Undermining/dismantling Ministerial responsibility. The beginning of the end of accountability, consequences, and integrity in politics. That then infects everything, everywhere.

It’s really difficult because if you challenge them, you’re oppressing them and their opinion but they have no idea how much you’re holding your tongue whenever they kick off about it.

She’s the biggest hearted person I know and highly intelligent, so I find her attitude to be confounding. It’s also a position of extraordinary privilege, because I suspect she can’t imagine that anyone close to her could die from a vaccine-preventable disease. (And I hope you feel better soon 😊)

I’ve seen her, like many people, slide further into this belief system since COVID. Her close family are even more anti-vax so I think that has played a part too.

It’s what she perceives as coercion that really gets her worked up (childhood vaccination is essentially mandatory in Australia). She also sees it as putting some artificial and unnecessary in your body.

I have a treasured friend who is anti-vax and she sees childhood vaccines as conformity (as opposed to what they are: an act of community).

I loved Tim Walz's saying when he was running for VP- " You may not be into politics, but politics is into you"

It reminds me of this comedy show I heard about last night. If ever there was a show for our times.

I’m an atheist and yet I’m offended on behalf of Jesus

That story may include a clue to his recent stop -it says he plans to take short and more effective breaks.

Can we fast forward to the part where that gold statue is toppled? And skip all the seemingly inevitable horrors between now and then?

I really wish this were less evergreen.