Paul Maynard

I was back at 26 Federal Plaza today, where an ICE agent violently threw this bereft woman to the ground in front of her kids. She had not touched him. She did not pose any threat. She had to be taken to the hospital. (🎥: Elias Eliahu)

Medicare for All - "That's socialism!"

Social Security - "That's socialism!"

Debt free education - "That's socialism!"

Universal childcare - "That's socialism!"

Bailing out a failed libertarian austerity agenda in Argentina...

"That's just how it is."

Apple on the Digital Markets Act How in the world would that increase competition? iOS’s unique and exclusive features — which, yes, in many cases, are exclusive to the Apple device ecosystem — *are competition*.

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YouTube video by ABC News In-depth Trump's Department of all out War: cartels, crime, and vaccines | Planet America

A President with no regard for the law.

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Another “money saver” idea by the economic genius of the LNP. 😄

Nine Former Directors of the CDC: ‘RFK Jr. Is Endangering Every American’s Health’ Link to: https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/01/opinion/cdc-leaders-kennedy.html

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For decades, Republicans in Washington have told us that tax cuts would trickle down to workers.

Instead, wealth and power have accumulated in the hands of the richest 1% at the expense of the rest of us.

Trickle-down economics was never supposed to work.

It was a hoax.

It is beyond comprehension that there are 55 million people in this country with a visa.

just announced: economic suicide

Someone said “if it weren’t for all the shootings you wouldn’t even know America had schools”

I’m excited to be joining Stephen Colbert tonight on “The Late Show.”

Back in 2013, I joined “The Colbert Report” to discuss how we build an economy that works for the many, not just the few.

The current US administration is just plain f..ng stupid. 
#climatechangeisreal 

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RFK Jr. cuts $500 million in mRNA vaccine contracts, dealing major blow to promising area of research The cuts add to mounting evidence that Kennedy is pursuing an aggressive anti-vaccine agenda.

When you don’t understand science and you don’t believe experts then …..

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Just like streetlights. Maybe we should limit electricity supplies to daylight hours.

I see NBNCO (Australia) have signed a deal with Amazon to use their low earth orbit shell to replace the SkyMuster service.

How many satellites does Amazon have in orbit? 78 and plans to launch 80+ more!!! Wow.

How many does Starlink have? 8075 (operational)
#auspol #nbnco

YouTube video by Edgar Aldrett Tom Lehrer - "Silent E"

Ok one more Tom Lehrer song because some of you may not know you know him from Schoolhouse Rock

Trump Is Making Socialism Great Again Capitalism needs better advocates.

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Raise jobseeker to 90% of age pension and pay for it by curbing super tax concessions, Vinnies says Exclusive: Welfare reform paper also urges increases to rent assistance and payments to families and single parents * Get our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcast A welfare reform package that includes raising jobseeker to 90% of the age pension would lift 590,000 Australians out of poverty, with the $11bn price tag paid for by curbing super tax concessions in a way that still leaves the vast majority of savers better off. A new Australian National University paper for the St Vincent de Paul Society, titled A Fairer Tax and Welfare System for Australia, examines a range of options that “are targeted to benefit persons who have the greatest financial need and would be paid for by those most able to accommodate a modest additional contribution”. Continue reading...

Raise jobseeker to 90% of age pension and pay for it by curbing super tax concessions, Vinnies says

YouTube video by Senator Bernie Sanders My thoughts on the Epstein files | Sen. Bernie Sanders

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Why couldn’t Stephen #Colbert present host a nightly show on Netflix?

Digital vassals? French Government ‘exposes citizens’ data to US’ France’s deepening reliance on US tech giants is raising alarms about digital sovereignty and exposing public data to foreign jurisdictions. In a French Senate report on economic and digital…

All governments should host their own data is they want to guarantee security.
#privitisationisamyth

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Curse Not the King Why CBS’s cancellation of “The Late Show With Stephen Colbert” stinks to high hell.

#kingtrump vs. #colbert

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Pity the #epstinefiles didn’t appear on #Wikileaks so anyone could make their own judgements.

Donald Trump, who experts said is president of the United States, which experts said is a sovereign state on the planet Earth, which experts said is an oblate spheroid and revolves around the Sun, which experts said is a G-type main-sequence star about 93 million miles from us, said on what experts said was Saturday that he was considering revoking (which experts said is a process of making invalid) the U.S. citizenship of a person with the last name of O’Donnell, who experts said is a living human person and U.S. citizen with the first name of Rosie (which experts said is a diminutive of Roseann).

The NY Times should stop using the weaselly "experts said..." to denote plain truths — unless they're going to apply the practice to *everything*. kottke.org/25/07/journa...

'Watershed moment': Big battery storage prices hit record low in huge China auction The price for big battery storage modules have hit a record low in the latest giant auction in China, where more than 70 bidders competed for 25 gigawatt hours of capacity in what is being described a...

And those can be delivered now and probably operational within a few months unlike any nuclear “solution”. #nonukes #auspol

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YouTube video by SmarterEveryDay I Tried To Make Something In America (The Smarter Scrubber Experiment) - Smarter Every Day 308

The challenges of manufacturing.

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“The technology is there:” Batteries are reinventing the grid and leading way to 100 pct renewables Tesla Energy boss says the technology is there to get to 100 per cent renewables. Just eight years ago, when the first battery was built, not everyone was convinced.

“Tadich notes that Australia was the first – and as far as he knows the only – country to host more Powerwall household batteries than Tesla EVs, which gives you some insight into what areas and technologies Australia is leading in, and what’s areas it is not.”

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We need to replace councillors with AI bots then. 😆

Why this revolutionary reusable packaging platform failed—except in France Loop’s reusable package program launched with a splash, then fizzled. The founder reflects on what went wrong—and why it works in France.

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