“A US army sergeant with 27 years of military service – including deployment to Afghanistan – has said that federal immigration agents recently arrested his wife during an appointment at an immigration office in El Paso, Texas”
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
Boy, did this bring back memories
Note that all 3 sackings have been women
“Trump hovers above the circus of death & chaos..His wars, killing of innocents, & indeed, the threatening of entire civilisations reshaping the world, but without..some master plan. He is animated by little more than momentary impulses & resentments”
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
So you and I and everyone else are in effect now refunding American corporations for import tariffs, although we paid for most of them in the form of higher prices — which they won’t now lower because they have monopoly power to keep prices high.
"The Art of the Deal."
~ Robert Reich
Headline from the AFR "Time to end welfare for the wealthy, says big business"
You mean the superannuation tax breaks? No?
You mean the CGT discount? No?
You mean the fossil fuel subsidies? No?
You mean the free gas for multinationals? No?
You mean the failure of the PRRT? No?
You mean the tax dodging trusts? No?
You mean the lack of a wealth tax? No?
No you mean the NDIS FFS
"S&P 500 market breadth has dropped to the lowest level since mid-2023. Since the market low in late March, the S&P 500 Information Technology and Communication Services sectors have contributed roughly 70% of the market rebound." www.dailychartbook.com/p/investor-f...
“Old frail patients are stuck in emergency or worse, precious intensive-care beds..Why are there no ward beds? Because they are occupied by patients who need senior services, rehabilitation & placement.. disability support & palliative care”
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Tim Tams you say? They did this to Tim Tams? This is sacrilege!!
www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
“The $2bn a week that Trump was spending on his reckless war in Iran could have funded saving more than 87m lives, the head of the UN’s humanitarian agency, Tom Fletcher, said on Monday. He also warned the normalisation of violent language..was very dangerous”
www.theguardian.com/world/2026/a...
A leading scientist criticised an “appalling”..decision to stop water flowing to wetlands.. saying it was “crazy” researchers had to scramble to save animals..in drying mud..turtles, waterbirds, frogs & sheep died after WaterNSW stopped flows to Gwydir wetlands”
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
This is why magarepubs are afraid to go against trump.. I'm not gonna feel bad for thune
'Traitor to the republic': MAGA turns knives on John Thune after he shelves Trump bill - Raw Story www.rawstory.com/john-thune-2...
The absurdity of these laws is starkly revealed by this headline
www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
“Organised crime gangs are using the NDIS to launder money, earn income & hide assets, law enforcement officials have warned…criminals are paying cash kickbacks to participants & sometimes resorting to intimidation & threats of violence towards vulnerable people”
www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
“despite the..energy market turmoil, gas prices have fallen, from about $12 a GJ at beginning of year to about $10.40 now. That's half the level of the Ukraine crisis..it's difficult not to view [this] as..export giants' market dominance & ability to influence price”
www.abc.net.au/news/2026-04...
A detailed deconstruction of “the Thucydides trap”
“The temptation to exploit dominance is a recurrent historical impulse — one to which Trump’s America has succumbed..As in Thucydides’ time, this posture promises short-term gains but long-run disaster”
www.nytimes.com/2026/04/19/o...
“low & lower-middle income countries have little ability to shield themselves from.. turmoil: Trump’s tariffs, crumbling..post-World War II order, failure to halt climate change & AI all darkened prospects of these poorer nations, in which some 3.8b people..live”
www.nytimes.com/2026/04/20/o...
“Instead of getting effective contraception methods to the country’s poorest women so that they may decide if & when to have children, Title X under Trump seems aimed at getting more women pregnant, whether they want to be or not”
www.nytimes.com/2026/04/20/o...
in either the sane washing of Trump, or the concerted attack on trans folk. Second, no other organisation can do the deep dives that it does.
I share your concerns about the NYT and I would add that their coverage of transgender issues has been execrable. I stick with the platform because, first there are reporters and opinion columnists who I do respect and who have not participated…2
I’ve got COPD, and just went for annual blood test. The nurse who carried out the procedure was coughing his lungs up; I’d guess RSV or Covid. Not a responsible decision to place someone with COPD and someone with a lung infection so close. Not a happy old geezer at all.
strange these op-eds about women being too angry have all come out the last few days when during the same time there's also been a massive investigation published on an online rape academy with millions of viewers a month and none of them have bothered to even cover it, even as news
Judge blocks Trump administration threat to gender-affirming care www.wcax.com/2026/04/20/j...
Yes!!
Civilians have had apparent seizures. One had his eyes roll back. Another had ribs broken.
“I felt like I was going to pass out and die,” said a 16-year-old citizen put in a chokehold.
The government won’t say if any agents have been punished.
(Published Jan. 2026)
Wild attack on batteries and renewables by 7's Spotlight program falls over at the first fact check reneweconomy.com.au/wild-attack-...
“A federal jury in North Carolina on Monday found Uber liable for a sexual assault by a driver in 2019, handing the ride-hailing company a second consecutive defeat in its first trials of more than 3,000 pending sexual assault and sexual misconduct lawsuits”
www.nytimes.com/2026/04/20/b...
Yep - the die is cast
Just as Albanese rushes around Asia putting the squeeze on them for MORE
What does he and Australians think they’re thinking about us?
An energy rich country begging for petroleum in places where they are seriously running short of cooking gas?
They see the grift, believe me!!
