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Scholar. Historian of ideas. Mostly Enlightenment & race, quite a bit on empire & colonisation, plus some corruption and a little piracy for good measure.
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The billionaires, so afraid that a portion of their vast wealth would be redirected to fund public goods like education and health care, wasted no opportunity to break any and all public institutions and install a regime where the people pay for being poor, or powerless, or unwell, or not white.

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Divide and conquer. It’s the same old right wing strategy. And the best way to achieve it? Lies. #auspol

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There is so much to despair about in #auspol but here’s something I’m hopeful about. The right wingnuts in the Libs, Nats, and Trumpet of Dickheads, all bet big that they’d coast in on a global Trump wave. But no one wants that shit here. So there they are, high and dry, exposed, with nowhere to go.

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The answer to your question, The Guardian, is that you either chuck the man out or leave him, close the door and don’t look back. Any man who is so lost as to mistake misogyny for self-respect is not worth knowing. The end.

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When the USA finally comes to its senses, as it must (and will sooner than later), I’ll be here for the DOGE Treason Trials. In the dock will be some pimply incels with absurd nicknames, and at least a couple of billionaires.

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From tariffs to autism, from peddling secrets to Russia to the rendition of US citizens to foreign torture sites, from its several contempts of court to DOGE malpractice and Tesla incinerations, it looks very like the wheels have come off.

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It bears repeating while our election is running: AUKUS is a dud deal. Spending that money on social equity at home will do more to enhance Australia’s security than paying Trump’s corrupt cartel in the US for nuclear subs we will never get. #auspol

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Rape is a violent crime. So I welcome the prospect of the US president deporting himself to an El Salvador torture centre, with immediate effect.

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Over the last 40 years or so, the two most distinctive examples the US has contributed to the global democratic tradition are voter suppression and ineptly managed elections.

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“It is in your hands to create a better world for all who live in it.” - Nelson Mandela.

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