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And the Seattle team is owned by a woman, on behalf of a charity.....

It's occurred to me there's a deep historical double irony: all non-Native people are descendants of immigrants from many nations, and the first wave fought a literal war against the English and now seem determined to cling to the language of a nation branded as their oppressor - that's kinda nuts.

Bring back firing squads for anyone involved.

Don’t care who.

Crockett: "The US is falling apart, partially bc he's allowing for killings in the street, but also bc we have a 34 count convicted felon being shielded from any type of accountability as it relates to a child sex trafficking ring. I don't understand why we're pretending any of this is normal."

this of course means many of us know it will be worth watching.

Every word of this.

Recently I've been spending some time with pro-democracy leaders from other countries organizing against national strongmen. Their stories of organizing against authoritarians are eerily familiar. Among the many clear takeaways: stand up to bullies and go on offense because defense doesn’t win.

Billionaires buying elections only works when voters allow themselves to be bought.

for example, Australia obviously has a lot of vile racists, most of whom probably act polite in public.

But they'll vote for, donate to or otherwise support racist, hate-mongering bigots like One Nation.

Time to evict the tenants at Pine Gap.

That is all.

Carney: "We stand firmly with Greenland and Denmark and fully support their unique right to determine Greenland's future. Our commitment to NATO's Article 5 is unwavering ... Canada strongly opposes tariffs over Greenland"

NAB have just published a study of where Australia’s most entrepreneurial neighbourhoods are. No surprises they all have one thing in common: a high migrant population. Again migrants are the backbone of this nations economy not its burden to be stopped or politicised & vilified.

Screenshot of an X post by “Read Raising Expectation…” saying “You don’t reform the Gestapo, you abolish them and try them for their crimes.” Embedded is a quoted post from “Home of the Brave” stating that ICE Associate Director Marcos Charles says individuals ICE agents encounter near a “target” are “fair game” for interrogation. At the bottom is a TV interview still showing a man seated, with “60 MINUTES” text on screen.

Shut ICE down, remove the leadership, break DHS apart, and investigate their crimes.

Donald Trump became president one year ago today. A year later and everything Kamala Harris warned us about him has come true.

Australia's national broadcaster is sliding downhill into 'oh look at those cute fascists' rapidly - news story at front page today on the US VP 'expecting fourth child' - hello, the man who's party to terrorising his own citizens? kidnapping children? threats to Greenland? that guy?

I flew down to south Texas today to do my job - investigate why people are dying in ICE detention centers.

I was just illegally denied entry to Dilley Detention Center. Because they have something to hide.

Federal agents are pulling over off duty cops based on the color of their skin.

This is not a serious operation to enforce immigration law. It’s a performative show of force and it’s gotten way out of hand.

EU considers retaliatory measures over Trump Greenland tariff ‘blackmail’ Emmanuel Macron calls on fellow leaders to use powerful anti-coercion instrument if US goes ahead with tariffs

EU considers retaliatory measures over Trump Greenland tariff ‘blackmail’

Emmanuel Macron calls on fellow leaders to use powerful anti-coercion instrument if Trump goes ahead with weaponized tariffs

www.theguardian.com/world/2026/j...

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The first thing Virginia Spanberger did after being sworn in as Governor of Virginia was repeal Youngkin’s executive order requiring state and local law enforcement to cooperate with ICE.

This is the kind of leadership Democratic governors nationwide should be emulating.

Deutsche Bank here with the good stuff.
Game on.

here's a thought that's been bouncing (unpleasantly) around in my brain - MN shares a really long border with Canada. That shitgibbon has been saying he wants to take Canada. The feds have their militia on the ground in MN, and now are prepping to send military.... so.

maybe I'm just paranoid.

Libs, Nats in Vic parliament call for a division, vote against First Nations apology. Question: is that the same as Peter Dutton walking out, or worse?

Opp Ldr Jess Wilson sells herself as a "moderate". Did I get that right,
@brenthodgson.bsky.social ? 🤔
#springst #auspol

If artificial strawberry flavour bears no resemblance
to strawberries
and
artificial chicken flavour doesn't even come
from chicken (it's vegan!)
and
artificial pine smell doesn't smell
like any coniferous tree
it's fair to think
artificial intelligence
isn't at all
like intelligence

NEW: Epstein survivors release the most powerful PSA I have ever seen.

Make this go viral so every member of the House of Representatives sees it.

just found out John Laws died. I think it says positive things about how I'm curating input from social media that he's been dead for nearly a week now.

also, good riddance.

the other night I read an essay by Ivan Illich on the commodification of language and the learning of language

and the night after that i started Terraglossia by Debra Dank and I can't unsee how colonialism and imperialism and capitalism have been damaging the very roots of how humans narrate life.

Dunno who needs to hear this but using AI doesn't make any human a better writer or thinker or researcher.

that's not how copy-paste-robot-gunk works.
I don't make the rules of logic, and you're welcome.

[No AI was used in the authoring of this snark]

A US fascism expert’s warning to Australia: ‘You guys are probably next’ The US’s slide towards authoritarianism is part of a global trend, says professor and fascism expert Jason Stanley. And distant Australia, far from being immune, is uniquely vulnerable

A US fascism expert’s warning to Australia: ‘You guys are probably next’
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/s...