Note to media: police arresting peaceful protesters singing “give peace a chance” is not protesters “clashing” with police. It’s the state violating the First Amendment rights of people upset that human beings who did nothing illegal are being held without due process and being fed maggots.

Your reminder that the new president of Australia’s long-term main “conservative” political party is still, as of midday an active member of a fascistic Hungarian influence-operation. Tony Abbott is a component of a transnational influence operation fighting to break democracy. #auspol

it is especially untenable because there is no current standard bearer for the democrats and so, by default, jeffries and schumer get thrust into that position the worst people in the world are attempting to implement a fascist kleptocracy and schumer's focus is pissing off his own base

God, reading about UK politics is depressing. There is a massive, coordinated media attack on Net Zero, led by the RW press (& accelerated by Musk's X). It is *wildly* out of sync with public opinion, but it is slowly working, convincing even labour MPs that the public is more right than it is.

Maybe now that the polls show One Nation are the “most popular political party in Australia” journalists will start asking them the same policy and process questions they ask Labor/Libs/Greens, and hold them to account in the same way. It’s time. Frankly, it’s long overdue. #auspol

7 lies in 2 sentences. Only in Trumpworld.

the press really are the biggest fucking dupes in our society. How many times will they breathlessly report PHONs ascendancy, only to find they elect a handful of morons, who either quit the party immediately on taking office or spend their term trying to create an exit strategy as Sky News racist?

An white male economist is confidently completely wrong about something outside their expertise, but insists that it’s everyone else that’s wrong, ignores every argument, engages in fallacious comparisons, whilst belittling anyone that disagrees with him. Must be a day ending in a ‘y’.

It's true that a translation of my book isn't the book I wrote. It's a translation of a book I wrote. That's why my name's on the cover (along with the translator's, I hope). A book "written" by an LLM isn't a translation, it's a set of statistically-likely outputs. There's no author or translator.

At best, someone who has an LLM produce a book for them can say: "I wrote some prompts, then this proprietary machine guessed what words might come next based on enormous sets of stolen data. It used this method to produce a book-length text." But that doesn't sound quite so impressive, hey.

Legacy institutions will continue to try to silence speakers for their political beliefs but we won't let them. We stand with Jacob Sacher and all those engaging in Jewish communal life whilst organising for Palestinian liberation and justice. Full statement: www.jewishcouncil.com.au/2026/06/jewi...

On the eve of our submission window opening, we felt we should add an AI policy

Thinking about why women might not want to use a product that has forced itself into every software interface to confidently shout things that are wrong

"It’s just as easy to claim this latest spike [in One Nation's vote] was because the budget didn’t go far enough for a polity crying out for radical change as it is to blame Labor’s mild changes to CGT, which will make little meaningful difference in the short term." - @rachelwithers.bsky.social 🎯

This bleeder was handed her business and whines about Australians working, like actual jobs unlike herself ever. STFU & pay your taxes. www.abc.net.au/news/2012-09...

I am increasingly convinced that not only does the right not see women as people, they don't think women actually exist

Anyway, trans sisters...if you're feeling bad about yourself, please remember that their bullshit beauty standards are so fucked up that their own paradigm of skinny western white women, Sydney Sweeney, doesn't even pass under them, and she's cis

It says everything you need to know (none of it good) about the Australian attitude to housing for the last few 25 odd years that THREE WEEKS of data about prices from about 0.25% of our housing stock getting sold or turned over is pored over like a revelation of the gods.

This answer alone should destroy this administration. This conversation is essentially: “people are hurting.” “ceos are fine.”

TERFs constantly tell us they're JUST SCARED, they're just REALLY FRIGHTENED....yet they'll square up to people who they reckon they're in mortal danger from.

On this: I’m a tall Brown woman with a strong jawline. A whole white woman accused me of being a man in a public toilet the other day. I didn’t correct her because my being trans or cis was not the point. The point was she felt entirely comfortable and confident doing that to someone in a TOILET.

if you are "using AI for writing," you are not writing. i do not know how to make this any simpler

One of the main drivers of the low-T/soy boy attacks in Talarico, speaking as an old cisgender white guy, is that all conservative politics is built around “inside, normal” and “outside, threat”, and if Talarico is seen as a normal guy with a normal gf, they can’t do anything to him.

