This 60-year old Supreme Court judgment may be the only thing that saves us from Trump www.alternet.org/supreme-cour... Trump’s lawsuit is governed by a 1964 Supreme Court ruling, New York Times v. Sullivan. One of the most celebrated of cases handed down by the court during the era known as the

Matt Canavan & the Nats nightmare that won't go away: big & home solar + wind +hydro are smokin' coal in NSW, Qld, Vic,WA & coal not used in Tas, SA. Every day they check these data, the renewables apocalypse gets worse

How long will it be before the AFL's Brownlow medal night sees a gay player hand-in-hand with his partner in the photo shoot? It's Pride round is a start, but hell might freeze over? Women's sport showing the way.

At the risk of staying the obvious ... If you sign this, you are in no way a journalist.

I will never, ever tire of seeing this

Big #Tobacco up to its usual serpentine stuff designed to get steps ahead of government regulation on nicotine (the sina qua non of "loyal customers") with synthetic nicotine analogs possible more addictive than straight up #nicotine www.ginn.global/6-methyl-nic...

It is simply gobsmacking that a US public health group, the "Truth Initiative" can publish & perpetuate this disabling nonsense. It has always been the case that the most common way that ex-smokers quit is unaided, cold turkey. My whole book on it ses.library.usyd.edu.au/bitstream/ha...

I will simply say this: Charlie Kirk said a lot of things, easily looked up, that I don’t think the Catholic Church would or should feel comfortable endorsing with this kind of unfettered enthusiasm.

The manufacturing of science denial by an “authoritarian petrostate.” A must read.

Which nations today forbid & punish political satire besides Afghanistan, N Korea, Myanmar & USA?

Trump just said he was the first to have been received at Windsor Castle. Oh wait ... www.townandcountrymag.com/society/trad...

Is King Charles with his medals imitating North Korean generals, or is it the other way round?

The US fed govt attacks on science occur on another front: The National Academies of Science, Engineering, and Medicine. I guess it was just a matter of time. Seems like more of the same playbook (with a climate science report at the heart of it).

Magastan president Trump got very prickly when asked by ABC's @johnthelyonsden.bsky.social about his accumulating wealth in office. Where would he rank with these plunderers?

5 out of 5 experts on tobacco tax say "no" to half-arsed primary school maths fail calls to lower tobacco tax. theconversation.com/could-making...

All illegal tobacconists/vaoe shops are rented. All their landlords know they are complicit in illegal trading. Qld now legislates to make it a crime if they do not report these tenants to Health Dept. This in addition to massive on-the-spot fines, seizures, closure. Way to go. Other states pls note

Priceless: substitute the plummy British accents with Strayan drawls & you have the National Party shadow ministry today on 'the women question' m.youtube.com/watch?v=OhZR...

Queensland National Party drongo, Senator Matt Canavan predictably quick out of the blocks this morning to rubbish the National Climate Risk Assessment report theconversation.com/is-this-aust....

The late Renee Geyer at her very best. With (i think) Mark Punch on guitar. youtu.be/GOvkxUfbepw?...

How to prevent your bag being stolen.

ABC Sydney at 7.15am

Can any MAGA people out there explain this one for me pls?

Chatting with @domknight.bsky.social tomorrow 7.10am on NSW Gvt at last unleashing the hounds of hell on the stain of in-your-face chaep illegal tobacco/vape shops www.nsw.gov.au/ministerial-....

Canadian provinces set to receive $BILLIONS$ from 3 Big Tobacco companies for compensation for past conduct & harms caused by their deadly products www.cbc.ca/news/health/... US states got $US206b over 25yrs in 1998. What's Australia waiting for? @markbutlermp.bsky.social @jimchalmers.bsky.social

I see Trump wants his nation to offer thoughts & prayers for yet another shooting. Here's a great idea. I can't fault it.

