It’s taken a couple of days to absorb it all… but have to say that seeing Duddo get tossed by a disabled woman, who is a former journo (shout out to the ‘hate media’), & who just kept tenaciously going until she got him is probably the sweetest moment of any election, ever. Bravo Dickson! #AusVotes

My fellow Australians, and in particular my fellow Canberrans, what he said👇. 😁 Vote 1, @davidpocock.bsky.social … the man who actually walks his talk through the house on the hill. #AusVotes

They were discussing Mary Poppins on @alltherightmovies.com and they mentioned that ‘A Spoonful of Sugar’ was inspired by one of the composer’s sons getting the polio vaccine in a sugar cube. A bright, cheery, classic song that sprang from the eradication of a horrific disease.

Superb thread well worth reading ‘US is now a threat to the global economy, to global health and to global stability. The sooner this is acknowledged the better’

BREAKING: We are suing Musk & DOGE for violating the constitution They have no right to your personal data & no authority to dismantle entire agencies We’re calling their bluff & taking them to court statedemocracydefenders.org/wp-content/u...

Apparently, spending $400 million on battery operated trash cans was not seen as government waste or fraud. www.yahoo.com/news/musk-sl...

Here is a quick guide by our outstanding graphics team. Malika Khurana; Andrew Wilson and Lily Boyce.

Elon Musk, the world's richest man, is securing real beneifits as he helps Trump disrupt the federal government. Just how? The NYT takes a deep look today at these benefits: federal investigations targeting Musk companies that have been disrupted or now may die. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/11/u...

The fix is in We've known from the start this would be a major party stitch up to lock out new community-backed independents. Giving more taxpayer $$ to pollies with no truth in political advertising protections is particularly shameful👎 www.abc.net.au/news/2025-02...

What the Actual Truck?!? It’s a zoo over there… 😳🤦‍♀️😳🤦‍♀️😳

Yes! I did it! Please take couple of seconds to set the record straight 💙🦋

Apparently Australia is flooding the US with aluminium. FMD this is such a stupid fight

"The Trump tariffs on our aluminium are a major test for the Albanese govt, could determine the election." FMD. Aluminium articles account for a bit over 1% of all our exports and just 13% of that goes to the USA. We really need to stop acting like pleasing Trump is vital to our economy

I can assure Peter Dutton that his claims that working families will be concerned if the RBA cuts interest rates next week are entirely wrong.

#Mump.

Lipstick, pig, etc… Or as a BlueSky wordsmith titled him, the #DickTater wanna be… #AustraliaDontBecomeAmerica

"America is not a software company. And letting a thin-skinned, Ketamine-fueled, video-game cheating, Nazi apologist billionaire take over the machinery of the United States is not something that anyone voted for." www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

Paul Bongiorno, in The Saturday Paper, sums up game playing #MillionairePeterDutton quite well. 👇 #Auspol

Looking forward to this. #auspol

Holy shit! Democrats, if you’re looking for a fighter, you found one— @malcolmkenyatta.bsky.social for DNC Vice Chair.

Starting today, Donold’s idiotic 25% tariff hike on imports from Canada and Mexico (and 10% on China) is set to make life more expensive for every American. Even his own voters are furious over what they voted for. Let’s break down this economic self-own.

💥 New Zealand knows what’s up!!

This is hysterical. The President of Mexico was spotted wearing a “Make America Mexicana Again.” 🤣

This 👇👇👇

NEW: Mark Cuban is ready to fund a TikTok alternative built on Bluesky’s AT Protocol Yes, thank you!! @mcuban.bsky.social techcrunch.com/2025/01/16/m...

“No, I don’t. I think we’re fucked." - Altadena resident, asked if people might start connecting climate change & disasters. www.politico.com/news/magazin...

Decide now which side of that line you’re on. And the next time you feel the urge to rant, swallow it. Breathe. There’s no time for noise, only action.

