Medications on which many of their elderly outraged blokes depending on for blood pressure, diabetes control among other things. Brilliant idea

Labor urged to use anti-corruption commission appointment to restore public confidence in watchdog www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

Asking the Attorney General's office this morning about this outrageous information - they intentionally delayed publishing FOI documents until 1 minute before our Estimates hearing in February commenced so we couldn't ask them about the documents released.

Lessons in not leaving stuff lying around part 5: #BerenBanana discovered an Akubra on the ground. It’s got a couple of pointy teeth marks in it now for extra character 😋🍌💛

Trump may be the environment's best friend. The rest of the World just got more serious with renewables and EVs. One factor that will complicate the oil price story is how fast EV led oil demand destruction happens.

Even if Middle East tensions ease, futures markets are signaling oil prices will stay elevated for months — maybe years.⁣ ⁣ That's the "Iran tax." And it's not going away anytime soon, regardless of what the White House says about prices coming down.

State of the Union..

Not a president

The state of America in four panels.

Join me and special guests @marcelias.bsky.social, @milestaylor.bsky.social and @jojofromjerz.bsky.social on Thursday May 28, for a virtual conversation about taking my fight against Trump to Congress, and how I'll serve everyday New Yorkers in #NY12! RSVP here: secure.actblue.com/donate/virtu...

Marco Rubio when he finds out he’s the new Director of National Intelligence

Maybe finish your last failed regime change war before starting a new one?

I've never seen a series finale as funny, emotionally impactful and downright spectacular as last night's Late Show! What a pleasure it was to meet the hundreds of staff members and thank them personally (and pose for selfies) for entertaining us for more than a decade. ♥️🙏-mh #GoneButNeverForgotten

It makes no sense at all that our Congress Critters are allowed to both make laws and trade stocks at the same time. No sense! It invites corruption!

Random reminder that banning elected officials from trading stock is a total no brainer. They can use privileged information to make money on the stock market, while they’re supposed to be working for you. Make no mistake — it’s legalized corruption.

John Stewart last night: “THE day that the electorate in this great nation that we call home REPUDIATES this putrid administration, that day, MY BROTHER, there will be a joyful noise from the bowels of this great country that will make Hungary’s repudiation of Orban look like an Amish Sabbath” 🇺🇸‼️🌊💋

"Israel just executed Ahmed Hariri in South Lebanon. "He was a paramedic. And a journalist. "Israel deliberately assassinated him in a double tap strike while he was rescuing the wounded. "They drop bombs on civilians. They wait. Then they drop bombs on the rescuers." — Sarah

www.theguardian.com/australia-ne... he argues Aust F-35s should’ve been dispatched to US & Israel’s war to bomb Iran – but Abbott’s call to arms could’ve been for any number of dragons that need slaying: environmentalism, welcomes to country, multiculturalism, dual-placenames, republicanism

share.google/NXSsFzZTGjG7... 36 Salvadoran men sent to CECOT from America are still there!

BREAKING: The judge has DISMISSED the criminal charges against Kilmar Abrego Garcia on vindictive and selective prosecution grounds! A MAJOR win for Mr. Abrego. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Bit worrying that a state premier does not understand how income tax works.

A lie makes it halfway around the world before the factcheck gets its pants on, or something.

Mind boggling how Kentucky keeps voting against their own interests. Just so frustrating to see. Their elected officials have kept them poorer and less educated than all most all other states. Not a coincidence that the poorest and least educated states are RED states. And they do it to themselves.

"Australians deserve to get a fair return on the export of our gas." "Companies can export it...but they should be paying us 25% of whatever they get for that gas." - @davidpocock.bsky.social 👏👏👏 #auspol

It looks like the Kentucky filing deadline is June 2, he"d needs 5000 signatures and a $500 filing fee. Easy 👍🏻

Google is binning links from search results in favour of ‘conversational’ AI answers, if you were wondering whether the internet could get worse www.thepoke.com/2026/05/20/g...

We tested the Trump Mobile phone. It was 9 months late, comes pre-loaded with Truth Social, and is no longer ‘Made in the USA.’

This is some straight up criminal bullshit. They just don't care anymore because there's nobody to stop them. Unfucking Believable.

Our next President needs to be LOUD about stating "Every illegal thing Trump and his Mafia did will be prosecuted and everyone who takes a penny of the illegal $1.8 billion will be hunted down and sent to jail"

I truly believe that the members of congress who have 7 months left after Trump dumped them can do something very important to turn our country around. I am rooting for you to do the right thing.

✍️ Add your name to the petition calling for a 25% tax on gas exports! ⤵️ nb.australiainstitute.org.au/gas_export_t...

Wilson and Patterson get rolled out repeatedly as Liberal talking heads Both 'graduates' of the IPA and two people I think should be kept as far as possible from positions of power IMHO they have grand delusions well beyond their actual abilities

🔥Tim Wilson gets smashed at NPC as Dana Daniel makes him squirm over his refusal to put a no. to his public service cuts Turns out he can’t even say if it’s ’too big’ as Daniel questions if their “damaging” election review is why they’re running scared.💥Embarrassing 🙄 #auspol

He's a light weight out of his depth. Says much about the LNP that they think he's up to taking a challenge up to Chalmers.

Now, if only Taylor can develop a “ Labor’s death tax will take away your weekend”, THEN we will see some real LNP leadership. LNP movies - Back to the Future, and when they wheelbarrow Howard out - Weekend at Bernies.

The scare campaign that delivered us ScoMo. Today’s @theageaustralia.bsky.social cartoon

The PM says we at the Australia Institute need to be 'fair dinkum' about a gas tax. We're happy to be fair dinkum! Including about how the PM said some pretty misleading things in that interview. 📻co-CEO Richard Denniss on ABC Radio Perth #auspol @richarddenniss.bsky.social

www.theguardian.com/australia-ne... Saul Eslake pours some much needed cold water on the hysteria around the reforms in the Federal budget #auspol

Just a reminder - you only pay 47% tax on income earned *above* $190,000. If you earn $200,000 you pay an average tax rate of around 30%.

"one of the main proponents of the social media campaign, startup founder Frank Greeff, admitted that it favoured attention over accuracy." Always incredible how the rich/business/conservatives are allowed to lie and the media writes it up as a minor point www.smh.com.au/politics/fed...

A man-made comet is striking the Earth https://pearlsandirritations.com/e/daily/2026-05-19/467728/ #auspol

my gf works corporate and is on a training about AI and there's a word cloud for "what do you use AI for." the largest word by far is "Nothing" and the trainer is PISSED

Handy guide for actual professional reporters (we don'thave enough of these)...

My favorite description of refuge-seeking behavior in journalism comes from a former reporter for the Washington Post, Paul Taylor, in his 1990 book about election coverage. I have quoted it many times. 11/

My third key distinction: truth-seeking vs. refuge-seeking behavior in journalism. Truth-seeking needs no definition. It is finding out what actually happened— and letting us know. Refuge-seeking is telling the story in a way that protects against anticipated attacks... 10/

Media, journalism, and the press are not interchangeable terms. Yet they are bound up with one another. Media is the attention industry Journalism is a social practice The press is a key institution in a democracy Journalists who work in the media carry forward "the press." 9/

Most (but not all) journalists are employees of the media, and thus part of the attention business. This creates endless problems and compromises, which I hear about nonstop. The press — to my way of thinking — is the institution that endures over time as journalists come in and out of it. 8/

Key distinction number two: journalism vs. the media (vs. the press...) I think of the media as the attention business, an industry whose product is audiences. Journalism is a social practice, the purpose of which is to keep publics informed and hold power to account. However— 7/