Getting Poorer in Silence For two decades the loudest voices in Australian politics have belonged to a certain group, not the people who simply earn a wage. redbridgeintel.substack.com/p/getting-po... by @kossamaras.bsky.social #auspol

This is an oddly perfect summary of his presidency. Trump had a multi-hour meeting in the Situation Room on the possible end to the war in Iran. He then exited and whined for 580 words about a judge not letting him ignore federal law, because he really wants to add his name to the Kennedy Center.

In the last term Denniss was spinning hung parliament club bunkum about how the 2022-5 Albanese government could be the last majority government for decades, how did that go? In 2015 he tried to claim that Group Ticket Voting was like ordering dinner at a restaurant.

This is a good article except that it interviews Richard Denniss who should never under any circumstances be interviewed about psephology outside of articles labelled as comedy. archive.md/Dtz29

Just to clarify, the Starbucks Korea CEO (David Song, an employee) has already been fired for this, but it seems widely believed that the originator is Chung Yong-Jin, Samsung nepo baby and chair of Shinsegae Group who owns Starbucks Korea, who’s a Trump supporter. There are calls for him to resign.

Every Western article about this is like "is it too unwoke to make a pun on a day of remembrance?" but that's not what this is, this is a billionaire announcing to the entire country "We should not be a democracy, and I'm glad for every person who died trying to make it one. Suck it."

The Delivery Platform Drivers' union (10,000 members strong) announced they will not deliver any Starbucks orders. They goin' BANKRUPT bankrupt.

I was trying to write a comparison for what an American version of this clumsy evil dog-whistling would be but they all felt too inappropriate even as jokes. Every Starbucks in Korea is now empty. There was a mass stock-selloff and the value has tanked. So freaking weird.

The slogan for the Starbucks campaign is "Slam it on your desk!" Random, eh? On 5/18 a young man was tortured to death in police custody. The cop said "I just slammed my hand on the desk and he died." Imagine being so rich you'll sacrifice your 2100 Starbucks just to stick it to the libs.

Did a dumb American exec misunderstand what Tank meant? Nope! Starbucks Korea is owned by a Korean billionaire who supports the old regime. Every new tumbler is 503 ml. Random size, eh? A right wing talking point is that "activists" are exaggerating and "only 503 people" were killed on 5/18.

Starbucks done EFFED up in Korea. Bad. May 18th just passed, Democratic Movement Day, when rose up after the military dictatorship sent tanks to mass-murder citizens. Some inappropriately call it "Tank Day." Starbucks commemorated Tank Day with a sale on tank tumblers. It gets much worse...

After having seen STAR WARS 500 times as a kid, I remember having my mind blown learning that the entire "the death star is about to blow up the rebel base as its being attacked" beat of the ending was invented in the editing room using outtakes and ADR. variety.com/2026/film/ne...

Scientists are using rabbit IVF and gene-editing technology to crash Australia's feral rabbit population by spreading infertility through female rabbits. www.abc.net.au/news/2026-05... #ausag #ausscience

Whyalla community cautiously optimistic about steelworks sequel www.abc.net.au/news/2026-05...

Experts are predicting Parkinson's disease to double in the next 20 years, but little is known about what causes the condition and how to cure it. Tasmania has been chosen to contribute blood samples to a global study aimed at improving understanding of the genetics behind Parkinson's disease.

Even Maritime Law says you aren't allowed to ram your boat into the copshop mate

New Standing Room Only! Today's excerpt: My plea to mainstream journalists to stop indulging the moral panic over birth rates. Women don't owe you more babies. Read and subscribe today! salon-standingroomonly.beehiiv.com Music by Gina Birch.

Longstanding independence activists embracing indefinite Danish rule, prominent businesspeople arming themselves, the Danish military bringing in explosives in case they need to destroy runways to stymie a US invasion - we are living in crazy times.

Ah the 90s, when the 'Net was gonna collapse all existing governance structures & all stripes of fellow-traveler read whatever the fancied off that blank slate. Note William Rees-Mogg (father of Jacob R-M) as a co-author - that Kool-Aid did seem to have particular appeal for Conservatives.

Best thing about this is what the bunkers look like. Just you and your terrible nuclear family, trapped with each other, forever. No community even if you needed one. No help on the way. Just a grid of soundproof tombs. The perfect American suburb

Here's the serious bit for anyone who'd rather skip the 4000 words of jokes

And we are live! Massive thanks to everyone who contributed to this. Reading your posts made me so much madder than I ever knew was possible

Getting things "in the paper" ("earned media" broadly defined) is not a strategy for social change, it's an occasionally useful tactic.

