Climate disaster and record fossil fuel profits because of a war? How did that happen! www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
War! What is it good for? Absolutely humongous oil company profits | First Dog on the Moon
Mission accomplished
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Labor's plans to fix the housing crisis aren't touching the sides. In a nation-wide housing catastrophe, we need rent caps and a massive long term boost in public investment in good quality homes, renting them to people at prices they can actually afford.
The same here in Australia. Our Labor Party is beyond a joke pandering to corp interests on everything: environment, gambling laws, heaps of new data centres, salmon farming, and more. They also pander to zionist and US interests. They barely🤏 represent their voters and members or us generally.
Almost everyone who wants a revolution has a very specific perception of who will fall and who will rise. Revolutions, when they come, are notorious for how they do not follow the plan.
Yes. We do not study the past with a view to feelgood vibes. Sometimes we encounter events and people that do that, but it is not the *purpose* of serious or just basically honest study.
Armchair Classicist (Ryan Schaller)@armchairclassicist.bsky.social · yesterdayTruth. #History
*“You couldn’t make Blazing Saddles today” is the rallying cry of people who think politically correct cancel culture is a major force in American society even as the U.S. slides deeper and deeper into Christian-nationalist fascism* www.currentaffairs.org/news/mel-bro...
Mel Brooks, Antifascist Filmmaker
Now 100 years old, the legendary comedy director has lampooned and skewered racists, and his work holds up better than most “politically incorrect” humor.
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Article headline and copy has the correct term 'deny'. Why does the @news.abc.net.au post replace it with the completely incorrect and misleading word 'refute'? #auspol
ABC News Australia@news.abc.net.au · 2d agoSportsbet, TAB refute claims account managers offered to supply illicit drugs
a spokesperson for the Attorney-General Michelle Rowland said Australia was a longstanding supporter of the #ICC: "We respect the court's independence and the important role it plays in upholding international law" So why does your govt continue to suck up to a regime that does not? #auspol
ABC News Australia@news.abc.net.au · 2d agoUS vows to dismantle International Criminal Court. Experts say it's 'very worrying'
Albo doesn’t give a toss ‼️
The Point@thepointau.bsky.social · 2d agoThe party says a pause would give Canberra time to establish rules about issues such as energy use, water consumption, emissions and community impacts before any more large-scale projects get the green light. Read the full piece on The Point: thepoint.com.au/new/260803-g...
"Capitalism is the most efficient system of resource allocation" 🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡
More Perfect Union@moreperfectunion.bsky.social · last wk.AI is making everyone's life more expensive, according to CNN. "Households must spend just over $375 more to purchase the same goods and services as they did this time last year due to AI’s inflationary impact,” Mark Zandi, chief economist at Moody’s Analytics, says. www.cnn.com/2026/07/28/e...
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Think our basic rights are safe? In the age of oligarchs and corporate lobbying, think again | George Monbiot
The global assault on our freedoms is coming ever closer to home. Just look at the sinister prosecution of UK lawyer Rajiv Menon, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot
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Meanwhile I’ll keep following Independent Journalism & watching & sharing The Sunday shot to as many in my world as I can & as an anxious Victorian I’m taking @kkarapanagiotidis.bsky.social advice.
Peter Murphy@peterwmurphy1.bsky.social · 2d agoWhen Pauline Hanson bans journalists from some media outlets from her pressers, why don't the journalists from ALL the other outlets simply walk out in solidarity, and refuse to report anything she has to say? No radio, television, newspaper or online reporting. None. #auspol #JournalismIsNotACrime
NSW Police can already use Israeli-made Cellebrite technology to extract the entire contents of your phone. Now the NSW Government wants to expand those powers. Privacy surrendered in the name of safety is never returned. #auspol
Minns Labor Government to introduce new powers for police and Crime Commission targeting organised crime
The Minns Labor Government will introduce a new package of laws designed to target the modern operating model of organised crime and give NSW Police and the NSW Crime Commission stronger tools to disr...
