Me in my 20s: people have a lot of motives and there's nuance to everything Me in my 40s: oh a lot of people are just evil actually

With 4m guns in 🇦🇺 the shift to the individual has gone too far. There is no need for private guns in cities, only wants of individuals. Obviously the number of guns needs reducing to meet community safety. Another buy back scheme 2/

The terrorism act at Bondi has many components worthy of reflecting on, followed by action. Gun ownership is one of these. It’s an individual freedom vs the rights of the community to be safe argument and it worth having now while in collective grief. 1/

I'm so freaking tired of these right-wing snowflakes melting down over 'woke' culture. Last I checked, teaching kids about real history isn't indoctrination - it's education. But hey, keep clutching your Confederate flags while we build a better America.

Me: “When I eat Alphabet Soup, I only eat the vowels.” Coworker: “Why?” Me: “Sometimes.”

Absolutely, but it's also just ridiculously ironic that the tech that makes it possible to have instant access to all the reading material you could ever want should be wholly given over to one-at-a-time talking heads with no place for hypertext. WTF was the internet for? 5 billion cable channels?

Well, this is an utter disaster for science. This gutting of peer review is very likely driven by Project 2025/OMB/Vought, very likely is about funding junk science, and very likely is coming for #NIH and biomedical research next. 🧪

@zeteo.com Compare and contrast Donald Trump's response to Rob Reiner's murder with Biden and Harris's responses to Charlie Kirk's murder. There is no 'both sides'. Just one side - Trump - that is cruel, sociopathic, unhinged.

From the geniuses down the corridor www.monash.edu/science/news... 🌿🌱🌾🪴

Day #330 Competition allowed to turn into greed and unfair pricing practices and manipulation. There is no honesty in The GO☭SS. It's time for capitalism to be held accountable, by both parties. #proudblue #pinks prospect.org/2025/12/15/p...

Bloke did one decent thing in 40 years in public life and comes off the recliner to say it doesn't matter. (He got complete support from all bits of the ALP on guns BTW.) www.smh.com.au/politics/fed...

Opinion | Trump’s crude remarks about Rob Reiner are unbecoming of a FIFA Peace Prize winner.

Every single reporter there needs to hold the line on this too. Don't throw him a lifeline with another question if he dodges. Have each other's backs and demand he answer the question.

Judge Dugan, the Wisconsin judge the Trump administration is attempting to prosecute for obstructing the arrest of a noncitizen is on trial this week. All the background you need to understand the case here. joycevance.substack.com/p/the-week-a...

Ahmed al Ahmed, the man who tackled one of the Bondi killers, became an Australian citizen 3 years ago. His deed was "his way of conveying his gratitude for staying in Australia, for being granted citizenship." He took 5 bullets, and fears he'll lose his left arm. www.smh.com.au/national/nsw...

So we were condemned for criticizing hateful MAGA influencer Charlie Kirk in the wake of his murder but the "Orange Turd MAGA Fuch" can criticize life lifelong Democrat activist Rob Reiner in the wake of his apparent brutal murder & that of his wife? #GOPhypocrisy knows no bottom!

NEW EPISODE: Harvard Law Professor Nicholas Bowie and I unpack how the Supreme Court’s conservative majority is dismantling decades of voting rights, campaign finance law, and congressional authority. www.youtube.com/watch?v=LHv8...

the other thing that strikes me about dreher’s take — and related ones — is that they depend on the conceit that political history began, at most, 10 years ago.

You have got to be kidding me

No one in the burbs is blaming Albo. They are blaming nutters. This is massive overreach by media.

It’s a great big fat dog whistle. He cannot be held responsible nor the government for the actions of these two people. And the Libs when actually pushed can’t articulate how he could

Incredible the entire press gallery is actually buying the line (promulgated by Netanyahu!) that Albanese is personally to blame for the Bondi attack. No one is actually explaining how firing academics for opposing Israel’s genocide would stop two people who never went to uni from this shooting.

