Factchecking five Coalition claims about net zero, from power prices to the $9tn cost As Liberals join Nationals in abandoning a 2050 emissions target, we unpick some of the opposition’s talking points

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Dam been writing a book about this and she just TikToked it in 90 seconds.

Everyone Paris Paloma has a new song coming out and the intro is my loser headline and it’s spoken by EMMA THOMPSON 🚨🚨🚨 and she knows who I am

Old Soviet jokes are back in style. Turns out, dark humor ages better than democracy.

The results are in

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Sound familiar? 😥

Effectively.... tax the rich.

A colorful bird holding a green four leaf clover in his beak

Marcel Schurman Greeting Card, 1970s

Absolutely dystopian juxtaposition from the Guardian front page. Difficult to understand how anyone of decency and conscience can defend this government at this point. Just sheer moral degeneracy to arm a state that does this and arrest people for objecting. Wtf are we doing as a country?

The oil industry buys off Congress. No action on climate.

The NRA buys off Congress. No action on guns.

Insurance companies buy off Congress. No action on health care.

The list goes on and on.

Money in politics is the root of our dysfunction.

When a clown moves into a palace, he doesn't become a king, the palace becomes a circus. -Turkish proverb

"Give the power to the states" was also the pro-slavery argument in the 1850s -- and the pro-segregation argument in the 1950s.

For my column this week i wrote about nepo babies who complain about being nepo babies!! as is my legal right 😇 t.co/odLPuItoKF

I've been thinking a lot about that bumper sticker which says "everything looks like a conspiracy theory when you don't understand how anything works" and folks it's pretty obvious to me that the people in power right now have absolutely no desire to understand how anything works.

Today's Poem:

“Oh, did a sportsball happen?” I whisper smugly from my vantage point on a distant cliff, the sounds of celebration in the village far below just barely audible over the lonely wind whipping my tattered cloak

This is actually exactly accurate:

She said, “May I ask you to have mercy Mr. President on those in our communities whose children fear that their parents will be taken away." If Mike Johnson thinks that’s “radical,” perhaps he has a fundamental misunderstanding of his own religion.

Helpful!

I knew one day I’d have to watch powerful men burn the world down – I just didn’t expect them to be such losers

Can a headline alone be eligible for a Pulitzer?

No, growth isn't forecast to fall by 50% (eg instead of growing by 2% a year we grow by 1%). What's actually forecast is 50% drop in the total GDP.

I don't think we are supposed to individually prepare ourselves 3x meals a day every day for our whole lives I think we're supposed to have community and sharing

Bertrand Russell wrote this over 100 years ago, in 1923. Hasn't aged a day.

A list of snowplow name suggestions from kindergarten thru 4th grade classes including "Control Salt Delete"

Give "Control Salt Delete" kid a medal you cowards

I may have misheard--is it true that every committee in the House and Senate in 2025 will be headed by men? Isn't this macho shit getting a little ridiculous?

I have been wracking my brains trying to come up with a single instance where privatizing a government service has ever either improved the service or saved any money at all.

Can anyone help me think of an example?