lloydois
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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
Tim Dunlop adds some nuance to the debate open.substack.com/pub/tdunlop/...
The road to hell is paved with good inventions
Moral hygiene in the age of social media and a plea for better democratic engagement
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December 13, 2025 at 3:23 AM
Tim Dunlop adds some nuance to the debate open.substack.com/pub/tdunlop/...
Important move by the EU open.substack.com/pub/shankarn...
EU drops the Article 122 hammer on Russian assets
A qualified-majority decision just closed the loophole the Kremlin needed.
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December 12, 2025 at 10:01 PM
Important move by the EU open.substack.com/pub/shankarn...
Gobsmacking piece by Ian Cohen on the lead author of the new American national Security Strategy. open.substack.com/pub/nickcohe...
Michael Anton: An American fanatic
Trump’s hacks make their hatred for us clear
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December 12, 2025 at 8:49 PM
Gobsmacking piece by Ian Cohen on the lead author of the new American national Security Strategy. open.substack.com/pub/nickcohe...
'AUKUS is a once-in-a-century folly. It’s a defence policy written by a tourism executive.....It is to Labor’s immense shame that it lacks the courage or insight to walk away from it'
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Pete Hegseth and the AUKUS folly
The man who sets Australia’s defence policy is an alcoholic former Fox News commentator who is known for his gross financial mismanagement and on at least one occasion paid a settlement to a woman he ...
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December 12, 2025 at 8:30 PM
'AUKUS is a once-in-a-century folly. It’s a defence policy written by a tourism executive.....It is to Labor’s immense shame that it lacks the courage or insight to walk away from it'
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This is quite pathetic. Not unexpected given the journo, but still.
December 11, 2025 at 10:56 PM
This is quite pathetic. Not unexpected given the journo, but still.
Merz and Pistorius Just Closed the One Gap Putin Was Counting On
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Merz and Pistorius Just Closed the One Gap Putin Was Counting On
Europe’s Entire Defense Collapsed Into One Question. Germany Answered It.
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December 7, 2025 at 4:16 AM
Merz and Pistorius Just Closed the One Gap Putin Was Counting On
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The CEO of Palantir.
December 5, 2025 at 12:22 PM
The CEO of Palantir.
Best takedown of Hegseth I've read
'Hegseth’s formal power and personal incompetence—to say nothing of his apparently nonexistent moral compass—mean he remains dangerous even if he is otherwise insignificant'
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...
'Hegseth’s formal power and personal incompetence—to say nothing of his apparently nonexistent moral compass—mean he remains dangerous even if he is otherwise insignificant'
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Pete Hegseth Needs to Go—Now
A man with such contempt for the military should not run the Pentagon.
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December 2, 2025 at 9:28 PM
Best takedown of Hegseth I've read
'Hegseth’s formal power and personal incompetence—to say nothing of his apparently nonexistent moral compass—mean he remains dangerous even if he is otherwise insignificant'
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...
'Hegseth’s formal power and personal incompetence—to say nothing of his apparently nonexistent moral compass—mean he remains dangerous even if he is otherwise insignificant'
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...
One of the most insightful pieces I've read in a long time.
www.crikey.com.au/2025/11/28/l...
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The Liberal crisis runs deep — Labor’s embrace of small-c conservativism partly explains why
To talk of 'the centre' seems less meaningful than recognising that Labor has embraced the conservative pragmatism that was once seen as the special property of the Liberal Party.
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November 28, 2025 at 5:53 AM
One of the most insightful pieces I've read in a long time.
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Tragic on multiple levels.
Everything about this might be the saddest thing I’ve ever seen
November 24, 2025 at 11:12 PM
Tragic on multiple levels.
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.
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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
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Zohran Mamdani Easily Wins the NYC Mayoral Race. What Comes Next?
By electing Zohran Mamdani, New Yorkers have just launched one of the...
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November 5, 2025 at 3:54 AM
Excellent commentary from Josh Marshall on the significance of Mamdani's victory
talkingpointsmemo.com/news/nyc-may...
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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?'
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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
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November 3, 2025 at 7:59 AM
'who controls the truth when AIs, steered by powerful individuals, are holding the pen?'
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www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
Dislike and Disdain
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Dislike and Disdain
Trump expresses his true feelings about America and Americans
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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.
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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
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‘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’
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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
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'Democracy' in America becoming a sick joke
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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.
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October 21, 2025 at 8:30 PM
'Democracy' in America becoming a sick joke
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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.
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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.
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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...
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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.
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Opinion | ‘What Can Burn Will Burn’
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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...
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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.
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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...
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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.
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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...
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