬

Thanks to his tweet, today I learned about the bata scoir

you want to know one reason people are losing trust in the media? it’s the total inability to call things what they are some guy on YouTube: “wow this is the most corrupt shit I’ve ever seen” the Times: “critics say it raises appearance of impropriety” who are people going to take seriously?

It appears that Big Fashion wants women to wear ties this season and I, for one, am not having it.

If you haven’t seen this smart small businesswoman take a moment - she’s awesome in her clarity #econsky

I’ve said many times that I am a better person for having read Discworld, and it’s true if you’re going to base your morality off a book you could hardly do better than Pratchett

“If they can get you asking the wrong questions, they don't have to worry about answers.” - Thomas Pynchon I think about that a lot these days.

Schism now

A section titled what?? In a chapter titled WHAT????

3) Moving right on immigration normalizes the radical right, their positions and rhetoric. Normalization is a key precondition for electoral expansion of the radical right. Programmatic accommodation and collaboration normalize the radical right and open new segments of the electorate for it.

This is true for mainstream right and left parties. The move happens strategically to win back voters of the radical right and not just in response to public opinion. 2) This does not work. These strategies do not win back voters from the radical right. If anything, the radical is the net winner.

You’re telling me that right wing voters that Labour was trying to appeal to voted for a right wing party anyway and left wing voters decided not to vote for Labour because they’re too right wing now? Who could have possibly predicted this.

Well either r/TemuThings is a surprisingly blue Dem echo chamber or a lot of red voters are finding out … and they are not happy www.reddit.com/r/TemuThings...

Started my uni degree in 1990. Cheaper fees but better staff-student ratios than now. Got better feedback on assignments. Also had a better uni campus social life. Uni students now are getting hosed.

To state the obvious: It is hard to conduct effective foreign policy when being seen as too aligned with you represents a potential 25+ point electoral liability for prospective partners.

Australia has a media where a Nazi protest leads to multiple articles wondering if they are making a good point. FFS.

If you think fertilized eggs have rights but 2-year-old US citizens with cancer don’t, stop pretending your concerns are “the children.”