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I don't know how anyone can think that this justifies shooting Alex ten times whilst standing over him, whilst he was already being pinned down by half a dozen ICE agents
BBC News says it has authenticated a video that shows Alex Pretti kicking and damaging a vehicle used by federal agents nearly two weeks before he was fatally shot in Minneapolis. [Mediaite]
BREAKING: BBC Confirms Authenticity of Viral Video Appearing to Show Alex Pretti Kicking Agents’ Car 11 Days Before Shooting
After much speculation online, the BBC has confirmed the authenticity of new viral footage appearing to show Alex Pretti kicking an agent's car on Jan. 13 — 11 days before he was shot to death by Bord...
www.mediaite.com
January 29, 2026 at 4:21 AM
I don't know how anyone can think that this justifies shooting Alex ten times whilst standing over him, whilst he was already being pinned down by half a dozen ICE agents
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Amazing thread
I just woke up from a nap and somehow while I was asleep, everyone on the bus has figured out we are not going to the right place
January 20, 2026 at 11:08 AM
Amazing thread
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I don’t think we should have ceded control quite so quickly and without so much as a fight.
January 10, 2026 at 2:52 AM
I don’t think we should have ceded control quite so quickly and without so much as a fight.
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The opposition is claiming the social media ban is a failure because kids have bypassed it and also they haven't put in enough mental health funding to support kids.
If only people could have predicted this when the opposition helped along by News Corp pushed hard for a social media ban.
If only people could have predicted this when the opposition helped along by News Corp pushed hard for a social media ban.
January 9, 2026 at 10:38 PM
The opposition is claiming the social media ban is a failure because kids have bypassed it and also they haven't put in enough mental health funding to support kids.
If only people could have predicted this when the opposition helped along by News Corp pushed hard for a social media ban.
If only people could have predicted this when the opposition helped along by News Corp pushed hard for a social media ban.
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This is brilliantly done
www.youtube.com/watch?v=qF8_...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=qF8_...
TCM Remembers 2025 | TCM
YouTube video by Turner Classic Movies
www.youtube.com
December 23, 2025 at 7:10 AM
This is brilliantly done
www.youtube.com/watch?v=qF8_...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=qF8_...
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"Australia needs a fundamentally different model based on voluntary participation"
This, from Anglicare's new report, should be the baseline for all reform proposals to employment services: Remove all compulsion & punishment - provide actual support www.anglicare.asn.au/research-adv...
This, from Anglicare's new report, should be the baseline for all reform proposals to employment services: Remove all compulsion & punishment - provide actual support www.anglicare.asn.au/research-adv...
November 20, 2025 at 12:09 AM
"Australia needs a fundamentally different model based on voluntary participation"
This, from Anglicare's new report, should be the baseline for all reform proposals to employment services: Remove all compulsion & punishment - provide actual support www.anglicare.asn.au/research-adv...
This, from Anglicare's new report, should be the baseline for all reform proposals to employment services: Remove all compulsion & punishment - provide actual support www.anglicare.asn.au/research-adv...
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The Epstein case against Trump is as if everyone is looking at a 500 piece puzzle with 2 pieces missing and pretending they can't make out the picture for certain.
November 14, 2025 at 1:45 AM
The Epstein case against Trump is as if everyone is looking at a 500 piece puzzle with 2 pieces missing and pretending they can't make out the picture for certain.
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The world: Wow, things are pretty awful lately.
Some TV exec: We should clone Hitler.
Some TV exec: We should clone Hitler.
Sequencing Hitler's DNA was always going to be a bad idea, with little upside and plenty of downside, but the way it has been done as part of a TV documentary is particularly bad www.newscientist.com/article/2504...
Sequencing Hitler's genome teaches us nothing useful about his crimes
To understand Adolf Hitler, we need to look at his personal life and the wider societal and historical context - analysing his DNA for a TV gimmick tells us nothing, says Michael Le Page
www.newscientist.com
November 13, 2025 at 10:48 AM
The world: Wow, things are pretty awful lately.
Some TV exec: We should clone Hitler.
Some TV exec: We should clone Hitler.
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They gutted perhaps the best outlet for explaining and holding Trump to account.
