I kinda hate the "imagine if" gambit, but ffs, imagine if this sort of evidence had been accrued about attacks on synagogues and Jewish members of parliaments. The prime minister and all of officialdom would be bending over backwards (quite rightly) to find the perpetrators.

I don’t know when Labor governments stop trying to please conservatives and learn that even by adopting their talking points and agreeing they’ll still get slammed - SO WHY NOT STAND FOR THE ACTUAL TRUTH AND WHAT’S RIGHT but it’s not today. This goes for appointments too

Bored of Peace

“It is time to acknowledge what has become tragically obvious: the Trump administration is operating as a massive criminal enterprise.” This absolutely captures it. Instead of "Trump Administration," we should say "Trump Syndicate." #TrumpSyndicate

Vale Jesse Jackson. My @smh @theage cartoon.

Just how spot on was Jon Kudelka. Pure and simple genius. #auspol

Changing colours. Today’s Age cartoon

If only Stephen Colbert ran CBS News

Great bunch of news stories this morning, telling us the system is working as designed. 1. Aged care system declines/delays assessments and provision of assistance sometimes long enough that people die waiting. 2. Pet insurance isn’t worth the cost in premiums. 3. AI steals your voice then your job.

This is the interview Donald Trump didn’t want you to see. His FCC refused to air my interview with Stephen Colbert. Trump is worried we’re about to flip Texas.

CBS pulling @jamestalarico.bsky.social’s interview from The Late Show with Stephen Colbert is alarming and nothing short of censorship. Full breakdown on my Substack page (link below). adamkinzinger.substack.com/p/emergency-...

“Readers can make up their own minds about what they would like to attend.” Well said. A point basically ignored by most of the press in the Adelaide writers fiasco: no-one was MAKING audiences go to Randa’s session. The pro-Israel lobby decided no-one could see her, even if it ruined the festival.

Australian federal politics is going to be increasingly unrestrained racism all the way to the next election, no point pretending otherwise

A burst water main is the lead story on Channel 7 6pm bulletin. Seriously?

A child dying of cancer spent her final days fighting to free her wrongfully detained father from ICE custody.   This comes just weeks after a mother from Maryland was denied the right to be at her son’s side as he died from cancer.   Not one dime for this cruelty. www.cbsnews.com/amp/chicago/...

Elon Musk, a pro-apartheid South African, may have come here believing the US was a bastion of English-Scots-Irish culture. (By the way, were the Irish welcomed by the English?) My grandparents and so many others came here because of the promise of freedom, tolerance, equal rights, and opportunity.

... Real trials of charges against Bondi and Noem and Vance and Trump. With real evidence and witnesses. Make clear to that jury of 100 that the world will forever remember their votes and whether they were faithful to the Constitution they've sworn to uphold.

I think we are going to have a Democratic-controlled Senate. And all we will need for the leadership of that Democratic Senate to do is hold actual, real, impeachment trials. As the Constitution requires. Not the bullshit fake trials like the ones that the Senate held in 2020 and 2021...

Bullshit.

Obvious point, perhaps worth saying straightforwardly: In MAGA world, “culture” =s race.

Many people in South Africa, where Elon is from, died to create a genuinely multiracial polity. They were killed by people who thought like Elon. The people who thought like Elon also lost. Seems their “common culture” of white supremacy wasn’t enough. bsky.app/profile/alan...

We must speak plainly about the agenda Elon Musk & other MAGA leaders are pushing. It’s white nationalism. There’s no room for Black, Hispanic/Latino, Asian, Native, Jewish or all other Americans in Musk’s monocultural vision. Multiculturalism is superior. We can’t allow Musk & others to end it.

Frank talk worth paying attention to:

Yesterday morning kids were sent running from their bus stop in panic because ICE showed up. This guy at today’s ICE Out of Lindenwold protest is a must watch 😭. @maddow.bsky.social

Vital that Michelle wins #Farrer so that all political parties get message that most voters have had gutful of their self serving ideology.

Vale Jon. What the friends you met along the way and made common purpose with (about the fun / stupid / important / existential stuff) say about you when die says a lot about you. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Cartoon by @andertoon.bsky.social.

Same. And all politics aside, what king of person lacks the common human decency to even turn their head to acknowledge the victims of childhood rape? Sickening... #AccountabilityIsComing

A+++ post

Governor @mikiesherrill.bsky.social, please remember there is no greater expert than Alina Habba on the law of parking garages and your state has a lot of them! 😀

Angus Taylor is the ultimate Australian expression of falling up syndrome

Happy #LibSpill Day for those who celebrate.

'Social cohesion'? No, it's just a net to trap us all www.thenewdaily.com.au/news/politic...

Alex Pretti's parents keep a box crammed with 200 letters and cards that have poured into their Denver home since their son was shot and killed by immigration agents. "He's my first born," Susan Pretti said. "He's the one that made me a mother. There was no reason he should have died that day."

If the NSW government has any interest in maintaining faith with its own public, it will ask the DPP to investigate police actions on Monday night without NSW Police involvement, with a view to prosecuting the cops who committed assaults. Or it can carry on blaming the victims; Minns' choice.

US Olympic Curling Team member speaks out against ICE: "I'm proud to represent Team USA. But we'd be remiss if we didn't mention what's going on in Minnesota and what a tough time it's been. What's happening is wrong. There's no shades of gray."

We need to turn the temperature down, says guy who turned it up

These guys are so normal.

Cohesion. My @smh cartoon.

Social Cohesion, one vertebrae at a time, one pensioner at a time, until we all start getting along by thinking what the government tells you to.

"Interaction with police" holy hell www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

Plans to invade Greenland have just been cancelled after this

You don't need a thousand words for this. "Social Cohesion" means someone is required to shut the fuck up, and it's never the powerful.

Some of our staff were at the Sydney rally last night and report that the degree of police brutality was terrifying and unhinged.

💯 percent this could happen

The footage of Australian police acting like ICE agents is pretty shocking, but the media broadly stepping up to downplay, deny and mis-describe their violence in ambiguous terms is completely unsurprising. It's an industry fundamentally incapable of ever assigning any blame to the police: ever

I'm convinced AI is our generation's radium - a discovery with genuinely useful applications in specific, controlled circumstances that we stupidly put in everything from kid's toys to toothpaste until we realised the harm far too late where future generations will ask if we were out of our minds.