Legacy and social media hot takes have trained a generation of people to think expressing pure outrage at politicians breaking laws and norms is somehow naive and unserious.

“In today’s fun reenactment of World War II, the part of Adolf Hitler will be played by Donald Trump, Venezuela will play the Sudetenland, while the role of Neville Chamberlain will be played by every other fucking leader in the world.”

Incredible how quickly Trump's insane criminality, now playing out in Venezuela, is transformed by 'serious people' into an 'oh well', like it's justifiable to invade other countries and kidnap their leaders. If our govt offers anything but outright condemnation, we have lost the plot.

“This invasion means peace in our time.”

Pretty sure Mariah Carey thinks there shouldn't be a Royal Commission

"We live inside a billionaire-operated media landscape where every little & big thing that happens is part of a struggle to shape what we think & how we act and most of the time we don’t realise how we are being played. And look, even realising it doesn’t help." tdunlop.substack.com/p/in-your-he...

There should be a law keeping Chris Minns off social media. He seems incredibly vulnerable to going down certain rabbit holes and coming up with stupid ideas.

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After seeing Ley’s atrocious rant today, it is as well to remember this is the party John Howard destroyed projecting internal division out into the world. It’s ugly and dangerous, aided and abetted by an equally broken media, but it isn’t winning them any friends.

I see Australia’s cultural warriors, in and outside the mainstream media, are currently covering themselves in glory and not at all exploiting tragedy for ideological gain. Their commitment to social cohesion is inspiring. (Honestly, we are SO badly served.)

Incredible! Most chimney sweeps don’t live that long.

"I've shifted position on this a little. At first I was completely dismissive, worried about the role of US anxiety entrepreneur, Jonathan Haidt, and the self-serving campaign run by News Corp based on his ‘work’. But it's more important than that." tdunlop.substack.com/p/the-road-t...

You'd normally have to go to the coincidence factory to see a coincidence that perfect.

I’ll be disappointed in the market if you can’t already buy a clean social media record to enter the US in the same way you can buy clean piss for a drug test.

If I ever get to play against Carlos Alcaraz, I’m going to say this

We are governed by bloodsucking, technocratic morons. more technofuedal enshittification from the incrementalist in chief.

Laughs in politician, woman, LGBTQ+ people, Muslim, young person, Indigenous person, blogger, cyclist, asylum seekers….

As threats go, this is up there with Hannibal Lecter saying he wouldn't invite you to dinner.

Let them cook cake

“Clown denies circus rumors as he pops on rainbow wig and red nose.”

No doubt about it, she is very insightful.

There’ll be a lot of dead whales washing up on the beaches

Another Labor obscenity.

Oh hey! I was in Europe in the middle of the year touring with one of my bands, Black Aleph. Here's a lovely video of us performing in Paris: www.youtube.com/watch?v=cMH5...

Incrementalism for progressive reform; pedal to the metal on neoliberal bastardry. www.abc.net.au/news/2025-11...

Correct response by eCommissioner, though I don't know how she expects to get a selfie with Trump if she doesn't show up...

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Calling Labor's current approach "incrementalism" or "small target" or whatever makes it sound like they are are an overly cautious progressive govt. Matters like this show that they are actively pursuing policies that make them indistinguishable from the centre right: not incrementalists at all.

It is, again, unacceptable that the Herald-Sun continues to use James Campbell as a polling commentator. He should have been moved on for good after his ludicrous misreadings of Redbridge polls during the federal election.

Perhaps the most unnecessary subheading in history (article via @simonwdc.bsky.social) Astounding figures.

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John Howard must be turning over in his cave

Seems to be working for him

I suspected there might be problem with that "right to disconnect from Nazism" legislation.

Good collection of Dismissal-related stories. open.substack.com/pub/truenort...

After Ragnarök, the Josh Frydenberg will return and cleanse the earth. theconversation.com/view-from-th...

"Tesla shareholder approve one trillion dollar pay deal for Elon Musk."

Okay, great. Or not great.

One of the best arguments for politicians keeping pronouncements about their "faith" to themselves is that it allows them to avoid presenting as hypocrites. Stop pretending there is anything Christ-like in your incrementalist, centrist neoliberalism.

"Which is why I am dedicating an episode of my NYTimes podcast to the topic." www.nytimes.com/2025/11/05/o...

This is so true. People like Bolt hate actually existing Australia. Always have.

Does Albanese do selfies with socialists or just fascists?

“Modern neo-Nazis crave attention and publicity. They see journalists as ‘useful idiots' in this regard, and they celebrate even the most critical coverage because it inevitably leads to a surge in membership applications.” ASIO Chief, Mike Burgess (paywalled) www.afr.com/policy/forei...

Not left. Not Right. Stupider.

Cool? No. Normal? Yep.

Sauron says what?

Don't tell Sussan Ley that kids all over the world are dressing up as death and going door-to-door asking for lollies.

Dumb will tear us apart, again

Btw, the Mellon Auditorium has a 22,000 sq ft neoclassical ballroom 8 mins from the White House that the govt helped restore in 2022. Total Trump aesthetic. Knocking down the East Wing has nothing to do with building a ballroom. Building a ballroom has nothing to do with building a ballroom.

They are just Nazis to their bones