New Origin Story, on an absolute unqualified piece of Nazi shit, who is as close to the brains of the Trump operation as it gets.
@chrismarsden
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New Origin Story, on an absolute unqualified piece of Nazi shit, who is as close to the brains of the Trump operation as it gets.
This time we profile one of the worst people in the world and explain how much of what we associate with Trump is really Millerβs sinister mission to remake America
I wouldnβt wish this fear on anyone, not my worst enemies. Itβs a unique and terrible hell to be sitting in the diaspora worrying about your family, as massive bombs hit their city, even if itβs something youβve experienced all your six decades. It only gets worse, each time.
So to summarise: You failed to take out the regime. You failed to destroy nuclear material. You failed to eradicate Iran's retaliatory capacity. You brought chaos to the Middle East. You killed god knows how many people. You destabilised your own economy. All for nothing, but the ego of madman.
Speaking at a conference in Hobart, former Australian of the Year Grace Tame says it is her last speaking engagement for the year at this stage.
"When Russia invaded Ukraine in 2022, Woodside doubled its profits. The PRRT fails to capture windfall profits from conflicts like those in Ukraine and Iran. In a cost-of-living crisis, will you impose a windfall tax on the excess profits of oil and gas?" No. www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
I think the unspoken part here is that Mandelson had very clearly been at the heart of all kinds of things, for many years, and that at best nobody seems to have showed even the slightest curiosity about what his actual role was and why the fucker was everywhere with his fingers in multiple pies.
Join my campaign to properly fund medical research in Australia π¬
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After a series of fatal strikes involving civilians in Iraq and Afghanistan, Congress directed the Pentagon to reduce civilian casualties as part of a 2019 law. During the Biden administration, the Defense Department created the Civilian Harm Mitigation and Response initiative. The civilian mitigation teams β cut by 90% by Hegseth β work with military commanders on target planning, and making sure that targets are actually military sites. The teams help come up with "no strike" lists, including religious and cultural sites and schools
I knew that the Department of War shot a missile into a school & killed 175 civilians, mostly children.
This is learned today:
Secretary of War Hegseth had cut the teams assigned to prevent such tragedies by 90%.
www.npr.org/2026/03/11/n...
βZack has repeatedly apologised for an interview he did with the S*n more than a decade ago. Now, Zack is focused on the issues that really matter to people: bringing down bills, protecting the NHS and rebuilding public servicesβ Not sure 2013 gotcha disqualifies
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
David Shoebridge has called out the βthree war partiesβ Labor, the Coalition & One Nation for joining forces to shut the door on refugees who are now fleeing the illegal war on Iran.
βYou support your uncle Donald, the fascist duckβ π₯ #auspol
The Trump regime has no idea what itβs doing hour to hour, just in case you thought there was some grand strategy in Iran
I'm suing Grammarly over its paid AI feature that presented editing suggestions as if they came from me - and many other writers and journalists - without consent.
State law requires consent before someone's name can be used for commercial purposes.
www.wired.com/story/gramma...
If you are writing for The Age and write up a guy who went Brisbane - UQ - KPMG - Productivity Commission - Senate staff - Senate as some sort of existential struggler in life that's earthy because he once saw a cow just give up. Walk into the sea.
I donβt think unconditional surrender is imminent.
Labor trumpets that theyβre rescuing the soccer players for the headlines, while ramming through laws which racially profile and punish everyone else in the same boat.
Cunning stunts.
I very much appreciate that Reuters always states "what was ruled a suicide" rather than accepting that Bill Barr & Trump 45 version
Scoop: Hereβs the bonkers story of how a foreign hacker inadvertently (?) broke into an evidence server holding FBI Epstein material in 2023 and then threatened to call in law enforcement when they found it was full of CSAM.
www.reuters.com/world/us/for...
Day 1477 of Russia's all out war, and here's THE daily π§΅
It's an important anniversary for Donald "I'll solve this war in one day" Trump.
It's 1 year ago today since he demanded both sides agree an unconditional ceasefire or "serious consequences"
Russia still refuses!
Flashback, June 2025: βConservatives on SCOTUS give DOGE the go-ahead.β www.lawdork.com/p/conservati...
For @patrickdunleavy.bsky.social - disastrous outcome of the Anti Corruption Committee Robodebt investigation
3 months ago, this was not an unusual photo to take
"The deleted post was enough to wipe out million-dollar trades.
"U.S. crude futures plunged by as much as 19%.
"During a 10-minute span when Wrightβs post appeared, a fund linked to oil futures saw $84 million of its market capitalization evaporate."
www.wsj.com/finance/stoc...
βIf social media companies wonβt act voluntarily to safeguard Australians from the onslaught of AI scams and malicious fake posts, it may require further legislative intervention." βlack of political will and leadership to address this stream of disinformation head-onβ
www.abc.net.au/news/2026-03...
Holy shit - this would be very, very bad:
"The databases, called βNumidentβ and the βMaster Death File,β include records for more than 500 million living and dead Americans, including Social Security numbers, places and dates of birth, citizenship, race and ethnicity, and parentsβ names."
Donald J. Trump β’ β’ @realDonaldTrump If Iran has put out any mines in the Hormuz Strait, and we have no reports of them doing so, we want them removed, IMMEDIATELY! If for any reason mines were placed, and they are not removed forthwith, the Military consequences to Iran will be at a level never seen before. If, on the other hand, they remove what may have been placed, it will be a giant step in the right direction! Additionally, we are using the same Technology and Missile capabilities deployed against Drug Traffickers to permanently eliminate any boat or ship attempting to mine the Hormuz Strait. They will be dealt with quickly and violently. BEWARE! President DONALD J. TRUMP
His desperation is showing. I bet the Iranians canβt believe it.
AI companies are paying screenwriters, lawyers, and other white-collar professionals to produce the training data needed to automate their jobs. I spoke with more than 30 workers about conditions inside this fast-growing and extremely secretive new gig economy.
βDonβt ever be the first to stop applauding.β
-- Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, writing about the unfortunate director of the local paper factory
mannerofspeaking.org/2010/05/12/s...
iran could get critical online support for this if, instead of deploying mines, they simply deployed One Big Boat, which then got stuck
Little public challenge, including from
> GB News staff who aren't white nationalists/racists
> Regulator
> Govt ministers, Opposition, backbench MPs
- anxious about free speech/hate speech
- too awkward if on a TV channel, not 4Chan?
> Other media outlets: now seen as normal, not newsworthy?