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Former Age journalist, now specialist in agricultural and environmental water policy. Passionate about breaking down the false environment vs agriculture binary polemic driving poor outcomes for both.
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It’s a coup

submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments

Alright, I’m resolving the debate. All of these are simultaneously true: 1) Dems are the minority in Congress, greatly limiting their institutional power 2) Congressional Dems can and should be doing more 3) Some Dems are actually doing opposition, drawing public attention, etc 4) Not enough are

submitted 4 days ago • 90 comments

Why do so many feel like they've fallen behind? It's not because of immigrants, trans people, DEI, the “deep state,” or any other bogeyman trotted out by the GOP.  It's because big corporations and billionaires have rigged markets and siphoned off most of the economy's gains.

submitted 6 days ago • 180 comments

Spot on from Bernard Keane. Just about every mainstream media outlet, not to mention both major political parties, use fear, hate & division to get clicks or win votes. The cynicism & paucity of moral leadership in this country really sucks.

submitted 5 days ago • 10 comments

Don’t expect any midterms in 2026.

submitted 7 days ago • 0 comments

👇💯

submitted 10 days ago • 139 comments

"The Trump tariffs on our aluminium are a major test for the Albanese govt, could determine the election." FMD. Aluminium articles account for a bit over 1% of all our exports and just 13% of that goes to the USA. We really need to stop acting like pleasing Trump is vital to our economy

submitted 11 days ago • 35 comments

Never forget that Trump was the culmination of 40 years of stagnant wages, widening inequality, corruption, dog-whistle politics, and economic gains for the rich. If we fail to address this, we should expect future Trumps as far as the eye can see.

submitted 10 days ago • 268 comments

“Mark my words. … They are going to basically tell the U.S. Marshals Service, do not enforce any of these orders, we will not obey them, … and, once that happens—I hope it doesn't … but I know in my heart that it will—our 236-year experiment … in American constitutionalism, is over.”

submitted 12 days ago • 1252 comments

Read it slowly and understand it. 😳🥺 Repost 👇🏾 👇🏾

submitted 12 days ago • 377 comments

You wouldn't dismantle the agency that protects consumers for corporate abuse and scams unless you wanted your rich buddies to be able to abuse and scam consumers.

submitted 13 days ago • 703 comments

Hey NYTimes — *now* you’re lighting the beacons? NOW?!? After months of “Sauron: Avatar Of Evil… Or Extreme Uniter?” thumbsucker reporting you’re screaming what we’ve known since 2015? Fuck all the way off.

submitted 13 days ago • 3222 comments

The Trump Administration hired a 19-year old, who was a member of a Satanic Nazi pedophile terrorist group that hacked, groomed, and extorted kids, to rummage around in the most sensitive data in the US government. Read that again.

submitted 14 days ago • 23 comments

Tesla paid $0 in federal income tax last year. 2022: $0 2021: $0 2020: $0 2019: $0 2018: $0 Tesla reported $6.7 billion in profit in those years.

submitted 14 days ago • 1489 comments