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Associate Professor of Management at University of Technology Sydney, Australia. Interested in politics, policy, and human decency.
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The Democratic party is entirely motivated by fundraising. Being "Not a Republican" is not good enough anymore. Move left, or die.

Daily reminder that Trump created DOGE. It never existed before Trump. It wasn’t a thing. He made it all up. So anything DOGE does, Trump is responsible for. DOGE is Trump. www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

⚡️EU preparing military aid package for Kyiv worth $20.9 billion, Bloomberg reports. The additional military support would supply Kyiv with air defense systems, artillery ammunition, long-range missiles, and drones.

It’s a cult.

Remember the 1994 "Contract with America"? The DNC needs to perform their own called "Project 2026". Show a United front with a multi-point convention. The way to stop Trump is to win in 2026,both houses. A united and consistent message on how Democrats will make the average American's life better.

Absolutely piss weak and offensive.

Here's video of Steve Bannon doing a Sieg Heil today at CPAC. It is what it is and it's what Bannon intended. Don't let yourself be gaslit.

This Australian comedy publication makes satire great again!

This.

REVEALED: we identified the operator of an overtly racist X account, "GlomarResponder," as ICE Assistant Chief Counsel James Rodden, based on an overwhelming number of biographical details matched through publicly available documents, other social media activity, and courtroom observation.

Look closely.

Donald Trump is a clear and present danger to the entire free world.

What the actual feck is Musk talking about? Billionaires subsidising public programs? They pay extraordinarily little tax. They are the best non-subsidisers in America because they are ultra-selfish individualists who relish profits while despising the public good of shared wealth.

I've read most of the analyses of the DOGE 2025 "receipts" site. This, from NPR, is the best I've read so far. Some of what they claim to have cut haven't been cut, other "cuts" will incur costs down the road. NPR says DOGE has made $2B of cuts, not $55B. www.npr.org/2025/02/19/n...

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How about this?

Oh good, our cyber-security is in the hands of a 19 year old called "Big Balls" who hangs out with black-hat hackers and got fired from a previous job for stealing its data. I feel safer already.

@walshfreedom.bsky.social

Baldwin: "Last night, the president said 'I'm not touching Medicare, Medicaid, Social Security, VA, I'm not touching them.' By this morning, he endorsed the House budget resolution which paves the way for massive cuts to Medicaid."

New Department of Health and Human Services guidance asserts a person’s sex is “unchangeable.” This is insanity. There are more intersex people than redheads in America. Plus, sex change surgery has been around since at least the 1980s. This is make sh$t up policy.

A blast from the past, when Republicans hated kings.

This is also what she voted for

NY Gov. Kathy Hochul’s response: “We are a nation of laws, not ruled by a king. The MTA has initiated legal proceedings in the Southern District of New York to preserve this critical program. We’ll see you in court.”

Indonesian President Prabowo Subianto faces anger on the streets as he seeks a coalition to exclude parliamentary opposition. Democracy is in bad shape in many parts of the world. Autocratic govt must be resisted.

European Parliament member 👇🏽

DOGE recommended firing workers at: -FDA, which oversees Neuralink -FAA, which oversees SpaceX -USAID, which probed Starlink -CFPB, which oversees Tesla's financing arm and a potential payment platform on X. "Conflict of interest" is a severe understatement.

Trump calls Zelensky a "dictator" in latest smear. But he refuses to criticise Putin. Why so? Because America is now a fascist nation under Trump.

"Books like hers function not as weapons but as maps, navigating a way around the edges of the abyss." Grateful for @nytimes.com review of Money, Lies and God. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/19/b...

This is all going according to plan

If you can watch everything that’s happened in the last month and still think we’re going to continue to have presidential elections in the future, I don’t know what to tell you. Democracy in the United States is being slaughtered right in front of the whole world.

North Carolina benefits from $2.28 billion in NIH research funding to support 25,081 jobs, innovation, & education, translating to $5.34 billion in economic activity. Free funds, protect workers! @thomtillis.bsky.social @joshsteinnc.bsky.social popular.info/p/trump-main...

Math is hard

Another career federal official has resigned after refusing to give DOGE access to sensitive data.

@briantylercohen.bsky.social They’ve already created one.

It’s fitting that DOGE is just one big ‘rug pull.’ Elon, DOGE, Trump, and the MAGA media announce they've found an instance of massive fraud—one so absurd it on its face. Within hours, it collapses under the weight of its own lies. Then, without hesitation, they move right onto the next scam.

It really is this simple.

Candlelight vigil for the state of US democracy, Wednesday February 19, 6 to 8 PM, Portland, City Hall #3E #USProtests

OTD in 1951, 6 years after we "liberated them from fascism", Stalin received plans to deport "Jehovists" from Ukraine, Belarus, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania & Moldova. Imagine mass deportations in this day & age..

In 2019, RFK Jr visited Samoa to spread anti-vax lies, spurring a measles outbreak that led to the deaths of 83 people - mostly children. We can’t let that tragedy repeat in Texas. The MMR vaccine is 97% effective at preventing measles. Let’s stop the spread. www.cbsnews.com/news/texas-m...

Trump says Ukraine 'should never have started it' in comments about war with Russia cnb.cx/4hGW1nv He's truly an idiot. Ignorant. Uninformed. Oh, and evil.