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Founder Social Psychology of Risk. Interested in social politics, culture, human judgement and decision making. Author, academic and presenter.
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Raskin: You are not our king, and we are not your subjects. We will never be your subjects. All of us born here on this land are citizens and your executive order is nothing but bad graffiti on the Constitution, and we're going to wash it off today

Solidarity with all Americans hitting the streets for #NoKingsDay. As an Australian, let me tell you: get rid of that king now or you never will.

Mt Trashmore

C'mon Channel 10 News. You reported on the death of "Dr Prateek Joshi, his wife, and three children" in the Air India crash. In fact, "his wife" Komi Vyas has a name and was also a doctor. Here we are in 2025 and women are still just extensions of their husbands 😠

🔥 Marco Rubio blasts immigrants while hiding his own family’s story: His grandfather, Pedro Victor García, was caught and ordered deported in 1962 after sneaking back into the U.S. No legal record until 1966. For four years, he likely lived here undocumented—until amnesty saved him. SHAME on YOU!

The man who launched an attempted coup on the United States in 2020 and instigated an insurrection at the Capitol that resulted in five deaths now claims that people in Los Angeles are launching an insurrection. They’re not. [Cartoon by Adam Zyglis]

Undocumented immigrants paid an effective federal income tax rate of 5.27% in 2022. That means they paid a higher effective tax rate than 5 of the richest Americans…and a higher effective tax rate than 55 mega corporations. So let me ask you: who are the real freeloaders?

The man quietly spending $1bn on climate action | New Scientist www.newscientist.com/article/2482...

New in @sciencemagazine, a review on Scaling plant responses to heat (www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...). Increased temperature along with acute heat waves threaten the ability of terrestrial vegetation to act as a carbon sink, but predicting how plants will respond to heat is challenging.

Checking in on the final day of Mike Lindell’s trial for claiming he had proof the 2020 election was stolen …

""It's really hard to fathom that the guy making my pizza for 25 years is a gangster and a terrorist, and the person who shows up in an unmarked car wearing a mask and body armor comes to take him away is somehow the good guy," said Simon..." www.wnep.com/article/news...

Bob Costas nailed it. 🎯

A clear majority of Americans are opposed to the US President's army parade, and his handling of immigration and the economy bylinetimes.com/2025/06/12/r...

NEWSOM: "It's a vulgar display. It's the kind of thing you see with Kim Jong Un, Putin, dictators that are weak… How weak do you have to be to commandeer the military for your birthday?“

By now, we've all seen the video of Senator Alex Padilla (D-CA) being forcibly removed and handcuffed for asking a question during Kristi Noem's press conference. But what Noem said just moments before the video was taken is "classic authoritarian red-baiting," points out @davidcorn.bsky.social.

Why is Labor putting us at such risk through AUKUS? No only are they aligning us to a failed democracy - they are also putting us at great risk here at home as our actual required defence systems will be limited. I get the Liberals - as they're corrupt. But Labor? #auspol

Crisis in Middle East. ABC let’s talk to the liberal party

Crockett: I know that there’s been some conversations about what’s going on in LA and they want to say that it’s riots because they didn’t want people to keep talking about the Epstein files

Gov. Pritzker: “It's wrong to deploy the National Guard and active duty Marines into an American city over the objection of local law enforcement, just to inflame a situation and create a crisis.”

My friends, it's not just happening in a galaxy far, far away.

Members of the crossbench have written to Deputy PM and Defence Minister Richard Marles, calling for an urgent parliamentary inquiry into Aukus. In April, polling by @australiainstitute.org.au found 56% of Australians support such a move.

Call your senators, demand they shut the Senate down.

Read these words from Senator Murray, who has said it so well tonight. We’re in danger of losing democracy. Don’t ignore what’s happening. joycevance.substack.com/p/we-are-a-d...

Ditch the Nuclear Submarines and invest in the cheaper and capable German 212 CD class submarines and then develop a Drone Deterrent

New Reform UK chair shown his tweet calling Nigel Farage an idiot independent.co.uk/tv/news/reform-uk-david-bull-nigel-farage-tweet-idiot-b2767836.html

They've arrested, detained, or assaulted a judge, a Mayor, a Congresswoman, a labor leader—and now a U.S. Senator. Imagine what they'll do to you. They are counting on our fear, which is why we must be courageous. If we don't fight back, they will come for all of us.

It’s not a game, dipshit.

Manhandling a sitting US Senator is just the latest in a series of authoritarian moves by this Administration…Silencing your opposition from even asking a question. They do this shit because they think they can get away with it. Be mad. Be outraged. Demand accountability.

No shit

AOC: When they say illegal vs legal immigration—they are trying to end legal status in the US making people undocumented and then they have the audacity to call them illegal when they were here documented.

David Pope in Canberra Times

If they'll do this to a Senator, what will they do to you? The authoritarian moment has arrived in the US.

Newsom: "Speaker Johnson -- his eloquence was elevated when he called to 'tar and feather' the governor of California. Very religious man. I guess that's the spirit. The word of the Lord."

Just so we're all clear: It's not a coincidence that the first senator they've used physical force against is Sen. Alex Padilla, a Latino man representing California.

When a cabinet member announces "We are using the military to liberate an American city from its elected leaders," where do you go from there. What is left to say. The idea of that being anything short of a near-universal "Wait, what the fuck is going on" moment proves how far we've backslid.