Donald Trump has emboldened the far right everywhere, raining down attacks on immigrants, trans people and climate policies.
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Take him seriously, not literally. Don’t believe everything he says, but do believe the intention behind his words.
Take him literally, not figuratively. He’s not much of a reader, so if he’s using flowery language, it’s not to impress you. It’s because there’s oil under those flowers.
Take him figuratively, not metaphorically. When he says he wants to impose 25 percent tariffs on our two remaining allies, that’s a figure. He’s using math. But math isn’t a signifier for anything real. Then it would be a metaphor, which is for apes.
Take him metaphorically, not hyperbolically. When he invokes the phrase “manifest destiny,” he does want to expand our empire; he’s only talking about five or six wars. Don’t be overdramatic.
Take him hyperbolically, not parabolically. Twenty years ago, when he said, “You’re fired,” it was just to Gary Busey. Now when he says it, it’s to the whole federal government. It’s different. It may be extreme, but it’s not where he started.
after waving around a chainsaw, Elon Musk is doing a talk at CPAC wearing sunglasses and a chain pic.twitter.com/kOi9YR2Ms7 — Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) February 20, 2025 He’s clearly high as a kite: listen to this. Elon can barely form a sentence right now. pic.twitter.com/u9Su0gbKZN — Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) February 20, 2025 Musk: "My mind is a storm" pic.twitter.com/ycoNu2ScJA — Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) February 20, 2025 Oh God, this is just embarrassing: Legalize comedy pic.twitter.com/uKr6fiRI3K — Elon Musk (@elonmusk) February 20, 2025 Trump has delegated the domestic agenda to this freak while he golfs and cosplays Napoleon on the world stage. Here is the caliber of commentary from him when he’s not swinging a chainsaw around and babbling gibberish: It’s full blown idiocracy. I just didn’t realize it would be run by the richest man in the world who is demented. I should have known.
Donald Trump has set out to radically reshape the institutions of power in the US, moving rapidly to impose his far-right agenda.
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As Musk and his tech bros influence the state, Trump is trying to cut "Big Government" and refashion his presidency around Nixon—but it was mass protest that took Nixon down
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Governments, university administrations and the mainstream media have opportunistically seized on a string of antisemitic attacks to try to demonise and discredit the Palestine movement.
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The Palestine movement has uncovered connections with companies which are directly involved in supplying the missiles and machinery for Israel’s genocide in Gaza.
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Sydney Uni has announced the end of its exchange program between Sydney College of the Arts and the Israeli Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design, in a win for the campaign to cut ties with Israel.
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Sydney rail workers have been banned from taking industrial action for four months, with the Fair Work Commission imposing a “cooling off” order lasting until 1 July.
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Trump’s eager embrace of Vladimir Putin is still startling even though we were well warned in advance. He’s just such a sucker, so bizarrely needy, so insanely shallow and stupid. A reminder of what’s awaiting Ukraine if Trump’s iridiculous attempt at getting the Nobel Peace Prize actually comes to pass: Bucha, a suburb of 37,000 about 20 miles northwest of the capital, Kyiv, has become a notorious symbol of Russian brutality. The Russians took it over within days of invading in February 2022, and in the month that followed, they killed more than 400 civilians, Ukrainian officials say, leading to global accusations of war crimes. Images from that time ricocheted around the world: The priest left dead in a garage, his mouth open. The church choir singer and his family, their limbs cut off, their bodies burned. The woman shot dead pushing her bicycle home on Yablunska Street. On Wednesday, many in Bucha seemed to be struggling to take in Mr. Trump’s comments. When the Biden administration was in power, the United States was Ukraine’s most powerful ally. Now they had many questions: Was Mr. Trump just speaking off the cuff?
Government officials paused a rule allowing passengers to get higher compensation when airlines mishandle their luggage or bump them from flights.
The new Country Liberal Party government is on the rampage in the Northern Territory, inspired by Donald Trump’s rapid-fire reactionary policy announcements in the US.
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Donald Trump has announced a sickening plan to ethnically cleanse Gaza. He wants to remove Palestinians from Gaza and turn it into “the Riviera of the Middle East”.
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A surge in attacks in the occupied West Bank has left at least 870 Palestinians dead there since October 2023.
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The Washington Post/Ipsos poll is not good news for Trumpmusk: President Donald Trump has opened his second term with a flurry of actions designed to radically disrupt and shrink the federal bureaucracy, but reviews from Americans are mixed to negative on many of his specific initiatives, and 57 percent say he has exceeded his authority since taking office, according to a Washington Post-Ipsos poll. Overall, 43 percent of Americans say they support what the president has done during his first month in office, with 48 percent saying they oppose. Those who strongly oppose outnumber those who strongly support by 37 percent to 27 percent. This is important: Americans also are clear what the president should do if a federal court rules that he has done something illegal. More than 8 in 10 say he should follow the court ruling. That includes more than 9 in 10 Democrats along with roughly 8 in 10 Republicans and independents. They are working overtime to propagandize their base, which is all they care about, into believing that the president is a king and there is no institution, law or norm, including the U.S. Constitution, that can tell him what to do.
The cut, an anti-trans attack, was the latest example of confusion sown by bold claims that wither under scrutiny.
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We won’t either For a man so obssessed with defending free speech that last week he scolded Munich Security Conference partners for shunning neo-Nazis and for their governments trying to curb the spread of “so-called misinformation,” JD Vance is caught censoring his own speech at CPAC this morning. “If you’re running in fear of your own voters, there is nothing America can do for you,” Vance warned the Munich conference last week about not engaging opponents. Clearly not. Not when members of Vance’s own U.S. party are “scared shitless about death threats and Gestapo-like stuff” from members of his own party. And while DOGE is busy purging political opponents from government jobs under the pretext of improving “efficiency” and eliminating “fraud” the DOGEes have yet to formally document with anything more substantive than Elon Musk tweets. Here’s Vance being shy about what he really means this morning at CPAC while discussing immigration.
Fox News host Jesse Watters made an on-air plea that the Trump administration be “less callous” when implementing when laying off federal employees after a military veteran friend was “DOGE’d” in Elon Musk’s Pentagon cuts. A report on Wednesday revealed that the Pentagon had provided the Trump administration with a list of probationary employees who could be targeted in the next wave of federal workforce reductions. Watters took to the air on The Five to raise the case of his friend, a veteran of 20 years, who was months into a new role at the Pentagon and still under probation but discovered this week that his job was set to be terminated as part of DOGE’s initiatives. “Let me tell you a story about Chris. Chris was a guy I met at a shooting event in New Jersey,” Watters began…. a 20-year veteran of the U.S. Military, one of the guys who has killed a lot of bad guys. Put his life on the line. He punched out after 20 years of working for the Pentagon.