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I have a new hero. This owl stole a child's hobby horse and flies around with it!

@melissagiragrant.com on LA: "It’s nearly impossible to figure out what compliance is supposed to look like when police are launching weapons of war on the public. In such a gross imbalance of power, the police are the ones really drawing the lines."

The No Kings protest map will help you find a place to exercise your First Amendment rights this weekend. (It's also a pretty good argument against the Electoral College.) www.nokings.org

“America actually is, at present, an occupied country. . .To the extent that this statement is complicated by the fact that those in power were elected, their conduct in office seems not to be what many of their voters were led to expect or would have chosen.” www.nybooks.com/articles/202...

It would have been nice if people had bothered to read it.

"When it comes to war crimes, the likelihood of hearing a word of truth from the IDF, especially in the hours immediately following the incident, when it's still possible to spread lies, is negligible to nonexistent." www.haaretz.com/opinion/2025...

This parade will cost at least the equivalent of 180 years worth of an NIH biomedical research grant.

In 2020, Trump wanted to use lethal force on protesters. Defense Secretary Mark Esper stopped him. Now, as Los Angeles rises up against ICE, Pete Hegseth leads the Pentagon. This is the scenario many warned about: a president surrounded by yes-men, with no one left to offer restraint.

Trump called the Los Angeles ICE protests “rebellion” Steven Miller: “insurrection” If emergency powers are invoked Trump can use the military Suspend habeas corpus Even put people in concentration camps The images seen in LA have been chilling But what Trump might do next could end democracy

We need more local news & weather folks to be like @johnmoralestv.bsky.social 👇🏽👇🏽👇🏽

Isn’t Israel supposedly in support of a two state solution? Or are they admitting that they will only accept apartheid from the river to the sea?

Netanyahu taps arms smuggler and mercenary Erik Prince to run "humanitarian relief" for Gaza. Very little is known about the private companies contracted by the new Gaza Humanitarian Fund, staffed by CIA, Blackwater and US military personnel, from their funding to their rules of engagement.

The well-known ‘personal time’ exception to bribery.

Sam Maiden in Insiders was right - Allegra Spender should be the Libs shadow Treasurer - heck leader. But the Liberal Party spent a generation ignoring women and pretending climate change is a UN conspiracy. Not sure they are ready to reverse either. - eg see Hastie

PM Albanese uses final week of campaign to make final pitch to voters at National Press Club. #NPC Opposition leader Dutton uses final week of campaign to make final pitch to cookers on Sky After Dark. #ausvotes25

Is any journalist going to mention that when Dutton talks about "young Australians" he never mentions education. Ever. The man has no vision for an intelligent, engaged, educated Australia. He appeals to anger, fear, division and ignorance. #auspol #AusVotes25 #education

One of the most shocking things I have read for a while: t.co/lg46ijHLDF

Stop calling it deporting, so MAYBE more Americans will get it. "Deporting" is sending someone back, after due process, to the country they came from, where they arrive a free person. This is human trafficking to a foreign torture prison for the rest of their lives. GET THE LANGUAGE RIGHT.

🚨JUST IN: China has just CANCELLED all jet orders from American manufacturer Boeing to in response to President Trump hitting the country with tariffs as high as 145% on Chinese goods. China will also no longer purchase any aircraft-related equipment from American companies.

1. The North Carolina Supreme Court just TOSSED 260 BALLOTS in a razor close election for a seat on the same court The ballots were invalidated based on a claim by the Republican candidate that all of voters were "never residents" of North Carolina But that claim is false We have receipts

The Coalition has attacked the teals for voting with the Greens in parliament. What does the data show?

Today Harvard University became the first university to directly refuse to comply with the Trump Administration's demands. @nathanheller.bsky.social reports on the pressure from Washington threatening America’s oldest school—and the soul of higher education.

Jacinta Price has been busy this weekend trying to scrub the evidence of her family MAGA Christmas, deleting a Christmas Day post featuring her whole family wearing MaGA hats on Christmas Day. It has now been deleted from her personal FB page. She missed this one though, wearing her cap in public.

The Oz is in full panic mode

Here is an up to date list of Big Law collaborators along with how much in free legal services they have pledged to Trump's causes. Paul Weiss 40M Cadwalader 100M Milbank 100M Skadden Arps 100M Willkie Farr 100M A&O Shearman 125M Kirkland & Ellis 125M Latham & Watkins 125M Simpson Thacher 125M

When asked what agencies the Coalition will cut if elected, Jacinta Price said "we won't know until we're in government" They don't even know what they want to cut, they just know they want to slash APS jobs & public services for the sake of it www.canberratimes.com.au/story/893922... #auspol

How could a slavery scandal involving the President of the United States be worse than we thought? This extremely long, extremely detailed, and fully sourced PROOF report explains. This—not the tariff war—is the most important story in America right now. I hope you will consider checking it out.

Israel violated the ceasefire it had signed so as to murder 1,500 people, injuring 3,700 others in the process. For 'good' measure, it has also been starving the survivors of food and medicine. And the West continues to fret about Trump's on-off tariffs! www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...

Dutton on foreign students today: "They are taking our houses and causing traffic jams." Dutton next week: "They are eating our cats and dogs" #auspol #qanda #abc730 #insiders #TemuTrump

Sen. Michaelia Cash declares that under a Dutton Coalition Govt, Israeli war criminal Netanyahu would be welcome to visit Australia. So, a Dutton Govt would oppose international law and support genocide. Good to know. 😠 #IsraeliWarCrimes #GazaGenocide #auspol #AusVotes25 youtu.be/Ne7lr7t0HRM?...

He fired the black chairman of the joint chiefs for being woke and hired his brother.