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We did not fail to see it.

We've got Bill Kristol saying abolish ICE and standing up for trans people, David Brooks quoting the communist manifesto, and Sen. Van Hollen forcing a dictator to give proof of life of a hostage in a death camp. Meanwhile, Dems like Newsom are doing podcasts with fascists. Make it make sense.

EVERY SCHOOL DHOULD BE DOING THIS!! Show why school matters to everyone!

They’re tariffing the Australian Penguins! #auspol #Australia #Politics

It's an exclusive MYSTERY SOLVED. Guardian Australia figured out why Trump thought Norfolk Island (pop 2,188) has a huge leather shoe export business and penguins on Heard and McDonald Islands are running a secret machinery factory deserving of trade tariffs www.theguardian.com/...

Has anyone yet rewritten Machiavelli's dedication to Lorenzo Medici as a call to the ambition of Democratic politicians? We need to have read more Machiavelli, more Kafka, and more Vaclav Havel.

@booker.senate.gov is still at it. Champion. Thank you for doing *something* that reflects the outrage and fear of dem voters.

NYU canceled a planned speech by the former president of Doctors Without Borders because she planned to discuss the humanitarian crisis in Gaza and cuts to US AID. This is what actual campus censorship looks like.

Dear AUS PM @albomp.bsky.social cc @senatorwong.bsky.social, When will the Australian Govt issue a travel warning for Australians considering visiting the USA, given the actions of ICE towards foreign nationals legitimately visiting the USA already? #USPolitics #auspol #AusVotes25

Get 'em Hillary. (Gift link.) www.nytimes.com/2025/03/28/o...

This should be getting wider circulation

Again the fascism is already here

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Has anyone thought to tell Fetterman about "negotiation" and "leverage"? Could be revelatory info for him.

Holy shit, this makes so much sense

Oh.

Good. “Australia’s foreign policy is determined by Australia, and we stand, unequivocally, with Ukraine,” Albanese said this morning, calling Putin’s Russia an imperialistic regime. www.smh.com.au/world/north-...

General Strike, US gang. We've got to be gearing up for a General Strike.

The sun never does set...

Read the NYT excerpt below re Canada possibly one day becoming the 51st state: “should it ever happen” …Imagining conquest in the passive voice

Guys, the NYT has shockingly published an editorial about what is going on right now and all that it augurs. (Gift link.) www.nytimes.com/2025/02/07/o...

I'm going to need to work harder to lose my American accent.

Yah, let's not elect a Dutton LNP majority. Ick.

Asked and answered.

This:

Free "modest proposal" for Denmark. Call Trump's bluff. Demand $100B as a downpayment for negotiations over Greenland. Then use it to start hiring all the scientists whose NIH grants have been frozen. Steal America's scientific expertise while Trump is yelling at icebergs.

this is the neworktimesiest headline that has ever headlined

5 million, folks.

Hey, let's confuse the youngsters. Lay-by. Keep it going.

We're 10 1/2 hours into 2025 down here and so far it is bright and sunny. If the scat in my courtyard is any indication, the possums had a wild NYE.

Happy xmas from sunny Melbourne! Christmas is better in the summer.

This is appalling. What is going on up there?

Why isn't this atrocity banned here? #auspol

Well this is an absolutely dreadful piece. For shame, @bbcbreaking-bot.bsky.social To write Gisèle Picot is ‘shame-haunted’ shows wilful ignorance of this case in particular and any coverage of rape culture in the last 20 years.

The main point is that the US Constitution is whack.

I love this for him.

The problem isn’t government waste. The problem is that billionaires don’t pay taxes.

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Time to GO LOW

I'm not particularly interested in this particular incident, just curious about the rules.

Australians, can anyone explain why news outlets are not allowed to name the QLD mum/influencer/possible child abuser? Is it illegal to name people before charges are filed or something similar?

I have shared the same bathroom with Sarah McBride on several occasions, and she never once made me uncomfortable. She did however help me fix my makeup. That congresswoman knows how to blend her foundation, which is more than I can say about Donald Trump.

This. It's the racism.

Amazing. Vaccines are a goddamned miracle.

I don't dine with fascists

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