My column on how capital becomes a death cult. Faced with a choice between profit and human life, the radical right chooses profit. Then it tries to persuade us that mass death is what we want. It's the new phase of climate denial: accept your fate, earthlings. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Murderous heat, an endangered food supply, decimated landscapes: embrace the Mediterranean life | George Monbiot

As climate disaster stares us in the face, the radical right says ‘Embrace the Mediterranean life’. Embrace death, more like it, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot

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But by all means, let’s play footsie with the fossil fuel industry.

George Smeeton @gsmeeton.bsky.social · 14h ago

British farmers are facing a "completely brutal" year, with analysis suggesting the 2026 harvest could be the worst on record due to extreme summer weather: www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home...

The proposition that the president of the United States is an adjudicated rapist isn't an argument. It is a fact.

Booker: "Ghislaine Maxwell is sitting in the lowest possible confinement after giving no information that helped us get one more investigation started and has been silent, and the man responsible for that we're about to make the attorney general of the US ... this is farcical."

The United States of Patriarchy.

M Meerkat@kackbro.bsky.social · yesterday

Say No To Trump's SAVE Act.......

Crop yields down, our countryside scorched and over 2800 people are dead due to this summer's heatwaves. Meanwhile fossil fuel giants are raking in record profits. We must end this rampant profiteering, and cut fossil fuels from our energy mix as soon as possible.

Damian Carrington@dpcarrington.bsky.social · 2d ago

BP profits more than double to $5.7bn in three months as Iran war sends oil prices soaring - "While BP banks enormous profits, millions of households are paying the price" #energycrisis #climatecrisis www.theguardian.com/business/202...

www.theguardian.com/commentisfre... The most incarcerated people on the planet. We’re not an innately criminal people. Our children aliened from families at unprecedented rates. Cannot be because we have no love for them. Our youth languish in detention. They should be our hope for the future.

The inability to deliver the changes Indigenous Australians need is no longer just a moral failure but a civilisational one | Noel Pearson

After the rejection of the voice, the conversation about structural reform of the federal arrangements governing Aboriginal affairs must resume

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Watching Duped: Food Exposed Part 2 Watching 4Corners about worker exploitation in our food supply chains. I am devastated, angry, upset, shocked, shattered. Responsibility lies ultimately with businesses and governments. The whole system needs a rocket up its bum. Watch it @albomp.bsky.social

The travelling Nannas have visited some beautiful places, many threatened with mining, as well as established mining towns. knittingnannas.org/2026/08/04/t...

Travelling Nannas

Nanna Anne and the Little Nannas have travelled from a farm site in western NSW through Queensland, across the NT to the Kimberly in WA and south to Karratha.

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Burnhams track record suggests he has always supported the State of Israel, at the expense of the Palestinian people. youtu.be/qeA1qkuZ6VA?...

EXPOSED: What Andy Burnham Really Thinks About Palestine | Matt Kennard

YouTube video by Palestine Deep Dive

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The Australian Human Rights Commission’s National Anti-Racism Framework calls for consistency across all forms of racism … A minister asking a community not to compare is asking it not to perceive discrimination. pearlsandirritations.com/post/2026/08...

The government cannot ask Muslims not to compare

The government created a legitimate comparison when it appointed envoys for Islamophobia and antisemitism, and Muslim communities are entitled to ask whether both responses reflect equal protection.

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New blog post on Australia's response to water theft and the interesting relationship between punitive and restorative approaches to justice and relational repair. With @cristyclark.bsky.social and #RachelKillean www.slsa.ac.uk/post/punishi...

Punishing Water ‘Theft’ in the Climate Crisis

Climate change represents one of the most significant global challenges of our time, with far-reaching implications for environmental sustainability, economic development, public health, and social ju...

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Same.

Cristy Clark@cristyclark.bsky.social · 3d ago

I’m getting nervous about this summer - fires, extreme heat, etc.

