Mainly half-baked observations about politics and sport. All views my own etc.
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The worst thing about Vic Labor getting wiped out is we are all going to have to hear Kos Samaras tell us everything he would have done differently
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I'm glad Abdul El-Sayed won but every speech or interview I see him give just confirms to me that he's a really unlikeable character
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In which I get to tell @jonstewart about the moment he changed my life.
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Must watch: Meet Chuck Hubbard, who is set to defeat Virginia Foxx in a safe Trump +18 district in North Carolina.
Just a normal guy, he decided to run for office to stand up for his LGBTQ daughter and defend her rights in Trump’s America.
I've been libbing out hard on the bluenami and consuming every piece of content – but @SarahLongwell25 on Jon Stewart's podcast is the most insightful and cathartic thing I've heard so far. The world needs the kind of good America she describes.
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Streets will talk about for decades when Colom took a 28 vote lead at 1:00am eastern in Mississippi
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when he signed the civil rights act, lbj famously told his press secretary bill moyers “we may have lost the south for your lifetime—and mine” and my brother pointed out bill moyers died last year.
ALT wikipedia page reading “Billy Don Moyers (June 5, 1934 – June 26, 2025) was an American journalist and political commentator who served as the eleventh White House Press Secretary from 1965 to 1967 during the Lyndon B. Johnson administration. He also served as the de facto White House Chief of Staff for a brief period from 1964 until 1965.”
Big fan of the ad for the Rugby League World Cup that opens with "once every four years, the world comes together.."
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Mbappe is right, Mao Zedong is a dictator and China is a totalitarian state.
My name is George Bailey and I'm the Chief Selector for the Australian Men's Cricket Team
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The Sydney Greens have successfully blocked more housing during a housing supply crisis
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For the Sally Rooney - Salman Rushdie parallel to work, a major Jewish leader would have had to call for her murder, gangs of marauding Jews would have had to burn down bookstores, and a Jewish extremist would have had to stab her eye out with a knife.
If you ever sought out the novels of Sally Rooney in bookshops – when that was still possible – you’d know they sit in the fiction stacks adjacent to the novels of another SR whose books have been withdrawn in dastardly political circumstances. Until last week, “Rooney” and “Rushdie” had little in common beyond being shelfmates; now they have more than just a physical proximity.
@tanjil_rashid_: This is censorship by other means newstatesman.com/comment/202…
David Shoebridge absolutely flailing on Afternoon Briefing in the face of basic questions about whether JSJ will come to Parliament and be allowed in the Greens party room. I genuinely thought he would be a strong performer as Leader!
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They may be a fake “nation”, confected by great powers to serve their ends. But there’s no use crying about it now — it’s not like the Treaty of London 1839 can just be undone.
never bring a new book to read at a pub without a backup to read in case the first choice sucks bc like why even mention #them
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The U.S. may have intentionally withheld early warnings this week of Russian strikes on Ukraine, multiple sources familiar with the matter told CBS News. cbsn.ws/4yNtwNv
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