The major parties often seem to be fighting each other - but there is an almost invisible consensus emerging in some areas, one that needs more interrogation. This week's column. smh.com.au/politics/feder…

This censure motion shows where the major parties priorities lie. They don’t stand with First Peoples in this country. They stand against justice for our people, preferring instead to defend a foreign king, rather than listen to the truth.

Vulnerable countries face tremendous headwinds and obstacles that are not of their making. They aren’t getting the level of support that they need from an international financial architecture that is outdated, ineffective and unfair. The global community is looking to the #G20

The RNC and U.S. Senate candidate David McCormick (R) have filed two more lawsuits in Pennsylvania to block undated and wrongly dated mail-in ballots from being counted. This comes as the extremely close state's U.S. senate race heads toward a recount. democracydocket.com/news-alerts/re…

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This may be my Joker origin story

Light em up

World’s richest man spends a fortune to elect his chosen candidate and gets the regulator of his choice as payback

The Labor-Liberal-National party stitch up on election funding locks out independents then asks taxpayers to foot the bill. One third of Australians don’t vote for the major parties and this bill is their desperate attempt to lock their cosy duopoly in place forever.

The duopoly exposed: election funding Bill to go through via ALP/LNP unity ticket and without any public scrutiny. That’s the power play right there folks.

Chelsea Pride statement. #NoToHate 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️

Top AI systems have been trained on screenplays for over 50,000 films and 85,000 TV shows, according to a new deep dive by Alex Reiser in The Atlantic. Not necessarily *surprising*, but good to see this dug into and confirmed:

Gift link to the full story is here: theatlantic.com/technology/arc…

The Labor/Coalition duopoly want to stick their snouts deeper in your pockets to fund their political campaigns. But if there’s a hung parliament after the election, there’ll be a chance to force them to put democracy ahead of naked self-interest. #auspol australiainstitute.org.au/post/new-polli…

The people who make $700 an hour have convinced the people who make $25 an hour that the problem is the people who make $7.50 an hour.

To recap: Trump is a rapist found liable for defaming the woman he raped. His pick for attorney general is currently accused of statutory rape at sex parties. His pick for defense secretary is accused of sexual assault. But Sarah McBride using a restroom is the threat. Okay.

Cable news producers: no, I will not come on your program to "debate" opposite Trump surrogates on the question of whether trans people are entitled to basic human rights. I urge you to sit down for a few moments and try to imagine someone you love being asked to do that.

It’s famous for a reason. #StarTrekLowerDecks

Will they know we've gone? Will they send a rescue party?