Hell Australia hasn’t even managed to prosecute anyone for Robodebt since regime change despite promises. Reckonings don’t seem to be a thingcc bc anymore. Politicians all scared of being tarred with the same brush?
Netflix just gave Gavin Newsom 2 million for the redistricting fight and made a deal with Sesame Street. New episodes will air there and the backlog of old episodes will Be free to watch. Netflix picked a side. I will keep my subscription.
Bridget McKenzie can’t bear to listen & ends up scolded after asking about social cohesion when she just voted against a motion that says Australia welcomes “different races, religions & views…” Penny Wong “You voted against that so don’t address me about social cohesion!”🔥 #QT
Thomas Sewell is a very dangerous man. That he can turn up threatening the premier two days after being filmed attacking Camp Sovereignty and he still isn't arrested is quite something.
We set the precedent
JUST IN: Donald Trump revoked former VP Kamala Harris’ Secret Service protection-CNN A petty, vindictive move from a small man.
Republicans are trying to redraw congressional district lines to keep their grip on Congress in the midterms and beyond. Voters should pick their politicians, not the other way around. Get involved with the @democraticredistricting.com as they fight back: bit.ly/3HJ1ayW
I hope Mother Nature does what she is predicted to do to them
Massive walkout underway at CDC. RFK jr. must resign so that we can be safe.
Given what's happening in the world today, I played #Skyhooks #HorrorMovie as a tribute to Shirl Strachan, who passed away 29Aug2001. 🎶 #auspol #JournalismMatters #USPolitics #MinneapolisSchoolShooting #SlavaUkraini #FreePalestine #IsraeliWarCrimes #GazaGenocide youtu.be/XljmO_KPQaM?...
It’s being funded by Advance, right here in Australia.
Call to Activism - Joe Gallina “Holy shit. Lisa Kurdrow did an impression of every Republican and it’s absolutely perfect. This needs to go viral.”
Great work, AFL. You found an act no one in the stadium will know any of his songs, and who is a homophobe right at the moment that is the major issue of the game. www.avclub.com/snoop-dogg-s...
Someone who’s on the Epstein list I guess
Chris Bowen destroys the Coalition on Net Zero, slamming Matt Canavan for calling it a “a great socialist plan” “It’s about somebody stood up to those Socialists in the Morrison-Joyce govt who embarked on the policy of Net Zero”🔥🤣 #QT
Whoopsy
They want us fighting so we never notice who is stealing from us all. Don’t get lost in the circus.
Oh for sure. I can see that. And it’s quite brilliant. Just seems a bit of a dangerous path in my view. I hope I’m wrong.
From outside the US, it seems to me Newsom is just another massive male ego. Surely the cult of personality is what has landed the country where it is now!
I’ve seen so many people spreading the misinformation that PBS is shut down or is shutting down. The Corporation for Public Broadcasting has been shut down and PBS has been defunded. HOWEVER!!! PBS still exists. It is more important now than ever that you donate to PBS if you can.
Donald Trump says he is going to deploy the National Guard to Chicago. This is what weak men do to pretend they’re strong. Stay safe, stand with your community, and most importantly, know your rights:
Newsom’s Twitter troll is genius because pleading and crying in front of an authoritarian does nothing, but pointing and laughing enrages the authoritarian.
Paywall
Thanks
It is very nearly the tenth anniversary of that brief moment when, for 2 or 3 days, British newspapers remembered refugees are desperate human beings who need our help, rather than scum that it's okay to threaten with violence.
Asking From outside the US, why can’t they?
AOC?
A rainbow crosswalk in Orlando that was part of the city’s Pulse Memorial was painted over by the state last night at the order of Ron DeSantis. The memorial honored the 49 people fatally shot by a gunman at the Pulse LGBTQ nightclub in 2016 — the largest mass shooting in the country at the time.
Thanks. Faceless ones apparently.
We really need to change this. Politics shouldn’t just be a career path to lobbying www.abc.net.au/news/2025-08...
They’re lighting democracy on fire.
It's a cheese anyway. Not even exclusive
From outside the US, why do they have 'Police' on their backs? They aren't cops right?
AOC has been forever but gets so little coverage. Because ethno and woman?
I don't love it as I think the cult of personality is what got you (the USA) where is is now. But if his intentions are genuine and it smases Project 25 then great. However I just feel it won't end well. Men with giant sized egos never do good in the end
Swalwell on Trump: "Who is this guy? Is he a publicist for slavery? ... he makes our children less educated."
Australia’s peak Jewish group condemns Netanyahu’s ‘clumsy’ attack on Albanese and calls for end to ‘spat’
Even the very right wing Italian
Looks like Costanza’s crazy boss in Seinfeld
Well that sure ain’t news.
This was a few years ago- the show doesn’t exist anymore. But still the point made is 💯
Crow: "Look at what happened. US military personnel in uniform literally were on hands & knees rolling out a red carpet for the most murderous dictator of the 21st century...we keep on acting like Putin deserves to be brought out in open like any of head of state. This is a historic embarrassment."
