Hannah Ferguson, master of the new media, challenges Albo in his own seat. Independents do politics differently, person to person and on social media. #Independents #Auspol
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Further down today’s ranking of Politics: page 7 of 7.
Being a rich guy with a fragile ego qualifies you to be in Trump’s inner circle. But it doesn’t qualify you to run the Treasury Department, no matter how much Bessent’s PR people want you to believe otherwise. wsj.com/politics/policy/bessen…
NEW: The feds have filed their update in one of the multiple ongoing lawsuits seeking to restrict mifepristone, this one out of Louisiana. It says the FDA plans to complete its “review” of mifepristone’s safety by December, and release a report by March. Notably—after the midterm elections.
Insistence on English-only campaigning could create two tiers of voters in the UK. tcnv.link/IuG3XNv
Australian politics is fragmenting fast. 🔴 Labor's primary at 27-year low (27%) while One Nation leads at 30% • High Court rules climate must factor into fossil fuel approvals • Both majors chasing One Nation with hardline migration pledges lacking evidence 🧵1/3
"Defense companies backed by the president's sons, including Anduril, have now raked in more than $6 billion dollars in active or promised government contracts." Nathan Lee for ABC News abcnews.com/Politics/trump-son…
“Ireland is a wealthy country. Our ambition should be bigger than managing poverty a little better each year. We should be building the next generation of the Irish welfare state – one that prevents poverty, values care, recognises the real cost of disability, and gives every child a fair start in life.” greenparty.ie/news/budget-2027…
Democrats Risk Losing If They Ignore Voters’ Demands on Foreign Policy commondreams.org/opinion/dems-…
I feel like for this park to have any shot at working, they needed rides. The Lincoln Log Flume, Reagan's Trickle Down Water Park, Carter's Play Area for Little Peanuts, Herbie's Stock Market Plunge. You know. Have some fun with it.
Whenever some politician tries to tell you that data centers are good, remember that they are lying through their teeth.
Attention seeking Russian asset and malignant narcissist, George Galloway, contests London byelection without setting foot in UK Holborn and St Pancras byelection | The Guardian theguardian.com/politics/2026/…
Day 4 of #ChallengePoverty Week - and we're focused on the injustice of child poverty. Together we can improve children's lives, ensuring that they can enjoy their rights and live in dignity. That means children and young people should have a meaningful say in how Scotland tackles poverty, and shape the policies and services they use. povertyalliance.org/wp-content…
Analysis | The governor has the microphone. The Legislature has the votes alreporter.com/2026/10/07/anal…
Younger Australians “locked out” as intergenerational housing divide grows Australia is a rich country, but for many younger Australians, the ability to share in that… The Australia Institute · Australia australiainstitute.org.au/post… #News #Australia
Apparently they are intending FOR THE FIRST TIME IN DECADES to bar international election monitors. This can not be allowed!
Thom Tillis is a f**king self-serving slimeball that would run back to MAGA if they'd have him. Anyone that stayed with the Republican party after January 6, 2021 can *never* be trusted, despite any claim to have finally seen the light or transparent book/image rehab tour. #USPol #politics
Please tell Sadiq Khan not to fuel transphobia by allowing JK Rowling Xmas lights in London. What a killer of seasonal joy that would be! action.goodlawproject.org/sadi…
"This is an important part of the reason owning your own home has become so hard to afford." #australia #ausgov #rba #interestrates #housing #housingaffordability #homelessness johnmenadue.com/post/2026/10/u…
#US #Senate blocks bill to address #datacenter costs Senators voted 57-43 on #RatepayerProtectionAct, with only four Democrats voting for it. The measure needed at least 60 affirmative votes to clear a Senate procedural hurdle. Democrats said the legislation does not go far enough to protect consumers from soaring electricity bills. "While Americans are demanding real guardrails on AI and data centers, Republicans are offering a toothless messaging bill," Schumer said. reuters.com/world/us-senate-se…
Premier Wakeham sells Churchill Falls with clear message – “choose to be positive” ntv.ca/news/premier-wakeham-se…
How about an independent stealth sewerage test at parliament, I'll put up $$ toward that.
Fave kind of news story is when America assumes that American problems are also problems elsewhere in the world, for reasons other than that America exported those problems.
if #rich keep #finance #extremism + #dictators that kill people: if #therich afraid of #poor because #finance #economic #fiat #bank #system is rewarding those that sit closer to paper digital money printing press, instead of #innovation would create #jobs = #good #economy less #poor solutions? "target #rules turn concentrated #wealth into #politics #power, rather treating wealthy people as a single group 1. Make political #money #visible + reduce #leverage. timely #disclosure major political spending + its real funders, close routes #donors evade limits through intermediaries + strengthen independent enforcement. Pair that with #smalldonor public matching ...
