minaj is on the verge of having her $20M home forcibly sold by the court to cover a $500K debt, in case you wonder what’s going on here

we as liberals don't actually need to cede the idea of military effectiveness to the right. we should point out that these meathead morons are going to lose us a fucking war.

Judge Diane Goodstein crossed the Trump administration last month. Yesterday, her home burned, her husband was injured and it's being investigated for arson. www.postandcourier.com/news/crime/s...

It’s the same “culture war” they’ve been waging since Reconstruction.

This is how broken our lobbying laws are. Every resources minister since 2001 went on to work for fossil fuel companies & 8 ex-ministers & senior advisers now lobby for gambling💰 It's time for complete reform of lobbying rules + independent watchdog. www.abc.net.au/news/2025-08...

At no point in this entire article of 16 paragraphs does ABC mention that another cop killed this cop by shooting her in the back. Nor does it mention the name of the cop who killed this cop. Nor does it mention that the civilians involved never fired at them. ABC might as well be state media.

“In 2022, partly in response to [Russ] Vought’s role in the freezing of Ukraine funding, Congress passed a law requiring OMB to disclose its apportionments on a public website. But in late March [2025], that website went offline without explanation.” By Max Chafkin, 4/1/25

“The regulator characterized Meta’s withdrawal threat as ‘a calculated move aimed at inducing negative public reaction’ to pressure regulators into reconsidering their decision.” “…the standoff raises important questions about corporate accountability and digital sovereignty in emerging markets.”

A good explainer on how Darren Beattie is using his position to target groups and individuals he's taken a personal dislike to - The Extremist at the State Department is Doing Exactly What We Thought He Would wiczipedia.substack.com/p/the-extrem...

unfollowing everyone on linkedin except this guy

April 15 - Tax Day - HBO releases 2 films I directed as part of “The Dark Money Game.” The first, “Ohio Confidential,” about a $1.3 billion-dollar heist by pols in Ohio. Sen 2nd, is “Wealth of the Wicked” about the corruption of the Supreme Court. youtu.be/dykZuyO7RUU

Y’all know what to do

In the AFR today ⤵️ Add your name to the petition to fix our gas export problem > theaus.in/fix_gas_expo...

Trump before crashing the global economy

Clive Palmers trumpet for patriots campaigning on abolishing all hecs debt is out of this world

I made myself available for a debate with Angus Taylor this Monday on #qanda in his home state. I’ve just been told he has declined. Why is the Shadow Treasurer running from a debate about #budget25 and the economy? #auspol #ausecon

Shot. Chaser.

ANU’s latest scandal shows us why transparency is so important, and where to start. New from @jack-thrower.bsky.social and @joshuablackjb.bsky.social ⤵️

i am happy about this because a bad man might get comeuppance but also because the ICC really need this win. Happy for you guys

unfortunately that system broke down starting with the age of Reality TV and culminating with social media. it is not a coincidence that Donald Trump learned how to win power by first learning how to entertain.

Appalling behaviour on all sides. AFL: Wants more gambling $$$ to pay for its gambling-related issues. Bookmakers: Want to dial up the addictive promos to pay the AFL for the gambling-related issues. Govt: Do nothing, keep taking gambling donations. www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

I want my tax dollars to go to Ukraine not Elon Musk.

Trump admires Putin and favors Russia while holding clear disdain for Zelensky and Ukraine. He wants the world to move on from the war, resuming trade and diplomacy with Russia as if nothing happened. It’s as black and white as it gets—once we acknowledge this, his actions become perfectly clear.

Ending the night with this. *Get your hankies* A D-Day veteran called a gracious and humbled Zelenskyy a hero.

Romanian authorities this morning arrested pro-Kremlin presidential candidate Călin Georgescu. Officials found $10m in cash and plane tickets to Moscow at the home of one of his bodyguards. This is the man that JD Vance and Elon Musk claim is being treated unfairly by Romanian and EU authorities.

Georgia's Ministry of Internal Affairs has signed a contract worth 6,796,092 GEL to purchase a digital system from the Israeli company Cellebrite, which allows access to encrypted information and locked phones, computers, and other electronic devices. Georgian taxpayer money spent for terror.

Apple needs to seriously stop putting ads in settings… even when you buy the product, you’re still the product

Words alone cannot capture the depth of emotion in this testimony. A voice from the past, once fighting against extremism and fascism, now speaks with heartbreak as history threatens to repeat itself. Watch, listen, and reflect.

While Macron has Trump distracted, Canada is in Europe reinforcing their alliances across the continent. It is building a global coalition to counter Trump’s tariff attacks. Canada FM Mélanie Joly: “Allies facing tariff threats must work together.”

This is how it’s done.

This is how Mitch McConnell should be remembered: Without him, there’s no President Trump right now—he had the chance to convict during impeachment and end it, but he didn’t. Without him, there’s no stacked conservative Supreme Court—you’d have more rights today.

Favourite part of Mike Pence tweet was the reference to Fox News article

In a world with functioning regulatory bodies shit like this pushing of Apple AI image generation in system settings would get them in an 8 week hearing and fined.

We can make it happen.

It's the reality we face. Do you want NIH to be able to get back to what it does ? If so, the question is what is the path of least resistance to get there Closing our eyes is not a strategy

Trump & Musk are errand boys for the same billionaire cartel that gives orders to both parties. They have 1 job: stop the left at all costs. The political process in the US is meant to distract us with a bunch of fragmented, Sisyphean tasks that take up our energy without actually changing anything.

"Putin, Putin you will see, Ukraine will be free!" Syrians celebrating the liberation from Assad in front of the Russian embassy in London. #freeSyria

Albo and federal Labor need to take the Dan Andrews approach to the NewsCorpse gang. Just ignore the bastards. Deep freeze them. The Herald Sun did its vicious worst, but Andrews still won three elections.

My sarcasm meter is malfunctioning because recently everything has become possible, so: Is this a joke?

I want him and everyone here. The power is in the @bsky.app platform. There is no one benefitting from algorithmically driven influence here. Every post stands on its own merit. Every engagement can generate more engagement. It’s bigger than any one person

This is so important, shift the consciousness

Hey police in the country of #Georgia, why obscure your faces? Show your faces to the people you are oppressing, or resign and join them. #georgiaprotests

Elders are also protesting, despite the violence of the Moscow backed government and the risk of mass arrests. The younger protestors are shielding them from the water cannons and rubber bullets. All of Georgia remains defiant. #GeorgiaProtests

I’m so proud of the people of the nation of #Georgia. We are watching as the youth DEMAND the Russian Puppet govt hold free elections. The will of the people will prevail.

Kudos to Australia for passing a law to require social media companies to ban accounts of users under 16 years old: au.news.yahoo.com/australia-ba...

People are often surprised when I tell them this: both Twitter and Facebook/insta/threads are now specifically engineered to downgrade, hide, suppress real journalism. If this platform is different, that's a huge change

@unusualwhales.bsky.social is a great account to follow for real time info on a wide variety of topics.

What else is different than other platforms ? A complete firehose for academics, researchers and anyone !

In case you missed it: Bluesky runs on-prem. They migrated off of AWS months back. So yeah, they DO need to put orders in for servers! (Good luck to the dev team!) More on their architecture: newsletter.pragmaticengineer.com/p/bluesky