The key distinction is between nominal wages and real wages. Nominal wages are the dollars on your paycheck. Real wages are what those dollars can actually buy.⁣ ⁣ If prices rise faster than pay, you’re going backwards.

New in PN: No one is coming to bail Trump out of his disastrous war "The problem may be that Trump is asking China to bail him out, but offering nothing in return. It’s one of his favorite negotiating techniques: Demand everything, offer nothing & wait for other side to submit. But it doesn’t work"

So Lee Anderson, who said Islamists have "got control" of Sadiq Khan, wants to close every food bank in the country, and is committed to bringing back the death penalty, has now been made Chairman of Reform UK

My latest article in The Shot "In Farrer, suddenly the saviour Pauline was all for the water .... Pauline Hanson – who thinks the Murray Darling Basin Plan is the name of her plumber Murray’s work schedule – now wants you to believe she’s going to save them." 🙏🏽 theshot.net.au/uncategorize...

President Trump's $1.776 billion settlement with the IRS is one of the single most corrupt acts in American history. They moved fast to avoid the scrutiny of the judicial process, and very likely violated the Constitution. This is an outrage.

Ring the bell because for the first time ever: Jim Cramer is stunned silent. Just like the rest of us, he’s seeing the President commit insider trading right in front of our very eyes.

Liar, Liar, Liar liar, Liar liar liar, Liar liar liar liar liar, Liar liar liar liar liar liar liar liar, Liar liar liar liar liar liar liar liar liar liar liar liar liar. The Fibbernacci sequence

A perfect encapsulation of Trump’s ridiculous trip to China by @davidlurie.bsky.social in @atrupar.com’s PN:

Forcing Farage to talk about the Brexit disaster is key to defeating him inews.co.uk/opinion/forc...

He ran that scam in 2019 "In February, the fund manager Geoff Wilson admitted to part-funding the website with the Liberal MP Tim Wilson. Wilson Asset Management ran the petition on the website, collecting the personal information of those who had signed up."

As it becomes increasingly clear that the mess in the Middle East will continue through to the midterms, I can't help but wonder when the Republican Congress will step in -- to save their own jobs.

Pete Hegseth’s focused on the cost of the bomb. I’m more interested in the size of the economic crater.⁣ ⁣ And that crater may be 10 to 100 times larger.⁣ ⁣ For many families, that translates into thousands — perhaps tens of thousands — of dollars.

Chinese newspaper cartoon (Today... 😂 )

Here’s a list of things Zohran Mamdani has done in just four months | First Dog on the Moon

CARTOON OF THE DAY 😕🇺🇸 (From @andertoon.bsky.social )

So nothing

"You can't say the cost of a puppy is $200 because that was the adoption fee." The Pentagon's $25B price tag does exactly that — it ignores veterans' care, disability payments, and decades of interest. The true cost of war shows up long after the fighting stops.

A Budget Reply Speech from Dr. Rich Kahnt. #auspol #budget2026 #comedy #satire #ARationalFear

By my count this is the seventh Reform councillor suspended after being elected just one week ago*, mostly for expressing direct support for Nazism or other forms of racism.

This story is becoming absolutely devastating for Farage.

Percentage of V/AFL games featuring at least one indigenous player 1920-29 - 0.0% 1930-39 - 9.7% 1940-49 - 13.7% 1950-59 - 16.5% 1960-69 - 22.4% 1970-79 - 27.2% 1980-89 - 53.9% 1990-99 - 83.1% 2000-09 - 97.4% 2010-26 - 99.2% #AFLDeadly #SirDougNichollsRound #AFL

NEW VIDEO: Liam Parry, who's running in this weekend's Stafford by-election, speaks to 6 News about the Queensland Socialists and his hope to play a role in "dragging politics to the left" WATCH: www.youtube.com/watch?v=wZBA...

While all eyes are on Farage, we're overlooking something even worse: the building of the very tight and truly vile operation that is Restore Britain. This excellent essay/report by Simon Pearson should wake us up to the threat - and to what exactly it is. simonpearson1.substack.com/p/tory-30

Nigel Farage’s partner, a former waitress not known to have any private money, bought a £1 million house for cash shortly after he secretly received £5 million from a Thailand-based cryptocurrency billionaire - the same house that he claimed, months previously, that he was about to pay for himself.

Just for a week, just for fun, the New York Times, BBC, etc should cover US politics on the assumption that the Republican Party is an extremist, authoritarian, anti-democratic personality cult led by a mentally failing narcissist rather than the same old same old. See what happens

Stephen Miller did the near impossible: he took Trump’s strongest issue and turned into an overwhelming negative.

Perfect campaign ad for the upcoming Midterms. 👌

Multi-millionaire Pauline Hanson is very upset with the budget tax changes because they "redistribute wealth!" (Video credit: Mike Bowers)

He's sleeping on camera, again.

i can't believe this is really what they're going with lmao

interviewer: it says here you’re not afraid to challenge authority me: no it doesn’t

Charlottesville used bookstore’s got game

Doctors say that fluoride helps build strong teeth. A guy who snorts cocaine off toilet seats and takes raccoon penises home for “further study” says it causes autism. For busy parents, it can be hard to know who to trust.

one day, this constant, endless, exhausting, humiliating horseshit is just going to stop and it will never start again.

I remember a time when "crypto-fascist" used to mean a fascist hiding their bigotry. Now it means a fascist, open about their bigotry, and funded by crypto.

In other news, Ben Rowe, who 'accused "the Jews" of "creating division by forcing other races on our societies"' + encouraged rioters throwing bricks at police defending a mosque is now a Councillor in Plymouth: share.google/v6eFH4YhFKx4...

This 1952 memo from the Pentagon UFO files is superb There is no point preparing for aliens ‘because no one of consequence is going to take this rubbish seriously unless it happens. At that point, our policy will be determined in the traditional manner of grand panic.’ 🤣 www.war.gov/medialink/uf...

Which of these has the more ironic name? "TRUTH" Social or Fox "NEWS" #WordsMatter

Hungary’s parliament sings “Ode to Joy” — the anthem of Europe — after Péter Magyar is sworn in as prime minister. Hungary is once again a proud member of the European Union.

What owl?

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Good fricken riddance. May she never hold any office again. May we never have to hear from this crumb maiden again.

Sorry ABC - 8m are not on "income support". My fact check for @thepointau.bsky.social thepoint.com.au/factchecks/2...

They may take Julie Bishop's job, but they'll never take her $800,000 office located 3,092km from where her job was. We'll never see her like again.

Opinion | Writing for Crikey, Julie Hare details the tattered legacy of Julie Bishop, who has resigned as chancellor of ANU following years of scandals and allegations of mismanagement. Read: www.crikey.com.au/2026/05/08/j...

A please @labouruk.bsky.social, stop saying that it's up to us to stop Reform. YOU could stop a Reform government in 2029, by introducing the proportional representation so many in the country have been clamouring for. The only way Farage can win is through our crazy first-past-the-post system.

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However you dice it, it’s been a great night for Thai-based cryptocurrency billionaires & Vladimir Putin - who, incredibly, is currently getting more good news from the UK than Ukraine.

Trump threatened to nuke Iran during the same press event where he called a woman reporter "baby" and a "bitch" and we'll all just supposed to continue on tomorrow as though any of this insanity is normal or acceptable

🚨 NEW: 42% of Australians blame the US and Israel for the ongoing fuel crisis, with 32% blaming the federal government and 17% blaming Iran