I wonder if I'm now experiencing what it felt like to learn of the Nazi Brownshirts attacking people in the streets in the 1930s, especially after Hitler became Chancellor in January 1933? He couldn't have parlayed that into dictatorship without a broad acceptance by key cliques.

They think they can provoke us into abandoning our values. They are wrong. We will keep the peace. We will secure justice for our neighbors. And we will see this occupation end.

Seems like America's #Democrats are in danger of growing a pair to take on the fascist numbnuts infesting #Congress... www.semafor.com/newsletter/0...

Wonderful piece on #DonaldTrump & his need to mark his territory like an over-anxious dog... johnmenadue.com/post/2026/01...

#DonaldTrump's gratuitous insults to #NATO troops who fought alongside Americans in #Afganistan reek of the actions of a desperate despot who has to keep deploying more & more shocks in an always fruitless bid to distract from his disintegration & failures.

NATO Secretary-General Mark Rutte confronts Trump to his face about the lies he’s told about NATO. Rutte reminds Trump that soldiers from NATO nations fought and died alongside U.S. soldiers in Afghanistan. This confrontation was long overdue.

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KRUGMAN: “.. How did a great, sophisticated nation, one of the world’s longest-standing republics, end up so fragile that it can be undone by one man’s dementia?” @pkrugman.bsky.social open.substack.com/pub/paulkrug...

Some perspective: The S&P opened down -1.3% on Trump's Greenland saber-rattling. That's $750 billion of wealth destroyed -- roughly equal to estimates of the value of Greenland. And so ~in dollar terms~ his shenanigans have already cost the US one Greenland, and we've got nothing to show for it.

If you would like to open the door to how UBI (Universal Basic Income) works, and the verified results of its implementation, now is your chance. substack.com/@scottsanten...

Is this truly the end? open.substack.com/pub/thebulwa...

Good mini-treatise on what constitutes "freedom of speech" from Margaret Simons. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Macron footage shows him telling Trump: Zelensky accepted a proposed 30-day ceasefire. This week Trump told Reuters Ukraine is the obstacle, not Putin. That’s a narrative flip. If Ukraine says “yes” and Russia keeps striking, why does the aggressor vanish from the sentence?

Nuclear defense is why we built a base on Greenland in 1951. We had this idea 75 years ago. The base has been there since then. You don’t have to invade a country where you already have everything. Invasion just destroys what you have and much else besides.

As the race to build data centres in Australia heats up, are builders coming forward with plans for new electricity generation projects, as is happening in the US? #AlboMP must not let them foist their power needs onto our already battling public grids. #auspol theconversation.com/does-adding-...

Nice to see Miranda Devine still chipping in with her deeply thoughtful contributions...

Isn't it amazing that in all the to and fro about #antisemitism in Australia, no one has referenced the mammoth in the room: Israel's slaughter of 60,000+ #Gaza citizens, the majority of whom were women and chilldren? Don't you think it likely that spurred antisemitism, not just here but globally?

Interesting... More than 150k Israelis have left the country in the past two years.

Yep, #Trump was, is & will always be just a consummate flim-flam man. Of course, he's also simply deranged.

Alternet: Jack Smith will testify publicly Jan. 22 before the House Judiciary Committee. Our country was violently attacked & America deserves to hear the evidence our gov't has against the traitor who perpetrated this homegrown terror, Trump. #ProudBlue #Pinks #SheShed #TrumpisaNationalDisgrace

Another surgical strike by Alan Moir...

Put a pair of rimless glasses and a thin moustache on Miller and he could be mistaken for a bald Heinrich Himmler...

Repeat: it's not #antisemitic to call out #Israel and its vile PM #Netanyahu for their #Gaza #genocide.

"I'm an anti-Zionist, because I'm the daughter of holocaust survivors. The Shoah is baked into my DNA, and that's why I call for Palestinian liberation. It's not anti-semitic to be anti-Zionist. It's not anti-semitic to call what's happening in Gaza genocide" Elsa Auerbach - Jewish-American Author

I guess #Iran protesters are learning the hard way never to trust #TACOTRUMP and his promises. No help from him, as the mullahs have promised that "the killings have stopped"! As if... & even if, what about the thousands already murdered?

I think Mr Reich says it all for Americans. Good luck! open.substack.com/pub/robertre...

Here are some rather pertinant points to be made for #AlboMP standing his ground. #auspol

Actually, I'm also dealing with a much less important loss, but also which is likely down to theft in transit. Perhaps #AustraliaPost could pay more attention to this. www.abc.net.au/news/2026-01...

In case people are unaware, #Venezuela is the site of the first victories of Simon Bolivar in ridding South America of Spanish colonialism in the early 19th century. These are a proud people. They are not easily intimidated, no matter the specifics of their internal politics.

So, I'm just going to say now that when #DonaldTrump secured the #Republican nomination to run for US president in 2016, I predicted his tenure would mark the end of the American Century. I just didn't realise how many Americans would be happy with that reality.

Interesting assessment... www.facebook.com/share/p/1HN5...

Astonishing, long-term data on unique, quasi-#UBI programs puts the lie to the belief that recipients will dodge regular work. Instead, the "floor" income enables more to work. Great piece from #scottsantens. open.substack.com/pub/scottsan...

Unhook ourselves from oil and gas and we unhook ourselves from dependency on dictators, autocrats and expansionist regimes all over the planet. Renewables and other low-carbon energy sources are not just good climate sense. They are also good political sense.

Hey maga, remember how you wanted us out of the business of helping and/or policing the world? Your crook of a president's response is "we’re going to run another country". What could go wrong? Duh. You voted for an evil fool.

There has been not a shred of anything new on #Netflix Australia for an awfully long time. What's going on?

EXCLUSIVE: Pentagon Official on Venezuela War: “Following the Old, Failed Scripts” “America is a rogue state,” the defense official said, calling Trump a “tyrant.” The official added: “It feels like the end of the Republic in Star Wars and the Revenge of the Sith” theintercept.com/2026/01/05/t...

Of course, if #DonaldTrump would like to stop the flow of drugs into the US, all he needs to do is convince Americans to stop using cocaine. As for fentanyl, aren't most addicts former military service people who became addicted while serving?

Here's a real knee-slapper from #MarcoRubio...

Must-read from #MichaelWest...

Does anyone else find it amusing that #Trump & his minions, who effectively declared in his 1st term that the US would no longer be the world's policeman, have called the #Venezuela outrage "not an invasion but an arrest" (#Rubio)?

What a surprise... #DonaldTrump looks after some more crooks. Big question is, what's in it for him? www.theregister.com/2026/01/02/b...

Never in all my Gen X life have I witnessed such behavior from an American president. For me there was always a certain protocol of behavior from Presidents tRump is a constant source of embarrassment.

I want a bank book & cheques