Excellent think piece by Hugh White. It’s time to walk back our dangerous obeisance to the US and develop a defence strategic posture that is much more appropriate to fundamentally changed circumstances. #auspol #defence #Australia #AUKUS www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

Advocates of higher ed did heroic work rallying against this monstrous bill, but its passage was probably preordained. It's custom-made for today's Republican Party. It centralizes power in the executive; undermines education and critical thinking; censors speech; and attacks imaginary wokeness.

Welcome to the Sunday Shot ! .. Live #auspol #BinNight #Libspill www.youtube.com/live/rtdBmc0...

Thank you @instanterudite.bsky.social and @deniseshrivell.bsky.social for a wonderful #SundayShot

It’s the pollsters’ fault Dutton was so unpopular! They told him he was popular when he wasn’t so he didn’t have a chance to become more popular… oh… wait… 😂

I’ve asked the AEC whether a recount is appropriate in Goldstein. They will judge that request on its merits. Thank you again everyone for your support. ZD

Cuddle-Obsessed Cats Wins Pet of the Week https://twp.ai/4imlXn

Only those, like bullies, are missing a very important intellectual/moral gene if they don’t have empathy. In fact, it should be embarrassing. It is a sickness. A flaw. Elon has this flaw. #DemVoice1 #Voices4Victory

Fun fact: Harsh words from judges mean little if they are not backed up by sanctions.

Watching 20 million clips on water colours does not make me a water colour artist.

This right here is why I have a Plan B. With all due respect - Albo doesn't particularly fill me with confidence after watching how they dealt with whistleblowing laws.

Trump administration scraps Biden-era plan to limit sale of Americans' personal data reut.rs/4j4kh2X

Sussan Ley is the Opposition leader - awesome. In about 75 years from now - we may finally have a woman leader in Australia who can dismantle structural misogyny. It takes time to manage such huge social change.

There was the biggest up-tick in women posting for ads for sex work, contacting brothels and auditioning for men's only clubs happened after Julia Gillard forced single mums onto Newstart. Don't @ about women leaders standing up for women.

How hilariously delightful that old mate Angus picked renowned public intellectual and 5 minute Liberal, Jacinta P as his running mate Like sitting in a coffin and nailing it shut yourself from the inside

you want to know one reason people are losing trust in the media? it’s the total inability to call things what they are some guy on YouTube: “wow this is the most corrupt shit I’ve ever seen” the Times: “critics say it raises appearance of impropriety” who are people going to take seriously?

The Supreme Court’s Radical Right Turn Is About Restoring Patriarchy, Plain and Simple https://twp.ai/4indS8

Hyphenated Australians are here on sufferance 🤦🏾‍♀️🤦🏾‍♀️🤦🏾‍♀️

I’d love to learn the language of Naarm. Must look up where I could learn it. Any ideas?

Sufferance.. oh I hate autocorrect

Yup - once friends of Palestine loses their minds when they can actually do something #730abc

Hyphenated Australians are always have here on difference #730abc

There was no competence to be seen under Morrison or Abbott #730abc

#730abc - John Howard shat on the vision of what Australia could have been

There is no such thing as a moderate in the modern Liberal Party. "Moderate Liberal" is an oxymoron. Susssssan Ley has been just as hard-right, just as staunchly against anything considered even a little progressive, as Dutton has. To pretend otherwise is a misrepresentation.

Well done Angus. Good Job. Fantastic

I am bouncing between here and the dead bird place..I can’t figure out where to spend more time

ABC News really needs to stop trying to make Fetch happen.

Like seriously? what about commenting on the fact that there are so many women.

Why are we talking about the Coalition when the Labor party is being signed in? The ABC's obsession with the Coalition is bordering on pathological.

Did you know that in Chicago, Black people are 30.6x (yes, that's thirty times) more likely to be killed by police than white people? That about 50% of people murdered by the police are disabled in some way?

Did you know that trans people are 3.7x more likely to experience police violence and 7x more likely to experience physical violence when interacting with police than cis victim/survivors? And this is all before the Executive Order making it clear that accountability will be even harder to attain.

Quantity of posting over quality seems to work for TikTok. The algorithm rewards bigger numbers. @sudharmapala.bsky.social Real puzzle here - quality engagement doesn’t seem to work. Flooding the zone is the key.

Nigel Farage does not care about facts, the morons who vote for him don't either. The only way to victory is to get all the people who can think to vote for you, and that requires making it clear that your Government is better for them than any other.

So Trump caused a situation and backed down like a bitch

On #QandA tonight. Will try to say “tax the billionaires” before someone cuts me off to defend franking credits and new coal. Wish me luck.

Starmer’s immigration focus is the dumbest, stupidest piece of political manoeuvring I’ve seen in a long time. His rhetoric is going to split his coalition and whatever he promises will only drive the racists to demand more. You can’t placate them. It’s a losing strategy.

So back to normal..so much the art of the deal

I get an envoy You get an envoy Everyone gets an envoy

UK’s F-35 exports more important than stopping genocide, lawyers to argue www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

Can someone explain to me what an envoy does? Like I am a 5 year old?

Parlimentary sitting days are important. It is when all sides of politics get to work together. If Parliament does not sit until August - WTF are we paying them for? Imagine if you did that at your workplace?

Great to see the new Labor cabinet is 55% women (12/22). I believe this is the first time an Australian federal cabinet is majority women. A sign of the times! ❤️

The owners of a home destroyed during a landslide on Victoria's Mornington Peninsula have given evidence about how their daughter came close to being seriously injured or killed during an earlier, smaller landslip.

The Australian Labor party anyone?