everyone please check on your adhd friends; they’re probably solving problems that didn’t exist when they woke up

Editorial: Tell me Australia, which is worse: signing bombs or making anti-bomb signs? preview.mailerlite.io/emails/webvi...

ABC reporting Albanese was in Boorloo today and “did not have time” to meet with Noongar elders. In his defence, Albanese said he had been to funerals of police in Queensland and Melbourne and sat with people in Bondi ie members of groups who consistently commit and support lethal racist violence.

This study from Sweden is interesting. It says that the gender ration in Autism diagnoses disappears with age in Sweden, and it's therefore likely to be a question of why the diagnosis rate is low amongst young girls, not a real gender difference. www.scimex.org/newsfeed/aut...

A tiny antibody just exposed the coronavirus’s secret weak spot — and crushed it. 🧬 This could be the start of a universal coronavirus shield. #ScienceBreakthrough #COVID19 #Biotech #Antibody #FutureOfMedicine #ViralScience #MedSky

Cops were frequently getting caught planting drugs in 2017 because body cameras were new and many of them didn't understand how the technology worked. When cops hit "record" it saved the 30 seconds from *before* they hit the button. Eventually, they figured it out.

“Australia must comply with its legal obligations and investigate Isaac Herzog for genocide, crimes against humanity, and war crimes. Those responsible must be held to account. “Justice for Palestinians cannot wait.” 🙏Please sign🙏: www.amnesty.org.au/if-australia... bsky.app/profile/mich...

The Australian Centre for International Justice and Palestinian legal organisations have called on the AFP to investigate Israeli president Isaac Herzog over his alleged role in inciting genocide against the Palestinians in the Gaza Strip. Herzog is here 8-12 February. Tense times. #auspol

As Israel’s President visits Australia, genocide continues in Gaza and serious legal concerns remain unanswered. We’re calling on the government to uphold Australian and international law: Detain and investigate Isaac Herzog. ✍️ Add your name getup.to/M9qotGCXBEtv

Good piece this, on what happened in the House of Commons yesterday. Which was more important (and damaging to the Prime Minister) than a lot of people will have realised.

Two Human Rights Watch employees—the group’s entire Israel-Palestine team—resigned after senior staffers blocked a report calling Israel’s denial of Palestinian refugees’ right of return to their homeland a crime against humanity. www.commondreams.org/news/hrw-pal...

We moved in the Senate for the Albanese government to withdraw the invitation to Israel’s President Herzog to visit Australia. He has literally signed bombs used in the genocide in Gaza. Labor, the Liberals and One Nation joined together to vote it down. That tells you everything

⛓️CONCENTRATION CAMPS & INCINERATORS—D.H.S. is setting up a huge network of camps. They are converting the U.S. as a region for ‘expeditionary military deployment’ & no-bid no-public-comment contracts to build a “ghost network” of 10,000-person concentration camps. Jesus. Thread 🧵

Being dead would have provided a much simpler basis for cancelling Freeman's disability benefit, requiring no change to the law.

“You would have thought that the government would have learnt from the disgusting Robodebt saga. But again and again we see the government going back to shoddy automation systems,” writes Matt Grudnoff, Senior Economist at The Australia Institute. Read more on The Point: https://theaus.in/4kmAHGb

Apropos of nothing but the NGO industrial complex wholly capturing activism is in fact bad and why the left (broadly speaking) is in the state it is in.

Read the full report ⤵️ thepoint.com.au/off-the-char...

"The Victorian Government has announced that suitably trained GPs will soon be able to diagnose and treat ADHD in both adults and children."

Okay troublemakers, punks, antifa supervillains, and anyone who just enjoys being a petty little shitbird while they fuck up the algorithm of a massive media corp. Here's your assignment for the weekend. Get on it and spread the word.

Looking at the list of 19 new CBS News commentators, the median number of times they appear in the searchable Epstein database is 2 and the mean is 100

“What is that in your bed?” “It’s a puffball mushroom I foraged.” “Why is it there?” “I was worried it had got cold and sad.” “But you’re going to eat it soon anyway.” “The fact that we all have to die at some point doesn’t mean we should not live well, in comfort, before that."

