China called on the U.S. to immediately release Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro and his wife on Sunday, condemning the American military operation that detained the couple as a violation of international law.

It’s all about social cohesion, which is why we’re relentlessly hammering a guy who had nothing to do with it, and launching a hate campaign against “immigration”

I just signed a petition standing with Jewish Australians against antisemitism, racism and political division in the wake of the Bondi Beach massacre. Add your name for unity and safety:

Bari Weiss' reporting experience is summed up by the time the NYT bizarrely gave her the cushiest possible assignment - go to Australia and hang out and write about it - and she produced a story so bad and so wrong about basic facts of Australian life that it became a running joke there.

Finnish foreign minister expresses solidarity with Denmark after Trump appoints a special envoy who publicly repeats threats to absorb Greenland. In same week that the US director of nat'l intel publicly accuses EU & NATO of being warmongers trying to instigate US-Russia war. x.com/i/status/200...

Schiff: "Part of this is a consequence I think frankly of Chief Justice Roberts giving the president absolute immunity when it comes to his instructions to the DOJ. He can pretty much order them to do what he wants and know that he will never be held criminally liable."

Very cool!

I can't see any evidence in this piece beyond vibes, and the Coalition and rest of media said it. Author says Albo has shown obvious empathy, would be heckled at funerals and criticises Segal report. Doesn't say what he should've done differently.

vanity fair photographer christopher anderson posts this story on his instagram, suggesting he intentionally posed stephen miller underneath a painting of native americans

The whole point was that Trump & Friends would get their cut.

Does a Royal Commission typically slow action, or can governments act in parallel while one is underway? My instinct is the latter, but that’s just a guess.

BREAKING: AOC has said: Reminder that the Epstein Files are supposed to be released on Friday and every political development that you see between now until then should be viewed with that in mind.

The Vanity Fair photographer from the Susie Wiles story. Holy. Shit. www.washingtonpost.com/style/power/...

My take: BOTH social media and gambling are bad for kids and, in many cases, adults.

I'm interested to understand the mechanism here: which specific antisemitism-focused policies does Howard think would have prevented the Bondi attack?

Australia's opposition leader is already blaming the mass murder in Bondi on university campus anti-genocide protests. Blaming exactly the wrong causes for political reasons will lay the groundwork for even more gun violence slipping through, in Australia.

Almost? apple.news/ABH8xOfguQjK...

Disgusting. This person took huge risks and now is again at risk. Man who filmed Uyghur concentration camps now fights for his own freedom in the US hrichina.substack.com/p/man-who-fi...

When the AI child safety story is also a China influence story, lol ‘Asked whether Taiwan is a country, it would repeatedly lower its voice and insist that “Taiwan is an inalienable part of China. That is an established fact” or a variation of that sentiment.‘ www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-ne...

jimmy fallon has a knack for embracing scams

Wow -- Russia reportedly plotted last year to plant bombs on US-bound flights (gift link) giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/...

v1.111 is live today! We've upgraded our Age Assurance system to comply with upcoming laws in Australia and other regions, and to restore access to people over 18 in Mississippi. Plus, we fixed some bugs and laid the groundwork for improved "who to follow" suggestions in the near future.

X (falsely) complaining of EU censorship while then censoring the EU

The moral chasm between being “nauseated” by this video and indignantly defending it on CNN* *or moral cowardice, for those defending it who will never admit they were also nauseated

TikTok is next up announcing how its going to comply with the teen social media ban. What's different with them: on top of facial/ID, users can verify their age using a credit card and they can also appeal a wrong decision by getting a parent to vouch for their age.

Datacentres demand huge amounts of electricity. Could they derail Australia’s net zero ambitions? - by @petrastock.bsky.social and @joshtaylor.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

A very sharp piece from @lisavisentin.bsky.social Even as Australia reassesses its exposure to China, we still need people who understand how its system works for policy, strategy & risk. If the market isn’t producing that talent, govt may need to consider how to.

IMO the big difference between Nichols and Kristol is that Nichols is bitter about being frozen out of institutional power and wants back in, while I don't think Kristol has ever felt as alive as he does now.

Cons of the neocon true believers: they were willing to kill for constitutional democracy. Pros of the neocon true believers: they are ready to kill for constitutional democracy.

Our new ASPI report 'The Party’s AI' is out now. It shows how China’s LLMs, vision models and “AI+” governance architecture are hard-coding censorship and control into the future of AI. www.aspi.org.au/repo...

PART 4: Means of Control gofile.io/d/ycgOQR by Ryan Lizza

I do appreciate that in this whole Nuzzi-Lizza-RFK mess there's an unspoken agreement that people are just gonna break right through those assholes paywalls and post the good stuff for the real sickos.

New Lizza on Nuzzi incoming. www.semafor.com/article/11/3...

Everyone is getting upset about the data centers. They pollute a lot and use a lot of energy and will eventually be very ugly/huge vacant buildings. And I understand being mad about that. Until you consider the state of the lazer tag industry at this moment, and how much help that sector needs.

the fact that nick fuentes isn’t here but ms rachel is illustrates perfectly that groups like this don’t actually care about antisemitism at all

Creating a military conflict with Venezuela gives this administration a legal "hook" to invoke the Alien Enemies Act. In other words, the foreign war is being manufactured in order to facilitate court deference for its domestic mass deportation policy. It's a Stephen Miller Special.

calmly explaining why we shouldn't bomb random venezuelan boats to people who argued we should torture random iraqis and then won an election by saying they were against a war they advocated for

the anti-war candidate

The DC shooting story is really getting to me because we literally trained this man as a child soldier for a death squad in a forever war and Stephen Miller et al want to blame it on other cultures? It's our culture, American culture, that killed that woman.

French President Macron will travel to Beijing next week (3-5 Dec), but apparently without an EU leader. Good & concise overview on the agenda: www.euronews.com/my-europe/20...

Same as it ever was.

writ for the teen social media ban high court challenge is out: cdn.prod.website-fil...

I feel like the finance geniuses who think a token prediction machine is a couple steps away from consciousness haven’t really factored in “China makes the best models available for free” into their circular business plans but 🤷

While there are often some ethical issues with making free PDFs of paywalled content, in this case it seems entirely justifiable, given the author, the subject, and the journalistic imperative to provide the widest possible audience for the verb "Michael Wolffed" gofile.io/d/Ap4v35

How to read Lizza without paying

Good morning to Brazilian reporter Manuela Borges, who’s been waiting eleven years for this petty moment. ❤️ 🇧🇷

A parliamentary inquiry considering the teen social media ban has recommended delaying its implementation, among other recommendations

‘Western politicians have failed to speak up about the slaughter of civilians in Sudan because the United Arab Emirates has bought and paid for their silence, according to a top Sudanese general.‘