A musical palate cleanser, a cover of one of my favorite bands. youtu.be/9EQq7ydALuE?...

What we think of neo-nazis

This has been going on for a while now. Every company with the contract has had shady dealings with the govt. The Christmas Island detention centre had one family in it for 2 years and cost $50 million to run.

/3 It’s increasingly difficult to blame anyone for not trusting institutions and institutionalism, or for expecting the worst result.

Trump is 30 points underwater. Dems swept the special elections. People know the GOP is responsible for the shutdown. So the Dem Senators pulled out their big guns... and shot themselves in the foot.

Question for everyone getting excited about a “$2,000 tariff dividend check”: what did you spend that $5,000 stimulus check you were promised from DOGE on?

Looks like indentured servitude is coming back soon.

Most Australians work with or have family members who are not "white Australians". The older generation's English heritage is gone. Australia is multicultural and most Australians accept it as a benefit.

"They're eating the dogs"

One of the coolest things about our president is that he honestly just doesn’t understand how anything works

🚨BREAKING News: A federal judge has permanently blocked the Trump administration from deploying the National Guard in Portland, Oregon. Judge Immergut ruled that Trump’s team failed to prove that protesters were interfering with federal policy, a landmark blow to his crackdown strategy. No paywall

Brave Sir Robert ran away. Bravely ran away away. When danger reared it's ugly head, He bravely turned his tail and fled. Yes, brave Sir Robert turned about And gallantly he chickened out. Bravely taking to his feet, He beat a very brave retreat. Bravest of the braaaave, Sir Robert!

The photo of the man who was completely dead inside.

uh i would say it's mildly alarming that the Trump administration is using its sanction powers to compel tech companies into taking its critics offline. First, the ICC's chief investigator says he was blocked from his Microsoft-hosted email after US sanctions. Now, this

Think that FOX forgets that most western countries have socialism, they are doing just fine and tend to be happier.

The other key difference is that in those countries, those leaders were actually incredibly popular which allowed them to consolidate power. Trump has never been popular. The minoritarian systems within the US were a force multiplier but it's not a substitute for actual democratic legitimacy.

Struggle to understand why it's the voter's fault for the mess the US is in. It's up to the candidate to bring the voter along. That's what a democracy is. If a party puts up a candidate that the voters don't want, that's on the party. It's not about tribes, it's about representation.

in case anyone hasn't watched the full thing, do it. it's a damn treat. I don't think I realized it until now, but I'd been waiting my whole life to hear a politician sound like they want the people to govern with them

lol

Best day for a while.

I really missed this feeling. 💙💙💙

This is great, but. I hope they're being directed with adult advice. ICE and the administration is looking for conflict to extend their reach. Having ICE show up against compassionate young people. A mix that the govt is looking for.

Really is an American thing. Yet to talk to anyone who's really hateful on socialism. If anything is a mark of pride in Australia.

"Mr. Trump is in no rush to make a decision, and has repeatedly asked about what the United States could get in return, with a specific focus on extracting some of the value of Venezuela’s oil for the United States."

8% ... Time for us to look towards Asia. That's where our trading partners are, that's where our future is.

Leadership seems a bit of a stretch. Just keeping the Coalition of numbats and cooker appeases pointed in the same direction seems beyond anyone. Let alone leading them.

Was just discussing today that one of my favourite unexpected delights about BlueSky is the amount of diverse, open-minded, intelligent, well-read, fascinating Americans on here After years of enduring red-neck insufferables and deplorables on the bird site, it's reassuring to meet the other half

JFC. He still doesn’t comprehend asylum.

I like the zero-fucks-to-give Obama. More of this, please.

When you chasing a guy with a thing for couches. Make sure you wear tight leather.

all you haters poking fun at the white house bathroom are gonna look stupid as hell when they push the 1.01 update that fixes the texture glitch

"a man who talks and lives in all lower-case letters - sitting up at the table with the man who lives permanently in an all-caps world." Masterful.

Governments have been crying poor to justify & conceal their priorities for decades…now some of our publicly owned universities are using the same neoliberal accounting tricks to claim they are in ‘crisis’ when they are hoarding records amounts of cash and shares thepoint.com.au/opinions/251...

Carbon is Mother Earth’s bank of evolutionary growth. Humans have burned 10 million years of fossilised carbon in a few centuries, furiously in the previous 33 years. No brainer to terminate fossil fuel subsidies and combustion energy by 2035. #auspol #COP30

Can I wear my UNICEF t-shirt, or is it antisemitic?

We don't actually need to test weapons anymore. We can run simulations on computers that accomplish everything they need to model the blasts. This was one of the original uses of super computers.

This was in Project 2025, of course

The whole idea is to sell China chips that's one generation away from the latest. So China won't be able to make a native chip to challenge the US. Sounds good, right? Except China has mandated users of these chips to use a % China made. To keep the industry developing. US will lose its advantage.

As an Australian, this confuses the heck out of me. That a group can take you from the roll. There's only two things that can remove you form the roll in Australia. Giving up your citizenship and death.

"Every society is only three meals away from a revolution"

This is something I've been trying to tell people. Developers release land in stages to maximise profit. Over 70 % of land is kept up to 10 years before development. It's all about keeping the price high.

I remember a post which pointed out the lack of social security in the US. California has around the same population of Canada, California has twice the economy. Yet, Canada has a social health system. The US can easily afford a social system for its people, it chooses not to.

I put forward a motion to parliament today calling on the Senate to recognise Australia's housing crisis as a matter of public urgency.

This is advertising. Look how modern we are, while the product maker looks for funding. What is going to do ? Run over bank robbers. "Drive" chasing a speedster, an inability to coordinate, red lights in high traffic and then what ? Send the drone to a car crash with an armed occupant. Advertising.

If only they could love thy neighbour.

What type of country had your military personnel depend on hand out to survive. Corruption occurs when those who defend your society look to other means for income.

once asian ppl found out you can sit on your rolly luggage and ride it around the airport our lives were never the same

Let's not kid ourselves on why he is doing this. US investing into Argentina went into the billions expecting a boom. Now it's not, those investors are worried. Don't be surprised is there's a few hundred of millions of Trump's or friends money floating around down there.

The pedlars of hate in Australian politics have been dominated by conservatives. theaimn.net/the-politics...