Yelling at Clouds

'You make your bed, you lie in it': Albanese's warning to 'ISIS brides' in Syria Prime Minister Anthony Albanese insists the federal government will not repatriate the Australian families with links to Islamic State fighters who remain in Syria.

This is a spiteful godbothering quote I heard 50 years ago from 80 year olds. Is albanese in his dotage? Not very socially cohesive.

"if you make your bed, you lie in it".

They’ve got talent like stinking fish over there at the coalition, they had to pass over some brilliant candidates before appointing Tim Wilson as shadow treasurer.

Jim Chalmers is going to struggle to conceal his joy.

#AusPol

Guardian Aust headline: Tim Wilson set to become shadow treasurer when Angus Taylor unveils new front bench.

Ladies, behold the meritocracy. (Bring a plate.)

Fighting a rigged political system This week, the full bench of the High Court heard a challenge to Victoria’s changes to its campaign financing laws, brought by a pair of independent candidates. It is not the only case in the works. F...

Last year Labor, Libs & Nats pushed through laws to make it impossible for independents/small parties to run competitive election campaigns. The laws are unconstitutional. We’re asking the High Court to ‘tell em they’re dreamin’. #auspol

It probably 𝘸𝘪𝘭𝘭 be the end, but it 𝘪𝘴 going to happen; there has never been a more no-one naked display of ambition than Andrew Hastie since Crassus was a boy!

#Tactics against the #HousingCrisis, #Australia - #auspol

This 'hate Australia' rhetoric is such bullshit. People can have trauma. People can be violent. People can want to protect their own culture. People can miss their home country. None of these mean they hate Australia.

We are not a utopia people, we have criminals etc.

👇👇💙💙

The next era of conservative politics will make John Howard look woke (Angus) Taylorism is just another word for nothing left to lose

The next era of conservative politics will make John Howard look woke. open.substack.com/pub/tdunlop/...

Submarine boasts, yet nuclear waste dumps submersed in secrecy - Michael West SA Premier basks in the glory of a $3.9 billion shipyard downpayment, Federal Government is kicking the nuclear waste can down the road.

Behind the $30B shipyard fanfare, officials are telling Tribunal to keep nuclear waste a secret. @mrrexpatrick.bsky.social is fighting the FOIs #auspol
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Roses are Red apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap26021...
A cosmic bloom of bright young stars sitting atop a stem of glowing hot gas. The rose’s blue-white speckles are among the most luminous stars in the galaxy, with some burning millions of times brighter than the Sun.

IPA agenda to re-shape Australia By Barry Tucker                    2 March, 2013 The Institute of Public Affairs (IPA) claims to be an independent think tank. It is funded by…

The LNP have no policies because they are told what their policy agenda is by back room players such as IPA, (Abbott’s policies 2013), Advance, Atlas Network of networks.

Elected LNP politicians are told what they can say & vote for.

#auspol. thesnipertakesaim.wordpress.com/2013/03/02/i...

Hmmm Nice argument.
I know where you are coming from.
I still see a problem where the murdochs of society would still take that sentence as an excuse to label all dissent as "extremist",
and all the numpties will nod in silent agreement

Luv em!

I wore a pull-down hat and a COVID mask into Coles this morning and paid with cash. .
I will boycott from now on but I'm curious as to whether the surveillance is avoidable. . .

Dr Jeremy Walker details the “enormous war chest” of Advance & lists funders inc Gina Rinehart, James Packer, IPA board, Woodside’s Charles Goode & “the priv foundation of Jillian Segal” - who pay Advance to “flood social media with aggressive Far Right disinformation”🔥 #auspol

Even better if it is an original post!
I will try!
Here is one of a bunch of galahs, (no not the Australian National party), dicking around in the rain

2025 was fucking grim.
2026 may well be too.

And it's all too easy to get caught up in the doomscrolling/posting, even here on Bluesky.

So, I'm planning to somewhat counter this by noticing and posting at least one postive moment from my day, every day this year.

Join me in celebrating #SmallJoys

BREAKING: Donald Trump has reportedly been fuming all weekend over how everyone keeps calling his administration the “Epstein Administration.”

Ofelia Torres, teen who fought to have her father released from ICE custody, dies from rare cancer Ofelia Torres, 16, died on Friday from Stage 4 alveolar rhabdomyosarcoma, a rare and aggressive form of cancer, her father's lawyer confirmed.

A child dying of cancer spent her final days fighting to free her wrongfully detained father from ICE custody.
 
This comes just weeks after a mother from Maryland was denied the right to be at her son’s side as he died from cancer.
 
Not one dime for this cruelty.

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Albanese dismisses Aukus concerns as submarine shipyard cost revealed to be $30bn Prime minister commits $3.9bn as ‘down payment’ for Adelaide facility to eventually build nuclear-powered vessels

The AUKUS agreement has now been in place for 4 years. During that time both the US & UK have undertaken reviews of its progress. With the Albanese govt now admitting its South Australian submarine base will cost at least $30bn, it's well past time Australia undertook its own AUKUS review.

AUKUS and the submarine illusion: Australia’s $368 billion surrender As Washington debates whether it can spare the submarines, Canberra continues to pay for vessels it may never fully control.

"Australian Defence Minister Richard Marles, a fool of Chaucerian proportions, deserves a star of commendation in his denials of what AUKUS really entails ... He has a story to tell a public he wishes to gull and he insists on sticking to it."
Binoy Kampmark
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Jon Kudelka’s cartoons mattered – and so did his refusal to look away Jon Kudelka’s influence went far beyond award-winning cartoons. Lindsay Foyle reflects on a career marked by sharp political insight and principles.

Jon Kudelka on cartooning:
“We’re not careful. That’s what editors are for – they make us careful."
Cartooning is the “rickety shed at the back of the fourth estate”.
Lindsay Foyle
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You had me until the last line.
Frogshit!
Others like me have "extreme" ideas about billionaire oligarchs, climate, inclusion, but we do not instill "terror" in any creature higher than a mosquito

After just nine months Sussan Ley was sent on eternity leave The issue for the Liberal Party is not simply the toppling of a female leader. It's also about what happened to that leader while she was in the job.

Crabb's scathing takedown of the stale old white tiptop loaf Liberal Party will probably read as "bitchiness" at the Melbourne Club (or wherever c*nts congregate) but it highlights the Party's "women" problem to a tee. "Adult man babysitting" "clean that up, would you"
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Closed-door apologies are not enough for a community confronted by images of worshippers being seized by NSW police | Aftab Malik Long-term trust depends on demonstrating that state power can be corrected as well as asserted

Refusing to apologise may yield short-term political advantage. It signals toughness and being resolute and clear. But toughness without introspection is brittle. Long-term trust depends on demonstrating that state power can be corrected as well as asserted.
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Goodness we're in real trouble when the best the Liberals can come up with is Angus Taylor.

And the best NSW Labor could come up with is Chris Minns.

And the best oh never mind.

This should properly cook Starmer but it won’t because why would it.

I’m not even sure this is satire honestly