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@BernardKeane Name the actual crimes. Yr making union-corporate deals for high wages into corruption. Where's the crime in this?

In the sordid history of Australian crime, corruption and financial scandals, nothing comes close to the epic rorting of Victoria's Big Build. What makes it truly unique, however, is the near-total lack of response from the government that oversaw it crikey.com.au/2026/07/13/big…

@hardenuppete @AlboMP Same rate as every year for the past 25. 75 women and 190 men murdered a year, give or take a bit. No crisis at all

There were 15 people killed in the horrific Bondi attack in 2025 and @AlboMP implemented a Royal Commission shortly after. Peak bodies, victim/survivors and service providers have been calling for a Royal Commission into DV for over a decade. Absolute Silence.

@jensensuther I did. It's been done and done.

@michael180966 read the post, you moron

As Adorno pointed out long ago, Marxism has consistently paid for theoretical mistakes at the level of politics. This isn’t to say that having the right metaphysics guarantees correct choices at the level of practice. But it is, at a certain point, a condition. 1/

@pliirp @KarlMarxFan17 @plantagenite No evidence of pre Maori inhabitants

@michael180966 @KarlMarxFan17 @plantagenite the maori have literally committed genocide

“I’m against British settler colonialism. Actually no, not there.”

@cairoasmith No! It's a waste. Why aren't we organising deadpools?

"Did you hear Lindsey Graham died?" she says to me. "Everybody's celebrating. They're hoping Mitch McConnell's next." This is not a good way to live.

@IsabelOakeshott @TSolitude27302 @DPJHodges Ha ha yes it's all about Nige

@TSolitude27302 @DPJHodges It isn't a competition.

"The Mail on Sunday reported that a “highly placed source” had told the paper Widdecombe’s family “don’t want her death hijacked for political purposes”, and were “very uneasy” about Farage attending the scene of the investigation".

@ShipleyWrites No, as the poem makes clear, Brits were destroying it with highways, Tescos and suburbs. The culprits were 'crooks and tarts'. Six years later Larkin voted for Thatcher

And that will be England gone, The shadows, the meadows, the lanes, The guildhalls, the carved choirs.

@KarlMarxFan17 @plantagenite That makes everyone who arrives somewhere settler colonialists. The Maori for example. Yr addled. The alternative was Spanish Argentina.

@plantagenite I'm sorry, I used the wrong term. It is a colony with settlers on it

@dr_musgrave Ooooooh as a treat for you, we will! Feel better now?

I’m sorry but someone drives 300 miles from Yorkshire to Devon in order to murder a 78 year old retired politician. And there’s nothing to suggest it was politically motivated? 🙄 Can’t we at least say it was likely to be politically motivated?

@ERN_Malleyscrub @MsMountebank Insensitivity is the newspaper editors who run stories of individual murders of young white women, and won't do pieces about femicide as a social phenomenon. 12 aboriginal women are murdered every year. Their stories in The Age? Wisen up. Quickly

@michael180966 @MsMountebank And a man has come to share his manly opinions. A dumb insensitive clod of a man.

Three consecutive stories at the top of The Age.

@DainFitzgerald @DryToast2810 They're blond, boring and suburban. V Australian. Signed, an Australian.

@DryToast2810 I thought they were from Australia up until a few years ago. Have no idea where I got that idea from. I think it had something to do with their reggae sound. But that also doesn't make sense, apart from Jamaica and Australia being warm and sunny.

Insane that The Police became so huge when their members were: -A pompous English teacher -The hyperactive and histrionic son of a founding member of the CIA -A jazz guitarist a whole decade older than the other two, who has just discovered effects pedals

@DryToast2810 @piperocktheory It was definitely a psyop. Miles Copland became their manager

@piperocktheory I wasn’t trying to insult them, I just find it to be a bizarre mix of members for a band, and I like the music.

@Favwontmiss That is being human. Stop branding yourself like a toy on a shelf

Does anyone else with ADHD or neurodivergent get so overstimulated that you can literally feel yourself getting irritated at everything? I don’t even want to be mad and half the time nothing is actually wrong my brain just decided everything is too much at once and now I’m pissed off

@Kon__K Very disappointed you won't speak up about who's doing the killing, Kon

@Kon__K Indigenous and non anglo men far more likely to murder. Kon will you support heavier policing of these men? Women's lives will be saved!

The police believe the human remains of Jana Armstrong, 30, have been found. Jana was a beautiful human being. They had worked as a disability support worker, spent years caring for her elderly parents before welcoming her first child earlier this year. Friends described her as

@davenellist Just one more party, bro, I swear, just one more...

35 years ago today, Terry Fields MP, Prisoner DV 3695, a Poll Tax rebel and Militant, was jailed as part of the 20th century's biggest campaign of civil disobedience. We need a new working class party, full of socialist fighters like Terry! share.google/wIkXgoJPUDagIx…

@NoWayWoke Since many of these workers were Scots and Irish, seen as wholly different to English, yes. Without Irish immigration being pushed against local opposition, labour shortages would have undermined industrial revolution. UK's openness to such movements gave it advantage

That’s weird. Diversity Built Britain, surely? 🤷‍♂️

@robert_lyman It's an idiotic idea. Hasn't taken cos it's part of the modish demand for contrarian novelty among public figure historians.

Not everyone, and not yet, but the world is changing.

@NewSweezyite The core of TGI is a book Marx and Engels tried to get published. It's not a total confection. The notebooks are never anything but what they say they are

the German Ideology has gotten it bad from marx scholars for being constructed by the Marx-Engels Institute, but it's wild that the 1844 manuscripts haven't been reevaluated as even more of a stitched together mess from an insane notebook which was mostly copying down adam smith

@JonahDispatch No, you can be a successful architect in Manchester or Kansas City. To be a real star it's London, NYC or LA. Stop deluding yourself. Flyover country is a lot more parochial than European regions

Also, the U.S. is unique because we have dozens of cities where ambitious people can excel in various careers and industries. I love the UK and London but London is a bottleneck politically, culturally and economically. You can’t move to Manchester or Birmingham and really compete at the top level in many careers. Paris has a little urban competition, but not much. Meanwhile New York City is an elite destination, sure. But you can become an extremely successful lawyer, architect, artist, singer, engineer, whatever, without moving to NYC. You can do that in Dallas, Nashville, Atlanta, LA, SF, Boston, Chicago, Seattle, Houston, Miami, Pittsburgh and even Philadelphia. The competition between urban centers is great for productivity and innovation. But this system of safety valves for the production of elites is also a huge engine of our success.