Thousands of Tesla SUVs recalled in Australia over software fault that ‘can increase risk of injury’
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Thousands of Tesla SUVs recalled in Australia over software fault that ‘can increase risk of injury’
This isn’t politics. It’s not left or right. It’s not conservative or liberal. Cutting funding to treat children with brain cancer is hate and greed.
Yes.
RANKING - MOST VIOLENT CRIME US STATES TOP 10 - 2025 YTD 1. Alaska, 2. Arkansas, 3. Louisiana, 4. Colorado, 5. Tennessee, 6. New Mexico, 7. Texas, 8. Missouri, 9. South Carolina, 10. Florida.
AP: “Florida could be on the hook for $218 million… Alligator Alcatraz may soon be completely empty as a judge upheld her decision late Wednesday ordering operations to wind down indefinitely…” apnews.com/article/flor...
Epstein & Maxwell were guilty sexual assault & human trafficking. Their victims were not underage women. They were children. Their victims weren’t subjected to non-consensual sex. They were raped. Epstein & Maxwell were raping children at the time this photo was taken. TRUMP WAS THEIR FRIEND!
Absolute arseholes!
There's only one way to stop the rumors about Donald Trump's health: a press conference. Why won't he talk to the press, and why isn't the media doggedly demanding it?
donald trump has been convicted of more felonies than 99.9% of Washington DC residents.
No shortage of police at the anti-immigrant, racist, Nazi rally in Naarm/Melbourne yesterday Yet the Nazis managed to attack peaceful Camp Sovereignty (at so-called King's Domain) & has anyone heard from Special Envoy Segal about actual Nazis in our streets❓
An upcoming news conference with victims of Jeffrey Epstein could be “explosive,” one of the congressmen pushing for full release of the files on Epstein predicts. Democratic Rep. Ro Khanna said the victims’ accounts will force lawmakers to vote on a bill requiring DOJ to release its files.
Despicable c/u/n/t/s! www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
Nobody actually saw Trump golfing today.
@margaretatwood.bsky.social is a goddamn national treasure.
Where’s all the hysterical media coverage on the violent Neo Nazi hate crime against First Nations people at Camp Sovereignty? Gone quiet now. Is that because it’s not at a synagogue?
Even Grok isn’t buying it Tariffs are a tax on you
#NPR Excellent talk today.
A group of white people from immigrant backgrounds have demanded that people like them should "go back to where they came from" chaser.com.au/general-news...
California stepping up.
Can the media STOP referring to Jeffrey Epstein as a “financier”? The money he made came from SEX TRAFFICKING MINORS, RAPING CHILDREN, and BLACKMAIL. He was NOT a financier. I’ve seen at least five stories from three outlets refer to him this way in the past week. This is the latest from the Times:
IT’S ALL NATIVE LAND!
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ABC News' one-time favourite LNP spruiker Jane Hume was on the telly this morning rattling on abt a new energy policy (that includes renewables) & saying Labor's plan won't work (predictable). Can't find any reference to it on ABC News or RN channels. Strange, eh.
Why hasn’t the media asked anyone in government where the fuck our special envoy to tackle Antisemitism is?
Everything we take for granted — weekends, paid vacations, sick leave, safer workplaces, health care — exists because of unions.
Note about the racist marches yesterday (with actual Nazis!) and the conspicuous silence from the antisemitism alarmists: if the enemy of your enemy is a racist, and you have somehow concluded that that makes the racist your friend, congratulations you are a racist too.
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"The straw man being put forward is that it's either we have the military or we're going to get our throats cut at night in DC. Is there no middle ground? Do local law enforcement account for nothing? We've got the National Guard GARDENING right now in DC. Is that an efficient use of our resources?"
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Hey! Just icymi: FEMA is now evicting THOUSANDS of Hurricane Helene survivors Our government hates us. And millions voted for this degree of brutality and cruelty. Why?
Today, 31 August, we celebrate the International Day for People of African Descent. A day to honor the rich heritage, culture, and invaluable contributions of people of African descent worldwide, while reaffirming the global commitment to equality, justice, and human rights. #AfricanDescent
Agree.
