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Your Racist Friend They Might Be Giants · Flood · Song · 1990

My ear worm today, especially the line “you can’t shake the devil’s hand and say you’re only kidding”

I think Peter “Temu Trump” Dutton shook the devil’s hand with his trumpy rhetoric, then tried to take it back. Turns out Australia doesn’t want that nonsense.

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Walz: If you say you love freedom but you don't believe freedom is for everybody, then the thing you love is not freedom, it is privilege.

Rich “friends”?

Last night was the 250th anniversary of Paul Revere's midnight ride to warn the Minutemen of approaching British troops.

I want to take a moment to share an excerpt from the Declaration of Independence's grievances against King George III.

Remind you of anyone?

Read out from our call with US President on climate inaction and greenhouse targets:

“It’s not melting, it’s just sweating. Tremendous sweating. Totally natural. Besides, we have so much ice. Too much ice. Frankly, people are saying it’s too cold.”

Missing a circle for The Terminator, what with AI & Starlink —> Skynet.

I would love to have been a fly on the wall as these guys tried spitballing ideas for how to spin tariffs on penguins.

Not just the 350 million who live in US. Retirement plans in other countries also invest in US stock market. And tariffs will hit some countries hard. We are all collateral damage.

Penguin looking through telephoto camera lense

Defence Ministry Update: Border surveillance has not detected any abnormal activity. We stand rock-hop-ready to rock, set to defend ourselves against all threats both foreign and domestic (elephant seals mainly)

For real?

I think it’s more accurate to say Far East Russia.

Europeans on democracy’s frontlines offer advice to Americans: never give up With the new Trump era likely to pose unprecedented challenges the message from Europe’s fragile democracies is: stay united and safeguard your institutions

The US has something to learn from others who have been here before: www.theguardian.com/world/2025/f...

Sometimes I believe in fate
But the chances we create
Always seem to ring more true