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I don't care for how this has become almost a joke people throw in along with how he's old and fat and orange rather than a stomach-churning, existentially horrifying thing for a nation to know about its head of state.

I get they're inextricably intertwined but I kind of feel like leaning so much into how he was the longtime best buddy of the world's most notorious sex criminal has given it something of the feel of a political gotcha rather than the important part, which is that the president raped people.

I know there's a lot going on but I feel it should probably be more of an above-the-fold story that members of Congress released a thoroughly documented report directly accusing the president of the United States of being a serial rapist.

Two former Governors of South Carolina - one from each party - have endorsed Democrat Annie Andrews who is running against Sen. Darline Graham R-SC

Economics isn’t necessarily a zero-sum game. But power is zero-sum. The more at the top, the less anywhere else. The fact is, wealth can’t be separated from power. Power begets wealth and wealth begets power. To understand the system, we need to understand the cycle.

Home Affairs Estimates today, and I’ll be asking about: 🛂 Sharing Australians’ visa data with Trump’s America 🏝️ The secret deals sending people to Nauru 🕵️ AFP policing of protests 💰 Palantir’s government contracts ⚠️ What ASIO is doing about far-right extremism

I keep finding signs of first- and second-gen furries in the pages of early computer user groups. (Source.)

Imagine the independent environmental regulator tells a gas giant its project is likely to cause “significant, serious and irreversible harm” to one of the most precious reef systems on Earth. Now imagine the public never hears about it #auspol thepoint.com.au/opinions/hid...

“Large AI firms are shopping around the world trying to sell their snake oil and the price is copyright reform. International creative businesses are looking at Australia and cannot believe the government has been duped.” The Albanese govt isn’t just risking Australian IP. It is exposing the world.

Politicians telling us to ‘turn down the temperature’ is peak hypocrisy, @amyremeikis.bsky.social writes. "Why is it the people pointing to the fire are those being told to stop being so vocal about it?" www.deepcutnews.com/p/politician...

When the Oxford children's dictionary discarded dozens of nature-words—"dandelion," "fern," "starling"—as irrelevant to children's imagination and replaced them with words like "broadband" and "cut-and-paste," this inspired act of resistance was born: www.themarginalian.org/2019/06/17/t...

Everybody is talking about Lula, but actually the victory in Serbia of a student-led, anti-government group fronting candidates from across society is almost more interesting for what it says about the potential to genuinely transform politics with the right movement at the right moment.

There are several reasons why the NYT supports the GOP and Trump’s movement (though they may dislike him personally) but I think it boils down to the simple, and frankly sickening, fact that they don’t want the more inclusive world that liberals are trying to achieve.

Errors in temperature estimates could cause studies to underestimate the impacts of climate change by 15% or more on average, according to research co-authored by Wake Forest economics professor Alex Yu. #WFUresearch https://wakefo.rest/46r5CuW

The far-right Queensland leader Crisafulli will cut funding to any not-for-proft organisation that criticises him. That's the LNP march to authoritarianism. www.theguardian.com/australia-ne... #auspol #qldpol

it is perfectly fine and good to run on putting money back in people's pockets and then do that by banning and breaking industries which are entirely scams (crypto, phone gambling, please please please pretty please donate $1 right now)

The vile attacks on Amy Acton need to be seen in the context of a party that *needs* people to believe women fabricating sexual assaults is common as rainwater. Because it’s pretty much the only way to evade the conclusion that the president is a rapist.

Beyond disgusted by even more rape allegations against the President of the United States. "In total, more than 25 different women...have independently accused Donald Trump of rape, sexual assault, or other sexual misconduct." Report w/ new details: democrats-judiciary.house.gov/sites/evo-su...

