Dennis Long

Italianista, garden guy, Dragons fan, writer

[Kenneth Roth @KenRoth]

Netanyahu's shameful attribution of the Bondi Beach massacre to Australia's recognition of a Palestinian state shows a willingness to manipulate even a blatantly antisemitic attack to score political points. That endangers Jews by cheapening antisemitism. https://t.co/YoZAZWHEFZ

[Amazing Maps @amazingmap]

Percentage of adults in each U.S. state who have been married three or more times

[Amazing Maps @amazingmap]

America’s favorite Thanksgiving Day pies

[Amazing Maps @amazingmap]

Melbourne is closer to Antarctica than to Darwin

[Emily Thornberry @EmilyThornberry]

So this is a Bot. It's been created to spread disinformation and mischief. We need to protect ourselves from them.
Social media companies know about the bot farms and dont deal with them.
This is one of the reasons we need the BBC broadcasting with confidence around the world.

[Kate McClymont @Kate_McClymont]

Long lunches, Swiss bank accounts and a kangaroo scrotum: My decades pursuing Graham Richardson https://t.co/4vJLFMmDtK

[Kate McClymont @Kate_McClymont]

Gold: the kangaroo scrotum which was flung at Richo! 🤣🤣

[Dr Sophie Hay @pompei79]

Towering research in #Pompeii.
Having been continually baffled by the grandeur of the staircase and confused by the high window, this architectural hypothesis makes a lot of sense. I love the idea of a Pompeian tower!
https://t.co/do3WzXfmLZ

[Dennis Long @dennislong1950]

@CMaclean96 @OptimoPrincipi They weren’t too vain about their depictions, were they. Or is it just my modern view of good looks.

[Paul Bongiorno @PaulBongiorno]

What Kerr said after dismissing Whitlam revealed https://t.co/SPGIldWVzz So Branson gives credit to Kerr’s lie that the Palace was not involved and the Queen knew nothing. Risible rubbish in light of the Palace Letters.

[RUTH BUZZI @Ruth_A_Buzzi]

From Kent Perkins:

Almost everywhere I go, someone stops me and tells me how much they loved Ruthie. It happened yesterday when I met a nice couple from Hico, Texas. I hope her memory will last forever, and with the help of reruns, it probably will! I am so, so grateful to have had 46 years of marriage with my favorite person on earth.

[Paul Bongiorno @PaulBongiorno]

Excellent series on @SBS “The People versus Robodebt”
Rams home the scandal of no one being charged despite a Royal Commission and millions paid out in compensation
Disgraceful and disgusting

[Amazing Maps @amazingmap]

Most used messenger in each European country

[Christopher Hale @ChristopherHale]

Cardinal Dolan is facing unprecedented backlash from Catholics after he compared Charlie Kirk to St. Paul over the weekend.

Pope Leo is widely expected to replace him with a pro-immigrant border bishop, Daniel Flores. https://t.co/ZG2MBK8WyI

[Mark Kenny @markgkenny.bsky.social @markgkenny]

https://t.co/IC7BOO1yEL

[Pope Leo XIV @Pontifex]

I express my profound closeness to the Palestinian people in Gaza, who continue to live in fear and to survive in unacceptable conditions, forced once again from their own lands. Before Almighty God, who commanded “Thou shalt not kill,” and throughout human history, every person always has an inviolable dignity, to be respected and upheld. I renew my appeal for a ceasefire, the release of hostages, and a negotiated diplomatic solution, in full respect of international humanitarian law. I invite everyone to join my heartfelt prayer that a dawn of peace and justice may soon arise.

[Amazing Maps @amazingmap]

School uniform policies by country

[Governor JB Pritzker @GovPritzker]

The President of the United States is threatening to go to war with an American city.

This is not a joke. This is not normal.

Donald Trump isn't a strongman, he's a scared man. Illinois won’t be intimidated by a wannabe dictator.

[Dr Sophie Hay @pompei79]

Australia: I gather that the final episode of the excellent documentary ‘Pompeii: The New Dig’ that followed the latest excavations in #Pompeii has arrived on your shores on SBS.
https://t.co/L6lozcRaZl

[Gareth Harney @OptimoPrincipi]

'Suetonius, in holding up a mirror to the Caesars, reflects not only them but ourselves: half-tamed creatures, whose great moral task is to hold in balance the angel and monster within – for we are both, and to ignore this duality is to invite disaster.'

- Vidal, On Our Own Now