Chris Zappone
@chrizap.bsky.social
Senior journalist covering aviation @theage @smh / former digital foreign editor / Dark Shining Moment podcast
A story for our time...
November 14, 2025 at 1:50 AM
A story for our time...
The Kremlin disguised a nearly $100 mn payment to Trump in the form of a brokered real estate deal... and both Jeffrey Epstein and William Pulte were involved in the deal. That's very interesting.
November 13, 2025 at 7:16 AM
Catholic Bishops Issue Rare Statement Objecting to U.S. Immigration Tactics www.nytimes.com/2025/11/12/u...
Catholic Bishops Issue Rare Statement Objecting to U.S. Immigration Tactics
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November 12, 2025 at 11:50 PM
Catholic Bishops Issue Rare Statement Objecting to U.S. Immigration Tactics www.nytimes.com/2025/11/12/u...
Hmmm so we can’t just reno our way out of it?
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RBA warns economy may be ‘boxed in’ by low productivity
Deputy governor Andrew Hauser stressed that a strong starting point for a recovery had created an “unusual challenge” for monetary policy.
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November 10, 2025 at 12:49 AM
Hmmm so we can’t just reno our way out of it?
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Heritage staff in open revolt over leader’s defense of Tucker Carlson wapo.st/4hKvk28 "The furor began after Carlson invited Nick Fuentes, a white nationalist who routinely espouses antisemitic views, onto his popular podcast."
Heritage staff in open revolt over leader’s defense of Tucker Carlson
At least five members of Heritage’s antisemitism task force resigned after Roberts defended Carlson’s interview with antisemitic white nationalist Nick Fuentes.
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November 9, 2025 at 9:28 AM
Heritage staff in open revolt over leader’s defense of Tucker Carlson wapo.st/4hKvk28 "The furor began after Carlson invited Nick Fuentes, a white nationalist who routinely espouses antisemitic views, onto his popular podcast."
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Socialism is what they called public power.
Socialism is what they called social security.
Socialism is what they called the growth of free and independent labor organizations.
Socialism is their name for almost anything that helps all the people.
—Harry Truman, 1952
Socialism is what they called social security.
Socialism is what they called the growth of free and independent labor organizations.
Socialism is their name for almost anything that helps all the people.
—Harry Truman, 1952
November 7, 2025 at 9:30 PM
Socialism is what they called public power.
Socialism is what they called social security.
Socialism is what they called the growth of free and independent labor organizations.
Socialism is their name for almost anything that helps all the people.
—Harry Truman, 1952
Socialism is what they called social security.
Socialism is what they called the growth of free and independent labor organizations.
Socialism is their name for almost anything that helps all the people.
—Harry Truman, 1952
I love how for the Tech Right, as with the GOP, they themselves can never be the major driver of economic woes. Not after 4 decades of Reaganomic thinking. So even when these policies crush the middle class, the culprit is always the outsider: once it was the liberal, today "communists" everywhere.
November 9, 2025 at 4:22 AM
I love how for the Tech Right, as with the GOP, they themselves can never be the major driver of economic woes. Not after 4 decades of Reaganomic thinking. So even when these policies crush the middle class, the culprit is always the outsider: once it was the liberal, today "communists" everywhere.
I hope the pope does a speaking tour of Silicon Valley.
November 8, 2025 at 11:17 PM
I hope the pope does a speaking tour of Silicon Valley.
The governor of Pennsylvania called JD Vance "a total phoney" and denounced "Vance’s bullshit politics". www.youtube.com/watch?v=EuF4...
Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro rips JD Vance over SNAP legal battle | Calls his politics BS
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November 8, 2025 at 2:45 AM
The governor of Pennsylvania called JD Vance "a total phoney" and denounced "Vance’s bullshit politics". www.youtube.com/watch?v=EuF4...
A last breath of fresh air...The Qantas International Business Lounge at Sydney Airport will feature an outdoor terrace for passengers embarking on the 22-hour ultra-long haul Project Sunrise non-stop flights to London, due to begin in 2027. www.smh.com.au/business/com...
Qantas’ Sydney international business lounge to have outdoor terrace
A refresh is expected to give business passengers the chance “to enjoy fresh air” before boarding a 20-hour Project Sunrise flight to London.
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November 5, 2025 at 9:50 PM
A last breath of fresh air...The Qantas International Business Lounge at Sydney Airport will feature an outdoor terrace for passengers embarking on the 22-hour ultra-long haul Project Sunrise non-stop flights to London, due to begin in 2027. www.smh.com.au/business/com...
Imagine this on your city skyline...Russia’s Vologda Unveils 9-Meter Statue of Ivan the Terrible www.themoscowtimes.com/2025/11/03/r...
November 4, 2025 at 9:51 AM
Imagine this on your city skyline...Russia’s Vologda Unveils 9-Meter Statue of Ivan the Terrible www.themoscowtimes.com/2025/11/03/r...
#Breaking Canberra lays out terms for support of Rex Airlines’ rescue www.smh.com.au/business/the... #aviation #airlines #auspol
Canberra lays out terms for support of Rex Airlines’ rescue
The federal government will issue a new commercial loan of $60 million to the regional airline.
