Luke 🔰

Come on Albo and Jim. If not now, when?

@CarltonFCBlues I actually don’t think him taking the shot was such a bad choice. He would back himself to kick that 9 times out of 10. You’re just as likely to stuff up a pass as you are a shot at goal. He was wide open.

@zeezou90 Out of all the club departures, he is possibly the least boo-able of all.

Carlton fans pls remember Corey Durdin is the purest soul and we should never boo him. I still go back sometimes and watch the roaming Brian segment with his sister 🥺

@Keyser1617 @onepercentas Agreed. I think capping player wages at 10x the minimum wage would be appropriate. Gives the top players another reason to advocate for the lowest paid players in CBAs.

@onepercentas Great read The idea of maximum contract length/value should be introduced to protect clubs from themselves - max 5 years and 10% of salary cap Minimum list sizes should also be scrapped especially when there’s a minimum cap spend- it means overpaying at poor/developing clubs

Last call for my wide-ranging interview/feature with "Alex", an AFL list manager. We spoke about anticipating how the game will evolve, checking your biases, player psychology, working with player managers, and regrets. Really enjoyed writing – share if you liked reading it.

@zeezou90 I think the big challenge with Acres is that he keeps sub-luxing his shoulder in his AFL games. While he’s insanely tough and brave, he does run around slightly lame for the rest of the match.

This is the perfect winger game, do we squeeze him in? Has to be rewarded for this stretch of form

@aaronsmith I guess we should be thankful he wasn't claiming to reduce immigration by 600% a la the orange dictator.

Genuine respect to the Liberal Party. After Abbott and Morrison, finding a worse leader should have been physically impossible. And yet, through sheer force of will, they've pulled it off.

@JeremyPoxon "Is the goal 100% employment?" "No. In fact when unemployment gets too low, we make changes to ensure unemployment rates rise." "So what happens to the people who are unemployed?" 🤷‍♂️

Albanese is asked why nothing in budget goes to the poorest Australians "If the budget's in better shape next year, will you look at raising JobSeeker?" Albanese: What we want to do is "make sure people can get into a job. That's how you lift people out of poverty"

@1116sen @SENBreakfast Clubs should also be free to trade contracted players to other clubs.

@1116sen @SENBreakfast How about we ditch the free agency rules that promote salary cap distorting contracts? Any out of contract player should be able to sign with any club, and that club would be deducted "Draft points" which would be awarded to the club losing the player.

"I'm almost done with talking about him." Does something need to be done about Ben McKay at Essendon? #AFL | @SENBreakfast

@CarltonFCBlues Billy's time is now. Get him in the team.

Billy Wilson RD5 #VFL: game high 41 touches 8 intercepts 6 marks 4 inside 50s 3 rebound 50s

@CarltonFCBlues One attempt at blinding Crippa. 😢

Reidy: 12 hit outs to advantage team high 5 score launches 6 score involvements 15 touches 3 clearances 3 intercepts 4 tackles 2 tackles inside 50 2 rebound 50s

Zack Polanski, "It's not enough to just be hopeful... It's about having hope and a plan" "I also disagree that left wing policies are popular" "Didn't you - Jeremy Corbyn - get 3,000,000 more votes than Keir Starmer got?" Jeremy Corbyn, "The highest vote this century for Labour, it was 2017" Zack Polanski, "That's 3,000,000 more people who wanted to move wealth away from private capital, to nationalise our water services, nationalise our public services, and that's very popular in this country" "Broadband is a good example of how the media jumped on saying it's not possible, not pragmatic. And that's their number one weapon, to always make people think that better isn't possible, and that change isn't possible" "And we know why. The multimillionaires and billionaires who pump money into wars, or oil and gas, or into arms companies, or into gambling companies" "Once they've bought up the assets, they buy the media, then they buy our democracy" "I guess we're here tonight to say that they're taken our power, they've taken our democracy, they're taken our media" "But collectively, we are going to take it back"

@CarltonFCBlues Never thought I’d live to see the day. Inness is a genius.

