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BREAKING: As many as 150 U.S. troops have been wounded in the war with Iran, according to sources familiar—far higher than the Pentagon’s publicly disclosed figure of just 8 seriously wounded troops. The true toll of this war is already far worse than the public has been told. (Reuters)

Exactly 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻

It’s a War With Iran, Not an “Intervention” Elected officials are desperate to characterize the U.S. war with Iran as anything but. Don’t let them.

Elected officials desperately want to cast our war with Iran as an “intervention” or “operation.” Don’t let them get away with it.

Opinion | Leave the Kurds Out of It

“short-term gains for the Iranian Kurds risk betrayal. They have no guarantees that Trump (as demonstrated in Syria, when he..withdrew support from Kurds) will not discard their aspirations for self-rule. The US encouraged uprising against Hussein but failed to help”
www.nytimes.com/2026/03/11/o....

Ukraine Reaches a Milestone: Making ‘China-Free’ Drones

“Ukraine is prioritizing self-sufficiency in the production of drones as they increasingly dominate the battlefield. They now account for more than 90 percent of Russian casualties, according to Maj. Robert Brovdi, commander of Ukraine’s Unmanned Systems Forces”

www.nytimes.com/2026/03/11/w...

Hasty redeployment of US missiles from South Korea to Middle East leaves Seoul rattled South Korea’s president has sought to reassure the public that the country is able to deter threats from the North

The move..has triggered doubts over Trump’s security commitment to South Korea & warnings that the..North could..ramp up pressure..Why, critics are asking, did South Korea invest so much political capital in a defence system that could one day be removed?

www.theguardian.com/world/2026/m...

Trump’s ego-trip war has collided with economic reality but he can’t undo the damage | Rafael Behr The US president’s doctrine of lawless military adventures harms American interests and boosts Vladimir Putin, says Guardian columnist Rafael Behr

“Iran turns out to be unlike Venezuela, except a superficial analysis as energy-exporting countries with..hostile relations..But the Islamic Republic has reserves of ideological & institutional resilience. It can also spook markets by menacing trade in the Gulf”
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Katie Perry v Katy Perry: Sydney fashion designer wins 16-year trademark dispute with US pop star Australia’s high court finds singer’s label and merchandise distributor had been ‘assiduous infringers’ of trademark

www.theguardian.com/law/2026/mar...

Time Out names Melbourne the best city in the world – but is it more ‘vibes’ than hard data? About 24,000 people surveyed about food, nightlife, affordability, culture and happiness

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In the present context, however, of an investigation into allegations of corrupt conduct, we are not so much concerned with Diceyan theory of ministerial accountability and Cabinet solidarity as with personal obligations of honesty and good faith. Thus, although Mr Morrison may have been responsible to Cabinet for the failings of DSS – in particular for DSS’ failings in not preventing the shortcomings of the NPP and checklist – it by no means necessarily follows that Mr Morrison was personally at fault for not detecting the failings of DSS or that he set out to act dishonestly or in bad faith. The question of any personal shortcoming requires consideration of the system and circumstances of ERC’s operation at the time of its adoption of the NPP.

The passages clearing Morrison of fault are extraordinary

NACC says Morrison is technically "responsible" as cabinet Minister, but not "personally at fault"

If responsibility exists without consequence...then what does "ministerial accountability" even mean anymore?

And the lettuce slap was done to a corporate entity, not the humans responsible.
Privatisation of care is evil on so many levels. So dumb, so expensive, so immoral...

So disappointed to hear Scott Morrison hasn’t met consequences over Robodebt. He never met consequences over Higgins, over Sportsrorts, over anything! How does he constantly get away with both being in charge but also taking no responsibility?

Of course it does!

The NACC was specifically designed by the duopoly - the LNP IPA and Labor - just for exactly this outcome

The duopoly exists to preserve power at any cost

Even at the cost of justice

Even at the cost of ignoring the thousands of suicides by elected govt HUNTING citizens down

Zing

Dumbest news of the week so far, and that’s saying something

🤬🤬🤬 fuck #ICE

Well said Ms Wombats

Billionaires’ % share of federal election spending in:

2008: 0.3%

2024: 19%

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13 is middle school

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Schatz: We don’t know for sure, but the likely bombing of an elementary school with one of our Tomahawk missiles is not a one-off mistake. It is the result of a change in policy so that the United States has way looser rules of engagement — way more tolerance for civilian harm.

“.. a claim that, if true, would constitute an unprecedented breach of security protocols at an agency that serves more than 70 million Americans.”

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$150,000 - negligent driving causing 1 death will send you to prison (as it should). Negligent care-home management that kills 45 people; $150,000 fine 🤮

Gift article from the Nee York Review of Books

Who Speaks for Us? | Marilynne Robinson The representatives of our two-party system have made it into a weapon that works against the people.

“Then came Gingrich..Republicans discovered power that came with sticking to the party line, however this tactic disempowered individual lawmakers & their constituencies..Then came the next inspiration. They could change constitutional order by simply playing dead”
www.nybooks.com/articles/202...

Fool’s Errands | Joost Hiltermann It took Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu many years of persistent effort before he succeeded in finding a US president willing to help him

Gift article

“his actions doubtless reflect how little US military strategists still understand the power of Iranian nationalism, or indeed Iran..the US govt is liable to underestimate the Iranian public’s enduring animosity toward foreign intervention”
www.nybooks.com/online/2026/...

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“closing the Strait of Hormuz means Iran can inflict pain on American consumers at the pump, & we’ve already seen a 30% overnight spike in oil prices..With midterms on the horizon, Iran hopes it can translate this consumer pain to political pain for Trump”
www.wheresyoured.at/the-beginnin...

From what I’m seeing, the opposition is already hard at work kicking the political football (the girls will bring in foreign, extremist, values)