Gertruda and Eva
Trying to be that change. Sometimes the light shines, sometimes a flicker, others there's darkness. Regularly try changing bulbs, starters, and ballast. My brightness glows brightly when I'm around equality, ⚖️, history, art, music, and brilliant ideas.
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Gertruda and Eva
This is an amazing story. Quite sad, but so uplifting to listen to a courageous sharing from a wonderful partner. www.abc.net.au/listen/progr...
Bernie is always spot on.
The Liberals need to either throw Ms Price out of the party or go full Pauline. Check your notes, think you will find that you should never go full Pauline. www.abc.net.au/news/2025-09...
We are seeing it with #Rump 🤬
The Liberal Party of Australia... The gift that keeps on giving to progressive politics. www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
Good one!
When John left us, it was indeed like a library had burned down. www.abc.net.au/news/2025-09...
Salomon
And I share it!
Sigh... www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Nope. If you are at a rally and Nazis turn up and you don't leave... You are at a Nazi rally. Ipso facto, you are a baddie. Legitimate concerns, pigs's arse. www.abc.net.au/news/2025-09...
Roza and Christina
#bluesky #releasethefiles
Queenslanders will die unnecessarily. Pill testing and injecting rooms are undesirable but they minimise harm. These services are needed to keep people safer while other strategies roll out. www.abc.net.au/news/2025-08...
The image of National Guard troops in Washington, D.C., spreading mulch around the cherry trees at the Tidal Basin and picking up trash, illustrates that Trump’s insistence that he needed troops to crack down on violent crime in the nation’s capital was always a cover for an authoritarian takeover.
Roberts has zero credibility.
Paulette
Fox, and a number of other right wing media outlets, have repeatedly papered over the cracks in Trump's shit show. Not a news service's arsehole.
Excellent idea. Rinse and repeat.
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-08...
They want us fighting so we never notice who is stealing from us all. Don’t get lost in the circus.
I guess he calculates there's nothing further for him to lose. When he famously went back for his hat, he clocked up millions in costs. I can't see the defendants being able to recover costs. Does likely bankruptcy make this all a horrible waste of yet more money?
Berko
Cui bono? Advance and the other turds from the right wing influencers stables are not here for the betterment of humanity. Behind each Barnaby rant, there's a greedy arsehole pulling the strings. www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
Manifestly unfit for his job. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Anna
The road to authoritarianism is littered with people telling you you’re overreacting.
Trump seizing D.C. when crime is at a 30-year low isn’t about safety — it’s about the Epstein files.
John Clarke was a wonderful gift to the world. Well done NZ. www.theguardian.com/film/2025/au...
The decision to use one nuclear device at Hiroshima was massive. A second at Nagasaki seems beyond extreme. Tough times of course. Many had already died and perhaps millions more would have died fighting street to street with conventional weapons. www.abc.net.au/news/2025-08...
RTFM
Evil clowns.
Martha
80 years on from that terrible day in Hiroshima, the world still sees wicked problems in many corners. Humankind wastes so many opportunities to improve life for all. share.google/j3EMMisb0oBW...
Politics isn't just an abstract topic best avoided out of propriety, in this case it's right and wrong. Every outlet must engage to contribute to disseminating facts. It's also powerful laugh at the absurd.
Even if compassion and respect for human dignity are the last reason these approaches are adopted, it's a win win. www.nytimes.com/2025/07/25/u...
Eva
I didn't do it, but I wish I had.
Morning ☕️👋💖 Urgh - Mondays 😵😫
This is a dreadfully sad Four Corners but the presenters have shown the story of such beautiful humans and their suffering, so worth a watch. Rise up people, donate, fund-raise, be a carer. Fuck cancer. iview.abc.net.au/show/four-co...
Rocking Horse Records was an amazing place to visit in the early '80s in Brisbane. As is so often the case... an authoritarian state govt persecuted RHR while also being systemically corrupt as fuck themselves. www.theguardian.com/music/2025/j...
