Why do we have to listen to the rants of Matt Canavan on #730Report … Why does he accuse journalists of an ideological campaign simply because they ask him a question.

Ludicrous scare story by AFR - gas lobby claims $70B hit from a 25% gas export tax.

Credible indep analyst Tim Buckley - levy on foreign exports would raise $10B a year (depending price).
#auspol

Did a Documentary Just Help Defeat Hungary’s Viktor Orban? On Sunday Hungary’s far-right leader Viktor Orban fell in an election after 16 years of some of the most bigoted and, by many accounts, corrupt rule in post-Soviet Eastern Europe.And a documentary may have helped make it happen.Peter Magyar’s center-right  Tisza trounced Orban’s Fidesz  in parliamentary elections by a margin of nearly three-to-one, a stunning turn after so many years of Orban consolidating power with extrajudicial tools like gerrymandering, court-packing and the co-optation of an independent media. Tisza won 135 out of 199 seats (Fidesz took just 55), giving the former a supermajority that will allow constitutional changes.Many factors contributed to the polarizing prime minister’s loss, including an economy persistently among Europe’s weakest and a fatigue with the ruling party’s demagoguery, often deployed to cover up its own alleged corruption.But Tisza also had a a secret weapon: an independent documentary called The Price of a Vote released just two weeks before the election.Clocking in at just under an hour, the film makes up with investigative brawn what it lacks in formal polish. The filmmakers travel through the Roma villages in the nations’ rural countryside —hard-core Fidesz strongholds — to uncover a wide network of bribery and blackmail.As a series of whistleblowers reveal, a highly developed network of Budapest-based operatives promise (and deliver) everything from food packets to 20,000 forint notes (about $75) to those who would vote for Fidesz. The operatives accompany people to the voting place and, using a loophole that allows them to be accompanied as they vote, ensures they place a vote for the right (Fideszian) candidate. Other parties have tried this too, the film reports, but at nowhere near the level of scale or skullduggery.Meanwhile at the local level, the film alleges, mayors loyal to the government often go a step further: they threaten public employees and others to vote for Orban’s party.“You don’t get public work, you can’t go to work, you can’t do this, you don’t get that, they take away your housing subsidy,” says one whistleblower who used to work to bribe and intimidate on behalf of the party.” Added a second whistleblower: “There are so many things they could do to hurt these families.” Among the most draconian: kidnapping their children.These tableaux helped explain how Orban stayed in power so long. And their exposure, especially on the eve of an election, may have ensured that time has now ended. Price of a Vote was showed in a Budapest movie theater last week and also released on YouTube; the two platforms cannily circumvented Orban’s largely state-controlled television news. In just two weeks the film has garnered 2.2 million views on YouTube. (You can watch it below.)While there’s little evidence it stopped the network of goons from operating again, the film may have helped motivate people to vote against Orban who otherwise would have stayed home. Turnout in Hungary Sunday hit a post-Iron Curtain record of an eye-popping 74 percent, or some 6 million people, which means as many as a third of all voters watched the movie (a number that would equate to more than 50 million people in the U.S.)

Did a Documentary Just Help Defeat Hungary’s Viktor Orban?

Orban defeated: Good morning and goddamn it's a beautiful day All of a sudden, after months of total darkness, there is hope.

Good morning and goddamn it's a beautiful day iandunt.substack.com/p/orban-defe...

We have to stop buying krill supplements…. Its whale food!

20k whales every year from collisions with ships and boats

300,000 whales die from entanglements

Oh, and the Antarctic ice shelf is melting at an alarming rate

#whales #donteatkrill

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This Film Festival Should Be Better Known

Please listen to @manohladargis.bsky.social, who is in general right but perhaps never more than on New Directors/New Films:

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How 'No Kings' rallies fit into America's history of protest Millions turned out for the third “No Kings” protest held over the weekend. Demonstrators at thousands of events rallied against the war in Iran, immigration enforcement and what they see as overreach...

Millions turned out for the third “No Kings” protest held over the weekend. Judy Woodruff went to the protest in Minnesota to explore how it fits into America’s history of fighting authoritarianism.
https://to.pbs.org/4dmDKgb

Hegseth must go.

Opinion | The Epstein Class Had a Signature Weakness

The Epstein Class Had a Signature Weakness www.nytimes.com/2026/03/30/o...

