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Australian deported from US says he was targeted for writing on Palestine protests Alistair Kitchen’s mother said America under Donald Trump was “not a US we recognise now” after her son was interrogated and put on a plane back home.

Probs no more complex than an auto Google search of ESTA applicants alongside the 100 or so words banned on US govt (and increasingly, private) websites. I always felt a scrubbed or burner phone was no protection from a simple google search. Fascism by Chat GPT. www.theage.com.au/world/north-...

US defends Hawaii deportation of Australian wife of US serviceman An Australia woman denied entry to Hawaii while attempting to visit her US husband has hit out at official claims about her deportation.

www.thenewdaily.com.au/travel/trave...

Remember the rightful outcry when women were detained and stripped of their searched cos a dead baby was found in an airport loo? The US conducting strip and cavity searches because of 1000 deleted anxiety producing texts from an ex…. Completely normal

Does it strike anyone as a little “odd”, that the Nats (and the Libs) are talking about themselves, but not the rural and regional communities they purport to represent, currently disappearing under a rising ocean?

‘Stupid move’: Howard lashes Coalition split as Nationals leave Ley to go it alone Nationals leader David Littleproud has sensationally announced that his party has split with the Liberal Party for the first time in almost four decades.

Howard set the Libs on their #RoadToRuin so it’s kinda fitting that it was also under his leadership that the Nats last deserted the party. It’s the policy, stupid. www.theage.com.au/politics/fed...

lol. The LNP nuclear policy hasn’t shifted at all. #abc730

Ooft: “There’s no white smoke going up the chimney for us.” #victimsurvivor #abcnews

Susssan Ley is about as good as it coulda been for the LLNPP. NFI who Ted O’Brien is but at least he’s not Jacinta at any Price.

Grifters gonna grift

Oh @PeterDutton_MP, this hasn’t happened to a more worthy candidate since Howard! #AusVotes25

The case against Mahmoud Khalil is meant to silence American dissent | Moustafa Bayoumi The open door of American democracy is slamming shut faster and louder than we could have imagined

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Trading in lunacy. How Trump’s tariffs will ‘save’ masculinity Tariffs will bring “manly” jobs back to the US, according to Trump supporters. Economists aren’t so sure.

This piece is excellent. Sitting alongside other culture war gender tropes like “going green and vego is unmanly and a little bit gay”, Jacqueline Maley on Trading in lunacy: How Trump’s tariffs will ‘save’ masculinity www.theage.com.au/world/north-...

“Boys will be boys.” Fuck me.

Trump has not seriously rebranded DEI as the Declaration of Economic Independence? #TrumpTariffs

I’ve made the difficult decision to pull a planned trip to the US. I can’t and won’t be complicit in Trump’s MAGA regime. I won’t feel pressured into being silent. A lifetime of fighting for human rights, DEI practice and LGBTIQA+/gender equality is not a source of shame or a reason to hide.

How did the richest nation on earth get so rich while being ripped off by the rest of the world?

Good to see @alankohler.bsky.social book pile back. Beyond anxiety indeed.

Australian elections…
Albanese: Supermarkets taking the piss
Dutton: Albanese weak as….(piss)… water
Both pissing our future up the wall. #auspol

Interestingly, my ai pal didn’t challenge my assertion about X and Facebook. 🤔

Having a conversation about ai and tech ethics at Meta with an ai bot is well…. meta

Developments at the IOC are going to get interesting with the US and its anti-DEI dictator

Let me help you out here #TheAge
@senatorwong.bsky.social @peterduttonmpposts.bsky.social #auspol

The latest deportation footage shows how deeply baked in the torture tactics used at Abu Ghraib and Guantanamo Bay are in the American machine.

Imagine being so weak and ineffective and *still* rumpling Trumps skin!

Trump has form in both sides-ing. He did it in Charlottesville and he did it today in the Oval Office. There’s barely any daylight between the Proud Boys and Putin, between the storming of the Capitol and the invasion of Ukraine. Zelenskyy is a hero; Trump is a common thug and a moron.

Warrior becomes worrier. 😂 #MAFSAU

Failed meritocracy, thy name is Trump

Kyle MacLachlan Shares Tribute to David Lynch “I owe my entire career, and life really, to his vision,” wrote the star of Dune, Blue Velvet, and Twin Peaks. “I always found him to be the most authentically alive person I’d ever met.”

Read Kyle MacLachlan’s most amazing tribute. pitchfork.com/news/kyle-ma...

Vale David Lynch.

I heard last night there are 13 billionaires nominated for cabinet positions in the Trump administration. What an obscene level of concentrated wealth and power.