PT Norton

Sense amid Madness, Wit amongst Folly, Crutons within Soup.

[Jay Bookman @jaysbookman]

The Texas screwworm story is a version of this. The Reflecting Pool fiasco is a version of this. The Iranian war is a very large and ongoing version of this.
Everywhere you look, incompetence is having its natural consequences, with more to come. Much more, I'm afraid.

[MFWitches @MFWitches]

Look, it’s a bad day for Australia in terms of sport but on the bright side, our Prime Minister isn’t a pedophile …

[Josh Bornstein @JoshBBornstein]

Long ago Hannah Arendt warned of the dire consequences of Jews establishing a state without the consent of the Palestinian people. By Robert Manne. https://t.co/lqOKQoUURO

[Ana Kasparian @AnaKasparian]

Should’ve been more than four. If they don’t want to get killed they should get the fuck outta Lebanon.

And yes, I said what I said.

[Mike Carlton @MikeCarlton01]

A thorough and well-deserved whipping for the poodles of the press gallery.@crikey_news https://t.co/POchmkU0h4

[Peter Cronau @PeterCronau]

One Nation’s billionaire financier, Gina Reinhardt, wants more, many more, Israeli immigrants to come to Australia.

Her unhinged plan is for an Israeli enclave to settle on the “prairies” of Townsville for the manufacture of drones and weapons.

In a normal world, this should sink One Nation.

[Jeffrey Goldberg @JeffreyGoldberg]

"Ben-Gvir, in addition to being an authoritarian racist, is a bona fide criminal. He has been found guilty in Israeli courts of eight offenses, including rioting, obstructing a police officer, incitement to racism, possession of propaganda material for a terrorist organization, and support for a terrorist organization." -- @issacharoff:
https://t.co/nE4VvpSwqa

[Abier @abierkhatib]

Americans need to begin delving into Hebrew language posts. They will be astonished, to say the least.

[Jaqueline Outram 🇵🇸 @JaquelineOutram]

“Documents obtained under FOI…reveal that the Executive Council of Australian Jewry was the only organisation eligible to apply for the federal government’s initial $25 million security funding package announced in the wake of the 7 October attacks.

There was no tender.” 👇

[Steven Beschloss @StevenBeschloss]

“Anyone who saw the images of a bloated and stuporous Trump wandering around the meetings of the G7 this week—or who heard his blatant & patently ridiculous contradictions—would not be surprised to learn that he’s increasingly losing touch with reality.”

https://t.co/vqLTywlWvS

[💧 Johny Miller ([email protected]) @jmil400]

Please #ABCNews 🙏
Get rid of #JaneNorman.
She is the least authoritative senior correspondent that the ABC has ever employed. Surely, the ABC management can see the damage that she does to the integrity of the ABC.

[Cenk Uygur @cenkuygur]

Miriam Adelson's paper in Israel wrote this about Trump, "You made a colossal mistake. You failed by signing a surrender agreement." I understand why she's upset, this is Miriam's War. She ordered this war and didn't give us permission to leave. She expected Trump to stay bought.

[The Shallow State @OurShallowState]

Among a myriad of things in our political landscape, aside from policy, that the Right will never candidly discuss, and the media doesn't discuss enough:

Trump IS dying.
NOBODY KNOWS how long doctors can keep him going.
He doesn't like Vance. Vance is being set up TO FAIL.
The RW grift apparatus only cares about THE GRIFT.
Trump 2.0 aides and cabinet only care about POWER AND PARDONS.
Most of the GOP are in incredibly deep and are craven, but they have constituents to answer to, in theory; whether enough of them will, nobody knows.
In a free and fair midterm elections, Dems will take the House handily, and the Senate is a toss-up.
Cognitive dissonance is everywhere; Trump is overreaching; there are cracks in MAGA that could easily become fissures.

[The Washington Post @washingtonpost]

Exclusive: U.S. intelligence agencies have warned the Trump administration that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is likely to take steps that will undermine President Trump’s effort to reach a lasting peace deal with Iran. https://t.co/LF1mowtp08

[Dominic Hauschild @domhauschild]

Ukraine has just done something astonishing.

The Ukrainian Ministry of Defence has just launched TrophyLab - essentially making access to all captured Russian weapon technologies free for foreign governments, research institutions and the defence industry.

They will even send physical hardware to allies for examination and to rip it apart to discover Russian military secrets. As well as technical specifications, blueprints and research results.

The website includes listings for armoured vehicles, missiles, aircraft, UAVs, EW assets, UGVs, cruise missiles etc.

Governments usually want to keep this kind of captured tech a secret for its own advantage. Ukraine has decided to make it (relatively, I think) open access for the benefit of the West.

[Sami Gold @souljagoyteller]

1. I went to Jewish school from kindergarten to 12th grade
2. I come from a deeply Zionist family
3. I’ve been to Israel on a number of occasions, including to places that border the West Bank.

I’m an anti-Israel Jew. It’s a genocidal apartheid state. Sue me

[Misinformation Fact Checker. @MisinfoFact]

Barrie Cassidy arguing that media double standards boost Pauline Hanson and One Nation. He notes that if her comment "No good muslim" had targeted Jews, the backlash would be far greater yet the media's handling has only seen her support rise.

#auspol

[Rick Wilson @TheRickWilson]

Iran won and Trump surrendered.
Moscow is burning and Ukraine will win.
Treasonous Tulsi is out.
Trumps name is off the Kennedy Center.
The Reflecting Pool is green.
Donald Trump is riddled with dementia and is rotting before our eyes.
MAGA is in a civil war.

Happy Friday!

[Scott Robertson @sarobertson_]

Blundell: When Trump took over the board with all of his loser pals, he also got access to The Kennedy Center bank account. And there's about $17 million that should be in this account for operational expenses that has disappeared ... where did that $17 million go?

[MeidasTouch @MeidasTouch]

The $1.7 million no-bid contract to clean the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool went to a company ultimately owned by Trump donor John J. Cafaro, who previously pleaded guilty in separate federal cases involving bribery and campaign finance violations. The company's name? Greenwater Services.