CNN reporting that the strikes on Iran tonight are joint US and Israeli strikes. Which means Donald Trump should be impeached for a third time. What he has done tonight is illegal under the US constitution and the UN charter.

US citizens’ support for Israel at historic low over Gaza genocide: Poll https://aje.news/l12jn5

"This is Europe’s new reality: under water in winter, withered in summer. Yet even as the weather extremes worsen, the voices of denial have grown louder and more influential." Check out the photos in this piece. www.theguardian.com/news/ng-inte...

Anthony Albanese called Grace Tame “difficult” in a News Corp word game. Donald Trump was merely “president”. Throughout history women who fight to better society get punished and labelled problems Men who are convicted criminals and whose policies kill are more likely to get a pat on the back

Contrary to Albanese’s word association games with the Murdoch press, I don't think Grace Tame is "difficult". She just doesn’t like dickheads and pedophiles, it's really quite simple.

never gets old ... from the great aaron sorkin, season 1 of the newsroom www.youtube.com/watch?v=EWQp...

Tapping the sign.

Along with a few other things we're seeing, this is the plot of Soylent Green

The rush towards the extinction of the planet’s life-support systems accelerates! “Oil giants record $467bn in profits since Russia's invasion of Ukraine” www.businessgreen.com/news/4526031...

Learning Management Systems (LMS) like Canvas (which have been embraced by higher education institutions around the world) are now useless in the face of AI cheating. Back to pen and paper and invigilated exams!: open.substack.com/pub/thecheat...

It never ceases to confound me just how many folks think the point of essays is to provide teachers with essays. That teachers just like, collect them, or need them for sustenance or something. Rather than the point of them being the *actual fucking act of learning how to think about shit*

When the climate and politics news gets too much (which is increasingly frequent now!) I retreat to my happy place - landscape and wildlife photography (www.instagram.com/chriswrightau )

Some day we'll all regret this & we'll hold hearings & rend garments & pledge "never again" & we'll be just as full of shit as we were last time.

The Virginia subs will never arrive. Their "delivery" is a ruse to get Aussie taxpayers to write cheques. Too bad for the Royal Australian Navy. #auspol "AUKUS is an industrial expansion pact. Australian funding flows into U.S. shipyard infrastructure now - not pledged for later, flowing now."

Excellent overview of the AI hype and its catastrophic social and environmental impacts by @billmckibben.bsky.social : open.substack.com/pub/billmcki...

Wow.

The presumed upcoming El Nino will help cement and quantify global warming acceleration, showing that 2C global warming is likely to be reached in the 2030s, not at midcentury. See Another El Nino Already? mailchi.mp/caa/another-... Also available on Substack: jimehansen.substack.com/p/another-el...

Fair comparison.

Nice simulation of the hellish climate that is coming over the next few decades - apparently this is all perfectly OK according to our corporate and political masters! www.theguardian.com/environment/...

a man in Oklahoma was speaking out against a data center in his community. He went a few seconds over time and the city had him arrested for trespassing

Under the divinely inspired guidance of the Texas GOP, UT's Board of Regents prescribes the Index of “unnecessary controversial subjects,” discussion of which is henceforth forbidden. With this, UT ceases to be a university, becoming instead a high school for the inculcation of MAGA cadres.

Fascism 101. All that's missing is the swastika.

Gaza death toll exceeds 75,000 as independent data verify loss aje.news/p6u50t

Despite Alcoa's appalling breach of law, Environment Minister Watt has "granted Alcoa a national‑interest exemption to allow the company to continue land clearing for its mining operations for 18 months", while a strategic assessment mining at its Huntly & Willowdale mining operations is completed🤯

Great Channel 4 News report on the latest #AMOC monitoring. "Trouble is: there is now growing scientific consensus that the AMOC is weakening." @noc.ac.uk youtu.be/JpOpsMOBsL4?...

3C is pushing the limits of adaptation and social stability - however corporate and political elites seem fine with this dystopian fossil fuels forever future! www.theguardian.com/environment/...

How about this example?

Oh dear. Sadly there’s never any grant money in just saying we should stop mining fossil carbon and care for country.

This is hands-down the best thing I’ve read on Epstein‘s worldview and those of his fellow tech, finance, and academic elite. It’s a rough read, but at least every paragraph is a banger. 🔥🔥🔥😭

Reminder that Francesca Albanese is not being targeted for a sentence twisted and lifted out of context in a speech. She is being targeted for daring to name the names of giant companies complicit in the crime of genocide. They would rather destroy international law than be accountable to it.

"among those wielding the darkest power, chaos and collapse is not something they fear but rather aim to create. Brexit debate, Trump, the Voice referendum, climate change, Israel’s genocide, and many other events involve one side which actively desires collapse – and is ready to profit from it."

No kidding.

The First Casualty of Trump’s Climate Action Repeal: The U.S. EV Transition insideclimatenews.org/news/1302202...

The newly Albo govt-approved Middlemount Coal Mine is jointly owned by Peabody & Yancoal Not to be confused with Glencore's Hail Creek Coal Mine which is also applying for an extension, & that will also kill koalas (probably more, 👀 next post) There're 42 Coal mines in the pipeline

The real leader of the Liberal Party is unchanged. #auspol

👇👇👇👇

working on my personal no-ai manifesto. what did i forget?

C'est ce qui nous attend si les fachos gardent le pouvoir

🤯🤯🤯 Full-on denial of reality. State capture by the fossil fuel lobby. The US descends into a banana republic. It would almost be funny if the consequences wouldn’t be so dire for billions of humans, if the courts don’t stop this folly soon. www.scientificamerican.com/article/epa-...

Nice analysis by Prof Dirk Matten exploring the rise of fascism as a management philosophy under techbros like Thiel, Zuckerberg et al: rdcu.be/e2MzS

Point of no return: a hellish ‘hothouse Earth’ getting closer: www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Israel used weapons in Gaza that made thousands of Palestinians evaporate: www.aljazeera.com/features/202...

“The world knows Israel possesses and uses these prohibited weapons,” Buttu said. “The question is why are they allowed to remain outside the system of accountability.”

No more protesting thanks, that's it wrap it up it's not cohesive. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

"Social cohesion is a scam, a strategy employed by the powerful to delegitimise and suppress the voices of the less powerful... If you are othered by powerful groups, you become the victim of cohesion, not the beneficiary; what you get from social cohesion is a punch from an armed official."

BOOM! 💥

Wtf did they think was going to happen when they invited a war criminal who signed bombs destined to annihilate children…a member of a govt already dividing Australians. It’s the govt people are protesting…not the people. …and we should always be able to protest governments no matter which ones.

He’s not wrong.