Sky News deliberately chose this offensive guest because he is offensive. They can hardly claim it was a mistake - after they platformed his offensive, hateful attack on Muslim people - when they quite purposely put him on air. Shameful. www.theguardian.com/media/2025/s...

Why should anyone honour someone who spread hate about them? It’s ridiculous.

All headlines from today which make Trump look decisive and powerful and don’t even have a hint of critique in them, nor raise alarm bells about the way these decisions hurt people.

What does Trump look like to this Australian? He looks like he is the worst possible person to elect as president - he’s stupid, dishonest, corrupt, incompetent, cruel, vain. Yet, it appears his supporters chose him exactly for these reasons. Why? To “own the libs”. MAGA have just owned themselves.

This is just one message to Pam Bondi which Trump appears to have accidentally posted publicly. Now, imagine what he’s posting to Pam and everyone else in his administration all the time? Corrupt and a total abuse of power doesn’t cover it.

Tom Homan took a bag of cash from an undercover FBI agent the right way. by Ezra Klein

This is a good point. But do we also think if Democrats had publicised this corruption before the election, it would have made any difference to MAGA? As Megyn Kelly said - speaking for all of MAGA - THEY DON’T CARE!

Dam been writing a book about this and she just TikToked it in 90 seconds.

Starmer will announce UK recognition of Palestinian state. Fascinating to see BBC leading with those who criticise this decision - the Israeli government, hostage families and some Conservatives (not surprising), rather than those who will celebrate it. Media inequality. www.bbc.com/news/article...

However you define political violence, the right is responsible for more of it. The Anti-Defamation League (hardly a left-wing org) found that all “domestic extremist-related killings” in 2022 were done by right-wing extremists, the vast majority (84%) white supremacists. trib.al/SaMpxtS

If you're not totally aware of how bots try to sway minds, here's a good example.

If this were discovered in a leaked email and published in the New York Times, it might get more attention. But Trump just tweets it out, and most people move on with their day. This is blatant corruption. Blatant weaponization. It is undeniably an impeachable offense.

Trump’s MAGA already has Fox News onside and is about to have CBS and CNN as well. To say this is an absolute disaster for journalism, and in turn, democracy is an understatement. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/18/o...

It feels like mainstream journalists are in complete denial about the democratic crisis which has been happening right under their noses for a decade. They’ve collectively failed to adequately report, scrutinise, contest it. The frog has been boiled. It can’t jump out of the saucepan when it’s dead!

Just a reminder when Trump talks about networks being “dishonest”, he’s not talking about Fox News being sued for hundreds of millions of dollars for spreading Trump’s Big Lie - disinformation about Biden’s election win which helped spur the insurrection.

Who is having trouble keeping up with the speed at which Trump is trashing American democracy and corruptly enriching himself in the process? ✋🏻

There’s no hiding the political retaliation and weaponization. It’s all out in the open.

Fox News host Ingraham says “good work” to an act of political violence. I know pointing to the right’s hypocrisy is like peeing in the ocean, but I’m going to point to it nonetheless!

Great piece. A reminder: if you’re a journalist who is not using every word you write to raise the alarm bells on Trump’s attacks on democracy, you’re not doing your job.

There is no world in which it is normal for the president to publicly call upon his attorney general to hurry up and prosecute his political foes. It’s like the Watergate tapes but posted on social media. Let’s get a grip on what’s happening here.

TikTok will be controlled by MAGA.

We live in an episode of Black Mirror meets Monty Python.

You’re going to be hearing a lot more about this. Nick Fuentes & Groypers believe the “ideal woman” is a man. They hate women so much they groom fem-boys. MAGA see Tyler Patterson’s partner is “transitioning” and assume he’s far left. That’s way off. He’s so far right it goes over MAGA’s head. 1/3

👉🏻META: Zuckerberg cowed by Trump🙅‍♀️ 👉🏻X: Musk owns Trump🙅‍♀️ 👉🏻TikTok: Now majority owned by Trump MAGA🙅‍♀️ 👉🏻BlueSky: the only safe place to be! ✅

I’m sure the New York Times and the Washington Post will treat Trump’s apparent accidental posting of personal correspondence between him and Pam Bondi on Truth Social as just as big a scandal as they treated Hillary Clinton’s use of a private email server during the 2016 campaign. I’m sure 😒

They searched high and low for this evidence, but never found any.

The Trump regime is an incompetent, corrupt circus.

Large corporations might seem like they’re untouchable, but when people organise and act as a collective, it sends a loud (expensive) message. Same thing when it comes to the seemingly untouchable Trump. Organise!

It looks like Trump is so addled that he’s accidentally posting personal (corrupt) directives to his team on Truth Social rather than via DM. Great to pull back the curtain!

Hopefully it’s starting to dawn on everyone that America is not engaged in a polite debate between left wing and right wing people who just have different ideas about how society should function. America is a fight between those upholding democracy and those deliberately trying to destroy democracy.

The New York Times has become a pathetic newspaper. Their headlines “Trump says” are just press releases for Trump - stenography, not journalism. Without strong and brave journalism, democracy dies. It’s not often you see strong and brave journalism at the New York Times, particularly about Trump.

Lol! Americans angry about the American Broadcasting Corporation censoring Jimmy Kimmel have been accidentally sending their complaints to the Australian Broadcasting Commission. This gives an insight into the level of rage the American ABC is receiving! Justified rage www.abc.net.au/news/2025-09...

Walz would have made an outstanding VP 😢

Great to see a journalist speaking to someone who knows about internet cultures relevant to the bullet memes, who doesn’t just accept Trump’s claims that the shooter was left wing, when the evidence more likely points to far right cultures of chaos.

Trump has obliterated free speech. He is censoring anyone critical of him. He is a tyrant. Everyone who helped elect him should be ashamed of what they’ve done. They’ve all helped destroy American democracy.

David Letterman on Jimmy Kimmel’s suspension: “You can’t go around firing somebody because you’re fearful, or because you’re trying to suck up to an authoritarian— a criminal—administration in the Oval Office.

“I am a huge fan of the first amendment, which is of course that the President’s feelings must be protected at all costs.” chaser.com.au/world/trump-...

Epic plot twist 🧐

Long may the Liberals make themselves unelectable to appease Gina Rinehart!

We’re with you Brittany! 💪🏻

Autocratic plutocracy. An American dictatorship run for the enrichment of billionaires.

Silly Jimmy Kimmel. He should have just called for all homeless people to be killed and he’d still have a job.

Important piece by Natalie Feliks: "For all the talk of Trump’s presidency resembling the Nazi regime, let’s not forget that one of the primary victims of the Nazis was transgender people". www.crikey.com.au/2025/09/18/c...

Not really an overstatement to say that the test of a free society is whether or not comedians can make fun of the country's leader on TV without repurcussions.

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I guess what with the cancellation of Jimmy Kimmel, we’re not going to be allowed to discuss Tyler Robinson in relation to hard right internet cultures - incels, Groypers, shit posting, extremism dressed up as nihilism, white supremacy, hardcore misogyny. Just as Trump designed. Shame on ABC!

As an expert on media’s role in democracy, my prognosis of current state of mainstream news in America (and elsewhere) is that media is either cowed by or deliberately complicit in Trump’s authoritarian attack on American democracy. News media has one job - to serve democracy - and they’re failing.

Paging Ezra Klein! Is this doing politics the right way? Do tell.

America has right wing violence problem. I’m sick of the left being blamed for the right’s extremism when the left if the victim of it.