So the choice is simple: we either hold each other up when the ground splits beneath us, or we rip ourselves apart piece by piece, squabbling over mis & disinfo.

Climate change doesn’t care if you’re a homeowner on the Westside with a Tesla in the driveway or a renter on the Eastside taking the bus to the Westfield for work and just trying to keep the lights on. It’s coming for all of us.

And if you can’t be useful or a helper in a crisis, at least STFU. Stop taking up space from the helpers, the ones who don’t waste time griping about their taxes & what it should cover. No amount of money, no ledger of who paid what, is going to save us from the climate crisis.

Because if you can’t, you will come undone. The world is unraveling, and this—this is only the beginning. A natural disaster is not the time for you to lose your mind and politicize the thing that shouldn’t be politicized.

or spinning stories about grounded helicopters and shadowy foreign plots—stop. Just stop. Sit with it for a moment. Understand what a natural disaster is. Understand what happens when even a slight shift in the climate tips a region into a year-long drought.

So if you’re out there, ranting about fire hydrants running dry or spinning tales of firefighter aid diverted to Ukraine, as though that could have changed the path of this blaze; if you’re blaming the Delta smelt for the fires tearing through Los Angeles

And yet, here we are, lost in the haze of distractions our overlords feed us: the culture wars, the misinformation, the endless noise designed to fracture any hope of collective action. If we cannot hold our focus—if we surrender to conspiracy theories and scapegoats—then we have no future.

What you’re witnessing now is merely the tip of the iceberg, the first tremor of the chaos that climate change will inevitably unleash. We are so far from the full horror of it—far from the water wars, the vast crises, the unraveling of systems we once believed unshakable.

Donald Trump Jr.’s visit was ‘staged,’ says Greenland lawmaker. “We know how they treat the Inuit in Alaska. Make that great before trying to invade us,” Pipaluk Lynge tells POLITICO. www.politico.eu/article/dona...

This is what’s wrong with the world, right here…

RFK, Jr. believes the CIA had a role in assassinating his uncle, President John F. Kennedy. Jack Schlossberg, JFK’s only grandson, reacted on social media to the news by accusing Kennedy of being “a Russian spy.” “RFK, Jr. you are so obviously a Russian spy,” Schlossberg wrote to his followers.

The Danish journalists in this thread understand what is happening in America but apparently American journalists do not. They are not so savvy after all.

Hargraves: Nobody with the last name Trump has ever served in uniform in 150 years. Families like the Trumps don’t sacrifice their own lives or the lives of their children. They convince poor people to sacrifice their lives on their behalf.

New evidence has emerged from The Insider that Russia did indeed offer bounties to kill US and coalition troops in Afghanistan. A reminder that Trump downplayed and protected Russia in 2020 when the NYT broke the story

The LA fires are a profound example of what climate scientists have been struggling to prevent for decades. I hope everyone remembers that oil and gas companies, with full knowledge, created this future, in exchange for their windfall profits and geopolitical power.

Los Angeles received just 0.16 inches of rain since May 2024, the second-driest period on record. Wildfires are now engulfing the city in January. But some politicians still claim the climate crisis is a "hoax" as they do the bidding of Big Oil. What planet are they living on?

Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum responds to Trump’s plan to rename the Gulf of Mexico to the Gulf of America: “We are going to call the United States Mexican America; it sounds nice.”

When I was a kid so many Quebecois would come vacation in lake towns in upstate NY and guys they hate us so much.

Why are Trump & Musk so fixated on Greenland? It’s not just about its strategic location—it’s the minerals. As Greenland’s ice melts (climate change) it’s exposing cobalt, lithium & copper (key for EV batteries).Their interest looks less like America first & more like exploiting crisis for profit.

Elon Musk is almost done building a lithium refinery that will need up to 8 million gallons of water per day. And it's twenty miles outside Corpus Christi, which is so dry the local water company distributes shower timers at high school football games. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...