As an Australian this morning, I cannot tell you monstrous, horrific and inhumane the vile adults in this photo are. The fact that man is in the US Congress is a disgrace to everyone who voted for him, and the willingness of the parents to recruit their children into their monstrosity is sickening.

Can’t believe people are arguing whether the guy who took down one of the terrorists is Muslim or Christian. WHY DOES IT BLOODY MATTER! The guy is still a freakin HERO whether he is black, white, yellow, Muslim, Christian, Buddhist. How many of us would have done what he did?

Jeffries: "You've got Leavitt, who's sick, she's out of control. I'm not sure if she's just demented, ignorant, a stone cold liar, or all of the above. But the notion that an official WH spokesperson would say that the D Party consists of 'terrorists, violent criminals & undocumented immigrants'..."

Sums it up perfectly

Today in Politics, Bulletin 210. I try to make them all really good, but this is better than most. Everything you need to know about what happened today in politics. open.substack.com/pub/meidasto...

Raiders look like going out in straight sets!

Given my social media posts I won’t be going to America anytime soon, not at least until tell Trump and his cronies are gone! So another three and a half years sadly.

Exceptional timeline reconstruction by New York Times reporters here 👇. Netanyahu sacrifices Israeli hostages to stay in power but security/peace for the state/people of Israel remains at grave risk in the hateful years ahead. www.nytimes.com/2025/07/11/m...

How in the rat-flogging fuck do we live in a country where people are right now blaming the women who put their kids into childcare instead of blaming the men who allegedly molested the kids while they were at childcare? #NewsCorpse

Magda Szubanski has announced she has cancer and because she doesn't share their extreme right-wing views, the Daily Mail has chosen to publish the most vile imaginable comments about her. They are pieces of shit, but you already knew that.

A #SOO #legend with the Encyclopedia of #Socceroos??? We love to see that! Garry Jack with his uncle, Keith Learmonth, cap #136. Garry presented Keith with a copy of @andyhowe-statto.bsky.social's incredible book in hospital today. Keith is 92yo.

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THIS MORNING - THE LIBERAL PARTY ROOM: “We need to get away from our reputation as the soft, incompetent party of Scott Morrison!” “I’ve got just the candidates!” #auspol

So Sussan Ley becomes Liberal leader by a 4 vote margin, relying on the votes of 3 Liberals who will no longer be in the Senate after the end of June. There will also be a new Liberal Senator who is aligned to Angus Taylor once the new term begins. Watch this space 👀 #auspol #ausvotes

So it worked out really well for that imbecile Jacinta Price lol lol. Defects to Liberals because she was promised deputy leadership under dopey Angus Taylor!!! Taylor loses vote. lol lol lol

lol lol

… seats is because people who had already voted them in as representatives or preferenced them to be so (remember, Adam relied on Liberal preferences to win Melbourne in the first place) made a decision they did not want to be represented by them anymore. That was due to a number of factors…

Oh my god - the Advance campaign was NOT the reason that the Greens lost their seats. For a start, crazy rightwingers don’t know how to speak to left leaning people in a way that flips their vote, don’t be ridiculous. The proof is the national greens vote did not drop. The reason greens lost… 🧵

Monique Ryan retains the seat of Kooyong. #ausvotes

The effing gall of the Murdoch Media, the most biased media ever….disgusting rag!

Remember Jacinta Price was handed a guaranteed CLP NT senate seat as she’s so unpopular there, she can’t win a House of Representatives seat! She may have a small cheer squad in Alice Springs, but in the NT overall, she’s massively unpopular.

I am sick to the teeth of the continual political shit in Australian football. Everyone has an angle, everyone has an agenda. Everyone is trying to use the game for their own good. I put up with this crap for 48 years as a journalist. It’s the reason why we never get ahead. Cont.

And speaking of vulgar billionaires… a round of applause, please, for our very own Anthony Pratt👏

Joe Montemurro to coach Matildas, Graham Arnold to coach … Iraq? www.smh.com.au/sport/soccer...

Job lot, going cheap…

What a great feeling to be an ALP man! Great victory by Albo and the team. Dutton is gone for good and the Libs have been humiliated! Thank you Australia

Be proud that you’re a Labor voter. It means you’re not a Tory and not a dickhead. #auspol

One more point for Liverpool FC and Celtic FC! Get it done lads!

YNWA!

Day 2 of the Golden Era.

Great story from Sarah Basford Canales on what happens when you choose the guy who looks like you drew Joe Rogan from memory as your candidate www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

Penguins…..stop ripping America off! Our Cult Leader orders you to pay a 10% tariff!

They underreacted because they still think he’s going to reverse them in a few days. Wait until they realize he isn’t.

Delighted to share our next book, The Coping Stone, by Paul Nicholls, about the 1925 tour to Australia by England. We are launching at Gleebooks on 30th May. www.fairplaypublishing.com.au/collections/...

Dinner sorted. My famous spinach, olive and anchovy pie (my late mum’s foolproof recipe).

Happy with that win by the Mariners. Hopefully they can finish season on a high, no thanks to the owner!

Need Doka and Theoharous to ping some long range shots with wind at their backs in second half!

Doka!!!! Penalty. 2-1 Mariners

Awful defending Mariners

Kuol!!!! Goal

Speers is no match for @albomp.bsky.social this morning. Albo is on fire. Even making Speers look like an idiot #Insiders

JD and Usha Vance pretending to wave to absolutely nobody in Greenland since nobody wants them there. The crowd goes wild for the Vance!

I just keep thinking of the heartlessness of going to an election promising to sack 41,000 people just because they’ve chosen public service. The LNP talks of small business owners going out of business as a tragedy. How is sending thousands of people into unemployment not?

So good I thought I’d post it again 😅

Gidday mate. Somewhere in Australia, Sydney, Melbourne, Paul Hogan, Crocodile Dundee!!! What a great call.

Discovered these a little while ago. Best crisps I’ve had in ages. Very crunchy. Btw, nothing to do with Tyrell’s winery.

Could have been worse. Conceded early and looked terrible but better last 20 minutes from Mariners. Still only down a goal! Doubt I’ll watch second half coz of the awful glitching in the coverage. Will watch my other useless team, Wests Tigers, lose to Parramatta lol

Can someone sort out the buffering on Paramount for this Auckland-Mariners game please. And while you are at it, can you give the Mariners a ball of their own so they can have some possession!

Mariners going to get ripped apart. Already a goal down

Ten years after former Treasurer Joe Hockey advised Australians to get “a good job that pays good money” to buy a house, new analysis by The Australia Institute reveals just how bad that advice actually was.