Peter Magyar says Viktor Orban has conceded victory in Hungary election

On Ben Roberts Smith war crimes, it’s a major problem in this dumb country that the wrongheaded views of Gina Rinehart are reported on as they are. She inherited a mining fortune. That’s it. She’s irrelevant. Or should be. #insiders

Anyone who is anti-immigration should wear it proudly on their T-shirt when they go to hospital. #insiders #auspol #fcknzis

Canavan is a socialist now. Welcome, comrade. #auspol #insiders

Walked. Infrastructure was literally just raised in the interview, and Speeeersy wanted to move back to the tax breaks. Dude. Were you playing Candy Crush or what? #auspol #insiders

FFS Speers trying for a gotcha on EV purchase incentives and road user charges. Not a fucking word on DIESEL subsidies propping up the fossil fuel regime by billions !! #insiders

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If I cut back my neighbour’s hedge by a metre inside their boundary because I want to create a buffer, I’d be a cunt. If I poisoned their lawn a metre inside their boundary to create a buffer, I’d be a cunt. If I murdered my neighbours children… Hey it’s complicated. #insiders #auspol #IOF #Lebanon

To be fair, Speeeeersy, I don’t reckon anyone will be happy at the bowser paying a toll to Iran OR the US. This is the USA’s toll gate. #insiders #auspol

Apparently, Rowan Dean of Sky News has taken great offence to an old Alexei Sayle quote where he called Israel the Jimmy Saville of nation states and I would like to thank Sky News Australia for bringing this absolute cracker back into the light of day. I will use it whenever possible.

Dear Humans, If a Dem candidate for 2028 is not running first on EXACTING SWIFT AND WONDERFUL JUSTICE on the war criminals in this administration, then you must join with me in throwing that candidate into the lake of fire. Thanks, God

I find Trump refreshing, as much as it is possible to feel anything other than horror at the evil that he represents. The USA has long delivered such threats of war crimes against sovereign nations, just more diplomatically & massaged. This will be a They Live moment for many. (Many will resist.)

I’m no expert but I’d have a go at the budget. Tax resources. Reduce concessions on wealthiest. Nationalise essential services, including fuel refining, grocery, housing, public transport, etc etc. Then prepare for the US to invade I mean “liberate” us. Easy. #insiders #auspol #NoWarButClassWar

Did Sheridan just say the quiet part out loud in regard to his failure to write columns about Trump’s insider trading? 😆 #insiders #auspol

Sheridan is emblematic of the problem with politics today. Presents as sophisticated and considered but it is shallow and emotive, it is not founded in fact or historical context… Rhetoric on parade. If Hastie is a leader, we are done. #insiders #auspol

An exposition does not a factual analysis make, Di. Hastie made several easily challenged comments about renewables, batteries, the political background to the refinery closures, even how those decisions relate to core centre-right ideology. But apparently he’s leader in waiting. #auspol #insiders

On today’s #insiders Andrew Hastie demonstrates that he’s no good at relaying the glib lines of others. He totally stuffed the ‘home batteries are dodgy ‘ section. I wonder if #welldoneAngus Taylor told him to say it. Cringe! #auspol

“We can’t keep bailing out assets when they’re not cost-competitive” but Gillard, following a govt enquiry into the closures, saying the closure of two major refineries being a commercial decision is apparently a crime of some sort. Hastie missed his true calling. Jazz musician. #insiders #auspol

Hastie sounds an awful lot like a socialist when it suits his narrative and an awful lot like an idiot when it doesn’t. #insiders #auspol

The system is designed this way.

Watching ABC Insiders (so you don’t have to) but it’s a perfect illustration of the vacancy of Australian politics. Interviewing Barnaby Joyce in a big hat and then Matthew Knott and Jane Norman trying to explain energy policy. It’s embarrassing

Hey David Speers if you’re going to start calling progressive green electoral candidates “climate 200 candidates “ then you’re obliged to call Nats and One Nation participants “IPA/Rinehart candidates. It’s only fair. #insiders

Tap tap… “Can we get a fact check on aisle Barnaby, thanks.” #insiders #thickasabrick

It’s the words of wisdom we were waiting for in this time of global crisis! #insiders

What is the fucking point of getting a rambling irrelevant One Nation Senator on to talk on a Trump instigated global crisis. Seriously ABC? Barnaby Joyce ? #insiders

Iran’s 1950’s Mosaddegh govt was progressive, using oil nationalisation to fund social welfare, land reform & secular democracy. UK & US orchestrated a coup (Ajax) to regain oil control, citing fear of Communist influence & loss of colonial power in the Middle East. Our war. Oil war. #insiders #iran

Dark money groups are paying influencers to spread attacks about our campaign. Voters deserve to know who is trying to manipulate our election.

✋ Former USG war crimes lawyer here. Apropos of SecDef's remarks this morning: Denial of quarter—even the declaration of no quarter—is a war crime. And recognized as such by the US Government. From DoD's Manual for Military Commissions.

Ms Rachel has shifted from advocating for children killed by bombs that our taxes pay for, to advocating for children that our government is imprisoning without cause, which our taxes also pay for. This isn’t what a kid’s entertainer should feel the need to do, but since we’re here, more ppl should.

I miss the good old days when the US President had to make up stuff like the Gulf Of Tonkin to trick their population into backing their wars. #Iran #BoredOfPeace #ManufacturingConsent

“You should all just work hard so your bosses can buy more homes and build their futures while you rent from them, but also all of your problems are because of immigrants” - genuinely the message being sold to everyone by political parties and the media.

Two Liberal senators cross the floor to vote for Labor's motion that censured the One Nation leader for "inflammatory and divisive comments" that sought to vilify Muslim Australians.

#TemuScoMo doesn’t understand the procedure in the Senate. So, the search for the thing he understands continues. #afternoonbriefing #auspol

#TemuScoMo on Afternoon Briefing, proving he is every bit as ScoMo as ScoMo ever was. What a bargain the Libs got with this guy. #AfternoonBriefing #auspol

Damn i wonder who this guy speaking out against the Iraq War is. Wonder what he's up to these days

The Australian Government has updated travel advice to Dubai as “difficult.” #auspol #difficult

If the Govt is condemning regimes that hurt their own citizens then why don’t we have sanctions against the US? #auspol

Decapitation of a regime. Unilaterally killing another country’s leader. ToMAYto toMAHto

No one would mourn the passing of Donald Trump, but what is important here is regime change. #insiders #auspol #ethicscheck

Just your regularly scheduled share of this masterpiece by @tomgauld.bsky.social

Here’s what’s difficult. Being a member of the Australian government having to rationalise the actions of two nations who have done evil shit, but ultimately backing the one that whips out the coward’s punch as being the good guy. #auspol #insiders #preemptivestrike #cowardspunch #iran #warcrime

THIS.

Remember when they used to have to manufacture consent? How quaintly nostalgic.

Wilson ignores potent drivers of inflation: Housing scarcity. Global energy & food price shocks. Labour shortages in key sectors. Supply-chain bottlenecks. Govt spending in areas that increase supply (infrastructure, housing, skills) is anti-inflationary; not fuel on the fire. #insiders #auspol

Goddammit. 😢

I don’t know how Malinauskas is managing to make this even worse. This is a horrendous comment - the false equivalence here is horrific

Superb.

Breaking NYT: The Pentagon used a secret aircraft painted to look like a civilian plane in its first boat attack, according to officials briefed on the matter. The laws of armed conflict forbid combatants from feigning civilian status. That is a war crime called "perfidy."