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Preston Towers @prestontowers.bsky.social · 3h

Yep

Ify Nwadiwe @ifycomedy.com · 3h

I think we really should stop using antifa and just fully say anti-fascist and get them saying they are against anti fascism. Using antifa is giving them some distance and I genuinely think some of their base don’t even know that’s what it stands for.

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Roy Edroso @edroso.bsky.social · 23h

This is a flex.

He know his rubes will believe any shit he tells them and he wants to see how far he can take it.

Next week he'll tell them everyone in Portland lives in caves now and eats brontosaurus ribs like the Flintstones.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Trump: "Portland, I mean -- every time I look at that place it's burning down. There are fires all over the place. When a store -- there are very few of them left -- but when a store owner rebuilds a store they build it out of plywood. They don't put up storefronts anymore. They just put wood up."

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Dr. Orna Izakson @orna.bsky.social · 1d

So I’m in Portland, and we knew this was coming. But what’s breathtaking is the disparity between what’s actually happening on the ground vs the … “lies” isn’t a big enough word. Saw this on the actual WH web page and it just floored me. I guess all we can do is continue to not take the bait.

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Nora Reed (they/them ze/hir) @nora.zone · 1d

cry havoc and let slip the frogs of war

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Tim Dunlop @timdunlop.bsky.social · 1d

To be able to say stuff like this with impunity is as good an indication as any of how the media & almost democratic institution has failed over decades. Forget comparisons with 1930s Germany: this is the key aesthetic of a genuine American fascism. Not coming or threatening, but fully in place.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Trump: "Portland, I mean -- every time I look at that place it's burning down. There are fires all over the place. When a store -- there are very few of them left -- but when a store owner rebuilds a store they build it out of plywood. They don't put up storefronts anymore. They just put wood up."

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Preston Towers @prestontowers.bsky.social · 1d

One of the best cartoons at summarising Albanese’s approach to government

Simon Rosenberg @simonrosenberg.bsky.social · 1d

Weekend at Menzies'. #auspol

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Preston Towers @prestontowers.bsky.social · 1d

One thing I am picking up though - this is a classic Boomer v Gen X show. All the nonsense language boomers used in the 60s littered through the show.

Preston Towers @prestontowers.bsky.social · 1d

Procrastination before marking! And good lord, surely every piece of evidence that show ever existed has been eliminated

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Preston Towers @prestontowers.bsky.social · 1d

Just watched some All Together Now. Good lord it has aged like milk.

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Simon Rosenberg @simonrosenberg.bsky.social · 1d

Trump is a fading buffoon. Miller is positioning to take over as America's Stalin.

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Jessie L @jessielilley.bsky.social · 1d

The ageing fellas at the news desk have such a boner for a strong, young white man in politics they are going to will Hastie to the top of the pile whether we like it or not.

Opinion piece in the 9Papers:

Hastie's got the right stuff but one obsession may fast-track or derail his ambitions
By Peter Hartcher
October 11, 2025 - 5.00am
"The train coming down the tracks isn't the one that you expected. It's not the one advertised on the board," says actor Benedict Cumberbatch playing the role of a pro-Brexit strategist.
"Well, tough," he says. "It isn't even the one that I imagined. But I accept it. And you can't stop it," he says in the 2019 movie Brexit: The Uncivil War in the persona of the notorious Dominic Cummings, adviser to Boris Johnson.
"There is a new politics in town. One that you cannot control."

Article extract:

As he read his charter letter from his leader, Sussan Ley, setting out his duties as opposition home affairs spokesman, he realised he would have no part in immigration policy - opposition immigration spokesman Paul Scarr, not Hastie, would "lead" and "develop" the policy. Hastie practised his personal policy of a
48-hour cooling off before making any major decision.
At this point, a more typical politician would accept the ruling, but then begin a quiet campaign of leaking and undermining against the leader. Hastie did not.
He was careful to take counsel with a handful of trusted allies, including only two Liberal MPs, so that he couldn't be accused of "doing the
numbers" as a prelude to a leadership challenge.
He told the most trusted of his trusted circle, his wife, Ruth, that he'd have to take a 25 per cent pay cut if he went ahead with the resignation. She rejoined that the family budget would simply have to adjust.

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Preston Towers @prestontowers.bsky.social · 1d

You know it's Friday afternoon when you reach into the beer fridge and reach for the high alcohol knock your socks off beer. And today, I found a four year old Double IPA from our local (500 metres away) brewery.
God I love living in Dandenong.

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 1d

These watches appear to be ripoffs of famous designs. Likely from some factory that normally produces "homage" watches and they just swapped out the branding.

Comparison of Trump watches to similar looking models from Patek Philippe

Comparison of Trump watches to similar looking models from Rolex

Comparison of Trump watches to similar looking models from Rolex and Hublot

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Rachel Withers @rachelwithers.bsky.social · 1d

Imagine kicking the former national rugby captain out of your sports club instead of the gambling lobby.

To paraphrase Groucho Marx, who'd want to belong to a club that would accept Responsible Wagering Australia as one of its sponsors?

Bill Browne @browne90.bsky.social · 2d

Making his point for him -- just asking about the power of the gambling lobby gets Senator David Pocock booted from sports club the Prime Minister heads. www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

Former Wallabies star David Pocock booted from parliamentary sports club

Exclusive: Senator accused of bringing social club into disrepute after raising concerns about its association with betting lobby

www.theguardian.com

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Dr Monique Ryan @mon4kooyong.bsky.social · 2d

The gambling industry is predatory and insidious.

I quit the Parliamentary Sports Club a few weeks ago, when I discovered it had registered as a lobbyist group and was sponsored by the gambling peak body.

The industry will do anything to wield influence on pollies, and hates being called out.

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Strategic Ali @grissallia.bsky.social · 1d

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Sarah B @flythehighlife.bsky.social · 1d

I am old enough to remember Pepe the frog being a whole / terrible right wing meme and now I am confused, has the snake eaten its own tail, has the circle completed itself, what is going on

Chris Gray ⭐⭐🇮🇪🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇪🇺 @chriostoir.bsky.social · 1d

May the Frog be with you. 🐸

#Portland #FuckICE

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 3d

“A second inflatable frog has now been spotted wiggling through Portland.”

Marco Rubio whispers into Donald Trump's ear.

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 2d

antifa in portland just announced they will be hosting a counter halftime show to counter turning point's counter halftime show

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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 3d

Calling English a 'rip-off degree' is one of the most blatant exhibitions of personal barbarism I've ever seen. You've demonstrated nothing but the poverty of your own mind.

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Agnes Mack @agnessmack.bsky.social · 3d

David Pope in Canberra Times

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Marc Morris @marcmorris.bsky.social · 3d

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Preston Towers @prestontowers.bsky.social · 3d

Good to see that selling point for the Giants is "come to somewhere where the media and dickhead men won't constantly bother you with dumb questions and half baked opinions".

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 4d

glad to be born at a time when i got to see what life was like before the internet and will be dead before AI completely destroys humanity

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Preston Towers @prestontowers.bsky.social · 3d

No, they are that cynical that they used the death of Kirk for that end. His death was very useful to them.

Sanho Tree @sanho.bsky.social · 3d

Holy crap. Trump will make the FCC crucify Jimmy Kimmel for this.