Put it down. My @smh @theage cartoon.

Australian COVID-19 weekly stats update: The risk estimate rose slightly, to 0.1% “Currently Infectious”, or 1-in-1,083. That implies a 3% chance that someone is infectious in a group of 30. #COVID19 #SARSCoV2 #Australia 🧵

‘Much has been made about the rebirth of gutter antisemitism and racism within the conservative movement. There’s been less public alarm about the resurgence of unapologetic misogyny.’ Gift article: Republican Women Suddenly Realize They’re Surrounded by Misogynists www.nytimes.com/2025/12/09/o...

Anyone getting their Covid vaccine this season: Make sure you are getting the updated vaccine! For 2025-2026 it is LP8.1 This provides you the best protection available against some of the most recent variants #StillCoviding #CovidIsntOver #MaskUp

The above package about the Epstein Elites, kind of goes hand in hand with this about Murdoch-Trump elites.. www.youtube.com/watch?v=pbOi...

Kerry O'Brien on courageous Palestinian journalists and the murder of so many by Israel is remarkable. Because almost no-one in our craven mainstream media has ever said it publicly. "no reasonable citizen of the world has been able to look away", says O'Brien. But too many journos do just that.

Vaccines save lives

🔥🔥🔥’Allowing the opposition to set the national agenda has provoked an absurd situation that is debasing national politics, stymying important decisions and distracting us from the issues that really need to be addressed…’ @juliannes.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Tim Snyder: “As corruption comes to seem normal, citizens lose trust in one another. As basic institutions are scorned and destroyed, people cease to believe in the law. The material which builds a nation -- moral, institutional, economic -- starts to give way.”

Political historian @timothysnyder.bsky.social on the inevitable failure of Trump and Vance's attempt at an authoritarian state. What comes after them will either be rescue by the American people, or the collapse of the United States. open.substack.com/pub/snyder/p...

“Forget net zero, we need to talk about a jobs boom” (But us ALP Govt listening?) www.thenewdaily.com.au/opinion/2025...

Best read of the week on US politics open.substack.com/pub/snyder/p...

Scott Ludlam wrote a few things a few years back on “state capture” and it really sums up Australia’s craven giveaway of fossil fuel resources to foreign corps

IMF analysis confirming the blatantly obvious that the supply chain blocks causing the inflation of 2022, are not solved by strategies to limit demand, such as interest rate hikes. Gareth Hutchens reporting excellent as always.

TheTrump Admin continues to violate the law with impunity, latest being its refusal to release funds to support SNAP, while Republicans refuse to even turn up to work, the media acts like it’s business as usual This 👇 substack.com/@xplicitpoli...

Far too many critically important projects miss out on vital funding and far too many brilliant Australian scientists scramble to survive in their careers This👇is VITALLY important and LONG overdue

add a home battery and an EV and most households would never need to pay a petrol bill ever again. www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

"more than 90 per cent of the time we are indoors, be at home, office, school … so it is indoor air which is the most important for our health. "This is the problem right now — we must establish indoor air quality standards, and mandate those standards." www.abc.net.au/news/science...

Must-read davidjohntyler.substack.com/p/the-worst-...

Brava! 👏👏👏 www.abc.net.au/news/science...

Yet another fallout from the privatisation decades ago of public services. Yet another Royal Commission needed when profit is put before people, and private business is put over public need. www.abc.net.au/news/2025-11...

Me having a look at the increase in the electricity prices in the latest CPI figures #OffTheCharts #ThePoint thepoint.com.au/off-the-char...

Mr. Albanese goes to Washington theshot.net.au/uncategorize...

What he said: 💯 🎯

Ongoing peer-reviewed evidence supports the safety and effectiveness of immunizations against Covid-19, RSV, and influenza during the 2025–2026 season. www.nejm.org/doi/full/10....

🚨 ANSWERED: Does COVID-19 Impact the Immune System? A compilation of 45+ research studies showing the potential harms of COVID-19 on the immune system. Finally, we can put absurd claims of "immunity debt" to rest. 👇 READ, SUBSCRIBE, SHARE: www.panaccindex.info/p/answered-d...