Almost 150,000 Australians are being hit with Centrelink repayment debts that had been paused for years and calculated using the unlawful "income apportionment" method. It was a similar method to that used in Robodebt, and tallied up $4.4 billion in debts over two decades.

we have to think so much less about finding the right candidates and so much more about building political power that makes individual candidates simple stewards of the will of the bases they are accountable to

What President Trump has seen as an American–Iranian war is becoming connected with the Yemeni civil war, the Horn of Africa, the Nile dispute, and the security of the Red Sea. Wars grow. ICYMI @markhertling.bsky.social:

thinking fondly again of the college girl at the donut place, who made a little muslim boy bounce giddily out the door after she told him his donut was free, and who waved me away and said "you're good" when it was my turn to pay and then, when asked if there was a deal that day said "i hate my job"

there’s no such thing as “strategic bigotry.” I know this because there is no amount of money you could pay me to become a bigot. the democrats who do this agree to do it because they’re bigots

OBAMA: When I was president, all these Republicans are all deficits, deficits, debt, debt. You got to do something about it. And now—$40 trillion—Crickets. Somehow deficits only matter when a Democratic president is in office

@gabrielzucman.bsky.social: So let met get that straight: paying a wealth tax is impossible (“billionaires have no liquidity”, “it would be taxing unrealized gains”, “their wealth is virtual”) but one man paying half a billion to influence elections is possible. Did I understand well?

I wish people would treat the hearts and minds of their loved ones with more care.

Populists: "We don't manufacture things in Australia any more." Incat: thedriven.io/2026/10/23/w...

and on the job worker injuries. and pay them better. and make sure they can take breaks and allow them food breaks, as dictated by law. and water breaks and give workers back their rights.

It leaves our workers unprotected and our streets less safe. It's time for a change. I'm proud to support the Delivery Protection Act to crack down on exploitative subcontracting and build an economy that works for everyone.

If it looks like an Amazon delivery and drives like an Amazon delivery, then it's an Amazon delivery, right? Not according to Amazon. Big companies like Amazon have built a vast network of subcontractors who deliver their packages while shielding them from accountability.

When a worker wears an Amazon vest, drives an Amazon van and delivers on an Amazon-controlled route, but Amazon denies they work for the company — that's exploitation.

Just an innocent guy burying evidence in a pink lunch box in his back yard:

🚨BREAKING: A reporter asked Mike Johnson today, “Should we bother asking you a question about Jared Kushner treasonously manipulating US foreign policy behind Marco Rubio’s back with billions in laundered bribes sitting in secret bank accounts, or have you not heard about it yet?"

Like, it's possible that "don't do what the assholes do" could lead you astray but we're in a particularly weird moment where caring about and having expertise in like anything is deeply polarized

I should also say - she is a genuinely kind person who believes in a what she would call "minding my own business" but which is in practice a strong commitment to defending the self-determination of others, I don't think she'd be swayed by a transphobic nutritionist or something

absolutely sidestepping a bunch of handwringing bullshit about electorialism by simply looking at assholes and orienting yourself correctly

found out that my mother in law decided she was aggressively pro trans rights literally by going, I don't know anything about this but everyone who is against trans rights is also against free school lunch, the issue I know and care a lot about, so this must be the correct way to feel about this

“Kushner’s hacked phone revealed secret negotiations… Kushner’s counsel, however, said Kushner did not make any agreements or arrangements with leaders or officials in foreign countries that were not agreed to by [Trump].” bsky.app/profile/ifin... bsky.app/profile/ifin... Archive: archive.ph/FHGAt

Not even 9pm and I'm already tired

I have never related to someone more, tbh. 😭 Even tho I have not saved the internet.

please don't miss this interview, you need to experience the whole ride up to this amazing exchange

Rights groups are worried the agency at the heart of Trump's immigration crackdown could sway the vote on election day.

Oh shit this is the smoking gun proof of what that $2B Jared Kushner got from the Saudis was actually for. …Which, essentially, is what we all thought it was: Reputation laundering, power brokering, & agenda-setting in the Republican party & any future Trump term. This is some damn good journalism

70 percent of the internet was vulnerable yesterday to very bad security flaws inside a coding language. Turns out, *one volunteer* is mostly responsible for maintaining that code & helping push updates. Yesterday Ondřej Surý saved the internet. So I called him up www.theatlantic.com/technology/2...

Just when Burnham proclaims end of neoliberalism, yet gives more austerity with fiscal rules, Greens should be filling "airwaves" with talk about their landmark motion on fiscal referees that would ensure spending for long term objectives...

🍃🌹🌿 NZGreens have demonstrated they are the most evidence-based & pragmatic NZ political party with fully-costed budgets, & fiscal strategies that are meticulously researched & proofed #nzpol open.substack.com/pub/weareund...?

I feel sick in my stomach today