Veronica Cooper

As ever, the letter-writers bring the wisdom.
We have a crisis of leadership at so many levels, and you only need to look at theocratic and repressive states to see that harsh, arbitrary rules and punishment do not make a society safe or harmonious.

Bah and albo saying this stuff is somehow from the 'dark corners of the internet' - my friend you've got senators egging these people on, wholeass campaign hate groups getting their flyers printed for free at Parliament House

Two Panel Comic Panel 1: Person is pointing to a beautiful sunlit landscape with rivers and forests and saying “Yo Elon, check out this beautiful life of infinite possibilities your immense wealth gives you access to” Panel 2: Elon Musk is on all fours in a darkened room, naked and covered in a dubious brown substance. He is surrounded by trash and smashing his phone with a hammer. He screams “The people on this fucking website won’t call me the meme maestro”

Here’s A Comic About Elon Musk & His Infinite Possibilities

Shocked I tell you, shocked!

This looks fine —

In the entire multi-millennial span of human civilization, it is likely there has never been a more divorced man than Elon Musk.

three thick big books, all titled "vegetable situation"

quick, someone help, we've got a vegetable situation

worth noting that the second rich people stopped being afraid of mobs tearing them limb from limb, they stopped building libraries and opera houses and stuff and started ripping the copper wiring out of the walls of society instead

cover of The Washington Post on Wednesday Feb 4, 2026. Headline on bottom, right: Musk wanted to hook users; his chatbot got more sexual

My story on Elon Musk cutting safeguards at xAI is on the front page of today's @washingtonpost.com. I’m also among 100’s of reporters laid off. I absolutely loved my job my brilliant coworkers & the thrill of reporting @ the center of forces upending the world: AI & Silicon Valley’s political power

lizzie johnson @lizziejohnsonnn · 49m I was just laid off by The Washington Post in the middle of a warzone. I have no words. I'm devastated. Quote lizzie johnson @lizziejohnsonnn · Jan 25 Waking up without power, heat, or running water. (Again.) But the work here in Kyiv continues. Warming up in the car, writing in pencil — pen ink freezes — by headlamp.

INBOX: Washington Post Ukraine Correspondent Lizzie Johnson announces that she has been laid off in the middle of a below-freezing war zone without power, heat, or running water.

Wow ratio or what Chuck?!?

To be fair, the man did not write that post, there's way too much boring detail and punctuation

so so so so so important in life to retain your sense of "what the fuck is this ... ?"

Section of The Australian How did seeing a specialist become a luxury? Government has put doctors on notice as soaring out-of-pocket costs force many people to avoid treatment worthiness of the patient by the

Racing as fast as I could through a stash of The Australian today. 🤢 Absolutely choked when I saw this. How? You. You did this.
#auspol

A multimillionaire thinks that paying down the national debt is so important that all the poors should get into the workforce earlier, work in it harder, and stay in it later to help pay it off.

It's the only possible way to do it!

Morning xx

Just leaving this here

Every day Mamdani comes out and is like "hey guys, I turned off the orphan-crushing machine. Literally just had to flip a switch. Took less than 5 minutes."

After decades of dem leadership pissing and moaning and fundraising about how complex an issue it is and how difficult the process is etc

They want us working earlier and til we die to pay for their tax cuts for the rich. Supervillains.

If you campaigned for the presidency on a promise to destroy these assholes, you would win a landslide the size of FDR in 1936, when he campaigned on a promise to destroy these assholes.

This new graphic from @thenerve.news could be so much bigger but we wanted to show 3 essential nodes in Peter Thiel’s sphere of influence: Silicon Valley, Washington & the UK.

In Britain, our govt is so naive about Thiel & what his company Palantir really is.
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Here's Adam Creighton of Atlas-affiliate IPA duly praising the Atlas/US DoE report: ipa.org.au/ipa-review-a...

Here's Alan Moran (IPA, Heartland Inst, StopTheseThings.com) citing it in a submission to the #Auspol Senate inquiry into climate & energy disinformation: www.aph.gov.au/DocumentStor...

In a normal news environment, we’d be talking about a certain electric car company that just decided to stop making cars and sink all its money into revenge porn.

W.H.A.T. A. B.U.R.N.!

The city of Minneapolis and its residents were formally nominated for the 2026 Nobel Peace Prize.

"Mt. Train A Chatbot To Praise Your Description Of How You Would Prefer To Sexually Abuse Children" 🗻

They so stubbornly refuse to see they are a part of the problem

Well this is just fucking great

That's fair comment- of course the pm can't initiate prosecutions- but there are standards/expectations of parliamentary and agency accountability that should be benchmarked/overseen (eg NAC) that have been embarrassing so far. My comment was more that there's no appetite/care to tackle this