Many such cases "They made the mistake of winning elections which instantly accelerated their honking car into the hard wall of reality. In the councils Reform controls, they’ve achieved the exact opposite of their promises: council tax is soaring, pot holes don’t get filled, services are crumbling"

The far right goes after trans people because they are a threat to gender essentialism— which is a biblical idiom. They cleave to a primary schooler's understanding of endocrinology because admitting that hormones are complicated, and intersex people also exist, breaks down their arguments. #auspol

When a political party has nothing of substance to offer the people it's supposed to govern, all it offers is constant political theatre. #auspol

I was really enjoying the break we had, pretending Tony Abbott didn't exist. This is the double-edged sword of being from the ACT, you're never not a little aware of the pollies, and Abbott is truly insufferable (a determined crusader who ignores everything that contradicts his biases). #auspol

My homeland is leading the world right now.

I think my favourite part of the US administration's counter terrorism plan is when they're going after 'state sponsored anarchists'. These words are a scary salad to them. They have no idea of the political philosophy.

What gets me most about the Trump administration is they unequivocally want a global capitalist order that prioritises US interests above all else and they... had that. The USA had possibly more soft power than any empire that has come before it and the administration dismantled it in two years.

Another good video. Whenever someone gets deep into true crime I always ask if they have recommendations for white collar crime podcasts (and those crimes can be truly wild too), they never do. I also find the absence of Robin Hood adaptation suspect: youtu.be/R_AKbNcf6Nk

The USA is doing what it has always done, but this administration has no ability to do so artfully, they are obviously and completely unhinged: youtu.be/uOAYMRBVDxk

Solidarity is where it’s at. ✊🏽🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️

My apathy is pretty total whenever they cry bankruptcy about not being able to afford the high minimum wage or having to pay tax. Make room for businesses that will pay its workers a living wage and will do their part in investing in a community? #auspol

Doesn't matter because it could be any identity weaponized to spread fear and anger, fractured misery leveraged for their power. It matters because it's my identity they demonize and libel, my relationships that become harder than they were or need to be, my rights erased youtube.com/shorts/m-JE0...

“The law is only as strong as the willingness to enforce it without fear or favour. At present, for those with sufficient resources, it remains entirely optional” 2nd last paragraph lists the solutions. #law #environment #australia #auspol #nature www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

#auspol Keating on Hanson 1996

The Danish gov’t has installed floating platforms planted with wildflowers and native vegetation in the harbors and canals of Copenhagen, to create urban habitat sanctuaries for birds, bees, pollinators, insects, and even some aquatic life. #FlowersOfBluesky #InnovativeSolutions💡

This is MASSIVE 🔥 🇪🇸 Spain, under Pedro Sánchez, has called on Israel to end its expansion of settlements or face strict action 🔥 🇮🇹 Italy Declared the same 🇫🇷 France Declared the same 🇬🇧 UK Declared the same 🇩🇪 Now Germany is declaring the same These countries got their spine thanks to Spain’s leader

#auspol A well overdue project, if people don't see it then show them. www.abc.net.au/news/2026-05...

Is #auspol losing its two party system? I don't think so. The political spectrum of belief is fairly diverse in Australia and I don't think that will change. Also, the majority of Australians usually sit somewhere in the centre between labor and capital.

I have my own criticisms of Labor but sometimes I look around at the criticisms of Labor and think, 'man, you didn't spend part of your childhood living in a car, did you..?' #auspol

I like Chalmers, he seemed sharper than most and reasonably socially conscious, I'm glad those instincts were sound. The Murdoch media response to the budget has been hysterical though, we should make a drinking game out of how many hammer and sickles we see over his face for the next month. #auspol

Deadly dragon Ulster Museum, Belfast The willow dragons (1 of 3) were created by the Ulster Folk Museum's master basketmaker, Bob Johnston. #Woodensday

The entire American conservative MAGA “movement” has been a Russian funded op the entire time. Follow the money. It’s a straight line from Putin to CPAC.

