Margo Kingston

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Trump Family Turns Presidency Into Most Lucrative Venture Yet Since he launched his campaign, the family has put dealmaking in overdrive — with memecoins, guns and new hotels abroad.

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The Price is Right? Liberals in early MAGA test - The Klaxon Liberal Senator Jacinta Price has spruiked far-right disinformation group “Advance”, in a major test for the party just one day after its split with the Nationals.

🚨EXCLUSIVE🚨Liberal Party Senator Jacinta Price has today written to tens of thousands of people spruiking MAGA-style disinformation group "Advance". Price backs the "far-right" group & calls for money from public.
Massive questions for Liberals, just one day after split...
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Thanks!

Here you go Margo x
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How Tim beat Zoe in #GoldsteinVotes.

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Watched Sky Outsiders after #Insiders. Propaganda interview with Jacinta, who I think plays Pauline. She got elected 2022 after becoming prominent in Advance. It’s website was filled with Jacinta propaganda.

Deep dive into the power players in this long play might be interesting.

When I heard Jacinta had defected I thought “the Libs said yes???”. Days later she’s Angus’ running mate! So ‘conservative’ ‘liberals’ to pick a hard right Trumpist yet to attend her first partyroom meeting to be its
Deputy leader??? Crazy - 2022 red light flash to the Libs, 2025 the full stop?

Laura Tingle moves from political editor of 7.30 to global affairs role at ABC She will cover world affairs across all platforms including the Asia Pacific newsroom and Foreign Correspondent * Sign up for Guardian Australia’s free weekly media newsletter here * Australia news live: latest politics and federal election updates * Get our breaking news email,free app ordaily news podcast The political editor for 7.30, Laura Tingle, is taking on a new role at the ABC as global affairs editor, providing analysis on world events across TV, radio and online. Tingle joined the broadcaster in 2018 after 35 years as a political journalist for newspapers including the Australian Financial Review, the Australian, the Age and the Sydney Morning Herald. Sign up to get Guardian Australia’s weekly media diary as a free newsletter Continue reading...

Laura Tingle moves from political editor of 7.30 to global affairs role at ABC

@meadea.bsky.social amanda please post your Laura piece here!

"Bandt could not survive our attacks" – Advance - The Klaxon Fossil fuels disinformation group “Advance” has said Greens Leader Adam Bandt “could not survive” the “massive", "year-long campaign” it “unleashed”.

Fossil fuels disinformation group "Advance" says Adam Bandt “could not survive” the “massive”, “year-long campaign” it had “unleashed” on the Greens leader.

The Liberal Party-funded group says Bandt and other Greens are casualties of its “multi-million dollar attack”…
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Trump names Fox News host Jeanine Pirro as top DC federal prosecutor Move comes after US president withdraws nomination of Ed Martin, GOP loyalist who supported January 6 pardons

#Trump “said … he would name Jeanine Pirro, a Fox News host & former state-level prosecutor, to be the interim US attorney for the District of Columbia after a key Republican senator said he would not support the loyalist initially selected for the job.” #fascism www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

my first reaction, did the Libs REALLY say yes? Then, would they REALLY make her deputy leader OF a party she’s just joined? AUDACIOUS MAGA TAKEOVER MOVE. Bad timing imho…

ZERO LibParty seats in Melbourne & Perth!!!

Alt-text: Dr. Carla Hayden, the Librarian of Congress, smiling while wearing a textured magenta jacket and pearl earrings, standing in front of a softly blurred interior background of the Library of Congress.

1. President Trump has fired the Librarian of Congress, Dr. Carla Hayden.

The position of Librarian of Congress is so apolitical that only 14 people have held the role since 1802.

Hayden, who was the first woman and Black American to serve as Librarian of Congress, has held the position since 2016

Pope Leo XIV is seen in the upper left corner, smiling while talking on a cellphone at the 2005 World Series. He is wearing a black jacket over a white shirt. In the foreground, a man and a young boy dressed in Chicago White Sox gear cheer excitedly. The stadium is packed, with the brightly lit scoreboard and baseball field visible in the background.

Wow.

The Chicago Sun-Times published a photo of Pope Leo XIV at the 2005 World Series.

Amazing.

(Link in post below.)

Dan Tehan won’t stand

Angus Taylor’s opening pitch.

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I see that Tim Wilson and Jacinta Price have begun their run to be Lib Leader next time in spectacular fashion. Gunna be wild, Coalition watchers…

Kate Chaney the small l liberal
indie MP in Perth, Tim Wilson the libertarian LibParty MP in Melbourne!

Gina’s takeover play for the Liberal Party.

My favourite seat result is #CalareVotes. Andrew Gee resigned from the Nats to support The Voice. Calare voted no 72-28, and elected Gee anyway.

Here’s what else Gee is famous for amp.abc.net.au/article/1009...

#IndependentsDay

Embattled Voice of America to use newsfeed from hard-right network One America News will now provide news and video to government-funded organization

A hard-right, Trump-supporting US news network that perpetuated conspiracy theories about the 2020 election will provide news coverage for Voice of America (VoA), the Trump administration said. Trump has accused VoA of radical left-wing propaganda...

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So proud of Suzie Holt in #GroomVotes. She stood twice, turning Coalition’s 2nd safest seat marginal - 20.48% margin now 5.14% per cent.

I learned to volunteer - manned the rural Biddeston booth all day then scrutineered.

The best community indie performance in Qld!

#Queenslander!

Carney the first! Opp leader and leader of Canada’s left party the new democrats lost their seats In a landslide given libs 20% behind. Uncanny.

Carney the first! Opp leader and leader of Canada’s left party the new democrats lost their seats In a landslide given libs 20% behind. Uncanny.

Forget Albo being the first PM re-elected since Howard.

He may be the first PM to beat TWO opposition leaders (Dutton, Bandt) nationally and in their own seats, taking out the next generation of leaders while he's at it.

Pulitzers Troll Bezos by Awarding Cartoonist Who Mocked Him Ann Telnaes quit the paper in January after The Washington Post killed a cartoon critical of owner Jeff Bezos.

👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻

Ann Telnaes won the award, considered the highest honor in journalism, four months after she revealed that a cartoon showing Bezos and other tech billionaires genuflecting to Donald Trump was killed by the newspaper’s then-opinions editor David Shipley.

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Chaney thinks Julie Bishop may have changed Libs - ABC listen Independent Kate Chaney has retained her Perth seat of Curtin despite the Liberal Party doing its best to reclaim it.

Kate Chaney’s recipe for Liberal Party renewal - work out what you stand for and let us know please.

‘Cause liberalism ain’t in the mix any more.

#CurtinVotes

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yes, I know :)

Acknowledgement of Indigenous people proceeded as normal in the Queensland parliament today. Welcome to Country will be performed at the women's state of origin on Thursday & at Friday's NRL magic round. It has the backing of the Qld clubs. #qldpol