Tim Dunlop

Queensland to ban use of the phrases “salted caramel oatmeal cold brew” and “globalise the mocha latte” when used to cause "menace, harassment or offence".

With baseball bats?

The US government has no interest or conception of a world order that does anything other than bend to their whims. That's it. That's the logic. Can we stop being shocked by this and just get on with opposing it?

Albanese’s dream of Labor becoming the “natural party of Howard” takes another big step forward. Ffs.

Vietnam territory

Difficult woman, I presume

RIP Kyle and Jackie O, 2000-2026

Excellent resource allocation by the party that boasts about being economically superior. They got one Tim Wilson and Labor got 94 of 150 available seats.
Shrewd.

This thread is sort of the reverse of the Python skit about “what have the Romans ever done for us?”
No equivalent of, “well, obviously the roads!”

British far-right, anti-Islam activist and thug, Tommy Robinson, sends out supportive tweet to Anthony Albanese, saying, "I don't like this man either but credit where it's due". It is in response to Albanese tweeting support for Trump's war in Iran.

Wow, that's endorsement you don't want on your resume.

😅

Negative gearing changes on the table before May budget, Jim Chalmers confirms Treasurer says ‘not unusual’ for his department to examine options but stresses that no decision has been made

Labor's caution increasingly comes across as patheticness. Just frigging say you are considering it.
"Do you like ice-cream?"
"It's not unusual for people to express preferences for a range of delicious desserts at this stage of a meal."
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Really nice work documenting the way in which creeps like Wilson are given protected species status by the media, in this case, specifically by Nine Media.

By design

Death by Kool-Aid

@fionakatauskas.bsky.social Nice one in the inbox today 😆

Or stay in more

It's sold about 40K copies last time I looked, which is a lot for Australian non-fiction. The bigger point is that it is another cog in a project to normalise this view of history, and that project is ongoing and bottomless.

Lol, yeah, I did. I was writing a book about the culture wars, and Abbott features. The publication of the book is outside my timeline, but I thought I should do him the courtesy of reading it.

Girt by Tony Abbott A review of the "history" of Australia by the defeated member for Warringah and his helpers at the IPA

This is not a history book but another IPA-led attempt to erase and delegitimise labourist, socialist, Indigenous, multicultural or secular traditions and pretend we are all good little Christian conservatives.
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Yes, but the LNP would've bulldozed 3001 hectares of tropical savanna, so it's a win!

Congratulations, Amy. Look forward to reading it.

Thanks, GM.

Thank you!

TN bill would allow death penalty for women who have an abortion SBC President Clint Pressley endorsed the effort saying it would “provide preborn children with equal protection of the laws.”

Meanwhile, the Epstein files, full of postborn children….

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Aren't they something to keep out all those asylum seekers who are escaping from their asylums?

Fucking hell

"The creatures outside looked from pig to man, and from man to pig, and from pig to man again; but already it was impossible to say which was which." --Animal Farm

Australia is finally building more social housing – but it’s still not enough Public investment will add tens of thousands of new social housing dwellings by 2030, reversing decades of decline. But new research shows the increase will only prevent further erosion of the sector, not reduce unmet need.

Privatisation fo public housing a failed policy johnmenadue.com/post...?

I kinda hate the "imagine if" gambit, but ffs, imagine if this sort of evidence had been accrued about attacks on synagogues and Jewish members of parliaments. The prime minister and all of officialdom would be bending over backwards (quite rightly) to find the perpetrators.