#SlavaUkraini 🇺🇦
So sad. It must have been so hard for 'Moj' to write this. www.theguardian.com/film/2025/au...
Trump is calling for a Nobel Prize. That’s it.
@gavinnewsom.bsky.social: "He's a wartime president. He's the head of a war party. War on women. War on voting rights. War on Hispanics. A war on this state. War on institutions. Now he wants war on history."
@gavinnewsom.bsky.social: "This guy is trying to get a Nobel Peace Prize? When he's bringing war to the American people? He sent the United States Marines into the United States of America."
This Brit nails it. #Immigration
The fact that an indicted war criminal has been invited to the US to meet with the President to look at maps of the country he invaded tells you Putin has already won.
In the 50th year anniversary of the Balibo five - which of course was also denied and no one ever held to account. As this article from 10 years ago says no one ever is www.sbs.com.au/news/article...
Rarely mentioned by Western news media in their reports on Israel's murder of FIVE #AlJazeera journalists, bombing their press tent outside a hospital in Gaza: Anas Al-Sharif was a Pullitzer prize-winning journalist! #JournalismIsNotACrime #IsraeliWarCrimes #GazaGenocide
Or orange
After politicising Australia’s decision to recognise the state of Palestine, Sussan Ley has finally found her place on #SkyAfterDark - where lies are not called out but encouraged. The begging of the end for Ley.
Remember when Kamala said Putin would eat Trump for lunch? I was thinking about that today for no particular reason.
America: Guns = It’s our Constitutional Right! Sandwich = Lock Him Up! 🤷♀️🤷♀️
Reporter: What’s going on with those posts on X that are clearly trolling the president? Newsom: I hope it’s a wake up call for the president. I’m just following his example. If you have issues with what I’m putting out, you sure as hell should have concerns with what he’s putting out
@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."
It must be infuriating not to mention sad / devestating
And a decade later, Chaplin was driven from the US for his "communist sympathies". America didn't listen then. It's not listening now.
music.youtube.com/watch?v=06ic... 😎Ian
Jones has lost control of his media empire to a newly-appointed receiver who will sell it off to pay the Sandy Hook Elementary School families who sued Jones for defamation after the 2012 shootings.
This is A+ trolling
Cheering on from down under
But I thought they hated Europe? It’s all very confusing
Not even pretending it’s not the Handmaids Tale anymore
TBH from over here it doesn’t look like the Dems are doing much about it! Please correct me if I’m wrong
Wow thankyou !
Came here to say the same. Unfortunately when we recently tried to change ours in Australia (notoriously difficult to do) MAGA propaganda got in about the ‘sacredness’ of the document & derailed it. We shocked ourselves (I like to think) with that outcome & voted anti-MAGA style gov at next election
The first time Charlie Chaplin used his voice in a film, he wielded it to forcefully condemn the rising forces of fascism around the globe. Will we listen to his words today?
Darwinism
Situation on 14th St and W St. NW, with federal agents -- no specific agency identified -- pulling cars over for checks. They arrested a Black woman in this car. BIG crowd of people shouting at police. "Fuck you!" "What is wrong with you!" "You don't need to terrorize people like this!"
Powerful simple line drawing:
Jacinta Allan rips into journo who repeats the “disgraceful nonsense” by The Australian & their attack on Victoria’s Respectful Relationships school program.🔥🔥 #auspol
Americans voted for a Hollywood blockbuster. And that's what they've got. From elsewhere we've watched this 'movie' on repeat forever. Guns, soldiers, cops, khaki, bla bla bla. Inevitable
The woman petitioning SCOTUS to overturn marriage equality in the name of the sanctity of marriage is on her fourth husband.
Exactly 👍🏻 think people forget this. He’s their dodgy salesman. There’s a whole P25 team pulling the strings
Yep!
Like most of them, totally transactional www.businessinsider.com/trump-gift-f...
Raskin: In any event, if he really cared about public safety in DC… he would not have pardoned 1600 insurrectionists and violent cop beaters on his first day in office.
She just nods ‘yep’ (after he angrily shakes his hand at her)
I guess he doesn’t think his wife or kids have much claim to being American then
I bet he only means one side of the Civil War. Surprised he didn’t say it really
Limit the age of your judiciary! In Australia it’s 70
My dad (still living) escaped Germany to Australia in 1939 so I’m very alert to what is happening there. And the parallels in the US. We’re not immune here in Australia either though the US ensured we recently soundly rejected a MAGA style govt.
It’s still not immune though. The far right is rising even there isn’t it?
But America got it when they voted for him / Project 25. It was never hidden. He told you who he was / who they were.
Reality: that “extra revenue” is higher costs paid by regular American consumers & businesses, and the “tax relief” is going to the rich not you. JD is pissing 💦 on your head and telling you it’s raining — and @marshablackburn is using this line also as she runs for governor.
"Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr, who oversees the CDC, did not make a statement the day of the shooting. Late the following morning, more than 30 minutes after posting photos of fishing with his family, Kennedy posted condolences on his official X account..." www.nytimes.com/2025/08/09/u...