lloydois
@lloydois.bsky.social
A refugee from the hell site joining the resistance. A political tragic & Information junkie. Facts matter. Prof Krugman my kind of guy, Elon not so much
Brilliant and funny from John Birmingham. open.substack.com/pub/aliensid...
They know they've lost.
Okay, you’re going to have to bear with me here while I work through what just happened, because things just got very #auspol-after-five-schooners-of-box-wine.
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November 14, 2025 at 10:01 PM
Brilliant and funny from John Birmingham. open.substack.com/pub/aliensid...
Bernard nails the scam that the fucktards in the LNP are trying to perpetrate on Australians.
www.crikey.com.au/2025/11/13/n...
www.crikey.com.au/2025/11/13/n...
Net zero opponents: Sneering elites who want higher taxes, higher prices and bigger government
Forget about carbon emissions — retreating from net zero means higher power costs and higher taxes for all Australians. It's an expensive, elitist culture war.
www.crikey.com.au
November 13, 2025 at 5:36 AM
Bernard nails the scam that the fucktards in the LNP are trying to perpetrate on Australians.
www.crikey.com.au/2025/11/13/n...
www.crikey.com.au/2025/11/13/n...
Excellent commentary from Josh Marshall on the significance of Mamdani's victory
talkingpointsmemo.com/news/nyc-may...
talkingpointsmemo.com/news/nyc-may...
Zohran Mamdani Easily Wins the NYC Mayoral Race. What Comes Next?
By electing Zohran Mamdani, New Yorkers have just launched one of the...
talkingpointsmemo.com
November 5, 2025 at 3:54 AM
Excellent commentary from Josh Marshall on the significance of Mamdani's victory
talkingpointsmemo.com/news/nyc-may...
talkingpointsmemo.com/news/nyc-may...
An interesting take as valid as anything else I've read lately on the geopolitics vis a vis the US and China open.substack.com/pub/theintls...
China’s 2040 Vision: Economic Spillover as Geopolitical Strategy
The Grand Strategy Hidden in Plain Sight
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November 4, 2025 at 8:04 AM
An interesting take as valid as anything else I've read lately on the geopolitics vis a vis the US and China open.substack.com/pub/theintls...
'who controls the truth when AIs, steered by powerful individuals, are holding the pen?'
www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
In Grok we don’t trust: academics assess Elon Musk’s AI-powered encyclopedia
From publishing falsehoods to pushing far-right ideology, Grokipedia gives chatroom comments equal status to research
www.theguardian.com
November 3, 2025 at 7:59 AM
'who controls the truth when AIs, steered by powerful individuals, are holding the pen?'
www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
Dislike and Disdain
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Dislike and Disdain
Trump expresses his true feelings about America and Americans
open.substack.com
October 26, 2025 at 1:36 AM
Dislike and Disdain
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Hugh White cutting through the bullshit the rest of the Australian media is spinning on the meeting between Albanese and Trump
www.thesaturdaypaper.com.au/news/politics/2025/10/25/albaneses-folly-pandering-donald-trump?utm_source=bsky via @thesaturdaypaper.com.au
www.thesaturdaypaper.com.au/news/politics/2025/10/25/albaneses-folly-pandering-donald-trump?utm_source=bsky via @thesaturdaypaper.com.au
Albanese’s folly of pandering to Donald Trump
ANALYSIS: The prime minister’s flattery of Donald Trump may be about preserving US relations, but he ought to focus on leaders who will really shape Australia’s future.
www.thesaturdaypaper.com.au
October 24, 2025 at 10:19 PM
Hugh White cutting through the bullshit the rest of the Australian media is spinning on the meeting between Albanese and Trump
www.thesaturdaypaper.com.au/news/politics/2025/10/25/albaneses-folly-pandering-donald-trump?utm_source=bsky via @thesaturdaypaper.com.au
www.thesaturdaypaper.com.au/news/politics/2025/10/25/albaneses-folly-pandering-donald-trump?utm_source=bsky via @thesaturdaypaper.com.au
Is there anything more tragic than watching Sussan Ley implode over this issue? She's the lightest of lightweights and a terrible communicator to boot
www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
‘Prime minister’s choice’: Sussan Ley walks back call for Kevin Rudd to be sacked as US ambassador
Liberal minister Jane Hume earlier described calls for the former prime minister to be removed as ambassador as a ‘little bit churlish’
www.theguardian.com
October 22, 2025 at 8:32 AM
Is there anything more tragic than watching Sussan Ley implode over this issue? She's the lightest of lightweights and a terrible communicator to boot
www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
'Democracy' in America becoming a sick joke
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slate.com/news-and-pol...
