Gimme cats any day.

Joshua J. Friedman@joshuajfriedman.com · 3d ago

Monday morning watch

It was always strange to call the genocide in Gaza a war, but it's even more bizarre when there is a ceasefire and Israel has killed 1200 Palestinians since then. Even if the Guardian doesn't want to use the term genocide "war" doesn't capture one sided slaughter of civilians

The evidence that #climatechange is occurring is overwhelming. Those who deny it are either lying or in wilful denial. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Butterflies around the world are changing habitats – and experts say it’s ‘signalling a warning’

New research shows early-warning species is on the move, expanding or contracting geographic range and changing altitude

theguardian.com

Peter Greste has made an accurate observation, but Pauline Hanson doesn't care. Her vision of Australia doesn't include independent media. www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

Pauline Hanson has knocked another brick out of our creaky political system. It’s not good for anybody | Peter Greste

By deciding who gets to ask questions and who is barred, the One Nation leader is upending the democratic role that journalists are supposed to occupy

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One Nation's candidates are all over the shop on policy - but Pauline has written the rules to ensure that what she says, goes. She'll probably call the shots until she's carried out in a box. She needs to be destroyed politically. www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

‘Won’t happen’: One Nation Victoria leader’s comments raise questions about Hanson’s mass deportations policy

Exclusive: Warren Pickering told 2025 podcast mass deportations ‘not a reality’ in Australia and suggested politicians over 55 should ‘handball it to the next generation’

theguardian.com

One Nation now has a Victorian leader. He's a full-on cooker. www.smh.com.au/national/vic...

Inside the world of the self-described conspiracy theorist anointed One Nation’s Victorian leader

Warren Pickering, the man anointed by Pauline Hanson to lead One Nation in Victoria, is a former brickie and combat engineer – and a self-described conspiracy theorist.

smh.com.au

#OtD 2 Aug 1894 work resumed at the Pullman factory after its strike was defeated. US troops had killed 34 and injured and arrested many others, the AFL refused to call sympathy action, and the union further isolated itself by excluding Black members stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/1247...

Is anybody keeping a record of these noises over the course of the last 5/6 months?

The Associated Press@apnews.com · 4d ago

BREAKING: President Trump claims Mideast allies have reached parameters of a deal to end the Iran war and says U.S. will hold off on new strikes.

"Well, either Commissioner Wood doesn't understand what a union's job is or he's been directed not to understand their job," Andy Fleming said. www.abc.net.au/news/2026-07...

CFMEU commissioner accuses Qld police of taking side of 'law-breakers'

Commissioner Stuart Wood took aim at the police response to a 2024 CFMEU blockade in which he said police "took the side of law-breakers".

abc.net.au

The NSW LIberals' Reformers vs Centre-Right faction fight looks very much like Opus Dei vs Hillsong. They can both go to Hell. #NSWpol www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

How the ‘Braveheart’ tribe of young Liberals descended from the Hills only to have their kilts lifted by Icac

Icac is investigating whether the NSW Liberals sub-faction took illegal donations and broke electoral funding laws

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Related party expenses are used to transfer profits to a low (preferably zero) taxing jurisdiction. This was to be expected, given Adani's track record of dishonest dealings with governments in India & elsewhere before building its Australian mine. www.theguardian.com/business/202...

Adani to pay no company tax despite $1bn revenue from Queensland coalmine

Indian conglomerate offsets earnings from Carmichael mine to report $340.6m loss, after promising billions in taxes and royalties

theguardian.com

It has begun. It's going to be ugly. Very ugly. www.theguardian.com/world/2026/a...

First Australian mass mortality event suspected as deadly bird flu virus rapidly escalates among native birds

Helicopter surveillance finds dead and dying greater crested terns off South Australian coast as H5 virus spreads

theguardian.com

Out of their own mouths ... #Palestine

Andy Fleming@slackbastard.bsky.social · 5d ago

'"I think now, after they killed one Israeli, we need to kill all the people in Tal and Sarra, even Jit and Farata," he said, naming the Palestinian villages closest to the outpost.' 😑 www.bbc.com/news/article...

#OtD 1 Aug 1902 Lola Iturbe was born in Barcelona. A maid and seamstress from childhood, she was a lifelong anarchist involved in the @CNTsindicato uprisings in 1933 and 1934, the 1936 revolution, and the founding of the Mujeres Libres feminist group stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/8045...

