Maybe it’s time to swap overlords. I mean, if you must swear fealty to a corrupt genocidal dictatorship why not go with the one that has fast charging and isn’t trying to destroy the planet?

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The 2026 National Science Foundation budget is $8.75 billion.

First 6 Days of Iran War Cost U.S. $11.3 Billion, Pentagon Says

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Blundering Forward, Trump Style Trump’s big policy mistakes follow a familiar pattern, and we should expect the same with the war in Iran.

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Two robodebt officials engaged in serious corrupt conduct, Nacc finds, but Scott Morrison cleared Anti-corruption watchdog makes adverse findings against two former public servants but clears four other individuals

Robodebt was the worst failure of public administration in Australian history. It raised est. $1.73 bn of illegitimate debts from over 430,000 vulnerable Australians and plunged thousands of families into distress and grief. And still no real consequences.

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Trump’s family is embroiled in a $500m UAE scandal. We’ve hardly noticed | Mohamad Bazzi A crypto startup founded by Trump’s family signed a huge deal with the UAE president’s brother. Where’s the political fallout?

Still think this is more egregious:
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Whoa!

Reddit screenshot from Glasgow thread. Bright flames rising out the side of a Victorian building.

Video screenshot from Reddit. Building is now a shell with flames visible in every window.

The roof has collapsed embers rise into the night sky.

The fire at Glasgow central station is utterly devastating. Shops, homes and our transport link to England are being wiped out.
I am amazed by the limited news coverage.

Will Bunch (@willbunch.bsky.social) They had names. They had beautiful faces. And they had the same dreams as your kids - crushed when American "precision" bombs slammed into their Minab elementary school, killing 175 Don't blame AI for this. Blame the sick humans who see war as a game My new column https://www.inquirer.com/opinion/iran-girls-school-bombing-ai-20260308.html

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AI error or not, Iran school bombing is a permanent stain on America’s soul | Will Bunch A debate on AI in warfare obscures the truth about an Iran school bombing. U.S. humans are to blame for this war crime.

They had names. They had beautiful faces. And they had the same dreams as your kids - crushed when American "precision" bombs slammed into their Minab elementary school, killing 175

Don't blame AI for this. Blame the sick humans who see war as a game

My new column www.inquirer.com/opinion/iran...

Jeff Eyges (@jeffeyges) on Threads Damn. No one will ever again win the Internet this hard.

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Max Kennerly (@maxkennerly.bsky.social) If America still had the rule of law, this would be the easiest prosecution ever, but we all know absolutely nothing will happen. [contains quote post or other embedded content]

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I explain international trade policy for a living which can be nightmarishly complex.

Sometimes I spend days agonizing to find a neat way of communicating something my audience finds baffling...

... but at least I'm not the one who has to explain the concept of 'consequences' to Prince Andrew.

Andrew's completely broke which raises the possibility that a Norfolk duty solicitor is currently having the strangest day of his / her life.

OK USA, *this*, this is how it is done. Pay attention!

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It is time we just put all power in the hands of Dolly Parton

Oh well done.

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Black text on grey background. Screenshot of direct message from a researcher in Australia describing how the immigration time-scales for a postdoc coming to Australia are now so long that they undo the much better efficiency of other countries’ grant systems.

Very common story from a follower👇

Even if you can avoid ARC’s ludicrously long time-scales & recruit via another country’s much more efficient system, you hit Australia’s immigration system.

Barrier after barrier. It’s YEARS between idea & starting the research in Australia.

The slooow country.

John Birch Society having a totally normal moment.

screenshot from truesizeof - greenland projected over western australia, showing it's smaller

it's funny knowing greenland is literally smaller than WA

Australia should 'cut the tag' with American foreign policy: Keating Australia should focus less on the alliance with the United States now that Donald Trump has been elected president, former prime minister Paul Keating says.

Former Australian Prime Minister Paul Keating in 2016 advised us Australians to cut the tag with the USA. Before AUKUS, he foresaw where this was all going. #auspol www.abc.net.au/news/2016-11...

“This has been very badly received across the UK.” Keir Starmer was doing his best to make the collapse of the post-war international order sound dull. It is a job for which he is uniquely well equipped. The prime minister could make the start of nuclear war sound like an announcement that the rail replacement bus service has been cancelled. He might yet get the chance to try. For the benefit of the future historian trying to piece 2026 together from fragments of satire, the specific subject this Monday morning was Donald Trump’s announcement that he was imposing escalating tariffs on all of Europe, and possibly the entire solar system, until we give in and acknowledge him as God Emperor of Greenland. Trump is now in the “making his horse a senator” stage of his presidency, and it turns out that the US constitutional checks and balances about which we’ve all heard so much relied too heavily on there being people in Washington with spines.

Can Keir Starmer bore enough to stop a trade war - or an actual war? My SKETCH of Today In Saving Greenland.
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Wondering if I have time to write a quickie thriller novel about the failed American invasion of Greenland before the failed American invasion of Greenland kills us all.

Independents MPs and senators have written to the government calling for greater parliamentary oversight of AUKUS.

AUKUS is the centrepiece of our defence and foreign policy strategy, but it's been adopted by the major parties with very poor public engagement.

Indeed, IMO this is part of the reason why what is going on now is not a problem that will fix itself in 2028 'when normality returns'. If US foreign policy is to tear up international agreements on ideological or self-interested grounds, there's no guarantee that'll stop if their ideology changes.

I don't know about you guys,but I've entirely forgotten about the 2 million unreleased Epstein files now. Epstein who?

Melissa Ingle (@m1ngle) on Threads In Sept 1968, António de Oliveira Salazar, the Prime Minister and dictator of Portugal, suffered a stroke and fell into a coma. Assuming the 79 year old wouldn’t recover he was replaced. He woke up 1 month later unaware he was no longer PM. Those in charge decided not to tell him and he believed he was still PM. This delusion was perpetuated by his aides and nurses who all pretended he was still in charge. He died 2 years later still believing he was PM. There’s precedent is all I’m saying.

Let history be our guide.

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