geoffrey wright

I am not influenced by the media, but there are too few of us to make a difference. Joined 2013 but started using 2019. Slow starter.

[geoffrey wright @minermatters]

@EthanLevins2 In other words people: Lie your asses off.

[TheFrenchie @ML3democrats]

Happy Saturday everyone ☀️

This is so true 👇

[geoffrey wright @minermatters]

@brian_bsupton @RpsAgainstTrump That’s the trouble with gossip. It’s always more interesting than facts and figures.

[geoffrey wright @minermatters]

@RpsAgainstTrump He’s having wet dreams.

[شاهنشاه‌ آریامهر @RoniieG20470]

@RpsAgainstTrump He has lost his mind since he converted to Islam.

[Lucas Sanders 👊🏽🔥🇺🇸 @LucasSa56947288]

Scott Bessent, who is the US treasury secretary, advised Donald Trump not to host Volodymyr Zelenskyy in the Oval Office, having called the Ukrainian president a “little fucker”, a “special-needs child” and “Mr Bean on crack”, according to a new book.’

[Anonymous TV 🇺🇦 @YourAnonTV]

🚨🇦🇱 BREAKING: Day 21 of mass protests in Tirana, Albania

✊️🇦🇱Over 350,000 people have taken to the streets, no longer asking, demanding Edi Rama’s resignation for selling Albanian land and Sazan Island to oligarchs and Kushner.

✊️The people have crossed the point of no return.
⚡️The old Albania is dying in these streets.

✊️🇦🇱NEW ALBANIA is rising.

#Albania #FlamingoRevolution

[The Halfway Post @HalfwayPost]

BREAKING: Donald Trump is reportedly furious that the annual ranking of US presidents by a committee of 50 top presidential historians was released today, and the committee almost unanimously ranked Trump’s second term as the worst in US history.

[geoffrey wright @minermatters]

@rshereme @ItsFullOfFellas The biggest problem with things that happened 80+ years ago is that there is no memories of back then. It’s all hearsay to use the legal term. If you can’t move past happenings that no one remembers then civilization is doomed for eternity.

[Roman Sheremeta 🇺🇸🇺🇦 @rshereme]

A world renowned historian Timothy Snyder, in a recent interview with Newsweek Polska, offered a warning that Poland’s leaders would do well to heed.

“The war of memory is much more comfortable for Polish politicians than the real war,” Snyder said.

“They can say: we are right, we are innocent, I know history. But one must begin with what is happening now, not with memory. If you skip that, you start with a lie.”

On the controversy over Ukraine’s honoring of the UPA, Snyder cautioned against judging such decisions without context: “To judge Zelensky’s decision to name a unit after the UPA without the context of almost four and a half years of war would be a mistake. This is the longest war of this century, longer than the First World War. It produces emotions that are difficult for the West to understand.”

He also noted that Ukrainians and Poles remember different chapters of the same history: “Ukrainians think about the UPA mainly through its third phase, the struggle against the Red Army after 1945. Poles remember the first phase: 1943, when the UPA killed tens of thousands of Poles in Volhynia. The mistake is to forget the rest of the history.”

And his sharpest warning should concern everyone: “On the battlefield, Russia will lose. In Warsaw and Kyiv, Russia will win the war of memory.”

Stripping President Zelensky of Poland’s highest honor was not an act of wisdom. It was an emotional response that elevated historical grievance over present reality. Ukraine is fighting the longest war of this century, and Poland’s security depends on its survival. To turn an ally into an adversary over unresolved history serves neither truth nor justice – it serves only Moscow. That is the trap Snyder named.

The war of memory cannot be won. It can only be exploited – and there is one power waiting to exploit it.

[The Halfway Post @HalfwayPost]

BREAKING: A top GOP official said today, "We f*cked ourselves sticking with Trump for another term. The world's a mess, we've burned our allies, the economy is inflating wildly, my kids won't talk to me, my wife wants a divorce, and my legacy is helping Trump do all this damage."

[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.
/2 sources

[Global News 24 @GlobalNews_24]

💬 "Осталось 2-3 живых завода, которые Украина поразит за 2 недели", — Вячеслав Ширяев о перспективах российских НПЗ

💥 Сейчас мы наблюдаем второй акт, это ещё не кульминация. Кульминация наступит в тот момент, когда Украина одновременно нанесёт удары и по оставшимся НПЗ, и по Крымскому мосту и по Алабуге — это всё будет впереди, пока мы наблюдаем центральный поворотный момент, когда всем понятно, что Украина может вынести Россию в пух и прах. Всё до Урала точно. Всё, что может гореть, будет гореть 🔥

В течение недели будут поставлены двигатели на баллистические ракеты Украины, которые готовы полностью на 100%. Поэтому гореть будет всё, осталось 8—10 полуживых заводов и два-три живых, которые Украина может поразить за 2 недели, выпуская по 600 беспилотников, как Зеленский пообещал, и сбить всё невозможно

[Governor Newsom Press Office (parody) @AwesomeNewsom]

DONALD TRUMP IS WEAK ON ALGAE. THANKS TO ME, CALIFORNIA HAS BEEN ALGAE-FREE FOR 2000 YEARS. PEOPLE CALL ME CRYING, "THANK YOU FOR WINNING THE WAR ON ALGAE!" MANY SAY TRUMP FEARS ALGAE BECAUSE IT SOUNDS LIKE ALGEBRA. HE HAS SURRENDERED AND WILL TURN US INTO UNITED STATES OF ALGAE!

