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Donald Trump selling 2028 election merch despite term limitThe US Constitution limits presidents to two four-year stints in office. Donald Trump has said he still intends to run for a third term and has started selling the hats and t-shirts that say it.

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Rates of early voting have been increasing for a long time, but reached a record high level of 2022, in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic. I most recently summarised these statistics at a federal level in this blog post.

For this blog post I’m going to summarise the statistics on how many people are voting early as of the end of the short 3-day week between the Easter and Anzac Day long weekends. The short answer: early voting seems to be holding steady at the record high levels seen in 2022.

He was a young American from Chicago, via South Vietnam. He was lean and clean and crew cut, and he was telling us about his experiences up there. Conditions were really rugged, he said. Charlie was unpredictable and vicious.

Addo asked him, “Who's Charlie?”

“VC,” he said.

"Oh well, I s'pose you have to be unpredictable and vicious to get a VC."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vp7DR3bktLk

Col. Douglas Macgregor: Walking Away from the Ukraine War & Restoring Strategic Clarity

Third and final giant transformer arrives for installation at first stage of state-backed big battery that will deliver up to 1.6 gigawatt-hours of storage into the grid.

Local Reading: Eddie Obeid to keep $30 million made from corrupt coal licence deal – ABC Mental health experts concerned about Coalition plan to scrap workers’ right to disconnect – The Guardian Over five decades, here’s how voters have shifted away from the major parties – ABC When ‘equal’ does not mean ‘the same’: Liberals

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Israeli strikes included the bombing of a school-turned-shelter, which killed 13, and the bombing of a children's hospital

Gaza’s Health Ministry said on Wednesday that Israeli attacks killed at least 38 Palestinians and wounded 105 over the previous 24-hour period as US-backed Israeli strikes pound targets across the Strip.

Risk markets are still in a positive mood generally speaking as they digest the possible weakening of Chinese tariffs but of course the Orange Mussolini is still a bit confused on what he wants to do at the granular level with more doublespeak during the session. Stocks are still fairly well bid while the USD

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China stats for first three months of 2025 show it installed 9 GW of new thermal generation capacity, compared to 59.7 GW of new solar and 14.6 GW of new wind.

I have written about how the explosion in cafe numbers and rampant cost inflation have left the hospitality industry in a precarious position. When I moved to my suburb of Ashburton, Melbourne, in 2006, only a handful of cafes were operating on my local High Street shopping strip. Over the following 15 years, the number

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Those iron ore jaws are looking tempting. May/June is a seasonally weak period for iron ore are well. There are early signs that the tariff smash is beginning to impact demand. Goldman. [US] Producers estimate that the negative impact on their exports (produced in China) has ranged up to a full stop in the volume

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Chinese company says its robot solar mounting machine can install solar panels at three and five times faster than a team of humans, and slash construction times.

Victorian Premier Jacinta Allan chose to sign the contracts to build the first leg of the $200-plus billion Suburban Rail Loop (SRL) project against the explicit advice of infrastructure experts. SRL East, which will link Box Hill and Cheltenham, is budgeted to cost $34.5 billion. To date, the state has only secured $11.8 billion of

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