Cowards and crooks
Josef
Vale Rupert. He came, he ate, he slept. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
We the people will have the last word. The fight has just begun...
The Libs sliding doors moment in 2018... Morrison elected leader and Bishop left out in the cold. Merit? Bollocks.
It's time for quotas for the Liberals. Lay this down as a foundation and they may even see their branch membership grow. Politics, as in life, is rarely about merit. www.abc.net.au/news/2025-07...
We need a bigger smudge stick.
Reckless and negligent to vote on a Bill you haven't read. Any clown that admits to this should lose their seat at the next election.
New political ad just dropped. Thanks, Mitch!
Right up there with "...let them eat cake...".
This is madness. Political entry screenings…
From the man who brought us The Art of the Deal.
Elena
Looking back now, the Joh era feels like a hideously bad dream. Corruption, abuse of power, persecution, and weapons grade covering up. Without Phil Dickie, the ABC and Tony Fitzgerald we would have remained yoked with a hillbilly dictatorship. www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
Seriously, they're the worst!
Impotent… useless… terrible… apple.news/AGsyw59aWRG6...
Hertog
Ursula
Elsa
12 months on from a historic clusterf*ck, the alternative party of government in NSW is still frigging in the rigging. The ALP, compassionately, has told them to take all the time they need. www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
Trump parade vs No Kings march, San Diego
Immigrants make America Great!
Same here.
unlike Vietnam or Afghanistan at least the Marines coming to.L.A. know exactly what this fight is all about
Brian Wilson was my friend and my brother in songwriting. We shared a similar sensibility, as evidenced by his 4 over 5 chord under “Aaaah!” in "Good Vibrations” and mine under "I’m into something good.” We once discussed who used it first, and in the end we decided it didn’t matter. (Continued)
Breaking news: Brian Wilson, the founder of the Beach Boys, whose catalogue of hits includes “I Get Around,” “Don’t Worry Baby” and “California Girls," has died at 82.
This art installation is a literal sound bath. Hundred sound bowls set a float in a bath to gently ricochet off one another creating a sound bath of seemingly random peaceful healing vibrations.
“The strength of the movement against him is what will determine our fate as a country.”
Second that
I just liked knowing Brian Wilson was still out there somewhere, being a genius. He wrote possibly the single best love song of all time, and made it through a not easy life, and I hope he rests in the peacefullest of peace.
Amazing contribution. May he rest in peace.
Vandals
here's today's post: "a police state, but with morons" — Donny and his Sewer Clowns suck at fascism — like everything else they do. thanks for reading, and please sign up for my daily newsletter so you never miss a post —
Can I get an Amen?!
A dear friend is as central to your experience as a family member. Our society isn't set up well to support this grief. www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...
Good morning rebels...
It's impossible to imagine the Libs making a bigger mess of things but they always go that one step more.
In News at 6 - boring old Australian white man says something offensive & sexist about assertive women In other news, the Liberal party of Australia claim they can't understand why so many women eschew the party and how on earth the rise of the Teals started More news as it comes to hand . . . .
Oh, you don’t feel comfortable going to your gay son’s wedding? How sad for you. Parents, if that’s you—suck it up and show up for your kid. You’ll survive. Their day isn’t about you.
This amazing woman will never be forgotten. open.spotify.com/track/3NfxSd...
It is good to know that we have found this man's name and the community have found their uncle. www.abc.net.au/news/2025-06...
Maybe "...Beijing is credibly preparing to potentially use military force to alter the balance of power in the Indo-Pacific”. Meanwhile, the USA is pissing away more than 100 years of accumulated opportunities, influence and power thru weapons grade ignorance. www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
Obama: "Imagine if I had done any of this..."
Raskin: This is a gangster state. This is not basically a legitimate government that is sometimes doing corrupt things. This is an essentially corrupt enterprise. It's like watching The Sopranos. Every day, they get up and they try to figure out how to plunder and pillage the people
Good piece by Skye Cusack. There's also a video short of this. What it's like to visit Country for the first time and how to prepare - ABC News www.abc.net.au/news/2025-05...