Stuart Horrex

This Family Made Billions on Trump-Branded Condos. Now Their Private Jet Is Taking Shackled Migrants to a Far-Flung African Prison Israeli-American billionaires Michael and Gil Dezer’s Gulfstream IV plane flew 10 migrants to the tiny African kingdom of Eswatini, flight data shows.

“This Family Made Billions on Trump-Branded Condos. Now Their Private Jet Is Taking Shackled Migrants to a Far-Flung African Prison”

It's a hoot

“I am deeply humbled to return the stewardship of Australia to its original owners, the Sports Betting industry.”

Labor’s slate for fossil fuel approvals The Albanese government has already approved 31 fossil fuel projects, and more than that are waiting, even as renewables overtake coal as the top source of electricity.

An utterly shameful list of murderous, ecocidal, omnicidal acts by a government that loves to claim it cares

The strategy of trying to get Labor and the bureaucracy to act is an abject failure. Government is a failed institution, most clearly when it comes to climate.

Time to build the next system

Inside Albanese’s FOI reforms: ‘He hates transparency’ Labor’s reforms to freedom of information laws are opposed by every public submission made to the Senate, with the government’s record on secrecy worse than Scott Morrison’s.

The jury is in. @albomp.bsky.social hates transparency. Loathes it! #FOI #auspol

Until he gets his hands on a leaf blower that is...

The Venezuelan regime’s rigid hold on power and its repression of the population are not unique in the world. We see the same trends globally: rule of law abused by those in control, free media silenced, critics imprisoned, and societies pushed towards authoritarian rule and militarisation.

Democracy is a precondition for lasting peace. However, we live in a world where democracy is in retreat, where more and more authoritarian regimes are challenging norms and resorting to violence.

Nobel Peace Prize 2025 The Nobel Peace Prize 2025 was awarded to Maria Corina Machado "for her tireless work promoting democratic rights for the people of Venezuela and for her struggle to achieve a just and peaceful transi...

www.nobelprize.org/prizes/peace...

Live Updates: María Corina Machado of Venezuela Is Awarded the Nobel Peace Prize

Congratulations to new Nobel Peace Prize laureate María Corina Machado for her courageous struggle to bring democracy to Venezuela.

ChatGPT plans the perfect holiday … to places that don’t exist ChatGPT plans the perfect holiday … to places that don’t exist

ChatGPT plans the perfect holiday … to places that don’t exist ⬇️

Tech-driven itineraries may look appealing, but travellers have found their recommended destinations and activities exist only in AI’s imagination

YouTube video by SchizoidXXI Peter Gabriel - Solsbury Hill

Something lovely for your Friday timeline…
Peter Gabriel sings “Solsbury Hill” live, while cycling around stage on a Moulton bike (made just down the road from his home in Bradford-on-Avon) youtu.be/eMwn_hnoS5Y

“Put simply, only the extremely wealthy appear to be benefiting from all of this.”

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My boss: so how's our fourth quarter looking?

Me, the sales manager at the company that makes inflatable frog suits: well, you're never going to believe this, but

The Settlers Bursting Tel Aviv’s Bubble The religious-nationalist right has targeted Israel’s most secular, liberal city

“The thing is,” she said, “For us, politics is something we do in our free time. But for them, it’s their entire lives. And that is why they will win.”

= A fundamental political truth

How to See More Clearly and Love More Purely: Iris Murdoch on the Angst of Not Knowing Ourselves and Each Other One of the hardest things to learn in life is that the heart is a clock too fast not to break. We lurch into loving, only to discover again and again that it takes a long time to know people, to un…

How to see more clearly and love more purely – an Iris Murdoch gem www.themarginalian.org/2024/08/05/i...

Next Tuesday, I'll be speaking at this online event about the Targeted Compliance Framework scandal, & how mutual obligations worsens and commodifies poverty. I'll throw some jokes in as well, dw

Come along if you like - it's free
www.eventbrite.com.au/e/unfinished...

Israel Agrees To Go Back To Killing Palestinians On Less Frequent Basis CAIRO—As part of a historic ceasefire agreement with Hamas following two years of war, the Israeli government reportedly agreed Thursday to go back to killing Palestinians on a less frequent basis. “I...

Israel Agrees To Go Back To Killing Palestinians On Less Frequent Basis

What Zohran Mamdani Knows About Power The thirty-three-year-old socialist is rewriting the rules of New York politics. Can he transform the city as mayor?

Like probably most people of a centre-left inclination with ties to New York, I’ve been entranced by Zohran Mamdani’s remarkable rise. But this piece tells me an almost perfect point I didn’t know: he formed citywide friendships as a teenager through cricket:
www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...

When federal prosecutors learned that video evidence of the entire event was in the hands of defense counsel and that it showed nearly every detail in the allegations coming from ICE officers was a lie, they dropped the charges this afternoon.

SHAPIRO: OK, so you've spent your career creating television without Al, and I could imagine today you thinking, boy, I wish I had had that tool to solve those thorny problems... SIMON: What? SHAPIRO: ...Or saying... SIMON: You imagine that? SHAPIRO: ...Boy, if that had existed, it would have screwed me over. SIMON: I don't think Al can remotely challenge what writers do at a fundamentally creative level. SHAPIRO: But if you're trying to transition from scene five to scene six, and you're stuck with that transition, you could imagine plugging that portion of the script into an Al and say, give me 10 ideas for how to transition this. SIMON: I'd rather put a gun in my mouth.

David Simon, creator of ‘The Wire’, being interviewed by Ari Shapiro (NPR)

¡Yet another perfectly qualified Trump nominee

Historians argue that Trump indicting his enemies one-by-one rather than having them murdered in a single night proves he’s not a fascist.

This is the genius of the Portland protests - they make the claims of lawlessness look not just wrong, but comical

Former Wallabies star David Pocock booted from parliamentary sports club Exclusive: Senator accused of bringing social club into disrepute after raising concerns about its association with betting lobby

Making his point for him -- just asking about the power of the gambling lobby gets Senator David Pocock booted from sports club the Prime Minister heads. www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

Government’s FOI changes could cover up the next Robodebt - new research Proposed changes to Australia’s Freedom of Information (FOI) laws would make a repeat of the disastrous Robodebt coverup more likely, rather than less, according to new research by The Australia Insti...

Proposed changes to Australia’s Freedom of Information (FOI) laws would make a repeat of the disastrous Robodebt coverup more likely, rather than less, according to new research by The Australia Institute australiainstitute.org.au/post/governm...

What? The former lawyer for Andrew Tate who also would tweet out glowing praise for Andrew Tate... is reported to have done an extremely creepy thing regarding a woman?

How surprising.

Deloitte refunds Australian government over AI in report : Big Four consultancy billed Canberra top dollar, only for investigators to find bits written by a chatbot

lol I actually used the phrase “Let’s delight our customers not Deloitte them” earlier today

Our questions for ABC 730 following the airing of this
shoddy story: