Being barred from Rapey McTreason's lieathon isn't the flex the Felon think it is. Personally, I think the less we see/hear of this gold-painted turd the better

The more unpopular a fascist regime becomes the more they crack down on dissent

👇🎯 Stunts are good politics because they send signals of how serious problems are to the public & media. This is why, e.g., university presidents should have gathered en masse on the Capitol steps to make the public aware of the existential threat to higher ed all the federal budget cuts pose.

The ABC's attempt to impose an "impartiality obligation" on its presenters' public commentary demonstrates that it has learned all the wrong lessons from its rolling series of debacles. Just setting itself up for the next round of disasters.

How about we replace Chancellors, VCs and senior managers with chatbots? (They've already replaced themselves with AI but continue to collect the salary and make awful decisions) share.google/xLXvRgJsFPIz...

Here’s a piece I wrote about the damage done to Australian cultural institutions - ABC, Creative Australia, MSO, SLV, SLQ, etc and now Bendigo Writers Fest - by their surrender to the demands of pro-Israel pressure campaigns open.substack.com/pub/nickfeik...

Jim Chalmers has ripped into the LNP’s “nasty negativity” inc. Andrew Bragg’s “absolute rubbish” & Tim Wilson’s “scorched earth industrial relations” Says if they “had answers on productivity they wouldn’t have presided over the worst decade for prod. growth in the last 60yrs”🔥 #auspol

How on earth does a major organisation, particularly a bank, accidentally underpay its staff? The mind boggles. NAB flags $130 million hit after underpaying staff, as payroll problems widen #auspol

Fuckin' hell...

All memorial service programs should include the recipe for the deceased’s favourite dessert. RIP and thank you David Dale

‘Australia’s federal, state and territory governments have agreed to develop a national solar PV module reuse and recycling scheme.’ #Solar #ProductStewardship Not before time! #auspol www.pv-tech.org/australia-to...

All zelensky needs for a deal is the pee tapes and the Epstein files #ukraine

The world's largest welfare queen regrets biting the hand that feeds him. The State is more powerful than any and every billionaire. Money comes and goes - there's always money, but only a fixed pie of power. News at 11

What are people in literary studies up to nowadays? I have this vague intellectual history in my head wherein way back in the early 20th century it was all close reading aesthetically interesting texts, then in the mid-to-late-20th century they decided they were gonna save the world actually...

#OtD 7 Jun 1948 Chinese phosphate miners on Nauru protested when a ship came to take them back to China, but they demanded part of their pay. Australian police attacked the workers, killing 4, injuring 16 and arresting 49, and the workers were deported stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/7982...

There is neither merit nor consistency to any of our systems except for the rule that the rich and powerful will be rewarded no matter what. They can only fail upward.

Great time for koalas to start doing crime and blaming it on humans

Awarded an AC for services to the Reject Shop. #auspol

Looks like @crikey.com.au won't be getting any embargoed press releases from the G-G's office anymore. I'm all for embarrassing #ScottyFromMarketing but awarding former PMs an AC is, rightly or wrongly, basically a given so not sure this was worth it. #KingsBirthdayHonours #AusPol

Another #FOI win, with the Information Commissioner delivering a scathing rebuke to the Defence Department over their approach to secrecy. More to follow. #NavalShipbuilding #transparency #auspol

Has anyone had experience with wildlife cameras? Can you recommend a reliable one?

I am furious! 😡🤬 #nzpol New Zealand MPs who performed haka in parliament given record suspensions

i thought those crazy kids would make it

This is Lux. She was pulled from a shelter with a mass on her abdomen that needed to be biopsied. Thanks to your support of our merch, @15outof10.org was able to cover her $5,000 surgery to get it removed and tested. Results showed it was benign, and Lux has found a forever home ❤️‍🩹

OMG #Auspol it's even worse ... he was speaking ... (snerk, guffaw) at a... (stop laughing, this is serious!) online meeting of (wheeeeeeeeeze) The Liberal Party Women’s Council! (dies) womensagenda.com.au/latest/eds-b...

LIVE: ​​US vetoes UN Security Council resolution demanding immediate Gaza ceasefire https://twp.ai/4inEkQ

Has Trump just breached the only trade deal he struck? At the time, British PM Starmer described the deal as one that "will remove tariffs on British steel and aluminium, reducing them to zero." Yet Trump just announced that they'll get a 25% tariff. www.whitehouse.gov/fact-sheets/...

this is "Was there any sign of violence?" "You mean, other than the dead body?" level of walking-into-it.

Occam’s Razor for the win.

Did everyone draw the sun in the corner?

“The president’s solutions-focused approach to legal roadblocks necessitated thinking outside the constitutional box.”

I mean, if you had a serious, important job and you made a mistake like this, you'd probably get fired...

Sadly accurate.

I recently became aware of the phenomenon of RPUM—Rich People Using Medicaid. If The Regime wanted to root out fraud, waste, and abuse in the system, they could start there, but they won’t. RPUMs have the cash to pay the correct lawyers to ensure they don’t have to use their own assets.

It used to be bots pretending to be humans, now it's humans pretending to be bots

Researchers predominantly approach health studies through a Western biomedical lens... often treating Māori participants as research subjects rather than active contributors to knowledge production.' Published in both English and Māori in ANZ J Surg 👏👏👏 #MedSky doi.org/10.1111/ans....

A Nazi salute isn't created by how you hold your hand at the end, it is created by how you get there, with a vigorous thrust, not a gentle wave. This is why Musk is using photos instead of videos to obfuscate.

Want to swear but kids are around? Use these kid-friendly swear words! Source: buff.ly/41EcAcE

Turns out DOGE is more than just a fake agency, it’s cuts are fake too. A dog and pony show. Uncover the truth behind the fake “savings” and the real cost to taxpayers… like… your information. Watch now: m.youtube.com/watch?v=-8YR...

Almost nothing on Trump's schedule today. Likely tired after a long night on the phone telling Putin it'll all be ok.

We’re up to at least 97 cases in which district courts have blocked Trump policies—from 73 different judges (appointed by seven different presidents) in 25 different district courts across 10 circuits. Today’s “One First” looks at what critics of these rulings are leaving out of their narratives:

In destroying north Gaza's only surviving facility for kidney dialysis (no doubt claiming it was... Hamas), Israel has indirectly condemned to an agonising death countless patients. Another day another Israeli genocidal act. www.aljazeera.com/news/liveblo...

headline construction masterclass

Artist: birdstrips

"The arguments only started to fail when politicians got too tired to keep prosecuting them. When the exasperation with 'dumb' journalists or voters got too much." Tingle's parting advice to a strong government tempted to be weak on necessary policy reform. #auspol www.abc.net.au/news/2025-05...

From The New Republic’s Michael Tomasky, in his article yesterday, “The Only ‘Judicial Coup’ in This Country Is By Trump Against Judges.” “It’s funny. But it’s worth noting that Trump doesn’t always chicken out. Most of the time, he just loses.

Newer Swans fans don’t remember the early 1990s. I do. I was prepared after that for the Swanettes to come out to dance and Geoffrey Edelsten to run from the cops