Don't think Labor is your problem mate

Bookmark this article, as we might need to remind ourselves of what it says in a couple of years, when the grim and horrible positions it exposes are mysteriously forgotten, and Restore Briatin is suddenly the only reasonable option.

Today the Daily Mail opposes Restore Britain, partly it seems because RB could split the far-right vote in Makerfield, helping Andy Burnham to win. But if, as I suspect, RB soon becomes the leading far right party, how long will it be before the Mail supports it?🧵 www.dailymail.com/news/article...

Scoop: Australia has picked a philosopher and air force reservist to lead a new body tasked with keeping Australians safe from the harms of AI. Dr Kate Conroy will lead Australia's AI Safety Institute, which will monitor, test and share info on emerging threats from AI. www.abc.net.au/news/...

ABC boss a master of silence amid scrutiny on news chief’s abrupt departure www.theguardian.com/media/2026/m...

What is one simple political truth you believe, that if everyone realised would substantially change the way 'ground up' politics works in this country? Mine is "Australia is almost globally irrelevant"

Joe Gebbia should be in prison at least until this has all been fully investigated and all responsible have been prosecuted. thedreydossier.substack.com/p/i-found-a-...

This makes it clear that the value for Flock isn't the money they are being paid by governments for the cameras, it's the data generated by the recordings that they can monetize elsewhere. Otherwise they'd be fine with getting paid without the cameras being up.

Last year, Evanston, Illinois terminated its Flock contract and removed the cameras. Flock *put them back up* and reactivated them. Then Evanston put trash bags around them. Flock says: "legal conditions may prevent a city from voiding the contract without grounds to do so"

This is extremely notable and shows who really owns and controls this surveillance infrastructure. Flock says "We're proud to work with the city of Dayton, OH and hope we can continue."

Every city commissioner in Dayton, Ohio wants the cameras removed. The police say they have been deactivated. But they literally aren't sure if they're still recording or not. This follows scandal in which police say they were *accidentally* sharing data w/ ICE. So they bag them as stop-gap measure

New: Regretful cities are literally covering their Flock cameras with black trash bags because they cannot figure out how to immediately exit their surveillance contracts or get the cameras taken down: www.404media.co/cities-are-c...

Never arguing over the data again, just praying in aid Zohran’s glorious smiting of bourgeois events.

Oh boy, if Mamdani is the vibe vessel through which British urban leftism switches to loving planning reform, and start preaching from the gospel of Auckland and Austin, he will be the Muad’Dib of the Anglosphere. ‘Zack backs Zohran Zones’.

This shit puts a hard cap on the leftist political vehicle of the day (currently the Green party), and it feels it is below 20 points.

The omnicause and also weird 70s racism, combined at last!

They'd collapse. They always collapse under the mildest of scrutiny. They are raised in such a bubble of arse kissing obsequiousness that any disagreement or contestation feels like oppression to them.

John Howard banned women from wearing pants in his office in this century

Horoo then. Make sure to sell your land on the way out. Clare Valley is my favourite region for reds, and Taylors my least favourite product that comes out of it. Sounds like a win for them, a win for me, and a win for the reputation of the entire region.

About 10 years ago The Age did a thing about how tax was making our cafes "uncompetitive." With what? Breakfast in Singapore?

"Chalmer's is forcing me to grow Shiraz in Indonesia" said he said, and was duly stenographed by the National Broadcaster. "We think Sulawesi Claret is the next big thing."

Peak dumb. "How do you move a vineyard? An ABC investigation."

KPMG Australia CEO Andrew Yates has quit amid a scandal involving audit partners accessing confidential client documents. Corporate regulator ASIC is before a parliamentary inquiry today, where it has been discussing the very public issues at KPMG at length. www.abc.net.au/news/2026-05... #auslaw

I'm a broken record on this, but you could argue they continue to make money well beyond any possible use for the same reason some retirees are horrified by the idea of spending their super: if your wants/needs turn out to be finite, you too are finite. If you have 'enough' that means you're mortal.

Definitely some truth to this one. Whether the exact sum is $10m or $100m, there is definitely a point where you could live in luxury as anyone could reasonably define it for the rest of your life, and people who carry on rather than selling after that are definitionally at least a bit megalomaniac

This will be inconvenient for LNP and One Nation reneweconomy.com.au/electricity-...

KPMG Australia CEO Andrew Yates has resigned and will leave the firm immediately over the firm’s repeated failure to deal with wide-ranging whistleblower allegations of client data misuse. www.afr.com/companies/pr... #auslaw #ausbiz archive version (no paywall): archive.is/0mHfF