Is the US military secretly killing our planet? www.thenewdaily.com.au/podcast/2026...

Is the US military secretly killing our planet?

It’s the largest institutional emitter in the world. A bigger polluter than 140 countries. And yet its emissions are hidden from sight.

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Every single second, the world hands $6,000 to the fossil fuel industry in subsidies. That’s $5 TRILLION every year. Renewables? Barely a fraction of that. We are literally paying to cook our own planet. When does this madness stop? 🌍💸 #ClimateCrisis #FossilFuels

"Government by organized money is just as dangerous as Government by organized mob." —FDR, 1936

So why isn't Fox news televising interviews of all the happy people who live near data centers so we can hear what a treat it is to live with the constant noise, lights, increased utility costs and non-existent new jobs?

I’m sorry I didn’t vote for this woman she should not be dictating rules to the government curtailing free speech

stranger@strangerous.bsky.social · 6d ago

Jillian Segal says her plan is to expand IHRA training “at scale” — to all govt depts & all businesses in the country — & be driven by a new taxpayer funded body - which she reveals is already in the works.😳 What the hell is going on?

More criminal behaviour from our catholic behemoths. moe_t9uk.api-02.moengage.com/v1/emailview...

Everywhere I look today I keep seeing: 1) deadly wildfires ripping through our communities 2) people desperately trying to get by as energy costs soar 3) record oil & gas profits When will we see that these three things are connected? www.wsj.com/business/ene...

Big Oil Is Reaping Rewards From the Chaos in Energy Markets

ExxonMobil’s earnings doubled and Chevron posted its highest quarterly earnings on record as energy prices soared during the prolonged closure of the Strait of Hormuz.

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McCarthyism has returned to the United States – and this time it’s even more dangerous Judith Levine www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

McCarthyism has returned to the United States – and this time it’s even more dangerous | Judith Levine

Trump’s campaign of repression echoes the red scare. But now the government has bigger ambitions and more powerful tools

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Considering how badly Covid was mishandled, they're probably going to regret the decision to make Fauci's personal diary and journal public. We're going to see how it was handled from the insider, from Fauci's point of view... based on you know...science.

Cyber attacks- Minnesota 😡👇🏼

"It would seem the church takes no issue profiting from the creativity of others, often or presumably queer, provided they control the narrative, reap the benefits, and we hide in the shadows." | Brendan de la Hay trib.al/e7Egkdp

Queer art and the moral panic over Divine Playhouse

With the shuttering of a new queer theatre in a former church, Sydney is suffering yet another moral panic.

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🇦🇺’Hanson will still be able to accept funding for overseas trips from Rinehart…Albanese will still be able to dine with cashed up donors…Taylor could still support factional manoeuvres inside the Liberal party with voters being none the wiser’ www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

Where is the money coming from? Albanese, Taylor and Hanson don’t want to talk about it – and that’s a problem | Tom McIlroy

As leaders dodged questions about fundraising activities this week, is it any wonder faith in politics is so low?

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Dr Assal Rad— “𝘊𝘳𝘢𝘤𝘬𝘴 𝘥𝘰𝘸𝘯 “Wow … What an insane way to describe an occupying military and militias TERRORIZING Palestinians. You might want to mention they shot a 10-year old.”

Robert Reich: There is no "sensible center" between democracy and oligarchy. #EndOligarchy

Australian former Socceroo and all-round excellent bloke, Craig Foster, on Infantino's outrageously corrupt power grab.

On NGUNNAWAL land - the beating ❤️ of our nation@kbincanb.bsky.social · 6d ago

Craig Foster had some words to say about this 'robbery' 👇 youtu.be/EKSjsA2jc8I?...

Epstein files aren't worth seeing or discussing, but Fauci's personal diary...? THERE's our new distraction. I'd listen to this remarkable woman.

Get this monstrous Zionist out of my country. Pay attention Albo!!! .