In our history we’ve had Cabinets with people who were bad at their jobs, but good people who meant well.

We’ve had people who were good at their jobs, but bad people.

But we’ve not had one like Trump’s filled with people who are both garbage humans and terrible at their jobs.

“Four of my children just evaporated,” Badran said, holding back tears. “I looked for them a million times. Not a piece was left. Where did they go?”

There are no words to adequately describe the evil here.

A heavily redacted cartoon.
My @smh cartoon.

Let's ask the question: How many times do the following people show up being named in the Epstein Files:

President Joe Biden: 0
President Barack Obama: 0
MN Governor Tim Walz: 0

President Donald Trump: 4,500

Does any Republican not see the problem?

“Observing human behavior confirms that for some among us, the perfidious LUST FOR UNBRIDLED POWER and the IMPOSITION OF CRUELTY IN ITS QUEST know no bounds and ARE BEREFT OF HUMAN DECENCY”

~ The Federal Judge

The parents of Alex Pretti have retained a former federal prosecutor who helped Minnesota's attorney general convict the police officer who kneeled on George Floyd's neck of murder. https://to.pbs.org/3ZA2HfU

HISTORIC HEAT IN AUSTRALIA
Climatic history is set to be rewritten with an absolutely deadly week:
Today 48.5C in South Australia,47.2 New South Wales,
45.3 Queensland,45.0 Victoria

‼️We might expect 7 CONSECUTIVE DAYS >46C in New South Wales and we can't rule out 50C.
A HELL

Watching Sound of Music on telly and scrolling online at the same time. #shitgotreal

Colbert is enjoying himself as he leaves the building.

"To date, 757,314 people – the majority children – have died from the funding cuts, according to ImpactCounter, which tracks the effect of USAID cuts via sophisticated modelling tools. That is 88 deaths every hour."

So well said, Louise Adler. I dearly hope that she is right, that Adelaide Writers' Week will rise from these ashes, and that this will bring a reckoning over political censorship in Australia.

www.abc.net.au/news/2026-01...

Ben Jennings in The Guardian.

Yep. Stupid is as stupid does.

"Higher intake of high-fat cheese and high-fat cream was associated with a lower risk of all-cause dementia."
Results of a 25-year prospective study of ~27,000 participants.
The purported benefit was not linked to APOE4 carriers or low-fat cheese intake
www.neurology.org/doi/full/10....

An utter disgrace. A Trumpian level of destruction being wrought at the CSIRO under Albo.

"The environment unit, which has more than 700 full-time equivalent roles, will be reduced by 130 to 150. Four of its nine research focuses will not continue"

what total depravity from the perpetrators of the abuse right up to Netanyahu who blames the “reputational damage” on the woman who leaked the video