A WA cop who laughed at Indigenous prisoner's suicide threat has been suspended. What is wrong with these people? War on Australia's Indigenous people must be world's longest running war (began with Whitefella invasion from 1788).
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-09... Poisoning us “leaking pollutants equal to 8,300 new cars on the road every year it is in use… …Darwin Liquified Natural Gas plant (DLNG) is set for a new lease of life in the hands of gas giant #Santos as part of the controversial $5.6 billion Barossa project.”
Look at this graph. The share of national income going to the richest 10 percent was lowest (and share to lower 90 percent highest) when union membership was at its highest. As unions have weakened, inequality has widened. This is why we must build back union power.
He obviously knows where he’s going.
"Nobody wants to be a cop [in DC]. They were abused. They were spit on." "When you when you say they were abused and spit on, I'm assuming you're talking about January 6th, correct?" "All you guys want to do was bring up J6 about the answer to everything."
Victoria's wanted fugitive Dezi Freeman (free man) was previously known as Desmond Filby. New name reflected his political convictions.
Amen! Release the EPSTEIN FILES!
🙃 #GavinNewsom #EpsteinFiles
They're releasing the Epstein files?
I find it strange there’s been so little of this kind of truth-telling coming from influential pro-Israel Australians, especially those supposedly who are liberal and democratic. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/30/o...
For decades, Republicans in Washington have told us that tax cuts would trickle down to workers. Instead, wealth and power have accumulated in the hands of the richest 1% at the expense of the rest of us. Trickle-down economics was never supposed to work. It was a hoax.
If Missouri Republicans mid-cycle redistrict and break the law, they will be sued. That is a promise and I don't bluff. Just ask Texas. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
How bad does property price growth have to get before Labor reverses the special capital gains tax concession that John Howard introduced to such damaging effect? Chris Wallace on Labor’s expanded housing policy. satpa.pe/JQvsalM
Change world to trump and it suddenly makes sense.
"—the EU & the BRICS should tell the US firmly & clearly the future world order is not based on hegemony, but on the rule of law under the UN Charter. That is the only path to Europe’s, & the world’s, true security. Dependency on the US & NATO is a cruel illusion—" johnmenadue.com/post/2025/08...
I hope you find my new book helpful for understanding the time we’re in, how we combat the bullies, and why I believe so passionately that we will succeed. Here's a bit more on why I wrote it.
JD Vance on Donald Trump: “I’m a Never Trump guy. I never liked him. I don’t think he’s the person. I don’t think he cares about folks. I think that he’s noxious and is leading the white working class to a very dark place.” { ht: @marcofoster.bsky.social }
MAGA: "Go woke, go br—oh, never mind. . ."
Asylum seekers do not have collective guilt for the sexual misdemeanours of one of their number. #bbcaq
Banning books instead of guns is exactly what radicalized me.
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Corporate America’s playbook: 1) Exploit workers to maximize profits 2) Use profits to buy Congress 3) Use Congress to pass union-busting laws 4) Use these laws to further exploit workers 5) Repeat Let's break the cycle and keep building back a powerful labor movement.
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There's always stuff we don't know.
Editorial: Linda Reynolds sent confidential documents related to Higgins to a columnist at News Corp because she was “incredibly angry”. She referred a settlement paid to Higgins to the National Anti-Corruption Commission. satpa.pe/26dwgto
2 Presidents 1 Nobel Peace Prize 1 Presidential Medal Of Freedom 1 Affordable Care Act 1 Inflation Reduction Act 1 Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act 28.1 million jobs added Zero indictments Zero convictions Zero impeachments Loved and respected by billions
The face of Smallpox. This poor child died a couple days after this photo was taken. Vaccine Science rendered Smallpox extinct in the “wild”, but it still exists in Biohazard Labs. What if it gets accidentally or purposely released? Today’s kids are NOT immune! Young adults are NOT immune!
CARTOON OF THE DAY (From @mluckovichajc)
"RFK Jr: We need to stop trusting the experts... Trusting the experts is not a feature of science or democracy...it's a feature of religion and totalitarianism." Were he not a Kennedy...and wealthy...he'd likely be living his life out in a mental institution. Diagnosis: Dumb-Fuckery.
