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"Unlike the chat in which The Atlantic was included, the newly revealed one was created by Hegseth. Named “Defense | Team Huddle,” it included his wife and about a dozen other people.... He used his private phone, not his government one, to access the Signal chat." www.nytimes.com/2025/04/20/u...

O.M.G.

"Tough on crime", you say? Any chance Dutton will go after that scumbag whose Home Affairs lavished $6.3bn in refugee detention loot on a cast of characters, some of them 𝒍𝒊𝒏𝒌𝒆𝒅 𝒕𝒐 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒄𝒓𝒊𝒎𝒆 𝒉𝒆 𝒔𝒂𝒚𝒔 𝒉𝒆'𝒔 𝒕𝒐𝒖𝒈𝒉 𝒐𝒏? Said scumbag would be easy to catch. Spud sees him in the mirror each morning ...

Peter Dutton says the Hunter “Is done”! Thankfully the Hunter has @danrepacholimp.bsky.social @australianlabor.bsky.social @albomp.bsky.social

Great article tears Dutton to shreds. ‘Dutton has positioned himself as Australia’s answer to far-right populism..From weaponising fear & division to dismantling climate progress & scapegoating immigration’ Australia is NOT America. Dutton needs to realise that womensagenda.com.au/latest/dutto...

The Australian are already starting their ‘Labor-Greens coalition. Must be really bricking it re Dutton. As an aside, the Coalition is named so because it is a coalition of THREE parties. The Liberals, the QLD LNP & the Nationals… .. why is THAT always overlooked by the media?

I have seen a liberal campaign ad continually this evening claiming that inflation under Labor is consistently higher than other economies. This is blatantly false. It has been fact checked and debunked. Yet the Liberals continue to lie & pay to push a deliberate lie in election advertising.

They'll probably find more classified documents.

If Coalition don't win the Election, I wonder if we'll finally see LIB split. Majority of MPs who actively, or casually, embrace Extreme Right views form a new Party. Call themselves CCP - Christian Conservative Party. A voting bloc with other nutters: PHON/Palmer/Libertarian

#TreasurersDebate #Stutchbury “#AngusTaylor spent most of the debate with a hand in his pocket he needs to take both hands out put them on the steering wheel & steer the economy through.” BL Hand in pocket. Angus has got much to hide. Nervous & he wasn’t really into it.

The derogatory comments on this post by Tanya Plibersek are nauseating. This is where we are at. Women are not safe. The society we live in literally enables abuse, assault, violence & disrespect of women This is not ok. If u can’t voice your opinion without being misogynistic - u have NO opinion

Let’s be clear. Advance is not a lobby group. Nor is it an advocacy group. It’s a RW sect of nutjack zealots funded by big money to interfere in democracy 4 the benefit of big money No lie is too big. No slur is too vile. It’s abt money, power & manipulation of the narrative to divide & conquer

A re-elected Labor Government will make a billion-dollar investment to deliver more free mental health services across Australia.

Peter Dutton backflips more than a #dolphin He'll have his own TV show next. #BackflipBoofhead #FLIPPER

A heads up to people who use pseudonyms on social media! If you share a link to a post on Facebook, Facebook will share your profile name w/ anyone who opens that link I just did a test w/ myself. If I was logged into my personal FB account, you’d see that account instead

Very fine people

Maybe the conservatives in my replies will believe me now.

Just to be clear there is a shit ton of stuff O&G’s do that is not related to giving birth, all of it healthcare

The smallest sum a punter can wager at the NSW TAB is $1. Oddly enough, that's also Biff's betting ceiling after Friday's news ... 👇 #Latham500kCosts

1️⃣ Celebrates an injury*. 2️⃣ "Oh, am I on camera? Better show empathy". 3️⃣ <Whispers to minder> "How TF do I show empathy? It's a foreign concept to me". #election25 #auspol

🚨Georgetown University Law Center students are detailing which law firms have caved and which have stood up to the Trump regime. They have created this spreadsheet: docs.google.com/spreadsheets... Please share widely.

What TF is this? Jason Wood shadow migrant services minister declares interests in MIGRATION firm. Are these coalition leaches the all-time-great barnacles on the ass end of potential govt opportunity or what? ..& why is he not being castigated & made either resign or get rid of his interests?

Big Law firms and partners have choices about whether to capitulate or to stand tall. History is watching.

Wondering how all the country-club, Wall Street, and Silicon Valley I-don’t-care-that-he’s-an-insane-criminal-convict-because-he’s-gonna-cut-capital-gains-tax-rates MAGA types are feeling this morning

The dollar is in free fall, stock market is down, and the price of groceries is up. Is this the “Golden Age” Trump promised you?

