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Review finds DTA cannot verify billions in IT savings Major departments like Defence and ATO argue they can secure better deals.

"Great Ders of History" ...

www.canberratimes.com.au/story/916909...

Queensland police refused to discipline officer accused of domestic violence against pregnant partner Police decided there was ‘no tangible benefit’ to conducting disciplinary action against the officer and opted not to investigate

Women, leave Queensland. #auspol

Queensland police refused to discipline officer accused of domestic violence against pregnant partner

Police decided there was ‘no tangible benefit’ to conducting disciplinary action against the officer and opted not to investigate

“How will we pay for _____” (insert any number of supposedly impossibly expensive programs here).

Priorities.

Ofelia Torres, teen who fought to have her father released from ICE custody, dies from rare cancer Ofelia Torres, 16, died on Friday from Stage 4 alveolar rhabdomyosarcoma, a rare and aggressive form of cancer, her father's lawyer confirmed.

A child dying of cancer spent her final days fighting to free her wrongfully detained father from ICE custody.
 
This comes just weeks after a mother from Maryland was denied the right to be at her son’s side as he died from cancer.
 
Not one dime for this cruelty.

www.cbsnews.com/amp/chicago/...

The @bostonglobe.com opinion page this morning is headlined by white supremacist Richard Hanania, whose racist views have been smoothed over in recent months by centrists

#Janus #Auspol.

Thanks Kyle for continuing to shine a light on these cockroaches. Keep making them scurry and hopefully soon we can get the Raid out

So the United States will only use empty warehouses to house people it wants to terrorize, not people it wants to shelter from the cold.

We really are not a very good-natured country.

Well well well

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What Peter Thiel Saw in Jeffrey Epstein In the extensive correspondence between the Silicon Valley venture capitalist and the late pedophile, both men expressed a deep aversion to democracy.

What Peter Thiel Saw In Jeffrey Epstein

"Both believed that civilization was collapsing and that democratic norms were failing. And both did their part to help bring about these apocalyptic fantasies."

"Both men saw crypto as a weapon."

www.thenation.com/article/soci...

Text from Angus Taylor's first speech: "At the same time, we must protect our basic values and bedrock institutions. I first encountered political correctness as a student at Oxford. It was 1991, and a young Naomi Wolf lived a couple of doors down the corridor."

Screenshot: Dear Angus Taylor ... let me remind you of our encounter at Oxford and why it matters Denise Meyer December 14, 2019 — 12:00am Dear Angus Taylor, When you say that you remember Naomi Wolf living a few doors down from you in Oxford 28 years ago, I wonder if you’re mythologising a much less glamorous encounter with a fellow female student – me? Naomi Wolf wasn’t at New College when you and I were fellow Rhodes Scholars there in the early 1990s. She had been there in the 1980s, but she was long gone by then, riding the wave of publicity for her book, The Beauty Myth. Newly arrived from the patriarchal colonies, I was avidly reading the bestseller at the time – I would have noticed if Wolf was living among us or had come back to visit. She did not.

A colleague reminded me this morning that Angus Taylor misled parliament in his very first speech in the building!

Black graphic with a quote attributed to Juana Rodriguez, ACLU client challenging an unlawful immigration raid in Wilder, Idaho: "My toddler was forced to witness an incredible amount of violence against people he loves and hear racial slurs about Latinos, experiences that no child should ever be exposed to. I'll never forget hearing his little voice pleading with me to give him food and water for hours on end."

As a proud U.S. citizen, Juana never thought she'd be zip-tied and detained by ICE for hours with her 3-year-old son, especially while attending a family-friendly event.

They’re two of hundreds of people we’re defending in court for being targeted in an unlawful militarized immigration raid.

'Bid to buy Rothbury Estate as divisive as Brexit' Funds are being raised to buy the Northumberland estate - but the plans have split opinion.

Fixed that headline for you:

‘One (1) farmer who farms 1,000 acres doesn’t like rewilding, we’ve made that the basis of our headline in a classic example of false balance.

PS everyone else in the story loves the idea of the Wildlife Trusts buying the Rothbury Estate’

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

“I told you so” is never a good move.

But as we slip further into an authoritarian Dark Age 2.0, I do wonder if all the past defenders (journalists, academics, clinicians) of wellness woo regret their role in helping to normalize the BS.

Oops?

Britons + Irish are only 11.71% of the population. Black people are 12.4%. Other whites are 49.92%. Hispanics (include white/mixed) are 18.18%. Musk is 100% nazi.

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"I was among the protesters attacked by police" – Senior journalist - The Klaxon Senior journalist was among those attacked by police at the protest against the visit by Israel President Issac Herzog. "We were assaulted on the streets of our town by police itching for a fight," wr...

Senior journalist Peter Lalor was among those attacked by police at the protest against Israel President Issac Herzog.

“We were assaulted on the streets of our town by police itching for a fight". theklaxon.com.au/g2vd

Minneapolis showed how to fight ICE and win - Salon.com Organizers from around the country are being trained by people in Minneapolis

Minnesota built a blueprint. We will freely share with other states, though we hope once ICE is out of MN (they aren't slowing down yet) they just go home.
www.salon.com/2026/02/13/m...

Trump administration says it is ending its immigration surge in Minnesota More than 4,000 undocumented immigrants have been apprehended since the operation began in November, according to the Department of Homeland Security.

This victory belongs to the people of Minnesota who have inspired all of us by transforming crisis into action and tragedy into solidarity. People power works.

The timing of this announcement — shortly before Congress votes on a DHS funding bill — is no accident.

Jeremy Carl sat before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, which is weighing whether to confirm him to a key diplomatic position that Trump wants him to hold.

Senators pressed Carl on his social media posts. It did not go well.

Story: www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

‘Brexit, Just the Beginning’ – Byline Times Digital / Print Edition The network of ties between the late sex offender, Moscow, and Silicon Valley help explain not only the unexpected political developments in the West in recent years – but the role of ‘reinventing the financial system of the 21st Century’. Peter Jukes reports

🟨 Print Edition — — ‘Brexit, Just the Beginning’

The network of ties between the late sex offender, Moscow, and Silicon Valley help explain not only the unexpected political developments in the West in recent years…

https://subscribe.bylinetimes.com/edition/83/brexit-just-the-beginning

I have not mentioned before how happy I was that @petridishes.bsky.social escaped the Post before it fully imploded, and also, how she remains in being a national treasure

Great article, great point.

“…[W]hen you see a rally or a demonstration turn ugly, it’s almost always because the cops decided that’s how it was gonna go.

Likewise, if and when the cops decide there’s nothing wrong with your Nazi cosplaydate, everything will run smoothly.”

#AusPol

Raise your hand if you’re still pissed about the racist video of the Obamas Trump posted, even though it’s already 3-4 scandals ago 🙋‍♂️

YouTube video by MeidasTouch 🚨Survivor REVEALS ALL to Meidas on EPSTEIN COVER UP!!

Full interview and more from MeidasTouch here:

youtu.be/RXRaYGq5T9w

Epstein survivor Haley Robson: I’m so tired of having this administration just completely dismiss us. They’re supposed to be the party of, you know, family values and protecting children. And I just feel like if that’s the party you are, it seems like Thomas Massie is the only one showing up for it.