Ryan Grim the GOAT
Speaking on Breaking Points, Drop Site's @ryangrim shares his takeaway from the midterms and what Democrats should do next. Hasan Piker and other social media users have dubbed Grim "the oracle" after he called 28 of 35 Senate races correctly, with two still uncalled. Grim says Democrats' instinct will be to "bury Trump and ignore him," but argues they should use the leverage they have. If Trump wants a new secretary of war, he says that should be the condition. If he wants money for his budget, Grim says Democrats should demand an end to mandatory detention and to sending people, including Cubans, to Africa.
Democrats won the Senate and House in a historic landslide, upending Trump's second term and the GOP agenda.
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⭕️ NEW: Israeli prison guards celebrated in real time as Palestinian prisoner Thaer Abu Asab was beaten severely and killed, according to WhatsApp messages and an indictment detailed by Haaretz.
“You’re going to be proud of me, of my shift. After what happened, the count took two hours and 23 minutes. Draw your own conclusions,” one female guard wrote to her partner, who was also a guard.
“They’re doing CPR in the clinic right now, baby! God willing, that son of a thousand whores will die.”
Another guard sent an excited update: “Holy shit, what a count. We fucked them up so bad.”
A third texted a friend: “What an insane count. There’s never been anything like it. We poured cheese on them, cracked some eggs [the Hebrew word for eggs is also slang for testicles]. So much blood in the wings.”
She then added: “OMG, they’re doing CPR on a prisoner because we beat him. He’s dead. Listen, it’s funny how it all happened in an instant: Boom, count. Boom, dead prisoner.”
Abu Asab was a Fatah member serving a 25-year sentence for attacks against Israel. He was pronounced dead at Soroka Medical Center in Be’er Sheva after being taken there that evening. The indictment says the severe beating injured his heart and caused his death.
Last week, nearly three years after Abu Asab was killed, prosecutors filed a rare indictment against 12 Israel Prison Service guards. They are accused of beating him and eight other Palestinian prisoners in Cell 6 of Wing 24 at Ketziot Prison as retaliation for reports that Druze soldiers had been killed in the war. Those reports turned out to be nothing more than a rumor, Haaretz reported.
The assault began after Abu Asab asked a guard whether there was a ceasefire. A prisoner told investigators that approximately 15 guards and 15 members of the prison’s Keter tactical unit entered while the prisoners were kneeling with their hands over their heads and faces down. They beat everyone with batons for approximately five minutes, later unleashed dogs and shouted, “No ceasefire.”
Abu Asab was beaten the worst. Witnesses said he was left unconscious and bleeding, his face blue and his hands covered in blood.
The investigation also uncovered evidence that such violence was routine, known to senior commanders and concealed through a code of silence. Because prosecutors said they could not establish which guards delivered the fatal blows, the 12 who entered the cell were charged with the relatively lenient offense of reckless homicide. Female guards who stood at the cell entrance were questioned as suspects but not indicted.
🔗 Full: haaretz.com/israel-news/isra…
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One of the most terrifying images in history: a transformation from life to death.
Gaza in 2023 and 2026!
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Australia’s M3 money supply has increased from $1.8 trillion dollars in 2015 to $3.3 trillion dollars in 2025. That’s an increase of 83 per cent in just a decade.
In other words, a significant proportion of Australia’s total money supply has been created in the last 10 years.
And that flood of new money has been deeply inflationary.
It's why we still feel the pain at the checkout. Inflation quietly erodes your buying power. The more money sloshing around the system, the less each existing dollar is worth.
The government, the Reserve Bank, and the retail banks, who have been behind the massive increase in the money supply, have avoided major criticism because most of the media doesn’t understand what’s going on.
Let's look at gold.
Today an ounce of gold buys $6,250 Australian dollars.
A decade ago, an ounce of gold bought $1,500.
That means in the space of just 10 years, the Australian dollar is now worth four times less in terms of gold.
Now look at housing. That $1.2 million home in Adelaide? It was around $600,000 just five years ago. It’s the same house, same roof, same street. The structure itself has depreciated, yet the price you pay has doubled.
This shouldn’t be surprising. Australia abandoned the gold standard, which fixed the value of the nation's currency to that of gold, in 1932. We have fully embraced the fiat currency model. The value of our dollar now depends largely on trust (and the discipline of those issuing it).
Increased printing, borrowing, and lending expands the money supply, inevitably placing downward pressure on the value of existing dollars.
When it comes to money, more is not always better.
It's insanely stupid to think that accountability and productivity have anything to do with going into the office.
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"but the safety theater is really upsetting."
Oh the irony!
Yes, it is a federal requirement to show your face to TSA when they check your ID. Remember it’s unlikely that would be long enough to be exposed to a viral load that would cause infection. You’ll probably be okay if you do it quickly but the safety theater is really upsetting.
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There are now 1,958 sponsored passholders who have 24/7 access to Parliament House - and we aren't allowed to know who they are.
No checks on which organisations are sending lobbyists into the building, and nothing preventing tobacco lobbyists from getting their hands on a pass.
Absolutely amazing takedown of a clown. – at Sydney, New South Wales
State Sen. Nathan Dahm (R-OK) has penned several bills loosening gun restrictions, including the nation’s first anti-red flag law. He thinks these bills protect the Second Amendment – and that they make us safer. We think it's probably one or the other. Watch it on @AppleTVPlus.
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Total oil and gas sector revenue (blue) vs total government revenue from oil and gas (orange).
Comparing Australia 🇦🇺 and Norway 🇳🇴 from the late 1980s.
Read more @TheAusInstitute's "Off the Charts" 👇
australiainstitute.org.au/po…
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Before politics, I spent 15 years helping people get into jobs.
I’ve been unemployed, too.
I want people to feel like there’s someone up in the Senate who gets it, because she’s lived it.
I’ve seen it up close. I’ve felt it.
And it crushes you.
Geez I wish some COVID doomers on here would read this. Especially when talking about kids as "disease vectors".
As @LeslieBienen and I wrote in May 2022: "Children are excluded from school because they have runny noses, when it is precisely children’s exposure to other kids with runny noses that creates a robust immune system."
slate.com/technology/2022/05…
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Definitely how it should be in Australia. Such a waste we are letting these companies make billions while we get a few cents.
Former Prime Minister of Norway and current NATO chief @jensstoltenberg in 2014 explaining how Norway took control of their oil and gas industry and starting taxing them at 78% of profits building the $1.7 trillion Norwegian Sovereign Wealth Fund.
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