GOES THE WEASELS

Germany Declares ‘National Decade’ to Solve the Mystery of Long Covid and ME/CFS. rtvonline.com/english/inte...

AI doing what AI creativity does best I guess. edition.cnn.com/2026/01/28/t...

(Bursting through the wall like the Kool-Aid Man, frantically waving a copy of “Reading Weird Fiction in an Age of Fascism”)

And Maree airport has hit 49.5c today already Smashing the old record by 1c from 25/1/24 #Heatwave

JUST IN: Judge Schiltz cancels Friday’s contempt hearing but lights into ICE, saying the agency may have violated more court orders this month than many others have in their entire existence. “ICE is not a law unto itself.”

France will ban public officials from using American platforms including Google Meet, Zoom and Teams for videoconferencing, according to a spokesperson.

Aus media calling Nazi marches “anti-immigration” is at least marginally better than calling them “frustrated mums and dads” I guess? Baby steps, you know?

“Good leaders put people before profit.” I’ve watched this a few times now and always see something relevant to #nzpol, and myriad issues mentioned that NZ Greens have policy ready to go to address - people before profit.

recently, 2 emt trainees provided care when a goon had a seizure. he promptly detained them after he was stabilized.

I think it's good to keep getting mad about evil and unjust things, if only to remind yourself and everyone else that these things are in fact evil and unjust. I don't think it's naive. Nor is it wise and sophisticated to adopt a "You fool, nothing matters and nothing good can ever happen" posture

It's a good day to stop using Hootsuite and tell them why.

If this is true it's only a matter of time before the Trump administration uses this on protesters and other political enemies. They have no moral or ethical lines to cross. Archive to get around the paywall: archive.is/t5hBr

They're Trying To Sneak Israel's President Into Australia Without Anti-Genocide Protests Really think about what that means, and what it says about Australia as a country. www.caitlinjohnst.one/p/theyre-try...

Another friend put it to me like this: "ICE has made the classic Nazi mistake. They've invaded a winter people in the winter."

It's likely that a few Australian MPs just lost their eligibility to be in that role.

sneaking out 'every critical ecosystem is on a pathway to collapse (confidence rating HIGH)' makes me think about al gore and his movie from, like 18 years ago, what was it called. anyway

Insane — a French judge says Trump’s goons tried to pressure her over Le Pen’s prosecution and she was so “taken aback” she told the French foreign office “There’s a political project behind all this and we must be vigilant”

I, too, want to celebrate the police banning former neo-Nazis from entering Sydney's CBD for specific periods of time BUT doesn't this establish a precedent that can then be used to stop NSW Socialist, & Palestine Action protest organiser, Josh Lees from participating in future actions in the city?

ICE got plenty of money when Chuck Schumer folded and now they're saying fuck you. What a shock. If anyone continues to fund the government at the end of the month they are Republican.

"I’ll add right up front that nobody sane now thinks the answer to abuses at Dachau was to give the guards more training." Essential reading from Andrea Pitzer, and while you're at it, also read her book ONE LONG NIGHT: A GLOBAL HISTORY OF CONCENTRATION CAMPS.

New study shows that tariffs continue to work the way tariffs work.

Australian officials are currently trying to scheme up ways to sneak the president of Israel into the country for a visit without him getting confronted by massive anti-genocide protests. Read that again. When you are doing things like this, you're on the wrong side of history.

ICE has only 300 followers and more than 90k blocks since it arrived on Bluesky:

Modern search engines are for the most part a pale shadow of what we had before 2020. That said, I do appreciate that it is now possible to search for "The The" and get meaningful results. Not so much "Download" though. How do I find their music?

A girl can dream 💔

The NYT has a new video analysis of Renee Good's shooting which is careful, accurate, and clear - he walked across the path of a moving car, then leaned in and shot her with his feet well clear of the vehicle. 1/

People’s favourite fan theory that Trump will call off the midterms has an incredibly strong reality shield. Unlike committing war crimes and breaking international law he has no mechanism to call off mid terms. He’ll send ICE to “ensure fair elections”, and he’ll refuse to accept results.