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2. #Reward #productive #investment + shared gains not just #ownership of scarce #assets Close #tax + regulatory advantages favor #rent seeking + #monopoly: expand #access to patient #financing new #small #businesses, encourage #employee #ownership, #profit #sharing ... ... full text pastebin.com/MJLXSLZ8 #save #democracy
"While some political candidates rose to prominence through their support for Palestine, the U.S." 🇵🇸 Three years into Gaza’s genocide, U.S. political rhetoric hasn’t translated into action prismreports.org/2026/10/07/ga… #FreePalestine #RacialJustice #Justice
UK Papers - 'Kemi's family home pledge' and 'Badenoch invokes core Tory values': bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cm3el3…
I _will_ talk about this more, but when Shitstain went off about "taking out" LA and San Diego, I said that was a fantasy and the crowd reaction was more important. Belle makes the same point today, but MORE importantly, describes how when people talk about his insanity as "picking targets," they're _internalising the lie that Iran could actually do it_. IRAN HAS NO ABILITY TO DO THIS. They had no nuclear programme, no nukes, and no way to deliver them. This lie is all about getting people to buy that Iran _could_ nuke a US city, WHICH IS BULLSHIT. It's Bush II's WMD lies all over again, and treating it as an actual threat makes people internalise it as real. youtube.com/watch?v=J5l3LWwkXKs #uspol #uspolitics #politics #fascism #IranWar
There's a LOT more of this coming up. A month or so from now, Trump and Republicans are going to use ICE, the military and Jan 6th/Charlottesville Nazis to try to keep Congress. It's about to get even more violent than Trump's reign so far. nytimes.com/2026/10/05/us/trum…
He was asking police to help him find his missing son. Policing in America is broken.. threads.com/share/JUi2-xjg1/
#NASA has a considerably larger 📈 civil servant workforce today than before the outset of the second #Trump administration—about 21,000 people
A Trump-themed shop in Virginia suffers a marked decline in sales; one customer tells CNN: ‘Very few people still support Trump’. {Raw Story 7 October} rawstory.com/trump-voters-2678… Visit reddit.com/r/TheWireDesk linktr.ee/arthurnewhook 🪐💔 #QueSeraSera 𓅨 🕈
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Also the most heavily armed populace on the planet. Hopefully it won't come to violence, but if you haven't already then NOW is the time to take grandpa's deer rifle or milsurp out of the closet. The caliber and model will be stamped into the metal parts of the rifle. Use that info to pick up a couple boxes of ammo and watch YT vids that demonstrate operation, field stripping, cleaning, lubrication, etc. This is not a drill. #girdyourloins #resistancefromadistance
Excellent @joinpersuasion .piece by James Bosworth (Boz) of Latin America Risk Report : “#Brazil just voted in favor of… rerunning essentially the same political fight it saw in both 2018 and 2022. The country’s politics, in other words, is stagnant” persuasion.community/p/in-braz…
Labour ruling out future cooperation/coalitions with the Greens, and LibDems likely to end their council cooperation and coalitions with them. theguardian.com/politics/2026/… #UKPolitics #UKPol
This political party just made tackling modified e-mobility policy cyclingelectric.com/news/this-… The Liberal Democrats have made themselves known as the first political party to make tackling the scourge of illegally modified e-mobility goods, inclusive of kit modified cycles and derestricted electric bikes, part of their party’s law and order policy framework.
President Trump has signed a national security presidential memorandum directing his administration to “leverage the capability and innovation of the private sector to help conduct these cyber operations under the direction, control and authority of the US government”, the White House said. theguardian.com/us-news/2026/a…
~1 in 6 men suffer sexual assault, and about 80% of men who suffer sexual assault are assaulted by other men. Meanwhile, ~1 in 20 rape accusations by women are false accusations. In other words, men are ~333% more likely to be raped by another man, than they are to be falsely accused of rape by a woman. But rather than focus on the epidemic of men who commit real violence, weak men want to pretend the real issue are false accusations. Absurd.
At rally in red Nebraska, Trump told supporters that he hoped for a tremendous victory in November #midterm #elections He then suggested high prices due to his #war with Iran were a “small price to pay for keeping the world safe – keeping our country safe” [& profitable for his family businesses] - “They can take out a city,” he said. “Let them take out #LosAngeles. Let them take out #SanDiego” The crowd applauded theguardian.com/us-news/2026/o… #terrorism #traitor #TraitorTrump #dictator [2/2]
Sent in my ballot today. No republicans were voted for. Nada. ZERO. Voted for the CA billionaires tax. Voted for everything that wanted funding. We need to invest in people and services. #fucktrump #fucktheGOP
Look, ACAB is the truth but also the police just came and towed 4 abandoned cars from the alley next to my house; cars that had been there for months and clearly just left there, and for that I am grateful.
Isn’t it crazy how there’s always money for war and data centers, but not for education, healthcare, and climate action?
"State Sen. Ron Alting accused of shoplifting" I voted against Ron Alting before I knew he was a serial shoplifter! Vote for Natasha Baker! purdueexponent.org/city_state/… #Indiana #TippecanoeCounty #LafayetteIN #HoosierMast #politics #TippecanoeCo
You may have heard about that anti-BPS ad that got pulled by the MBTA. But who placed the ad, and why now? Well, I've got answers: write.as/brendanhalpin/about-t… #Boston #MaPoli #Massachusetts
Why now? Because he's a dictator-in-the-making! He wants to normalize military executions so he can kill whoever he wants!
And a longer cut from Maine debate: bsky.app/profile/atrupar.com/p…
The French national budget deficit is huge and essential expense of maintaining public schools hasn’t been met. Student protests and French public sector strike heap pressure on Macron msn.com/en-au/news/news/conten…
Profiling and analyzing #SteveHilton, former Chief of Staff to UK Prime Minister turned Trumpist demagogue Can he upset #XavierBecerra in race for #California Governor? Latest position before #USElections2026, w Democrats benefiting from #Trump unpopularity — but with many races too close to call
Trump's doubling down on this sure seems like an odd midterm campaign strategy.
