"Musk’s data centers will probably bring in only a few hundred jobs to Memphis while consuming millions of gallons of water a day and more electricity than is needed to power all the city’s homes. Natural-gas turbines powering the data centers have brought pollution and controversy over their use.."

"Too."

“Fascism” isn’t a slur for politics we don’t like. It’s a precise word with precise meaning. And in the face of what’s happening right now in America, it’s the most honest one we have. I’ll lay it out as plainly as I can. 🧵

Bandits on the run? Team weighs up Logan move, as softball makes own pitch www.brisbanetimes.com.au/national/que...

Comey must really regret getting Trump elected in 2016 now.

Angeball

NEW: Elon Musk’s father, Errol Musk, has been accused by family members of sexually abusing five of his children and stepchildren. Elon has repeatedly had to intervene, a secret that’s spanned generations. Our months-long investigation www.nytimes.com/2025/09/23/w...

Logan Mayor Jon Raven has taken his council’s vision for an Olympic ballpark to Asia in a bid to attract investors to build the stadium in time for the 2032 Games. www.brisbanetimes.com.au/national/que...

The emotional moment was the death of America's 38th most popular podcaster.

A Courier-Mail “EXCLUSIVE” that was published in Brisbane Times yesterday. www.brisbanetimes.com.au/national/que...

I regret posting this. Not because of all the cancelling going on, but because I typoed "lionising".

“The likelihood that Trump will connive with China and management to turn TikTok into a mouthpiece for his illiberal agenda isn’t 100 percent, but it sure ain’t zero. We might end up with a platform where you can’t get the truth about Tiananmen Square or January 6.” thedispatch.com/newsletter/b...

Obama: We have to recognize that on both sides there are people who are extremists  But I will say that those extreme views were not in my White House. I wasn’t embracing them. I wasn’t empowering them. I wasn’t putting the weight of the government behind extremist views.

Union members at the ABC and across the media industry stand with John Lyons and reject the US President’s unfounded attacks on our colleague. #MEAAmedia

Suddenly "hate speech" is bad. Suddenly "dehumanizing" people is bad. Suddenly "cancel culture" is good. Suddenly words have consequences. The modern American right in 2025, folks.

The UN Human Rights Council's independent Commission of Inquiry finds Israel is committing genocide in Gaza, recommends member states (ie Aus) do all they reasonably can to prevent it, including ending arms/equipment transfers and imposing sanctions against Israel.

It will never not be amazing to me that journalists and other people in positions of public influence willingly stay on a site that is being openly manipulated on every level by one of the worst human beings on Earth.

So after days of Republicans blaming and vilifying Democrats and trans people for Kirk’s murder despite having no clue who the person was, we find out it’s a white guy from a Republican family in Utah who loved guns.

I remain despondent about the horrific events in Utah this week. But enough of the lionisng. The world is a poorer place for having had Charlie Kirk in it. What happened is unforgivable, but he fell victim to a world he helped create.

That’s a lovely thought. But it could never happen with Donald Trump serving as president, and would never have been necessary if he weren’t.

This is how you do it, Merrick Garland.

And now law enforcement is in the position of either following the evidence, even if it contradicts Trump’s “conclusions” and makes him mad, or validate his predetermined narrative no matter what

He joked multiple times about Paul Pelosi getting smashed in the skull with a hammer.

Those reading this as approval of Kirk’s killing are reading words that aren’t there. I don’t want to live in a world of normalized violence. Charlie Kirk spent his life ensuring we all have to live in such a world. We do everything a disservice to elide the reality of that.

This explains it better than I can

Oh no not this, I am going to have to take off my Bill Clinton Hat and return all of my Bill Clinton Coin and stop reading my Bill Clinton Bible

Hilarious, but entirely unsurprising.

what a humiliating way for don jr. to find out his dad sends birthday cards.

#EXCLUSIVE The cane fields (briefly) considered for Brisbane 2032’s main stadium www.brisbanetimes.com.au/national/que...

#EXCLUSIVE A single unsealed coal borehole in country Queensland is releasing the greenhouse gas equivalent of 10,000 cars each driving 12,000 kilometres a year – and it’s just one of 130,000 across the state. www.brisbanetimes.com.au/national/que...

Brisbane-backed Solomon Kings has been accepted into the Oceania Football Confederation’s new FIFA-backed Pro League, deepening links between the Solomon Islands and Queensland. www.brisbanetimes.com.au/sport/soccer...

#EXCLUSIVE The Queensland government has signed a memorandum of understanding with one of the world’s biggest sports leagues to bring expertise – and big-ticket games – to the state.

Hard to know what to watch. Rangers get humiliated, or Manchester United get humiliated? Decisions decisions.

Oh my God

#EXCLUSIVE Logan City Council is planning its own privately funded field of dreams to host Olympic baseball and softball. But if they build it, will the Games come?

#EXCLUSIVE Just like Papua New Guinea’s planned NRL team, a new Brisbane-backed Solomon Islands football club could become an unlikely arena in Australia’s geopolitical rivalry with China. www.brisbanetimes.com.au/sport/soccer...

This is art.

Suck it, Spurs. #JusticeForAnge

I'm so so so furious at the future creativity and artistry that AI is taking away from all of us by convincing kids nothing is worth doing on their own

Buried in The Observer yesterday was this: UK police knocking on doors demanding details of social media accounts of people, to pass to a foreign government, simply because they happen to live near where a US politician wanted to have a holiday observer.co.uk/news/nationa...

#EXCLUSIVE Brisbane’s Olympic Games organising committee faced an unexpected challenge in their bid to protect Games branding when a local council beat them to the trademark for “Logan 2032” by just 13 days, before ultimately pulling out of the race.

We'RE nOt LiKE thE SokKAh

Orwellian.

#EXCLUSIVE A humble suburban bowls club may have thwarted a multibillion-dollar American casino company’s attempts to introduce its brand to Australia via its planned takeover of the embattled Star Entertainment Group.

#EXCLUSIVE Brisbane 2032 Olympic and Paralympic Games organisers will explore contingencies should the governing bodies for rowing and canoe events decide the planned Fitzroy River course in Rockhampton is unsuitable for competition.

If you haven’t seen @joshjohnsoncomedy.bsky.social’s set on Trump & Epstein, it’s nearly an hour long and worth every second of your time.😂

At this point in history, any country that does not have independent electoral commissions to determine electoral boundaries and run elections probably doesn't get to call itself a full democracy.