I was laid off from Teen Vogue today along with multiple other staffers, and today is my last day.
certainly more to come from me when the dust has settled more, but to my knowledge, after today, there will be no politics staffers at Teen Vogue.
certainly more to come from me when the dust has settled more, but to my knowledge, after today, there will be no politics staffers at Teen Vogue.
November 3, 2025 at 8:07 PM
They gutted perhaps the best outlet for explaining and holding Trump to account.
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stellan skarsgård seems like a good dude
October 27, 2025 at 11:48 PM
stellan skarsgård seems like a good dude
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Seems bad.
Very bad.
US sending aircraft carrier to waters off South America | AP News
Very bad.
US sending aircraft carrier to waters off South America | AP News
US is sending an aircraft carrier to Latin America in major escalation of military firepower
The U.S. military is sending an aircraft carrier to the waters off South America in the latest escalation of military firepower to a region.
apnews.com
October 25, 2025 at 1:37 AM
Seems bad.
Very bad.
US sending aircraft carrier to waters off South America | AP News
Very bad.
US sending aircraft carrier to waters off South America | AP News
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Look I know the Democrats and the left need to reach out beyond the standard “college educated” types as representatives, but surely “do you have a Nazi tattoo” is a pretty low bar to still have to clear.
NEW: I reviewed a text chain provided by an acquaintance of Graham Platner where the person discussed with others Platner’s Nazi-like tattoo months before the story became public, undercutting claims Platner only recently learned of it.
www.cnn.com/2025/10/24/p...
www.cnn.com/2025/10/24/p...
Graham Platner’s claims that he didn’t know tattoo was Nazi-linked undercut by new evidence | CNN Politics
A KFile investigation has uncovered mounting evidence that Platner — a Marine veteran— was aware of and defended the use of Nazi symbolism that had come to be embraced by some members of the military.
www.cnn.com
October 25, 2025 at 1:28 AM
Look I know the Democrats and the left need to reach out beyond the standard “college educated” types as representatives, but surely “do you have a Nazi tattoo” is a pretty low bar to still have to clear.
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End all funding every single private employment services provider.
Salt the earth so those in change of them never get any public money ever again - run them out of the country.
Get rid of mutual obligations
Bring back the CES
Raise the fricken rate
Ain’t hard.
Salt the earth so those in change of them never get any public money ever again - run them out of the country.
Get rid of mutual obligations
Bring back the CES
Raise the fricken rate
Ain’t hard.
Sometimes defective, maybe unlawful: what can be done about Australia’s crisis-ridden welfare system?
Sometimes defective, maybe unlawful: what can be done about Australia’s crisis-ridden welfare system?
Run by multiple departments and hundreds of private companies, advocates warn errors will continue to rock a system ‘in crisis’
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It’s a system designed to help Australians who most need it. Yet its created continuous scandals, with parts of it paused because the government can’t say if it’s operating legally.
Hundreds and thousands of Centrelink clients are affected by its frequent problems, being charged or overpaying debts incorrectly calculated as another class action is launched. Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
October 25, 2025 at 1:45 AM
End all funding every single private employment services provider.
Salt the earth so those in change of them never get any public money ever again - run them out of the country.
Get rid of mutual obligations
Bring back the CES
Raise the fricken rate
Ain’t hard.
Salt the earth so those in change of them never get any public money ever again - run them out of the country.
Get rid of mutual obligations
Bring back the CES
Raise the fricken rate
Ain’t hard.
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This is pretty incredible.
People with some cancers live longer after a COVID vaccine
mRNA vaccines seem to boost the effectiveness of an immune therapy for skin and lung cancer ― in an unexpected way.
www.nature.com
October 23, 2025 at 3:38 PM
This is pretty incredible.
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⚠️ Chinese researchers have invented bone glue that mimics how oysters stick to surfaces underwater.
The adhesive can reportedly repair orthopedic fractures in 2-3 minutes, even in blood-rich environments, and is bioabsorbable.
interestingengineering.com/science/chin...
The adhesive can reportedly repair orthopedic fractures in 2-3 minutes, even in blood-rich environments, and is bioabsorbable.
interestingengineering.com/science/chin...
China's oyster-inspired 'bone glue' bonds fractures in minutes
A new oyster-inspired Bone-02 adhesive can revolutionize bone repair without metal fasteners.
interestingengineering.com
September 29, 2025 at 1:46 PM
⚠️ Chinese researchers have invented bone glue that mimics how oysters stick to surfaces underwater.