The LNP are now indistinguishable from One Nation. Just going full tilt blood and soil White Nationalism. #auspol

Good piece by John Quiggin on the ousting of Orban, including this observation: open.substack.com/pub/johnquig...

You have to live remembering this. You have to live knowing this. You have to know that people in foreign countries with foreign gods and foreign beliefs just want to go home at the end of the day and sleep in peace.

No matter where you go, no matter the cultural and religious differences, the people there are just PEOPLE. They're brave and cowardly, they're selfish and selfless, they're good and bad. They want to live their lives and keep their families safe. They're PEOPLE, like you.

Orbán's electoral crushing is a far greater achievement than most people outside Hungary realise. He systemically consolidated power for 16 years, fixed the electoral map, abused govt power for political purposes & censored media. The hurdles that Hungarians overcame for this moment were immense.

Orbàn ousted!! Hope is a nice feeling.

governance and personal tantrum, between national interest and his own insatiable need to dominate, threaten, and perform. This is not strength. It’s not leadership. It’s not even controlled aggression. It is a man coming apart at the seams

and see,” then you are not a bystander, you are a participant in whatever comes next. The 25th Amendment isn’t radical. It’s a last-resort safeguard against exactly this: a president who is no longer capable of distinguishing between

Neutrality is endorsement- And the silence, the cowardly, calculating silence, from those still clinging to him is deafening. Because make no mistake, at this point, neutrality is endorsement. If you can read that post, hear those threats, watch the escalation, and still say “let’s wait

What the Easter Bunny really looks like.

I don't want people to be unrealistically positive but I would like there to be more questioning of those that want you constantly off-kilter and enraged. Often what they want is an overwhelmed voter base— emotional and disengaged. Find a cooler head, strip away the noise, follow the money. #auspol

A great interview and breakdown of geopolitics at present, including a succinct explanation for why Nationalism is dangerous (empire and war), why International Law is important, and why what's happening in Gaza is in fact a genocide as legally defined by the UN: youtu.be/YKmOXJnXshY

I need to be clear. All the self evident reasons to be against fascism aside, it's a state run on grievance, war, supremacist ideologies, and greed. It's never successful. Even for those in the inner circle. (How many fascist leaders have either been murdered or killed themselves?) #auspol

Fossil fuel billionaires want to make the world more tribal and isolationist because the UN was putting pressure on the world to come together to combat climate change, which will eat their profits eventually. It's why they suddenly hate globalization. #auspol

If you're a voter that is reliant on the pension. You are part of a class of people that PHON's benefactors want to kill. They want young working-class Aussies on $2 an hour. They want poor, older non-working Aussies dead. They want the middle-class gone. #auspol

Wild that Boomers can't comnect the dots on PHON wanting to lift work restrictions on the pension. If they stop all immigration, they erode the tax base. And with only four workers for every pensioner currently, cutting immigration WILL kill the pension. PHON are not pro "welfare." #auspol

*Thirty* years ago, old mate already had her sussed... #Keating #Hanson #auspol

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This is really fucking cool www.smithsonianmag.com/innovation/t...

The reason they're trying so hard to get you to hate Muslims is to retrospectively justify the war, which has spread to Lebanon for no reason but because the Israeli government wants the land. There's no high ground and so far right politicians are using 'dehumanize'. It's their go to move. #auspol

People I know who would never consider buying electric cars are considering buying electric cars and I think it's a pretty funny consequence actually. Utterly foreseeable, completely against the interests of the ideology that started this war.

It’s funny…once I got my journalism job this weird autocorrect happened on my computer…I kept trying to type “racism” and it corrected to “economic anxiety”.

I still don't understand why dissatisfaction in the government and neoliberalism is leading people to vote ONE NATION (?!) instead of, say, The Greens? #SAVotes #SAElection #AusPol

Five disasters in a single wet season show the climate crisis is here and now in the Northern Territory | Kirsty Howey

Spain's renewables build-out has structurally decoupled its electricity prices from gas markets. Gas now sets the price in only 15% of hours, compared to 90% in Italy. Countries that invested early in clean power are far less exposed to fossil fuel price shocks. Those that didn't now pay the price.