Tony Matthews

[Goku @ProjectGokuu]

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He revealed 10 "normal" habits that are secretly speeding up how fast you age:

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[ShiannonCorcoran💉x4 @shiannonc.bsky.social @ShiannonC]

Niki Savva is, as always, the undisputed Queen of the scathe. Regardless of what side of the political spectrum she sits - she writes with a clarity, integrity and insight that is sadly lacking in much of our journalism today.

Savva says what many of us are thinking. Much more eloquently and from a powerful base of hard-won respect built through her decades of experience within the political spectrum.

When Savva speaks about the state of our politics, it’s not from a manifestation of social media fairy farts or the latest version of troll-bot-fest toxic meanderings that are ingested into the psyche of doomscroller-dom central on a daily basis. It’s from decades of factual observations, first-person conversations and evidential analysis.

Those who did see Pauline Hanson’s NPC Titanic moment who exhibited a modicum of critical thinking would be asking themselves similar questions about the motivation of somebody who professes to want to lead the country but instead displays a distinct lack of legitimacy in policy and leadership skills every time she opens her mouth. They would be questioning the increasingly toxic authoritarian likemindedness that we see elsewhere in the world. They would ask themselves if this person is more likely to be motivated by the monetary rewards of stirring up hate and division rather than for any benefit financially and/or socially for the majority of Australians. They might agree with Savva.

To be sure, what Hanson has unpacked and unleashed has frightened the fence sitters and the half-asses. Her adoring loyal supporters are another story, however. They’ve been anger-washed & fitted with rose coloured glasses. They can’t see the hypocrisy of “I’m just like all yous” while financially benefiting from a billionaire who would ultimately punish orangearmy loyalists without blinking.

The real losers of the Hanson-Rinehart bulldozer bash will ultimately be the coalition, regardless of how much Labor bashing the media aspires to on a daily basis. An ineffective & incompetent opposition leader will ultimately bear the brunt of an exodus of discontent right-wing voters with nowhere to go. Alternately, the more moderate Liberal voters will be both horrified by Hanson’s authoritarian impersonations & be despairing of no credible alternative within their own ranks. They will likely defect to alternative MPs like the Teals & independents.

Angus Taylor will not stand up to One Nation. His ineffectual response to the hard-right push is rooted in the perpetual interference of Tony Abbott, Peta Credlin & her husband, Brian Loughnane who have more or less succeeded in destroying the Vic liberals & are on track to ruin any chances the Liberals have federally of winning an election for at least two terms.

Abbott’s control over the liberal party and push towards the hard-right and Hanson has effectively knobbled the entire party. Those who would speak out against it are shut down. The frustration that is evolving in the ranks will be far more damaging to the liberals if they lose any more moderate MPs because they see the Hansonisation of the Liberal party for what it is. Political suicide.

The final player in this fiasco is the media - who are driven by the vested interests of the few who would undoubtedly benefit financially from a far-right and undemocratic government here. The same media who are intent on persecuting the Labor government on a daily basis will not hold Pauline Hanson and One Nation to the same standards.

In Savva’s words “No other politician would survive telling voters they have to wait until after the election to see their tax policy. No other leader would get away with dictating who can ask questions or who can attend press conferences or argues their party is not racist then denigrates Aborigines, Asians, Muslims, vulnerable people and anybody who refuses to speak English at home”

[Agnes Mack @AgnessMack]

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[Dr Tracy Westerman AM @TracyWesterman]

The Sanewashing of Hanson Is at Its Peak.
This is how Trump came to power: platform the lies, skip the follow-up, let the headlines call it “proving her critics wrong.”
We are all watching it happen in real time.
At the National Press Club, Pauline Hanson said the following. Not one claim was challenged by the so called journalists in attendance and she continues to be unchallenged on the facts in every interview she sits.
-1. Unlike the Prime Minister, I welcome scrutiny.” Hypocritical. In the same speech she announced she refuses ABC interviews, will scrap the SBS, & will make the ABC subscription-only. The event allowed 2 hours; standard format gives 25–30 mins for the address. She spoke for 50-halving the time left for questions. When Guardian journalist Sarah Martin used that remaining time to ask about her daughter's $150,000 taxpayer-funded advisor role, Hanson called her “a trashy journalist” and banned her from all future press conferences.
• “Babies are aborted the day before birth.” Fabricated. Late-term abortion is highly restricted, requires medical approval, and occurs only in genuine medical emergencies.
• “Interest rates are heading towards 10%.” False. RBA cash rate: 4.35%. Forecast to fall, not rise.
• “There’s no gender pay gap — just women taking time off.” False. WGEA confirms the gap exists at equal hours, equal roles, regardless of career breaks.
• “$30B a year on Indigenous programs.” False. Only 18% (~$5.6B) is Indigenous-specific. The rest is the Indigenous share of mainstream services every Australian uses.
• Transgender people were compared to “militant Islam.” False and dangerous. ABS data: transgender and gender-diverse Australians make up 1% of the pop’n. There’s no body of research showing transgender ppl commit crime at elevated rates-in fact it shows transgender people are dramatically more likely to be victims of violence— assault, sexual violence, and homicide rates against trans people are well above general population rates in most studies (US, UK, and Aust data all show this pattern)
• “23% of Australians can’t speak English.” False. That 23% speak another language at home — most are bilingual. Limited English proficiency: just 3.2%.
• “The CEFC has had $200 billion.” False by a factor of six. Actual legislated capacity: $33 billion.
• “I care about the homeless and hungry.” Hypocritical. In the same speech, she backed cuts to Indigenous-specific funding — despite Aboriginal homelessness running up to 10 times higher than the non-Indigenous rate.
• $90 billion in cuts, no plan. ~$35 billion of it remains unaccounted for. No modelling.
• “I support worker rights.” False. Voted against minimum wage increases, penalty rates, criminalising wage theft, casual conversion rights, same job same pay, and the right to disconnect. Took a $100,000 pay rise while voting against a tax break for low-paid workers
• Called Australian workers “lazy.” She has attended just 12% of Senate estimates since 2016 & 53% of parliamentary votes. Paid over $200k a year
• Labor have let immigration get out of control.” False. Net overseas migration has fallen every year since the post-COVID peak in 2022-23 — 538,000 → 446,000 → 306,000 in 2024-25. She also recycled a 26-year-old ABS pop’n projection as a fresh “next 50 years” forecast

