Adrian Birch

Data Analyst

[Susan Simpson @TheViewFromLL2]

"World's richest man seizes control of U.S. Treasury and directs payments be made in accordance with his personal preferences" is so far beyond a constitutional crisis that I don't even know what term to use.

[Pelham @Resist_05]

🇺🇳 The United Nations has voted Francesca Albanese, the UN special rapporteur on the Occupied Palestinian territories as the Person of the Year..!

Francesca has fought relentlessly for an end to the worst genocide in our modern history.

[Imran Mulla @Imran_posts]

NEW: The Oxford Union has voted that "Israel is an apartheid state responsible for genocide" by an overwhelming majority of 278 to 59

[Bernie Sanders @BernieSanders]

Billionaires in the U.S. are .0005% of the population, yet accounted for 18% of 2024 electoral spending.

Just 150 billionaire families spent nearly $2 billion.

This is not democracy. It is oligarchy.

Time to overturn Citizens United and move to public funding of elections.

[Dr Rhonda Garad Difficult by Design @RhondaGarad]

The premier of our state @JacintaAllanMP just referred to those opposing the mass slaughter of women and children as ‘morons.’ Let that sink in. #GenocideByIsrael

[BoogLawlry @BoogLawlry]

Whenever someone says "made in america" all proudly i think about the welds i inspect all day. This is a structural weld I found today on the outrigger mounting plate of the most common American crane. They're all like this. If you married a lineman tell em you love em more often

[JayJay @JayJay91341991]

Laura Tingle could teach Karvelas, Ibrahim,
Speers, Ferguson, Jennett and all the other clowns at ABC, a masterclass in professionalism and integrity. 🙌😍
@abcnews #abc730 #auspol

[Leslieoo7 🇺🇲 🇺🇦 @Leslieoo7]

I'm just going to leave this here for posterity.

[Cheryl Kernot @cheryl_kernot]

Thanks for sanewashing & normalising Trump, western media. You failed to honour basic journalism & delivered potential, indescribable chaos to the world. But hey, there’ll be plenty to write about. “Hold truth to power,” my arse.

[John Pavlovitz @johnpavlovitz]

I thought this would hurt more than 2016 but it doesn't.

That was a shock. This is just confirmation.

We now know that 2016 wasn't a fluke or an aberration, that this is what the majority wants: whiteness, patriarchy, nationalism, hatred, nihilism.

Whether I want to spend the rest of my life in such a place is something my mind isn't prepared to consider.

Right now, I just know that I'm seeing the nation with my eyes fully open and there is no mistaking what so many people I Ioved and once respected, actually value.

As heartbreaking as that is, I now know where they stand, and I know it's nowhere I want to be.

[Rohan Connolly @rohan_connolly]

BREAKING: US set to officially confirm status as dumbest country in the world. #USElections2024

[GP @Gpazz]

Dear Americans,
We have joked for many years that you are the dumbest country on the planet. If you vote Trump in, the fat braindead rapist, it won't be a joke any more. It'll simply be the truth.

Just a country full of inbred, gullible fuckwits.

#USAElections2024

[Jane Caro @JaneCaro]

We all saw it.

[Marc Lauritsen @marclauritsen]

@GaryMarcus A vote for Trump is a vote to have Vance (and his sponsors) in charge for the next four years

[Nicola Sturgeon @NicolaSturgeon]

Knowing for the past few weeks that this moment was fast approaching didn’t make it any less heartbreaking to hear the news early this morning that Janey had died.
Janey Godley truly was a force of nature, and one of the funniest people I have ever known. I was able to visit her in the hospice a couple of weeks ago and though she was fragile, she still had me in stitches.
Janey was also incredibly kind. And she made the world a better place.
A bond was forged between us in the darkest days of Covid when her famous voiceovers of my daily briefings went viral. In the toughest of times, she made people laugh - and that was precious. She did more that that though. In managing to project the serious public health messages of my briefings to a much wider audience than I would have managed alone, she helped save lives.
The photos on this post are from an event we did together last year - it was a special night.
I was so proud to call Janey a friend and will miss her hugely. My heart goes out to her family and many friends - they are in my thoughts today.
I know Frank will have been there, holding the door for her as she went - with a tear in his eye, as I have in mine. RIP my friend ❤️

[Roderick Campbell @R_o_d_C]

Here's the ATO list of companies that paid no tax in 22-23, ordered by total income.

Who's your favourite?

Qantas, $19b income, zero tax. Hard to beat.
@TheAusInstitute

[king of the west II @meco78526]

Janey Godley wants you to remember her famous quote as she battling health at a hospice.

[MattGolding Cartoons @GoldingCartoons]

Singing from the same songbook.
@theage