The media blackout of Jared Kushner’s historic, ongoing corruption scandal As Trump's son-in-law returns to Pakistan for more talks with Iran, major news outlets are largely ignoring an egregious conflict of interest.

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CGT like it’s 1999: Chalmers leans towards scrapping Howard-Costello tax discount Scrapping the capital gains tax discount would likely deliver a tax hit to investors, as Jim Chalmers promises “intergenerational equity” in his May 12 budget.

A return to the original way of taxing capital gains on property under the Hawke and Keating govts is firming as a centrepiece of the May budget as Chalmers prepares the final shape of his fiscal blueprint.
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LIKING POPE LEO........

A photo of Trump being interviewed by a press group on the White House lawn with his helicopter in the background. You can clearly see the Sky News microphone being held up to Trump.

As pointed out by @sprocket0.bsky.social, SkyNews Aus has a reporter following Trump. His name is Matt Hampson.
His main role is to ask the Mad King leading questions about Australia. His "answers" are then reported here by the News Corp (especially The Oz), who then demand the PM answer in return.

EXCLUSIVE: Pete Hegseth’s latest sermon revealed.

I also hate the idea that money = freedom of political discourse when it plainly creates an inequity of political discourse

This lobby barely blinks when Trump threatens genocide, but is in meltdown when Bowen talks wind and solar This lobby has no issue with Trump's wild threats, but it is demanding regime change in Australia's energy ministry on account of its support for wind, solar and EVs.

This lobby has no issue with #Trump’s wild threats, but it is demanding regime change in #Australia’s energy ministry on account of its support for wind, solar and #EVs.

Musk’s Grok AI chatbot is still making sexual deepfakes, despite X’s promise to stop it An NBC News review found dozens of AI-generated sexualized images of real women posted to X over the past month.

NEW: Elon Musk’s Grok AI chatbot is still making sexual deepfakes, despite X’s promise to stop it www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-ne...

The wheel is spinning but the hamster's dead.

Before you jump on the “punish the big parties” bandwagon, beware you are promoting the “keep big money in politics” bandwagon.

Do you love price gouging folks? Come to America for our World Cup!
* With our new $250 "Visa Integrity Fee" a tourist visa is now about $435.
*FIFA has got you covered with dynamic pricing for game tickets.
* Now the New Jersey Transit is offering a special, VIP "Fuck You Buddy" experience.

Exactly 💯

Ex-One Nation candidate wants Hanson 'held accountable' for rehiring rapist ex-staffer Two former One Nation candidates have accused party leader Pauline Hanson and chief of staff James Ashby of dismissing concerns raised internally about the convicted rapist and former campaign directo...

Exclusive - Two former One Nation candidates have accused party leader Pauline Hanson and chief of staff James Ashby of dismissing concerns raised internally about employing the convicted rapist and former campaign director Sean Black. www.abc.net.au/news/2026-04...

Man Who Threw Molotov Cocktail At Sam Altman’s Home Claims He Was Following ChatGPT Recipe For Risotto

Man Who Threw Molotov Cocktail At Sam Altman’s Home Claims He Was Following ChatGPT Recipe For Risotto theonion.com/man-who-threw-molotov-co...

We filed a notice in federal court that officers at Florida's “Alligator Alcatraz” are failing to comply with a court order to give people access to attorneys.

Guards cut off phone access for a day without warning and brutally beat and pepper sprayed people who spoke up.

This can't continue.

I literally said this on Threads maybe one whole minute before you did here

yep yep yep

This image REALLY WAS posted from Trump’s “Truth Social” account and, fortunately, the bible itself reminds everyone that when a “man of lawlessness” drunk on earthly power declares himself a god, he is defeated by the combined force of everyone who sticks with the truth.

2 Thessalonians 2, nerds.

imagine waking up from a 20 year coma and the first thing you hear is "President Donald Trump just posted on the internet that the Pope is soft on crime"

Trump was beatable, always has been, but the Democratic coalition has been unreliable and easily fractured - and tends to stay home. Hillary could have won if Democrats and Indies had just clenched their teeth and pulled that lever instead of Jill Stein and Gary what's his name

The key to democracy is showing up in large numbers

Americans quick to shriek that Magyar is a conservative might want to sit this one out and just let Hungarians celebrate tonight. Promise you Hungarians from the LGBTQ community who voted for Magyar know, and have understood opposition politics against autocracy better than you.

Worth noting that Hungary was much further down the road to fascism than we are. And with one election and a motivated electorate, it’s over.

To everyone who is heralding the AMAZING victory over Orban in Hungary tonight; dare Magyar ever start to backslide into Orbanism, I made this handy tool to predict his fate: it maps the fascist collapse of Orban’s FACE onto Magyar’s, as a warning. Good luck, beautiful DEMOCRATIC, EUROPEAN Hungary.

In brief, Orban and his backers identify, train, and connect far-right politicians around the world. They do this through direct government backing (the Mathias Corvinus Collegium, etc.), media expansion, etc. They have lost the public purse and the muscle to close private deals.

I’m telling my grandkids that this is why Victor Orbán was so roundly kicked to the curb by the wise people of Hungary.

Episode 172: Trump versus the Vatican, Ben Roberts-Smith's trial and the good news is about beavers

Our podcast is out! We talk the past week of Trumpian madness on the world stage and the importance of investigating war crimes. And the good news is about… beavers.

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