Trump’s Most Reviled Voting Company Sold to a GOP Official. That’s Not the Worst of It.
Earlier this month, news broke that Dominion Voting Solutions had been sold to a former Republican election official.
slate.com
October 21, 2025 at 8:30 PM
'Democracy' in America becoming a sick joke
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slate.com/news-and-pol...
Michael Pascoe stating an obvious truth our compliant media and political parties refuse to acknowledge. We need an equivalent of 'No Kings' rallies to push back against this idiocy.
michaelwest.com.au/anthony-alba...
michaelwest.com.au/anthony-alba...
All the way with Donald J. Albo supporting mass murder - Michael West
Australia is murdering people and threatening democracy. That’s the reality of Anthony Albanese kissing Donald Trump’s ring this week.
michaelwest.com.au
October 19, 2025 at 7:19 AM
Michael Pascoe stating an obvious truth our compliant media and political parties refuse to acknowledge. We need an equivalent of 'No Kings' rallies to push back against this idiocy.
michaelwest.com.au/anthony-alba...
michaelwest.com.au/anthony-alba...
I would have thought that what Barnaby Joyce was doing with Pauline Hanson is far less consequential to what Richard Marles is doing with Pete Hegseth. One of them is betraying Australian values and it aint Barnaby.
October 18, 2025 at 7:10 AM
I would have thought that what Barnaby Joyce was doing with Pauline Hanson is far less consequential to what Richard Marles is doing with Pete Hegseth. One of them is betraying Australian values and it aint Barnaby.
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Reminder that Sirhan Sirhan is still alive, still in prison, and you could offer a swap of a pardon for one last job.
October 16, 2025 at 6:48 AM
Reminder that Sirhan Sirhan is still alive, still in prison, and you could offer a swap of a pardon for one last job.
Fascinating article on Zombie fires. Something I was completely unaware of.
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/15/o...
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/15/o...
Opinion | ‘What Can Burn Will Burn’
www.nytimes.com
October 16, 2025 at 5:15 AM
Fascinating article on Zombie fires. Something I was completely unaware of.
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/15/o...
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/15/o...
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Brilliant from Belen Fernandez at Al Jazeera. An antidote to the ridiculous triumphalism of the western press.
www.aljazeera.com/opinions/202...
www.aljazeera.com/opinions/202...
What Trump said and did not say at the Knesset
The US president had a lot to say about everything, except the genocide.
www.aljazeera.com
October 14, 2025 at 6:15 AM
Brilliant from Belen Fernandez at Al Jazeera. An antidote to the ridiculous triumphalism of the western press.
www.aljazeera.com/opinions/202...
www.aljazeera.com/opinions/202...
'The world’s horror at Gaza’s devastation....is the natural response of any conscience not yet cauterised. To those possessed of moral fortitude, the images need no narration; they speak a universal language of grief'
www.aljazeera.com/opinions/202...
www.aljazeera.com/opinions/202...
Van Jones and the moral vacancy of American commentary on Gaza
US pundit’s 'dead Gaza baby' joke exposes the moral vacancy that defines US media on Palestine.
www.aljazeera.com
October 14, 2025 at 6:22 AM
'The world’s horror at Gaza’s devastation....is the natural response of any conscience not yet cauterised. To those possessed of moral fortitude, the images need no narration; they speak a universal language of grief'
www.aljazeera.com/opinions/202...
www.aljazeera.com/opinions/202...
Brilliant from Belen Fernandez at Al Jazeera. An antidote to the ridiculous triumphalism of the western press.
www.aljazeera.com/opinions/202...
www.aljazeera.com/opinions/202...
What Trump said and did not say at the Knesset
The US president had a lot to say about everything, except the genocide.
www.aljazeera.com
October 14, 2025 at 6:15 AM
Brilliant from Belen Fernandez at Al Jazeera. An antidote to the ridiculous triumphalism of the western press.
www.aljazeera.com/opinions/202...
www.aljazeera.com/opinions/202...
'And so now we have a crime without criminals, a genocide without génocidaires, a wretched population who, we are to believe, have been brought low by Hamas, and must be fed and watered while the world works out what to do with them.
October 13, 2025 at 10:03 AM
'And so now we have a crime without criminals, a genocide without génocidaires, a wretched population who, we are to believe, have been brought low by Hamas, and must be fed and watered while the world works out what to do with them.