The New Yorker asked me “how bad” today’s Supreme Court ruling was. I boiled it down to one paragraph: link.newyorker.com/view/5bda429...

I am here to say vaccines are awesome because guess what Denmark is close to completely eliminating the two most dangerous HPV strains (serotype 16 and 18) and with the cervical cancer.I think that is bloody AMAZING!!!! bit.ly/4pbHxjT

Spain’s PM Sánchez has imposed sweeping measures against Israel, including a total arms embargo, to “stop the Gaza genocide” and “support the Palestinian population.” 🔴 LIVE updates: aje.io/tcopvq

Don't you just love the thought of racist neo-Nazis squirming every time black athletes like Gout Gout & Gold Coast Suns' Mac Andrew have outstanding performances? youtu.be/Tq3_ZqlYfe4?...

A victim of convicted sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein has revealed how a group of survivors is compiling a client list of their own.

Hitler Downfall parody on Bob "the hat" Katter's Lebanese provenance www.facebook.com/reel/1434176...

A group of white people from immigrant backgrounds have demanded that people like them should "go back to where they came from" chaser.com.au/general-news...

Has criminology ever examined the association between giving children bogan names & parental/offspring crime? Here's one from a report today. www.smh.com.au/world/oceani... and here are some liddul bewdies. manofmany.com/culture/advi...

Official photograph of Republicans in the House & Senate waiting for instructions

Not a huge vote of confidence for clairvoyant Trisha ...

@albomp.bsky.social When can we expect our Special Envoy to Combat Antisemitism to show up and combat these antisemites? Will she be combating them in person or will she be fighting through the courts to stop their antisemitic march from going ahead? What is Jillian Segal paid for if not this?

Useful summary from ASH UK of how UK has dramatically reduced illicit trade in tobacco by LAW ENFORCEMENT, not dropping tax. And how highest illicit markets are in low income, low taxing nations. Lessons for Australia ash.org.uk/media-centre... @markbutlermp.bsky.social

#NCTOH Karla Sneegas discussing the April 1 purge of entire Office on Smoking & Health & other CDC workers. The #tobacco industry got what it paid for. Eliminated the most important national campaign ever— Tips from Former Smokers

Yay! Timely that FINALLY @bmjtobacco-control.bsky.social is ON BLUE SKY! Give them a follow — top journal for tobacco policy research and analysis @mhef.bsky.social @kamranabbasi.bsky.social

Has vaping in NZ kids reduced their smoking, or slowed its decline? Statisticians battle it out, with confirmation bias the likely winner. My new blog simonchapman6.com/2025/08/28/e...

Well isn’t this lovely. Opera star sings Habanera (from Carmen) in the airport (?) What a terrific voice. #opera I don’t care if they’re staged, we need more profl free public #music and #art.

A former CDC staffer adds: “This is the work of a death cult.”

Has vaping in NZ kids reduced their smoking, or slowed its decline? Statisticians battle it out, with confirmation bias the likely winner. My new blog simonchapman6.com/2025/08/28/e...

Got this little beauty from a brave keyboard warrior using a disposable email. Some news for him:I've not had a job for >9yrs. And does he apply his brilliant logic to oncologists, cancer nurses, undertakers--all not wanting smoking to fall to keep their jobs? see: simonchapman6.com/2021/02/27/v...

All reporting of Netanyahu's opinions on the Australian national interest should state upfront that he's an indicted war criminal subject to arrest if he comes here.

Spoiler alert: RFK Jr.'s "study" will find that the "certain interventions" that are "clearly almost certainly causing autism" will be vaccines, plus maybe another "certain intervention" or two to lend him plausible deniability to MAHA stans that the outcome of this study hadn't been preordained.

Marie Josette Orsto, north Tiwi Island. On display at NSW Art Gallery (modern). Just stunning.

A timeless reminder

As Trump & his fake, dilettante Christians round up, incarcerate & deport (mainly) dark-skinned people, food for thought ...