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. I'd like to see Australia's cultural institutions devote time, space and funds to the curation of works depicting arts censorship and the erasure of certain voices in Australian society in all walks of life. This moment, these times, deserve that.

"ABC staff is made up of a diversity of views, which is both important and valuable," writes John Hewson. "Unlike Murdoch’s employees, who are quite obviously employed only on the understanding that they’ve drunk the Kool-Aid."

Next election the Democrats should run on a platform of neutering Elon Musk, both metaphorically and literally

After this little nugget in estimates about Mean Streak yesterday someone slid into my DMs to say the book has been checked out of the Dept of the Prime Minister and Cabinet library since last year and the wait list got so long they bought more copies.

Pulitzer Feeling Increasingly Out Of Place In Washington Post Office

"It’s craven. He’s basically fearful of Trump." Marty Baron, former executive editor of the Washington Post, interprets what Jeff Bazos announced this morning. open.substack.com/pub/zeteo/p/...

My latest on Bezos bulldozing the reputation and business of the paper he vowed to save. And yes, it’s personal https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/feb/26/jeff-bezos-washington-post-opinion

. "After nearly three years the Labor brand has increasingly become synonymous with backsliding, timidity and excessive fear of being wedged. It’s a brand that by now means almost everyone has stopped listening". johnmenadue.com/albaneses-go...

From my 2017 essay, "Send the interns." pressthink.org/2017/01/send... It is relevant again because we have headlines today like this from Politico. "White House seizes control of press pool, will decide which outlets cover events with president."

The shocking layoffs at MSNBC are both surprisingly racist but also the latest sign that Beltway elites are clueless about the Trump threat. The grassroots is seeing, we are the only ones who will save us An instant mini-column from me, carved out from my newsletter www.inquirer.com/columnists/a...

Trump Struggling To Remember How He Related To Elon Musk theonion.com/trump-s...

Rep Tom Suozzi: “Very simple. Putin is a dictator. Zelenskyy is not.” What’s so hard to understand about that?

Corporate brand management now infects arts organisations. By Louise Adler. www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

The great @rexhuppke.bsky.social with some truth-telling about Trump selling out his voters now that he doesn't need them anymore www.usatoday.com/story/opinio...

zoom in on the mirror we're literally living in a horror movie

Nearly 40% of contracts canceled by Musk’s DOGE expected to produce no savings www.dallasnews.com/news/politic...

There was another #TeslaTakedown protest in Arlington, VA today. I couldn’t make it but I heard they had about 50 people show. Woot!!

(1970s movie trailer voice) In the distant future ... Artificial intelligence has infected the global computer network. A demented criminal is in the Oval Office. And a drug-addled oligarch may be the true power behind the throne. Can you withstand the horrific dystopia of ... THE YEAR 2025

Morning. ☕️

. So principled and brave of the Jewish community to be the voices of reason in this genocidal madness. Don't underestimate for one moment the incredible pressure they are under not to speak out.

1) Got knocked down repeatedly 2) Got up again repeatedly 3) Drank a whiskey drink, a vodka drink, a lager drink, and a cider drink 4) Sang the songs that remind me of the good times 5) Sang the songs that remind me of the best times.

Hello #ThickTrunkTuesday

DOGE is the Theranos of Cost-Cutting Paul Krugman likens DOGE to a company ripe to be shorted bc of signs of fraud. paulkrugman.substack.com/p/doge-is-th...

Dear Manager, here are my five bullet points summed up in one photo. Thank you again for this opportunity @janeygodley.bsky.social #trumpisacunt

i want tom cruise to do a cameo on the reacher series so much, just to stand next to alan ritchson for a second. or, like, pop out of his shirt pocket like a cartoon mouse.

Wastewater surveillance until 21 February for Perth metro. Continues to decrease, we love to see it. www.health.wa.gov.au/Articles/A_E...

Currently appearing at UK bus-stops. More of this pointed ridicule, please.

Yessssss.

Is this real? ...Tell me it can't be real. The document is real. This is insane.

Nick Cave is a brunette

Am doing an activism. If anything comes of it, I’ll eventually talk about it on BlueSky. Until then, posting will be a bit lighter than usual. And remember, we’re still in a constitutional and national security crisis.

we are many

I can't wait for this to be the reason i get banned on twitter

My favorite novel is 100 𝘠𝘦𝘢𝘳𝘴 𝘖𝘧 𝘚𝘰𝘭𝘪𝘵𝘶𝘥𝘦 because just imagine *closes eyes and clutches fist* all that fuckin’ solitude.

Just a little reminder that as Germany (the largest economy in EU) heads to the polls there’s almost no chance of a ‘majority government’ Indeed they almost never have ‘majority governments’…power sharing parliaments are the norm in so many counties…just sayin www.independent.co.uk/news/world/e...

Community service announcement - polling is as good as someone is willing to pay for it. For five grand, it'll be all over the road like a mad dogs shit For five hundred grand, you can start calculating the standard errors on Kia Driving K-Mart Mums cohort. Media polls are cheap, like media.