James Scullin

Chances looking pretty good that Trump will be embalmed in a mausoleum when he dies

This honestly deserves some kind of an award…

It’s like one of those episodes of the Apprentice when the teams didn’t get along

@JOHNMAUS Australia?!

TICKETS ON SALE WEDNESDAY THE 25TH!

@cados38 As a spectacle, all night games look the same once the lights are on. The way the sun’s shadow moves across the G in late September during the afternoon creates a unique visual experience unlike at other times during the year. Also, BBQs are better during the day.

Concerts, parties, huge sporting events all better at Night/Twilight. Will showcase our sport like never before. Can’t be far off happening

@JeremyCliffe Excellent thread!

I vaguely expected a more exuberant and frank clash of views this evening that would at least oxygenate the debate. What I watched was more stifled, parochial, and ultimately dispiriting than that. Germany surely deserves better. [THREAD ENDS]

Germany may not be quite ready for its first "Quadrell" (four-way debate between chancellor candidates of CDU/CSU, SPD, Greens and AfD). But the TV complex in Berlin-Adlershof certainly seems to be: x.com/HollsteinM/sta…

I would like to see a Trump-Alien Summit purely to watch the aliens react uncomfortably to Trump’s behavior

Absolutely obsessed with this guy and everything in his life that led him to this moment

@DonaldJTrumpJr @SpaceX @realDonaldTrump @elonmusk

Truly a day I will never forget @SpaceX with @realDonaldTrump @ @elonmusk.

Election Touchscreen Map Takes Deeper Look Inside Key Swing Voter | Onion News Network ONN political analyst Jason Copeland breaks down the latest presidential polling trends going on inside Pennsylvania resident Nick Camden.

Who briefs Xi Jinping? For @AsiaPolicy me and @HungChingFei analyze a new dataset of Politburo study sessions and speakers from 12/2002–6/2024 (h/t @BrianTHart) Shows trends like Xi's rising focus on Party control and national security relative to economic development 1/8

It's a fight I'll never win, but fuck it: "Beijing" is not pronounced "Bay-zheeng" with that soft, vaguely French consonant. It's pronounced just like aging, paging, raging, and waging, but with a B. The J is like jingle bells, jingoism. Good old hard J.

A thread of ancient wonders of the world virtually reconstructed 1. The Colossus of Rhodes, Greece, destroyed in 226 BC

"If [the Chinese people] had the proper leadership, there are no limits on what they could accomplish. They are such kind, generous, capable people. They just gave and gave and gave to me." -1990 article on Tim Walz after he returned from teaching in Foshan, China. -Star-Herald

Lol

The Government has stabilised the Australia-China relationship, but tensions and strains persist. Don't miss @GeoffRaby, @TimBuckleyCEF, Cheng Lei, and @mcgregorrichard @LowyInstitute: asiasociety.org/australia/asia… @FinancialReview @VicGovAu @kwmlaw @LaTrobeFin @RioTinto @ANZ_AU

A Chinese netizen posted her view of #paris2024olympics Opening ceremony on Weibo, and here's my translation. ⚠️It's a thread

Shenyang, China, recorded one of the biggest rainstorms in 73 years. These are the fish in the river reacting to the event.

This will be the first Presidential election since 1976 to not have a Biden, Bush, or Clinton on the ticket.

@JamesFallows @Rory_Medcalf But Trump isn’t the President RIGHT NOW.