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lloydois @lloydois.bsky.social · 15h

The reasons why Democrats need a Mamdani at the Federal level if they are to have any hope of defeating Trump and MAGA
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/11/o...

Opinion | Voting for Mamdani Taught Me Why Trump Won

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lloydois @lloydois.bsky.social · 23h

An antidote to the bs Parnell McGuiness is posting today in the SMH
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MAGA Tested, Trump Approved News

A conservative opinion writer is now leading CBS News

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James Fallows @jfallows.bsky.social · 3d

Truly excellent new piece by Lincoln Caplan in @harvardmagazine.bsky.social on John Roberts, seen in full.

Careful, meticulous, devastating case on how "institutionalist" has enabled destruction of crucial institutions. Including his now discredited court.
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Their outcomes, along with the Court’s actions in the last few years, carry the seeds of American tragedy. Roberts, often described as an institutionalist, has enabled the most hostile anti-institutionalist ever elected president. The leader of the nation’s judicial system has empowered the president who is the most disdainful in history of the decrees of judges, the provisos of the Constitution, and the workings of American democracy. The chief justice, attempting to thread the needle between principle and practicality, has opened the door to the possibility of the ultimate constitutional crisis: a president’s outright defiance of the Supreme Court.

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lloydois @lloydois.bsky.social · 2d

Great summation as to why Trump is the only person who could have achieved this.

The reasons aren't in any way pure. More the nexus of corruption and power that aligns him with the relevant players.

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Has Trump Brought Peace to Gaza?

Has Trump brought peace to Gaza? Ended the war and cycle of...

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Greg Jericho @grogsgamut.bsky.social · 4d

This is such a brilliant article.

Saeed Jones @theferocity.bsky.social · 4d

“We don’t have to approach and criticize this album as art, because it isn’t art. The Life of a Showgirl is made of Shein quality rip-offs of other people’s songs that are constructed shoddily and sold in ginormous quantities. Art takes time and care. This is profit. It’s content.”

WHEW.

No Good Art Comes From Greed | Defector

The packages arrived square and thin and carefully wrapped on Saturday afternoon. There were three of them, but only one was mine. If I could have rejected my package, sent it back from whence it came...

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lloydois @lloydois.bsky.social · 4d

Read and weep.
www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL25...

On Luxon Advising Young People To Get Out While They Still Can

If anyone under 35 still had mixed feelings about leaving New Zealand to build a future elsewhere, PM Christopher Luxon probably sealed the deal this week with his comments about the youth job market.

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lloydois @lloydois.bsky.social · 4d

The Medical Science Is Always ‘Uncertain’ When It Pushes Against Supreme Court’s Bias talkingpointsmemo.com/news/supreme...

The Medical Science Is Always ‘Uncertain’ When It Pushes Against Supreme Court’s Bias

If you came into Tuesday’s oral argument over Colorado’s conversion therapy ban...

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Tim Dunlop @timdunlop.bsky.social · 5d

These elites of Australian journalism do their industry no favours. Then again, most of our political class have forgotten what it is to be, not just accountable, but transparent and professional too.

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lloydois @lloydois.bsky.social · 5d

Another icon bending the knee open.substack.com/pub/newpolit...

The National Press Club shoots the messenger

The Club shows itself to be just another weak symbol of timidity, a gatekeeper of acceptable speech rather than a defender of free expression.

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Dan @danxduran.bsky.social · 7d

If you'd asked me which celebrity would posthumously unveil a list of people she wanted fired into the sun, I would not have guessed Jane Goodall

KOJAMF🤘🖤🤘 @kojamf.bsky.social · 7d

Dr. Jane Goodall filmed an interview with Netflix in March 2025 that she understood would only be released after her death.

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David Milner @davemilbo.bsky.social · 8d

Could the National Press Club be less embarrassing and less complicit in the genocide of Palestine/the West's decline into overt fascism, pretty, pretty, pretty please? 🙏 Cancelling Chris Hedges' talk on the betrayal of Palestinian journalists only proves his point. Truly, truly pathetic

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lloydois @lloydois.bsky.social · 8d

Outstanding analysis from Laura Tingle
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Trump says his Gaza peace deal is 'an amazing thing'. More and more nations disagree

On Wednesday, Donald Trump proclaimed his Middle East peace deal an "amazing thing". By week's end, things were not as straightforward as they seemed.

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lloydois @lloydois.bsky.social · 9d

Gotta love the wordsmith that is John Birmingham. This will bring a smile to your face and a rage to your brain.
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Grand Theft Accounting

I am shocked—shocked, I tell you—to discover in this year’s corporate tax report that Optus paid no tax on $8.2 billion of income.

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lloydois @lloydois.bsky.social · 9d

Gotta love the wordsmith that is John Birmingham. This will bring a smile to your face and a rage to your rational brain.
open.substack.com/pub/aliensid...

Grand Theft Accounting

I am shocked—shocked, I tell you—to discover in this year’s corporate tax report that Optus paid no tax on $8.2 billion of income.

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lloydois @lloydois.bsky.social · 10d

Insanity. This is Frum's 'Charlie Kirk was doing politics the right way'. How to demolish your reputation in a single column.

lloydois @lloydois.bsky.social · 10d

An Audience of One: Why Trump’s Generals Were Summoned to the Capital
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An Audience of One: Why Trump’s Generals Were Summoned to the Capital

There has been a lot of gossip in recent days following the announcement by Pete Hegseth, Donald Trump’s defence secretary, that all the US’s senior officers had been ordered to Marine Corps Base in Q...

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lloydois @lloydois.bsky.social · 10d

'Blair has always courted the super-rich. But it must have taken epic brown-nosing on his part, to persuade Trump and his son-in-law Jared Kushner to rescue him from political obscurity by making him the de facto viceroy of the Gaza Strip' open.substack.com/pub/nickcohe...

Tony Blair can never be the colonial ruler of Gaza

Firing memos into a mass grave

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lloydois @lloydois.bsky.social · 12d

Brilliant post from Mike Brock

'The administration that thought it held all the leverage is discovering that in geopolitics, as in poker, the player who’s been quietly building their position while others perform dominance often ends up controlling the table'
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How Ukraine’s Geopolitical Power is Rising

Why it’s Bad for Western Authoritarian Movements

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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 15d

For 26 but especially 2028 it's time for Democrats to make clear that the current Supreme Court will have to be reformed (expanded in number, reformed in structure) to allow popular govt to continue in the United States. Not so much a litmus test as precondition for any other promise to be credible.

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lloydois @lloydois.bsky.social · 15d

Great column from Peter Hartcher. Here's hoping the Coalition continue down the rabbit hole they seem determined to go down.
www.smh.com.au/politics/fed...

Aping Trump, or Trumpism, will spell disaster for the Coalition

The US alliance with Australia is fraying because of Donald Trump. The Coalition now needs to decide whether it stands for Australian values or whether it’s an accessory to autocracy.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 16d

Ossoff: "We have a president who's completely out of control, a crook engaged in unprecedented corruption, who's passing one of the most unpopular agendas in history. The public is turning against him. The opposition is motivated. We can win & we have to win, but we don't have the luxury of despair"

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lloydois @lloydois.bsky.social · 17d

'In just the first six months of 2025, China installed more solar capacity than the United States has managed in its history through the end of last year and twice as much solar power as the rest of the world combined during those six months'
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/24/o...

Opinion | As China Goes, So Goes the Climate

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lloydois @lloydois.bsky.social · 18d

A pulling together of many threads from McLuhan to Postman to the end of literacy and the rise and dangers of AI. An essential read on the necessity of reading....
www.derekthompson.org/p/the-end-of...