There are no words really are there? Gilead dreamings. #petehegseth #Trump #fascism #USA

“Britain’s practically perfect star enters her 10th decade today. To celebrate we look back over the remarkably rich, radical – and sometimes risqué – career of an actor best known for tucking up children in the mid 1960s” #cinema www.theguardian.com/film/2025/oc...

A Brolga named Bruce. Dancing. On a front lawn. #wildlife #birds www.instagram.com/share/BAN_xd...

“Hegseth’s vision of a hard-ass military might be compelling if you believed that future combat would be a reprise of landing on Omaha Beach or Iwo Jima. But the nature of military conflict is changing — on the drone-saturated battlefields of #Ukraine … deterring a tech-savvy #China in the future.”

#Trump & #PeteHegseth “in their focus on grooming, fitness standards & ‘the enemy within’, seem oblivious to the reality that 21st-century combat will be dominated by drones & artificial intelligence, plus commanders who understand these high-tech weapons.” www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...

“The early 1990s saw the #USA Navy rocked by the Tailhook sexual assault scandal, exposing a dark underside of military culture.” Women in the US military, in combat/support roles, are about to be thrown to the wolves again? Disgusting. #petehegseth #Trump #GOP www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

The #Trump #petehegseth diatribes sprayed over 800 #USA military brass is clearly another inflection point in the consolidating Trump #dictatorship. Many a general & admiral will be reflecting on their bedrock values framework. Decision time. Shoot US citizens? “Loyalty”? To what? To whom? #fascism

“Yudkowsky & Soares assert that while #AI researchers think they know how to ‘steer’ or ‘craft’ AI development, they only know how to ‘grow’ it. Artificially intelligent systems have already shown themselves capable of strange mutations.” Le débat continue. www.washingtonpost.com/books/2025/0...

#history #USA #democracy

According to Forbes’ most recent estimate, published in September 2025, Trump’s net worth is $7.3 billion. The increase represents a $3 billion jump in just one year”. This prez biz is a great gig, huh? What conflicts of interest? #Trump #USA #democracy greekreporter.com/2025/09/23/d...

J’aime Edith Piaf. Voici pas, “Je ne Regrette Rien” ni “La Vie en Rose”, mais, “Milord”. #music #history youtube.com/watch?v=kLH5...

#USA defence ( … ahem … “war”) secretary, #petehegseth, is railing against “fat soldiers” including generals & admirals. While standing beside an obese commander-in- chief? President Doodle Pubes. #Trump

Yes. And internally, culturally, women will suffer even more. Rape, sexual assault, maltreatment will incur little to no consequences for the perpetrators. This is the #petehegseth “doctrine” echoing his personal life behaviors. The military shooting #USA citizens, “the enemy within” looms. #fascism

#USA civic religion of “exceptionalism”, with its specious assumptions, has numbed millions of Americans to what is actually happening in their fractured republic, dissolving #democracy. There’s nothing clandestine or veiled about #Trump consolidating his #dictatorship. He lusts for power. #fascism

The #Trump drum beat “enemy within” slogan is unvarnished #fascism. It presages now, especially after his rambling rant to #USA military brass, using troops to assail & even kill US citizens. This clearly includes “radical left Democrats”. And others he hates. How far does “normalisation”stretch?

“The discovery of huge petroglyphs of camels & donkeys, as well as hundreds of engraving tools, hints at complex early settlement in the region following the Ice Age.” BUT - the remarkable petroglyphs on Burrup Peninsula #WA are much older & more numerous. #Indigenous www.nytimes.com/2025/09/30/s...

Of course the #GOP is blaming the Democrats for the #USA government shutdown. All part of the partisan #propaganda game. They’ve laid blame on @aoc.bsky.social. Here she pushes back hard. Mind you, #Trump seems to want a shut down? More chaos. More conflict. More firings. youtube.com/shorts/FBDnc...

“This now-extinct tongue was probably spoken somewhere in Eurasia as many as 8,000 years ago. Long predating the advent of writing systems, its words – and its name, if it had one – were never written down.” Studying ancient #languages is a knotty, tricky task. But fascinating. flip.it/KsO-.k

The next phase of the #Trump consolidating #dictatorship is upon the #USA. His unhinged, rambling rant to the military brass was hyper bellicose. #petehegseth performed his “fool’s dance”. Bigoted, misogynistic, racist. He is a poster boy for the Dunning-Kruger effect. #fascism #democracy

“Judge William Young framed his 161-page ruling as a response to an anonymous postcard writer who noted #Trump ‘HAS PARDONS AND TANKS.’ #freespeech #ruleoflaw #USA flip.it/R4Q5mW

A friend had some major cancer surgery recently. Four weeks in hospital. Extensive, serious medical care & procedures. Her total cost? ZERO. Here in Australia, when we face injuries, disease & benefit from universal health cover, we tend to say, “Aren’t you glad we don’t live in the #USA?” #health

“Journalists have long shaped history through scrutiny of the military. Now the Defense Department plans to cut off access for reporters who publish even unclassified information without official approval”. Journos doing #PR? #freepress #journalism #democracy #Trump www.nytimes.com/2025/09/24/u...

OPINION “Pete Hegseth’s department is imposing restrictions that threaten to limit #media scrutiny.” #freepress #journalism #democracy www.theatlantic.com/national-sec...

