Agree entirely. It sowed confusion and turned people immediately back southwards on to others marching northwards. If not for the volunteers trying to get the message through and people sharing the message, it could have been much worse.

Returning on the train from the Sydney March for Humanity, Free Palestine protest and they are still turning people back on the bridge

Police trying to turn Sydney march back on itself. Crush concerns.

Free Palestine

By now, we've all seen the video of Senator Alex Padilla (D-CA) being forcibly removed and handcuffed for asking a question during Kristi Noem's press conference. But what Noem said just moments before the video was taken is "classic authoritarian red-baiting," points out @davidcorn.bsky.social.

Looking back at a clip of George W. Bush warning about exactly what Donald Trump is doing today #tRUMP #MAGA #DEMS #Democrat #DemsUnited #StrongerTogether #SaveDemocracy #StopFascism #StopOligarchy #StopAuthoritarianism #StopBillionaires #Resist #GOP #donaldtrump

He fired the black chairman of the joint chiefs for being woke and hired his brother.

Fuck Stephen Miller and Tom Homan to hell. Goddamn bastards, both of them.

The USA is now the global school yard bully. A country of its size pressuring countries like Australia? What a bunch of turds. Boycott the bastards. www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

Pharmaceutical companies have the gall to complain about competition and claim it stifles innovation *cough* profits? Didn't seem to bother Josef Salk.

Fair bit of swearing round the office when I shared this graph yesterday www.theguardian.com/business/gro...

Imagine this: On the evening of March 8, you and your spouse unlock the door to your apartment building. As you step inside, two men—not in uniform—push their way in behind you. They tell you your visa has been revoked and that they are there to deport you.

As the economy continues to tank...

It all makes sense once you realize a recession is actually a good thing for the 1%.

Let’s flip this Can you imagine the outcry if any other percentile held this much power, influence & wealth over the entire populace!! Say, women (all kinds) in their 50s for example 🤔

Curtis Yarvin wrote that “as the crappy govts we inherited … are smashed, they shld be replaced by a global spiderweb of…independent mini-countries, each governed by its own…corporation w/o regard to the residents’ opinions.” This reminds me of DOGE, “Network States,” & “Freedom Cities.” You? 1/

RIGHT NOW, in Zocalo,downtown Mexico City, President Claudia Sheinbaum has convened hundreds of thousands of citizens to inform them of her government’s response to Trump and the threat of a tariff war with the United States. chew on that size of a crowd Shitler!

“In Finland, the number of homeless people has fallen sharply. Those affected receive a small apartment & counselling with no preconditions. 4 out of 5 people affected make their way back into a stable life. And all this is CHEAPER than accepting homelessness.”

Barry Clark in 1C for Understated Australian of the Year. “All I could do was push [the flight attendant] out of the way, get the gun out of the way, break that, throw it down the stairs, and then put him in a hold and throw him to the ground until the police come.”

“We have to consider the possibility that President Trump is a Russian asset." - UK Tory MP Graham Stuart, this morning No shit, Graham.

Let this sink in.

“We have to consider the possibility that President Trump is a Russian asset.” Conservative MP Graham Stuart suggested Donald Trump is a Russian asset. Stuart’s comment comes after considering Trump’s betrayal of Ukraine. Trump’s sudden and indefinite suspension of military aid to…

This is Winston Churchill visiting Washington DC to request assistance in the war against Germany. Notice he is wearing a "zip suit" and not a traditional suit. This was to honor the British troops--the same reason Zelensky dresses the way he does.

"There were, of course, different stages of recruitment. Typically, a case officer would invite a target to lunch. The target would be classified as an “official contact.” If the target appeared responsive, he (it was rarely she) would be promoted to a “subject of deep study,” via @politico.com

Dutton promising 36,000 sackings - impacting working families - while his rich, inefficient consultancy time-waster big business mates rub their grubby paws together in anticip… #auspol #AusVotes25 #DontRiskDutton

Anyway. Congratulations to Russia on winning the Cold War. The long game worked.

This is a bigger scandal than people realize. It really makes it look as though this entire meeting was a setup by Trump that was planned in advance. If you watch the video it is clear that they are deliberately and almost derangedly blindsiding Zelenskyy. Now we know who the audience was. Putin.

"History will remember this day— when an American President and Vice President abandoned all we stand for."

DOGE recommended firing workers at: -FDA, which oversees Neuralink -FAA, which oversees SpaceX -USAID, which probed Starlink -CFPB, which oversees Tesla's financing arm and a potential payment platform on X. "Conflict of interest" is a severe understatement.

None of us can be sure what will “work.” You try multiple things and find your way in. Read some histories of the Civil Rights Movement by those who participated. They were never “sure” of what would work. Some campaigns fizzled out. But persistence, creativity, determination, and focus were key.

Never forgive, never forget

What explanation can there be for this except that Trump and Musk for some sick reason I cannot fathom _want_ millions of Americans to die in the next pandemic? What would the elevator pitch for stopping attempts to prevent bird flu deaths even _be_? Is my mind just not evil enough to suss it out?

@omarsakr.bsky.social (pictured at right in this preview image) said: "When art must serve the government’s political agenda, it’s no longer art, it’s propaganda" YEAH

The GANG OF PUPPETS after voting to take away Medicaid services from my son and thousands of people had a moment of prayer. Here's a prayer I pray that you all burn in hell for being evil, cruel, despicable scum.

Hero

More than 20 civilian employees resigned in protest of DOGE, the twist being that they worked for DOGE itself. "We will not use our skills to compromise core government systems, jeopardize Americans' sensitive data, or dismantle critical public services," they wrote. (AP)

The best way to confront a bully about the misinformation he is spreading is to confront him in front of everyone. Macron just did that.

Oh dear, looks like the men are no longer responsible enough to vote. We may need to remove men's suffrage for a while.

Last night's Pentagon massacre is much more than realized. Not just firing the black CJCS and first woman CNO but all the senior JAG officers and hiring a man who just joined 3 different crypto firms tied to Kushner and Thiel as Chairman. I did a deep dive into it open.substack.com/pub/fpwellma...

"In other countries, this would be called 'an authoritarian coup.' In America, mealy-mouthed officials call our transition into a mafia state 'deeply troubling' and do little to curb the damage." -- HIDING IN PLAIN SIGHT (2020)

When FAA employees are telling us it’s not safe to fly, we should probably listen.

Quit amazon

You cannot determine whether you saved or cost money based solely on one side of the ledger. Example: I saved my household $2K by not paying the mortgage.

Why?! Of all the things to cut surely there was someone who said 'yeah reducing oversight of our nuclear weapons is probably not smart'. Surely. Someone?

A 71-year-old woman has died after her oxygen supply was abruptly cut off in response to the United States’ freeze on USAID funding. Pe Kha Lau, a refugee from Myanmar living in a displacement camp in neighboring Thailand, died only four days after she was forcibly discharged from a…