'Staff at Goldsmiths, University of London are set to strike indefinitely after the institution threatened to impose a 100 per cent pay deduction on any staff participating in industrial action short of a strike, such as a marking boycott.'

What a coincidence! I just interviewed this Fisher Price Farmer Says See 'n' Say, and it told me some incredibly interesting things about farm life. Let me know when you'd like to publish this!

lol perhaps they should ask some of the women they used to have eh?

Ossoff: He settled the suit with himself to create a $1.8 billion slush fund so he can cut checks to cronies and Jan 6th foot soldiers. The same men who sacked the Capitol. Donald Trump's brown shirts . He pardoned them, and now he wants you to pay them.

Re: Sally Hemings. "That Jefferson managed to evade the scrutiny of white Americans for nearly two centuries tells us a great deal about the power of enslavers to bend reality to their will." (p. 100) Really enjoying this book. #booksky

Ossoff details "Prince Eric and Prince Don's" corrupt dealings in Kazakstan and says, "here's the bottom line. If you're involved in any of this, next year you'll raising your right hand and swearing to tell the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth so help you God in front of Congress"

As horrifying as this campaign of premeditated murder is, what might be even more disturbing is the utter indifference of Congress, the public and our allies to such a shocking and unapologetic obliteration of the many laws and norms against targeting civilians. www.nytimes.com/2026/05/31/w...

Big Tobacco's own documents say taxes scare them because price makes people quit. So why are so many people demanding we cut them now? It’s a free kick for the industry, we're being played harrisroxashealth.com/2026/05/chea...

a lot (most?) people understand racism as “being a meanie” and if you aren’t a meanie then you can’t be racist, even if you believe in, say, the biological inferiority of entire groups of people based on phenotype

Me too: she’s a public health warrior who has run a fine campaign. I donated to @andrealaflamme.bsky.social & she sent me a handwritten thank you note! As a general rule, I feel that dudes with Nazi tattoos who already have sexting scandals *AHEAD* of the primary aren’t gonna be great candidates.

Absolutely one of the most fun films of the last 10 years. Still begging for a "same cast playing different characters" sequel.

NPR finally waking up to the BREAKING news that all racists are also misogynists: www.npr.org/2026/05/27/n...

“No one wants violence at the ICE protest.” You mean the guys pepper spraying and beating you for standing there protesting don’t want violence? Could have fooled me. Seriously people, you better wake the fuck up. They’re out to KILL you.

And then, as we, the very tired Jews of the world, couldn't help but notice, some very prominent people, including supposedly famously progressive United States Senators, decided that exceptions must be made for reasons.

Congress controls the Power of the Purse, and therefore the Court’s funding. If the Court will not adopt a binding code of conduct with real recusal review on their own, I support withholding their funding until they do.

The Supreme Court is the only court in America with no binding code of conduct. That is completely unacceptable, and it has to change NOW.

A justice ruling on cases involving the department where his son works fails that test. The Treasury Department sits at the center of some of the biggest legal fights of this administration, and challenges to Trump’s $1.776 billion January 6 slush fund could be headed to the Court next.

This is a clear conflict of interest, and the American people deserved to know about it.    The federal recusal standard is clear: a justice must step aside in any case where there is a reasonable basis to question whether he or she can be impartial.

His son's employment was hidden so thoroughly that his name appears nowhere on the Treasury Department website, he has no public resume, and his bar listings are outdated.    If Alito had recused himself, the secret would have come out. He didn’t recuse himself.

There is no world in which this is okay.     Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito did not recuse himself from cases involving Trump’s Treasury Department while his own son was secretly working there as a political appointee and attorney. 🧵

I'll leave this headline here for you to read and think about what that actually really implies And Virgin ads showing a contented customer who asked for a CUP OF HOT TEA during a flight thinking THAT was the pinnacle of service ... knows nothing about how service has degraded! She's been gaslit!

200 murders ordered by Trump, carried out by peopje who are now war criminals. www.nytimes.com/2026/05/30/u...

We’re in Banana Republican territory.

he was praising a far-right podcast and appearing on it *after the Nazi tattoo was exposed*

the media coverage of Platner has largely been extremely favorable to him/gullible about his claims and that his multiple red flags are finally becoming a proper story is not a sign that they're biased against him, but that they're doing reporting.