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@bayraktar_1love Australia can help you on this one too.

Ukrainian anti-tank ditches along the defensive lines have flooded after the snowmelt. Now all that’s missing are the crocodiles.

@ATruthMaestro @AssalRad The destroyed one of the world's largest dams, on the Dnipro

@AssalRad Why has Russia never done this to Ukraine?

Attacking water infrastructure essential for a civilian population is a war crime.

@MikeCarlton01 Why are children in charge of the nukes, and B52s and tanks and ...

He is insane. The United States and by extension the entire planet are in the hands of a psychopath.

@ChiChiGreenblat Evil advice.

Show them how much you love them by rubbing your icy cold hands all over their back. Romance… but make it traumatic.

@AmyRemeikis I reckon this would be too scary to read.

Holy fkn shizballs!!!! Thank you to everyone who has embraced this. You’re incredible - and also - not alone. It’s a mess, no one has fixed what he helped break and if anything comes from this, it’s a reminder of what we need to do

@WFPChief @WFP Well played Cindy.

With a heavy heart, I announced my intention today to step down as @WFP's Executive Director. Leading this incredible organization and our dedicated teams has been the honor of a lifetime. I remain deeply committed to advocating for the millions struggling with hunger worldwide.

@kevinbonham It's in all the UK parties' interest, other than Ref, to have a ranked choice system - maybe this by-election will prompt them to get one.

Good example here of why first past the post is garbage and countries using it are not serious democracies.

@TonyHWindsor You need to put Battenburg in there as well

I’ve changed my name to Tony Saxe-Coburg-Gotha.

@WarMonitor3 Alexander the great, a number of his contemporary generals lived another active 50 years - he may have via Hellenism spread knowledge, art and science globally. We may have got to the moon 500 years earlier.

What death had the largest global consequence in history?

@kevinbonham @bj_stansfield Or anywhere else; didn't Richo say that line of reasoning was effectively asking voters to have pity for politicians, something you tend not to see.

@bj_stansfield yeah they might remind us how that tactic went in WA 2021.

🤦‍♂️ in the Oz - SA Newspoll (story first comment)

@sciencegirl Turkmenistan

Traditional dance inside this pub Can you guess the country

@JulianAndrew63 What struck me was her calling Susan Ley, by her full name and Angus by just his given name - a slip maybe, or too chummy with the subject, it should have been cut.

Should Patricia Karvelas be referring to a recent Advance conference as a "blockbuster conference"? #4corners 🤔 Why would she call it that?

@kevinbonham Overs / unders line at 10.5 candidates

This is going to be fascinating. Could be a very big field.

Ley to resign from Parliament in a few weeks. By-election coming for #Farrer

@Faiep1982 @ChrisO_wiki @michaeldweiss Sadly, yes.

@ChrisO_wiki @michaeldweiss Neither will we, thats what made him go fpr the presidency

Three years left to go.

@kevinbonham @cruicerod Well, it does tell LNP voters that it's OK to vote for her mob.

@cruicerod If One Nation was larger than the ex-Coalition the issue would be whether the ex-Coalition would give it supply (if that would enable an ON government). The question is about a hypothetical where ex-Coalition + ON have the most seats combined with ex-Coalition larger.

Hanson says the supposed anti-duopoly party One Nation would give supply to the ex-Coalition to assist it to govern. skynews.com.au/opinion/chris-…

@bobjcarr He will do something to save face, because he said he would. Probably re-bomb nuclear sites. Or maybe go hard and say he set the table for regime change and then blame the Iranian people for not completing it.

Trump’s rhetoric on this has eased since earlier this month, as if his military have advised that war with Iran is a nasty option. In fact, not one that lends itself to any definition of victory.

Professor John Mearsheimer’s insights are worth a tonne of headlines about the mighty US fleet steaming to Iran. How do you achieve regime change without boots on the ground? In a conflict how do you stop Iranian missiles reaching Israel open.substack.com/pub/mearsheime…

@AntonyGreenElec They have an active recycling policy - obviously after the green vote.

Fascinating that a party which has set records for the number of its elected members that have defected, should now be recruiting candidates from amongst defectors from other parties.

@AntonyGreenElec 'Flush' is doing a lot of work there.

Little known Sir Anthony Meyer challenged Margaret Thatcher for the Conservative leadership in December 1989. He was no chance but 60 MPs didn't back Thatcher and it triggered a challenge by Michael Heseltine that brought Thatcher down. Who will Colin Boyce flush out?

@Number10cat Nobody believes it's you. The place is going to the dogs.

For those asking who's running the country while Starmer is in China, if's the same as who runs it while he's here: me.

@TheKouk Put your $ on Scotty Bucholtz. OK, I have no idea who Bucholtz is, but don't let that stop you.

Politics Betting: Next leader of the Liberal Party betting: Andrew Hastie $1.50 Angus Taylor $4.50 Josh Frydenberg $11.00 Ted O'Brien $12.00 Tim Wilson $13.00 Jacinta Price $14.00 Dan Tehan $18.00 Jason Wood $31.00 Scott Bucholtz $31.00