Happy Birthday, Mr Takei

For the record, every Trump critic I know always thought and said that Hunter Biden was a garbage guy trying to trade on his dad's name.

The pushback was on whether *Joe* Biden was involved in kickback schemes.

No one no doubts the Trump Family—top to bottom—is utterly corrupt.

Unreadable, advert-filled slop

I think that question has always been on the Lib / Nats application forms.
What school did you go to?
Which firm does your Daddy work for?
Wankers

They really could not organise a piss-up at a brewery.
Is it any wonder that we shake our heads at the so-called 'opposition' ?
Are these really the best that can be offered to the voting public?

You should be too. And if you're not, be furious for someone less well off than you. If we don't actually start voting for the future, we are completely and utterly fucked.

Western journalists, who largely ignored Israel's slaughter of their colleagues in Gaza, are playing handmaiden to Trump's fascism.

Jay Bhatta... * @DrJBhatt... • Feb 27 S ... Replying to @DrJBhattacharya Scientific journals like Lancet and Nature, which endorsed Joe Biden for president, are not trustworthy sources to comment on reforms in public health. They traded science for politics, and have not altered course since.

Just re-upping this post from NIH/CDC “Director” and right-wing podcast staple Jay Bhattacharya, who seems to think that he is a more “trustworthy source to comment on reforms in public health” than the Lancet.

He traded science for politics to gain Twitter fame, and has not altered course since.

I am reminded of how many people only start complaining about systems once they have to start using them liked aged care or disability support. It’s too late then, mates. You should have been advocating for the improvement of these systems several decades before.

The Hinkley C UK nuclear reactor will produce 3.2GW, it will cost £50bn.

For that the UK could have built 40GW of Wind Turbines in 1/5th of the time.

Which would even on the least windy days of the year produce TWICE as much electricity.

Nuclear is an unnecessary RIPOFF.

Shocking situation.

Mat Tinkler Save The Children CEO said the same on ABC Radio today. Bring them home, charge the adults with the crimes and push them through the justice system. The children need protection. We are not the USA. @albomp.bsky.social

Journalism professor’s six-word mantra is a blueprint for how news outlets should cover the 2024 race | CNN Business NYU journalism professor Jay Rosen implores newsrooms to organize 2024 campaign coverage around the stakes of the presidential contest — not the horse race.

"Not the odds, but the stakes."

Motto for my press criticism during the 2014 campaign, and a good place to end.

The only one of my "key distinctions" that actually broke into the public sphere.

Here's a news article about it: Not the odds, but the stakes. www.cnn.com/2023/11/15/m...

...but..but...He's the smartest person in the room.... according to him.
I'm not a fan of LNP, but I think the country does better when the opposition can offer a 'middle-Australia' alternative. The LNP are currently offering shit sandwiches.
I expect a new hard-right Tory breakaway soon.

What do these corporations have in common?

-Amazon
-AT&T
-Home Depot
-Microsoft
-Palantir

They all reaped billions in tax breaks from Trump's Big Ugly Bill — and are actively collaborating with ICE's deportation machine.

Always follow the money.

Agree. Chances are low, but we've seen him sway to popular opinion. Perhaps a few pushes from Indies and Greens might see some changes. At the moment, our FF tax policies are a joke

‘Not radical, it’s fair’: Australian households would receive compensation in proposed ‘polluter pays’ levy scheme Superpower Institute report fleshes out 2024 call from Labor heavyweight Ross Garnaut to re-embrace carbon pricing 12 years after Tony Abbott axed it

Make the polluters pay.
Carbon pricing works.
We need action now to reduce the impacts of GHGs on the future of our families

www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Latrobe Valley water: communities make coal companies pay In December 2024, hundreds of Victorians spoke up about AGL’s plan to take water from the Latrobe River to rehabilitate the Loy Yang coal mine. Today, we’re celebrating your win.

envirojustice.org.au/latrobe-vall...

The Antony Loewenstein Podcast: The Weaponisation Of Jewish Trauma Post Bondi YouTube video by Antony Loewenstein

Thank you Antony Loewenstein, and all Independent Media outlets 🇵🇸
youtube.com/watch?v=CQOS...

Trump Administration to Criminally Investigate Beloved Mother of Three It Already Murdered—and Her Grieving Widow, Too What this regime has already done—and is now planning to do—to a citizen its agent killed in cold blood is among the most contemptible executive-branch abuses of power America has ever seen.

(🚨) The four PROOF reports on Minneapolis—of which the last, just published, is below—have done all they can possibly do to exhaustively detail, in near-book-length form, exactly what happened there, why it happened, and why it’s the start of something far worse.

WARNING: Reader discretion advised.

I hope Americans see these acts for what they are. First, they are criminal acts by the state against its own citizens. Second, they are evil distractions from POTUSs destruction of your country. He and his goons are milking the state for all they can before it drops off the cliff.

The Albo government's antisemitism bill is a rushed hatchet job. Nobody has proper time to consider it carefully enough, and it will have all sorts of unintended consequences if passed. It is the worst kind of law-making: moral panic induced, pandering to powerful lobby groups' demands.

I think it would be interesting to know who organised the 'Sporting Stars' to make their collective pitch for an RC?
Think we can guess, but I still would like to know the finer details.

I reckon they'll throw him into the arena with the lions and the horse chariots with sword wheels....sorry, Nick.
Now, all Murica really needs is a Maximus to sort that shit out

It's all distraction politic BS for those little Boyz who were never told 'No' as children and are now trying to fuck over anyone else for their own advantage.
Big tech wanted this, and the US voted as they were told/forced

Bet they were watching videos of Cher sat on that big gun barrel singing, 'If I could turn back time....'
like they will wish when they face The Hague

They whole thing is driven by the need to bring up sagging polling numbers without changing any domestic policies.

Albo and Starmer fellating POTUS and his goons, as per standard procedure