"One of the biggest impediments to increasing the amount of people we have who could work is our incredibly low unemployment benefits People can't afford to put money on their travel card, they can't go to the dentist & they can't have something to wear to go to the interview"

Will Australian Public Health grasp this challenge, and avoid the evolution of BA.3.2.* into a more efficient form on their watch? They could avoid the deaths of thousands of Australians, and millions more around the world. Will they act? 🧵

Where is the moral courage, esp from a *Labor* government, to end poverty? And the skills to sell it to an electorate raised on a toxic diet of Murdoch? It can be done and should be done. If you can’t, step down and let someone else who can, do it www.abc.net.au/news/2025-10...

The Walton family (who own Walmart) are worth over $400 billion, yet many of their employees are on SNAP. Bezos is worth over $400 billion, many Amazon employees require SNAP. The people who need help are not the problem. It’s corporate greed. It’s an unwillingness to pay a living wage.

@aoc at the rally for Mamdani Sunday in NYC. “This city was built by the Irish escaping famine, Italians fleeing fascism, Black Americans fleeing slavery and Jim Crow, Latinos seeking a better life, Native people standing for themselves, Asian Americans coming together…” So good!! 🔥

Sometimes I miss Scomo because at least you knew he wasn’t trying to hide being a massive cunt.

Chris Wallace on the many ways Linda Reynolds has used, and continues to use, the legal system following Brittany Higgins’s rape in her office: satpa.pe/zk0daYZ

In the Reynolds defamation case, in which she is bankrupting the rape victim & her family, Justice Tottle preferred Reynolds account over Higgins in all aspects; even Reynold’s account over the AFP Deputy commissioner of operations evidence. Travesty www.thesaturdaypaper.com.au/news/law-cri...

This week's #SundayShot is a good one - Bruce Wolpe and @nicolechvastek.bsky.social join @davemilbo.bsky.social and me on the panel, plus Bob Carr gives his take on the White House meeting and @mrkrudd.bsky.social. Subscribe to ensure you don't miss a moment. 👇 www.youtube.com/@TheSundaySh...

I've been getting reports from people that some virus checkers are flagging TrumpActionTracker.info I can assure you that it is safe! quttera.com/detailed_rep... But not sure how to prevent this - esp if people are falsely reporting it as malicious

"Once you elect or appoint someone who has no moral core — who then appoints people with no moral core and fires those who do — nothing else in the system of checks-and-balances turns out to matter." In Trump's America, good character has no value. It's a barrier to the pursuit of absolute power.

Trump has given #AUKUS the OK. Why wouldn’t he; it’s the deal of the century for the US. For Australia, it’s a huge national security blunder that’ll see a slide in our defence capabilities and even greater reliance on the US, which we’ll pay for. #auspol

I really think I should get my tomorrow's cartoon out there today, while it's fresh. Ballroomocracy. My @smh/@theage cartoon.

This is a corrupt system that allows such obscene riches to be pilfered out of society by the few. And what does America do? Puts the obscenely-rich in even greater control. Sigh.

Here's the latest variant picture for Australia, to late September. NB.1.8.1 "Nimbus" has continued to dominate, but was roughly flat at 48%. It is under threat from the rebound in JN.1.* +DeFLuQE at 28% and XFG.* "Stratus" at 21%. 🧵

My feelings, exactly.

Well, that's awkward.

Great piece on Trump’s descent to fascism and Albo’s dilemma by John Birmingham open.substack.com/pub/aliensid...

Marcia Langton's review of Tony Abbott's book is even better than you might expect - www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Fantastic review

"Justin Wolfers Delivers the 2025 Boyer Lecture: Australia is Freaking Amazing" www.youtube.com/watch?v=MAa9...

Good morning Bluesky. Enjoy the day.

In case you missed this outstanding interview in July. Naomi Klein interviewed Francesca Albanese. The corporates continue to have every reason to keep Palestinians trapped like lab rats. Note Thiel’s role. youtu.be/u2Z09i2M1hc?...