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Home Affairs is negotiating to share Australians’ data with Trump’s US government. Did they tell the US it can’t go to Palantir? Doesn't sound like it from this!

Older people have been saying this for months. Labor's automation of aged care assessments has been a disaster, under-assessing need and priority, denying care and driving up waitlists. It's past time to bin the whole thing and put humans back in charge of decision-making.

🚨BREAKING: We have moved for a temporary restraining order and preliminary injunction enjoining Trump from continuing to unconstitutionally impose themselves upon election administration procedures that the Constitution and federal law assign to the States.

Crawford County, Arkansas, sits on the Oklahoma border and is home to an elected sheriff who runs the jail, patrols rural areas, and backs small-town police.

This seems like a big deal

Speaking of narcissists… Elon seems panicked his hundreds of millions to beat @jamestalarico are going up in expensive flames… 🔥 💰

What we already know is a Jess Wilson-led Liberal Party will scrap Victoria's Treaty process that's been 10 years in the making & ongoing That's sufficient information to take a decision Will public institutions, civic orgs & leaders committed to Walking with First Nations honour their commitment❓️

Apollo’s chief economist finds that there is still no measurable impact of AI adoption on corporate America outside of big tech. Revenue per employee and profit margins are rising for the Magnificent Seven but flat for the other 493 S&P 500 companies.

Shame we demolished it for a quick buck.

Your 'doom quote' for today: "It’s extraordinary to realise that we are witnessing the great unravelling; the beginning of the end of things. I honestly never thought I’d live to see the start of what sometimes feels like the apocalypse." www.climatecodered.org/2023/06/what...

"If university bots graded bots, you would no longer have a university. You’d have a tomb, an academic mausoleum in which digital phantoms murmured emptily" theconversation.com/friday-essay...

Scientists hooked up sensors to a mushroom’s bio-electric signals and turned its natural fluctuations into music 🎶🍄 Original post

theconversation.com/friday-essay... - “there exists in our contemporary situation a profound confusion of information with knowledge”.

"If the projections are anything to go by, Australia will export a total that will cause about 11 gigatonnes of emissions by 2031" writes @ketanjoshi.co Read the full piece on The Point: https://sbrew.link/WXZu9BvZ

I don’t even know what ketamine does but I’m guessing it looks a lot likes this.

"Ordinarily, moving historical items within the building is a deliberate process overseen by curators. Hegseth’s staff dispatched its own team to relocate an Eisenhower globe. They dropped it...The resulting gash appears to be several inches wide." wapo.st/3WF2YQo

The power infrastructure that caused NextDC's Australian data centre project to be delayed is *really* massive. Look at the size of these power poles relative to the homes. A neighbourhood now living inside a substation. And for what, exactly? www.afr.com/chanticleer/...

"Sydney Water - data centres to consume 25% of Sydney’s drinking water by 2035." Toxic water comes out the other end. Missing - obligations on disclosure and toxic waste Claudia Weisenberger #auspol michaelwest.com.au/waste-tsunam...

Talarico: "We just found out that [Elon Musk] is almost single-handedly bankrolling this effort to install Ken Paxton in the U.S. Senate and defeat this movement...Elon Musk wants our land. He wants our water. He wants his very own personal United States senator. He is trying to buy Texas."

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“we know that within about a year of those cuts at USAID, where they were literally burning food that had already been paid for that was going to starving children, 500,000 children died. So this is a really a crime against humanity.” - Alex Gibney, director of “Musk”, a documentary on Elon Musk

BRAZIL 🇧🇷: A judge ordered META to stop intentionally helping Bolsonaro (son of an insurrectionist) against Progressive President Lula. Tech oligarchs meddling with elections across the globe. www.nbcnews.com/world/south-...

🚨 EXCLUSIVE: No Kings organizer Ezra Levin SOUNDS ALARM after Meta suspended the movement’s Instagram during nationwide protests. LEVIN: “We might be seeing something similar from Meta in our country right now.” “We're not gonna stop organizing against this regime.”

No Kings response to Meta: “In the 24 hours before our account was shut down, we posted only a handful of times and livestreamed to thousands. Meta's "high-frequency" excuse doesn't add up…We need answers about why this happened & immediate action to ensure it never happens again.”

X is owned by Musk. TikTok is blocking the Musk movie account. Meta blocked the No Kings account. This is why Democracy Docket is not built on SubStack or any third-party platform that could one day turn against it. It costs more to operate but is worth it. Subscribe now. demdock.com/4w6emld

Google signs a deal to remove 20,932 tonnes of carbon from the atmosphere. That is 0.07% of their unadjusted emissions in one year (2025)

This disabled dog was spotted while trying to teach a pup with its same problem how to stand up on its own. Original post

Flock of lost sheep trots behind confused runner as she accidentally becomes their leader. Original post

🚨 ABC has announced 'SHAKEDOWN', their four-part Robodebt drama series based on @squigglyrick.bsky.social's book 'Mean Streak', will premiere November 22. Starring Kate Box, Justine Clarke and Mandy McElhinney:

Your 'moment of doom' for Oct. 14, 2026 ~ Winning? "This year, global sea level, global ocean heat content, worldwide glacier thickness, the mass of the Greenland ice sheet, and the atmospheric concentration of each of the three most common greenhouse gases are at record extremes."

"The warning lights are flashing."

Trump, Witkoff, Kushner, musk, are doing everything to help terrorist Russia murder Ukrainians. Siding with terrorists, restricting Starlink on top of funding genocide. This is beyond outrageous

The dystopia of data centre colonialism The Indonesian island of Batam has 1.3 million residents who rely on freshwater collected in reservoirs As severe water shortages impact daily lives & livelihoods, Batam hosts 2 operational DCs, has 8 more approved & 6 under review for approval Insanely...

Your 'bonus moment of doom' for today: "Scientists are coming under pressure from some petro-states and major developing countries to delay publication of a key global report on the climate, despite pleas from vulnerable countries worried that postponement could spell disaster for them."

One Nation saying they will work to remove Labor but also they will impose policy conditions on supply and confidence to L-NP. So what will they do if L-NP does not accept their conditions? #springst www.news24.com.au/politics/aus...

Over the past two years, at least 44 governors, 70 US senators and 185 members of the House and their staffs and families have been subject to threats of violence, according to @nytimes.com investigation. @nytnickc.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2026/10/11/u...