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I'm convinced this is a genuine problem. The reality of Trump is so cartoonishly, comically awful that an absolutely neutral description sounds like a hit piece, even to me. So if you're at all predisposed to think of press as biased, factual reporting looks like some relentless vendetta.

submitted 10 hours ago • 37 comments

Next time you hear someone ask how will the govt pay for <insert new spending on services> just remember right now the richest 10% get $27.5bn in tax breaks on just super, and negative gearing and the capital gains discount on housing www.theguardian.com/business/gro...

submitted 1 day ago • 22 comments

Net zero. My @smh cartoon.

submitted 2 days ago • 34 comments

You first.

submitted 2 days ago • 5803 comments

Egg is $1,728 a barrel

submitted 2 days ago • 14 comments

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

submitted 6 days ago • 0 comments

It's quite depressing that much of this is so obvious but so desperately needs saying more clearly and more often. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

submitted 10 days ago • 4 comments

If the ABC is going to give softball interviews to "former Home Affairs secretary" Mike Pezzullo, they should really disclose to readers that he was sacked from that job for 14 breaches of the Code of Conduct

submitted 11 days ago • 37 comments

Splitting up insurance companies is all well and good. But the overriding reason housing insurance premiums are going up is climate change.

submitted 11 days ago • 36 comments

No one alive will experience a better climate than today. But young people will experience a much more dangerous and chaotic world in the future, and the extent to which that happens will depend on our choices today. Trump doesn't care because he's old and a sociopath. www.ipcc.ch/report/ar6/s...

submitted 11 days ago • 18 comments

Imagine any other major business fabricating their primary product in this way. Belle Gibson levels of bullshit.

submitted 13 days ago • 1 comment

22 days in. @theage

submitted 17 days ago • 2 comments

‘We’re the Millers’ is a darkly ridiculous movie from 2013 about bad debts and double-dealing desperados. It’s a good film, but it’s not as funny as Australia’s policies on the exploitation our national resources by foreign companies. #election2025 #auspol #insiders

submitted 19 days ago • 1 comment

Deeply disturbed for my country. www.abc.net.au/news/2025-02...

submitted 20 days ago • 0 comments

The Papua New Guinea Courier is in rare form.

submitted 21 days ago • 1214 comments

Opinion | Stop obsessing about what Trump says and focus on what he's doing, because that's where he's weak. The rest is spectacle, writes @keanebernard.bsky.social

submitted 21 days ago • 0 comments

Anyone who happened to know that the White House would announce and then suspend tariffs within 24 hours just made a boatload of money.

submitted 24 days ago • 454 comments

It’s all theatrics and performative. Trump creates the problem or challenge. Trump then offers a fake fix or solution to the fake problem or challenge. Trump sycophants then cheer him as a genius and a political leader and problem-solver for the ages. Rinse and repeat. Theatrics. That’s it.

submitted 24 days ago • 349 comments

Good morning - if you'd like to join me for parliament, the Australia Institute Live parliamentary blog soft launch is happening here - live.australiainstitute.org.au It is still in its infancy (born today!) and I am a nervous new parent fueled by coffee and insecurity, but come join!

submitted 24 days ago • 57 comments

A party that won't tell you what they are going to cut until after the election is either 1. Planning to cut things that will really hurt (think the 2013 budget). 2. Has done no planning and will completely half-arse it. Which is worse?

submitted 25 days ago • 8 comments

"I was a heroin addict for 14 years," RFK Jr just now in his bid to be confirmed as Secretary of HHS. Imagine a person of color or a woman saying that and people shrugging it off as cool. That is 100% pure uncut white male privilege right there.

submitted 29 days ago • 558 comments

Perfect! I knew someone would do it! trumpgolftrack.com

submitted 29 days ago • 5 comments

Just re-upping this again because the Temu Trumps in the LNP insist on bringing every culture war here: the Morrison govt spent $20.8bn on consultants in its final year - the equivalent of 54,000 FT public servants. The private sector benefits with govt cuts. No one else.

submitted 30 days ago • 39 comments

The Qld government are banning doctors from providing medical care that parents have approved, based on their own prejudice. How long before LNP extremists will try to also ban hormonal medication for contraception or pregnancy options for teens?

submitted 30 days ago • 5 comments

an administration oriented so tightly to the details of performance that they’ll take photos off the walls at USAID but so untethered from the actual work of governance that no one knows whether Medicaid is currently operational

submitted 30 days ago • 12 comments

Never again? My @smh @theage cartoon.

submitted 30 days ago • 14 comments

Every morning we wake up to more horror – but worse than that, more people who are seemingly indifferent to it. Compassion burnout is real, but it is also what power wants. Empathy keeps us human and yes, it is heavy, but it's a burden worth holding ♥️

submitted 30 days ago • 51 comments

😳https://youtu.be/YLLxDCC0d9o

submitted 30 days ago • 3 comments

They have no idea what they are doing beyond petulant destruction. They are literally just testing the system to see how far they can go before they meet some resistance. And clearly they can go pretty far.

submitted 30 days ago • 12 comments

On 22 January, Gina Rinehart said: “If we are sensible, we should set up a Department of Government Efficiency On 25 January, Peter Dutton appointed Price as the shadow minister for government efficiency. www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

submitted 32 days ago • 5 comments

Familiar

submitted 33 days ago • 85 comments

Today could be a day for soul-searching. Instead we cling to a distant monarchy in denial of our racist past | Paul Daley

submitted 33 days ago • 5 comments

I wrote this about the media's first big test of Trump 2.0, and how poorly it scored. On the tedious, vital work of seeing what's in front of our faces for the next four years. www.irishexaminer.com/lifestyle-co...

submitted 33 days ago • 19 comments

Speaker Mike Johnson: "I don't know if you saw his executive order on gender, but it defines life as beginning at conception rather than birth." When we said Donald Trump and MAGA were coming after abortion at the federal level, we were right.

submitted 34 days ago • 274 comments

Immediate focus of this is on Ukraine, of course, but the impact is much, much bigger. They’ve paused almost all foreign aid. www.politico.com/news/2025/01...

submitted 34 days ago • 3 comments

This letter to the Australian Women's Weekly from 1978 has straight up ruined my morning

submitted 35 days ago • 14 comments

Let’s fight elections with big ideas, not lies. AI is here but both major parties are dragging their feet in regulating it. We need to protect our democracy & ban deceptive uses of AI in elections. Voters deserve truth from their politicians. www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

submitted 36 days ago • 15 comments

Being a person with deadly, incurable cancer who is nonetheless still alive for an indefinite timeframe gives me an interesting metaphor that helps me deal with things like large-scale corruption in government or commerce. Bear with me for a second while I try to explain.

submitted 38 days ago • 505 comments

Morning all

submitted 36 days ago • 3 comments

What a farce. Dutton & Taylor have just admitted their new tax perks for long lunches policy will extend to golf & movie days for bosses. 3 years in opposition & this is the best they come up with. They still won’t say how much it will cost taxpayers. www.dailytelegraph.com.au/news/nsw/foo...

submitted 36 days ago • 39 comments

Jamelle Bouie. Gift link. www.nytimes.com/2025/01/22/o...

submitted 36 days ago • 11 comments

I wrote a little on Trump, and Musk and the new abnormal ... open.substack.com/pub/greenwor...

submitted 38 days ago • 7 comments

📽️ Elon Musk appears to make two gestures resembling Nazi salutes during celebrations of the presidential inauguration of Donald Trump. www.theguardian.com/p/xxcnpf?CMP...

submitted 38 days ago • 108 comments

There is absolutely no minimum depth for how low media will go here

submitted 38 days ago • 17 comments