💧TeeMG

Former History ESL English teacher. Cyclist. Gardener. Music lover. Grumpy old man.

[Metta Bhavana "officialfineprintenvoy" #5xjabbed @MettaBhavana1]

Ms Wilcox is the only prophet we need.

[CALL TO ACTIVISM @CalltoActivism]

Here is George Clooney response after Trump accused him of being a "Hollywood elite."

"Here’s the thing: I grew up in Kentucky. I sold insurance door-to-door. I sold ladies’ shoes. I worked at an all-night liquor store. I would buy suits that were too big and too long and cut the bottom of the pants off to make ties so I’d have a tie to go on job interviews. I grew up understanding what it was like to not have health insurance for eight years.

So this idea that I’m somehow the “Hollywood elite” and this guy who takes a shit in a gold toilet is somehow the man of the people is laughable.

People in Hollywood, for the most part, are people from the Midwest who moved to Hollywood to have a career. So this idea of “coastal elites” living in a bubble is ridiculous. Who lives in a bigger bubble?

He lives in a gold tower and has twelve people in his company. He doesn’t run a corporation of hundreds of thousands of people he employs and takes care of. He ran a company of twelve people!

When you direct a film you have seven different unions all wanting different things, you have to find consensus with all of them, and you have to get them moving in the same direction.

He’s never had to do any of that kind of stuff. I just look at it and I laugh when I see him say “Hollywood elite.” Hollywood elite? I don’t have a star on Hollywood Boulevard, Donald Trump has a star on Hollywood Boulevard! Fuck you!"

- George Clooney

actor, philanthropist, humanitarian & activist

[stranger @strangerous10]

Barbara Pocock accuses KPMG CEO Andrew Yates of Lying after he insisted KPMG does not engage in Power Mapping, Pocock stumps with a KPMG Power Map💥 showing special rships with PS & their ratings.
“You said you did not do it!”
“We are sick of the cover ups in here!”🔥#Estimates

[💧TeeMG @Grilledchops]

@sahar_adatia Why put Babet on Afternoon Briefing? He is the epitome of unrepresentative swill.

[Ali France MP @AliFranceMP]

‘Treacherous’! 12 years in parliament & 5 years around the Cabinet table with Peter Dutton.

I reckon Ken knows Peter.👇
#yes23

[💧TeeMG @Grilledchops]

What did the Fed Gov expect when they hired a consultant to investigate a consultant?

[stranger @strangerous10]

Deborah O’Neill says PwC’s Ziggy Switkowski Report can’t even guarantee it “will prevent the same sort of behaviour” & that Ziggy was instructed by #PwC “Not to” investigate any misconduct or even “to address or analyse root causes” of their Global Tax Avoidance Scheme😳

[Rohan Connolly @rohan_connolly]

Excellent analysis from Bernard Keane ... not fawning, not unhinged, and the headline searingly accurate.

"Dan Andrews' secret is that he understands Victoria, and his haters don't" @crikey_news https://t.co/uof1MTJUGV

[Victoria Fielding @DrVicFielding]

Since the cat is out of the bag about Alan Jones being managed by Liberal operative Scott Briggs, that really begs the question, which other shock jocks, political commentators and journalists are being carefully managed behind the scenes by the Liberal Party? Transparency please

[Sally McManus @sallymcmanus]

This is what Inghams is doing to its striking workers. I don’t know about you, but there is no way I’d be buying their chickens

[Rex Patrick @MrRexPatrick]

#Breaking: Contrary to the principles of open justice (and the wish of Timor-Leste’s PM) @MarkDreyfusKCMP has just issued a secrecy certificate to partially close AAT hearings where I’m fighting to lift the #secrecy lid on Australia’s past sea boundary negotiating sins. #auspol

[Michelle Grattan @michellegrattan]

Pezzullo, the secretary of the Department of Home Affairs, has been stood aside while his extraordinary behaviour is scrutinised by a former public service commissioner, Lynelle Briggs.

But the end of the story is predictable.

https://t.co/BjwlAuvw2l

[Rohan Connolly @rohan_connolly]

Hopefully people will at least now stop pretending that the vast bulk of mainstream media is anything other than a front for vested political and corporate interests.

[Barbara Pocock @BarbaraPocock]

Extraordinary revelations at the Consultants Inquiry hearing this morning with an admission from the Tax Practitioners Board that PwC is too big to fail and by extension beyond regulation meaning the proper penalties cannot be applied.

[roweafr @roweafr]

texting again? @FinancialReview

[💧TeeMG @Grilledchops]

I wonder if Labor have the balls to deal with Pezullo severely.

[Greg Barns SC @BarnsGreg]

Unbelievable that Labor kept this nasty inhumane bureaucrat on. Architect a d enforcer of the Nauru and Manus gulags
https://t.co/QCxuiqOU4s

[Peter Cronau @PeterCronau]

Encrypted messages reveal effectively ‘a coup’ — a plan for the secret bypassing of democracy.

Proposing to run Australian government “by stealth through the bureaucracy” rather than through the “Parliamentary route”.

Leaked text: “Parliamentary route is now contaminated with a few exceptions. We need to build a meritocracy by stealth and run government through the bureaucracy, working to 4-5 powerful and capable Ministers.”
#auspol

[Simon Richter @Poldergeist3]

Why is this not getting more internat attention @nytimesworld @LFFriedman @billmckibben? Dutch people have been blocking a highway into The Hague daily to protest €37 billion fossil fuel subsidies for > 2 wks. 10,000s arrested, police violence in the city of international peace.

[Steve, The Bluebird of Crappiness @novaxpresso]

@MikeCarlton01 Can you hear the drums, Pezzullo?