THREAD #USA #publicbroadcasting (primarily @npr.org & @pbs.org) hits the #Trump defunding wall. #media #journalism #democracy

ARCHIVE “‘How can I know … that an order I receive to launch my missiles came from a sane president?’ It was 1973. President Richard M. Nixon was seriously depressed about Watergate. Hering, an Air Force major who rescued downed pilots in Vietnam, was training to be a missileer” flip.it/ZkgL7u

#Trump “told the military officers that they would be part of the solution to domestic threats, fighting the ‘enemy from within.’ … ‘We should use some of these dangerous cities as training grounds for our military because we’re going into Chicago very soon.’” What could possibly go wrong? #fascism

#USA #democracy #fascism #Trump

OPINION @radiofreetom.bsky.social “the generals & admirals should be forgiven if they walked out of the auditorium & wondered: ‘What on earth is wrong with the commander in chief?’” A hell of a lot? Another rambling, incoherent rant? #Trump #petehegseth #fascism #dictatorship flip.it/a0phnd

“Publisher says stopping it from talking to Nottinghamshire council’s leader is breach of the right to free expression”. #freepress #UK #democracy www.theguardian.com/media/2025/s...

“Tilly Norwood is an entirely artificial intelligence-made character. Norwood, dubbed Hollywood’s first ‘ #AI actor,” is the product of a company named Xicoia, which bills itself as the world’s first artificial intelligence talent studio.” So it goes. Our synthetic culture expands. flip.it/MDL5QW

“The horrors that it has inflicted in #Gaza have contributed to a sharp decline of support for #Israel in the #USA & elsewhere. Any additional military gains against Hamas pale in comparison to the long-term strategic threats from global isolation.” I doubt corrupt, #Netanyahu regime will relent?

“It needs to end for the people of #Gaza, more than 60,000 of whom — roughly 3 percent of the population — have been killed. The victims include entire families & thousands of children. Neighborhoods have been reduced to rubble.” #Netanyahu wants to “finish the job”. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/30/o...

#birds #wildlife

Oh … the “fat shaming”! flip.it/wqbJZz #Trump #petehegseth

#PODCAST “Compulsory Voting and Australia’s Democracy”. Since 1925, our turnout at federal elections has been 90%+. In the #USA, 2024, it was 65%. Indolent? #democracy #history #auspol rss.com/podcasts/tra...

OPINION Our Australian #democracy is relatively robust in global terms but inevitably under threat too midst the “stress testing”. Compulsory & preferential voting & a trusted AEC are three key mechanistic bulwarks. Further reforms beckon? Maybe more akin to the NZ system? #auspol flip.it/tMjVuW

“ #Trump delivered a meandering address to an unprecedented gathering of the country’s top military leaders … floating the idea of using American cities as a training ground for the military as he painted a picture of the #USA under attack ‘from within.’” www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

“ #Trump, with an eager Cabinet official now in charge at the Pentagon, has repeatedly & unapologetically trampled on long-standing norms intended to keep the #USA military beyond the grasp of partisan politics.” Imagine the whispered conversations, fears of being “dobbed” in? #fascism #dictatorship

It’s clear? The diatribes addressed to the #USA military brass by #Trump & #petehegseth mark the next phase of the “ Mad King’s” consolidating #dictatorship. I fear shooting US citizens in “radical left Democrat” run cities looms. 2024 midterms? #fascism #GOP www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...

“‘It seems that the ones that are run by the radical left Democrats, what they’ve done to San Francisco, Chicago, New York, Los Angeles, they’re very unsafe places … And we’re going to straighten them out one by one, & this is going to be a major part for some of the people in this room.’” #Trump

Imagine what’s going through these high ranking #USA military officers’ minds as they are berated by #Trump suggesting “dangerous US cities”, such as Chicago, should be used as “training grounds” & #petehegseth decrying all forms of #DEI, “woke shit”. #fascism #GOP www.nytimes.com/2025/09/30/u...

The “ #petehegseth address focused on military culture & philosophical doctrine. Decrying ‘the insane fallacy that diversity is our strength’, Hegseth said he had chosen to fire previous generals because they had been personally invested in progressive ideas about #diversity.” #Trump #fascism #USA

“‘We should use some of these dangerous cities as training grounds for our military – national guard, but military – because we’re going into Chicago very soon, that’s a big city with an incompetent governor,’ #Trump said, attacking @govpritzker.illinois.gov.” www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Buster Keaton inspiration for those trying to elude #Trump #ICE thugs. #fascism youtu.be/Aec_N1bk4v8?...

“The critiques from multiple top officers, including the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Gen. Dan Caine, come as Defense Secretary #PeteHegseth reorders #USA military priorities.” What’s actually happening here? Feels incipiently schismatic? #Trump www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...

#ICE #Trump #fascism bsky.app/profile/medi...

“ @albomp.bsky.social says the #USA review of #AUKUS is ‘ongoing’ amid reporting it has survived the Trump administration’s review.” Who would know really? How can Australia sustain an “alliance” with a fickle, unreliable #Trump administration? #fascism #Ukraine #Gaza www.news.com.au/national/pol...

#Trump said “he will impose a 100% tariff on ‘any & all movies that are made outside of the #USA’ …repeating a threat he made earlier this year in an effort to boost the Hollywood filmmaking industry he claims was ‘stolen’ by other countries.” What blatant BS. Distorted #cinema history? #tariffs

The #Trump regime has now blown up several boats off the coast of Venezuela killing their occupants. They claim they were drug smugglers. What evidence is there of that? If true, why not interdict them? Some reporting suggests some were fishermen. Isn’t this just extra-judicial murder? #fascism #USA

“Trinity’s organ was destroyed in the Sept. 11 attacks. At last, its replacement has been unveiled. Hear the sound of its 8,041 pipes.” Not the world’s biggest pipe organ. The fully playable Wanamaker, in Philadelphia, the world’s 2nd largest, has 23,500 pipes. #music www.nytimes.com/2025/09/30/a...