I reckon. God. WHAT a relief #auspol
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'People ask why I ran. The truth is that once you've stood beside someone on the worst day of their life after a workplace death, a failed worker's comp claim or a wrongful dismissal, it's hard to unsee that.'
The new Member for Bonner Kara Cook MP is a former domestic violence lawyer, who has spent her professional working life advocating for vulnerable people in her community, and founded the first expert domestic violence law firm in Australia.
Frey: I think the impetus has to be on all of us to recognize that we've got more guns in this country than we have people, and it's on all of us to recognize the truth and the reality that we can't just say that this shouldn't happen again, and then allow it to happen again and again
BREAKING: Labor's bill to Protect penalty rates of 2.6 million workers has passed the Parliament. 🙌
AMERICA: “It’s a mental health issue.” REST OF THE WORLD: “We have those. But don’t have mass shootings.” AMERICA: “It’s video games.” WORLD: “We have those too. But don’t have mass shootings.” AMERICA B: “It’s cause they took Jesus out of the classroom.” WORLD: “God, you’re stupid.”
Americans have no idea how utterly unhinged this gun fetishism looks to the rest of the world.
Psaki: I felt a mixture of anger—a lot of anger—and emotional exhaustion about this today, as I’m sure many of you have, because we have been here so many times. And yet again, like clockwork, half the politicians in our country have little more to offer than thoughts and prayers.
When all is said and done, the very worst punishment ultimately rests on Linda Reynolds. There is nothing more terrifying, no more painful punishment that I can think of, that is worse than this for Reynolds . . . Linda Reynolds has to live the rest of her life being Linda Reynolds.
The military is not a police force, and should never be deployed in American communities against their will. That the President doesn't understand this (or simply doesn't care) shows just how grossly unfit for office he is.
Their announcement has prompted the Australian government to sever ties with Iran, expelling its ambassador and other officials. It marks the first time Australia has expelled an ambassador since World War II. www.abc.net.au/news/2025-08...
I was worried they were starting to get it. It doesn’t appear that will happen anytime soon though.
This post made me research whether Mississippi is gerrymandered. It is. I’ve always wondered how a state with so many Black residents can continue to elect evil white dudes. The Black vote is being suppressed in Mississippi via gerrymandering: www.aclu-ms.org/en/news/figh...
Dear journalists: The President has not fired Lisa Cook. The President is *trying* to illegally fire her. Your words shape people’s reality. Please be accurate in your reporting.
I think firing a Fed Governor and declaring flag burning illegal by royal decree are the two testers of how cooked the Supreme Court really is.
Rick Scott's company defrauded Medicare and Medicaid $1.7 billion. So he still has the record.
Constituent: You talked about abuses in the medicare and medicaid system and I found interesting that the president pardoned someone that defrauded the medicaid system for $1.3 billion
Between Kilmar Abrego Garcia and the DOJ official who tried to extort a plea out of him with threats of trafficking him to Uganda, there is someone who committed a crime. But that someone isn't Kilmar Abrego Garcia.
Walz: "It boggles my damn mind that in the midst of a military takeover of our cities, the flaunting of the rule of law, that the press finds the need to talk about, 'Oh, there's a division in the Dem Party.' There's a division in my damn house & we're still married and things are good. That's life"
BREAKING: VETERAN'S BEGIN A SIT-IN IN WASHINGTON DC AND WON'T STOP UNTIL THE MILITARY LEAVES TOWN
When a person commits a crime, they wear a mask. A perfect example is an ICE agent.
"To the members of the press who are assembled here today and listening across the country – I am asking for your courage to tell it like it is. This is not a time to pretend here that there are two sides to this story." Governor JB Pritzker
New Jersey Attorney General Platkin: As I sit here today, I don’t know who is in charge of the U.S. Attorney’s Office in my state…
I hope they get a TRO to stop DHS from sending him to Uganda
Walz says Harris "would have been a fantastic president... we wouldn't wake up every day to a bunch of shit on TV. We would wake up to an adult w/ compassion & dignity doing the work, not a manchild crying about whatever is wrong with him. May his fat ankles find something today. Petty as hell."
Judge Xinis: Your clients are *absolutely forbidden* from removing Mr. Abrego from the continental United States. You understand this? DOJ: Yes.
