‘Always coming home’: Why I moved from the US to Australia www.thesaturdaypaper.com.au/life/2025/12... via @thesaturdaypaper.com.au

As it turns out, the only way to stop a bad guy with a gun *isn’t* a good guy with a gun—it can be a good guy *without* a gun. Just another NRA lie.

Just want to share with my American friends how the Australians respond to a shooting tragedy. Action, rather than thoughts and prayers.

Incredible footage out of Australia, confirmed by NEWS AU, of a brave bystander neutralizing one of the terrorists in the Bondi Beach attack which took place during a Hanukkah gathering. Australian authorities say multiple people have been killed. At least two suspects are in custody.

when right wing political parties ignite racial hatred this will always be the result...and they hide behind parliamentary privilege...fucking cowards... www.abc.net.au/news/2025-12...

Arrived in Brunswick Heads revisited - here’s an Australian water dragon…

🎤This belongs at the feet of GOP Senators, Republican Supreme Court justices & his freak show cabinet members. There has not been one good thing to come out of his presidency for the American people. NOT ONE!

They hate on our Black queens because they can’t handle their greatness.

Happy 100th birthday to Dick Van Dyke!

SO TRUE 👇👇

A Grand Social Media Experiment Begins in Australia www.nytimes.com/2025/12/07/w... Well done @australianlabor.bsky.social

After Marcelo Gomes da Silva was arrested by ICE on his way to volleyball practice in Milford, he made a promise to the men he shared a cell with: He’d be a voice for immigrants unfairly detained. He's one of Boston Globe Magazine’s Bostonians of the Year. trib.al/p9Edy6F

A startup backed by Donald Trump Jr.'s venture capital firm just got a $620M loan from the DoD, months after the Pentagon gave a major drone contract to ANOTHER Trump Jr.-backed company. This is what kleptocracy looks like. https://popular.info/p/update-trump-jr-backed-startup-receives

Water demand to service datacentres in Sydney alone is forecast to be larger than the volume of Canberra’s total drinking water within the next decade... www.theguardian.com/environment/...

It's good—very good, and very important—that district courts keep issuing these 100-page rulings upholding the law. It must be incredibly dispiriting to see them overturned in a two-page, lawless, unsigned order, but please, keep them coming. They expose SCOTUS' corruption like nothing else.

"ICE is arresting the worst of the worst." Everything this administration tells us is a lie.

Just drove from Sydney to Bathurst for the weekend - what a pretty drive through the Blue Mountains it was … we stayed at the Hydro-Majestic when V was pregnant with Laurence - 1989 - yeah so it’s been a while 😻

The bottom 90% lost a collective $79 trillion in wages over the past 50 years. Why? Because the top 1% ate up an increasingly larger share of the national income — so that $79 trillion flowed to them instead of the working class. The greatest trick of all is trickle-down economics.

The U.S. Supreme Court: "ICE can racially profile people it arrests." Also, the U.S. Supreme Court: "Texas can disenfranchise voters based on race." Can we all agree that we currently have a white supremacist Supreme Court?

The Pentagon reporters who have been kicked out of the building continue to break huge stories every day while the right-wing New Media continue to post selfies of themselves hanging out in the Pentagon.

The real question is not "Why is Bluesky so left-coded," the real question is "Why can't the right exist in a social media environment without algorithmic assistance, where people can ignore them"

this is extremely lovely and cute...

The president is a political cartoon of corruption come to life, a gaudy grifter who is selling off pardons and lining his pockets, building a golden ballroom and protecting his fellow sex predator elites, all the while regular Americans are suffering and struggling to make ends meet. Run on *that*

This tired, deeply-damaged man is so needy. He has to have references to him being president on his hat, on his shirt, and on a golf-framed placard next to his overcooked cheeseburger he's almost too-out-of-it to eat.

Walmart and McDonald’s are among the top employers of workers who rely on food stamps. McDonald's CEO raked in $18.2M last year — over 1,000x the company's median employee pay. Walmart's CEO pocketed $27.4M — 930x the company's median employee pay. See the problem?

When he’s gone, I know there will be a lot to do, but can we make sure the living rose garden gets restored? Started. Going.

Remember: The richest 1% evade over $160 billion in taxes every year. That amount would fund SNAP for a year with money to spare. Ask yourself who the real freeloaders are.

whatever you do in life, never stop learning, never stop being challenged in your ideas, question everything, it will probably make you very annoying as I've learned in my nearly 65 years, but seriously the alternatives are so bleak they don't bear thinking about Donald.

A real president does this. Thank you to every veteran who’s worn the uniform and carried the weight for the rest of us — just respect 🇺🇸

www.theatlantic.com/magazine/202... @theatlantic.com is the most extraordinary magazine

Do we know what's going on? www.theatlantic.com/technology/2...

<em>The Last Invention</em> confronts the perils of AI www.thesaturdaypaper.com.au/culture/podc... via @thesaturdaypaper.com.au

“Stay spooky, Contrarians. And never underestimate the cruelty that can be waged by neglected, vengeful monsters.” Meredith Blake shares Frankenstein recs for the season.

It's insane that this even needs to be said. “A free country does not dispatch police in the dead of night to pull people from their homes because a sheriff objects to their social media posts,” @adamsteinbaugh.bsky.social speaking to @willoremus.com. www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2025/...

Adelita Grijalva now holds the record for longest delay between winng a special Congressional election and being sworn into office. Why the delay from Mike Johnson? Perhaps it's because Grijalva would cast the final vote needed to release the Epstein files.

A poodle is a dog www.thesaturdaypaper.com.au/comment/edit... via @thesaturdaypaper.com.au

Never in the history of the US has any president openly and repeatedly called for the investigation, arrest & prosecution of his political opponents. While many continue to shrug these things off and normalize them, I will never stop pointing out that this is what autocrats do.

Waiting for someone to explain why the announcement of a trade relationship that is worse than the one we had a year ago is received as a big success

The president had a MRI but won't say why. He had bruises on his hands but wouldn't say why. He just had an 'annual medical' even though he already had his annual medical. He got shot in the ear but has never released the medical records relating to it. How is any of this ok?

#Trump may have immunity from the Supreme Court, but nobody else does — something #ICE agents would do well to remember.