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Far-right-wingers aren't banned from Bluesky, obviously. It's just that the main thing they want to do here is be unpleasant to the rest of us, and we've proactively made sure they can't. That's not a bubble; that's civilisation ostracising deliberate assholes. That's NORMAL.
Truly startling - across swathes of England and Wales, dozens weather stations recorded ZERO rainfall in July, for the first time in their history www.newscientist.com/article/2583...
Parts of the UK endure first ever month without any rain | New Scientist
For the first time since records began, there was no rain at all for parts of southern England and Wales in July, in a “truly exceptional” month of heat and sunshine
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It gets worse. Taxpayers contribute to fire departments and police departments and yet they hope they'll never need them!
USA TODAY Opinion@usatodayopinion.usatoday.com · 3d agoOpinion: Mamdani's idea may sound appealing, but it's NYC taxpayers who will take the hit, subsidizing discounts they may never even use.
Sarah Hanson-Young left gobsmacked as ACMA admits they provide no policy advice on gambling ads, or how to tackle the harm of inducements, bcoz it’s a “matter of policy - for govt” SHY “But policy is based on advice...”💥 Not just toothless, also muzzled.
'‘Social cohesion’ has been bandied about for a long time: the Sydney Morning Herald declared it under threat as far back as 1851 ... But if you look at Proquest or other databases of AUS media, you find that, from about 2024, the term’s usage spiked massively.' www.deepcutnews.com/p/why-social...
Why 'social cohesion' is a dangerous phrase in Australian politics – Jeff Sparrow
The establishment loves this phrase. But as Ed Husic found out, imposing consensus from the top isn't democracy – it's erasure.
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See? Israel *is* the most civilised country in the middle east! Courts blocking crocodile filled moats for Palestinian prisons, because of animal welfare issues.
worm@rfksbrainworm.bsky.social · 2d agothe onion ass headline
A bunch of people with vague symptoms are going to die of heart attack because 'they didn't want to bother anyone over nothing' in response to this request: www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
Australia news live: NSW premier asks public to avoid busy hospitals unless ‘your life might be in danger’
Follow live
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You can't defeat the right by trying to out-cruel them
Zack Polanski@zackpolanski.bsky.social · 3d agoVery disappointing from the new Prime Minister, very much sounding like the previous PM. These are among the world’s most vulnerable and desparate people. They need safe routes and humanity from responsible politicians, not grandstanding. This isn’t doing politics differently.
Hello I have made this due to a mutual having issues with some folks on here forgetting this fact and shouting at him for it. Feel free to use it as a handy PSA x
The political right in Australia used the same talking points after the Black Summer Bushfires, with two additions: the fires were the work of arsonists and/or the Greens for curbing forestry activities, and "Australia is a land of extremes, it has always burned. What of it?"
Dr. Genevieve Guenther (she/they)@doctorvive.bsky.social · 3d agoThis (from the @wsj.com Editorial Board) distills every denialist trope there is: It implies climate change isn’t exacerbating extreme weather. It calls solutions “costly … nostrums.” It fosters doomerism. And it suggests we can just adapt to or “manage” climate impacts. How is this journalism?
We taught Miles how to ride a bike today. We also had to deal with an old man mad that we had them practicing in a school parking lot while he drove his monster truck. Once again, kids exist and have a right to take up space. Also, get rid of those damn monster trucks. None of you need that.
not just buried in Australia, but buried in every foreign jurisdiction that is taking the same ugly shortcuts to avoid real regulation of tech. Hello Norway :)
Ben Schwarz@benschwarz.bsky.social · 3d agoAustralia’s eSafety commissioner buried a report (released Friday afternoon) that shows the under 16 social media ban didn’t tangibly reduce teen social media use, and also resulted in parents tuning out of kids usage. We traded our privacy for no reason. theconversation.com/more-than-80...
