The Resistance Is Winning: Spanberger Signs Nearly 1,000 Bills The Regime Hates, Trump Lawyer Gets Disbarred, and Mamdani Moves To Tax Oligarchs Plus, ICE survivor moves to sue DHS

Virginia is crushing it.

Here’s proof ⬇️

#VoteYesVirginia

She's a great cartoonist

@rowecartoon.bsky.social

Amongst the analysis about SA election result, I haven’t seen any discussion of structural reasons for the Liberals’ shellacking. Here are my thoughts. Liberal voters used to vote Liberal because they believed the party was better at managing the economy. Labor seen as better on health, education…

4 frames. Looking through front windscreen of car, driver at wheel, Angus Taylor leaning in driver’s seat from rear. Background changed suggest they are travelling. 1. Angus says, “Hey mate, are you sure you’ve got enough petrol?” driver: “It seems to be OK for now…” 2. Angus: “I’m hearing we might have a shortage, thanks to our incompetent government.” Driver: “I’ve heard we have enough.” 3. Angus: “Don’t you think you should get some Jerry cans and stock up?” Driver: “But if everybody did that…” 4. Angus: “There’d be a PETEOL SHORTAGE! PANIC!!”

Backseat driver.
My @smh cartoon.

Six frames. Woman talking to girl. 1. “Sunday was International Women’s Day - the one day of the year when women get to…” (girl looks excited) 2. “…be controlling and violent toward their partners,…” (girl looks less thrilled) 3. “…tell men what to wear and what they can do with their bodies,…” (girl looks a bit stunned) 4. “…make men feel unsafe and blame them if they get attacked,…” (girl looks uncomfortable) 5. “…and curtail men’s liberty and make laws that serve our own interests.” (Girl looks depressed) 6. “Because men deserve a day off.” (Girl looks seriously unconvinced.)

#IWD2026.
My @smh @theage cartoon.

Single frame. Karoline Leavitt on the press briefing lectern with a US flag and a large “chocolate wheel” with coloured panels showing: “REGIME CHANGE -YAY!; THEY’RE TERRORISTS!; THEY HAVE NUKES!; THEY DOT HAVE NUKES YET; WE WANT TO REPLACE THE LEADER; WE KILLED THE REPLACEMENTS; ARMAGEDDON!!!; PRE-EMPTIVE SELF-DEFENCE; BIBI IS OUR FRIEND; (SOME SCHOOLGIRLS MAY HAVE DIED); WHAT OIL?!; MID-TERMS - YIKES!” Leavitt says, “Next question?”

Spin.
My @smh cartoon.

Single frame. Angus Taylor at table with generic colleague at whiteboard holding marker. On whiteboard, two headings: “GOOD IMMIGRANTS” and “BAD IMMIGRANTS”. Under first: “# People like us; # Business people; # Wealthy people; # Cheap labour”. Nothing yet under second. Taylor says: “Well, we DON’T want the kinds of people that come from repressive terrorist regimes…” Colleague says: “You mean, the people most likely to need somewhere safe to flee to?”

Bad immigrants.
My @smh cartoon.

photo of Pam Bondi testifying in the foreground as a group of 7 women and 1 men raise their hands

Likely-historic photo by NBC News of all the Epstein victims asked to raise their hands if they've not yet been asked to meet with the DOJ as Bondi testifies in foreground

Sir Ian McKellen performing a monologue from Shakespeare’s Sir Thomas More on the Stephen Colbert show. Never have I heard this monologue performed with such a keen sense of prescience. Nor have I ever been in this exact historical moment.TY Sir Ian, for reaching us once again.
#Pinks #ProudBlue

By fine Australian cartoonist Peter Broelman.

Every American needs to watch this:

By @deadder.bsky.social .
Breathtaking.

Movie review from Guardian on Melania.

Bruce Springsteen - Streets Of Minneapolis (Official Audio) YouTube video by Bruce Springsteen

The world is watching. The song needs sharing. So I thought I would
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Title: “Uses for the Australian Flag”. Six frames. 1. “To show support”. Guy in a crowd wearing green and gold waving little flag shouting “CARN THE AUSSIES”. 2 “To dogwhistle”. Pauline wrapped in flag as in Senate stunt. 3. “Survival abroad”. Woman with shorts, ponytail and large backpack with flag on it, Eiffel Tower in distance, says “Not American” 4. “To tell people who you are”. Big bloke in Aust flag t-shirt looks at smaller brown man menacingly? Assertively? Aggressively? and points to it. 5. “To tell people you belong”. Four people of diverse culture/ethnicity all proudly holding little Aussie flags. 6. “Sun protection for your lily white skin”. Two blokes, back to us, red necks, beach in front, thumbs up, beer in hand, saying “MATE” “MAAATE”.

Uses for the flag.
My @smh @theage cartoon

Solid.
My @smh cartoon.

As MAGA is to US Christianity
So Zionism is to Judaism.

Netanyahu is attempting to influence and direct our politics in Australia. If he’s suggesting we treat some Australians as he is the Palestinians we’ll give it a miss.

SIGN ✍️ We will not be divided after Bondi Add your name to the Jewish Council petition today

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Just remember Paul Keating described John Howard as a desiccated little coconut - nothing in the last 24 hours has dissuaded me from that description.

Single frame. Man at table with Netanyahu, Israel flag behind. Man says “How’s the ceasefire holding.?” Netanyahu replies, “Well… it’s keeping the ongoing genocide off the front pages…which was a distraction from my judicial crackdown, which drew attention away from our brutal settlement expansion, which kept my corruption charges out of the public eye…”

Nesting offences.
My @smh @theage cartoon.

Single frame. Barnaby exiting a room from which a leg kicks, a hand flipping the bird, another throwing a tomato, an akubra hat and a beetroot flying, and “BUGGER OFF!” and “GOOD RIDDANCE!” Barnaby in melodramatic pose looking back says “Don’t try to beg me - I’ve made up my mind.” In front of him, Pauline Hanson in burqa (dress, legs and high heels showing) arms outstretched, saying “COME TO MAMA!” - eclipsed by Gina Rinehart behind her, long white dress, same pose also saying “COME TO MAMA!”

Barnaby out.
My @smh @theage cartoon.

"The Attorney General of the United States has set a new low for this committee," Whitehouse said.

Shouldn't doing what Pam Bondi is accusing James Comey of doing be a scandal that would make her have to resign? In her case it's is easily proven that she lied to the committee.

“ At just 16 years old, she took a job at Mar a Lago, believing she had secured a dream summer position. But that dream quickly morphed into a nightmare when Ghislaine Maxwell preyed upon her…. They trafficked her”

#solidarity

The hilarity being produced by the Portland protesters in the face of evil. Is showing the beauty of the human spirit.
Vive la Resistance

It’s Sam Altman: the man who stole the rights from copyright. If he’s the future, can we go backwards? | Marina Hyde His AI video generator Sora 2 has been reviled for pinching the work of others. One giant leap for Sam: for everyone else, not so much, says Guardian columnist Marina Hyde

Marina Hyde nails the AI bosses' brazen theft of work that legally belongs to its creators. The tech bros say their industry will collapse without stealing our stuff - it's that valuable. But also so unimportant & worthless they won't pay for it or ask consent.
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David Rowe peace man.. Financial Review

📣 María Corina Machado is an inspiration—especially as a 🇺🇸🇩🇴Latino witnessing the rise of authoritarianism in the U.S. Her courage and commitment to peaceful resistance remind me of Maya Angelou’s timeless words.