There is *no* upside to the promise of a vote on a piece of legislation that is guaranteed to have a poison pill (ie Hyde language). And they'll instantly assume a disproportionate share the blame for the shutdown. It's a lose now *and* lose later situation. It's absurd levels of loser strategy

"Hyde language" would be a ban on anything related to abortion. So, any Senate Democrat that caves is agreeing to vote to implement a nationwide abortion ban in exchange for healthcare subsidies.

This sentence "But we do know that Wilkins, without Franklin's knowledge or permission, showed Photo 51 to Watson" reminded me of what happened to Sonora Babb, whose research into the migrants of the Dust Bowl was given to John Steinbeck, making her own novel unpublishable until 2004.

There were ample laws to prevent this or shut it down. The NSW Police just didn’t want to.

Two panels commemorating the contribution of Black American soldiers towards the liberation of the Netherlands in World War Two have been quietly removed from a cemetery in Limburg. It follows a complaint by right-wing think tank The Heritage Foundation to the American Battle Monuments Commission.

Donald Trump refused at attend COP30. Anthony Albanese, Australian Prime Minister, also decided not to attend COP30 even though Australia apparently wants to host COP31 2026. Questions are being asked about WHY?

From today's Sunday Age and SMH #COP30

Look I’m not one of those crazy Luddites or anything, but this does seem like it could be quite bad www.abc.net.au/news/2025-09...

So it turns out... the US air travel system was incredibly, deeply dependent on federal funding to just run day-to-day all this time, to the benefit of private airline shareholders, when everyone thinks that state-run trains are leeching off the government. Weird!

I haven’t been shopping at Target anyway but if the employees started popping up to talk to me when I pass, I would stop.

In Gaza, we all want this ceasefire to hold, to save what remains of our home. Still, it does not take a genius to see that the ceasefire plan is nothing but a grotesque charade. #eiGazaDispatches

This is HORRIFIC. How is this any kind of foreign policy?

“A Nigerian official was told by a U.S. counterpart that, with Thanksgiving coming up, Nigeria should go quiet and wait for the president’s attention to shift, a Nigerian official said.” Ladies and Gentlemen, the commander in chief of the U.S. military.

Dear AUS PM @albomp.bsky.social Israel has murdered: • 69,169 people (incl. 18,500 children) • 217 journalists • 224 aid workers • 120 academics • 165,000 injured Yet STILL your Govt refuses to #SanctionIsrael or expel the Israeli Ambassador. Shame 😠 #auspol #GazaGenocide #IsraeliTerrorism

“Whitlam announced “there should not be foreign military bases, stations, installations in Australia. We will honour agreements covering existing stations. We do not favour extensions or prolongation of any of those existing ones”.” Oh, how I miss him. #auspol johnmenadue.com/post/2025/11...

Just a little more gold and it will be perfect

It’s unfair that Trump gets to sleep through his presidency and the rest of us have to be awake for it

I sincerely hope Chance pulls through, but six months in the NICU is not easy. It’s also financially devastating. No state or hospital should force this on a family. This was a medical experiment done without consent, and we should talk about it before it happens again

OutKast will be officially inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame class of 2025 during tomorrow evening's ceremony! Please join us in congratulating André 3000 & Big Boi on this well-earned recognition + explore more here: album.ink/OutKast

NSW Police go out of their way to approve a Neo Nazi rally — then Premier Minns uses the “stuff up” as an excuse for *more* laws restricting free speech. The whole thing stinks of a blatantly obvious stitch-up by vested interests. Pathetic. www.sbs.com.au/news/article...

Y'all, the hospital where I had my surgery is running trials to see if GLP-1 medications can help people suffering from long COVID. It's open to any person with documented long COVID who lives in the US. Please pass it on!

I'm gonna cry, we did it Joe

Cheney expressed no regrets about the Iraq War, even after it plunged the U.S. into debt, killed hundreds of thousands of Iraqis, and destabilized Iraq so much that ISIS was able to gain a foothold Later in life, Cheney broke away from the GOP, but never faced accountability trib.al/4Of6MyN

Phillip Lewis, a 72-year-old cancer patient, said he was woken up and marched outside his home in his robe and underwear before federal officers even checked his ID. He was not, it turned out, the man they were looking for. By @wendicthomas.bsky.social & @kathsburgess.bsky.social

40 men Trump sent to CECOT tell the NYT they were beaten, tortured, and sexually assaulted. The details are worse than you can imagine. We can’t let them get away with this. Miller and the other architects of this sadism need to go to prison. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/08/w...

