Absolute capture by industry.

We can’t expect the largely billionaire controlled main stream media to criticize the corruption of President’s son in law when that President has seen to it that both he and those same billionaires have grown vastly more wealthy under his corrupt administration. This is how a Plutocracy works.

This is total horseshit. The NDIS incentivizes shonks and ticket clippers to provide dodgy services and "assistance" at higher costs to people with disabilities.

hundreds of years of electoral theory and it really does just boil down to "have you guys tried having a hot and charismatic guy do largely popular things", political scientists are seething

"Vance" is a useful new verb in the English language, and one consistent with our Latinate heritage. Compare: ➡️ ADVANCE: To move something forward. ⬅️ VANCE: To cause a situation to decline or devolve. In a sentence: "Donald Trump's second term vanced the American economy."

Imagine trusting science to bring astronauts to the moon and back but not trusting science to develop safe vaccines.

It is always old white men.

One would think that the "apex of human civilization" would have less homelessness, fewer mass killings, less abject poverty, a higher literacy rate, a booming renewable energy industry, higher education that didn't necessitate decades of debt, mandatory family leave, & universal health insurance.

A moment of sympathy for our president, who is being 'poorly served' by the people he appointed to carry out these inhumane policies. 1/

These people have a funny way of saying "Environmentalists have been proved right yet again."

Jeff Bezos is worth $220 billion. After building that fortune from overworking and exploiting his own workers, Bezos is now developing a fund to acquire manufacturing companies and automate them. Why do we always hear about immigrants taking jobs when the oligarchs are actually to blame?

He was certainly afraid of Vietnam-style combat in Vietnam.

This is unbelievable www.news.com.au/lifestyle/re...

Q: You don’t regret that people might’ve lost important income to support their lives? A: No, I think it was more important to reduce the federal deficit. Q: Ok. Did you reduce the federal deficit? A: No, we didn’t.

If they have no credibility he shouldn’t be worried about what they say.

Saying the quiet part out loud as the Authoritarian attempts to control the truth. #25thAmendmentNOW

Hey David Speers if you’re going to start calling progressive green electoral candidates “climate 200 candidates “ then you’re obliged to call Nats and One Nation participants “IPA/Rinehart candidates. It’s only fair. #insiders

I’ll always trust the findings on Robodebt from Commissioner Catherine Holmes, who led a commission of integrity, who didn’t hold hearings in secret, over & above the findings of the NACC, led by Paul Brereton who works in the shadows with conflicts running through his veins.

A man allegedly threw verbal abuse and punches at a Muslim community's Iftar dinner in Ballarat, yelling "F*ck Allah. F*ck Islam, death to Allah." Police said they did not arrest the man, instead asking him "to move on". Why was he not arrested?! #auspol #Islamophobia www.abc.net.au/news/2026-03...

"10 Day Debacle" sounds like the name of a punk band.

A man stormed an Iftar event screaming slurs and had to be restrained by people and got a "take a walk mate" from the cops?!?! www.abc.net.au/news/2026-03...

Apparently Iran is run by religious fanatics #USpol #auspol

Penny Wong refused to answer @davidpocock.bsky.social’s question on this in the Senate today. Refused to even say if she knew.

Same in Germany, France, Italy. All countries and cultures have one thing in common: oligarchs think fascism is better for business.

Imagine calling yourself the most canceled people on earth while sitting on CNBC, promoting crypto, protected by wealth, platforms, and impunity. To them, accountability feels like persecution, and consequences feel like oppression.

Remind me again as to why any taxpayer money is being thrown at these paragons of virtue and honesty by the Australian government Jim

Just got off the phone with the President of Antifa. They said they have a cell in Florida that set up a fake tailoring shop, where they created this custom garment to humiliate Michael Flynn.

Someone has sure already made this observation but the fact they can convert all those empty warehouses into prison camps means they could have converted them into housing, community centers, job training centers or, hell, libraries or schools all along. It’s always a matter of will not resources.

Democracy is when voters choose their leaders. Autocracy is when leaders choose their voters.

Haven't been able to get this one out of my head. Magnificent writing. Harrowing. RFK Jr has a lot to answer for! www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

Maybe the head of the NACC could look into thi- ... Oh that's right

“We’re shooting Americans to make Americans safe.”

Front page Epstein files story today reveals Steve Bannon told Clive Palmer to spend $60mil on anti-China and anti-climate change ads for the 2019 election. D’ya think this could be why we want our media to ask “who’s behind this & who does it serve?” rather than just reporting “pollie said this”?!

Man. That’s bleak. At least concentration camp has the word “camp“ in it. “Concentration warehouse” evokes all the horrors of the holocaust combined with working for Amazon.

Noted pentacostalist Scott Morrison, in Jerusalem, stirs up anti-Muslim prejudice after Bondi massacre. Irresponsible. Religiously intolerant. Every Australian of good faith is trying to stop ancient “holy wars” being incited here. Royal Commission investigation has yet to start.

a country where the Department of Homeland Security shoots nurses and Sesame Street has to do the grief counseling is not a functioning society

At this rate, he'll have to release the Epstein files to get people to stop talking about Minnesota.

Hegseth encapsulated it in a few characters in his tweet yesterday. "ICE > MN" They believe this. We are nothing. The thugs of the state matter, the citizens do not. Was there ever a more perfectly succinct statement of fascist ideology?

This is the single funniest excuse he could have come up with for not wanting to be booed in public

"Trump's a brilliant negotiator!" Trump's negotiation: "Give me everything I want for free or I'll hurt you."

Is there anything more modern-day-Labor than Richard Marles defending Australia troops against slander without mentioning the slander was committed by Donald Trump? Surface level concern underpinned by utter cowardice and complicity.

the nyt style section vs. der spiegel

Actually it's worse -- they're looking for people based on skin color and then, only once they've found them, trying to determine if they can charge them with violating the law. They targeted Somali-Americans and stopped people on the street to ask "where are the Asians?" It's pure racism.

It's not that complicated @albomp.bsky.social

This is why I can't find common ground with these "repentant" Trump voters. They aren't repentant. They aren't sorry they used the machinery of the state to target others, only that it's now coming for them.

Amazing when you have a system that lets the private sector deliver a public service it gets rorted. Grog’s Rule: When you privatise public services be sure to also allocate space in a few years for the Royal Commission into abuses in the system.

Can people stop blaming Trump's position on Greenland on dementia. Maybe it factors in, but the man has always been an ego-maniacal moral vacuum. Whatever age-related impairment he's got, it did not make him evil; he always was.