Today, thank you to all the wildlife rescuers who spend tireless hours (and so many dollars) out there rescuing native wildlife xoxox @nickmcgowan.bsky.social @stevedimopoulos.bsky.social @victorianlabor.bsky.social #wildliferescue #animalrescue #nativewildlife #ducks #quails #banhunting

I don’t romanticize Franklin’s father, a dishonest anti-Semitic warmonger. But he was a mensch compared to the dim sadistic vanity of his son, a grotesque from whose mouth the term “faith” becomes an insult to the genuinely faithful. This is craven, on-your-knees groveling before power, 60 Minutes.

Another postcard from the Apocalypse. Going to share wildlife mass casualty events under the tag #PostcardsFromTheApocalypse even though it's long AF.

There was once an enslaved man who stole a Confederate ship and sailed his a bunch of families to Union controlled waters & got everyone free. Then he fought as a soldier in the Union Army. Then he was elected to US House of Representatives. Robert Smalls was born 187 years ago today

WSJ has a piece on the merchant sailors stuck aboard ships inside Hormuz. There are 20,000 of them (many from less privileged nationalities), effectively held hostage and running out of food. www.wsj.com/world/middle...

Free or not free, if the bus is not running today, you can't catch it. In Melbourne and in regional towns, dozens of buses don't run 7 days a week, including some routes serving major shopping centres.

An Egyptian programmer has created a page dedicated to each victim of the Palestinian genocide. So far, he has recorded 72,000 names. Each light point represents a victim and, by clicking on it, you will see their name and date of birth. You can filter by age. bkhmsi.github.io/i-am-not-a-n...

Turns out we actually needed renewables to firm fossil fuels for when the ship doesn't sail and the pipeline doesn't flow.

Hopping mad: the easter bunny might be popular right now, but feral bunnies are on the rampage again around Australia and funding for new biocontrol measures is running out. www.thesaturdaypaper.com.au/news/environ...

you gotta pay the treat tax

And I can just imagine how he ran his department: according to a draconian interpretation of Public Service policy that prevented staff having opinions that they disclose to colleagues or put in writing (e.g. E-mail, social media) to *anyone* if they deviate in the least from govt policy.

Art created to help Papunya children read in their language goes on display at National Library of Australia www.abc.net.au/news/2026-04...

It's now legal to shoot small cute stubble quails in Victoria. For the next 87 days. It's dark when sh0oting begins, how can the gunm3n possibly see who they're shooting at in this light. #banquailshooting #quails #banhunting #banduckshooting @stevedimopoulos.bsky.social @victorianlabor.bsky.social

How the radicalised Right uses the idea of “civilisation” is code. One of my favourite amateur writers messaged me to say this about my latest: “That piece was so well written I had to read it twice in case I'd missed something.” I hope you’ll read it too. #Auspol open.substack.com/pub/lucyham2...

I swear Saruman had less cartoonishly evil politics

Amidst everything else, the Trump regime has quietly killed off the U.S. Forest Service 🌲 “One hundred and ninety-three million acres of your national forests… just handed, on a silver platter, to the people who’ve spent their entire careers trying to destroy it.” www.hatchmag.com/articles/tru...

just one more reason to love them

Penny Wong doesn’t think Australians will notice she’s shaping a different message on different platforms while actually saying very little

detailed account of racist NSW police violence against people who comprehend that it is wrong to be feting the Israeli president as Israelis incinerate people across the region they occupy - and what you can do >> www.sydneycriminallawyers.com.au/blog/nsw-pol...

And there it is.

Penny Wong on the Nazi site shilling for Trump

It appears the Prime Minister is lying about Australia’s involvement in the war #auspol

“The last night I was a pediatric resident, a child came in with Hib and promptly died by the next day. I didn’t work for 50 years to have everything destroyed by one man.” -Dr. Kathryn Edwards, Vanderbilt University This is what RFK Jr. and the anti-vaxxers have wrought.

Experts with specialised knowledge of the endangered swamp skink are raising the alarm about planned burns by DEECA and Forest Fire Management-Victoria around Lorne, off the Great Ocean Road. au.news.yahoo.com/fear-for-rar...

