This from 2017. Other, more nervous, MSM are only beginning to ask it now, well into his even crazier, more dangerous, second term. 'What has to happen for Republicans to break with their Mad King?' Year One: The Mad King - by Charles J. Sykes (gift article) www.nybooks.com/online/2017/...

I miss having a President of the United States.

Gaza aid flotilla says Israeli forces intercepted 10 boats, contact lost with 23 vessels Israeli piracy continues www.reuters.com/world/middle... #EndGazaStarvation #GlobalSumudFlotilla

'The modern idea of the freedom of the seas is collapsing in the Strait of Hormuz.' Empires of Flow Control - by Nicholas Mulder #Hormuz #lawofthesea #flowcontrol www.nybooks.com/online/2026/...

'Trump's purge of all political opponents, including Senator Bill Cassidy, leaves it with no purpose other than helping Trump achieve his lawless goals' Has Trump's Republican Party Become a Criminal Enterprise? - by Robert Reich #USPolitics open.substack.com/pub/robertre...

God, I hate dealing with "virtual assistants" when business transactions go wrong. The lack of real people to communicated with in everyday life is only going to get worse and worse, and I'm over it already...

Something cute to see before returning to the horrors of the wider warring world. The Illustrating Botanist celebrating the tenth birthday of Eloise. "Since I raised you from a tadpole, you've given me a decade of joy and free pest control." 🥰

-MS Now to revamp its post-NBC lineup starting June 15 -The New York Times, Pulitzer Prize-winning columnist Nicholas Kristof defend his work about allegations of widespread sexual violence against Palestinian prisoners Read today’s Poynter Report: www.poynter.org/commentary/2...

The rights of men do not change. The rights of women do.

Israël et le Liban ont donné leur accord à une prolongation d'un mois et demi du cessez-le-feu. Quel cessez-le-feu? Israel and Lebaon have agreed to a month-and-a-half's extension to their ceasefire. What ceasefire?

World Food Programme: 'Afghanistan: 2.5M people were forced back from Pakistan & Iran last year, returning to a country at breaking point. 'Humanitarian assistance is a lifeline for these people, along with millions more already living in Afghanistan. 'WFP's Carl Skau explains.' @wfp.org

Now Trump plans to indict Raül Castro. I swear he thinks the world is his to run. #Cuba #megalomania

Trump is negotiating to settle his lawsuit against his own IRS, and one of the remedies being floated (along with almost 2 billion dollars) is the IRS dropping all audits of Trump, his family, and his businesses. Just absolutely staggering corruption.

Lei Jun, the billionaire CEO of Xiaomi, is competing directly with Tesla for the most popular EV model in China.

FFS: Woolworth's Macro Free Range Australian Chicken Breasts (2 of them) have jumped from $12.60 on April 23 to $18 today! $12.60 to $18: that's a 42.8% increase in a month. Goes with my $100 a week rent rise from Monday. And my parking rent rise. #ausecon #costofliving

President Trump departed China touting business deals that gave markets little to cheer, while Beijing warned Washington about mishandling Taiwan and said its war with Iran should never have started. Follow our live coverage: reut.rs/42BH6Fq

US President Donald Trump and Chinese President Xi Jinping are set to meet on May 15 to wrap up a two-day state visit that has featured pomp and business deals but also a stark warning from Xi that mishandling the Taiwan issue could send relations spiraling. Follow our live coverage: reut.rs/4tBgUWy

Roots is a bicentennial jawn so in 50 years we went from groundbreaking miniseries watched by the whole country to banning copies of the book

The El Niño climate event is due to return this year, with U.S. forecasters predicting an 82 percent chance of it coming in May through July, and a 96 percent chance for December through February 2027

Highly recommend viewing this, particularly from the 7 minute to the ~1 hour mark if you are interested in learning about El Niño.

Woolworths Group is transitioning its entire home delivery truck fleet to 100% electric vehicles by 2030

Speaking of which, I saw this out of my window this morning. Woolworths has already started using electric vehicles for its deliver trucks. #phaseoutfossilfuels

Paris fighting pollution and improving public health. -No diesel cars from 2024 -100% #cleanenergy buses by 2025 -No petrol cars from 2030 -improving bike and pedestrian infrastructure. We have the solutions, implement them. #ActOnClimate #climate #energy #GreenNewDeal

The introduction of Equitable Remuneration (ER) into Australian copyright law is an important step in protecting the creative workforce that underpins our arts and culture sector. Learn more about the “Pay Up” campaign: meaa.io/payup #PayUp