SIGNS OF FASCISM 🪧
The Guardian has a piece about Reform's 1st 100 days running local councils. One guy when asked why he was a Reform voters said look what Labour done in a year, apparently nothing good. Labour has completed or is in the process of completing 69% of its manifesto pledges, why isn't this reported?
Su: The BLS collects statistical information — things like the nation’s inflation rate, the unemployment rate, the number of jobs created, which industries are growing, and which are contracting. And on every one of those fronts, Trump is failing.
Join the more than 430,000 people who have signed up for Democracy Docket. Even better, join the 50,000 who help support the 20 person team by becoming a premium member! Free or premium, if you are not paying attention to the courts you are not paying attention to democracy. hubs.ly/Q03jcjqP0
The way that housing co-ops work in Switzerland may seem foreign to many. But the central idea is simple: What if homeownership had no profit motive and no capital gains? Advocates say their model could reshape how the world thinks about affordable housing. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/26/r...
Nothing says respect for our troops like deploying the National Guard only to have them pick up trash and spread mulch all day.
“…I am infuriated that the Air Force plans to grant military funeral honors to Ashli Babbitt. She did not die defending the Constitution. She died trying to overturn it.” My latest in @thebulwark.com www.thebulwark.com/p/honoring-a...
OK, this one he wrote.
The media has spent a year Labour and Starmer bashing. The blaming of a party which has been in power for just over a year for 14 years of Tory failure and misrule is reaping dividends for Farage. The hysteria from left and right over asylum seekers is beyond ridiculous, where's it going to end.
“The CDC you knew is over,” Dr. Demetre Daskalakis told me today. “Unless someone takes radical action, there is nothing there that can be salvaged.” www.advocate.com/politics/dem...
Ha. Haha. Haaa. I get it.
Jones: I would say to my colleagues who serve in government—keep your thoughts and prayers, keep your tweets. If you want to address gun violence, you don't need to tweet. What you need is a mirror. You have the power to change things.
My dear friend was visiting from the US. I mentioned how many people I know in our area with Covid this summer and she gasped. "You have Covid here still? I can't believe you still have Covid!" I checked her city wastewater report. They definitely still have Covid. They just don't know it. 😬
What Bernie Said: The brain-worm conspiracy monger needs to resign. He won't, but he ought to. We must work to get him out. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/30/o...
Unbelievably bad. “The CDC you knew is over. Unless someone takes radical action, there is nothing there that can be salvaged.” www.advocate.com/politics/dem...
Sam Maiden, thanks for the complex background to Bob Katter, but he’s an adult who bears responsibility for his behaviour, and if he is so troubled by this aspect of his identity, he should get proper help and not make others carry the cost. #insiders
"She did not die defending the Constitution. She died trying to overturn it. She was not protecting lives at a gate in Iraq; she was forcing her way through windows in the Capitol to stop the peaceful transfer of power." New from @markhertling.bsky.social:
#bookban #UCP
California is getting safer. Homicides down 20% Robberies down 19% All within this year. And we're deploying CHP officers to more regions across the state to keep this momentum going.
What happens after someone goes through drug treatment for 30/60/90 days? Some have nowhere to live and that’s why there’s now such an emphasis on housing in BC Others have trouble finding work, and most struggle with relapse The final installment in my series: www.ctvnews.ca/vancouver/ar...
So, basically, desantarse is supporting mass murder.
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And now I want to go to my local bakery, but that voice has put me to zzzzz.
"Eight hours labour, Eight hours recreation, Eight hours rest.” Labor Day weekend in the U.S. and Canada commemorates the contributions of workers, rooted in the labor movement’s struggle for fair working hours and conditions.
He can pretend to be dead all he wants. I still want the Epstein files released.
Tell your own Senators and Representatives to stand up. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/30/o...
What a ridiculous person.
Jones: I want to bring theology into this because you have all these people that want to give thoughts and prayers. But I was a minister, and that is a form of theological malpractice—when you pray for something you have the power to change.
Daily Reminder: Social Security is OUR money!