Weiters, Dean, Lord & Duffy. Just Motlop & HOF left on the injury list now 👀

The use of primary energy on the vertical axis is an old trick by the fossil fuel industry to mislead people into thinking that one unit of fossils = one unit of renewables. In fact, one unit of primary energy for wind or solar electricity is the equivalent of three units of fossil fuels for electricity. Another trick is to pretend we need all those fossils if we switched to renewables. In fact, if we switch to renewables, 12% of the fossil fuel energy disappears because that is how much energy is used to mine-transport-refine fossil fuels+uranium for energy, and we wouldn't need to do that anymore A third trick is to pretend we need so much energy if we go to all electricity powered by renewables. In that case, because EVs use 75% less energy than gasoline/diesel vehicles, heat pumps use 75% less energy than combustion heating, etc., energy demand goes down another 42%. In sum, this plot illustrates the real story of where we are and where we need to go. The proper metric is end-use energy, not primary energy. web.stanford.edu/group/efmh/jac… and here's the paper web.stanford.edu/group/efmh/jac…

@CarltonFCBlues Gee that was brutal.

@seraphuscain @CarltonFCBlues It bothers me that players aren’t coached to use both sides of their body anymore. It’s just seen as a nice to have when it can make such a big difference. It used to be a bog standard expectation of most players.

@lukedastoli @CarltonFCBlues Its impossible to imagine because they simply arent nearly as talented as those blokes.

Yaz, Jeffy, Eddie 😍 The last time Carlton beat Adelaide in Adelaide in the AFL:

@CarltonFCBlues I was so happy two seconds before this moment. I thought I was watching a premiership team.

The last time Hewett got omitted.. it was looking good at 52-13 & it’s all been downhill since this kick 😅

There is now substantial research — both in Australia and the United States — on who engages with political detail and how that shapes voting behaviour. The findings are striking and consistent across both countries. In the 2024 US presidential election, pre-election polls found Americans who consumed no political news at all said they’d vote for Trump over Kamala Harris by a whopping 20-point margin — 60% to 40%. The more engaged they were in politics — the more likely they were to support Harris. Data for Progress found that support for Harris decreased as a voter’s news consumption decreased. In other words: the more people knew, the less likely they were to vote for Trump. The Australian data tells the same story. Australian Election Study research found that Greens voters decided their vote disproportionately on the basis of policy issues, while Liberal voters were more likely to decide based on whether they liked party leaders or the party brand as a whole. One Nation voters were found to have the lowest institutional trust of any party’s supporters — consistent with international research on the rise of socially conservative populist movements. Australian research also found that voters with negative economic expectations are significantly more likely to support minor parties — and this association has strengthened since the mid-2010s. ANU research on political knowledge found that consumption of political information online is narrowing among a younger, better educated and politically interested group — meaning the internet is reinforcing the advantages of the most knowledgeable while increasingly failing to draw in the most politically disengaged. This connects to something deeper and more disturbing. Belief in conspiracy theories has increased dramatically over the last decade — and the research is unambiguous about why. A study published in Nature Human Behaviour across 26 countries found that conspiracy thinking is significantly more prevalent at the extreme right of the political spectrum, strongest among supporters of populist parties not in government, and amplified by feelings of political powerlessness and low institutional trust. Multiple peer-reviewed studies confirm that right-wing populist politicians don’t just attract conspiracy believers — they actively cultivate them. Research found that populist radical right parties deliberately use conspiracy rhetoric to frame politics as corrupt elites against ordinary people — a simple story that requires no engagement with evidence and is nearly immune to facts. Trump’s “fake news” rhetoric accelerated this dramatically. By systematically attacking credible institutions — media, science, courts, electoral systems — he created a permission structure for dismissing any inconvenient fact as manufactured. The result is cult-based politics: a closed information loop where the leader is the only trusted source, where evidence is irrelevant, and where loyalty replaces analysis. Australia is not immune. The same pattern — institutional distrust, grievance, simple explanations for complex problems — is the entire operating model of One Nation. Populism — whether Trumpism in the US or Hansonism in Australia — is not a coincidence. It is specifically engineered for low-engagement, high-grievance voters. Simple slogans. Single scapegoats. No policy detail. No accountability. The moment you examine the actual voting record, the actual economic data, the actual legislative outcomes — the whole platform collapses. This is why detail matters. This is why the threads I’ve been posting matter. Engagement is the antidote. Which is exactly why the people who profit from grievance work so hard to keep it simple.

@adamjohnsonCHI @SweatieAngle All the good things about universal programmes aside, a means test is just an inefficiently administered tax. If you want the rich to pay, we already have a system for that.

god I hate this faux populist bullshit. K-12 is also free for rich people, as are public parks, the fire dept, libraries etc. Study after study shows means testing is the quickest way to gut programs for the rich AND the poor because it erodes the public base of support.