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This seems appropriate…
December 26, 2025 at 5:26 PM
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America has 925 billionaires as of this year. Collectively they have a record $6.9 trillion in wealth.

The bottom 50% of Americans control $4.2 trillion in wealth.

When 925 people control more wealth than half a country’s population, we have a very serious problem.
December 26, 2025 at 5:00 PM
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The NACC has defied the odds by going back-to-back 🏆🏆
After another year of doing absolutely nothing, congratulations on retaining Stranger’s Useless Govt Agency Award.
Consistency is key 👍
And the Australian 2024 Useless Government Agency Of The Year award goes to . . . . .

*drum roll*

the National Anti-Corruption Commission.

Yaaay!! Well done @strangerous.bsky.social for judging the #NACC the supreme winner out of a crowded field of incompetent, taxpayer-funded duds.

#pfffft
December 26, 2025 at 11:06 PM
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South Park called it, and it’s hilarious.

One of the creators purchased the Trump Kennedy Center URL address before the name was even changed because they know Trump’s narcissism is in the driver’s seat.
December 27, 2025 at 12:38 AM
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Staring up at the aurora shimmering above. So beautiful.
December 25, 2025 at 1:22 AM
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I call on the Australian government to #RaiseTheRate of all support payments to a living wage.
This would be the single most effective way to lift the productivity, quality of life, and well-being of the whole country.
#CommitToALivingWage
December 26, 2025 at 12:36 AM
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Surucua Trogon.

The Surucua trogon (Trogon surrucura) is a species of bird in the family Trogonidae, the quetzals and trogons. It is found in Argentina, Brazil, Paraguay, and Uruguay.

📸: @luizcarlosmaringa
December 25, 2025 at 5:30 PM
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This year’s Presidential Christmas card.
December 23, 2025 at 4:23 PM
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December 21, 2025 at 2:38 AM
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So the "most transparent president in history" won't let Jack Smith's testimony become public. He's got them holding back tens of thousands of Epstein documents, haven't seen his taxes, his school records, and no one knows why the East Wing was destroyed before he even had ballroom plans. Yeah.
December 19, 2025 at 4:20 PM
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Robert Reich
December 17, 2025 at 3:22 AM
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WHY CAN WE NOT ELECT A WOMAN PRESIDENT. The rest of the world has. OLD WHITE GUYS HAVE FUCKED UP AMERICA ALREADY.
December 17, 2025 at 12:12 AM
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BONUS - In honor of Rob Reiner 😢

For this week's #ThursdayFilmRec 🗃️🎥🍿🎬 #HATM

Watch (or Rewatch) "The Princess Bride" (1987) - Dir. Rob Reiner

This iconic scene starring Reiner's best friend Billy Crystal. ⬇️

www.youtube.com/watch?v=IFJ2...
Miracle Max
YouTube video by emonsther
www.youtube.com
December 16, 2025 at 2:19 AM
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Ever wonder how some billionaires can get away with paying such low tax rates compared to working class Americans? Here’s their secret playbook and what we can do about it.
December 14, 2025 at 9:05 PM
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December 14, 2025 at 8:23 PM
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As Supreme Court Justice Louis Brandeis stated in 1933; “We can have democracy in this country or we can have great wealth concentrated in the hands of the few, but we cannot have both.”

Today, at a time of unprecedented income & wealth inequality, his words ring truer than ever.
December 14, 2025 at 10:30 PM
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Spot on 😄
December 12, 2025 at 7:03 AM
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If giving tax breaks to people to buy multiple houses was likely to push house prices down, then buying houses would be a pretty crap investment and no one would do it.

Who wants to buy an asset that government policy is going to lower the value of?

thepoint.com.au/opinions/251...
Fixing the housing crisis isn’t complicated, governments just don’t want to do it
The easiest way to boost the supply of housing in Australia would be for governments to build new houses. And the easiest way to provide affordable rental accommodation would be to rent the new govern...
thepoint.com.au
December 13, 2025 at 4:02 AM
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New piece - about the media environment today and the troubling lack of scrutiny of government nickfeik.substack.com/p/a-rare-win
December 13, 2025 at 5:33 AM
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If we keep fighting over and burning fossil fuels we’ll be able to segue straight into fighting over water and food.
December 12, 2025 at 3:26 AM
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the absolute clownery of a court allowing Reynolds to bankrupt Ms Higgins for the “defamatory imputation” that Reynolds continued to harass Ms Higgins.
December 12, 2025 at 5:53 AM
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We are dealing with such corruption in every aspect of our government, I don't know how we undo the damage.
December 9, 2025 at 1:26 AM
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This ⬇️
December 8, 2025 at 6:33 AM
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“The point of modern propaganda isn't only to misinform or push an agenda.

It is to exhaust your critical thinking, to annihilate truth.”

- Garry Kasparov
December 6, 2025 at 4:20 PM