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I hadn’t seen this. Kirk, the moderate free speech guy who did politics the right way per some liberals (!), called for Biden to be executed.
Meanwhile Joe Biden put out a very strong statement condemning Kirk’s killing.
Both sides!
Meanwhile Joe Biden put out a very strong statement condemning Kirk’s killing.
Both sides!
Charlie Kirk: Joe Biden should be "put in prison and/or given the death penalty for crimes against America"
www.mediamatters.org
September 14, 2025 at 1:14 AM
I hadn’t seen this. Kirk, the moderate free speech guy who did politics the right way per some liberals (!), called for Biden to be executed.
Meanwhile Joe Biden put out a very strong statement condemning Kirk’s killing.
Both sides!
Meanwhile Joe Biden put out a very strong statement condemning Kirk’s killing.
Both sides!
@michaelbodey.bsky.social Hey Michael. Followed your for a while now and I’ve always liked your yearly book summaries. I’ve been curious (but dubious of their quality) of AFL books and/or biographies. Do you have any recommendations of a AFL book that is actually good?
September 6, 2025 at 10:06 AM
@michaelbodey.bsky.social Hey Michael. Followed your for a while now and I’ve always liked your yearly book summaries. I’ve been curious (but dubious of their quality) of AFL books and/or biographies. Do you have any recommendations of a AFL book that is actually good?
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This is hilariously ridiculous. For two years Albanese has been saying Australia isn't a serious player in the Middle East and everyone pressuring the government to do more needs to chill out.
Now the government is backgrounding about us reconstructing Gaza!
Now the government is backgrounding about us reconstructing Gaza!
August 11, 2025 at 11:07 AM
This is hilariously ridiculous. For two years Albanese has been saying Australia isn't a serious player in the Middle East and everyone pressuring the government to do more needs to chill out.
Now the government is backgrounding about us reconstructing Gaza!
Now the government is backgrounding about us reconstructing Gaza!
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My Fantastic Four
July 21, 2025 at 8:35 PM
My Fantastic Four
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ANU executives spent $11M on travel, in the latest available reporting year. This year, ANU college of arts and social sciences is being forced to cut $6.1M. Make this make sense. vimeo.com/1098376260/f...
July 4, 2025 at 9:36 AM
ANU executives spent $11M on travel, in the latest available reporting year. This year, ANU college of arts and social sciences is being forced to cut $6.1M. Make this make sense. vimeo.com/1098376260/f...
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There is a direct line between the impunity with which Trump and MAGA politicians tell lies about immigrants’ supposed criminality and the way these establishment Democrats feel complete license to smear a Muslim politician with false allegations and insinuations about antisemitism
Democratic congressman Eric Swalwell says of Zohran Mamdani: "I don't associate myself with what he has said about the Jewish people."
June 28, 2025 at 9:11 PM
There is a direct line between the impunity with which Trump and MAGA politicians tell lies about immigrants’ supposed criminality and the way these establishment Democrats feel complete license to smear a Muslim politician with false allegations and insinuations about antisemitism
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Let’s be clear: Israel, an occupier, has no authority under international law to board or divert the Madleen.
This is a hijacking, plain and simple. A hijacking of a UK-registered ship, with multiple *European* citizens on board.
Does the EU or UK government have anything to say? Anything??
This is a hijacking, plain and simple. A hijacking of a UK-registered ship, with multiple *European* citizens on board.
Does the EU or UK government have anything to say? Anything??
June 9, 2025 at 1:00 AM
Let’s be clear: Israel, an occupier, has no authority under international law to board or divert the Madleen.
This is a hijacking, plain and simple. A hijacking of a UK-registered ship, with multiple *European* citizens on board.
Does the EU or UK government have anything to say? Anything??
This is a hijacking, plain and simple. A hijacking of a UK-registered ship, with multiple *European* citizens on board.
Does the EU or UK government have anything to say? Anything??
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The chief of the country’s premier anti-antisemitism organization is now praising a government official who just this week defended Holocaust denial as part of “viewpoint diversity.”
June 6, 2025 at 11:06 PM
The chief of the country’s premier anti-antisemitism organization is now praising a government official who just this week defended Holocaust denial as part of “viewpoint diversity.”
FINALLY! I’m so tired of the bourgeoisie media class labelling art as ‘necessary’. No!It can erotic! It can be nail biting! It can be violent! It can be funny! It can be emotional! I’m so tired of leftists liking shit that only ascribes to their political beliefs!
“Where does this tendency come from — to treat artists as social workers or carers whose obligation is to guide us towards better decisions?”
