The Cray

The Epstein Files aren’t the only thing Donald is covering up.

Judge indefinitely halts shutdown layoffs noting human toll A federal judge in San Francisco has indefinitely halted thousands of layoffs of federal employees announced by the Trump administration since Oct. 1.

A judge has indefinitely halted thousands of layoffs of federal employees announced by the Trump administration since Oct. 1.

Obvious to say this, but the actual function of the smear job isn't to make us ask about his aunt, it's to show us the words "hijab" and "9/11" in a headline with his photo.

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Former chair of the Tennessee libertarian party 👇🏽

Hope people are realizing that rigging the 2026 and 2028 elections have always been the plan.

There is no ceasefire.

A very small kitten, tabby and white, shouting while I hold her up in the air with one hand. If you look closely you can see that both she, and my hand, are covered in dirt. The plant in question is blurry in the background.

Tiny criminal, photographed this morning.

She jumped in the plant and promptly got digging zoomies.

"Excuse me. Can't a fella have a bath in private?"
A purple-backed fairywren at my friend's dam on the weekend. A bonus Wrensday offering.
#wrensday

A copy of the new 2026 edition of Girl Stuff 8-12 showing the cover, sitting on another copy open to the start of Chapter 2, Getting Your Period, with a cartoon about an adhesive pad mishap.

Ahem. Say hiii to the brand-new, updated 2026 edition of Girl Stuff for the 8-12s: first periods; body changes, friends & bullies, confidence, mental health, heroines, healthy eating, & so much more. Equip them to be themselves in the face of hard sell ads & social pressures. #ChristmasIsComing

Religious MPs must not restrict assisted dying in aged care homes Religous MPs in NSW Parliament are trying to amend the voluntary assisted dying laws to allow aged care facilities to deny their residents access to VAD. Faith based aged care providers want the right...

Religous MPs in NSW Parliament are trying to amend the voluntary assisted dying laws to allow faith based aged care facilities to deny their residents access to VAD.
They want to prioritise their religious beliefs over the rights & choices of elderly residents.

dwdnsw.good.do/VADBillOct25...

Wow yesssss this is the way….ICE Nazis were about to kidnap some brown folk in Wheeling, IL until a hero emerged and they ran away like the masked cowards that they all are

"I'll Venmo you some cash you broke bitch!"

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The "Cease Fire" was about optics and giving #NarcissistTrump hope of getting the Nobel Peace Prize (he is never getting one). Netanyahu played the media the world and his favorite mark #GullibleTrump Netanyahu needs war to keep his job as long as he rules Israel the war will go on. #PeaceMatters

Dunno if youse are across this... but it's forecast that in Sydney on Wednesday the temp will be 38C. (100 F)

It's OCTOBER! That's FIFTEEN DEGREES ABOVE AVERAGE!

Our Government and fossil fuel companies are determined to cook us alive! Boil the oceans. Kill our forests. Turn habitat to ash.🥺😩

German far right setting agenda as opponents amplify its ideas, study finds Normalisation of far-right stances likely to affect success of such parties at ballot boxes across Europe, say researchers

German study shows how far right sets agenda thanks to mainstream parties reshaping their communications to respond to what are initially fringe issues, boosting the spread of these ideas and signalling to voters that these ideas and stances were legitimate

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Trump firmly believes bribery and corruption should be legal. He's made that clear for decades now.

It's just the way business is done in his world, and he thinks it's very unfair that government would interfere with that.

Wikipedia Says AI Is Causing a Dangerous Decline in Human Visitors “With fewer visits to Wikipedia, fewer volunteers may grow and enrich the content, and fewer individual donors may support this work.”

wikipedia's data shows that AI is siphoning traffic away from the site, which is a danger to its sustainability. ironically Wikipedia is more important than ever to users who want reliable information instead of slop, and to AI companies that need it for training data www.404media.co/wikipedia-sa...

NEW: if you’re planning on taking I-5 to the No Kings rally, you might wanna leave now. In order to disrupt our protests, they’re shutting parts of it down. meidasnews.com/news/exclusi...

No one in the GOP Hitler chat was a "kid" We checked. Sorry, JD Vance.

These. Were. Men. In. Their. 30s.

www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

Green parrot in a hand

End of a very intense but very successful regent parrot field trip - gorgeous birds doing it a bit tough

Agree completely

🔥 COUNTRY SINGER @bryanandrewsmusic.bsky.social : "You don't get to call yourself a Christian and laugh when families are torn apart — and think it's okay that the highest court in the land just gave a green light to ICE agents to target people because they’re brown or speaking Spanish.”

Sarah Ferguson was quite complimentary on ABC702 Sydney - mornings with Hamish today - apparently James Patterson is "one of the most thoughtful, intelligent, certainly one of the most coherent speakers in the liberal party .... When he speaks... people pay attention" 🙄

It’s amazing how all the reporting is just memory-holing this part

Chris Christie: “Thie is no longer, the Department of Justice, is no longer the premier prosecuting office in America. What it is now is a capo regime who goes out and executes hits when directed by the Don to do so. That’s what it is.”