The mandarin who got caught. Mike Pezzullo inquiry details revealed - Michael West The secret inquiry into Mike Pezzullo's conduct reveals just how serious his misconduct was, and his sacking was inevitable.

The mandarin who got caught. Mike Pezzullo inquiry details revealed

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Palantir Defends Work With ICE to Staff Following Killing of Alex Pretti “In my opinion ICE are the bad guys. I am not proud that the company I enjoy so much working for is part of this,” one worker wrote on Slack.

Palantir employees are pressing company leadership over its work for ICE in internal company Slacks obtained by @wired.com

"In my opinion ICE are the bad guys. I am not proud that the company I enjoy so much working for is part of this."

Scoop from @makenakelly.bsky.social

Breaking the Greenhouse: Coaching Language and Its Impact Explore how coaching language shifts obligation, framing harm as progress in self-help culture. An ethical critique for all.

We live in a world governed by obligation.

Except in coaching culture, where “put yourself first” often means abandoning responsibility without reckoning.

Growth that erases obligation isn’t growth. It’s permission.

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#Coaching #SelfHelp #NLP

Warning - it shows Alex Pretti’s execution.

So is this what @albomp.bsky.social and his Deputy believe are the “shared values” we hold with the US and means we need to keep sending them billions for AUKUS?

We need more of this to deter grifters in the wellness industry.

Belinda Gae Harris has been sentenced today to 7 months imprisonment, a community corrections order, and fines of $20,000 for unlawfully advertising and supplying black salve

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#Wellness #pseudoscience

The people behind him even more so.

Matt Walsh tweeted last year: "We've spent the last 25 years bringing "freedom" and "democracy" to countries around the globe while our own country has been systematically invaded and now our largest cities are run by foreigners and communists. If you want to know why I'm so avowedly non-interventionist, this is why." Then he tweeted today: ""This is a war for oil!!!!!" First of all, the "war" lasted like 90 minutes. Second, going to war to secure vital resources for your own people is totally legitimate. Why should we allow some third world communist shithole to control trillions of dollars worth of oil?"

Laura Loomer tweeted last year: "I’m America First, I don’t support “Regime Change”. I went on @Bannons_WarRoom to talk about Chinese aggression in Venezuela and why we need to designate the Muslim Brotherhood as a foreign Islamic terrorist organization." Then she tweeted yesterday: "Maduro has arrived at the DEA office in Manhattan. He was transported in an armored motorcade after being transported in a blindfold via helicopter & then by plane to New York after his compound in Caracas was raided by US Special Forces. Proud to be an American today! USA 🇺🇸"

Catturd tweeted last year: "Name one U.S. inspired regime change that hasn’t ended in absolute disaster." Then he tweeted yesterday: "Venezuela is now more free than New York City."

Will Chamberlain tweeted last year: "The Republican Party is no longer the party of regime change and endless wars If you want to be its standard-bearer that is a non-negotiable position" Then he tweeted yesterday: "I can think of few better uses of my tax dollars than black-bagging the head of a foreign narco-trafficking organization that enriches itself by addicting and poisoning my fellow Americans"

amazing how the entire machine can pivot within 24 hours. no need to slowly upsell the argument; just issue new marching orders

Under dictator law, Trump Tower would also be a legitimate target as they don't play by international law.

Last year, Trump promised American oil executives “a great deal” if they donated $1 billion to his campaign.

Today, he gave them Venezuela — home to the largest oil reserves in the world.

This new war is not only illegal and reckless; it is deeply corrupt.

Watch this. Watch again.

"This incredible thing last night... We have to do it again [in other countries]. We can do it again, too. Nobody can stop us."

With this regime anything is possible…

Finally an RC into Murdoch? Oh i read that wrong.........

Albanese calls for ‘peaceful, democratic transition’ of power in Venezuela after US capture of Nicolás Maduro Australian prime minister says government has ‘long held concerns about the situation’ in South American country

One wonders if President Xi invaded Taiwan tomorrow would @albomp.bsky.social’s response be to call for a "peaceful democratic transition" of power. Or is he just being a Trump sycophant? 🤷‍♂️ #auspol

How little the fossil fuel industry gives to Australia As Christmas is the season of giving, it is perhaps an opportune time to check how much – or how little – the fossil fuel industry actually contributes to the Australian economy and government revenue...

The gas industry lobby group spends more on advertising its exaggerated claims than many of it foreign owned gas exporting members pay in tax #climate

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The person apologising for failing to pass on the Sydney neo-Nazi rally protest information is the Deputy NSW Police Commisioner.

He was recently the acting NSW Police Commissioner and applied for the top job.

