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Now, if only the BBC would let Australians learn about it

At the time the 2nd Amendment was written into the Constitution, firing 180 rounds would've taken the average soldier over an hour

It’s important to remember cisgender women getting hurt by this is a feature not a bug as it both makes trans women fearful of existing in public and signals to cis women how they must act to be protected by the state.

How HonestReporting Canada wages a silent war on Canadian newsrooms Canadian journalists are finally speaking out about how the Israel lobby group HonestReporting targets newsrooms to silence Palestinian voices and perspectives.

Canadian journalists are finally speaking out about how the Israel lobby group HonestReporting targets newsrooms to silence Palestinian voices and perspectives. mondoweiss.net/2025/08/how-...

The FBI came to my house to intimidate me because I’m critical of Trump.

And they wouldn’t let my girlfriend take a picture of their badges.

They had printouts of my posts.

Saw someone upbraiding someone else for having a hobby while the world is on fire, and, my friends:

1. The world is ever on fire, this is today's conflagration;

2. If you don't find time for rest and joy the fire will consume you;

3. Don't let people shame you for being an entire human.

Hey, as a librarian I need to tell you:

Our funding depends on usage.

So go ahead and check out that book even if you don't think you'll finish it. No one will know. Check out that DVD even though you might not like it. Get ambitious in your quest for knowledge.

OTG in LA: The group is scheduled to march in a half hour to the Metropolitan Detention Center. The Sacred Resistance band is playing from the ICE out of LA truck. The crowd is growing.

Logical fault finding:

By removing the source of their power, their ill-gotten gains from systemically corrupt business & politicians

or by removing them from any position where they could exercise their power

#politics

I actually think he’s going to die soon. He appears particularly unwell in recent vision I have seen of him, more so than usual. And much more rambly and incoherent too. I don’t think he’s got long left.

Who is in charge of the world's most the expert poisoners?

Vladimir Putin

Editorializing here just a bit: this is an obscene overreaction to what is likely gonna remain a peaceful protest. A vigil for those taken by ICE is planned for later, and barring LAPD aggression earlier today, there hasn’t been a single issue all day

I’m out here in downtown Los Angeles for the 24-community stoppage events—currently following a blocks-long car caravan that started its journey out in MacArthur Park and is headed into downtown. As usual, it’s a party

It is possible that the Armed Forces could mutiny, but that would lead to civil war

No-one is going to step in & save you

Possibly some forces will step in & take over control, domestic or foreign, but that would be a case of sharks or crocodiles, a choice of dystopias

#uspol #politics

America needs to adopt a whole new vocabulary & way of thinking to reflect their new social situation

Forget parties & elections & Congress, there will be no serious opposition to the current regime unless it comes from the grass roots, the people

Forget all that has gone before

#uspol #politics

No one would have any confusion about what is happening if they saw it in another country.

Europe's wildfires hit tourism spots and forests Wildfires are raging across parts of Europe including Spain, Portugal, Greece, Türkiye and the Balkans, fuelled by extreme heat, wind, and drought.

Wildfires are raging across..Europe including Spain, Portugal, Greece, Türkiye & the Balkans, fuelled by extreme heat, wind, & drought. Multiple deaths..reported, evacuations underway & firefighters are on the ground..Scientists link the wildfires with global warming”
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-08...

Her lenses are pretty foggy and blurred. About time people like Sussan started reading Israeli media and Australian Swartz media, good Jewish news, reporting consistently on Israeli killing with impunity.

Propaganda networks and Zionist lobbyists provide nothing more than hate content.

Does it lose its leaves in winter?

For the record, our division commander BANNED things called “presence patrols” in Iraq.

“If you don’t have a specific task & purpose, your ‘presence’ doesn’t do anything.”

National Guard stating they are now doing presence patrols in DC.

A complete waste of soldier’s time & effort.

Co-founded by the same people, alongside the Liberal Party.

The names behind the IPA are recognisable today: Murdoch, Coles, and the head of BHP to name a few.

$500m naval base expansion Australia's 'biggest infrastructure project' in the Pacific Australian taxpayers have spent around half a billion dollars to fund the expansion of Papua New Guinea's Lombrum naval base — well over double the $175 million price tag originally flagged by the fed...

Australia's spending $500M to upgrade PNG's Lombrum Naval Base. Costs have blown out from $175M and the project has been plagued by the usual disputes with landowners (and, no doubt, bribery payments) associated with working in PNG.
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-08...

"Scientists link the wildfires with global warming"

Politicians still link their political survival to the fossil fuel lobby. #auspol

fuckbrained old coot blithers his way through deranged press conference America’s Mad King has completely lost his mind

here's today's post: "fuckbrained old coot blithers his way through deranged press conference" — America’s Mad King has completely lost his mind.
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It is possible that you may be confusing elitism with literacy

Weirdly this doesn't mention that the woman Trump put in charge of reviewing the Smithsonian is his Florida criminal defense attorney who didn't like some of the museum's exhibits when she visited after the inauguration so she convinced Trump to sign an executive order putting her in charge

The National Guard deployed in D.C.’s streets Tuesday night, according to the White House, a day after President Trump federalized the D.C. police force. DEA agents and vehicles marked U.S. Secret Service Police and U.S. Park Police were also seen nearby.

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Another big #cost impact for a failure in proper regulation of #business & #environment - destructive practice. #auspol #DEECW
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#productivity
#auspol

Two panel cartoon. Panel 1- title "Recognition"- Penny Wong and Albanese at podiums, Albanese holding piece of paper saying "Palestinian statehood" Panel 2- title "Beyond Recognition"- scene is one of devastation with starving boy with one leg holding empty plate, woman with face in her hands and a sign saying 'Welcome to Gaza"

ICYMI- my #Gaza #Auspol cartoon from yesterday's @australia.theguardian.com

Religiosity & decency are unrelated.

Any degree or none of each can co-exist
with any degree or none of the other.

Neither derives from nor causes the other.