While I’m enjoying the commentators’ effusive praise of Arda Guler during the Real Madrid game, I wish they would focus more on the action on the pitch rather than their inane musings. Bring on the Premier League commentators who provide insightful commentary on the game itself.

I reckon a helicopter would be more appropriate mode of air transport for a national leader during these tough economic times. skynews.com.au/australia-news…

Costello vs Journo.

Why are the Democrats acting as if Biden’s latest gaffe at the NATO conference overnight is a new phenomenon? They should have intervened years ago.

Like the Americans, Australians don’t engage with the British in football but we do get the occasional glimpse of their fan behavior at the cricket. Our perception of the British is more complex.

Only one thing stands between Trump and the Presidency: hubris. Can the perpetually self-assured Trump keep it in check until the election? search.app/ZrjC1jYMtjCXT6…

It is in the world’s best interest for Biden to also step down from the presidency today. The world cannot afford to have a cognitively impaired leader governing the most powerful country. Democrats must keep up the pressure to make him step down immediately.

Very sad to hear the passing of Inga Peulich. Inga was one of the hardest-working & toughest MPs I’ve known. These qualities were the driving force behind the Liberal Party’s victory in 2010, as her candidates swept to victory in the outer south-east. My condolences to her family

Not all heroes wear capes, some wear prescription glasses and go without noise protecting ear muffs. “Go ahead, make my day.” Turkey’s Olympic silver medalist shooter has the Dirty Harry’s about him. search.app/HcUz3EkeGjfB6Y…

Victorian Socialists Party activists handing out HTV cards at polling booths.

Ok prof here is a thesis ques. How does the misappropriation of African American youth culture by a privileged 37-year-old white woman at the Olympics reflect broader issues of cultural appropriation, racial dynamics, & the commodification of Black identity on a global stage?

Even the worst bloodsuckers eventually run out of veins. The Suleyman family has been feasting on the Labor Party for decades, but it looks like the end is near, and it’s about time!

Wow! Massive signing. Costa could still be playing in the Champions League or earning big money in Saudi Arabia.

After being sacked this week by the TWU national office, half-wit Mem fled Aus amid unresolved questions about $271,519 missing from the TWUs social club funds. He was later spotted in the village of Criminaloğlu in Northern Cyprus, riding Hakki’s old bicycle.(Picture K. Rooney)

World socialists reckon they have the solution for the Gaza conflict: Trotsky’s Theory of Permanent Revolution, war on bourgeois nationalism and the nation-state. Not sure that HAMAS/Hezbollah would agree with Marx that religion is the opium of the masses. wsws.org/en/articles/20…