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Former American lawyer. Current Australian teacher. Lifelong Chicago Cubs fan. Views my own.
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Cartoonist Ann Telnaes goes out in a blaze of glory, winning the Pulitzer Prize for her final year of work at The Washington Post. Bravo, Ann! www.pulitzer.org/winners/2268...

This will help the LNP to endear themselves to women voters, comparing the 1 in 3 of us who have terminated a pregnancy with Nazis. Keep it up guys. www.smh.com.au/politics/nsw...

Do your job, Sean.

The Liberal Party Paradox is that they have moved away from their evidence-based, pro small bus base (moderate) to populist policy (right). But it's mostly the moderates losing their seats. So the populist echo chamber, the cavern between the LNP and reality, is only growing. #auspol

Trying to sort out Sky News logic. Labor were woke sending us broke. LNP also too woke and needed to go full Trump to win. So the people voted for the more woke of the 2. Got it. Sky are as dumb as their audience #auspol

I move the member no longer be heard... from ever again. Bye bye potato. #Auspol

Jokes aside. I’m so happy that the Australian electorate has given a very resounding no to Trumpism and the move to extreme right politics that we’re seeing across large parts of the world. Hopefully the media stop giving air time to neo nazi and extreme right 💩 heads and talking points #auspol

My take on last night’s extraordinary result www.abc.net.au/news/2025-05...

Yo, did Australia’s right wing party ALSO lose BOTH the election AND their leader’s seat in parliament? Hilarious. 🇨🇦 🤜🏻🤛🏻 🇦🇺

Wishlist for tonight: - Labor returned with increased majority - Fiona Patten (Legalise Cannabis) beats some right wing freak to get senate spot in Victoria - Ali France beats Dutton in Dickson - Zoe Daniel hands Tim Wilson his ass *for the second time* in Goldstein #auspol

Never underestimate the intelligence of the Australian people unless you are a far right media commentator. #ausvotes25 #auspol www.theguardian.com/media/commen...

Canada, we’re with you! TRUMPISM IS REPUDIATED IN AUSTRALIA! #auspol

Tonight, Australia voted No to ignorance & Yes to Acknowledgement; No to xenophobia & Yes to Welcomes; No to regression & Yes to progress. Peter Dutton, Jacinta Price, Clive Palmer, Pauline Hanson, the IPA & Advance henceforth have no mandate. They’ve been thoroughly told NO.

A reflection on the 2025 Australian Federal Election (THREAD): #auspol #ausvotes I think the theme has been one of complete rejection of "extreme" views. The right wing has been rejected - there is no place in Australia for the divisiveness that is a hallmark of the current approach." ... 1/10

"Australians are not who Peter Dutton thought we were" (maybe you can tell that to your boss, Sam Maiden) #auspol #AustraliaVotes2025 #InsidersABC

Andrew Bolt says the voters are wrong 😂 #auspol

Great election result last night shows that Australian voters are truly awake and interested in the state of the nation and the world. Most heartening is Australia’s refusal to race to the fascist right. #auspol #elections #australia

Dutton: I will never stand in front of the Aboriginal flag. Australia: Let me help you with that… www.sbs.com.au/nitv/article... #auspol

Excellent and factual, wish I would have seen this earlier to share in time. Nevertheless, have read and yes, keep sharing and check out the highlighted links. #auspol #AusVotes2025 #BinNight

#auspol #Election2025

My local voting places are absolutely COVERED IN PLASTIC POLUTION as far as the eye can see. You'll never guess which colour it is 🧐 #auspol

A vote for The Thug is also a vote for the most witless, vacuous, incompetent front bench in living memory: Angus Taylor, Sussssan Ley, Barnaby Joyce, Jane Hume, Michaelia Cash, James Paterson…what an appalling thought.

let's gooooo

Vote Labor today for 5% deposits for first home buyers. Vote Labor for 20% off all student debt. Vote Labor for lower taxes. Vote Labor to keep building Australia's future together.

How things are going in the US👇 Take note of the warning #auspol and put the Liberal party last on your ballot paper tomorrow 🗳️

Dutton keeps telling a big fat lie. The LNP do NOT manage the economy well. They stuffed us up well and truly last time they got in. They cut services and sold off our assets. The don’t give a toss about wage earners and anyone on welfare. I don’t trust a word they say

Omg #auspol why the FUCK do so many people think Labor and LNP are "just as bad as each other"? It's like comparing Canada to America and saying they are both the same. Do they not understand how important it is to know what you are actually voting for? www.abc.net.au/news/2025-04...

What are they getting for this? #IfYouDontKnowVoteNo, #auspol. #PutLNPLast.

Dutton said he doesn’t know if climate change is real because he’s not a scientist. Are heart attacks and cancer not real because he’s not a cardiologist or an oncologist? We cannot elect a leader for which objective facts are for sale to the highest bidder. #auspol #LNP

Dutton is imitating a want-to-be dictator Trump. His politics are fear & division. He has no plan to help everyday people. He wants to derail climate action & is promising to serve the political interests of Murdoch, Palmer, Hanson & his special friend Gina Rinehart. #auspol

Meanwhile, in Canada…

Advance is the Liberal Party. #AusPol Vote every Liberal out.

We saw the storm brewing a mile away.

This exactly! 👇👇 A lot of the funds from Climate 200 come from small donations from people like me - unlike the dark money to the major parties. #AusPol

3 more sleeps and we get to repudiate Trumpism in Australia.

#abc continues to amplify Murdoch’s 40 year campaign to foster voters’s distrust in politicians. Tonight rather than interview voters who are confident in their choices 7.30 interviewed the disillusioned. Its reporters don’t blame themselves for the charge that ‘policies hadn’t cut through’. #Auspol

Paying criminals? stay classy LNP #AusPol #LNPhatesWomen #WomenVote

Liberal party using PAID ACTORS!! One appeared in a Thor movie!!!

So much for Brooklyn Born Chocolate

“He is granting audiences to people who buy his meme coin. When the sitting president of the United States is selling access for what are effectively payments directly to him. There is no question that that rises to the level of an impeachable offense.” Sen. Jon Ossoff

Bugger the debate - just read @amyremeikis.bsky.social’s weekly column instead www.thenewdaily.com.au/news/politic...

#TemuTrump is getting more hysterical #auspol

Dear alternative Prime Minister Peter Dutton: Neither the ABC nor Guardian Australia is “the hate media” as you assert. This is an egregious smear/incitement. A robust liberal democracy needs a free and questioning media. By misrepresenting ABC/Guardian you expose your illiberalism.

If you think a just-fertilized ovary is entitled to life but are indifferent to what happens to a kidnapped 4-year-old with cancer, sent to a dangerous country without meds, you don’t give a fuck about the lives of children. You are just in a cult that fetishizes being against abortions.

“For Dutton, Senator Jacinta Price has given cover to Australians to feel like ‘it’s OK to be racist’ - because an Indigenous person is pushing colonialist views.” @amyremeikis.bsky.social #SundayShot #auspol

More reasons NOT to trust the LNP! Everyday they’re hiding and lying more and more. “We will announce these costs/cuts if we win government”. Who is stupid enough to trust any party with that slimy bullshit?

Every time I think this bunch has hit rock bottom, it turns out that no, there actually is no bottom - nothing that is too low, too cruel, too depraved....