Peter Filipovic 🌸

Excerpt from a weekly contribution on issues facing Australia with @RCR_NZ Politics is a competition of ideas and we need more of them…

What they WON’T do about Covid: - Hold anyone accountable for anything during that era. - Acknowledge or help any family of those injured or dead by the warp speed shot What they WILL do about Covid: - Take back any military fired for not getting the shot so they can go fight in this new war.

This isn't right. The demand for electric cars is predicted to surge 5 times by 2035. It is estimated that 20,000 Congolese children labor on these mines currently. By 2035, there will be 100, 000 kids, using the same logic. Do you want your kids doing this? Oh, free trade and a ton of profit mentality 💔

Labor has now improved its position to 37.5% of the primary vote and are looking a lot more likely in Mawson (while the Liberals have fallen to 14% in fourth place) Two-candidate-preferred result of 57-43 vs ONP (per ABC)

@Leo_Puglisi6 @6NewsAU Sky News has already called it for ON.

Hammond could definitely be won by One Nation if they retain their current position (37% counted)

Thank you so much to the 16K+ people who watched @6NewsAU South Australian live election coverage tonight! Massive thanks as always to @Maggie_Perry6, @RomanMackinnon6, @StuartJeffery_6 and @austinpollock_9 for their incredible work We will be back LIVE for Farrer on 9 May

The first rule of behavioral science: Any sentence beginning, "Twin studies suggest..." should be ignored. #EEAtwins

The “Schizophrenia is 80% Heritable” Fallacy: Deconstructing a Twin Study Meta-Analysis open.substack.com/pub/jayjoseph2…

@BeGeorgeBailey U.S. media say they didn't (thehill.com/policy/interna…), although who knows: we might be told there was an inconvenient laundry machine fire on the base...

Iran seems to be following a strategy of unveiling more and more impressive military capabilities as the war goes on. They just fired long-range ballistic missiles at Diego Garcia, one of the most strategically significant U.S. military bases in the world (hosting B-52 bombers, nuclear subs, etc.), nearly 5,000km away from them in the middle of the Indian ocean 👇. Diego Garcia has never been hit before in any war in its 5 decades of existence, and no-one knew Iran had these types of capabilities (Iran themselves said their ballistic missile range was limited to 2,000 kilometers). Two days ago, they also took down an "unkillable" F-35 fifth-generation fighter jet, something which has never happened before (militarywatchmagazine.com/article/footag…). They've also managed to take control of the world's most strategic oil chokepoint, and have proven they can hit any strategic target in the wider Middle-East, even the most protected ones (such as Israel's Haifa oil refinery: aljazeera.com/news/2026/3/19…). All in all, it sounds almost unbelievable but Iran appears to have a genuine form of escalation dominance over the United States military, with its trillion dollar budget. In a very real way, it's even more impressive than Vietnam or Afghanistan: those countries resisted a superpower, Iran appears to be competing with one. It also makes you think: what comes next? And that's exactly what escalation dominance is all about: keep raising the stakes until the other side blinks. It's about making Trump think "wait, I thought I was picking a fight with the skinny kid and turns out he's Bruce Lee."

One Nation MLC-elect Carlos Quaremba tells @6NewsAU the party will contest the South Australian local government elections later this year

#BREAKING 🚨 Former senator Cory Bernardi will be elected as one of at least two One Nation members in the South Australian upper house, with the possibility of a third There are varying chances for the party in around seven lower house seats, based on current results

@Leo_Puglisi6 Labor gets to at least 45% with LC and Greens preferences though, so One Nation would need 80% or so of Liberal preferences to flow to them.

Liberals polling FIFTH in Taylor (behind Family First)

Socialist-endorsed candidate Ahmed Azhar is currently polling AHEAD of the Liberals in Peter Malinauskas' seat of Croydon

Reiterating that there is a serious chance One Nation wins Labor-held Mawson if these results continue (11% counted)

Absolutely utterly HORRIFYING. Trump allowed this DISASTER.

I second the motion "Psychiatry as a medical discipline should be disbanded."

Correct. The category is entirely subjective ( and driven by financial incentives)