Anthony Albanese after a game of social tennis with Labor MP Luke Gosling (fourth from left) (Image: Private Media/Anthony Albanese/Twitter)

No Love for Albanese Thanks to the doings of very good tennis player/right royal berk/misunderstood genius/dude who rocks (delete as appropriate to your take) Nick Kygrios, tennis is taking up more of the public debate than you might expect while huge swathes of Australia’s biggest city are underwater. With that in mind, a tipster got in contact with us to share what is apparently Prime Minister Anthony Albanese’s Tennis Australia Match Centre (a rundown of a player’s results and ranking, etc). And look, it’s not great.

Albo’s doubles team “Marrickville 6” is coming off three consecutive losses, including thrashings at the hands of “Manly Men 6” and “SSC4”, and are coming sixth — out of eight — in the 2022 Saturday Badge Men’s Division 10.

Of course, Albanese has had to miss a few games lately (he’s been as absent from the Marrickville 6 as he has the rest of the nation). Interestingly enough, his last taste of victory with the team came on May 28, a week after Labor’s election victory — clearly he was on a roll at the time.

But the point still stands — if Albanese can’t stand up to the “Mosman 2”, how is he going to stand up to Xi Jinping?

What’s a guy gotta do to get verified around here? New member for Hunter and literal giant Dan Repacholi has come across what must be an unfamiliar situation for him — a hurdle he can’t easily surmount with his abnormally big stride. The former Olympian can’t seem to get that verified blue tick on Twitter. He shared the news yesterday that the site had denied his request to be verified:

Perhaps they couldn’t find a blue tick big enough to fit his specifications?

Pelosi passes the hat US House of Representatives speaker and tone-deaf ice cream aficionado Nancy Pelosi is not taking the demise of Roe v Wade lying down. No, she’s taking aim at the real enemies — people who already vote for the Democrats but refuse to donate. Check the tone of these fundraising emails:

I asked — several times.
Barack Obama told you the stakes.
Joe Biden made an urgent plea.
… I don’t know how else to say this …

Not sure how the “if you don’t give us your money the ongoing collapse of reproductive rights in the US is sort of your fault … ” approach is going for the Democrats, but they’re apparently sticking with it:

Great work Angus, etc Angus Taylor has been looking around the devastation resulting from the floods in south-west Sydney. “This is the fourth time this year that buildings, homes and businesses in the area have been submerged by rising flood water,” he tweeted yesterday, accompanied by photos that make him look appropriately baffled.

(Image: Angus Taylor/Twitter)

Unsurprisingly, people are using this as an opportunity to point out that the flurry might be attached to Taylor’s time in government, during which he ditched early political ally Malcolm Turnbull over an energy plan, “disgusted” climate scientists with his performance at COP25, and tried to use his last moments in power to push through rule changes that would make it much more difficult to close coal-fired power plants. Even less surprisingly, some of those people are getting blocked: