This is a guy sending innocent gay barbers to slave prisons in El Salvador. Just for some context.

‘Some of her earnings were spent on riotous living, but Kerry gave a lot of it away without fanfare to those who really needed it: fellow authors down on their luck, impecunious neighbours and, above all, to charities.’ What a legend. Vale, KG.

NEW POST ON FORCE MAJEURE How Trump's tariffs can be a Force Majeure event for some contracts And why it depends on what a particular contract says By me Substack: emptycity.substack.com/p/how-trumps... Personal blog: davidallengreen.com/2025/04/how-...

Please read this. 😳

Exclusive from Kooyong today: Amelia Hamer pitched herself as a renter. She owns two investment properties www.theage.com.au/politics/fed... I'm covering Kooyong for the whole campaign. Got a tip? DM me!

Telling voters you live in a 1 bedroom flat in Hawthorn because Cost of Living while your $1,000,000+ flat in London is rented out for $3,000 a month. Pretty spectacular effort even for the Victorian Branch of the Liberal Party # Kooyongvotes #auspol

Dutton, Hume and crew don’t get today’s workplace or household. They are frozen in an inflexible world that is long gone & is not coming back. And they hate the public sector and the essential services it provides.

Superb stuff here from Struggle Street. (One of the properties is a $1.5 million apartment she bought - in London - when she was 23 years old.)

Well well well. Turns out the Libs do fake renters as well as they do fake tradies. Amelia Hamer, running in Kooyong and constantly bleating about being a renter in an effort to relate to the young among us, owns a million-dollar flat in London and a flat in Canberra.

So many of us are forever renters. Can the faux forever renters just STFU?!

Oh dear. Liberal property shock -by Rachel Dexter via The Age #Kooyongvotes #auspol

International students have been proven again and again to have nil to negligible impact on housing affordability EVEN NEAR UNIVERSITIES — and even if they were juicing demand, that’s no reason to deny people their right to share in our cities and excellent education system. JUST BUILD MORE HOMES!

It's time for free, universal, high-quality early childhood education! Our kids deserve to be safe & access education that'll set them up for life! More Greens in Parliament can drive universal early education, fix this system & provide much needed cost of living relief to families.

Coalition to axe government’s new-car emissions fines. Peter Dutton will reportedly repeal penalties for carmakers who sell vehicles which exceed new emissions targets. #ClimateCrisis #TransportEmissions #Auspol #Ausvotes www.carexpert.com.au/car-news/opp...

After 5 years fighting the War Memorial’s censorship of Australian-East Timor history, I won approval for full release of their docs. The War Memorial has now appealed, using $$$ Senior Counsel $$$ to continue their secrecy campaign. YOUR history, YOUR money … 🤷‍♂️#FOI #auspol

The incoming NIH Director has repeatedly stressed the importance of open science and open data. Now petabytes of NIH-hosted research data are about to be lost on his watch. www.404media.co/nih-archives...

When people ask me which politicians - regardless of whether I agreed with their position or not - I found to be upfront, capable & as true to their ideals as Parliament’s party system allows them to be, Petro Georgiou is always one who springs to mind #auspol neoskosmos.com/en/2025/04/0...

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This is amazing. Great journalism about how Norfolk Island, Heard Island and McDonald Islands, Tokelau, the British Indian Ocean Territory, and other oddities landed on the US tariffs list

We've solved the mystery on why all those remote and uninhabited islands were targeted for tariffs by Trump - they show up in US trade data due to mislabelled shipments. eg mixing up Norfolk, Virginia or Norfolk UK with Norfolk Island! www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

"The truth is, these are not very bright guys, and things got out of hand." ~ All the President’s Men

I have uploaded the introductory chapter to my book, 'No Platform: A History of Anti-Fascism, Universities and the Limits of Free Speech' to ResearchGate and Academia dot Edu. www.researchgate.net/publication/... www.academia.edu/44497710/No_...

Australians for Natural Gas revealed as a front for Tamboran - a foreign fracking company harming the NT water table & planning emissions equivalent to putting 30 million extra cars on the road. This is astroturfing 101: fake community, real pollution. www.abc.net.au/news/2025-04...

but we also have self defence forces. We have never exported/imported anything, though there was a gang of elephant seals that tried to export electronics in 2022. Our glacial ICE agents foiled that. We will resolve tariff disputes with guano mineral deals, scientific immigrant refuge, or force. 2/2

"America is a place of immeasurable wealth. It is quite literally the richest and most fortunate country that has ever existed. And yet its leader acts like such a pitiful cry-baby on the world stage, constantly talking about how mean everyone is and how horrible everyone has been to it"

Nice work here... www.abc.net.au/news/2025-04...

Defence Ministry: Shoreline defence force Gentoo’s prepare mortars. Our Navy Seals conduct clandestine training, and teach tactical camouflage and concealment to juveniles. We stand ready. Flippers Up.

I have tariffed the penguins that are on Heard Island and which you were probably assuming did not export goods forgive me they were taking advantage of us so cunning and so cold

I preferred the Paul Thomas Anderson version.

So if I’m reading this correctly, USTR used the “trade deficit divided by imports” formula. And then they added two variables which, multiplied together, equal 1 and therefore do not change the result. Just to make things look a bit more scientific? ustr.gov/issue-areas/...

It's got zero to do with negotiation or indeed with any sense of logic. The tariff rates are the product of minds which are functionally insane, doing fantasy mathematics at scale. We're all lost in a hall of mirrors pretending that a compass will help us find our way out.

We take tariffs on our beautiful Heard Island very seriously. We will be consulting all mammals and flightless birds and will make an announcement in the near future detailing our response. #heardisland #tariff #mcdonaldisland #trumptariff

I was going to get the train today. But I am increasingly concerned at the deficit I’m running with Great Northern Rail. I buy a lot from them and they purchase nothing from me. Tempted to apply a 20% tariff. Sure my tickets will cost 20% more but it might mean I buy fewer and reduce the deficit.

It’s 9am TFT time here, and citizens are already gathering to protest Tariffs by the United States. Our plain clothes Officer Penguins are attempting to maintain calm, but unfortunately we keep losing them in the crowd.

Peter Dutton has announced he will: - Withdraw $2.2bn in funding for SRL - Pull $2bn from upgrade to Sunshine Station - Spend extra $1.5bn to the Melbourne Airport rail, with expectation future Coalition govt in Vic will match The math ain't mathing. More via the @australia.theguardian.com blog:

As I argue in my State Daddies paper, "blokiness" has a great deal of legitimising power. Political leaders "authenticate themselves by appropriating stereotypical traits associated with working-class masculinity to ... shield their middle/upper-class identity" to "pass the pub test". See:

What a privilege it was to hear Daniel read this at Footscray West Writers Fest on Friday. A must read.

Good News: Independent candidate for Wannon Alex Dyson has called for Local Energy Hubs to be rolled out in the electorate, to help the community with solar + batteries, and share proper info about grid scale renewables. www.standard.net.au/story/892730...

Hilux Expense Contribution Scheme. Buy a ute today, pay it off if you make more than $200k per annum (not including cash jobs, do as many of those as you like).

Just realised this budget will have loads of largesse for tradies, dressed up as housing policy. Ute tax write offs etc. Ugh

Whoa www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...

If you accept that non-citizens have no right to due process, you are accepting that citizens have no right to due process. All the government has to do is claim that you are not a citizen; without due process you have no chance to prove the contrary.

Abolish ICE Immigrant women “Chained for hours on a prison bus without access to food, water or a toilet. Told by guards to urinate on the floor. Held ‘like sardines in a jar,’ as many as 27 women in a small holding cell.” www.usatoday.com/story/news/n...

“We don’t know where Hamdan [Ballal] is because he was taken away in a blindfold,” said 28-year-old Josh Kimelman, who was at the scene. apnews.com/article/no-o...

These 21 women artists names were lost, but are now found! #WomensHistoryMonth Discover the women artists we've uncovered in UK museums and galleries 👉 buff.ly/pBZh2lI 👩‍🎨 (Frances) Maud Porter (1863–1942) 📷 Hastings Museum and Art Gallery

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