Senators were in the House of Representatives this morning for tributes to Helen Haines. Just FYI and unsurprisingly Pauline Hansen was not one of them. #auspol
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Kevin Maguire is spot on, all this talk about people stocking up is part of a wider lobbying campaign to increase defence spending. And as Kevin points out, the UK is already the 6th biggest defence spender in the world.
It is even worse than that, because the only reason they are able to do this at all is because they've spent over 3 years ignoring this Robodebt Royal Commission recommendation to restore the ordinary statute of limitations to social security debts. They're relying on the Coalition's Robodebt laws.
Serbia. Brazil. Today was a good day. And on Tuesday, goodbye Netanyahu.
"Very often in Europe we have that reflex of saying, 'what's going on in crazy America?...We would never be like that.'" But the American far right has taken plenty of inspiration from European movements of 90s & 00s, Dr Tobias Cremer MEP tells @emmashortis.bsky.social. 🎧 theaus.in/4BnCx1D
The ‘lucky country’ wasn’t a compliment. Horne was making the point that our natural resource-based wealth was shaping the national character unfavourably. This is more and more evident. Complacency, selfishness and wilful ignorance. ’Luck’ for some is at the expense of everyone else. #auspol
Simon Rosenberg@simonrosenberg.bsky.social · 12h ago"Foodbank Australia has called on the federal government to establish a nationalised school breakfast program, with the aim to reach every child by 2030." First, the Albanese govt must acknowledge that any "food insecurity" = policy failure, and 1 in 6 kids living in poverty must be fixed. #auspol
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Given all of this, it shouldn't surprise anyone to hear that 217k votes have been cast by Texans who didn't vote in 2024, and fully half of those voters are Hispanic.
As turnout in Texas nears 3 million votes, Hispanic turnout is now exceeding presidential levels. More Hispanics have voted than did at this point in the 2024 presidential election. What's driving this huge increase? Young voters.
No wonder Trump & the GOP are losing their minds, freaking out & trying to cheat every which way they can.
I fear Texas will literally set 10 million ballots on fire before this is all over.
After Orban's defeat Hungary's parliament created the 'National Asset Recovery and Asset Protection Office' to recover public assets that were stolen during the Orban era
Wow, this is the closest I’ve ever seen Germany come to the carbon intensity of the French grid. Must be windy
French Grid Bot@frenchgrid.bsky.social · yesterday🇫🇷 France: 15g CO2/kWh 🟢 ⚛️ 55% Nuclear 💨 38% Wind 🌊 5% Hydro 🇩🇪 Germany: 44g CO2/kWh 🟢 💨 86% Wind 🔥 8% Biomass 🌊 2% Hydro Data: Electricity Maps (03:00 UTC)
#WQuers #Wordle #Wordle_NYT Rough start but came home well #stack593 4/5 ⭐⭐⭐⭐ ⏱️ 2m 24s 🔥 streak: 35 🥈 #stackdownsilverteam puzzlist.com/stackdown
Does seem like we are not yet 'hopeless' enough to act. And there's too much denial. Perhaps he's right, that only a great (new) disaster can create the desperation required to push us out of this freeze state. But... wouldn't it be great if there was another way!!? www.youtube.com/watch?v=_0LS...
Slavoj Žižek: "Only when you are really desperate, you act"
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Researchers who track online influence operations say Kremlin-backed groups are renewing tactics they've used to sow distrust and discord in previous elections in the U.S. and around the world. n.pr/4snxJFv
Russia steps up election influence efforts in final stretch of midterms
Researchers who track online influence operations say Kremlin-backed groups are renewing tactics they've used to sow distrust and discord in previous elections in the U.S. and around the world.
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The OED has added a new word to it's lexicon - The Witkoff Humanitarian : One who engages in child kidnappings, executing POWs, the deliberate indiscriminate bombing of civilians & miscellaneous other war crimes as expressly prohibited by the 1949 Geneva Conventions & the Rome Statute of the ICC