In order for Equitable Remuneration (ER) to work, tech companies must be compelled to license training data and watermark AI-generated content. We’re calling on government to ensure this happens. #PayUp Learn more about the “Pay Up” campaign: meaa.io/payup

Wow! "The MAGA party is the last breath of the Confederacy..." #USPolitics

Absolute fire 🔥

Because we’re committed to destroying what little mental health we still have, @amyremeikis.bsky.social, @mattgrudnoff.bsky.social and I will be covering Angus Taylor’s budget reply speech for the PointLive tonight live.thepoint.com.au

The great Carl Sagan testifying before Congress on climate change in 1985. Imagine if the powers-that-be had listened to him then. We all have no time to waste now. (Via @mikehudema.bsky.social on X) #climatechange #fossilfuels m.youtube.com/watch?v=Wp-W...

They've atomised us, and isolated us, superceding our attachment to truth and love and beauty and community, just in time for the rise of AI to the Singularity.

Certainly are. I've had a thing about science journalism disappearing just at a time when people need to understand science more and more. The parallel bee is reviewing NorthSouth's annual book of best science journalism for the year: www.thesaturdaypaper.com.au/culture/book...

MAGA is melting down after buyers got an email confirming they will never get their Trump Phones, or even get their deposits back. An estimated 590,000 people reportedly paid a $100 deposit each. Trump knows his base is full of suckers, and they keep proving him right.

People who get Social Security and Medicare from the government are not getting "entitlements"—they are getting the money they gave the government back. Unlike when Elon Musk got at least $38 billion from the government in contracts, loans, subsidies, and tax credits over the past two decades.

We were warned. How many talking heads scoffed at the idea of a constitutional crisis, even after Jan 6 pardons...killing DEI, black visibility & history—all just a taste. *There were no masks to drop.* So much proof before SCOTUS scuttled the VRA. 🧾 (2024): tminstituteldf.org/threats-to-v...

Pentagon Comptroller Jay Hurst said the estimate increased “because of updated repair and replacement of equipment cost and also just general operational cost.”

Trump: Drugs coming by sea meaning coming by water. A lot of people don’t know what I mean by sea. They think I mean vision. I’m talking about sea like the sea. You might lose brain cells if you read this.

I know there's tremendous interest right now surrounding growing potential for a strong El Niño event, or even a so-called "super" El Niño. In this just-recorded live session, I break down the current forecast, its implications, and associated caveats. www.youtube.com/live/rZvJPlP...

Extremely niche surfer take, but for Surfer Magazine to run an article about the coming El Niño that doesn't salivate over the potential for monster surf but instead focuses almost entirely on risk to human life feels like a significant inflection point.

Your 'moment of doom' for May 12, 2026 ~ What is it good for? "they found statistically significant links between conflicts and climate impacts from two well-documented natural climate cycles: El Niño in the Pacific Ocean and the Indian Ocean Dipole." insideclimatenews.org/news/1105202...

The global food inflation crisis is coming: * 70% of U.S. farmers report not being able to afford the fertilizer they'll need this year * Brazil, Ethiopia, Europe could all be hit hard * Extreme weather from a strong El Nino will make things worse www.politico.eu/article/euro...

Corporations, AGAIN!!!! Water theft.

'The El Niño building right now, and expected to crest around the end of next year, arrives on top of all our global warming. And it appears stupendously intense...' The World Is About to Get a Preview of Life in 2035 - by David Wallace-Wells #ElNiño #climate www.nytimes.com/2026/05/06/o...

Coppa Italia fireworks trigger surreal smoke delay at Italian Open reut.rs/48VGSwv

Please tell me Australians are too level headed to do this ... And that vaccine-rejecters won't see this as a vaccine ...

The COVID-19 pandemic was linked to an estimated 22.1 million excess deaths from all causes globally between 2020 and 2023—more than three times the 7 million reported COVID-19 deaths. Learn more about the scale of the COVID-19 pandemic’s global impact. 🔗 https://bit.ly/4fiNpVV

Bollocks, and more bollocks. If universities don’t stand up now they’re not universities. #AusPol

Yes, white phosphorous is used by soldiers to create smoke screens and is described solely as such for military use in many sources. It is also used by "the most moral army in the world" to burn people to death. And reporters are meant to report what is happening. This from Tracy Chamoun.

'The El Niño building right now, and expected to crest around the end of next year, arrives on top of all our global warming. And it appears stupendously intense...' The World Is About to Get a Preview of Life in 2035 - by David Wallace-Wells #ElNiño #climate www.nytimes.com/2026/05/06/o...