Chris Marsden

"The legislation is so broad, and because it's been rushed through, we haven't actually even investigated the unintended consequences."

Chief Political Analyst Amy Remeikis breaks down the new anti-hate speech laws on the latest episode of Follow the Money!
@amyremeikis.bsky.social #auspol

Muscovy expects its conquered barbarian hordes to fight to the last man for its entitled slavers

Sepp Blatter suggests fans should not travel to US for World Cup The ex-Fifa boss showed his support of a Swiss lawyer who called for a boycott of the tournament due to security concerns in the US

“For fans, just 1 piece of advice: avoid the United States! You’ll get a better view on television anyway. Upon arrival, fans should expect that if they don’t behave properly with the authorities, they will be immediately sent home. If they’re lucky” #CopaMundial
www.theguardian.com/football/202...

CNN calling Tom Homan "well respected" and "not as hardline as Bovino" is an interesting choice. The dude took a $50,000 bribe in a fucking Cava bag and says all the same fascist shit as Bovino and Noem.

Screenshot Adelaide 34.7C

Apparently it was the hottest night on record in Adelaide - it’s already 34.7C at 7:20am

Violence and Gaslighting: This is What Authoritarianism Looks Like. We Must Resist. Trump administration has escalated its violent behavior. A U.S. citizen was killed by federal law enforcement agents while exercising his constitutional right to free speech and peaceful assembly. Sta...

1/ "The Trump administration must immediately cease all violent, unlawful ICE and Border Patrol actions. We call on Congress to speak up and hold this administration accountable, including calling for a transparent, credible, and just investigation of the violence and deaths in MN and elsewhere."

Grok's recommender systems‼️This topic is also on the IMCO agenda today at 15.30

Protecting minors from sexualised AI content on TikTok and X/Grok: Implications under the DSA

🗣️Tomorrow @hennavirkkunen.bsky.social will also be in IMCO at 14.30 for the annual dialogue

LIVE 🔴 link.europa.eu/V3w43T

👉Updated agenda link.europa.eu/wm6vd6
🎬Watch it online here link.europa.eu/x6ThpF

That's 113F. Quite toasty, specifically burnt toast

Feels like... The apocalypse... Sunny 45C, late smoke from Victoria burning

Trump trying to distance himself from the Trump administration

Well...

ICE Is Nothing Like the Brownshirts, Because the Brownshirts Actually Identified Themselves Let’s get this out of the way: Immigration and Customs Enforcement is nothing like the Sturmabteilung, a.k.a. Hitler’s Brownshirts. Your main clue ...

"ICE is nothing like the Brownshirts. One was an open paramilitary wing of an openly fascist political party, the other is an unaccountable government force operating without clear uniforms, identification, or transparency… for an openly fascist political party."

It’s kind of wild that a lot of politicians seem surprised that killing moms and nurses is unpopular. It’s apparently “a political loser”

Note that Karoline Leavitt refuses to answer when asked if Trump backs Miller calling Pretti a "domestic terrorist."

It's now clear Vance miscalculated badly by rushing out to smear the victims and declare ICE has total immunity. This is getting away from them.

newrepublic.com/article/2056...

Analysis: UK newspaper editorial opposition to climate action overtakes support for first time - Carbon Brief Nearly 100 UK newspaper editorials opposed climate action in 2025, a record figure that reveals the backlash against net-zero in the right-leaning press

Two things to learn from this.
1. The rightwing newspapers are lobby groups whose purpose is to advance the class interest of their proprietors.
2. Lobbyists for the rich and powerful lose their jobs if they are not prepared to lie.
www.carbonbrief.org/analysis-uk-...

Hanson told Guardian she was not concerned about the number of red ensigns at the rally. When asked whether sovereign citizens had attended she said: “I’m not going to get into that.” One attender said sunscreen causes cancer, another attended a sovereign “treason trial” at Old Parliament House

Australia news live: man arrested over alleged antisemitic speech at March for Australia protest in Sydney; residents near out-of-control bushfire in Victoria urged to evacuate Follow live

Australia Nazis: He ends the speech: “Free Joel Davis, hail White Australia and hail Thomas Sewell”. NSW assistant Commissioner said the man expected to be charged under 93ZAA of the NSW Crimes Act, the offence for publicly inciting hatred on the grounds of race. www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

A discreet intellectual network has been reshaping the world for 70 years. Here's how A constant battle of ideas reshapes the world we live in, and few groups have been more successful in winning the war than the little-known Atlas Network.

Atlas Network under investigation "In the Senate inquiry, scientists and academics have made multiple references to a global network of hundreds of "free-market" think tanks scattered across the world today"
www.abc.net.au/news/2026-01...

If they mean "the Internet plus algorithms"... Maybe

Or not... "About to become..."

Another Killing on ICE The right wing propaganda machine can’t spin the killing of Alex Pretti

Yesterday, I awoke to news of another ICE killing in MN. On Bluesky, the conversation was deeply critical of ICE. But I wanted to see how things were going on X. Surprisingly, the attempts there to blame the victim weren't getting as much traction as I suspected. So I wrote a thing.

Even the conservative Wall St Journal sees that Trump and
Miller’s goons have gone far too far.

Miami has actually grown 100x in a century!

The city that will host the 2032 Olympics is 20x larger than the sweaty colonial outpost of Moreton Bay in 1911 - from 140,000 to almost 3million in just over a century. Comparable to Miami's growth - air conditioning sub tropical cities

Melbourne a hazy 27C but the Great Ocean Road is under fire evacuation warning, tomorrow will be 44C in the city

Reminder that we celebrate proper Aussie Brit racism today

On #InvasionDay it's a tale of 2 heatwaves, 37C in the most humid state capital feels much worse than 42C in the least

Estimate of COVID-19 Deaths, China, December 2022–February 2023 China announced a slight easing of its zero-COVID rules on November 11, 2022, and then a major relaxation on December 7, 2022. We estimate that the ensuing wave of SARS-CoV-2 infections caused 1.41 million deaths in China during December ...

See pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC...