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DoNuts T.®ump imposes new tariffs on 60 countries, including Australia, supposedly "for their failure to adopt & effectively enforce a prohibition on the importation of goods produced with forced labor" · Australia’s biggest builder has just finished its first two prefabricated modular homes in Melbourne’s western suburbs, & almost everything except the slab was made in China · Saudi Arabia must recognize Israel for nuclear deal to go ahead says T.®ump, after the 'deal' had been signed · police have charged a 52-year-old man after an investigation into a series of AI-generated posters targeting multiple women across south-east Queensland over five years. The posters allegedly featured victims' faces superimposed on the bodies of women performing explicit sexual acts · Elongated Muskrat says he got "carried away" with T.®ump — but still holds on to contentious political views · nun speaks out after being detained by ICE while walking to Mass · White (supremacist) House won’t confirm if T.®ump has nominated his bumboy chum Gianni Infantino, current FIFA chief, for UN Gen-Sec.

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Australian health officials last Wednesday revealed there had already been 83,000 cases of respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) recorded across the country this year, outnumbering both influenza & Covid-19 · new book identifies Marie Maitland, the 16th century poet, as possibly Scotland’s lesbian answer to Gentleman Jack Lister · a new LGBTQIA+ pop-up club at a former church in Sydney's CBD has closed after being ordered to "cease carrying on offensive trade" or face eviction following protests by religious groups · T.®ump ditches plan for 20% fee on vessels transiting the Strait of Hormuz beating his own record on strategic backflips as Iran & US trade new strikes · the Australian Fair Work Commission has ruled a trucking company was within its rights to dismiss a driver after he set the temperature of a trailer full of ice cream nearly 20 degrees too warm & ended up with $73.000 worth of melted product · Australia's Labor Government is to force data centers to minimize water usage, underwrite own power under new AI standards · Gears of War: E-Day gets Nvidia DLSS 4.5 at launch · T.ump just opened land sacred to Native Americans to mining & drilling.

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DoNuts T.®ump mysteriously swaps planes as he leaves NATO summit, but not before calling Iran the 'Islamic Republic of Japan' · live entertainment industry calls for Australian government lifeline as more musicals close · the Southern Poverty Law Center, a prominent monitor of hate groups, has pleaded not guilty to federal charges alleging it defrauded donors by failing to disclose payments to informants within extremist organizations · T.®ump's Education Department celebrates 'American' history with a photo from Britain's history · a DoNuts T.®ump family crypto venture is collapsing into a fire sale — & taking investor money down with it, according to an exclusive new report from the Wall Street Journal · former Wisconsin judge sentenced for obstructing immigration arrest, receiving a $5,000 fine · James Taylor was playing the first of a two-night run at the Tanglewood Music Festival, where he has been performing shows around the Fourth of July for the past 52 years in a row dating back to 1974, & he wasn't willing to break that streak even for Swift & Kelce's wedding to which he & his wife had been invited.

Recently, at Series Magritte

The Castle of the Pyrenees, defaced

A painting in the Israel Museum in Jerusalem by the Belgian artist René Magritte
has been damaged by a 5-year-old boy wielding a pine cone.
CNN: 6.12.2026

Battlements on top, the rock beneath on which it's built, the ample space between
the rock & the sea below — should be enough.
But in air is light as.

The rock, carrying its castle cargo, drifts eastward across the Mediterranean
until it runs aground. Because of its uniqueness, is placed in a space
available in a museum in Jerusalem. Is held there,
exhibited, bereft of protective glass.

Years pass. Then one day a boy picks up a pine cone in the museum garden,
wonders if the magical assemblage inside that he & his grandmother
have come to see will withstand something more than a
human viewing.

Or maybe thinks the painting needs a symbolic addition of the real to
make it complete. The pine cone he is still carrying,
attached like a brooch to the painting.

The three AI images are from the museumnews Instagram account.

Interpretive dance as a means of window cleaning

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T.®ump's $2B income from crypto, bibles, & scent in 2025 raises fresh questions about profiting off the presidency · Health Secretary Robert F. Coneverybody Jr. faced a wave of online mockery after he failed to complete a basic exercise demonstration despite his reputation as a fitness fanatic · E Jean Carroll demands her money from T.®ump — with interest · Secretary of Defense Putrid Hogsbreath suffered yet another loss in his legal fight to control the Pentagon press corps after a judge issued a preliminary injunction against him · a North Carolina pickle company has pulled the plug on supporting President DoNuts T.®ump's Great American State Fiasco after discovering a Confederate flag was included in the video display at the State booth · T.®ump takes maiden flight on Qatar's gold-trimmed jet as fury grows over 'gift' · it’s been reported that T.®ump’s administration has started construction on a new helipad for Marine One on the White House's South Lawn. Lockheed Martin reportedly donated $5 million towards the construction · Victor Wills, the recently deceased lead singer of the Village People, once asked DoNuts T.®ump to stop playing his band’s music. In a resurfaced interview with BBC News World America, he stressed that neither he nor his group endorsed the US president. “We have even asked him to stop playing our music at his rallies.” & dancing to it, we hope.

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T.®ump rejoices that the 'criminally made algae is gone' · a British man has been arrested in Ecuador after a woman’s body was discovered inside a suitcase · 'while mainstream headlines suggest Hogsbreath is motivated by race & gender animus, an even worse—& more dangerous—likelihood is that he is weeding out those he deems 'ideologically incompatible' with how he & T.®ump plan to use the military': Sabrina Haake · Australian man charged with murder after dead girl found in suitcase in Thailand · comedian Bill Maher was awarded the prestigious Mark Twain Prize for American Humor on Sunday in what might be one of the last major onstage moments at the Kennedy Center for the next several years · Core 2 Quad Q6600 system runs Windows 11 on DDR1-era motherboard · the Australian sharemarket has opened in positive territory on reports the US & Iran backed away from a fresh escalation that had threatened the fragile ceasefire underpinning peace talks · Elongated Muskrat leaks banned film dubbed "most disturbing ever" on X for 48 hours. The move came after Citizen Vigilante was banned in Germany due to regulators refusing to grant the film an age rating because of its extremely violent imagery, with fears it would incite violence against immigrants.