It’s crazy that Australia’s Brexit moment even had a ‘the racist liar the media kept taking at face value admits that the campaign was lying just after it’ moment

You will see more and more of this. Some on the far right try to make it sound like they care about Jews because they want Muslims targeted first. And some are now pretending they care about Muslims because they want Jews targeted first. Ultimately, they’re coming for us all.

How is it that even after Afghanistan and Iraq the pundit brain can't hold onto the concept that two wrongs not only don't make a right, but the second wrong doesn't practically improve anything either?

TStomscocca.bsky.socialOct 15, 2023 1:58pm

Who is this bravado for

BREAKING: chaser.com.au/national/no-...

My only real response to the Referendum is that given conservatives and reactionaries are always going to spread fear that your policies are radical, maybe try some actual radical policies? Small targets still get the attack but none of the countering inspiration.

"Not the odds, but the stakes." That's been my shorthand for the principle that could most improve election coverage in 2024. Not "who's going to win?" but the consequences for our democracy. Not the odds but the stakes. Today something happened with this idea. THREAD. 1/

Same playbook, new acronyms. I wonder if the mainstream press will fall for it again?

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Good quote by @madisoncondon.bsky.socialgrist.org/economics/as...

As climate risks mount, the insurance safety net is collapsing

Natural disasters now cost the U.S. insurance industry $100 billion a year. What happens when no one wants to pick up the tab?

It's almost like this was the plan all along.