This is what you call a nightmare blunt rotation.

He said one good and correct thing about the US’ skullduggery and suddenly we’re discounting every other thing he’s been profoundly shit, and will continue to be profoundly shit, on.

Keane, retire.

Also, if you told me one of the senior ABC journos would break the picket line it would be…oh yep, exactly who it turned out to be.

I’m not silly enough to think the world’s ills will be cured when the colossal piece of shit dies, but nonetheless, one of the worst and most odorous pieces of shit to ever walk the planet and who does actively make it a worse place will no longer be in our midst; that will be worth celebrating.

Anthony Albanese trying to be friends with media ghouls who will always hate him.

The absolute state of this gormless fool.

The vast majority of posts on that place pretty much amount to “civility womp bangle dork waffle blerk”.

He seems to be doing this quite a bit lately.
Don't like my invitation on your behalf, of someone linked to genocide? Too bad.
Police too violent? Naaah.
Protest? Nuh.
Not acting on review findings? So?
Unhappy to be affiliated with facist USA? I'm not.

😒 We see you Albo. You're a disappointment.

That is flat out depraved.

One of the most pathetic pictures of anyone I've ever seen

Sorry to hear that Jen. The behaviour of the authorities is every bit as heavy-handed and thuggish as we all feared it would be.

What a disgrace.

Vale to one of Australia's greatest cartoonists and artists - Jon Kudelka

It cannot be stated strongly enough how much we have completely lost the plot.

Our government crossed a line by inviting a war criminal - they can’t uncross it.

Photo of the windows next to my desk of the a framed Kudelka rusted on bingo tea towel and print of his Tassie devil.

Jon Kudelka was not just the creator of the best tea towel in Australian history, and a great cartoonist and artists, but he was a superb friend, incredible husband and dad.

Goddamn I will miss him

If you had a dollar for every time the New York Times gives something the ‘complicated’ treatment…

The share of Americans who disapprove of ICE tactics in polls: 60+ percent

New York Times: “it’s really too complicated to say whether Americans approve of ICE killing Renee Good or not”

Sounds like a solid invitation to tell them to piss right off to me.

Will we take it? No, because that would make way too much sense.

Swear to god, they look at their current mess, then someone suggests a solution that **very obviously** could help, and the immediate pivot is back to “muhh, freedom!”

Lost cause.

‘By Ezra Klein’ is the cherry on top.

Penny’s really looking forward to welcoming Isaac Herzog, though.

I just realised I’m on that list too!

In the arena of ‘humans who don’t to see the world destroyed’ versus ‘humans who want to see themselves made redundant by bots’, imagine being being a cheerleader for the latter.

‘Social cohesion’

If you do one thing today and one thing only, make it reading this thread and then sending it everyone you know.

Lawyers request AFP probe into Israeli president as Australian visit looms The Australian Centre for International Justice has formally requested a police investigation into Israel's president for alleged incitement to genocide. He is expected to visit to Australia next mont...

Bloke autographed bombs.

Investigation complete.

#AusPol

Looked to see if the rusties were complaining at this skeet…and I was not disappointed.

Amazing when you have a system that lets the private sector deliver a public service it gets rorted.

Grog’s Rule: When you privatise public services be sure to also allocate space in a few years for the Royal Commission into abuses in the system.

Punchbowl screenshot “COPENHAGEN, Denmark — A bipartisan group of lawmakers who traveled here on an urgent mission to reassure Danish leaders amid President Donald Trump’s escalating threats to acquire Greenland had a straightforward message. In an interview between high-level meetings, Senate Minority Whip Dick Durbin summed it up this way: “Give us a chance to give [Trump] a way out of this that comes to the right ending.” Durbin added: “I don’t know if that’s possible.” The four-decade veteran of Congress, who’s been on dozens of CODELs, wasn’t just referring to Trump’s apparent determination to take over the Danish territory at all costs, or Republicans’ hesitation to openly defy him. Durbin was giving a sobering assessment of Congress as a supposedly coequal branch of government. Over the span of several decades and under the leadership of both parties, lawmakers have ceded their authority to the executive branch on everything from war powers to tariffs to the power of the purse. Hill leaders have prioritized avoiding politically difficult votes or been slow to react – or done nothing – as presidents repeatedly pushed the limits of their own power at the expense of Congress. “It’s not just this moment or this president,” said Sen. Chris Coons (D-Del.), who co-led the delegation. “What makes this moment so hard is, if Congress can’t stand up in the face of something where there is no strategic value and lots of strategic harm…is Congress really willing to exert its authority at all?” That’s what made this particular CODEL so uniquely difficult — and surreal.”

“Give us a chance to give [Trump] a way out of this that comes to the right ending. … I don’t know if that’s possible.” - @durbin.senate.gov to Danes in Europe.

Can the Senate Dems sound any more limp, facile and impotent to Europeans across the Atlantic?

Australian officials are currently trying to scheme up ways to sneak the president of Israel into the country for a visit without him getting confronted by massive anti-genocide protests.

Read that again.

When you are doing things like this, you're on the wrong side of history.