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#gotiges 🐯🐯💛🖤💛🖤
Part of the Exhausted Majority.
If you ain't got no giddy up then giddy out my way. p.s I often use favourites as bookmarks

[Time Capsule Tales @timecaptales]

In 2017, Norm Macdonald tackled acid flashbacks in his standup special “Hitler’s Dog, Gossip & Trickery.”

[Konstantin Kisin @KonstantinKisin]

This is very worth reading because it beautifully lays out the faulty thinking that has given us suicidal economic policy that has also made no impact on climate change whatsoever.

Characteristically, it pretends that those who oppose Net Zero do so because they deny that the climate is changing (no one sensible does), that outsourcing our emissions to poor countries, an accounting trick, is somehow green (it's not) and, most importantly, challenges the argument that the overwhelming majority of carbon emissions produced in the world today are emitted by countries that care about economic growth way more than they care about "saving the planet" (China, India etc) by citing Kenya whose entire annual emissions are roughly equivalent to what China emits in about 8 hours.

The hoax is not climate change. The hoax is that we can stop it by making ourselves poorer.

[SERGIO 🇭🇲 @SERG1O_D]

Well deserved

[Triple M Footy @triplemfooty]

Ty Gallop has been handed a 3 match ban after pleading guilty to his serious misconduct charge.

[Massimo @Rainmaker1973]

A Canadian man who had two rats as pets learned that letting them drive a miniature car reduced their levels of stress, so he gave them an electric miniature car and taught them to drive.

[📹 emperorsofmischief]

[SERGIO 🇭🇲 @SERG1O_D]

Dermott Dann KC
2026 AFL TRIAL RESULTS
0 Wins
2 Losses

The Adam Yze of KC's

[Daily Mail @DailyMail]

High-profile Melbourne man is found guilty of raping a woman in his home - but we still can't tell you who he is https://t.co/u6r0ccdWkW

[Peter Lyndon-James @PeterPerthWA]

THE CHIEF OF STAFF, THE BIG BUILD AND THE MAN WHO WANTS TO BE PREMIER

Ben Carroll wants to be Premier of Victoria. The person running his office is Fiona Ward, his Chief of Staff. Her career is documented in public professional records. Read it carefully.

She began as a campaign manager for Bill Shorten. She then became an adviser in the office of the Minister for Police and Corrections from 2014 to 2016, the portfolio Carroll would later hold as minister. From 2016 to 2017 she was the Senior Adviser to the Minister for Industry and Employment and Minister for Resources, the exact portfolio Carroll took over in October 2017 when he became minister. She was the senior adviser in his future role before he arrived.

Then she moved into the Big Build itself.

From 2019 she became Senior Government Relations Manager at Rail Projects Victoria, the agency delivering the Metro Tunnel, the North East Link and the level crossing removal program.

She was there while the Big Build was under active construction. She was there during the period Geoffrey Watson found that CFMEU corruption was operating systematically across those same construction sites, extortion, ghost shifts, organised crime and outlaw motorcycle gangs inflating costs by an estimated $15 billion.

From 2019 to 2020 she was also General Manager, Government and Stakeholder Relations at Metro Trains Melbourne, the operator of the Metro Tunnel network. The same tunnel whose costs blew out from $11 billion to $15.5 billion.

The same tunnel whose contingency was drawn down faster than expected and whose risk-sharing arrangements were re-cut after financial close, according to the Victorian Auditor-General.

She left the Big Build agencies in 2020. She became Director of the Office of the CEO at the City of Melbourne. Then in 2023 she became Chief of Staff to Ben Carroll when he became Deputy Premier.

Now hold all of that alongside what the Victorian Ministerial Register of Interests shows.

Carroll’s father-in-law sits on the board of Nilsen, a $499 million electrical contractor that delivered works on the Metro Tunnel and won the electrical fit-out contract for the North East Link. Carroll was the Minister for Public Transport overseeing those projects from 2020 to 2023. He is now Minister for WorkSafe, regulating the construction sites where Nilsen is currently working.

His Chief of Staff has direct institutional knowledge of Rail Projects Victoria and Metro Trains — the agencies that procure and manage the contracts that companies like Nilsen deliver.
Carroll sat in every cabinet meeting that refused to call a royal commission into the $15 billion in alleged corruption on those same Big Build projects.

His Chief of Staff worked inside those projects during the period the corruption was allegedly operating. His wife’s family company was contracted to deliver work on those same projects.