🚨BREAKING: 3rd Circuit REJECTS RNC motion to pause ruling requiring Pennsylvania counties to count undated/wrongly dated ballots. This means counties cannot reject undated and wrongly dated ballots while the case continues on appeal. Congrats to our clients DSCC and DCCC!
I’ve heard military law experts advise, if you are given an illegal command as a soldier, do not blindly obey. Call your attorney. Obeying an illegal command can result in a court martial.
The barbarity of the president’s extreme mass deportation policies will leave a stain that lasts for generations. It was never about removing violent criminals. It’s about harassing immigrant communities, as this mother and legal resident can attest. www.masslive.com/news/2025/08...
popularresistance.org/la-unites-to...
Words cannot adequately describe what a colossal disappointment our mainstream media has been during our slow descent into authoritarianism.
Pritzker: To the members of the press who are assembled here today and listening across the country, I am asking for your courage to tell it like it is. This is not a time to pretend here that there are two sides to this story.
holy shit
Dems should swap out Hakeem Jeffries with Jasmine Crockett. They need that kind of fire.
BREAKING: @marcelias.bsky.social's law firm is seeking a preliminary injunction to prevent Texas' map (which violates the Voting Rights Act) from going into effect once signed into law by Abbott
Florida bans "The Diary of Anne Frank" in school libraries. Whoever made this decision should have to eat every page of that amazing book, page by page.
Ringling Museum of Art. #archive #photogrpahy #warm #Architecture
The govt will love this, so always remember - the LNP are irrelevant. Being “better” than the LNP is also irrelevant. www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
Gavin Newsom beating Trump BADLY at his own social media game. Keep it up Gavin and Camille Zapata 💙💪💙
It isn’t normal for a president to repeatedly threaten the use of military force against American citizens. Treating the National Guard as a political pawn disrespects those who serve and undermines public trust in our military.
Whoopsy
www.theguardian.com/world/ng-int... Let's discuss... #propaganda
I wasn't overreacting.
Why? Need you ask? RACISM is why. #nzpol www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...
Day in, day out, I speak to ordinary people who are organising to welcome the asylum seekers accommodated in their towns. They befriend, support them, reach out to them as fellow human beings. That's the Britain I know, the one I see around me & we never get told about on TV.
Gavin Newsom’s late-night message to Fox
Kitty trolling. 😸😸😸😸
Not even both Bush Presidents did this.
The Northern Virginia school systems are on firm legal grounds. The President cannot change the law by executive order. www.washingtonpost.com/education/20...
Rep. Jeff Van Drew claims he’s spoken to “large numbers” of dead people who had mail ballots sent to them
A beatdown in broad daylight was caught on video: Masked men in tactical vests grappled, tased, and piled onto a delivery worker. Pinning the worker face down on the pavement, agents tased him again and punched him repeatedly in the head.
🇺🇸 National Guard soldier speaks out: “I swore an oath to defend our constitution… seeking refuge is not an act of violence. Locking people up for it is.”
Reminder that Putin has never said he wants a trilateral meeting, had never said he would respect Ukrainian sovereignty, and has never said he wants to end the war. Not to be a downer, but the discussion of security guarantees is premature.
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No lies detected from De Niro. Don’t forget to subscribe: www.dworkinsubstack.com/subscribe
Don't fuck with Bob Woodward. 😂
Its military occupation theatre. They want to do this in all blue cities (they don’t have the numbers for it though because the US military is in a real crisis). Its a social dominance show for the rural base.
🤭🤭🤭
Yes, truly incredible.
I have a couple choice words for this bozo. Separation of church & state.
😂😂😂😂😂
legit laughing my ass off
The concentration of wealth in the hands of a few isn't just bad for our economy. It's corrosive to our democracy. When the wealthy and well-connected control our political system, regular people don't have a voice. The result? The demagoguery and corruption we're seeing now.
Life comes at you fast
Please watch and share. Ukraine is winning Ukraine Is Beating Russia: What Putin Doesn't Want You to Know youtu.be/JThTysIZfFc
The Kennedy Center has dropped the family who made the Honors medallions for 47 years and who were the definition of a family business. @janaykingsberry.bsky.social spoke to them (and I offered some meager assistance). Take a look: washingtonpost.com/entertainmen...
