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Can it get any better than this? Around 6.30pm Thurs: Daily Telegraph gets put to bed, with a #NewsCorpse wet dream front page: 12,500 Muslim immigrants "fast tracked" for citizenship so, it's implied, they can vote Labor. ↙️ 7.40pm (see red arrow): story blown out of the water by rival SMH. ↘️ 🤌

This is incredibly smart by @ryanhatesthis.bsky.social, a lesson Democrats have to learn fast. There will be no a-ha moment for the electorate. You can't wait around for people to realize how bad it is if they'll invariably wind up blaming the Reverse Vampires. You just have to fight, right now.

Pence, at least, retains a vestige of decency.

Resisting comes in all forms. Here is a very creative one starting to pop up.

1. A few years ago, people like me were widely attacked in the media for “declinism”. How could we fail to see that we were heading into a capitalist utopia, in which everything would keep getting better? This is a thread about what we could see that our critics could not. 🧵

hearing the opinion of Liberal Party politicians on interest rates are what matters this week. You know like what Liberal Party politicians said about debt and deficit mattered most in 2013 after a global financial crisis caused by their co-religionists from 2008. Thanks, press gallery journalists!

The thought of Dutton as a PM is absolutely terrifying. If you’re an LNP voter - why? Are you aware of the corruption, pork barrelling, dog whistling, flat out lies? Deceit? No one knew. Ha!#women and all of us deserve a better go. #LNPNeverAgain #auspol

When people ask how is Israel inciting antisemitism around the world, this is how. The glorious Star of David, a symbol of one of the great Abrahamic faiths, being used by a rogue state as cover for its torture and abuse of Palestinian prisoners, detainees, and hostages.

Circulated footage shows dozens of Palestinian detainees dressed in shirts bearing the Star of David and the slogan “We will never forget, we will never forgive” before being released from Ofer Prison as part of the sixth batch of the prisoner exchange.

Neo-Nazi terrorist and convicted mass murderer Anders Breivik, who killed 77 people in Norway in 2011, cited this same Napoleon quote in his manifesto.

It is the job of the artist to provoke, to be controversial, to be outspoken, to get us to think. Isn't that one of the main points of art? If we start cancelling every artist because they "create debate" then who the hell are we as a society? Craven cowards. www.theguardian.com/artanddesign...

We should all be aware of this stuff.

Orcas swimming under the northern lights of Norway.

Dave's done it again. Here's my cartoon for the piece.

Good morning to this man, and this man only #bbcqt

Just awesome that the tech bros that Elon Musk is using to dive into some of America's most closely guarded computer systems can't even secure their own website. doge.gov/workforce?or...

It says something that there is no public clamour for a government response to the Daily Telegraph’s ‘undercoverjew’ operation. This is because the only source of public clamour in this country is news corp.

Isn’t it time we had this conversation? Join hundreds of Australians who have signed in the first 24 hours. #auspol www.aph.gov.au/e-petitions/...

We’re still getting our submarines though, right?

The Indigenous People of North America have decided to go back to calling the Gulf of Mexico, “Chalchiuhtlicueyecatl”. It is what the Nahuatl People originally called it as it is the domain of the goddess Chalchiuhtlicue, who is assoc w/water bodies, including the Gulf of Mexico.

There’s a viral IG post of some MAGA troll citing 10 projects DOGE cancelled because they cost a combined $15.4M. The troll presents it as an example of how DOGE is “increasing efficiency.” Here’s the thing — that's less than 2 days of corporate welfare given to Elon Musk for his companies. 1/4

WikiTok! Scroll Wikipedia like it’s TikTok

I watched this video this morning and it really has been instructive for understanding, well, a lot of behavior. youtu.be/bNOol5OTasw

Internal files seen by Crikey show the Daily Telegraph planned to use covert video-recording eyewear in the making of the story, which it internally named “UNDERCOVERJEW” and sketched out a week in advance.