If your company has put PROFIT above the safety of customers who use your product, then your company deserves to fail.

(Reuters) - Meta internally projected late last year that it would earn about 10% of its overall annual revenue – or $16 billion – from running advertising for scams and banned goods, internal company documents show. $META @reuters.com www.reuters.com/investigatio...

“Internally, Meta estimates that users across its apps in total encounter 15 billion ‘high risk’ scam ads a day.”

Meta earns about $7 billion a year on scam ads, report says - mashable.com/article/meta... madness...

Anyone heard from or interviewed Australia's very expensive Special Envoy for Combating Antisemitism yet❓️ Has Jillian Segal even noticed this neo-Nazi event at NSW Parliament❓️ Any comments on the cosy support neo-Nazis are enjoying from NSW police❓️ #WhatIsThePointOfJillianSegal

Why are ICE agents being paid during the shutdown, but not air traffic controllers? 🤨

Earlier today, a mob of Israeli Jewish settlers attacked and assaulted roughly 30 Palestinian villagers and activists, plus about 10 journalists who had gathered during an attempt to harvest olives near a settler outpost in the Israeli-occupied West Bank

NEW: The Trump-Vance White House just banned prayer vigils outside a migrant detention center. Yes — prayer. On the sidewalk. And it comes days after Pope Leo XIV publicly warned them not to go down this road.

‘Environmental catastrophe’ fears as millions of plastic beads wash up on Camber Sands MP asks for explanation from Southern Water amid concerns the spill could have dire impact on rare sea life

In its spate of extrajudicial killings the US has now murdered at least 70 people. Neither Trump, Hegseth nor anyone else has provided the public, or Congress, any evidence that its targets were smuggling drugs or posed a threat to the United States in any way. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

"Let Gaza Live," torn down. In the London neighborhoods in which I've been walking, political posters of any stripe seem to be torn down as quickly as they're pasted, revealing layers of other messages and colors. What was the teal? Does that green hold the last syllable of "SUICIDE"?

Israel’s underground jail, where Palestinians are held without charge and never see daylight - The Guardian

The last time NSW cops got more power over protests they beat the seven shades of shit out of Hannah Thomas. Every law you make to empower police against Nazis, will be used against environmentalists, unions and all social activists. This has always been the way www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

Australia’s current child support debt is the highest it has been in a decade. As of December 2024, $1.9 billion was owed, with 153,694 non-payers. While interest on unpaid amounts is payable to the government, it’s not passed on to the parents who are owed

Shapiro: He rose to some prominence by writing a book about growing up in Appalachia, where there are a whole lot of people who get SNAP. He made millions of dollars off telling their stories, and then he turned his damn back on those very people he likes to write about and claim as his own.

Florence Welch making an album inspired by Buffy Season 6 in the Year of the Lord 2025 is true elder millennial shit

James Tate @jamestate121.bsky.social #History #NoKings All this talk of a ballroom to service the super wealthy while the rest of us continue to pay more for healthcare and basic essentials makes me think of this powerful political cartoon from 1906, the artist is William Balfour Ker.

I serve as an area expert for an global organization that tracks and reports on transnational organized crime. This DOJ move facilitates international criminal activity of all kinds, not just drugs. It is designed to assist the secretive finances of bad actors - many who operate in the US.

Nothing to this one but venting: The transphobes are the most cowardly of bigots, people so terrified of what's in their pants & what's not in their hearts that they make it a calling to terrorize those who've done the work to know who they are. Mice have more courage, slugs have more grace.

Imagine being forced by court order to feed hungry children, while pretending to be The Great Gatsby - then appealing that decision? #AmericaLast

Hey! Calling all Wonder Women! We all are sisters…pulling together with one spirit. 50 years ago today the first episode of the series Wonder Woman aired.

Looks at camera so hard the screen shatters www.brown.edu/news/2025-11...

1/ wtf is going on at Home Affairs? I’ve lost count of the number of offshore detention-related scandals 2/ check out how hard the whistleblower tried to alert authorities, only to be ignored 3/ both Labor and Lib govts have actively turned a blind eye to this corruption. Prob the NACC too.

three fatalities in 10 days?!?!