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NEW: Our investigation for @thenerve_news reveals not only that Peter Thiel’s Palantir is completely enmeshed in our critical national infrastructure. It’s also the ‘cloud support’ for our nuclear weapons system 🤯 1/ www.thenerve.news/p/palantir-t...

Ezra Klein loved Charlie Kirk the Right Way -by Ezra Klein

The UK doesn't need a "libsoftiktok" because the respectable press has it covered

"Hanging out at the Nazi Bar on Twitter makes you a Nazi" I say before sitting down with a cup of coffee to read my paper with Ezra Klein, Russ Douthat, Bret Stephens, and David Brooks on the roster cashing paychecks

Alex Pretti’s most immediate legacy is galvanizing the country against tyranny. We should do what we can to see to it that his other legacy is reclaiming the public meaning of masculinity from the whiny, sadistic freaks responsible for his murder. www.offmessage.net/p/alex-prett...

So Noem claims she was just following orders How banal

britainchronicle 🚨BREAKING: 🇺🇸More than 38,000 hotel bookings for the 2026 FIFA World Cup in the U.S. have been canceled. More than 38,000 hotel bookings linked to the FIFA World Cup 2026 in the United States have reportedly been canceled months ahead of the tournament.

The wheel spins as it should.

One for the annals of park bench memorials.

(Albanese will be jumping out of his skin to do this here)

Nothing says "Social Cohesion" like endlessly rehashing issues facing one group at the expense of discussing anything else, on the grounds of "sensitivity" or "divisiveness"

Are you as shocked and surprised as I am that the first forum frontlines 'Australian' Jews? I am pretty sure you, like me, expected it would put the spotlight on Indigenous deaths in custody or domestic/family violence. But I guess the stronger lobby group won yet again.

Heatwaves kill more Australians than floods, fires and cyclones combined. If we named them, we could treat them as the public health emergencies they are. Should we name them after the fossil fuel companies that contribute to them? Tell me here: www.moniqueryan.com.au/heatwave_pet...

Dear Aussie peeps Gadget needs help to fend off Andre Tate One Adelaidean against an intersex trafficking ring.

Chloe Zhao Stan post Just saw Hamnet then came home and prepped dinner while listening to the NYT interview w her (google it!). And listening to her made the poignancy of the movie so immediate all over. No need to add salt to this meal. Like the magic in Water for Chocolate my tears will flavour it

The evil of Iran's theocratic government still shocks after all the years. All the US and UK had to do was not topple the democratic government & let Iranians benefit from their own oil resources. Instead, they destabilized the government & gave the ayatollah & his goons the opening they needed.

I don’t think we should make concessions to the Masked Murderers Guild of America. I don’t think we should compromise so the Masked Murderers Guild of America stops using kidnapped kids from schools as bait. I thought this was already illegal. The Masked Murderers Guild of America should not exist.

Ilhan Omar is an American hero. www.nytimes.com/live/2026/01...

Look, if you had a party scheduled at your house, and the pipes broke and the floor was covered in raw sewage, you’d tell your friends not to come over. In that spirit: world, skip the World Cup until we get this sewage worked out. And don’t be too sure about the Olympics.

Data visualization: Every human language, from modern day back through protolanguage to a hypothetical common origin. Accurate, sourced, possibly complete. Includes sign language! Tap or mouse over to highlight individual branches; many also have more info. 🛌 this project has been a beast

Waltz: "Children hiding in attics to avoid being seized by masked government goons and sent to camps is a moral stain." Trump's antisemitism envoy: "This means Waltz is an antisemite."

National “antisemitism envoys” like this guy in the USA and Jillian Segal in Australia #auspol have shown themselves to be mouthpieces for their govts approval of genocide

To avoid the possibility Holocaust remembrance might lead to empathy for migrants, Trump's antisemitism envoy claims Anne Frank "was in Amsterdam legally." In reality, Margot Frank received a summons to go to a labor camp on July 5, 1942. After ignoring this call, they were in Amsterdam illegally.

Auschwitz was at the end of a process. We must remember that it did not start from gas chambers. This hatred gradually developed: from ideas, words, stereotypes & prejudice through legal exclusion, dehumanization & escalating violence... to systematic and industrial murder. Auschwitz took time.

The guy who took $50k in a paper bag from border security contractors has been sent to lead the crack down on “illegals” because the other guy wasn’t doing it right.

Put the Hoodoo Gurus on the flag and we'll salute that

If Basho were alive today, his haiku would be totally thrown off its metre and form and would read like Dude, WTF I mean WTAF Cmon dude

The US Holocaust Museum being more outraged by Tim Walz saying that, like Anne Frank, children today are in hiding from armed agents of the state, than they are about the fact that children are in hiding from armed agents of the state, is why Holocaust remembrance culture is in crisis.

Superb idea from @mon4kooyong.bsky.social “When it comes to climate hazards, people act faster when they immediately grasp what’s at risk. Declaring a Category 4 ‘Heatwave Santos’ or ‘Heatwave Woodside’ would be more salient than communicating a ‘temperature spike’."

What happens to the body politic in 49C heat? The fossil-fueled 'parties of government' will find out. #ClimateCrisis #auspol

An Aust app is now dangerously challenging #TikTok, after Jewish-American billionaire #LarryEllison bought Tik Tok & began mass censorship against #Israeli critics. A massive number of users are now abandoning TikTok & jumping to #UpScrolled. techcrunch.com/2026/01/26/s... #AUSPOL #AussieMade

Love the buzz you get from TikTok but can't tolerate the company? There are options, mate. Developed in Australia

Assange accuses Nobel Foundation of encouraging US actions in Venezuela via Machado’s Peace Prize

not quite the 'America First' bit they were thinking of.

Bunnings accused of ‘greenwashing’ timber amid concerns about supplier’s illegal logging | New South Wales https://www.newsbeep.com/uk/391910/ One of Australia’s biggest environment groups has accused Bunnings of “greenwashing” its timber, claiming it may have sold…

And…they have a terrific sub sale going on. Ditch that NYT sub and pick up the Enquirer

The Philadelphia Inquirer is journalism at its best. And they are running a promotion right now - $1.00 for 6 months, or $1.00 for ad-free 3 months. That’s a deal!

I’m trying to recall Secretary Greg Moriarty’s finest hour. Was it signing the $45B (up from $35B) contract for 9 Hunter Class frigates (downgraded to 6 frigates for the same $45B) OR his judgement in hiring #RoboDebt’s Kathryn Campbell for $900K p/a👇? #auspol

As I've written before, people don’t trust institutions because institutions aren't doing the job. Democracy rests on three pillars: Verification, Deliberation, Accountability, which can be understood as being substantial, performative, and simulated. demos.co.uk/research/ver...

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Nominate the city of Minneapolis for the Nobel Peace Prize.

ABC Indigenous doesn’t mince words

This video from the Australian national broadcaster suggests that the intifada is already beginning to globalise. (inshallah)

Israel, totally indifferent to international norms etc., now just wants to “hang” the few remaining native residents of the West Bank

Fair enough