CathMacAdam 🇦🇺🇪🇺

CathMacAdam 🇦🇺🇪🇺

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Excellent, the more Trump-like he appears the better for Albanese and for Australia.

Guardian Australia@australia.theguardian.com

Barely a week from election day, Peter Dutton still has the air of someone making it up on the fly | Josh Butler

theguardian.comBarely a week from election day, Peter Dutton still has the air of someone making it up on the fly | Josh ButlerFrom EV subsidies to cutting thousands of ACT public service jobs, clear answers to basic Coalition policy questions are still floating in the breeze * Polls tracker; election guide; full federal election coverage * Anywhere but Canberra; interactive electorates guide * Listen to the latest episode of our new narrative podcast series: Gina * Get our afternoon election email, free app or daily news podcast He tried laughing it off, but Thursday saw the most bruising and brutal press conference of Peter Dutton’s campaign. Weeks of evasive answers, contradictions and sloppy language from Coalition supporting players finally caught up with him, as the Liberal leader whacked away blunt questions which, nine days from election day, he is still struggling to answer. The opposition leader was in Hobart, announcing a major and worthwhile policy on domestic violence. This critical issue has not received the attention it deserves in this campaign, as women continue to die at the hands of partners; the Coalition should be applauded for bringing it to the fore of the election. Sign up for the Afternoon Update: Election 2025 email newsletter “Is it concerning to you that your pick for immigration minister doesn’t appear to know the current migration settings?” “Was your answer yesterday on West Jerusalem a mistake? Your office had to clarify.” “You’ve been able to visit 13 petrol stations so far during this campaign, and you haven’t visited a single nuclear power site. Are you going to do one before polling day, or are you worried that this nuclear energy policy is losing you votes?” “Why should people vote for you when you give the air of a guy that’s turned up not having done his homework on time?” “41,000 [public service] jobs in Canberra? That’s a huge amount.” Q: Would a Coalition government repeal the EV tax break? Dutton: No, we’ve said that what we’re opposed to is the Government’s big tax on hybrids. Continue reading...

I doubt the Judicial and Legislative arms will achieve anything without citizen support. Organised civil disobedience anyone? Smaller scale and local, make it easier for more people to take part and it will help to build networks. See below for Amnesty International’s playbook.

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George Takei@georgetakei.bsky.social

Let’s be clear. When the President defies the Supreme Court, it is the role of Congress to remove him from office. Full stop.

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Cinco de Mayo parades in Chicago, Philadelphia, and San Jose have been canceled due to organizers' concerns about ICE raids and anti-immigrant sentiment, as community members fear attending.

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"We have informed the administration through our legal counsel that we will not accept their proposed agreement. The University will not surrender its independence or relinquish its constitutional rights." FINALLY. Thank you, @harvard.edu, for FINALLY taking a stand.

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While the United States has plenty of real problems to deal with, Trump is ignoring them to manufacture fake emergencies. Why? He wants more power — and in the process, he’s subjecting millions to real harm. America’s actual national emergency is Donald J. Trump.

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By raising tariffs, Donald Trump just unleashed the largest peacetime tax increase in American history. And you’re going to be paying for it.

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The U.S is the wealthiest country in the history of the world. We should not have the highest rate of child poverty of nearly every major country on earth. We should have the lowest.   It's time to end this international embarrassment & create an economy that works for all.

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Ignore the third term talk - it’s meant to distract you, and it’s working. “No person constitutionally ineligible to the office of President shall be eligible to that of Vice-President of the United States.”

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RFK is a eugenics freak first and foremost and everything falls downstream from that. he *wants* excess deaths. he thinks that only the "fit" should survive.

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You’re a fool if you think the GOP won’t roll this out: In the 1857 Dred Scott v. Sandford Supreme Court case, the court ruled that enslaved people, including Dred Scott, and their descendants were not and could never be citizens of the United States, thus lacking the right to sue in federal court.

Timothy Snyder@timothysnyder.bsky.social

If you accept that non-citizens have no right to due process, you are accepting that citizens have no right to due process. All the government has to do is claim that you are not a citizen; without due process you have no chance to prove the contrary.

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President Musk and Kennedy Center chairman Trump act like this country belongs to them — grabbing everything they can and daring anyone to stop them. On April 5, we’re taking to the streets nationwide to say loud and clear: Hands Off! Join us: handsoff2025.com/?SQ...

Most recently ICE arrested academics and students with valid visas. Next they arrested residents. They also detained a US citizen who was carrying proof of his US citizenship. As a result the UN in New York is advising all staff to carry passports showing their US visa.

Amy Siskind@amysiskind.com

We are sliding down that slippery slope to fascism. FIGHT back!

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“One young man sobbed when a guard pushed him to the floor. He said, ‘I’m not a gang member. I’m gay. I’m a barber.’ I believed him. *** He “began to whimper,” as his head was roughly shaved, “folding his hands in prayer as his hair fell.” He “asked for his mother & cried as he was slapped again.”

time.comWhat the Venezuelans Deported to El Salvador ExperiencedExclusive photos of the arrival of Venezuelan detainees deported from the U.S.

We’re chasing every single mosquito released by Trump when the real problem is the swamp

Robert Reich@rbreich.bsky.social

The Trump regime's repeated attacks on "DEI," "wokeness," and the trans community have one clear purpose: If we are angry at each other, we don't look up to see how big corporations and billionaires have rigged markets and siphoned off most of the economy's gains.