Thousands of orphaned baby flying foxes are dropping dead around the Top End following a mass starvation event. Now already exhausted rescue volunteers have been brought to tears by a territory government decision about their future. au.news.yahoo.com/aussie-commu...

Tony Abbott is back in Budapest networking with some of the worst people: together they’re drumming up fear about race suicide, making people hate immigrants. Any life that isn’t 👶🍼👶🍼 - including girls getting higher ed, careers, will be suppressed. open.substack.com/pub/lucyham2... #Auspol

NEW: Aaron Szabo, the Trump EPA official leading an effort to loosen rules on methane pollution, was an unnamed author of key oil industry arguments against those same rules just four years ago when he was an oil and gas lobbyist, metadata shows.

USAID, now US Forest Service. They keep demolishing institutions that were deeply problematic, but nowhere near as awful as their erasure. I think this is big, bad news, the real news of the day, not that nothing-to-see-here speech.

Traditional owners say a $450,000 fine will not replace the six centuries-old giant trees illegally felled by NSW Forestry Corporation.

#climatecrisis #auspol www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

I want to honour my lovely friend Evelyn Adams - wise founder of @transitionfidalgo.bsky.social - by sharing her beautiful story with a hummingbird: 1/7🧵 “So there I was, up in the Jonagold pruning branches, when an Anna’s hummingbird suddenly joined me. I welcomed her and pruned on, puzzled….

Australian Nursing and Midwifery Federation, and Health Services Union are each calling for targeted support for their members - nurses, midwives, and health, aged care and disability workers. See attached statements #WorkforceMatters #AusPol

A limp beige soggy nothingfuckingburger #AddressToTheNation

I'm so embarrassed by him #AddressToTheNation

U.N. investigator Francesca Albanese is seen by her supporters as a rare and forceful voice piercing the cone of silence and indifference that has fallen over Gaza. This has earned her powerful enemies.

“We are here today to give back to millions of Cubans what they taught us as they sent out doctors, teachers, and vaccines out to the most remote corners of the world.” Read more from Gerardo Pisarello in CounterPunch.

Yesterday @drilledmedia.bsky.social published my story looking at Australian defence and foreign policy thinktanks advocating for increased gas production as part of a broader, regional geopolitical strategy, all the while taking money from the US and Japan. Here are the key points. /n

New review in for SURJ cultural strategist Beth Howard's upcoming book, Song for a Hard-Hit People: A Memoir of Antiracist Solidarity from a Coal Miner's Daughter. The book is out on April 21 but you can pre-order your copy now! www.coffeetreebooks.com/product-page...

And yet, two major scientific organisations saw no issue posing for photos (at different events/meetings) with Barnaby and Pauline, and then sharing these in posts of theirs on LinkedIn.

The fuel crisis is putting pressure on workers who rely on car travel and those that meet with vulnerable clients, with fresh calls for front-line support staff to be exempt from any future fuel rationing mandates.

Hey Oz, if you don’t want the US crew of a plane that appears to have just deported people to Myanmar laying over in your country, now is the time to tell your government. bsky.app/profile/jjin...

Thai undertakers are driving corpses around to prove their fuel needs. US soft power is dead. www.straitstimes.com/asia/se-asia...

U.S. Secretary of the Interior Doug Burgum will convene a rare meeting tomorrow of the Endangered Species Committee, who could roll back existing environmental protections by exempting companies from the Endangered Species Act, paving the way for oil and gas projects throughout the Gulf of Mexico.

I don't know that anyone is fully prepared for what lies ahead. We have some truly tough times ahead of us.

The Claremont Institute is a hive of the faux-intellectual worst of everything awful around Trump. Anti-democratic, militant, bigoted in every way, the presence there of this Australian “journalist” and far right influencer is a chance to make contacts we really don’t need. #Auspol

Most progressives still think the system just needs tweaking to protect our comforts. The left knows there must be massive change to reverse the astounding damage done by the neoliberal architecture of influence and the thing that did trickle down: ideas, ideology.

Kakadu residents whose homes have been submerged by roof-high floodwater said they feel like they've been forgotten, with evacuation centres and relief payments not made available to them.

Might be the greatest opening paragraph of anything ever.

The Prairieland verdict opens the door for further attacks against protesters as well as warping and altogether manufacturing evidence as a means for this administration to crush them. unicornriot.ninja/2026/protest...