🚨EXCLUSIVE🚨Liberal Party Senator Jacinta Price has today written to tens of thousands of people spruiking MAGA-style disinformation group "Advance". Price backs the "far-right" group & calls for money from public. Massive questions for Liberals, just one day after split... theklaxon.com.au/2dxw

Here you go Margo x www.theguardian.com/media/commen...

How Tim beat Zoe in #GoldsteinVotes. eveningreport.nz/2025/05/12/l...

Watched Sky Outsiders after #Insiders. Propaganda interview with Jacinta, who I think plays Pauline. She got elected 2022 after becoming prominent in Advance. It’s website was filled with Jacinta propaganda. Deep dive into the power players in this long play might be interesting.

When I heard Jacinta had defected I thought “the Libs said yes???”. Days later she’s Angus’ running mate! So ‘conservative’ ‘liberals’ to pick a hard right Trumpist yet to attend her first partyroom meeting to be its Deputy leader??? Crazy - 2022 red light flash to the Libs, 2025 the full stop?

Laura Tingle moves from political editor of 7.30 to global affairs role at ABC

@meadea.bsky.social amanda please post your Laura piece here!

Fossil fuels disinformation group "Advance" says Adam Bandt “could not survive” the “massive”, “year-long campaign” it had “unleashed” on the Greens leader. The Liberal Party-funded group says Bandt and other Greens are casualties of its “multi-million dollar attack”… theklaxon.com.au/rkl5

#Trump “said … he would name Jeanine Pirro, a Fox News host & former state-level prosecutor, to be the interim US attorney for the District of Columbia after a key Republican senator said he would not support the loyalist initially selected for the job.” #fascism www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

1. President Trump has fired the Librarian of Congress, Dr. Carla Hayden. The position of Librarian of Congress is so apolitical that only 14 people have held the role since 1802. Hayden, who was the first woman and Black American to serve as Librarian of Congress, has held the position since 2016

Wow. The Chicago Sun-Times published a photo of Pope Leo XIV at the 2005 World Series. Amazing. (Link in post below.)

Angus Taylor’s opening pitch. www.angustaylor.com.au/media/media-...

I see that Tim Wilson and Jacinta Price have begun their run to be Lib Leader next time in spectacular fashion. Gunna be wild, Coalition watchers… Kate Chaney the small l liberal indie MP in Perth, Tim Wilson the libertarian LibParty MP in Melbourne!

Gina’s takeover play for the Liberal Party.

My favourite seat result is #CalareVotes. Andrew Gee resigned from the Nats to support The Voice. Calare voted no 72-28, and elected Gee anyway. Here’s what else Gee is famous for amp.abc.net.au/article/1009... #IndependentsDay

A hard-right, Trump-supporting US news network that perpetuated conspiracy theories about the 2020 election will provide news coverage for Voice of America (VoA), the Trump administration said. Trump has accused VoA of radical left-wing propaganda... www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

So proud of Suzie Holt in #GroomVotes. She stood twice, turning Coalition’s 2nd safest seat marginal - 20.48% margin now 5.14% per cent. I learned to volunteer - manned the rural Biddeston booth all day then scrutineered. The best community indie performance in Qld! #Queenslander!

Carney the first! Opp leader and leader of Canada’s left party the new democrats lost their seats In a landslide given libs 20% behind. Uncanny.

Forget Albo being the first PM re-elected since Howard. He may be the first PM to beat TWO opposition leaders (Dutton, Bandt) nationally and in their own seats, taking out the next generation of leaders while he's at it.

👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻 Ann Telnaes won the award, considered the highest honor in journalism, four months after she revealed that a cartoon showing Bezos and other tech billionaires genuflecting to Donald Trump was killed by the newspaper’s then-opinions editor David Shipley. www.thedailybeast.com/pulitzer-boa...

Kate Chaney’s recipe for Liberal Party renewal - work out what you stand for and let us know please. ‘Cause liberalism ain’t in the mix any more. #CurtinVotes www.abc.net.au/listen/progr...

Acknowledgement of Indigenous people proceeded as normal in the Queensland parliament today. Welcome to Country will be performed at the women's state of origin on Thursday & at Friday's NRL magic round. It has the backing of the Qld clubs. #qldpol

🚨EXCLUSIVE🚨 The Liberal Party gave more money to anti-Welcome to Country disinformation group “Advance” last financial year than Federal Government spent on the ceremonies over its entire term. Advance has been aggressively attacking the $450k Government spend… theklaxon.com.au/sa2o

Bloody hell! “defence figures with knowledge of the situation claim the process is facing further uncertainty because formal permission that must be given by the US before the M1A1 vehicles can be handed over to another nation has not yet been granted.” www.abc.net.au/news/2025-04...

Dutton refusing the traditional pre-election National Press Club address is gutless. Final proof he knows he’ll get many important questions he doesn’t want to answer. Costings, anyone?