[Kyrylo Budanov @Kyrylo_Budanov]

На жаль, Президент Польщі Кароль Навроцький вдався до недружнього акту щодо нашого народу, позбавивши Президента України раніше врученого йому ордена Білого Орла.

Безумовно, це подарунок для московського агресора, який той обов’язково використає проти обох наших країн.

Наші народи мають давні взаємини й різні сторінки історії – як героїчні, так і трагічні. Однак це має бути приводом для глибокого осмислення, а не грубих політичних спекуляцій. Україна не вказує жодному іншому народові, як вчити його історію. Тож і ми залишаємо за собою справедливе право на власну національну пам'ять та гідність.

Переконаний, що цей жест Президента Польщі не про справедливість абощо. Адже про яку справедливість може бути мова, якщо ордена Білого Орла, наприклад, досі не позбавлено італійського фашистського диктатора й пособника Гітлера Беніто Муссоліні?

Україна, без сумніву, дасть оцінку цій події. Та попри все ми й далі міцно стоятимемо на засадах відкритого партнерства з усіма нашими союзниками. Однак партнерства рівноправного, заснованого на принципах взаємоповаги.

Україна продовжить битися в авангарді захисту всієї Європи, зокрема Польщі, сплачуючи найдорожчу ціну.

Та як і будь-який українець, я не можу лишатися осторонь і просто спостерігати за тим, як проти наших громадян безпідставно й штучно розкручується маховик ненависті.

З огляду на це я відмовляюся від Золотого офіцерського хреста ордена «За заслуги перед Польщею», яким мене нагородив минулого року Президент Польщі.

Впевнений, що українське суспільство – і військові, і цивільні – відчувають такі ж емоції та підтримають цей крок.

Слава Україні!

[Mykhailo Rohoza @MykhailoRohoza]

OUR SPECIAL FORCES STORMED AN UNDERGROUND RUSSIAN ARMY COMMAND BUNKER!

Ukrainian fighters reportedly penetrated deep behind enemy lines and reached one of the most heavily protected underground command facilities of the Russian military. This was no ordinary command post—it was a fortified bunker with reinforced walls, life-support systems, and a significant number of senior officers inside.

The Russians reportedly had little time to react. As Ukrainian special forces entered the facility, panic allegedly spread through the bunker. Generals and senior officers rushed through the corridors, sought cover in offices, and attempted to barricade themselves inside. Some tried to resist, but were quickly overwhelmed.

The operators acted with speed, precision, and a high degree of professionalism, maintaining full control of the situation throughout the operation.

This was not merely a successful raid. It was a strike at the very heart of the enemy’s command structure. If Ukrainian special forces can enter a heavily protected underground headquarters and disrupt its operations, it sends a powerful message: Russian commanders can no longer feel completely secure, even far behind the front lines.

The operation reportedly dealt a significant blow to the enemy’s command and control system.

[Anders Åslund @anders_aslund]

A lot has changed in the Russian-Ukrainian war. Let's sum it up:
1. Europe has replaced the US in finances & arms deliveries. Ukraine's financial situation is better than Russia's. Ukraine has better arms than Russia.
2. Ukraine has got rid of harmful US military advice & restrictions.
3. Ukraine is now shooting more drones than Russia & it has bombed both Moscow & St. Petersburg. The Russian elite is finally feeling the war.
4. Ukraine is gradually cutting off the supply lies to Crimea & many Russians leave Crimea.
5. Ukraine has managed to cause a petroleum shortage in large parts of Russia, which Russians feel.
6. While territory is no longer key, Ukraine has gained territory the last few months.
7. Many more public manifestations of opposition in Russian videos.
8. Europe is more united behind Ukraine than ever after Orban's demise.
Conclusions:
Ukraine is winning, but slowly.
The Ukrainians know what they are doing.
Maintain full European support & keep Trump out!

[stranger @strangerous10]

Albo says it’s a “fact” that One Nation “pretend" to stand for battlers.
“They have planes given to them by Australia’s richest person”
“They want it to be easier to sack people”
“They oppose increases in the min wage”💥
The banner at NPC said it all really #auspol

[Anthony Scaramucci @Scaramucci]

Trump told Leslie Stahl something years ago that everyone should hear.

She asked Trump he kept calling the media fake news.

He said, I do it because I need to discredit you, so that when you say negative things about me, nobody believes you.

That is EXACTLY what he’s done.

The problem everyone has with him is that most of us grew up with values, ethics, and integrity.

That is not Donald Trump.

He figured out a long time ago that he can bully his way through any rule and if he keeps pushing harder and harder, people will relent.

For most of his life they did, but we must stand up against it.

[geoffrey wright @minermatters]

@marlene4719 HAS TRUMP BEEN ARRESTED???