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3M knew for more than 50 years that its products could harm humans, Australian government alleges in court documents #Environment 🤬🤬

👇A US self-assessment of its shipbuilding industrial base👇! So exactly what due diligence did our Defence Department do prior to recommending we tie our national security to this industrial base? #AUKUS #reckless #auspol

None. #AUKUS was always driven from the top down and Labor finds itself at the pointy end of a nuclear loaded wedge, skillfully applied by Johnston to his hapless patsy Morrison. All sides of politics know it's the worst 'deal' ever and that it puts our sovereignty at risk. But, what to do? #auspol

Wow. Proponents of the ICE taser gloves are openly saying that one reason they love the gloves is that they doesn’t leave any marks or proof that they were used, making it harder for people to sue when they’re shocked excessively.

The Segal State: the office Australia never voted for Andrew Brown reports. Read it here: https://michaelwest.com.au/the-segal-state-the-office-australia-never-voted-for/

He tore down a wing of the White House and got stopped by a preservation society. Not the Army. Not Congress. A preservation society. Awesome. www.dworkinsubstack.com/p/great-news...

Blow after blow to the gambling industry’s already tattered social licence at this week’s Senate inquiry has not moved @albomp.bsky.social. He’s totally captured by this misery sector of the economy. #FailedLeadership #auspol www.afr.com/companies/ga...

Mega corporations like Anthropic are "buying physical books, slicing off the spines to more efficiently scan the pages, then pulping the remains". There are so many things that should be a stark warning about how #AI threatens humanity. "Destructive scanning" is the latest.

We mustn’t gift public money to a new refinery. If it needs a ‘resilience’ leg-up, it should be done by equity stake - with a senior official on the board to guard against price gouging, tax evasion and to ensure national interest is ever present. #auspol

The two ex-PMs who have made ill-advised comments supporting alleged war criminal BRS are the same two who gave George Pell character references: Howard and Abbott.

Demand growth from electrification -> we pay for a cleaner, safer grid Demand growth from data centres -> we pay for a dirtier, more harmful grid so that every single digital service and interaction becomes 5,000x worse immediately So incredibly lazy to pretend like these two are the same

“How lucky is the United States that everytime they look for democracy in other countries they find oil instead”- Spain Deputy Gabriel Rufián

Tonight's #abc730 featured this story on "a modern and broken kingdom where poverty is rife and rising further." One in 5 Britons are living in #poverty. Before feeling too smug, note that in Australia it's 1 in 7 households [1 in 6 children]. #RaiseTheRate #auspol www.abc.net.au/news/2026-04...

This is incredibly irresponsible journalism. You cannot write this headline without acknowledging all the times Elon Musk has promised to pay for things, then didn't. Let's take a stroll down memory lane. 🧵

Israel has crushed Unrwa in Gaza – and the rest of the world has done nothing | Philippe Lazzarini

Boycott their products

"When so much of politics today is devoid of courage, compassion, and principle, Abughazaleh's campaign came to symbolize all three."

There is no “rise of One Nation” there is just a “Splintering of the Menzies Liberals” A party that remains unlikely to win ANY seats in a 47 seat parliament is not a political force, no matter how hard billionaires & media chicken littles might be trying to convince us otherwise Our system works

Australians deserve open scrutiny of the AUKUS agreement and its implications for sovereignty, security, jobs and nuclear waste. A new public inquiry aims to examine questions the government and parliament have avoided, Doug Cameron writes. #auspol #AUKUS #Defence

ICYMI… theklaxon.com.au/jillian-sega...

Antisemitism Envoy Jillian Segal-funded disinformation network “Advance” is now attacking one of the nation’s best and most respected journalists, over doing his job and pointing out the bleeding obvious regarding Israel and the US. This is where we are, Australia’s MAGA.

🛑😟Jewish National Fund Australia (JNF Australia) has remitted more than $125.4m to Israel since 2009, according to financial records, while receiving $213m in tax-deductible donations since 2013. wtf? michaelwest.com.au/millions-in-...

1/2 In the 1920s and 1930s Britain tried to control opposition to its mandated rule in the Middle East and NW India through air power. The RAF justified its role after WWI by exaggerating the effectiveness of imperial ‘aerial policing’. www.theguardian.com/world/2026/m...

"This is Colossus: a data center that Musk’s artificial-intelligence company, xAI, is using as a training ground for Grok... if run at full strength for a year, Colossus would use as much electricity as 200,000 American homes" www.theatlantic.com/magazine/202...

I know I say this fairly often: people are right to complain concerts are too expensive, but they got that way because a lot of artists started to make almost no money out of their actual records. We have to look really hard at how we pay for music.

It's a simple way of putting it, but I hope the fact that one group of data centres powering one shitty, evil chatbot for one crappy little social media site undoing most or all of Tesla's entire global climate benefits puts in perspective how WILDLY bloated genAI is as software

Rep Jason Crow (D-CO): “I went to war three times for this country and learned that when elites in Washington bang the war drums, working class folks pay the price. The tough talk of a five-time draft dodger falls flat for Americans tired of military adventurism”

Albanese’s backing of Israeli and US attacks on Iran shows that we are completely devoid of acting independently from Trump and Netanyahu. There was a time when Labor pursued peace not war. That time is long gone. Leadership needed not sycophantic capitulation to militarism.

Nobody on earth wants to be “liberated” by the US right now, especially by this administration which will happily build resorts on the graves of the liberated and mine their bones for oil and minerals. We leave everything worse off than we found it. 1/2

From Jerusalem Post: "world leaders appeared to remain silent, with the only exception thus far being Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese. " How stupid can he be?

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Six articles. Six letters. Ten days. One question. Is Tim Wilson a protected species at Nine Media? The media response? Silence. Sympathy. Another platform. This is what that costs democracy. Full story here👇 #auspol #TimWilson open.substack.com/pub/suebarre...

My favorite part about Trump’s Super Bowl halftime rant is that it means even he didn’t watch the Kid Rock debacle

Polluting companies use advertising and sponsorships to buff their brands, and make themselves more acceptable – often even pretending to hold the solutions to the problems they caused Like the tobacco industry, big polluters denied the problem, then denied their responsibility, and now turn to PR

Jon Kudelka was not just the creator of the best tea towel in Australian history, and a great cartoonist and artists, but he was a superb friend, incredible husband and dad. Goddamn I will miss him

Vale, Jon Kudelka. And as always, Fuck Cancer.

can’t see federal Labor politicians dressed in the colours of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander flags to express their solidarity and collective outrage at this terrifying attack at a First Nations event. www.abc.net.au/news/2026-01...

www.ecoticias.com/en/australia... Leave it where it is!

"America is an oil company with an army." —George Carlin

The White House would like us to forget this, but we will not.

This new war is not only illegal, reckless and deeply corrupt, it is the latest in a series of increasingly desperate distractions from the EPSTEIN Files. #ImpeachAndConvict47NOW

It would be so cool if the United States Congress still existed.