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Corruption in the US really is off the scale.

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Roscoe @saysroscoe.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

So the only tool the RBA can use is to up interest rates so the poor can't spend, go out, eat etc? Why aren't the billionaires hit in any way whatsoever? What about a tax on unjustified price increases? Share profits? Why only hit the poor?

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Tom ⬛️ @drtomjones.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Afternoon all! Things always look better after a typhoon.

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Chris Cook @chriscook.news · 21/09/2026

A big new story from us: a big new leak means that we can put numbers on the scale of A7 -- the Kremlin's huge money-laundering machine. $6.9bn laundered through the international banking system via SWIFT, with $1.1bn sent to StanChart alone. www.ft.com/content/3848...

ft.com

Kremlin-backed forgery scheme moved $6.9bn through global banks

FT finds thousands of Russian payments handled by Standard Chartered, Citigroup and other international groups in vast leak from inside fintech A7

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Tom ⬛️ @drtomjones.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

When companies spend 75% of their profits on increased dividends & share buy-backs & only 25% on investment the shareholder class gets richer. Until investment increases, productivity won't. This is the underlying issue. Firms must be incentivised to increase investment over shareholder enrichment.

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Tom ⬛️ @drtomjones.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

What’s a “tram-train”? Is it a bit like a “coat-jacket”?

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Robert Saunders @robertsaunders.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

90 years ago, Parliament responded to the rise of Oswald Mosley's Blackshirts by passing the Public Order Act, which banned political uniforms, private militias and the threat of force for political objects. The debates make very resonant reading today. Here's the Liberal Robert Bernays. (Short 🧵)

You cannot conduct a fair match when one side is playing with a ball and the other with bombs and, if democracy is to survive, it must be conducted according to definite and recognised rule. One of them is that no political party should resort to any weapon other than reason and argument. The introduction of private armies, as I see it, strikes at the root of democracy. I know it is contended that the Blackshirts are not armed and, therefore, are not an army, but I do not think that argument can be upheld. … Uniformed men in military formation suggest, and are meant to suggest, the idea of force. It is no argument to reply that at this or that demonstration no force is intended. It is an inescapable fact that a uniform in politics symbolises force, to be used either now or in the future.

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Tom ⬛️ @drtomjones.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

An anachronism. Should be demolished.

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Tom ⬛️ @drtomjones.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Truly evil. We don’t deserve this planet.

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Tom ⬛️ @drtomjones.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

It is not the forins and the immigrunts it is the monopolies, cartels and billionaires. Why Labor’s Share of Wealth Is Shrinking www.nytimes.com/2026/09/07/o...

nytimes.com

Opinion | Why Labor’s Share of Wealth Is Shrinking

Workers’ share of our national income is declining rapidly but we’re not sure why.

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Tom ⬛️ @drtomjones.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Sydney is an amazing city ... and today it looked particularly amazing.

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Tom ⬛️ @drtomjones.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

The turnout in Saxony-Anhalt was a record high - 77.8% up from 60.3% in 2021. So let's not pretend that the resurgence of Nazism is some fringe event. As we've seen in the US, fascism is on the rise again. As a species, we fail to learn from our mistakes. www.reutersconnect.com/item/germany...

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Licensable video: Germany’s right-wing AfD wins Saxony-Anhalt election with record 43.8% vote

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gamera obscura october edition @ohrobin.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Non-voters are called apathetic, but they’re not. they’re politically homeless and feel abandoned by the existing order. Fascism mobilizes them and gives their anger and ignorance a scapegoat. Turns humiliation into hatred. Explanation is not exoneration, but that’s how it happens.

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Tom ⬛️ @drtomjones.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

They've got no ideas and no policies, have they?

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Tom ⬛️ @drtomjones.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

How on earth will they have enough money to pay the cook and the butler. Thoughts and prayers.

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Tom ⬛️ @drtomjones.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

So breathtakingly obvious. Start with what you need and then work from there. But instead we have the press, Pauline and Gina dictating what's going on. Desperate stuff. www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

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Pocock says skilled migrants should be top priority as Australia faces shortage of AI workers and tradies – as it happened

This blog is now closed

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Says it all, really👇🏽

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David Marler @qldaah.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

RBA initially denied it but now 3 years later it concedes profits & import prices were the main drivers of inflation in 2022. There was a lot of political squawking at the time when inflation rose from 3.5% to 7.9%. It was 5.1% in May 2022 during the election. #auspol thepoint.com.au/opinions/260...

thepoint.com.au

RBA's own research shows that profits drove post-pandemic inflation, not wages

Last week, research by the Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) confirmed that they were wrong in 2023 to criticise research by The Australia Institute, which showed rising profits were the significant cau...