These ratbags who kill their partner, then themselves, are doing it in the wrong order. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

US influencer ‘couldn’t seem to get away’ from husband accused of killing her, ex-partner says

Police believe Sara Gilson was killed by husband Jeremiah Duffey after she accused him on TikTok of child sexual abuse

theguardian.com

If anyone has ever known more about popular music than Glenn A Baker, they've been hiding their light under a bushel. Vale.

Greg Jericho@grogsgamut.bsky.social · 6d ago

Oh, sad news. #RIP www.abc.net.au/news/2026-07...

FIFA president Gianni Infantino denied that the game was being over-commercialised, saying player safety was at the heart of the decision to extend the ‘Hyundai Hydration Breaks™’. Read the full story: theshovel.com.au/2026/07/31/n...

Fucking lying-ass. Lindsey was begging to kill all Iranians, but "he's part of our family." He got a fucked up family.

Washington Post Opinions@postopinions.bsky.social · last wk.

"History will remember Lindsey Graham for many things," writes Reza Pahlavi, a leader of the Iranian democratic opposition. "I feel confident in saying that millions of Iranians will simply remember him as an American member of our family."

#OtD 29 Jul 1962 fascist Oswald Mosley tried to march with the Union Movement in Manchester, UK. However, he was attacked by anti-fascists and had to be rescued by police. A Mosley speech later was drowned out by a crowd of anti-fascists. More info: www.patreon.com/posts/e37b-6...

Amongst the many undoubted good things McManus & O'Neil have done, there are two very bad things: * Further turning the focus of the unions to Parliament & away from organising workplace power; & * Assisting State control of the CFMEU. #ClassStruggle www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

PM praises Sally McManus and Michele O’Neil as ‘giants’ as they resign from ACTU

Secretary and president of Australian Council of Trade Unions announced surprise departures on Monday evening

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The only "freedom" Javier Milei supports is the freedom to starve. www.theguardian.com/world/2026/j...

Javier Milei accuses US Democrats of financing ‘anti-Argentina campaign’ at World Cup

President also blames Brazil and Mexico and says online critics ‘do not want the ideas of freedom to succeed’

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It's just not cricket! Ban them for life. www.smh.com.au/sport/cricke...

‘Worst case of cheating I’ve ever seen’: English club under investigation

Video footage has emerged on social media of several instances where a fielder at first slip appears to click his fingers as the ball passes the outside edge of the bat.

smh.com.au

This must not happen in Australia: www.reuters.com/legal/litiga...

EPA says power for data centers can sidestep pollution laws

Power sources providing electricity only to data centers and not the public grid may not be subject to ​federal pollution laws, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency said on ‌Monday.

reuters.com

This case should be a lay-down misere, so it won't be the protestors who are on trial, but the High Court.

Alastair Lawrie@alastairlawrie.bsky.social · last wk.

"A group of pro-Palestine protesters have launched a high court challenge to a Queensland law banning the slogan “from the river to the sea”, arguing that it amounts to a discriminatory and unconstitutional infringement on free speech." #auslaw www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

Expect this US trend to continue while RFK Jr is in his current job. He's gonna kill more people than Pete Hegseth.

Healthcare-Global@healthcare-global.bsky.social · last wk.

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Absolutely stunning. News like this just makes me so angry at the climate deniers who have put the world 20 or 30 years behind where it needs to be in addressing #climatechange.

James Dinneen@jamesdinneen.bsky.social · 2w ago

It's not quite "gobsmackingly bananas" but monster forecasts for the record El Nino brewing the Pacific Ocean get pretty close. Here's what to make of it in my first for @nature.com: 🧪 www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Seeking asylum is a legally protected international human right. Trump’s deportation agenda was never about “legal immigration.” It was always about cruelty.

Aaron Reichlin-Melnick@reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · last wk.

NEW: The Trump admin just published a new regulation allowing asylum officers at USCIS to deny hundreds of thousands of “affirmative asylum” applications without an interview, sending applicants directly to deportation proceedings. This means many people will never get a chance to argue their case.

#OtD 27 Jul 1933 bus drivers in Havana went on strike, and other drivers soon struck in sympathy. This was the start of unrest that culminated in a general strike of Cuban workers and students, and eventually brought an end to Gerardo Machado's reign stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/9911...

The break between Europe & the US is momentous and signals a new, more dangerous phase of #Imperialism.

EUwatch 🇪🇺@euwatch.live · last yr.

Europe is shifting to EU-based defence procurement, top French industry executive says