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The DILETTANTE
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Once described in HuffPost as “one of the brightest minds on the planet”… (true) but I’m pretty sure that journo was high. (also true).

Done stuff | Seen things | Been Places | WAF |
ANTIFA | Dilettante polymath

📍Bunurong, Turrbal and Yuggera Country.
Let’s call it a tie ;)
January 5, 2026 at 1:28 PM
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Full bench of the Federal Court threw out his previous appeal. Likely this will go anywhere?

And yeah, no matter what happens in the courts, this stain will never wash out.
January 5, 2026 at 1:19 PM
Let’s say in the last 200 years
January 5, 2026 at 1:20 PM
Give it to your newsroom they need it
January 5, 2026 at 1:12 PM
It’ll be Gina or Kerry or Lachlan
January 5, 2026 at 1:11 PM
Reposted by The DILETTANTE
WTF does he get his money from for this? Most ordinary folk couldn't have pursued the legal avenues he has. Is he even working? For who?
January 5, 2026 at 1:10 PM
#1 worldwide for gun violence
#1 worldwide for starting wars
#1 worldwide for invading other countries
#1 worldwide for medical bankruptcies

“The good guys”
January 5, 2026 at 1:09 PM
He didn’t even survive one term.

What is the cult holding on to? Unpopularity?
January 5, 2026 at 1:08 PM
When trump is dead and the co-conspirators are in prison there needs to be a real reckoning for the media and tech sectors.

Dismantle everything and start again.
January 5, 2026 at 1:00 PM
Why on earth are you still on Twitter?
January 5, 2026 at 12:43 PM
I remember a time when the NYT would thunder down against murderous, child rapist dictators unilaterally attacking countries.

But now the NYT is a propaganda tool of those very same dictators.
January 5, 2026 at 12:42 PM
January 5, 2026 at 12:40 PM
Just one?
January 5, 2026 at 12:36 PM
Kidnapped. Illegally.

By an unhinged murderous child rapist.
January 5, 2026 at 12:32 PM
Reposted by The DILETTANTE
Madison just didn't anticipate that separation of parties would eclipse separation of powers! The pathologies of the modern GOP make that worse and more immediately apparent, but it's just not clear that the institutional design would work fine without their particular pathologies.
January 5, 2026 at 12:02 AM