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Even archivists are up before Trump & Musk’s firing squad. Creating a disgraceful dictatorial idiocracy www.cnn.com/2025/02/14/p...

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As always @maitlis.bsky.social neatly sums it up

submitted 7 days ago • 36 comments

Classic!

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Good to see Europe standing up against gauche, arrogant ‘hillbilly’ #Vance. Vance behaved like an ignorant demagogue who cannot even keep to the important subject the meeting was designed to address. He made America look ridiculous & inept. An idiocracy.

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America is officially an idiocracy. #idiocracy

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Nigel Farage: Self-styled man of the people, but one of the highest-earning MPs (£615k in this session). Reform presents itself as anti-elite—yet four of its five MPs are millionaires. @stephenmcnair.bsky.social explores how it all adds up. 💰

submitted 9 days ago • 3 comments

"Law enforcers have a duty to act proportionately; their attack on Sam Kerr has been an attempt to break a butterfly on a wheel." — Geoffrey Robertson, AO, KC archive.is/E6aC2

submitted 10 days ago • 9 comments

🙌 Well done everyone! 🙌 Read (and share!) this piece by Robert McMaster, who started the petition:

submitted 10 days ago • 91 comments

Entrapment? “Israeli influencer Max Veifer declared “mission accomplished” in his campaign to dox people who express antisemitic views. He said he created content on online chat platforms – “where I expose people”, & that he felt his “mission has [been] accomplished” because the pair will be fired”.

submitted 9 days ago • 0 comments

Really not far to go now. Link —> petition.parliament.uk/petitions/70...

submitted 11 days ago • 97 comments

Very impressive interview with Palestinian Authority Minister Dr Varsen Aghabekian on ABC 730 Report just now. Decisive, informed, impressive.

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Ok folks - here’s a red line. “Trump says Palestinians should permanently leave Gaza as he meets with Netanyahu – live” - what are Starmer, Albanese, the EU & the Middle East going to say/do about this?

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And there you have it. From the horse’s mouth.

submitted 18 days ago • 66 comments

Does #PeterDutton_MP have an original idea in that bald head of his? Wannabe Trump, sycophant of Gina & the mining & fossil fuel lobby, ‘efficiency’, ‘woke’, ‘control our borders’, fear, fear, fear. Leading his sorry bunch of wannabe fascists, negativity embedded in their souls.

submitted 18 days ago • 0 comments

Excellent decision.

submitted 18 days ago • 2 comments

This is totally against free speech & Australia’s multicultural ethos where no group is prioritised over others. It seems there are certain powerful groups working to shut down any criticism is Israel & any support for Palestinians’ human rights. This is not America, we must not be manipulated.

submitted 19 days ago • 0 comments

Given the alleged interference by certain groups in the employment of Latouff, this second incident is worrying. Cricket commentator Lalor has lost his job allegedly because he reposted on Gaza & ‘made’ certain groups feel unsafe when they heard his voice commenting on cricket. Is this right?

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Who knewTony Abbott’s party pad (office?) in MLC Centre Martin Place costs tax payers $6500 a week? Maybe Jacinta Nampijinpa Price as Shadow Minister of Efficiency could look into this egregious waste of public funds?

submitted 19 days ago • 0 comments

Last I looked the western world is mostly run by ‘white men’ (competent or not). So why is everything such a mess? Terrifying that fragile white men like these are in positions of power.

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“Musk had effectively appointed himself an autocrat – the absolute authority in control of American spending, for no other reason than being the president's largest financier.” @whstancil.bsky.social on Elon Musk's unconstitutional power & his takeover of USAID/Treasury: zeteo.com/p/elon-musk-...

submitted 19 days ago • 40 comments

Apparently according to Trump Apartheid is OK in Israel but not ok in South Africa? What is the difference?

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No constitution in the world is strong enough to cope with one party in a two-party system becoming an extremist personality cult, judges who disdain the law for partisan gain, and a populace ignorant and/or destructive enough to reelect someone with loudly advertised dictatorial aspirations

submitted 19 days ago • 17 comments

“—the governments of Israel—have imposed a reign of terror, including such abominations as “mowing the lawn”, and implemented targeted policies of destroying Palestinian culture and making the whole region from the river to the sea uninhabitable for Palestinians.” johnmenadue.com/public-lette...

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"Many Israeli hostages being released in prisoner-exchanges confirmed, some in face-to-face meetings with Netanyahu, that the IDF tried to kill them from their first moments of capture by Hamas, and throughout their long months of captivity." johnmenadue.com/why-did-the-...

submitted 19 days ago • 0 comments

We in UK & Australia can file our tax returns online for free. In the US apparently that’s a far-left conspiracy by a govt computer office & direct filing has been deleted by Musk. So much for efficiency.

submitted 19 days ago • 1 comment

Giving Nigel a taste of his own Medicine.

submitted 20 days ago • 2 comments

Nigel says he will deliver Brexit benefits when Reform gets into power 😹 I keep asking hime to specify what these benefits will be but so far he is silent. I wonder why?

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WTF? ‘NYT reports Trump was asked how he could say diversity hiring was to blame for the crash even though the investigation had just begun. He replied “because I have common sense”. He added: “For some jobs, we need the highest level of genius.”’ #trump

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West pushback against #DeepSeek starts - Canadian Yoshua Bengio, seen as a ‘godfather of modern AI’, said advances by Chinese startup a ‘worrying development’ in a US dominated field. “It’s going to mean a closer race, which usually is not a good thing from the point of view of AI safety,” he said.

submitted 24 days ago • 1 comment

Broken. My @smh @theage cartoon.

submitted 26 days ago • 42 comments

Sounds like a plan

submitted 25 days ago • 77 comments

“Terrible things are happening outside. Poor helpless people are being dragged out of their homes. Families are torn apart. Men, women, and children are separated. Children come home from school to find that their parents have disappeared.” Diary of Anne Frank January 13, 1943

submitted 29 days ago • 1357 comments

Good to see BBC R4 talking about museums. tinyurl.com/yu66ewvf But I do get irritated by the assumption that controversies over museum are new. Museums have always been controversial. That's their job.

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"We talk about the economy...as if it's this singular thing." "Well, those high interest rates that are crushing young families...it's a cash splash for people with a lazy 2 to 5 million tucked away in their super." @richarddenniss.bsky.social #auspol australiainstitute.org.au/post/thats-c...

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Their faith lets them worship power while they’re offended by mercy. It’s not Christianity they’re practicing.

submitted 30 days ago • 788 comments

And so the trouble starts …

submitted 32 days ago • 0 comments

What’s disturbing is not only the triumphant gesture’s ref to Nazism but that violence & deliberate or inadvertent killings are OK -pardoning violent Jan 6 traitors, encouraging Israeli illegal settlers’ killing of Palestinians in the West Bank & violent deportation of American residents & workers.

submitted 32 days ago • 0 comments

A paper that understands its responsibility, in a country that knows it when it sees it. Impressive from Die Zeit. Refuses to show the salute, but calls it out for what it so obviously was. Headline: “A Hitler Salute is a Hitler Salute is a Hitler Salute”

submitted 32 days ago • 70 comments