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Just an old, boring leftie who rides a Triumph and flies rockets for fun.

MAGA radicals are refusing to raise the debt ceiling unless Biden agrees to devastating cuts to Social Security and Medicare.

They don't actually care about the debt.

They're willing to drive the economy off a cliff in order to chip away at our most vital social programs.

Australians confused after Ardern resigns without sticking around to utterly destroy party https://www.theshovel.com.au/2023/01/20/australians-confused-ardern-resigns-destroy-party/
Australians confused after Ardern resigns without sticking around to utterly destroy party

“Hang on, isn’t that a constitutional responsibility?”

The Shovel

RT @[email protected]

Prime Minister @[email protected] there will never be another like you.I wish there were. You have my admiration, my respect, my well wishes for you+your beautiful family. I have watched you shine uniquely+bravely from afar.Thank you 4showing the rest of the world what’s possible.

🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/Pink/status/1615962261734191105

P!nk on Twitter

“Prime Minister @jacindaardern there will never be another like you.I wish there were. You have my admiration, my respect, my well wishes for you+your beautiful family. I have watched you shine uniquely+bravely from afar.Thank you 4showing the rest of the world what’s possible.”

Twitter

them: how was your day

me:

Dutton says he needs more detail on the specifics of the Voice before he can walk out on it in Parliament https://www.theshovel.com.au/2023/01/10/dutton-more-detail-voice-before-he-walk-out-parliament/
Dutton says he needs more detail on the specifics of the Voice before he can walk out on it in Parliament

"There's a lot more mileage I need to extract from the issue before I officially reject it"

The Shovel
If Australia doesn’t become a republic after the dysfunctional soap opera we’ve seen on display in the UK recently, we really need to stop pretending this country has any spine at all. The French had the right idea in 1789. Get the Union Jack out of our flag for good.

Chilling graphic from the U.N. https://www.un.org/en/actnow

And an increase of only 1.5 degrees is looking increasingly likely to not be achievable.

Act Now | United Nations

ActNow is the United Nations’ global call to individual action on climate change. The campaign is a critical part of the UN’s coordinated effort to raise awareness, ambition, and action for climate change and accelerate implementation of the Paris Agreement.

United Nations
Fed Chair Powell’s solution to inflation is to clobber workers: “The labor market continues to be out of balance, with demand substantially exceeding the supply of available workers,” he says. But if the demand for workers exceeds the supply, isn’t the answer to pay workers more?
Bargain.
My @smh @theage cartoon.

grocery store chains: we set record profits this year

retail chains: we've never made so much money

energy companies: we just posted our best quarter on record

news article: who is to blame for inflation? you peasants wanting wages, probably