Trump’s Oval Office promotes the notion that tackiness is a sign of success.

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DHS is a non-stop Kristi propagandizing operation 24/7. Despite everything the massive agency does every day, it’s all about Kristi all the time. Yesterday she rides horses. Today she’s signing stuff. Tomorrow she’s on a plane. Then new Kristi paintings. DHS - The Reality Show.

The name "Alligator Alcatraz" reminds us that America is currently run by adults who are like malicious, giggling children using magnifying glasses to burn ants.

So Trump wants to force the government to spend more on defence by threatening to abandon plan to spend more on defence.

This is sillier than all the TACO and chicken references but doesn’t counter them.

"Influencer’ has been the dirtiest word of this campaign.” “They want to invalidate & undermine a group of powerful young women who developed the ability to communicate with audiences in a way that traditional media can’t.” #Auspol www.theguardian.com/media/2025/m...

Presumably Senator Price will list loyalty among her salient qualities.

Maureen Dowd NYT on defence sec Hegseth: Trump, who often casts by looks, may have liked Hegseth’s slick style and pretty face. But even the Emperor of Chaos must realize this Princess of Chaos has to go.

Churchill had a diagnosis of Trump and Co’s endorsement of ignorance. “Birds raised in a cage….think flying is a disease.”

Dutton’s backflipping and clumsy delivery has him spiralling in the polls. What happened? | Malcolm Farr www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Dutton’s backflipping and clumsy delivery has him spiralling in the polls. What happened? | Malcolm Farr

Maggie Haberman of NYT says Trump wanted to do tariff tricks in first term. Seems he was oppose by grown-up advisers who blocked his plan. Now the grown-ups have been replaced by advisers practice in Harslikhan.

the smile on this idiot’s face will haunt US consumers.

Dutton has short selective memory after declaring himself today a champion of multiculturalism. Despite his weaponisation and cruelty inflicted on the Tamil family as Home Affairs Minister. #auspol #qanda #abc730

Best don’t go.

Despite what the expensive glossy leaflet says Curtin has no P&R facility and no rapid bus access.

Frozen hand AND a cold shoulder.

May3 election means campaign all-but suspended for ANZAC Day and Easter. That probably better for Labor as limits Dutton, but still messy.

German magazine Der Spiegel finds mobile numbers, passwords etc online for Waltz, Hegseth, Gabbard & Co. The Russians must be wetting themselves.🤣

Facebook not a friend

Definitely not a cult full of weirdos.

Schoolchildren are routinely slaughtered by AR-15s. Hundreds die. [*crickets* "Thoughts and prayers" *crickets*] A couple unoccupied cars are set on fire. No one is hurt. ["THIS HORROR WILL NOT STAND!!! We MUST act to STOP it from ever happening AGAIN!!!!" We will pass new LAWS BANNING IT!!!]

The insanity grows…

Trump’s parents migrated to USA. Marco Rubio’s parents migrated there. Elon Musk a foreigner. Prob others in Trump circle of sycophants. Yet his toughest MAGA appeal is anti-immigration.

How warped does your view of politics need to be to describe Guardian as "far left"? The Oz media writers really are quite odd humans

A federal court’s jurisdiction does *not* stop at the water’s edge. The question is whether the *defendants* are subject to the court order, not *where* the conduct being challenged takes place. Were it otherwise, the government could act lawlessly overseas and courts would be powerless to stop it.

Microsoft has me baffled. It will only help me via an email address to which it has blocked my access, or through a telephone number which isn’t mine.

So exhausted. Been unhappily trying to navigate Microsoft security which is so severe it won’t even allow account holders in.

Woman on Los Vegas Blvd to friend re Trump & Zelensky: “Then Trump said, ‘You don;t pay the bills. I do. Now get out of my office.’ “I laughed so loud.” Spare us.

Pence, at least, retains a vestige of decency.

Putin knows the way to what is left of Trump’s mind is through his wallet. NYT; Kremlin Message to Trump: There’s Money to Be Made in Russia Russian officials are arguing that American companies stand to make billions of dollars by re-entering Russia. The White House is listening.

This explains why Trump is more like a low-grade used-car dealer than a president. www.nytimes.com/video/us/pol...

man who had 6 companies go bankrupt condemns “bad deals”. Trump: “The United States is tired of being ripped off. That's why we have $36 trillion in debt. We have it for a reason, because we make bad deals with everybody.”

Maureen Dowd has resuscitated a wonderful word to identify Trump/Musk self indulgence. The pair are “scofflaws”. As the name tag says they scoff at laws others have to obey.

From NYT. ATTENTION federal government.

On thé LNP’s likelihood of selecting women in winnable seats… Alan Moir on target again

I can’t qwhite work out why Lattouf was treated differently.

Love Canberra’s Meat on a Stick (multicultural) festival.

@beautifullocity.bsky.social Is “big thinker” a new euphemism for “barking mad and ignorant”? SMH: While Dutton didn’t directly endorse Trump’s (Gaza) plan, he praised the president as “shrewd”, a “big thinker”, and a “dealmaker”, …

The Israel Lobby gets another scalp…

Has Trump finally realised South Africa — not Spain — is in BRICS? US President Donald Trump has asserted South Africa is “confiscating” land and “treating certain classes of people very badly” as he announced he was cutting off all future funding to the country pending an investigation.

Trump’s imaginary minister Musk