So I've been thinking I know more about America than most Australians. Now, your typical Australian knows a shitload more about America than the typical American knows about Australia (empire) but still, I am, in a niche way, a kind of expert, and it might be fun to share that.

#BREAKING Meanwhile fighting in most major cities right now, a tractor driver steals Russian military equipment in Ukraine. Things are so unorganized on the Russian side. #Ukraine #UkraineWar #UkraineInvasion #UkraineUnderAttack

That's going to be the story of all these terrible years: not the faceless, insidious public health threat that attacked us—but of the cruelty and selfishness of those we know and love and live with, who said no to compassion when it called. johnpavlovitz.com/2021/08/05/sel…

Our country needs Republicans to be sane, responsible, and speak the truth. @RepTomRice is right. Most of our Republican colleagues know this. Their silence enables the danger. GOP congressman calls Trump 'a would-be tyrant' | TheHill thehill.com/homenews/campa…

This exposes part of the influence operator’s tradecraft we don’t discuss that much. These campaigns are often more to do with identity and belonging than they are news or facts. Kinship, friendship, who we are in the world. The response can’t simply be critical reasoning skills.

This I would call pro-democracy journalism. How 'bout you? pic.x.com/ImbkO2jLWd

Apparently my kid got in trouble today for PACKING OUR TOASTER IN HIS BACKPACK and pulling it out at lunch to make pop tarts for his class. I can’t stop laughing.

Working your job while working on your mental health while working on your relationships while working on physical health while working on your family while working on sleep habits while working on self-care while working on exercise while working on personal goals while working

This just might be the moment people wake up and demand more from a Democrat party that embraces the spirit of a weak and ineffective opposition party even when in power.

.matt Awe-inspiring for sure. It’s hard to be a kid—or just fucking human—with so many extremists pushing hate, fear, and policies designed only to divide.

Periodic reminder to the press that if it’s raining and some batshit fascist cult leader says that it isn’t, your job is not to report to us that there are differing views about the weather. It’s to look out the fucking window.

POTENTIALLY MASSIVE in light of what we know now: In Oct 2021, CIA Counterintelligence sent a top secret cable warning an unusually number of confidential informants were being killed, captured, or compromised. In Jan 2021, Trump stole documents on these kind of informants.

Americans: •Cancel student debt! •Cancel medical debt! •Make insulin free! Most of Developed World: •What is student debt? •What is medical debt? •Insulin is already free! What GOP call “socialism”—even conservative parties in most developed nations call a “human right.”

A List of Things People Blamed on Radio 🧵

The verification paradox. The more well established and indisputable a fact is, the greater the frenzy created by disputing it to the point of denial. With the energy released a political movement can be powered.

This is insanely interesting!

Attempts to "curb inflation" were always about taming the developing labor movement and reestablishing "discipline." This was explicitly said and never hidden. But coverage continues to paper over that fact.

Big brain move by the Yankees and Guardians waiting to start this game until after Bob Costas' bedtime

My top 3 assumptions when doorbell rings: 1. Murderer 2. Police telling me everyone is dead 3. That book I ordered about positive thinking