Good thread.

It's unsettling how many people fell for the claim that an administration that hires open Nazi sympathizers and does a bunch of Nazi-like stuff is "fighting antisemitism."

Some want to believe, agreeing with the regime's anti-free-speech and anti-academic freedom goals. But some just fell for it.

Funny, I also watch Candace daily because I’m covering the hearings and future trial and she’s reached Tyler Robinson doesn’t even exist, it was actually Egyptian special ops that dove in through Provo airport and all the TPUSA people are gay for some reason levels of storytelling here

'Matt Gaetz Raped A Homeless Teenager' is what you mean.

A teenager with a homeless parent? What? The fuck? Did she have a home and not allow her parent to live in it? Ended up having sex with? What? Yeah clearly you guys been caping for pedos long enough and you understand the assignment here

So tired of the worst, most incompetent, and nasty people failing up into positions of power.

It's a useful reminder that sometimes tech can make a task more efficient for one side (applying for jobs), and more efficient for the other side (writing job adverts), and yet make the system as a whole completely inefficient.

Is AI making job recruitment less meritocratic? We're getting some v interesting research studies on this question now, and the news is... not good. @jburnmurdoch.ft.com & I dive in, in the latest edition of our newsletter The AI Shift www.ft.com/content/e5b7...

My favorite Donald Trump fact is that in 2016, there was a leak of a conversation during an Access Hollywood interview where what he said about his treatment of women was so egregious that the interviewer lost his job.

Then Donald Trump went on to be elected president. Twice.

Schrödinger’s Douchebag. A guy who says offensive things and decides whether he was joking based on the reaction of people around him.

The most helpful phrase of 2025 👇

one of the wilder things about any discussion about net zero out here in regional NSW is that there are some folks who understand this as ZERO emissions. so they talk about it forcing them not to drive, or saying that we won't be able to turn the lights on, or shutting down all industry

Good on the Guardian for this. I'm astonished at how many journalists at other organisations don't seem to know this or think that it's important to mention. Coalition politicians keep claiming it's net zero causing rising costs without any pushback

Thinking today how homelessness runs through this story, through Epstein's (Virginia Guiffre had been homeless before meeting him), and even through Gaiman's (his nanny was sleeping on the beach when Palmer recruited her, and he used threats of homelessness against another victim).

THE ELEPHANT IN THE ROOM Kay Ryan The room is almost all elephant. Almost none of it isn't. Pretty much solid elephant. So there's no room to talk about it.

The room is
almost all
elephant.
Almost none
of it isn’t.
Pretty much
solid elephant.
So there’s no
room to talk
about it.

-Kay Ryan, “The Elephant in the Room”
#everynightapoem

Him: “You don’t understand men or women. Women enjoy being with older men”

Me: “These weren’t women they were children”

Him: “Wrong. They were young women, little women, junior women”

Stop defending raping children. Stop changing the language.

Stop telling on yourselves

It is not normal to be best friends with a pedophile for decades unless you are getting something out of that relationship.

And one thing everyone knows about Donald Trump is that he is transactional.

Really had fun working on this one 🩵

And here is evidence of how programs that are community led and supported reduce crime and increase young people engagement, plus it makes them feel safer

More of this, less of trying children as adults

Losing faith: new research shows young Australians have no confidence in either side of politics to tackle climate change Fewer than a quarter of young Australians trust the nation's political leaders on climate

"Losing faith: new research shows young Australians have no confidence in either side of politics to tackle climate change"
#ThePoint

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Predictable but still amazing to watch people who spent literally years accusing every librarian, teacher, and trans person they could find of sexually grooming children suddenly throw themselves in with "actually it's ephebophilia"

Dementia J. Trump can’t even get through a sentence when all he has to do is read it. This is guy is sundowning pretty fast. bsky.app/profile/atru...

How the Senate has changed since 1975 There has been a great deal of focus this week on the events of the Dismissal of Gough Whitlam’s Labor government, fifty years ago last Tuesday. I have been particularly drawn to examining ho…

Today's blog post is inspired by the discussion this week of the 1975 Dismissal. It looks at how Senate majorities have changed since federation, and the role of electoral systems in shaping them. I also put a case that it's multi-party politics that protects us from a repeat of 1975 #auspol

This is so big, seriously, the biggest scandal we’ve ever seen‼️👀👇🏼👇🏼👇🏼👇🏼

Wait for the “all you people wanting to see the Epstein Files are to blame for all the bombing and attacking and killing of foreign nationals and general destruction I’m forced to perpetrate.”

It's easy to get inured to the crazy, but this is Trump referring to the main exterior window of the East Room, a part of the White House that has been there since 1800, as "a knock-out panel," a construction term for a temporary part of a wall designed to be easily demolished to allow for expansion

I saw someone else post about this, and it really does set the mind reeling... most young adults have grown up with 5 years of Trump in office, and will likely see 8. -and they dont realize how bat-shit him and his administrations has been.
It's NOT NORMAL. Don't let it be!

Twitter screenshot from Pete Hegseth which reads President Trump ordered action — and the Department of War is delivering. Today, I'm announcing Operation SOUTHERN SPEAR. Led by Joint Task Force Southern Spear and @SOUTHCOM, this mission defends our Homeland, removes narco-terrorists from our Hemisphere, and secures our Homeland from the drugs that are killing our people. The Western Hemisphere is America's neighborhood - and we will protect it.

They claim this operation is to stop drugs from entering the “Homeland” and killing its people.

Remember when Trump pardoned a convicted drug dealer who helped bring 100,000kg of drugs into the country?

I do, because on Monday he went back to jail for sexual assault.

It’s not about drugs.

“It reinforces my bigotry“

Trump is just the bestest at everything!

But we're going to ignore the Republican states doing the same thing.

Rhetoric taken directly from Nazi Twitter. I can tell you the precise accounts even