Morning Latte

Just going to blast this on repeat, as it becomes newly relevant every day.

How absurd are complaints against the super changes?

Consider if someone's super goes up from $3m to $3,250,000.
So they earned $250,000 in a year.

Oh no! Their balance is over $3m. They now have a tax liability.
How much? $2,884.
That is how much income tax someone pays if they earn... $36,300.

Cool and normal America.

W.T.F.

The educational wing of the CCP: Harvard ?!

Guess the only thing to do is ban any and all international students immediately…

What stage of Fascism is this?

Inaccurate reporting of 36.6 BILLION trades and GS cops the banking equivalent to a $1.45 parking ticket…
anyone smell global financial crisis levels of regulatory ineptitude?

Unsplash image of the Earth, mostly the nightside with a tracery of city lights on every continent.

OK, this is wild.

In September 2023, geophysicists across the world started monitoring a very odd signal coming from the ground under them.

It was picked up in the Arctic. And Antarctica. It was detected everywhere, every 90 seconds, as regular as a metronome, for *nine days*.

What the HELL?

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A post by the despicable Attorney General Pam Bondi which includes a truly unhinged and made-up statistic. It says: Today is Fentanyl Awareness day. In President Trump's first 100 days we've seized over 22 million fentanyl laced pills, saving over 119 Million lives. Note that 119 million would be 35% of the US population.

Were it not for the heroic efforts of Trump in his first 100 days, 1 in 3 Americans would be dead.

Israel has dropped more bombs in Gaza than fell on London, Dresden & Hamburg combined during WWII [𝘍𝘰𝘳𝘦𝘪𝘨𝘯 𝘈𝘧𝘧𝘢𝘪𝘳𝘴].

Read that & consider that Gaza is, on average, only 5 miles wide & 25 miles in length.

Life expectancy has dropped from 75.5 years in 2023 to 40.6 years now [𝘓𝘢𝘯𝘤𝘦𝘵].

Genocide.

Fantastic piece on "Advance" & other secretive fossil fuels bad actors, by the talented Tim Elliott.

Sunlight is the best disinfectant.

And great to see The Klaxon being given a solid shout out. 1/2
www.theage.com.au/national/cop...

Haha RIP global economy 🪦

Was fun while it lasted.

That’ll teach the penguins!

Based on the 2025 budget, what could Australia buy for $46bn instead of one nuclear submarine? Boosting nurses wages, increasing school funding or more tax cuts – here’s what a different fiscal approach could look like

www.theguardian.com/news/ng-inte...

NEW: Erdogan has banned protests in Turkey. He has threatened to arrest anyone attending one.

This is the people’s response.

Fighting for their democracy with another vast gathering in Istanbul tonight. #Turkey 🇹🇷

(🎥 Credit: Özgür Özel - Chairman, Republican People’s Party)

In the latest update for U.S. idiocracy…

These guys had their group chat for a foreign military operation leaked directly to a journalist by ADDING HIM TO THE SAME GROUP-CHAT.

How can we trust these guys to protect our Aus military secrets…

House prices are rising faster than people can save.

If you earn the average male full time income (more than 80% of people) and started saving 10 years ago, you'd be no closer to buying a house today.

It's past time to fix this. @grogsgamut.bsky.social explains. #auspol

If the orange man gets desperate enough, I’ll say it now that I won’t be surprised if some kind of major domestic incident could sadly take place on U.S. soil to justify a ‘Patriot Act’ overhaul of U.S. law to slip the country into full authoritarianism.

The U.S.’s anocracy status is a knife edge.

Lincoln talked about a government of the people, by the people, for the people.

Today, with Trump as our president, we have a government of the billionaires, by the billionaires, for the billionaires.

I've been working on a paper explaining how disordered discourse captures institutional power and how that inevitably results in a slide towards authoritarianism, but I didn't expect to have my conclusions constantly reinforced like this.

This sets an extremely dangerous precedent in the U.S.

Imprisoning people based on the fact that their opinions go against your foreign policy interests (but don’t break the law of the land) is dangerous for all people.

Reminds me of the U.S. prosecution of Assange…

A President reduced to car salesman is historically degrading.

But there’s something else very revealing in all this: amidst growing protests & collapsing sales, Musk is panicked.

The UN could have a vote on condemning the murder of toddlers and the US would be the only nation to vote against it, justifying their vote with some culture war BS.

Okay, if this doesn’t edge the US over the fascism cliff, what does?

Strictly portraying a ‘white and male’ military and wiping all historic evidence to the contrary is very nearly equivalent to the Nazi burning of history books.

An ethnically and sexually homogenous military is not meritocracy.

“American control”

BlackRock is not the U.S. .
It is an economically dominant cancer on economies around the world.
Trumps favours for the U.S. billionaire class keep rolling on in the absence of actual government leadership.

Poll: Trump a greater threat to world peace than Putin or Xi More Australians consider US President Donald Trump a greater threat to world peace than Vladimir Putin or Xi Jinping.

New research: More Australians consider Donald Trump a greater threat to world peace than Vladimir Putin or Xi Jinping.

🔴 Trump (31%)
🟠 Putin (27%)
🟠 Xi Jinping (27%)

Almost half (49%) said they felt less secure since the election of President Trump. 17% feel more secure. #auspol

A news item about JD Vance, a bearded disgrace of a man. The headline says, ‘Vance flees to undisclosed location after protesters disrupt Vermont ski trip’.

“If you’re running in fear of your own voters, there is nothing America can do for you.” - JD Vance, Munich, February 2024.

The Trump-Vance-Musk regime is not only undermining democracy in the US.

It is laying the foundation for undermining democracies around the world.

The emerging battle will be global democracy vs. a global oligarchy.

The US is emerging on the side of global oligarchy.

“We have political leaders who insist that mining & forestry underwrite Australian prosperity. Those who believe this nonsense cannot be trusted with the wellbeing of future generations.”

“Mining & native forest logging industries, collectively, employ only ~2% of the labour force."

– Ken Henry

Glad we had a lazy $4.6bn spare to send to the UK for AUKUS...

It's unbelievable. Scarborough gas project and it's 878 millions tonnes of pollution just got approved.

While the world and Australia are on the precipice of catastrophic climate change, this is beyond reckless.

This is how you protest for democracy.

Take notes 📝