#OtD 6 Aug 1945 the US dropped an atomic bomb on Hiroshima, slaughtering tens of thousands of civilians, despite believing that Japan was about to surrender, which was noted by multiple US officials stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/1059...
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Anarchist feminist cartoonist She/her
Bloke who infamously had no issue with Musk doing a Nazi salute has thoughts and ABC decides they’re worth repeating?
ABC News Australia@news.abc.net.au · 2d agoTop US Jewish leader issues stark warning to Australia on antisemitism
Do you like well-reasoned arguments and pithy retorts? Well bad luck because it's time for the great climate debate hosted by disgraced breakfast flake Karl Whatsisface! www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
It’s the debate of the century! Two climate ‘denialists’ battle it out to see who agrees the most denialistly | First Dog on the Moon
What a vibrant marketplace of ideas
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#OtD 3 Aug 1945 a group in Melbourne called the Australian Soldiers' Legion (ASL) helped the Wagglens family, which included a homeless, wounded WWII veteran, his wife and children, squat a empty house in Bell Street, Hawthorn stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/1016...
As One Nation starts announcing candidates, here's a bingo card over the possibilities
Naarm/Melbourne has again showed up in force to protest Israeli atrocity in Gaza and the West Bank, grotesque Australian government and corporate complicity, and the silence and indifference of the husks posing as human among us. From the river to the sea.
In 1966, a British scientist warned Shell that burning fossil fuels was likely causing climate change. Shell's response? Keep it secret—then fund climate denial instead. Read DeSmog's new investigation here: buff.ly/WoS1Cav
The Lovelock Papers: Shell’s Hidden Climate Knowledge Under Scrutiny as Court Battle Looms
“What seems to be important,” wrote the visionary British scientist, James Lovelock, in June 1966, is “the almost certain fact that the climate is worsening and the probability that the combustion of…
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A short drive from one of the world’s most sophisticated intelligence bases, many of the Traditional Owners of the land are living without basic services. Their water must be trucked in, there is no sewerage, and a sparse power supply is provided by a few solar panels. trib.al/iVgJx0D
Indigenous rights and Pine Gap
As Pine Gap nears 60 years in existence, the biggest protest at the US-Australian defence base since 1987 came to support the Traditional Owners in a request to return their lands.
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We were all fine with AI destroying the planet but now it's come for our books!? This is too much! www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Isn’t AI terrible enough already? Now they want to eat the world’s books?! | First Dog on the Moon
Leave books alone!
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I have made a video with footage no one has seen yet demonstrating how the ABC deliberately erased Gaza from its reporting of the Pine Gap protest last week. www.instagram.com/reel/Dbb5iQt...
David Milner on Instagram: "There is an added layer of icky with this one. Not only is the ABC continuing its years-long pattern of manufacturing consent for Israel, it is also grossly distorting th...
226 likes, 16 comments - davemilbo on July 30, 2026: "There is an added layer of icky with this one. Not only is the ABC continuing its years-long pattern of manufacturing consent for Israel, it is ...
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Victoria 🚨 Another Blairite neoliberal Labor premier at the helm? 😬 From the AFR. “Business friendly.” Time at the Shoppos Union. (Right-wing pro-boss union. Was run by Joe De Bruyn, hardcore Catholic, Opus?) What does Carroll’s Catholicism mean for Victoria? #SpringSt #Auspol
Josh Taylor@joshtaylor.bsky.social · last wk.The new premier's reading pile from last year, posted without comment.
Enjoying @jaredlholt.bsky.social @michaelehayden.bsky.social and @socialistdogmom.bsky.social crossover #weirdlittleguys and #postingthroughit omnibus Andy Ngo episode... but I think my drawing is being affected.
Black Arms to Hold You Up won the Eisner for Best Reality-Based Work!
Good, as far as it goes... I think I recognise the 'unidentified man' in the second photo. theconversation.com/the-antifa-t...
The antifa terrorism threat the Trump administration describes does not exist
Antifa is a scattered movement of local collectives that opposes fascism. It has no leader, command hierarchy, funding structure or record of deadly attacks.
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Ah. I used all three brands of tumeric which tested positive for lead chromate. Fabulous www.abc.net.au/news/2026-07...
From eggs to seafood to spices and spirits, testing reveals truth behind labels
A Four Corners investigation has uncovered products whose labels did not match independent scientific testing, raising serious questions about the integrity of Australia's food supply.
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#Spycops 'Steel’s sister collected the family and drove them to her home 90 minutes away. Again, none of them knew surveillance officers employed by New Zealand police were tailing them.' www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...
How the Met police spent £2.5m hiding spycop from former partner
Spycops inquiry has revealed how Helen Steel was secretly monitored in her search for undercover officer who deceived her into relationship
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Herbicide banned in 70 countries to be pulled from sale in Australia by chemical maker
Herbicide banned in 70 countries to be pulled from sale in Australia by chemical maker
Syngenta says it will stop selling paraquat in Australia after new regulations on chemical linked to Parkinson’s disease * Get our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcast Syngenta, the producer of a herbicide banned in more than 70 countries and which has been linked to Parkinson’s disease, will stop selling paraquat in Australia, saying new regulations has made it “commercially unviable”. The decision to pull the product follows new restrictions on the highly poisonous chemical announced by the Australian Pesticides and Veterinary Medicines Authority in June. Continue reading...
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BIG thank you to everyone!!! this shit means so much cause it’s my community backing me. The book almost merc’d me too, I put everything into this project and basically left nothing. It feels affirming as fuck to have this recognition. no gonna lie.
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how fucking sad though, to be the richest man in the world and not know what a good tomato tastes like. Capitalism has always failed in its attempts to quantify and understand what makes our lives beautiful.
Here's my story from Pine Gap. "The fight to end the US military occupation of Australia (and the entire world)" It's a photo-essay this time because I took a tonne of pics, the country being this stunning, to help convey the Arrernte's struggle.
The fight to end the US military occupation of Australia (and the entire world) - The Shot
For 64 years – an insignificant speck of time under a sky this large – from a stolen, sacred site...
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Two recent data centre stories: - in NT, company obvs lying about gas - in TAS, caught lying about water plans Govts and AI companies are planning to deceive until it’s too late to stop them
A former Metropolitan police commissioner has admitted that the force failed over decades to properly control a controversial undercover unit that committed “horrendous” abuses, the spycops inquiry has heard. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...
Former Met police chief admits force failed to properly control spycops unit
Paul Condon tells inquiry there was ‘appalling behaviour by individual officers’ but that greater fault was systemic
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Hanson, like many other reactionaries, has justified her Islamophobia in the name of women's rights It was always a lie obviously but lapped up by too many. Reactionaries only defend oppressed communities to punch down on others, divide us and strengthen privileges www.abc.net.au/news/2026-07...
Hanson labels domestic violence 'two-way street'
The One Nation leader said women should not 'put up with' domestic violence, as she highlighted the cost of living pressures on families.
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Oh wow, I bet the millionaires who designed this system are super embarrassed about their mistake… can you even imagine?
ABC News Australia@news.abc.net.au · 2w agoAustralia's jobseeker system fails workers and enriches millionaires, report says
A years-long series of behaviours by a doctor that considered together should result in a lifetime ban has instead been met with consequences so light they seem actively contemptuous of patients IMO. The health regulation system in Australia is a farce.
ABC News Australia@news.abc.net.au · 2w agoNSW surgeon's registration suspended after patient complaints