Fox News falls for it hook, line, and sinker.
Snort
They get to endure what we’ve had to for ten years.
D.C. TODAY…
Dr Assal Rad— “𝘋𝘪𝘦𝘴 𝘰𝘧 𝘮𝘢𝘭𝘯𝘶𝘵𝘳𝘪𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯 “You might want to mention that she was STARVED TO DEATH BY ISRAEL.”
How about that? A victory for people who actually read.
@gavinnewsom.bsky.social held a perfect press conference today, top to bottom. Made the point over & over that our CA ballot measure to fight Trump will be temporary thru 2030 & that we will not unilaterally disarm. I will devote the next 2 1/2 months to winning here in CA. FIGHT!!!
Really John Barron, Planet America ABC Australia, 'Clipped by a bullet'. You're still going with that outrageous bullshit fake assassination attempt.
They see nothing wrong with it.
This. I generally avoid eating inside. Friends understand this and we'll eat in beer gardens, footpath dining, etc.
"He stiffs contractors. He announces tariffs and calls them 'deals.' He shakes down an ally for its minerals and calls it a 'partnership.' He tells a victim nation to cede land and calls it a 'swap.'" He doesn't understand consent in *any* context.
NOW: I found the Newsom Election Rigging Response Act presser on YouTube: www.youtube.com/live/io2Hutl...
Love this.
FAFO! Those the jobs they claimed they wanted! I applaud them for going out there, but how many r really wiling to stick it out to GET better? Immigrants didn’t HAVE a choice. They HAD to work
Today's stock market because Epstein, the virus spread because Epstein,when Ice arrived Epstein, and the plane fell out of the sky Epstein, and everyone said it's Epstein. This meant that Epstein could only Epstein when all the evidence was added up Epstein was the only name. Release Epstein files !
Impeach & Incarcerate scrump, vance, hegseth, rfk, bondi, garland, mcconel, mtg, desantis, rubio, boebert, turd cruz, gabbard, johnson & desantis. Impeach All RepubliKKKlans! Impeach Scotus, senators & representatives, Ice & KKKabinet!!!! Dump sKKKrump Melt ICE Elimenate republiKKKlanz Export musk!
Whether you’re from L.A. or not, you remember Hollywood’s Madam, Heidi Fleiss. I used to see her out in the streets living her best life but knew it would eventually end. She was convicted of tax evasion in Sept 1996. Do you think she has receipts on the Pedo-Pres.? 🤔 #SheShed #Pinks
All the cities Trump has threatened to send in the National Guard have three things in common: 1. They have a black mayor. 2. They are Democrats. 3. They have a significant minority population. See the pattern here? theaimn.net/is-trumps-na...
Omg, criminals throw sandwiches in D.C., send in the military.
Early-ish release of the New Politics podcast for Substack subscribers and preview of what’s on tomorrow. A state of Palestine and the price of fearless journalism. When will Israel stop killing journalists? LISTEN IN, SHARE, SUBSCRIBE. #AUSPOL @dlew919.bsky.social open.substack.com/pub/newpolit...
Finally, a Democrat who gets what's going on and who has enough of a spine to do what needs to be done.
Can I Get A “Hell Yeah?” 😉😉😉
@gavinnewsom.bsky.social: "I think he should start with Shreveport, Louisiana, and Speaker Johnson's district that has 6x the per capita murder rate of Nancy Pelosi's San Francisco. What about the carnage, Mr. President, in Shreveport? Why aren't you protecting the folks there? What bullshit."
Irrespective of how you think of Newsom, I think he could be right in his strategy against Trump. Fight fire with fire. Do not keep quiet and do not back down.
JUDGE: “Treating attendance in immigration court as a game of detention roulette is not consistent with the constitutional guarantee of due process.” www.rawstory.com/judge-267388...
This is what fascism IS. There’s no ‘rising’ about it…
Just saying!
Gavin Newsom: “Wake up America. You will not have a country if he rigs this election. These guys are not screwing around. The most corrupt president in history. He is wrecking this country, wrecking the economy. He is a lawless president. Wake up America.”