Watson found there was both ad hoc corruption by former organisers and delegates, and systemic corruption involving collaboration by some in the union with outlaw motorcycle gangs and other crime outfits.

The Allan government referred the Big Build to the Victorian anti-corruption watchdog in 2024. But the agency cannot investigate this, as it lacks “follow the money” powers to investigate projects subcontracted to the private sector.

Carroll is challenging to be the Premier who would decide whether to finally call a royal commission with those powers.

The ministerial register is public. The career history is public. The corruption findings are public. The cabinet decisions are public.

Nobody assembled them in one place until now.

None of it is illegal. That’s the problem.

What’s your thoughts…?

Peter Lyndon-James 🇦🇺

Sources:
Victorian Ministerial Register of Interests, February to June 2025 and July 2025 to January 2026 — Ben Carroll, Section 12 (https://t.co/XEThNuIvbW). Fiona Ward career history — ZoomInfo, RocketReach, https://t.co/k9NYciurLY professional records.

[SERGIO 🇭🇲 @SERG1O_D]

@AndrewMarchand There's rules for all star players compared to those on the fringe of the roster. #thatslife

[Herald Sun @theheraldsun]

Attorney-General Sonya Kilkenny – a staunch Allan supporter – has nominated for Labor Party leadership > https://t.co/oREIB4b1V6

[SERGIO 🇭🇲 @SERG1O_D]

@JacintaAllanMP You're a delusional psychopath

[SERGIO 🇭🇲 @SERG1O_D]

@Kareeming1 @JacintaAllanMP It takes a certain type of psychopath to lead a political party

[SERGIO 🇭🇲 @SERG1O_D]

When will you stop lying @JacintaAllanMP ?
What a disgraceful farewell speech, you can't rewrite history now.
#vicpol

[SERGIO 🇭🇲 @SERG1O_D]

The AFL should arrange a meeting with @nflcommish in September to get an understanding of how a salary cap should work.

[Fox Footy @FOXFOOTY]

Collingwood is reportedly set to confirm Bobby Hill's departure from the club, despite the flag hero being owed around $3 million on a long-term deal.

And fresh details have emerged on the contract settlement.

LATEST 👉 https://t.co/WtVOHmykrm

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@JacintaAllanMP

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@Ali_Yesilyurt @newmrpford Not sure Ali. You're a scholar and a gentleman and not deserving of being blocked by anyone

[SERGIO 🇭🇲 @SERG1O_D]

Hi @newmrpford. I noted that you gave David Campbell a drive by on your Samantha Armytge report on 3AW yesterday.
What's your issue with him, mind I can't stand him as he is obviously a fake.

[Rand Paul @RandPaul]

What Anthony Fauci looked like every night when he wrote about how great he is in his diary.

[SERGIO 🇭🇲 @SERG1O_D]

@newmrpford Can't disagree, he's an obvious fake. I used to think the same about Andrew O'Keefe and was proven right

[SERGIO 🇭🇲 @SERG1O_D]

Lots of Darwin awards being handed out here

[hinged @hingedla]

KTLA reports that two people were seriously injured after being struck by a car during a street takeover in the North Hills neighborhood of the San Fernando Valley on Sunday evening.

Videos: @bagztv (IG) & @la_street_life (IG)

Don’t follow @hingedla 🫶

[SERGIO 🇭🇲 @SERG1O_D]

The #HYBPA crew missed the big story in that clip of Atlas against the cyclops. The baby in the clip is Fabio.

[SERGIO 🇭🇲 @SERG1O_D]

@PaulBlakeCW She'll be rewarded post election, same as Annastacia.

[SERGIO 🇭🇲 @SERG1O_D]

Tonight Jacinta will be offered a nice job by the Federal ALP in the same way that Annastacia Palaszczuk was when she left. She will resign tomorrow.

[7NEWS Melbourne @7NewsMelbourne]

Premier Jacinta Allan is in the fight of her political life with mounting pressure for her to step aside ahead of November's election. Deputy Premier, Ben Carroll, confirmed he will nominate for the Labor Party leadership after a group of colleagues informed him Allan no longer has caucus support. Allan has refused to resign and will contest the leadership vote, which will involve all Labor MPs and party members across the state in a process expected to take five to six weeks. #JacintaAllan #BenCarroll #Vicpolitics #Laborleadership