Congratulations to Judge Susan Crawford on her victory, and to the people of Wisconsin for electing a judge who believes in the rule of law and protecting our freedoms.

Josh Frydenberg and I had our differences, but we agreed to debate them robustly & respectfully at the National Press Club. If Angus Taylor squibs a debate there, it will prove beyond doubt he & the Coalition have vacated the field on the economy, or don’t want to come clean on their secret cuts.

I do this all the time and it’s made me a happy and productive human being. Endorse.

Booker: Strom Thurmond’s record always kind of just really irked me. That the longest speech on our great Senate floor was from someone who was trying to stop people like me from being in the Senate. So to surpass that became more important to me.

Seriously, Peter Dutton’s pathetic Trumpy claim that he’s gonna teach kids to read more good in school by making the Woke Monster go away is just more of his out-of-touch, culture war bullshit. IF YOUR KID CAN USE A SMARTPHONE IT’S BECAUSE A TEACHER ALREADY TAUGHT THEM TO READ. #auspol

This gave me a laugh Say it in a card. Send it to Dutton 😂

If you are looking to track the three cases filed against Trump's unconstitutional Executive Order targeting elections, Democracy Docket has you covered. www.democracydocket.com/cases/washin... www.democracydocket.com/cases/washin... www.democracydocket.com/cases/washin...

Paul, Weiss's new idea of pro bono: Helping Trump "launch a sovereign wealth fund." "He was prepared to offer pro bono work on causes supported by Mr. Trump, including helping the administration launch a sovereign wealth fund, one of the two people and another who was briefed on the matter said."

Labor is raising wages for 3,000,000 working Australians Dutton’s Coalition wants to stop these pay rises. Dutton calls them “disastrous”. Don’t risk Dutton #auspol

It’s weird how Dutton supporters on FB keen to castigate me using their RW MSM talking points.. Often block me when presented with facts re Dutton’s historical duplicity & corruption. Regurgitated misinformation is no match for facts. Ever This strategy should b employed en masse. What an idea💡‼️

From every $1 that AUS exports to the world, Exports to USA account for 5c. Media screaming about retaliation to make USA also feel pain. You dickheads. Impact on AUS exports to US will be insignificant. Concern is impact or US Tariffs on AUS major trading partners - CHINA, JAPAN, KOR, INDIA

P Duddy says he’ll be living in Kirribilly House IF he was PM (a big fkn IF), which is NOT the official residence for Aus PM. In effect, he wld be advocating living & working remotely from his place of employment by not living at The Lodge. But he doesn’t want public servants to work remotely? 🤨

A very big THANK YOU to all the SES volunteers heading west to help out in the flood-affected communities in regional QLD that we are visiting today with Jenny McAllister and Anthony Chisholm #auspol

Fantastic piece on the Trump culture of reflexive lies via @johnavlon.bsky.social www.thebulwark.com/p/signalgate...

Trump’s henchbros have closed the federal department of libraries & museums, & fired everyone. It will be replaced with rules that all collections & exhibitions be positive and patriotic. That’s right: Americans will now need to hide books from the Nazis.

Peter Dutton has announced he will: - Withdraw $2.2bn in funding for SRL - Pull $2bn from upgrade to Sunshine Station - Spend extra $1.5bn to the Melbourne Airport rail, with expectation future Coalition govt in Vic will match The math ain't mathing. More via the @australia.theguardian.com blog:

In the past four weeks, Costco, which has embraced DEl initiatives, GAINED 7 million shoppers. Target, which got rid of DEI, LOST 5 million shoppers. Walmart which also got rid of DEI, has lost BILLIONS. Along with Musk….and Rudy Giuliani…shows that alignment with Trump spells disaster.

Great piece by Hewson. The attempts by govts to attack the independence of the judiciary is becoming a global phenomenon- & is currently playing out in the US to the detriment of democracy. Dutton’s attempts to do similar here will b to his own detriment www.thesaturdaypaper.com.au/comment/topi...

Nothing says "I'm for the working class" like wanting to move rent free into a Habourside Mansion while having another rent free Mansion closer to your work all the while not having to foot the bill for both being staffed, oh don't forget the free air travel to get to & from. 🤷‍♀️ #AusPol

Great to see @danrepacholimp.bsky.social signs up in the Hunter this morning!!

We see you and we celebrate standing beside you 🫶🏽

A couple of years ago, I noticed that Dems were losing ground with Latino voters. I launched a Spanish-language YouTube channel to reach those people. That channel is now on its way to 300,000 subscribers and has nearly 50 million views. We have be aggressive and go into spaces we're not already in.