Kate Chaney’s #CurtinVotes April newsletter. My favourite new community independent. Good luck! My 2022 announcement interview profile nofibs.com.au/the-courage-... Kate’s pre-2022 election take nofibs.com.au/podcast-kate... Two years in pod nofibs.com.au/podcast-the-...

Mark Carney’s brilliant Victory Speech. Humility, Ambition and Unity. youtu.be/956Z6mnuOTQ

Maybe I’m naive, but as someone who knew the referendum would fail once the Coalition said no, I think it was a very bad call for Dutton to use an unforgivable anti-Australian interjection to say Welcome to Country should be abolished at Anzac Day ceremonies. Confirms who the real Dutton is.

🚨Liberal Party-funded disinformation group “Advance” sent an email to tens of thousands of Australians sowing division over ANZAC Day just hours before Friday’s dawn service. Advance and Coalition running campaign together against Indigenous ceremony... theklaxon.com.au/x37s

A minority Carney Govt avoids hubris & demands detailed good faith discussion across the Parliament at a time when national unity is required. To Show trump Strength. Hope we’d do the same if Trump’s America punched us in the face and called our PM Governor. Mark Carney’s speech a must watch!

I’m watching the CBC YouTube livestream on Canada’s election night. Love the format, straight, no gimmicks. Live blog www.cbc.ca/news

Pritzker: As a Ukrainian American Jew who built a holocaust museum… let me say this to Donald Trump: Stop tearing down the constitution in the name of my ancestors. Do not claim that your authoritarian power grabs are about combatting anti-semitism.

Notable absence of a question on gambling ads reform in any debate. ABC shoulda done it - big public support - and the other networks make money from them so no journo woulda been game…

SCOTT PELLEY says ‘60 Minutes’ executive producer Bill Owens resigned after Paramount started meddling in their content, because they wanted to get their merger approved by Trump — specifically mentioning their coverage of Israel and Trump.

“Canada’s the first referendum on Trump amongst democratic allies.” great read by JMart www.politico.com/news/magazin...

This election has been incredibly boring, uninspiring, and deflating on so many fronts, but I have found a ray of light: Labor candidate for Parkes, Nathan Fell, is awesome. Such a lovely guy, crazy smart, would be wonderful to see him in parliament. #nosafeseat www.netimes.com.au/2025/04/26/m...

Mark Riley, former smh Canberra Bureau chief, reinvented the exciting debate genre tonight! Seven updated the Nine Playbook in worm days under Laurie Oakes. Now a studio audience Pulse, and debate watch parties. WONDERFUL POLICY DEBATE TOO.

Hi All, just sent out weekend update #130 (yikes), free as all. It starts with a discussion of “concessions”. The Russian narrative is so strong in the west that Ukraine is being offered nothing by Trump and people are saying they are getting concessions. open.substack.com/pub/phillips...

Recommended. podcasts.apple.com/au/podcast/t...

"Albertsons tells suppliers to eat the cost of tariffs: ‘We are not accepting cost increases’" fortune.com/2025/04/25/a...

Virginia Giuffre, the prominent survivor of Jeffrey Epstein's sexual abuse, has died by suicide. Giuffre, 41, died in Neergabby, Australia, where she had been living. Giuffre was one of the earliest and loudest voices calling for criminal charges against Epstein. www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...

Suspicious? No - literally something hundreds of people do daily in the courthouse. This attempt to make it into something is just dumb (especially since they claim to be familiar with the elevators - clearly not). 10/

So - yes - you sometimes walk past one set of elevators so you can get where you want to go. If you are not going to the parking structure (which most people are), you take the other set of elevators because they are less crowded. 9/

Here's why this is absurd - there are 2 banks of elevators in the courthouse: 1 goes to the ground floor, and 1 goes to the 9th street exit which is where the parking structure is. In fact, there are even SIGNS telling you which bank of elevator goes where. 8/

So 2 law enforcement officers, there to arrest an unarmed man, just watch him. Meanwhile, the man & his lawyer go to the elevators. Note this weird comment to try to make walking to the elevators sound nefarious: 7/

Then what happens? The two DEA agents SEE him and do [checks notes] nothing. They don't arrest him, they don't do anything. They watch him? 6/

Let's jump to the heart of the matter - the lede is buried at ¶33. Per the complaint, the judge apparently sent the man TO THE PUBLIC HALLWAY WHERE LAW ENFORCEMENT WAS WAITING. You'll note they sort of gloss over this part. It's as if he miraculously appeared there. 5/

¶32 a discussion about Judge Dugan "forcefully" and "stern[ly] instructing the man in question to go out the jury door. BUT! It is not only a door to the jury room. It is *also* an exit to the *public* hallway. You know, the hallway where law enforcement is waiting. 4/