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Congratulations @squigglyrick.bsky.social on being shortlisted for the 2025 Walkley Book award for Mean Streak. I'm sure you'd prefer not to have had to write it, but your forensic examination of Robodebt hell means a lot to many. #booksky

Well fuck

what total depravity from the perpetrators of the abuse right up to Netanyahu who blames the “reputational damage” on the woman who leaked the video

FOI documents reveal lead-up to failed Bendigo Writers Festival A founding director of the widely boycotted Bendigo Writers Festival says major sponsor La Trobe University pressured organisers into sending a controversial code of conduct.

BENDIGO WRITERS FESTIVAL EXCLUSIVE: La Trobe Uni pressured #Bendigo Council to send the infamous code of conduct to participants, according to those at a council-run roundtable.
Council confirmed to us it sent the code with specific additions at La Trobe Uni’s request.
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-11...

Writing the book on Robodebt drove Rick Morton mad. Now it's won him $80k Journalist Rick Morton didn't want to write a book about Robodebt. Now that book, Mean Streak, has won the Prime Minister's Literary Award for non-fiction.

What a ride. www.abc.net.au/news/2025-09...

This is the strength of our city. We’ll honor the trust these families put in us by making this a place where they can thrive.

Victorian Lib spill tomorrow morning. Brad Battin has gone🤣🤣🤣Ian

Same here!

I always get them mixed up. I'm convinced they're the same person

Sheer joy to read Rick.

No Genou is Bad News This horror story begins with a wandering brass band; my sirens. I will follow a brass band anywhere. There is just something about the way a tuba cuts a shape on the horizon – so brash, so untoward ...

Taken out by the mean streets of Montmartre, a weekend away in the French countryside becomes a spiritual and physical battle for survival. My newsletter update: rick-morton.ghost.io/no-genou-is-...

Boomers Rock ✊️

lol!

Bill Gates and Bjorn Lomborg bear a really substantial chunk of responsibility for supplying this line to every climate-delaying pro-fossil government around the world

Nervous Laughter Life, writing and other tragedies

I have been writing my latest newsletter update for a week and trying to get it finished. It is sprawling, perhaps even unreadable, but I will have it ready by tomorrow morning AEDT. If you want to subscribe, it's free! rick-morton.ghost.io

'Social cohesion' is never sold as the need for white Australians to embrace the needs of people of colour.

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Lovely people of Bluesky
I just want you all to know how much I enjoy your company. I hope we keep on meeting like this XX

I'm actually shocked. Good on Dana Bash for asking the question, and I genuinely would not have expected Greene to answer the way she did.

And then think of what a cornered psychopathic human being with the morals and instincts of a rat and control of over five thousand nuclear warheads would do.

Massie: "I would remind my Republican colleagues who are decided how to vote, Donald Trump can protect you in red districts right now by giving you an endorsement, but by 2030, he's not gonna be the president and you will have voted to protect pedophiles if you don't vote to release those files."

My New Pet Project To Distract Me From The Really Stupid Timeline We Find Ourselves Living In:

I'm reading the original novels that were the source material for a few of my favorite movies.

And how are all of YOU coping these days....? 🤯

KARL: The president claims that Thanksgiving costs are down 25%. Does he know that's not true?

HASSETT: Well if you look at Walmart--

KARL: Wait a minute. I've gotta stop you. The Walmart package this year contains much less than the one last year. That's why the price is less.

Pressed to outline how the LNP will reduce emissions with their new energy plan, Sussan Ley says they’ll rely on “breakthrough technologies” in about “25 years time”😳 - ones not invented yet & “we’re not talking about today”🤔
There you have it. As bonkers as it gets. #auspol

Dem Senator Goes All the Way There: Trump Was ‘Clearly’ at the ‘Center of a Child Sex Ring’ "That is heartbreaking—that the president of the United States was involved in that kind of gross, craven immorality," charged Murphy

In an interview tonight with Sam Stein, Senator Chris Murphy went all the way there, saying Trump was, "Clearly at the center of a child sex ring."

Maybe if we're lucky Trump will sue him for defamation and we can discover whether it's true.
www.mediaite.com/politics/dem...

Have you noticed now that the Epstein files all point back to Donald Trump, his MAGA base wants to change the motherf*cking subject?

These reporters aren’t having it. 🔥🔥🔥