smell the productivity. Even authentically critical and empirical ai research and coverage thereof is already absorbed into the guns and butter economy. www.bbc.co.uk/mediacentre/...

A black-fronted dotterel at Lake Hattah. The play of light makes it look as if it has diamonds on its legs 😄

Same day. Same plenary session. Same visit to Gill’s office. Same Farage, Same Gill, same wife of sanctioned pro Russian agent. Six days after the first bribery charge

Release the Epstein Files.

A very strong TrueNorth newsletter this afternoon. We have such GREAT journalism in Australia - by independent news media publishers. Sign up here #auspol > truenorthnews.substack.com

Part Two of Karl Marx: in which Karl goes wild in Soho, Bakunin acts like a godforesaken fucking maniac and we do a crash course in Marxist economics. Everything you need to know about one if the most important ideas in history.

President Macron: “We were very naive to leave our public space to social media networks controlled by US or Chinese companies that don’t share our interests and not interested in survival of our democracies.” www.youtube.com/watch?v=MggN...

Dame Sarah Mullally is the new Archbishop of Canterbury. She is the first woman ever to hold the post. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c2lxyxqzxkdo

One of the great ones… www.theguardian.com/science/2025...

Now here is somebody the world really should mourn Here is a woman deserving of all the accolades and all the glory and all the stars we have in our heavens One of the brightest, most compassionate, beautiful humans to ever walk our planet May you fly high O Captain, O glorious Captain ❤️ 🐒 ❤️

The Metropolitan police are braced for an undercover documentary showing officers and staff allegedly being supportive of the far-right activist Tommy Robinson, making anti-Muslim comments and using excessive force against suspects in custody.

😎👍 www.abc.net.au/news/2025-09...

A real journalist.

Wait, a show making white supremacists the *bad guys*? Tsk tsk.

Good.

James Dyson thinks that being rich 'doesn't make you popular' but perhaps his lack of popularity is down to being a traitorous cunt?

Hang on… The Albanese Labor Govt is saying that elderly Australians have to pay more for basic at home care - as spending needs to be reigned in. But - they give over $200b of our public money to the US & UK for submarines we’ll never see. What a betrayal #auspol

This was fun. Talking about Trump's state visit to the UK with two of my favourite people - @therickwilson.bsky.social and @carolecadwalla.bsky.social WARNING: contains "quid bro quos" @bylinetimes.bsky.social www.bylinesupplement.com/p/live-with-...

There goes the First Amendment.

FINALLY.

Probably the most important but neglected scandal about Mandelson. Epstein was close to Peter Thiel. Thiel had secret meetings with Cummings and Johnson before Palantir’s 100m contract Mandelson’s Global Counsel was pitching Thiel’s Palantir to Starmer. What a carousel of cronyism

It is weird that the assassination of essentially a celebrity influencer is a bigger deal than the shooting of two top state legislators + their spouses

Elizabeth Warren on people who say Dems needs to tone down their rhetoric: "Oh, please. Why don't you start with the president of the United States? And every ugly meme he's posted and every ugly word."

Bunch of greedy 🤬 did what? #BHP promised to spend $2 billion on #renewables #Albo #Auspol TAX them $2 billion for starters & keep going until they meet targets. Enough of this corporate greed 🐂💩

Crying as I type . . . (with laughter)

So many unanswered questions posed in this excellent piece on the Meanjin closure. eg. -Why the sudden irreversible decision? -Why didn't they try to save it (community, donor drives etc)? -Why the secrecy? -Why use the financial viability argument now? As if the v wealthy UniMelb can't afford it.

some personal news: in a few weeks, I, along with my Rolling Stone comrade and editor @andrewperez.bsky.social, will be up and running at the expanding political reporting team at @mehdirhasan.bsky.social’s outlet @zeteo.com www.semafor.com/article/09/0...

The president of the United States just declared war, actual military war, not a metaphorical one, on a major American city, and one governed by his political opponents. In any other period, this would be impeachment-worthy.

Glad I’m not a fan of blueberries www.abc.net.au/news/2025-09...

Oh HELL NO‼️ Good luck with that‼️ New Yorkers will record and post it‼️

The Bad Guys are Winning, from 2021 www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc...

Government secrecy and obfuscation was one of the key reasons we chucked out Morrison and his putrid pals. What the hell is the former Minister for Gambling doing now? www.abc.net.au/news/2025-09...

...and now everyone should shut up about the criminal case against him and let the process work.

Full list of the Number Ten moves: Bobson Dugnutt moves across to Deputy Assistant Blame Magnet Mike Truk is promoted to Head of Xenophobia Onson Sheemey takes over as Deputy Head of Misogynistic Belittling of Labour Ministers Todd Bonalez abides

Righto. Best of luck with that 😂 www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

A reminder that the RBA and other compliant economists spent a couple years telling @australiainstitute.org.au that companies were not marking up prices in 2022-23. The failure of Australia’s economic establishment was truly embarrassing

I literally do not know what to say.

Huge appreciation to Antoinette Lattouf for mentioning TrueNorth in her & Jan’s podcast today It’s a lot of work to send a weekday newsletter - & I’m inspired everyday by our independent journalists & commentators Listen to TrueNorth's mention at 9.30 #auspol > podcasts.apple.com/au/podcast/w...

Darkly funny: signs appearing across central London, protesting Starmer’s use of anti-terror laws against peaceful pro-Palestine protesters.

Bloody hell.

Truly says a lot about the environment power has created, where calling for support of aid to go into Gaza (a basic human right and a war crime to deny) is seen as 'criticism' of Israel. That it was the first thing to come to Albanese's mind speaks volumes.

When did you ever hear the BBC stating that it must alter “story selection” and “other types of output, such as drama”, to win the trust of Green voters, or of unrepresented people on the left? All the shifts are in just one direction. bylinetimes.com/2025/06/09/b...

Ukraine smuggle drones into Russian territory, hid them in the floorboards of wooden houses, enlisted Russian truck drivers to unwittingly transport them, then launched an attack which destroyed or seriously damaged over 1/3rd of all Russian missile carriers www.politico.eu/newsletter/b...

These are the kind of deceitful and threatening letters that were being dropped in people’s letterboxes in Goldstein if they dared to have a Zoe Daniel sign up in their front yard. The family who found this disgusting letter in their letterbox, are Jewish themselves. #abc730 😔