🇦🇺Krisanthi

What’s with the blacking out of certain words? Are we self censoring? Have they won already?

We’re all in agreement that Trump’s regime is crumbling & with each major scandal, he has tragically remained immune by the Supreme Court, but are we aware yet that, without his base, Trump is powerless?
This is when his enemies strike, in his most vulnerable state, like the girls he raped.

This phenomenon is the same as pursued by the Tobacco Lobby, the Gambling Lobby & the Fossil Fuels Lobby: vested interests pushing poison for profit & walking away from the resulting carnage.
NB, this article omits the name of the company responsible for the Wittenoom disaster & deaths.
#Auspol

Friendly reminder. When Richmond, Virginia Public schools did not want to desegregate, they closed their public schools for six years and handed out private school vouchers. But those vouchers only worked at whites only schools. This is the jig. Don’t dance it

Reproductive freedom is personal, and decisions should be made only by a woman with the advice of her doctor, her family, and her faith - not by the government.

🎯 @robsandia.bsky.social on Private School Vouchers (for the wealthy) — “CALL THEIR BLUFF… if they want public dollars, they should have to follow the same rules as public schools… it’s not a ‘COMPETITION’ when not everyone is playing by the same rules.”

(cc: Speaker Sexton)

I got to thinking: "What if it's not about the contradiction between the Hernandez pardon and the air strikes, but about the consistency between them?"

As President of Honduras, he used the power of the government to go after certain cartels—primarily the rivals of the Sinaloa Cartel, with whom he

If you can stick to the trail, you can see even deeper into the swamp.

At this stage in American politics, a social media post from Trump promoting the swastika & performing the nazi salute would be the last straw for 65% of the population.
Outrage would be immense.
Most would be convinced that ‘this is it’. 🥱
Ok then, the gang wears Nazi costumes. 🥱
Well, try WW3. 🤷‍♂️

🚨Trumps aggression with Venezuela is not about drugs at all:
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"'History’s eyes are on the Supreme Court,' she said.

'This court will have to decide, is it going to be the court that puts an end to American democracy as we know it'..."

www.politico.com/news/magazin...

The Supreme Court is to decide whether America:
starts WW3,
causes preventable epidemics,
removes basic human rights,
facilitates paedophilia & sex trafficking of minors,
becomes a failed white nation, falls to Russia,
accentuates the climate crisis &
condones corruption.
Difficult decisions.

John Hewson: “Words clearly mean whatever Sussan Ley and David Littleproud claim them to mean. There they sit on the wall, like Humpty Dumpty, alongside United States President Donald Trump. That company alone should be scary enough, let alone the prospect of a great fall.”

#auspol

And MAN! Does he like to declare anyone who even remotely disagrees with him the "ENEMY OF THE PEOPLE!" (In all caps - of course).
He's literally fucking insane.
And there are TWO republicans in office right now with the balls to say a fucking word about it.
Two.
And fucking MTG is one of them.

Great news!!!

He’s what is commonly referred to as a ‘vexatious litigant’ in the courts, but I’ve yet to see or hear that damning legal argument used when his law suits are thrown out.
Perhaps they’ll be brave enough to coin that phrase when he tries to sue Biden & Obama; or there’s always the Pope.

President Donald Trump "seems to draw energy from hatred, from generating hatred toward other people," says @peter-wehner.bsky.social

Kasparov nails it: Western failure to confront russia is the biggest security risk we face.
Ukraine is buying us time, and we’re wasting it.

When you can’t read the room.

Blame it on algorithms, thanksgiving & the position of the planets.
Soon it will be the cricket, floods, land slides, sink holes, ‘wildfires’, earthquakes, volcanic eruptions, tornadoes, cyclones, hail stones, insurance company travails, mass murders, terror attacks & new wars. 🥱 Enjoy the respite.

I can see it already:
‘Third World countries reject racist American refugees from the failed states.’

Kerry O’Brien sounds the alarm for Australian media in thunderous Walkleys address | Weekly Beast Former 7.30 host takes Labor government to task for record on press freedom and pays tribute to Palestinian journalists. Plus: a roo in the news * Want to get this in your inbox every Friday? Sign up for the Weekly Beast media newsletter here The former ABC broadcaster Kerry O’Brien got a standing ovation at the 70th Walkley awards on Thursday night for a rousing speech that reminded media in the ICC Sydney ballroom of the “clear and present danger for a strong, free, effective and independent media everywhere”. The winner of six Walkley awards, including the Gold, called on the industry to unite to strengthen press freedom. He began by paying tribute to Palestinian journalists who have “confronted the world with powerful evidence that has gradually taken on the look and feel of genocide in real time” and decried the “outrageous casualty list of Palestinian journalists and other media workers in Israel’s war on Gaza since the brutal attack by Hamas on Israeli citizens two years ago”. Continue reading...

Kerry O’Brien sounds the alarm for Australian media in thunderous Walkleys address | Weekly Beast

Follow up question:
‘Why do you feel the need to insult & belittle us? Are you afraid of the truth, or have you always been a bully? Or both?
We would appreciate it if you could enlighten us, without resorting to more insults or threats.’ Shout it all out over his angry interruption. 🐷🪰

#CelebrateWins

The thing that really bothers me about this (inhumane) roundup is that a truly civilised country would use the pen, not tear gas or rubber bullets.
I mean, you’ve got police for criminals; courts dedicated to immigration & surely employers’ accountability.
So why is physical force used instead?

Single frame. Barnaby exiting a room from which a leg kicks, a hand flipping the bird, another throwing a tomato, an akubra hat and a beetroot flying, and “BUGGER OFF!” and “GOOD RIDDANCE!” Barnaby in melodramatic pose looking back says “Don’t try to beg me - I’ve made up my mind.” In front of him, Pauline Hanson in burqa (dress, legs and high heels showing) arms outstretched, saying “COME TO MAMA!” - eclipsed by Gina Rinehart behind her, long white dress, same pose also saying “COME TO MAMA!”

Barnaby out.
My @smh @theage cartoon.

I’ve decided to go on offense.

Soon as photos of Don jr with his new girlfriend surfaced his "fiancé" was exiled, I'm sorry, "given" a cushy job in an exotic location w/a government expense account. Blissful as a Hindu cow and 100% distracted basking in her own self-importance. Narcissist Nirvana.

Political journalists are so intensely bad at dealing with environment and climate issues, it is absolutely remarkable

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