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I've been waiting for someone to do this, it's just so lazy and intellectually dishonest to collapse the specific objections about particular coordinated anti-pro-Palestinian campaigns with this obvious nudge/wink nazi fig-leaf
November 15, 2025 at 12:46 AM
Kween shit - support live music and the tiny subset of remaining venues that support it y'all
November 15, 2025 at 12:30 AM
tbf he is using a right-handed hammer
True comedy is watching Dave Portnay trying to use a hammer
November 14, 2025 at 9:55 PM
Turns out the 'Big Beautiful Bill' was the ex-presidents we blew along the way
Mark Epstein asked his brother Jeffrey Epstein whether Steve Bannon could confirm if Putin has “the photo of Trump blowing Bubba. Jeffrey Epstein: "I thought I had tsuris,” using the Yiddish term for troubles. #OpDeathEaters
November 14, 2025 at 9:13 PM
my appetite is whet...
November 14, 2025 at 10:44 AM
A teenager in Gdańsk wanted a loaf of bread from the local bakery and was forced into a train and sent to a concentration camp, setting off a chain of events that would have a dramatic impact on her life and help upend the political career of German Chancellor Adolf Hitler.
A teenager in Florida with a homeless parent wanted money for braces and ended up having sex for money with powerful men, setting off a chain of events that would have a dramatic impact on her life and help upend the political career of Representative Matt Gaetz. nyti.ms/49PSkL9
November 14, 2025 at 12:35 AM
The kids are wild for Jesse Welles singing about Highpoint Shopping Centre

(You Let my Tyres Down cover)
November 13, 2025 at 8:58 AM
Every Epstein email reads like he's having a stronk
November 13, 2025 at 6:19 AM
Middle-class journos (who muchly benefit throughout their careers from white supremacy) being shocked to discover lotsa nazis are also middle-class stock and not simply the scruffy poors is a genre that will never die
November 13, 2025 at 5:57 AM
Wild that Kevin Rudd and Paul Keating are both (technically) in the latest Epstein emails
For folks (and journalists) who want to search the Oversight Committee email texts, I made a database for searching the 20k text files:

splendorous-chaja-f79791.netlify.app
Epstein Document Search
splendorous-chaja-f79791.netlify.app
November 13, 2025 at 2:49 AM
There is no such thing as a moderate in the Liberal party and it's ridiculous to use that term, if you stay in the party you own this
November 13, 2025 at 1:52 AM
November 13, 2025 at 12:40 AM
time to check Nick 'AlphaHootersFan' Adams's hard drive
I just googled this man like 'ew who tf is this Tom Barrack guy' and the answer is the sitting, Donald Trump-appointed U.S. Ambassador to Turkey
November 12, 2025 at 10:29 PM
good morning anyone who hasn't dropped cheesy selfies with child-rapists on their insta
November 12, 2025 at 9:00 PM
Could solve a few fraught situations if Keir Starmer switches to lead the Liberal Party of Australia
November 12, 2025 at 10:53 AM
I know this isn't the point but this did remind me that nobody could ever fire me from any newsroom as I was invariably the only journo who could reliably work out percentages
I think the belief by the powerful that "people will put up with many things if you are excellent at math" is incredibly revealing in terms of understanding How We Got Here
November 12, 2025 at 8:29 AM
(First but too obvious choice being The Zit Remedy / The Zits)

Repost with an iconic fictional band
November 12, 2025 at 6:47 AM
'Increasingly brazen Nazi activities keep escalating our stochastic terror risk, please draft a speech in which we lowkey seek more funding while highkey warning of the dangers posed by both the far-right and far-left'
In an Australia first, I used FOI to get the AI chat logs of Australia's top national security bureaucrat.

They show how he used Microsoft Copilot to ghostwrite speeches and messages to colleagues.

This comes as the government looks to push AI use in the public service.
www.crikey.com.au/20...
November 12, 2025 at 2:11 AM
wow did not expect him to have even seen Bad Boy Bubby let alone drop it as his fave
Pope Leo has shared his four favorite movies of all time, as the Vatican prepares to host dozens of actors and directors in a “World of Cinema” gathering on Saturday at his official residence. See which films made the pope's list. nyti.ms/4p3exK9
Pope Leo Shares His Favorite Movies Ahead of Vatican Event
The list leans heavily on uplifting classics.
nyti.ms
November 12, 2025 at 1:29 AM
All WFH days are good but when your office is on the 46th floor some are even gooder
November 12, 2025 at 1:13 AM
Applying the highly vaunted DoorDash Index, the collapse of Menulog signifies Australia has just entered a new Depression
November 12, 2025 at 1:03 AM
Victorian Labor are like the Foucault bird meme but instead of things being like prisons, prisons are the only answer they have to things
November 11, 2025 at 10:40 PM
Just wheeled my bin through the front gate and up to the kerb and had a sudden flashback to that being a potential $1,652 fine a bit (five years) ago, at this time of evening
November 11, 2025 at 10:18 AM
Only just discovered Linda Reynolds's middle name and well yes, very
November 11, 2025 at 10:01 AM
“[Ms Reynolds] is incredibly disappointed that Ms Higgins got $2.4m worth of taxpayer money [after being raped in her office by her staffer] and has paid not a cent towards [the person who called Ms Higgins a lying cow after she was raped in her office],” he told reporters outside the court.
November 11, 2025 at 7:28 AM