I could weep every time I hear this brilliant woman speak. She’s so true and wise Chloé Zhao is now one of the world’s top film directors. But she is also both exceptional and relatable, with a gleaming poetic energy, and I hope we hear more from her.

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Twist and Gout

Sinéad O’Shea on Her Recent Doc With Jessie Buckley, Exploring the 0.01% in ‘All About the Money’ and the Weight of Responsibility The Copenhagen International Documentary Film Festival (CPH:DOX) put the spotlight on Irish documentary director Sinéad O’Shea and her latest doc, All About the Money, which world premiered at the Sundance Film Festival, on Wednesday morning.

The Copenhagen International Documentary Film Festival (CPH:DOX) put the spotlight on Irish documentary director Sinéad O’Shea and her latest doc, All About the Money, which world premiered at the Sundance Film Festival, on Wednesday morning.

Has Netanyahu ever looked so happy? It’s deeply disturbing

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The decline of modern Britain — where did it all go so wrong? Podcast Episode · Conversations · 6 March · 51m

Proper honour to do Conversations on the ABC - an hour long interview on British politics, the prison of dogma and how Jacob Bronowski cured me of being a cunt podcasts.apple.com/au/podcast/t...

The Riot Report | Full Documentary | American Experience | PBS YouTube video by American Experience | PBS

@jelaniya.bsky.social and @pbs.org

#ThankYou for your service to this sick nation and #BlackLivesAlwaysMatter they always did matter, and they always do matter.

This nation was built on #Genocide and #Enslavement and continues toward this aim

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#industry the TV show, gives me stratospheric anxiety but it’s so good

#HardTruth: While feigning concern, it’s actually Govt policy to let fuel prices rise (early). It reduces fuel demand (up to 10%) which is important when you’ve gifted billions to the US & UK for #AUKUS and not spent a dime on addressing low fuel stocks #25DaysDiesel #FOI #auspol

Today I went to the opening of the Sydney Cinematheque. Kudos to Ruby Arrrowsmith-Todd and Maud Page @ Art Gallery of NSW who succeeded where many high profile filmmakers and organizations did not (over 40 years!) …. So exciting for us cinema tragics

Breaking Bad remains unbeaten at exposing weird assumptions about art and morality

We don’t need that film again

X Is Drowning in Disinformation Following US and Israel’s Attack on Iran WIRED has reviewed hundreds of posts on X that promote misleading claims about the locations and scale of the attack.

Minutes after Donald Trump announced that the US and Israeli governments had launched a “major combat operation” against Iran, disinformation about the attack and Tehran’s response flooded X.
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I did not dedicate my life to advocating for women and girls just so that I could be lectured by a bunch of pedophile protectors.
~ Hillary Rodham Clinton

Starting a war with Iran is one hell of a diversion.

You see a cute video. We see a non-paid water taxi/uber fare.

'Difficult' women make the world a better place. Grateful to all who are difficult.

Welcome to the Corella tree

300 people to be sacked at Commonwealth Bank Australia while #AI comes to the fore… here comes the next tech bro “revolution”. #730report

This film kicks ass

I HAVE SEEN ENOUGH. AS GOVERNOR OF THE FREE WORLD, I, GAVIN C. NEWSOM, AM OFFICIALLY BANNING "KID ROCK" FROM CALIFORNIA. HIS SHIRTLESS VIDEO WITH "SECRETARY BRAINWORM" WAS INAPPROPRIATE, CREEPY, AND VERY LOW ENERGY. NOT WHAT YOU WANT AROUND OUR CHILDREN! ALSO, SOME OF THE WEAKEST PUSHUPS EVER WITNESSED. CALIFORNIA ONLY ALLOWS WINNERS! I AM ALSO BANNING WORKING OUT IN JEANS, VERY STRANGE! THANK YOU FOR YOUR ATTENTION TO THIS MATTER! — GOVERNOR GCN

I HAVE SEEN ENOUGH. AS GOVERNOR OF THE FREE WORLD, I, GAVIN C. NEWSOM, AM OFFICIALLY BANNING "KID ROCK" FROM CALIFORNIA.

The End of Books Coverage at the Washington Post Becca Rothfeld, a former critic at the Washington Post, on the death of the paper’s books section.

This is such a good piece — not merely about the Washington Post, but a heartbreaking eulogy for the end of the age of literacy www.newyorker.com/books/page-t...