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This might be a good time for the NY Times to recall that Ratcliffe's first nomination for the job in 2019 fell over because he had "embellished" his supposed experience, claiming to have put terrorists in jail and arrested hundreds of illegal aliens in a day. #uspol www.nytimes.com/2025... 1/2

submitted 14 hours ago • 1 comment

Not exactly carping, but how is this a new theory? Anyone who wanted to survive Twitter/X had to learn this theory in some form. Block the real trolls, mute the bores, "let's leave it there" for discussions that are going nowhere. The Let Them Theory www.melrobbins.com/b... 1/3

submitted 14 hours ago • 1 comment

Given the demographics of his supporters, Abbott shows good judgement in focusing on bequests rather than donations. #auspol www.theguardian.com/...

submitted 18 hours ago • 3 comments

Snap! Just after Trump's organization, I wrote about the US as " The dispensable nation" Kori Schake has a piece in Foreign Affairs with the same headline, and most of the same point, from a US perspective crookedtimber.org/20... 1/2

submitted 19 hours ago • 1 comment

It’s unfair to say all Trump supporters are racists. Trump embodies many different kinds of evil (cruelty, corruption, greed, misogyny, downwards envy, know-nothingism) and his supporters are a broad coalition of supporters of these. #uspol

submitted 1 day ago • 2 comments

Bernard Keane written this same post a dozen times about different governments without ever explaining why the problem is excessive spending rather than inadequate tax revenue #auspol #crikey revenue.www.crikey.com.au/20... 1/2

submitted 1 day ago • 1 comment

Seriously, i dont think Americans are going to get this until it’s too late.

submitted 1 day ago • 4 comments

Is selling off Santos to a foreign buyer in Australia’s national interest? First, define national interest | John Quiggin www.theguardian.com/...

submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments

Not surprising, and I don't suppose Trumpists will care that humanists aren't coming to the US. But it's not the only planned conference being moved. And this will play out over years to come - no one sensible will choose a US location if they haven't already booked. www.atheists.org/202... 1/2

submitted 2 days ago • 2 comments

Not all that surprising. Unless tourists stop coming, the demand for beds is unchanged. No easy answer, but low-cost public/social housing needs expansion www.uq.edu.au/news/a... 1/2

submitted 3 days ago • 1 comment

When do we get the "Mission Accomplished" photo-op?

submitted 4 days ago • 3 comments

Best case scenario for Trump, unconditional surrender by Iran (whatever that means). Worst case, Iran sinks a US aircraft carrier. Neither seems very likely. but the second appears to be possible #War nationalsecurityjour... 1/3

submitted 4 days ago • 2 comments

Waiting for Wongs performance. A deeply concerned raised eyebrow telling Iran to sue for peace despite being attacked unlawfully, urging restraint but reinforcing Israel’s right to self defence. Stressing her new found belief that Iran has military nuclear ambitions. Theatre of the absurd.

submitted 4 days ago • 2 comments

I got this one completely wrong. But the calculations that made this a bad idea for Trump haven't changed. If the US starts taking casualties as a result, this will be a disaster for him. www.nytimes.com/live...

submitted 4 days ago • 4 comments

One of the reasons people worry about the possibility of population decline is that there would be fewer new ideas and therefore less progress. 1/5

submitted 4 days ago • 1 comment

Europe needs to force divestiture on US cloud firms. AWS has already gone halfway by establishing a European subsidiary. www.nytimes.com/2025...

submitted 5 days ago • 0 comments

Preach it, Bernard: NSW clubs celebrated for the vulturous, blood-sucking, amoral, gouging misery they inflict on their communities www.crikey.com.au/20...

submitted 5 days ago • 1 comment

I've moved pretty slowly on using ChatGPT and similar. But it does a great job on file conversions. I've done standard LaTeX to Beamer and Harvard style references to .RIS. Quick and easy for a job that would be slow and tedious for me. 1/3

submitted 5 days ago • 3 comments