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MAGA Rep Bryan Slaton—who introduced a bill mandating death for women seeking abortion because his Biblical morals apparently command it—has resigned after investigators found he had an inappropriate sexual relationship with a teen staffer after getting her drunk.😑

This is the GOP. Every accusation is a confession.

This is all you need to know about 2023
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If you’re looking for an antidote to today’s Coronation celebrations may I suggest watching “Frankie Boyle’s Farewell to the Monarchy”. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jHdrtxw-pGQ
Frankie Boyles Farewell to the Monarchy

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When an inconvenient fact undermines the powerful, it’s dismissed as a “left-wing” talking point.

Until the fact becomes harder to deny.

After years of mostly shrugging it off, the mainstream media is acknowledging that corporate greed is a major force driving inflation.

Absolute gold. 🏅 My kids think this already.

“It has become harder to see a doctor and our kids are doing worse at school. I have written before of the way our workforce issues now span the entire life cycle: in childcare centres, schools, GP surgeries and aged care homes we are short of staff. As a nation, we work more than we used to, productivity has fallen, and wages are stuck. Houses are too hard to buy. When commentators talk of revenue shortfalls what they are really saying is this: life in Australia is going to get worse still.”

Excellent piece by Sean Kelly.

#raisetherate

https://www.smh.com.au/politics/federal/we-can-t-call-ourselves-a-fair-country-until-we-fix-jobseeker-20230428-p5d41n.html

We can’t call ourselves a fair country until we fix JobSeeker

If Labor continues to assert it will always seek to help the most vulnerable, then at some point it must do so, or come up with a different description of itself.

The Sydney Morning Herald
As we are seen in the USA - extract from NY Times article
Amazing bargain getting plugged in the local Facebook community group
Fuck off now