Said: This beautiful country belongs to all Australians born here and those who have joined us”- in her opening line; then spent the next 50 minutes demanding a monocultural society, comparing transgender Australians to militant Islam, inflating migration and language figures, denying the gender pay gap, and repeating the debunked $30 billion Indigenous funding myth. Welcomed everyone in the first sentence. Spent the rest of the speech defining most of them out — and offered no plan to fix anything she raised, only $90 billion in cuts.
Not one follow-up question. No source data on a single figure in the entire speech. This is what unchallenged looks like.
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[Monica Campbell @MindsetFreek]

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[Mike Carlton @MikeCarlton01]

Daniel Best @20thCenturyDan dug up this old SMH column of mine from 1998. I’d forgotten all about it. But I think it stands up ok.

[💧Michael West @MichaelWestBiz]

Epic response by Cathy Wilcox to Murdoch grubs after their Israel lobby smear campaign

[CA Vivek Khatri @CaVivekkhatri]

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[AnthroVet50 @spooked75]

Why is MAGA so hateful?

I get asked this a lot. The short answer is: because hate is the point. But let me break it down.

Grievance as identity

MAGA isn't a political movement built on policy. It's built on resentment. The core message has always been "you've been wronged" — by elites, by immigrants, by cities, by universities, by the media, by women, by minorities, by anyone who isn't you.

This isn't a coalition that comes together to BUILD something. It comes together to tear things down. Hate isn't a byproduct of the movement. It's the fuel.

Zero-sum thinking

They genuinely believe that if someone else gains, they lose. Rights for gay people? That's an attack on Christians. Immigrants succeeding? They must be stealing from "real Americans." A Black president? He must be illegitimate.

There's no concept of shared prosperity or expanding opportunity. Just winners and losers. And they're terrified of losing.

The dominance hierarchy

A lot of MAGA is rooted in evangelical and authoritarian psychology. There's supposed to be a natural order: white at the top, Christian at the top, male at the top, straight at the top.

When you've been at the top of a hierarchy your whole life, equality feels like oppression. Giving others a seat at the table feels like theft.

The media ecosystem

Fox News → OANN → Newsmax → podcasts → Twitter/X. It's a 24/7 rage machine. Every algorithm rewards outrage. Every host competes to be more extreme than the last.

These people are literally addicted to anger. Neurologically. They get dopamine hits from feeling righteous fury. They wake up and immediately check their phones to find out what they should be mad about today.

Turn it off for a week and they go through withdrawal.

Economic anxiety — weaponized

Here's the thing: a lot of the underlying pain is real. Deindustrialization gutted their towns. Opioids killed their families. Wages stagnated while costs exploded. The American Dream stopped working for them.

But instead of blaming the corporations that shipped jobs overseas, or the billionaires that rigged the economy, or the politicians that deregulated everything — they're taught to blame immigrants. To blame welfare recipients. To blame Black people in cities. To blame trans kids.

Classic fascist playbook: take legitimate economic anger and redirect it at the vulnerable.

The permission structure

Trump didn't create the hate. He just gave it permission.

For decades, these people were told to keep the quiet part quiet. Be polite. Use dog whistles. Then Trump came along and said the loud part loud — and nothing happened. No consequences.

He showed them they could be openly racist, openly cruel, openly contemptuous of democracy — and not only survive, but win.

"He fights" doesn't mean he fights for them. It means he's mean to people they don't like. The cruelty is the point.

Community built on enemies

This is the part people miss: MAGA is a community. For a lot of these people — especially older, rural, isolated Americans — it's their entire social world. Their friends are MAGA. Their family is MAGA. Their church is MAGA.

The hate is the membership card. The shared enemies are what bind them together. Leaving the movement doesn't just mean changing your politics. It means losing everyone you know.

So they double down. And double down again. Because the alternative is being alone.

The bottom line

Why is MAGA so hateful?

Because scared people + relentless propaganda + permission to be cruel + community built on shared enemies = hate as a lifestyle.

They're not going to be reasoned out of it. They weren't reasoned into it.

The only thing that works is making it socially and politically costly to be part of it. Outvoting them. Out-organizing them. And building something better that gives people a different place to belong.

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The brilliant Cathy Wilcox

[Dr. Eric Berg DC @dr_ericberg]

It is hard to tell which health trends actually help your body and which ones are just hype.

Here is how I would rate some popular trends on a scale from 1 to 10.

1/ Cold baths:

[Mary L Trump @MaryLTrump]

Every American needs to watch this:

[Deborah Lyttle @lyttle_deb9361]

As only the brilliant PJ Keating could have put it all those years ago.