Faaaark. 1. Show me one freestanding house in Sydney less than $1m and 2. Fuck right off and when you get there fuck off again. Imagine the sort of person that would spin what happened to talk about property prices. Unbelievable. Hope they take it down

Anyway, just a reminder that the median Sydney house price is roughly $1.5m so…

Just want to share with my American friends how the Australians respond to a shooting tragedy. Action, rather than thoughts and prayers.

"I was never on Epstein's plane." ~Donald J Trump, January 2024 That's odd, because according to the flight logs, he was on Jeffrey's plane SEVEN TIMES. And now some of the newly released Epstein photos are showing Trump on that plane. What to believe, what to believe?

Bless the Muslim man who disarmed a terrorist shooter in Australia!

It doesn't matter where you're from, as long as you care is what matters...

Better explained here:

I'm an American who lives abroad. The best way to see the US is from the outside, especially when one can rationally, logically and intelligently discuss the issues with other such observers.

People love reminding me that I'm not allowed to post about American politics cause I'm not American. Even ignoring the problems with that concept in general, my wife is American, their family all lives in America and one of my brothers lives in America. I'm allowed to care about their hell hole.

To paraphrase the Greek statesman, Pericles: "You may not be interested in politics, but politics may be interested in you."

Donald Trump is on live TV addressing the shootings at Brown University and in Australia. He quickly shifted to bragging about all of the tariff based money pouring into the US “more than four times as much as ever before.“ The network cut away from it.

Bless the Muslim man who disarmed a terrorist shooter in Australia!

Rand Paul: "The president also said, 'Be careful Colombia, you could be next.' I mean, if we're gonna go and topple regime after regime in South America, there's no amount of money that could be printed to pay for that and I don't think lives should be lost without a vote by Congress."

My editing final exam was a simulation of covering a campus shooting for campus media while on lockdown. I pointed out you should not share locations where people are hiding while a shooter is at large. Watching this Brown coverage. How do professional media not know this?

Ads like that helped the Indiana legislators make their decision to NOT gerrymander the maps. These trump cabinet members either worked for Heritage or have close ties. Speaker Johnson, Russ Vought (OMB), Tom Hogan(czar), Brendan Carr (FCC), John Ratcliffe (CIA)

This is blackmail. The U.S. is now at a point where the far right no longer feels it needs to cushion its blackmail demands inside softer language. #auspol

Bin Laden substantially achieved his goals. He provoked us into dismantling our own liberal democracy.

"Where did that go?" 9/11 was much more effective in terms of shifting American values away from liberty and openness than is usually acknowledged. But I think that's the answer here.

I remember a time when we railed against countries who demanded papers be on you at all times. This nation was proud to be free to move about w/o documents. Where did that go? Where’s the outrage?

Stepped out of the house and forgot your wallet? Oops, you're in a federal immigration jail now. Kids walked to the park to play? Oops, the kids are in a federal immigration jail now.

Detaining people simply because they don't have an ID with them is also a clear and obvious suspension of habeas. The Real ID detail is the "second strike" but for their set domestic policy, crystalizing their criminal lawlessness for anyone still in doubt.

The reason folks are focusing on DHS's refusal to honor Real IDs is that it means that the Trump regime is asserting the right to detain anyone in America, resident or visitor, without probable cause. It's an erasure of habeas corpus for all Americans. bsky.app/profile/jare...

A reminder that most Americans who are life-long citizens have nothing OTHER than a Real ID to prove their citizenship. This is CBP’s chief enforcer saying that ID doesn’t count.

Looks like Red states like Iowa are quickly expanding Trump & Musk’s surveillance of civilians. They’re tracking us by license plates: Where we go, how long we stay, who we are. This is more than the thin edge of the wedge. This is a fascism on steroids. www.iowapublicradio.org/ipr-news/202...

ChatGPT is giving itself quite a glow-up.

I’d guess I’m not entirely alone in having assumed it would continue to mean Intrusion Countermeasures Electronics…