Feeling very fortunate to have been able to spend the last week at a fibre arts workshop with a fabulous group of women and the amazing Claire Wellesley Smith. This piece of my stitched work is the truest representation of the experience. Missing everyone who was there already 💕🥰🧵🪡🧶

I check Facebook 1-2x a month for family stuff. Turns out a few days ago my dad made a long post begging for understanding about trans people by his fellow boomers. Last paragraphs are below. Dad doesn’t always get it 100% right. He doesn’t need to. He loves and defends me; that’s all that matters

I find I have nothing to add…

Every creature needs a hug, sometimes Original post

Abdul El-Sayed on capitalism: “I’m capitalist who just knows about capitalism. I have a bad habit of reading, I’m so sorry.”

Absolutely nothing describes the right wing better than this… #auspol

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · yesterday

Kevin Hassett on Fox News argues that if you exclude the sectors that lost hundreds of thousands of jobs, "you actually had a number that was about plus 100,000" 🙃

So much this. I happened to say Pauline was a misogynist the other day, only to have someone who heard me tell me how wrong I was and that I ‘needed to look up the meaning of misogyny’. To which I, of course, said “I don’t need to, the meaning is personified right there. 😳 🤪 #auspol

Ben Eltham@beneltham.bsky.social · 3d ago

Excellent analysis here from Blair

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

theguardian.com

Europe shuts nuclear power plants due to drought. Now imagine putting nuclear power plants on the driest inhabited continent on earth 🙄

THIS 👇 HERE, AS WELL.......

This is the kind of ‘vibe’ that I want to get behind! Not the other crap that the One Nationites are peddling #auspol

Abdul El-Sayed@abdulelsayed.bsky.social · 3d ago

Money out of politics. Money in your pocket. Medicare for All. Michigan... We won. I am so proud to be your Democratic nominee for US Senate. Let's win in November.

Politics feels corrupt because it is. Billionaire mega-donors aren’t just buying yachts and jets — they’re buying power, and they’re using that power to rig our political system. jamestalarico.com/issue/corrup...

The Coalition can't win the next election without joining One Nation and today one of the Liberal Party's front benchers has confirmed that's their plan.

Fantastic environmental news!

The Point@thepointau.bsky.social · 4d ago

"For the first time since red imported fire ants were discovered in Australia 25 years ago, we have genuine reason for optimism” writes Reece Pianta, Advocacy Director at the Invasive Species Council. Read the full piece on The Point: thepoint.com.au/opinions/260...

El-Sayed: There is so much more that unites us, however much we might disagree with our democratic opponent, there is so much more that unites us than divides us. And so to all of our supporters here tonight watching on TV—tomorrow, we begin to mend fences.

he ran against the full force of the zionist establishment and won. unbelievable victory

Someone tell me again that war isn’t all about profiteering? Nothing at all about nuclear weapons, or safety or religion or - the best one of all - immigration. It’s about making up reasons for the rich to get richer. #auspol

Damian Carrington@dpcarrington.bsky.social · 5d 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...

Definitely on board for this. Mostly because she’s going to hate it 😂 #auspol

Pup Fiction@pupfiction.bsky.social · 4d ago

We should call her the Ginger Whinger like we called him Scotty From Marketing

Hahaha - on any train in Oz - this is what you’d get. 🤣

Ben Eltham@beneltham.bsky.social · 4d ago

Good old Sydney

theaimn.net/the-weaponis... Segal “…has no legislative power to compel any institution to do anything. Her role is advisory. Yet Segal’s demanded sweeping legal & institutional changes that were never debated in Parliament. As one commentator noted, “This isn’t policy, it’s a Kafkaesque nightmare.”

The Weaponisation of Antisemitism

The Weaponisation of Antisemitism – How an Unelected Envoy and a Contested Definition Are Silencing Healthcare Workers Dedicated to healthcare workers around the world who take a stand against genocid...

theaimn.net

Go! do this!

3wombats@3wombats.bsky.social · 5d ago

I just signed a petition: Australia's biggest ocean protection opportunity in 10 years.. Sign here: www.saveourmarinelife.org.au/actions/prot...

Have run away from home for a 5-day stitching, textiles, creative workshop. A bit strange for introvert me to choose to hang out with complete strangers, but the chance to work with Claire Wellesley Smith was too enticing. Pleased to say after Day 1, that I am as happy as a wee piggy in mud. 😁🧵💕

Hit the nail on the head.

𝕊𝕦𝕟𝕕𝕒𝕖 𝔾𝕦𝕣𝕝@sundaedivine.lol · 6d ago

Every conversation I’ve had with my MAGA relatives for the last ten years distilled into three sentences.

Shame I’m up in Central Victoria right now - would have been there in a heartbeat. Tell me when the next one’s on - I have a banner and plenty of anti-fascist fight in me! 😁 #auspol

stranger@strangerous.bsky.social · 5d ago

Victorians turn out in massive numbers to denounce Pauline Hanson’s “racism and fascism” — swarming her fundraiser to demand she get out of the state.💥 This should be the greeting she gets everywhere she peddles her hate. Well done Victoria. #auspol

Politicians can spout all kinds of excuses, but everyone knows rich people donate to politicians for access and influence. And most of us think it shouldn’t happen www.abc.net.au/news/2026-08...

Voters are starting to ask a new question about politics, money

Debate about money in politics has traditionally revolved around whether politicians have broken the rules. But voters are increasingly asking what good judgement looks like.

abc.net.au

BREAKING: Capital One bank closed Trump’s accounts in 2021 over money laundering, per a new court filing. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Capital One Cites Money Laundering Review in Trump-Related Suit

Capital One Financial Corp. said in a court filing late Friday that it closed accounts belonging to President Donald Trump’s sprawling real estate company in 2021 for legitimate reasons after an inter...

bloomberg.com

Fauci IS a hero. Fact is, none of these idiots have any comprehension of what drives a person to spend 50 years of their life studying, researching & becoming expert in stopping the things that KILL us. The concept of selflessness is so foreign to them, they invent stupid theories to account for it.

Christopher Webb@cwebbonline.com · last wk.

Performative bullshit. Fauci is a hero. Besides, they’re trying to ban an 85-year-old retiree from a job he already left.

JB PRITZKER Said These Words Yesterday, July 31 2026.......👏🏻

Orchids revived, the corpse ambulant and a poetic ruined abbey. These are the news stories I want to read.

A win! The Department of Justice has withdrawn all criminal charges against three-time U.S. Olympic canoeist David “Davey” Hearn.