The adhesive can reportedly repair orthopedic fractures in 2-3 minutes, even in blood-rich environments, and is bioabsorbable.
interestingengineering.com/science/chin...
The adhesive can reportedly repair orthopedic fractures in 2-3 minutes, even in blood-rich environments, and is bioabsorbable.
interestingengineering.com/science/chin...
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Correct. It's more like the housing bubble and has real assets tied into it and not just gimmicky websites
BREAKING: Jim Cramer says the AI boom is different than the dotcom bubble.
September 30, 2025 at 5:03 PM
Correct. It's more like the housing bubble and has real assets tied into it and not just gimmicky websites
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I know we're desensitized, but it's important to note, again, that today's events would have led to the immediate impeachment & removal of any president from at least Truman to at least Obama. We're hundreds of miles on the interstate past Richard Nixon's high school prank-level crimes compared to 👇
Trump wraps up a speech to military leaders that represented a major escalation of his effort to weaponize the armed forces into a tool he can use to violently quash domestic dissent. Hard to imagine how anyone with a shred of dignity can keep serving after this, which of course is the point.
September 30, 2025 at 6:32 PM
I know we're desensitized, but it's important to note, again, that today's events would have led to the immediate impeachment & removal of any president from at least Truman to at least Obama. We're hundreds of miles on the interstate past Richard Nixon's high school prank-level crimes compared to 👇
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Performative public lying is a hallmark of far right authoritarian parties
September 30, 2025 at 6:38 PM
Performative public lying is a hallmark of far right authoritarian parties
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American generals have been given a moment to stand up for the nation and resign.
They won’t.
Every institution in the USA has failed.
They won’t.
Every institution in the USA has failed.
Trump to generals: "America is under invasion from within. We're under invasion from within. No different than a foreign enemy, but more difficult in any ways because they don't wear uniforms. At least when they're wearing a uniform you can take them out."
September 30, 2025 at 10:06 PM
American generals have been given a moment to stand up for the nation and resign.
They won’t.
Every institution in the USA has failed.
They won’t.
Every institution in the USA has failed.
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Meanwhile, back in the real world . . .
Bagram Air Base was built by the Soviet Union in the 1950s.
What an idiot.
Bagram Air Base was built by the Soviet Union in the 1950s.
What an idiot.
September 20, 2025 at 11:10 PM
Meanwhile, back in the real world . . .
Bagram Air Base was built by the Soviet Union in the 1950s.
What an idiot.
Bagram Air Base was built by the Soviet Union in the 1950s.
What an idiot.
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The only thing Charlie Kirk had in common with Jesus is that Christians get mad when you quote him to them.
September 14, 2025 at 1:44 PM
The only thing Charlie Kirk had in common with Jesus is that Christians get mad when you quote him to them.
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If you ever hear someone say we are too reliant on income tax, or we need to cut income tax, or we have high income taxes.
Just let them know that we are the seventh-lowest taxer of personal income in the OECD - lower than every nation in the G7
www.theguardian.com/business/gro...
Just let them know that we are the seventh-lowest taxer of personal income in the OECD - lower than every nation in the G7
www.theguardian.com/business/gro...
July 23, 2025 at 10:53 PM
If you ever hear someone say we are too reliant on income tax, or we need to cut income tax, or we have high income taxes.
Just let them know that we are the seventh-lowest taxer of personal income in the OECD - lower than every nation in the G7
www.theguardian.com/business/gro...
Just let them know that we are the seventh-lowest taxer of personal income in the OECD - lower than every nation in the G7
www.theguardian.com/business/gro...
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Today seems to be
Coalition: The government should be closely aligning itself to the Trump administration
Labor: OK *lifts US beef restrictions*
Coalition: Not like that
Coalition: The government should be closely aligning itself to the Trump administration
Labor: OK *lifts US beef restrictions*
Coalition: Not like that
July 24, 2025 at 2:00 AM
Today seems to be
Coalition: The government should be closely aligning itself to the Trump administration
Labor: OK *lifts US beef restrictions*
Coalition: Not like that
Coalition: The government should be closely aligning itself to the Trump administration
Labor: OK *lifts US beef restrictions*
Coalition: Not like that