If I was Albo, I'd raise the rate in national cabinet tomorrow, put dental care into medicare, grandfather negative gearing, cancel AUKUS and fund public housing to the tune of a few extra billion dollars directly. Win the next election on a genuinely left wing platform.

Matt Kean says Australia must take ‘strong and decisive action’ on climate crisis despite Trump re-election theguardian.com/australia-news…

.Richard Marles says the #AUKUS sub deal is 'too big to fail'. That's an open invitation for Donald Trump to demand Australia pour even more billions into US govt coffers, with no guarantee we'll get any subs at the end of the day. #suckers #auspol smh.com.au/politics/feder…

Look I don't hate Albanese—I don't despise & loathe & detest Albanese with every fiber of my being like I do say the Morrisons & Abbotts—no. Absolutely not. But I have grown to dislike him intensely. Such a disappointment. So weak. A genocide. AUKUS. Racist policies. SM ban. 🖕

“The stale politics of identity that tries to reduce even the glaringly inconvenient fact of Trump’s multiracial alliance to ‘white women’ stands in the way of overcoming the real democratic crisis,” Thomas Chatterton Williams writes: theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/…

Elon Musk’s purchase of Twitter—including firing 80 percent of its employees—is not just a Republican success story; it is the template for the MAGA federal government, Charlie Warzel wrote prior to the election. theatlantic.com/technology/arc…

For anyone interested in age verification ID and implications for risk of identity theft and cybersecurity in the US👇 Age Verification Systems Will Be a Personal Identifiable Information Nightmare | Communications of the ACM dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/36…

Telling their truth: the Queensland Indigenous community defying a government with healing voices theguardian.com/australia-news…

“The stale politics of identity that tries to reduce even the glaringly inconvenient fact of Trump’s multiracial alliance to ‘white women’ stands in the way of overcoming the real democratic crisis,” Please pay attention Mark Butler MP Mark Dreyfus theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/…

The next federal election campaign starts now, writes Paul Bongiorno. “The choice is stark – either support Labor’s targeted spending and the relief it pays for, or the Liberals’ unspecified austerity.” #auspol satpa.pe/susO84r

Tacitly or explicitly, Trump’s anti-democratic behaviour has been validated democratically. His personal victory is almost certain to be emboldening. Victory could be interpreted as a mandate granting him more authority to be authoritarian. My latest……

According to experts from @unimelb and @sydney_uni we need to get ready for an alarming future, where truth and science no longer matter. theconversation.com/if-trump-puts-…

Homicidal war criminal.

My podcast series with @dropsitenews, ‘The Palestine Laboratory’, is now out in the world. All 4 episodes. It’s generated a remarkable global response, I keep on getting positive messages about it from Sweden to Palestine, and covers everything from apartheid South Africa and

Billionaires, Fox News personalities, and staunch loyalists. These are the people president-elect Donald Trump has so far chosen to run the United States as part of his incoming 2025 administration. 👇 ab.co/3CtZzKs

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Why the Guardian is no longer posting on X theguardian.com/media/2024/nov…

THE GUARDIAN LEAVES TOXIC TWITTER So should we all. Otherwise, we all remain enablers. Remember the speech from #yearsandyears. It's all our fault. #guardian #toxictwitter theguardian.com/media/2024/nov…

All bets are off. See Trump's new appointments which will create mayhem. AUKUS should be jettisoned or much pain follows. I addressed one of these branches. Surprise! Majority opposed to AUKUS. 'Albanese questioned on Trump, AUKUS by local Labor branch smh.com.au/cbd/albanese-q…

We’re into American Caligula territory. Half expecting Trump to make his golf cart the Secretary of Transportation.