The reasons why Democrats need a Mamdani at the Federal level if they are to have any hope of defeating Trump and MAGA
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/11/o...
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/11/o...
Opinion | Voting for Mamdani Taught Me Why Trump Won
www.nytimes.com
October 12, 2025 at 5:31 AM
The reasons why Democrats need a Mamdani at the Federal level if they are to have any hope of defeating Trump and MAGA
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/11/o...
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/11/o...
An antidote to the bs Parnell McGuiness is posting today in the SMH
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open.substack.com/pub/steady/p...
MAGA Tested, Trump Approved News
A conservative opinion writer is now leading CBS News
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October 11, 2025 at 9:15 PM
An antidote to the bs Parnell McGuiness is posting today in the SMH
open.substack.com/pub/steady/p...
open.substack.com/pub/steady/p...
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Truly excellent new piece by Lincoln Caplan in @harvardmagazine.bsky.social on John Roberts, seen in full.
Careful, meticulous, devastating case on how "institutionalist" has enabled destruction of crucial institutions. Including his now discredited court.
www.harvardmagazine.com/legal/suprem...
Careful, meticulous, devastating case on how "institutionalist" has enabled destruction of crucial institutions. Including his now discredited court.
www.harvardmagazine.com/legal/suprem...
October 9, 2025 at 1:22 PM
Truly excellent new piece by Lincoln Caplan in @harvardmagazine.bsky.social on John Roberts, seen in full.
Careful, meticulous, devastating case on how "institutionalist" has enabled destruction of crucial institutions. Including his now discredited court.
www.harvardmagazine.com/legal/suprem...
Careful, meticulous, devastating case on how "institutionalist" has enabled destruction of crucial institutions. Including his now discredited court.
www.harvardmagazine.com/legal/suprem...
Great summation as to why Trump is the only person who could have achieved this.
The reasons aren't in any way pure. More the nexus of corruption and power that aligns him with the relevant players.
talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/has-t...
The reasons aren't in any way pure. More the nexus of corruption and power that aligns him with the relevant players.
talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/has-t...
Has Trump Brought Peace to Gaza?
Has Trump brought peace to Gaza? Ended the war and cycle of...
talkingpointsmemo.com
October 9, 2025 at 10:09 PM
Great summation as to why Trump is the only person who could have achieved this.
The reasons aren't in any way pure. More the nexus of corruption and power that aligns him with the relevant players.
talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/has-t...
The reasons aren't in any way pure. More the nexus of corruption and power that aligns him with the relevant players.
talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/has-t...
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This is such a brilliant article.
“We don’t have to approach and criticize this album as art, because it isn’t art. The Life of a Showgirl is made of Shein quality rip-offs of other people’s songs that are constructed shoddily and sold in ginormous quantities. Art takes time and care. This is profit. It’s content.”
WHEW.
WHEW.
No Good Art Comes From Greed | Defector
The packages arrived square and thin and carefully wrapped on Saturday afternoon. There were three of them, but only one was mine. If I could have rejected my package, sent it back from whence it came...
defector.com
October 8, 2025 at 9:28 AM
This is such a brilliant article.
Read and weep.
www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL25...
www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL25...
On Luxon Advising Young People To Get Out While They Still Can
If anyone under 35 still had mixed feelings about leaving New Zealand to build a future elsewhere, PM Christopher Luxon probably sealed the deal this week with his comments about the youth job market.
www.scoop.co.nz
October 8, 2025 at 10:03 AM
Read and weep.
www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL25...
www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL25...
The Medical Science Is Always ‘Uncertain’ When It Pushes Against Supreme Court’s Bias talkingpointsmemo.com/news/supreme...
The Medical Science Is Always ‘Uncertain’ When It Pushes Against Supreme Court’s Bias
If you came into Tuesday’s oral argument over Colorado’s conversion therapy ban...
talkingpointsmemo.com
October 8, 2025 at 5:43 AM
The Medical Science Is Always ‘Uncertain’ When It Pushes Against Supreme Court’s Bias talkingpointsmemo.com/news/supreme...
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These elites of Australian journalism do their industry no favours. Then again, most of our political class have forgotten what it is to be, not just accountable, but transparent and professional too.
October 7, 2025 at 6:48 AM
These elites of Australian journalism do their industry no favours. Then again, most of our political class have forgotten what it is to be, not just accountable, but transparent and professional too.