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Kornacki cam call of AES defeating Haley Stevens
It’s official: @abdulelsayed.bsky.social wins the Democratic Primary for Senate! The People Prevail Over Corporate Profits Once Again!
Friends, a new piece for Crikey - on how Google Earth being crammed with AI slop is the perfect distillation of a company obsessed with doing exactly the wrong thing as fast as possible, in every way imaginable, for as long as they can get away with it www.crikey.com.au/2026/08/04/g...
If you catch a Hurstbridge train between Greensborough and Montmorency Stations you’ll pass a row of businesses on Para Road. Most are dilapidated, some permanently closed - and one, conspicuously, is gleaming and thriving. There’s profit in genocide and if you push back, they’ll throw away the key.
ABC News Australia@news.abc.net.au · yesterdayArson attack on Victorian defence manufacturer Lovitt Technologies investigated as ‘far-left terror’
Coalition demanding amendments to Labor govt's gambling bill - saying they want action on inducements and ad frequency Govt's bill appears nearly friendless in the Senate, with Greens, crossbench and now Coalition (+ Labor members) voicing major concerns
Actually disgusting that nurses were treated like utter shit, overworked and dying during the pandemic and now RFK is on TV telling everyone that didn't happen. I can't even imagine a more thankless, hostile job right now.
Apparently the conflict is some in the Labor party room say the plans are too racist while others argue they’re not racist enough.
AusPoast@daryltractor.bsky.social · yesterday‘Three sources familiar with the government's thinking told the ABC the minister had been preparing a package of measures to achieve a quick and drastic cut to net migration.’
That permanently worried-looking guy who likes to flank Alan Jones must surely be a cartoonist’s dream
This government is really really pissing me off. Thrown away a huge mandate for progressive policy. Just policy on the run now. And that never works. EG. Fucking Jillian Segal
The Times, one of the leading voices when it comes to 'protecting women and girls' calling a man who assaulted his young pregnant girlfriend, said he would rape the kids if he was a teacher and called for child sex abuse porn to be legal, 'brilliant'
This is so deeply disturbing to read, If it eventuates it would in essence be One Nation now running immigration policy for the Albanese Government and them abandoning migrants and refugees in a desperate attempt to win votes. www.abc.net.au/news/2026-08...
Tony Burke delays speech expected to reveal sweeping migration cuts
The ABC understands the cuts to migration numbers are contentious within Labor, but no reason for the delay is given.
abc.net.au
I remember this, it’s John Kay, who drowned his wife then drove head-on into a bridge to plead ‘diminished capacity’. The Sun kept a position open for him while he was committed, then in their obit called him ‘the greatest journalist of his generation’ and ‘everybody's mate’
Tom Usher@tomusher.bsky.social · yesterdayI remember one time when some journo cunt died (who had literally killed his fucking wife) and all the other journo cunts on twitter started eulogising him like he was a great and lovely man, even when it was pointed out he had killed his wife. Now to check the reaction to Rod Liddle dying
Were those the “long range precision missiles” that killed 300 schoolgirls in a single strike?
CNBC@cnbc.com · yesterdayU.S. has used 'virtually all' of its long-range precision missiles during Iran war: Reuters
Here we go. Policy on the run to preserve your share of the vote rather than policy on merit. Self interest reigns supreme in party politics
AusPoast@daryltractor.bsky.social · yesterday‘Three sources familiar with the government's thinking told the ABC the minister had been preparing a package of measures to achieve a quick and drastic cut to net migration.’
‘Three sources familiar with the government's thinking told the ABC the minister had been preparing a package of measures to achieve a quick and drastic cut to net migration.’
ABC News Australia@news.abc.net.au · yesterdayTony Burke delays National Press Club speech expected to reveal migration cuts
Crop yields down, our countryside scorched and over 2800 people are dead due to this summer's heatwaves. Meanwhile fossil fuel giants are raking in record profits. We must end this rampant profiteering, and cut fossil fuels from our energy mix as soon as possible.
Damian Carrington@dpcarrington.bsky.social · yesterdayBP profits more than double to $5.7bn in three months as Iran war sends oil prices soaring - "While BP banks enormous profits, millions of households are paying the price" #energycrisis #climatecrisis www.theguardian.com/business/202...
Britain’s Andy Burnham has signed off on the early release of people convicted of domestic abuse and manslaughter this fall. The backlash against the ruling is already under way. London Playbook 👇
Burnham’s difficult choices begin
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Article headline and copy has the correct term 'deny'. Why does the @news.abc.net.au post replace it with the completely incorrect and misleading word 'refute'? #auspol
ABC News Australia@news.abc.net.au · 2d agoSportsbet, TAB refute claims account managers offered to supply illicit drugs
Record heat continues unabated in JAPAN Today 2 more records fell in island stations: 35.2C both at Chiya and Chara, New August records. A new intensification of heat is expected next days.
“"So we're really, really pleased his last few days on earth were some of the best." 😢
ABC News Australia@news.abc.net.au · 2d agoCharity cyclist Bob Montgomery, 82, dies one day after last heroic ride
BREAKING: The newly elected Prime Minister of Hungary announced that Netanyahu will be arrested if he enters Hungary.
I wonder how many lives Alan Jones managed to ruin. Repulsive old creep.
ICE detains John Hopkins researcher at airport in 'extremely distressing' case
ICE detains John Hopkins researcher at airport in 'extremely distressing' case
A Johns Hopkins University researcher was released from ICE detention after she was detained at Baltimore-Washington International Airport on Tuesday
themirror.com