But 3 months ago he was passed over for the Commissioner's job.

Yes, indeed 😎

Front and centre. A woman previously sacked by her constituents.

Graph showing unemployment benefits relative to poverty

Gough raised unemployment benefits to their highest level relative to poverty - then Fraser (and his treasurer John Howard) fucked it up as soon as they could.

Hawke/Keating repaired some of the damage... then Howard fucked it up for good
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From Hard Work to Hard Wiring: How Self-Help Turned Common Sense into a Commodity - Magical Thinking Self-help gurus like Mel Robbins and Jay Shetty replaced old-fashioned wisdom about effort and family with the idea that wealth is a mindset problem, and now they’re selling entitlement as enlightenme...

The new self-help economy tells us wealth is a mindset problem.
Gurus like Mel Robbins and Jay Shetty have turned old-fashioned wisdom, hard work, family, saving, into a product.

magicalthinkers.com/from-hard-wo... #Selfhelp #Gurus #Coaching

The Language of Leaving - How the language of leaving is manufactured in coaching ideology. How Coaching Culture Reframes Betrayal as Growth

What happens when leaving takes 12 months and words and actions clash.

truthincoaching.org/the-language...

#Coaching #NLP #Integralleadership

Not just jobseekers. Workmate has been trying to get the pension now for over 12 months. Lost forms, knocked back, no communication. She is now 68, entitled, frustrated. Luckily she has money coming in part time

End all funding every single private employment services provider.

Salt the earth so those in change of them never get any public money ever again - run them out of the country.

Get rid of mutual obligations

Bring back the CES

Raise the fricken rate

Ain’t hard.

Your Truth, My Truth, No Truth - When truth becomes personal revelation, accountability disappears. Is this your truth, my truth or no truth?

When everyone has “their truth,” no one has the truth.

“If two people both claim that God revealed moral truth to them, but those revelations contradict, how do you know who’s right?”

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#TruthInCoaching #CoachingIdeology #PersonalTruth #CriticalThinking

Outsourcing Growth: Coaching, Influencers, and Self-Help We no longer live growth — we outsource it. Coaching, influencers, and self-help industries have turned human development into a product.

We don’t grow anymore. We outsource it.
We’ve handed over our thinking, our feelings, even our humanity, to coaches, influencers, and self-help brands that package growth as a product.
Real growth isn’t scalable.
#SelfHelp #CriticalThinking #NLP #Coaching

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How the Self-Help Industry Turned AI into Its Next Big Grift - Magical Thinking The self-help industry is rebranding itself as AI expertise. From Tony Robbins to Deepak Chopra, motivational gurus with no scientific background are exploiting public confusion to sell certainty in a...

The self-help industry never dies.
It just changes its acronym.

Robbins and Chopra are suddenly “AI experts.”
No science. No engineering. Just the same recycled confidence, dressed up in buzzwords.

#AI #SelfHelp #Pseudoscience #MagicalThinkers #CriticalThinking

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"Anna, Lindsey Halligan Here." Anna Bower Monday, October 20, 2025, 5:40 PM Share On: f X inK My Signal exchange with the interim U.S. attorney about the Letitia James grand jury.

EXCLUSIVE: One Saturday afternoon in October, my phone lit up with a notification.

I glanced down at the message.

“Anna, Lindsey Halligan here,” it began.

So began my text exchange with the woman who is prosecuting the president's perceived political enemies.

www.lawfaremedia.org/article/anna...

She Followed the Script From Hill to Manifesting YouTube video by Truth In Coaching

From Napoleon Hill to Tony Robbins, from MLMs to manifesting, it’s the same recycled ideology. Growth is scripted, belief is monetised.

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#TruthInCoaching #SelfHelp #NLP #Manifesting #Pseudoscience

Critical thinking is one of the most important aspects of being human, according to Stoicism. So why are we handing it over to a machine? | Brigid Delaney All of us, no matter what our circumstances, have the ability to be more wise, more just, more courageous and more moderate

We are already outsourcing leadership, we outsource ourself.

Critical thinking is one of the most important aspects of being human, according to Stoicism. So why are we handing it over to a machine?

www.theguardian.com/commentisfre... #criticalthinking

For every $100 of gas exported, Australia gets 43 cents’: Unions open new tax battle Shane Wright October 16, 2025 — 10.30pm Fresh from its backflip on superannuation tax reform, the Albanese government is now facing calls from the union movement to ditch its changes to taxes on oil and gas exports, in a move the ACTU says would raise $17 billion a year to be pumped into housing.

For too long gas companies have been taking the absolute piss.

This is an excellent proposal by @australianunions.bsky.social
www.smh.com.au/politics/fed...