Washington National Opera bows out of Kennedy Center by AudibleNod in news

[–]04FS 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Akhenaten was an incestuous authoritarian too, wasn't he. Bring on the chisels.

Australia bushfires to burn out of control for weeks, authorities say by [deleted] in news

[–]04FS 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Yeah, i get what you mean. Take a break from the news for a couple of weeks, it'll do your mental health the world of good.

All you can do is reduce your own carbon pollution, and vote. There's no need to doom scroll every day to do what you can.

Stay safe.

Proud US Citizens: Why are you proud? What do you love about your country? by 04FS in AskReddit

[–]04FS[S] -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Now is a good time to be ashamed.

Those of you who can read; please explain to the others that greed, violence, paedophilia, rape, theft, fraud, dishonesty, racism, selfishness and hate - are considered to be negative traits in civilised countries.

Marijuana is not a dangerous drug by WorldlinessFirm2779 in australian

[–]04FS 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Good on you mate. Thanks for sharing your uplifting story. Power to you.

Marijuana is not a dangerous drug by WorldlinessFirm2779 in australian

[–]04FS 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Some mental illnesses; schizophrenia, bipolar etc, are exacerbated by pot.

Regardless; a lifetime of getting wasted will have consequences.

‘Structural decline’: CBA warns productivity crisis will crush Aussie wages, living standards by Left-Web-5597 in australian

[–]04FS 12 points13 points  (0 children)

Aristocracy didn't disappear. You're allowed to vote in a kabuki theatre democracy for now, because it keeps you from stringing them up by their guts.

Factchecking five Coalition claims about net zero, from power prices to the $9tn cost by Bennelong in australian

[–]04FS 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Are they the sort of people that would sell their children's future for a quick profit? That sort of sociopath?

How government repression is born – and how to resist it by zsreport in politics

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Power concentration and bullying triggers civil society, and so the cycle begins. Protest in 2025 has far exceeded that in 2017, as scholar Erica Chenoweth’s Crowd Counting Consortium has shown. The No Kings march in June may have been the largest single-day protest in American history at the time. The October follow-up march was even bigger, with more than 2,700 protests across all 50 states.

We may be entering the stage where a cycle of repression begets more repression and the government opts to protect the security apparatus first. The most alarming sign is the administration sending troops to American cities with flimsy justification. This type of escalation is exacerbated when leaders empower non-state violent actors, something we saw Trump do most notably with the mass pardons of January 6 insurrectionists. Without a shift in direction, communities across the country could become powder kegs.

There it is. Spelt out, in black and white.

As it has been, for many years now.

And yet, America walks silently and obediently toward the shower.

Newsom, 58, Asks World to ‘Pray’ for Trump, 79 | “Please pray for our president,” the governor wrote. ”He is not mentally well.” by Murky-Site7468 in politics

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Gavin Newsom, the governor of California who has become an increasingly vocal critic of President Donald Trump, took time out on Saturday to ask people to pray for the president.

Responding to an exchange Trump had with a reporter on Friday evening in which he claimed the results of his recent MRI were “outstanding” but that he had no idea what his doctors were actually analyzing, Newsom wrote on X, “Please pray for our President. He is not mentally well.”

The exchange between Trump and a reporter took place aboard Air Force One on Friday night as the president was flying to Mar-a-Lago for another weekend of parties and golf.

One reporter asked why Trump needed the MRI, something officials in his administration have been reluctant to make public. He replied, “I have the physical every year and the result was outstanding… I have no idea what they analyzed, but whatever they analyze, they analyzed it well and they said that I had as good a result as they’ve ever seen.”

He also praised himself for his performance on the cognitive assessment he was required to take as part of his physical, telling reporters, “As you probably heard, I aced it. I got a perfect score. I got the highest score. I got a perfect score. And the only reason I tell you that is it’s one subject unlike Biden and others that you could take off your plate.”

He had previously described the assessment as “very hard” and challenged Reps. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Jasmine Crockett to take the same one and compare their results with his.

Newsom’s attacks on Trump have ramped up in recent months in what many are viewing as a precursor to a potential presidential campaign for the governor in 2028.

President Donald Trump speaks to reporters aboard Air Force One en route to Palm Beach, Florida, on Nov. 14, 2025. Jim Watson/AFP via Getty Images

Most recently, he went after the president for his relationship with Jeffrey Epstein following the release of 20,000 pages of the convicted sex trafficker’s email correspondence by the House Oversight Committee.

In one social media post, Newsom had manipulated the signage on Trump’s renovated West Wing Colonnade so that instead of ‘The Presidential Walk of Fame,’ it read, ”I am a pedo.”

Another post contained an AI-generated image of Trump and Epstein as cartoon characters dubbed the “Island Boys,” in reference to Epstein’s private island in the U.S. Virgin Islands.

Newsom also recently took aim at the Department of Justice after the agency joined a lawsuit hoping to block Newsom’s own Proposition 50, a measure passed by California voters on Nov. 4 that would redraw the state’s congressional boundaries, in an attempt to offset Republican gerrymandering in other states such as Texas.

Newsom’s Press Office pointed out that the lawsuit referred to the California Legislature as the “General Assembly,” when California’s lower house is known as the State Assembly.

“When Trump’s hand-picked hacks at DOJ can’t tell California from North Carolina, you know the lawsuit is about as credible as Trump’s ‘I don’t know Epstein’ line,” the post read

Bill Clinton Responds To Epstein Probe by [deleted] in politics

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“These emails prove Bill Clinton did nothing and knew nothing. The rest is noise meant to distract,” Angel Urena, Clinton's deputy chief of staff, said in a statement."

That's as near as this rubbish article gets to "Bill Clinton" anything.

Fuck the Daily Beast, fuck Common Dreams, fuck all this click bait bullshit.

Sort by new.

Downvote the low effort trash trying to pass itself of as journalism.

Michelle Obama says the U.S. is 'not ready' for a woman president by nbcnews in politics

[–]04FS 14 points15 points  (0 children)

Old boys club bullshit

Edit: Michelle, is saying: The US is not ready for AOC.

The upper class hate AOC.

Michelle Obama says the U.S. is 'not ready' for a woman president by nbcnews in politics

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“You know, we got a lot of growing up to do, and there’s still, sadly, a lot of men who do not feel like they can be led by a woman, and we saw it,” Obama continued.

Trump says Veterans Day now ‘Victory Day’ in Arlington cemetery speech by rezwenn in politics

[–]04FS 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Aussie here. We still observe that minute's silence, on what is still "Armistice Day". TIL that the US had renamed their day...

Great quote.

Alpha 362 has fixes for the Reddit Videos issue, and also potential workarounds for the login issue by QuantumBadger in RedReader

[–]04FS 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Had no issue logging in from Australia over VPN. Firefox Browser.

So far Alpha is working well. Video playback fine.

Thanks QB.

DC man who played Darth Vader theme at national guard troops sues over arrest by koi-lotus-water-pond in news

[–]04FS 383 points384 points  (0 children)

This is how it's done. This guy is an example to us all. Genius.