Ari Wilson on the campaign to screen ADOLESCENCE in UK schools and the labelling of art products as “required viewing”.
Ari Wilson on the campaign to screen ADOLESCENCE in UK schools and the labelling of art products as “required viewing”.
Required viewing: Why is Adolescence being screened in schools? - Overland literary journal
No art can be reduced to one reading that justifies calling it necessary — as if it was a pack of rations to take on a forced march — and it’s a fool’s errand to shove a TV show at teenagers in the ho...
overland.org.au
May 30, 2025 at 2:56 AM
FINALLY! I’m so tired of the bourgeoisie media class labelling art as ‘necessary’. No!It can erotic! It can be nail biting! It can be violent! It can be funny! It can be emotional! I’m so tired of leftists liking shit that only ascribes to their political beliefs!
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A story about why Democrats are losers, in four parts.
May 21, 2025 at 12:47 PM
A story about why Democrats are losers, in four parts.
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The newspaper that gave the world Roger Ebert & published his Pulitzer-winning film criticism for five & a half decades can't be bothered to pay a human freelancer some tiny pittance to compile a summer reading list, so they outsourced it to the free lie generator. I have no joke. This is just sad.
This was just posted by @tbretc.bsky.social on another platform. The Chicago Sun-Times obviously gets ChatGPT to write a ‘summer reads’ feature almost entirely made up of real authors but completely fake books. What are we coming to?
May 20, 2025 at 8:31 PM
The newspaper that gave the world Roger Ebert & published his Pulitzer-winning film criticism for five & a half decades can't be bothered to pay a human freelancer some tiny pittance to compile a summer reading list, so they outsourced it to the free lie generator. I have no joke. This is just sad.
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May 6, 2025 at 2:53 PM
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Can we just spare a thought, too, for the official end of News Corp as a political force. No one outside an aging political class pays any attention to them.
May 3, 2025 at 11:54 AM
Can we just spare a thought, too, for the official end of News Corp as a political force. No one outside an aging political class pays any attention to them.
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Happy 10th anniversary to this.
April 24, 2025 at 10:40 PM
Happy 10th anniversary to this.
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A number of mutually exclusive but equally destructive interests are colluding to control the future but if there’s one link to bind them it’s a mental enslavement to joyless pursuit of money and power for its own sake at all costs. A pure Anti-Life Equation that wilts in the face of actual passion
April 23, 2025 at 12:04 PM
A number of mutually exclusive but equally destructive interests are colluding to control the future but if there’s one link to bind them it’s a mental enslavement to joyless pursuit of money and power for its own sake at all costs. A pure Anti-Life Equation that wilts in the face of actual passion
‘Like many small business owners, Zahid acknowledges that his administrative paperwork isn’t always up to date’
Between Dutton’s uninspiring campaign, the undercover millionaire in Kooyong, now this, I’m penciling in a labour win. When your PR team has to admit you fucked up, you REALLY fucked up.
Between Dutton’s uninspiring campaign, the undercover millionaire in Kooyong, now this, I’m penciling in a labour win. When your PR team has to admit you fucked up, you REALLY fucked up.
Liberal candidate for Bruce in still more trouble. Liberal campaign in this winnable seat has been a disaster zone.
www.theage.com.au/politics/vic...
www.theage.com.au/politics/vic...
Fake reviews, a bewildered family: Following the threads of a candidate’s business empire
A Liberal candidate in suburban Melbourne paints himself as a successful “small businessman”. I started looking into his businesses, and found some very surprising results.
www.theage.com.au
April 23, 2025 at 3:05 AM
‘Like many small business owners, Zahid acknowledges that his administrative paperwork isn’t always up to date’
Between Dutton’s uninspiring campaign, the undercover millionaire in Kooyong, now this, I’m penciling in a labour win. When your PR team has to admit you fucked up, you REALLY fucked up.
Between Dutton’s uninspiring campaign, the undercover millionaire in Kooyong, now this, I’m penciling in a labour win. When your PR team has to admit you fucked up, you REALLY fucked up.
Good movie! I like it’s spin on the hostage film by having Jack’s character reluctantly participating. Catchy theme song too!
Obscure YT of the day: For Jack Nicholson's 88th birthday, his film debut in CRY BABY KILLER in 1958! Produced by Roger Corman!
youtu.be/2PM7cZBza-k?...
youtu.be/2PM7cZBza-k?...
April 22, 2025 at 1:23 PM
Good movie! I like it’s spin on the hostage film by having Jack’s character reluctantly participating. Catchy theme song too!