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November 4, 2025 at 7:14 AM
#Breaking Canberra lays out terms for support of Rex Airlines’ rescue www.smh.com.au/business/the... #aviation #airlines #auspol
BREAKING: The Albanese government will restructure Rex Airlines debt and hold some of its planes as collateral, as part of its support for Air T’s bid to take over the Australian regional airline.
November 4, 2025 at 5:38 AM
BREAKING: The Albanese government will restructure Rex Airlines debt and hold some of its planes as collateral, as part of its support for Air T’s bid to take over the Australian regional airline.
Creditors to Rex Airlines will receive nothing in the plan of action published by the voluntary administrators report, released on Monday evening.
November 4, 2025 at 12:59 AM
Creditors to Rex Airlines will receive nothing in the plan of action published by the voluntary administrators report, released on Monday evening.
Air India crash's lone survivor tells of pain and torment after miracle escape www.smh.com.au/world/asia/a...
Air India survivor tells of pain and torment in months after miracle escape
Everyone thinks Viswashkumar Ramesh is the luckiest person on Earth after he walked away from the plane crash that killed 241 people, including his brother. Everyone but him.
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November 4, 2025 at 12:51 AM
Air India crash's lone survivor tells of pain and torment after miracle escape www.smh.com.au/world/asia/a...
Trump may be winning the war against imaginary communists in the US. But against real communists? Not so much... www.smh.com.au/world/asia/t...
Trump may have started this global trade war, but Xi’s winning it
The US president’s tariff warfare has done more than generate choppy surf. It has unleashed chaos to the extent that it is rewiring international alliances.
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November 4, 2025 at 12:34 AM
Trump may be winning the war against imaginary communists in the US. But against real communists? Not so much... www.smh.com.au/world/asia/t...
"The gathering was further proof that the whole point of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s novel soared over the heads of the MAGA crowd." www.smh.com.au/cbd/pauline-...
Pauline Hanson, Gina Rinehart sighted at Trump’s Halloween party
The One Nation senator and Australia’s richest person were both spotted at the president’s lavish Great Gatsby-themed Halloween bash in Florida.
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November 3, 2025 at 5:52 AM
"The gathering was further proof that the whole point of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s novel soared over the heads of the MAGA crowd." www.smh.com.au/cbd/pauline-...
Watching the Podcast Bubble Burst From the Inside talkingpointsmemo.com/tpm-25/watch...
Watching the Podcast Bubble Burst From the Inside
I started my first podcast in 2009. It wasn’t anything special, just...
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November 3, 2025 at 2:10 AM
Watching the Podcast Bubble Burst From the Inside talkingpointsmemo.com/tpm-25/watch...
"I'm not a Democrat, and I oppose the Democratic Party, but let me tell them what they need to do to win the next election." -- (An entire genre of rightwing operative writing.)
November 3, 2025 at 1:58 AM
"I'm not a Democrat, and I oppose the Democratic Party, but let me tell them what they need to do to win the next election." -- (An entire genre of rightwing operative writing.)
And they said it only happened in the UK and Germany....Man Jailed for Facebook Meme Is Freed in Tennessee by @lilianasegura theintercept.com/2025/10/30/l...
Man Jailed for Facebook Meme Is Freed in Tennessee
Larry Bushart Jr. spent more than a month in jail after a Tennessee sheriff ordered his arrest for a meme trolling a Charlie Kirk vigil.
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November 3, 2025 at 1:04 AM
And they said it only happened in the UK and Germany....Man Jailed for Facebook Meme Is Freed in Tennessee by @lilianasegura theintercept.com/2025/10/30/l...
The ‘James Bond moment’: Why the sky is full of helicopters on Melbourne Cup day www.smh.com.au/business/the...
Melbourne Cup VIP helicopter airlift set to begin
One after another, they arrive, with their VIP passengers on board, before taking off again.
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November 2, 2025 at 10:17 PM
The ‘James Bond moment’: Why the sky is full of helicopters on Melbourne Cup day www.smh.com.au/business/the...
The Moral Rot Eating the American Right thefp.com/p/the-moral-... via US conservative
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The Moral Rot Eating the American Right
When leaders like J.D. Vance and Kevin Roberts excuse Tucker Carlson’s embrace of extremists, they’re not defending the conservative movement—they’re burning it to the ground, writes Erick Erickson fo...
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November 2, 2025 at 6:04 AM
The Moral Rot Eating the American Right thefp.com/p/the-moral-... via US conservative
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Just remember which political party stood by and let this happen...: Pentagon readying thousands of Guard ‘reaction forces’ as U.S. mission widens wapo.st/4ogyuwZ
Pentagon readying thousands of Guard ‘reaction forces’ as U.S. mission widens
The Defense Department’s newly established “quick reaction force” within the National Guard is being readied for civil unrest missions in U.S. cities.
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November 2, 2025 at 4:56 AM
Just remember which political party stood by and let this happen...: Pentagon readying thousands of Guard ‘reaction forces’ as U.S. mission widens wapo.st/4ogyuwZ
Is the US losing its democracy? www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
Opinion | In Trump’s America, Are We Losing Our Democracy?
Donald Trump has wielded power as no previous president has.
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October 31, 2025 at 9:16 PM
Is the US losing its democracy? www.nytimes.com/interactive/...