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Tom ⬛️ @drtomjones.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Media = wall-to-wall One Nation, but the public? 🟥 ALP 29.5% (+2.5%) 🟧 ON 23.5% (-3.5%) 🟦 Lib 18% (-0.5%) 🟩 Greens 13.5% (-0.5%) 🩵 Independents 13% (+2%) ⬜️ Nat 2.5% (0%) 2PP 🟥 ALP: 56% (+4) 🟦 L/NP: 44% (-4) 2PP 🟥 ALP 55.5% (+2.5) 🟧 ON 44.5% (-2.5) @Roy Morgan www.roymorgan.com/findings/103...

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Despite the ALP loss in Western Australia, the ALP has gained nationally after One Nation MP David Farley says One Nation’s immigration policy is ‘not too different’ to Labor’s - Roy Morgan Research

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Tom ⬛️ @drtomjones.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

I know it's a "long" way between Llanelli and Cardiff, but no wonder Welsh rugby is in such a mess if the Scarlets have to take a plane.

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Tom ⬛️ @drtomjones.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

The Pogues Ralf McTell Crass Janis Ian The National Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds New Order Wishbone Ash BB King Grigory Sokolov Life is complicated.

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Tom ⬛️ @drtomjones.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

I'm watching 2012 for the umpteenth time (and of course, thoroughly enjoying it). But just imagine all the useless billionaires on those arks. They wouldn't last three months. No farmers, no hunters, no chippies ... no barbers. Billionaires ... absolutely useless in an apocalypse.

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Tom ⬛️ @drtomjones.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

Bloody tearing up watching this .... Great stuff by everyone at the NRL and Rabbitohs. All strength to you, Jai.

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Michael West @michaelwestbiz.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Real wages collapsed during Covid, are not recovering and the RBA does not seem to have an answer @grogsgamut.bsky.social analyses a serious problem for Australia and what to do about it #auspol michaelwest.com.au/real-wages-a...

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Real wages are collapsing while the RBA looks away - Michael West

Real wages are down, and the RBA is afraid to change that. Recovery unachievable unless real wages grow or profits and wages redistributed.

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Tom ⬛️ @drtomjones.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

It's amazing how the RBA think they can reduce Woolworths' and Coles' price rises by increasing interest rates.

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Tom ⬛️ @drtomjones.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Want to join the NRL? You'll need to find A$100m. A 20th franchise will guarantee the NRL an extra $20 million a season under the new broadcasting deal. www.couriermail.com.au/sport/nrl/se...

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Tom ⬛️ @drtomjones.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

They still don't get it, do they? Churning out more talent like Feyi-Waboso or Kepu Tuipulotu? The talent isn't the issue. *Retaining* the talent with £££ is the issue! www.walesonline.co.uk/sport/rugby/...

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Wales stars lift lid on ambitious plan designed to get Welsh rugby back on top

Jonathan Davies and Scott Baldwin give rugby correspondent Steffan Thomas the inside track on the proposed new Indigo Academy

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NPR @npr.org · 25/08/2026

Playing football has long been linked to the brain disease known as CTE, but how prevalent it is is still unknown. A new study of former NFL players who died recently found that at least 25% had CTE. n.pr/45LueOE

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At least 25% of former NFL players who died between 2016 and 2021 had CTE, study finds

Playing football has long been linked to the brain disease known as CTE, but how prevalent it is is still unknown. A new study of former NFL players who died recently found that at least 25% had CTE.

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Tom ⬛️ @drtomjones.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

What the hell is this obsession with IQ? Why can’t we focus on more important things like the Tosser Index? Y’know, how much of a tosser is this dick head? Far more important than IQ.

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Tom ⬛️ @drtomjones.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

When our $1,000 phones are protected with facial recognition software and can be remotely disabled, why are our $50,000 cars so easy to steal? Why don't they have the same or better protections? Governments should be legislating that manufacturers increase anti-theft systems.

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Tom ⬛️ @drtomjones.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

Andrew Probyn's willingness to flat out lie on @news.abc.net.au "Insiders" makes the entire program unlistenable. No Andrew, smoking rates in Australia are not on the increase. Far from it. www.aihw.gov.au/news-media/m...

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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 21/08/2026

New study finds that the rapid growth of electric vehicles in China has prevented over 300,000 premature deaths. Conversely -- and this is just math -- everything done to prevent the rise of EVs in the US leads to more preventable deaths of Americans. It's not an academic debate.

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Reduced urban air pollution and mortality from the transition to new energy vehicles in China - Nature Health

Using satellite data and interpretable machine learning, the widespread adoption of new energy vehicles was shown to reduce particulate matter particles with a diameter of 2.5 μm or less and carbon mo...

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Tom ⬛️ @drtomjones.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

When you’ve already abandoned any hope of reaching the URC semi‑finals before the season has even begun… (semi-finals are scheduled for 5th June)

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