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Every single western pundit, politician, person on this site, pro Israel group, who mindlessly chanted for 18 months, ‘if Hamas released the hostages the war would be over’… should hang their heads in shame, & spend the rest of their lives apologizing, especially for being played by Netanyahu!
April 20, 2025 at 6:58 AM
Every single western pundit, politician, person on this site, pro Israel group, who mindlessly chanted for 18 months, ‘if Hamas released the hostages the war would be over’… should hang their heads in shame, & spend the rest of their lives apologizing, especially for being played by Netanyahu!
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John Carpenter got his star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.
April 3, 2025 at 8:58 PM
John Carpenter got his star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.
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The Wikimedia Foundation, which owns Wikipedia, says its bandwidth costs have gone up 50% since Jan 2024 — a rise they attribute to AI crawlers.
AI companies are killing the open web by stealing visitors from the sources of information and making them pay for the privilege
AI companies are killing the open web by stealing visitors from the sources of information and making them pay for the privilege
April 2, 2025 at 9:12 AM
The Wikimedia Foundation, which owns Wikipedia, says its bandwidth costs have gone up 50% since Jan 2024 — a rise they attribute to AI crawlers.
AI companies are killing the open web by stealing visitors from the sources of information and making them pay for the privilege
AI companies are killing the open web by stealing visitors from the sources of information and making them pay for the privilege
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Funded by the US taxpayer.
In one of the Gaza war's darkest nights, the IDF killed nearly 300 women and children
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www.haaretz.com
March 29, 2025 at 9:03 PM
Funded by the US taxpayer.
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"Palestinian Women 'Raped by Israeli Soldiers.' Silence From Western Media"
Powerful new testimony, writes Fatima Bhutto for Zeteo, reveals Western hypocrisy is alive and well – rape is only a crime and an outrage when it serves Western political interests.
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Powerful new testimony, writes Fatima Bhutto for Zeteo, reveals Western hypocrisy is alive and well – rape is only a crime and an outrage when it serves Western political interests.
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Palestinian Women 'Raped by Israeli Soldiers.' Silence From Western Media
Powerful new testimony reveals Western hypocrisy is alive and well – rape is only a crime and an outrage when it serves Western political interests.
zeteo.com
March 27, 2025 at 10:05 PM
"Palestinian Women 'Raped by Israeli Soldiers.' Silence From Western Media"
Powerful new testimony, writes Fatima Bhutto for Zeteo, reveals Western hypocrisy is alive and well – rape is only a crime and an outrage when it serves Western political interests.
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Powerful new testimony, writes Fatima Bhutto for Zeteo, reveals Western hypocrisy is alive and well – rape is only a crime and an outrage when it serves Western political interests.
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If Palestine is the litmus test everybody has failed it, so it's not a surprise the West is in a dire State. The same men bombing brown & Black people indiscriminately will also snatch your white elderly Mom's social security. That's why fighting for rights can't be selective. Everybody or nobody.
March 24, 2025 at 4:42 AM
If Palestine is the litmus test everybody has failed it, so it's not a surprise the West is in a dire State. The same men bombing brown & Black people indiscriminately will also snatch your white elderly Mom's social security. That's why fighting for rights can't be selective. Everybody or nobody.
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According to the co-director of the Oscar-winning documentary No Other Land, the IDF abducted his Palestinian collaborator after he was beaten by settlers.
Just thinking of all the people who went on the record objecting to this documentary as being critical of Israel.
Just thinking of all the people who went on the record objecting to this documentary as being critical of Israel.
March 24, 2025 at 6:43 PM
According to the co-director of the Oscar-winning documentary No Other Land, the IDF abducted his Palestinian collaborator after he was beaten by settlers.
Just thinking of all the people who went on the record objecting to this documentary as being critical of Israel.
Just thinking of all the people who went on the record objecting to this documentary as being critical of Israel.
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This is an example of how nostalgia for the old days is simply nostalgia for when you were younger.
The idea that America was a post-racial society in the 1970s/1980s only makes sense if you were literally a child at that time and couldn’t observe what any adult was experiencing.
The idea that America was a post-racial society in the 1970s/1980s only makes sense if you were literally a child at that time and couldn’t observe what any adult was experiencing.
March 23, 2025 at 3:13 PM
This is an example of how nostalgia for the old days is simply nostalgia for when you were younger.
The idea that America was a post-racial society in the 1970s/1980s only makes sense if you were literally a child at that time and couldn’t observe what any adult was experiencing.
The idea that America was a post-racial society in the 1970s/1980s only makes sense if you were literally a child at that time and couldn’t observe what any adult was experiencing.