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psych nurse, restauranteur, a published researcher into assisted dying (see the theme?) phd (nursing) but retired, so I’m a politics / current affairs junkie instead; thinking about taking up smoking again Aussie & Kiwi, no longer a US citizen who/me
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Speaking as someone who spent their childhood fearing ICE raids: please refrain from spreading rumors about ICE raids. If you cannot /personally/ vouch for the source or confirm the veracity of the claim, then please don't post it on social media. Please, and thank you.

One day Labor and Greens might grow up and work together like these guys running for mayor of NYC

Bet Mel Gibson doesn’t make a movie about this

The only way Seymour and his gang of libertarian ideologues can achieve their goal of zero govt interference is to ensure govt has total domination. They just can't handle ideas other than their own. Like toddler on the stage of world history.

Welp, NZ's grand experiment with libertarian-fueled racism is going to plan . . .

Israel can take out an Iranian commander 1000km away with a drone missile through a single bedroom wall, without any other damage. But to target a Hamas leader a few kilometres away, they need to raze whole neighborhoods to the ground. Is it obvious yet?

Netanyahu Calls Iran Strikes Necessary To Prevent War He Just Started theonion.com/netanyahu-ca...

Albo calling for dialogue in the ME sounds like that wimpy preacher guy in b/w grainy cartoons from 1960s

i am not being pollyannish when i insist that the people who sign up do not sign up to advance a president’s domestic political agenda www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Billy Long's sole qualification to run the IRS is that, in 2023–24, he ran a large-scale tax fraud operation. I am not making this up.

Says the guy who cut off House Impeachment Managers' attempt to put on witnesses at Trump's Senate trial (following his second impeachment related to January 6) because he wanted to get home for Valentine's Day.

“Words,” John Maynard Keynes once wrote, “ought to be a little wild, for they are the assault of thoughts on the unthinking.”

Re AUKUS deal, not getting our $800M back might, maybe, hopefully, shame Albanese into dumping Marles and declaring a new set of alliances