WTF? Musk's SpaceX applies to launch 1 million satellites into earth's orbit to power artificial intelligence - by Maia Davies #Musk #space #satellites #AI www.bbc.com/news/article... /1

'What we’re watching instead is moral laundering: extremist ideology wrapped in faith language, delivered by younger, more palatable messengers..." Turning Point, Moral Evasion - by Mary Geddry #MaureenBannon #SteveBannon #JeffreyEpstein marygeddry.com/p/turning-po...

Interesting jump the year the Labor govt was voted into government @davidpocock.bsky.social #auspol

When the government carries out cruelty and injustice while claiming to be “Christian” and we Christians do not speak out against it, we are not only giving tacit support of this evil, we surrender the reputation of our entire faith to those carrying out evil in our name.

And look at her polling numbers now ... 🤷🏻‍♀️

JANE FONDA: “I know Don Lemon. My husband created CNN. And I will fight for their right to speak… they arrested the wrong Don. This is how autocrats act. We can’t fall for it.”

Why aren't American media doing their job and describing in detail the reality of Trump & co's behaviour in office? Why they're not standing up for their reporters is an even more obvious question (even given who is buying them up). #journalism #democracy This from The Atlantic:

'In August, I reported that the President and his family had made $3.4 billion by leveraging his position. After his first year back in office, the number has ballooned.' Trump’s Profiteering Hits $4 Billion - by David D. Kirkpatrick #USPolitics #Trump www.newyorker.com/news/a-repor...

'After a wave of public revulsion over the President’s immigration crackdown in Minnesota, he offers a familiar playbook: distraction, disinformation, denial, delay.' Operation Trump Rehab - by Susan B. Glasser #USPolitics www.newyorker.com/news/letter-...

DOJ releases what it says is last tranche of Epstein files - by Stephen Fowler #USPolitics #Epstein www.npr.org/2026/01/30/n...

National strike #USPolitics

Giant sculptures of aggressive dogs is another step in Ron Mueck's shift away from perfect mimicry of the human body to something more theatrically political Hyperreality bites: Ron Mueck at the Art Gallery of NSW - a review by me #Sydney #art www.themonthly.com.au/share/56940c...

Listening to Tim Walz on Minneapolis and the US in general and imagining what the whole world would be like if Kamala Harris had won the 2024 election: 'Gov. Tim Walz is skeptical about Trump’s plan to de-escalate immigration crackdown' @npr.org #USPolitics www.npr.org/2026/01/30/n...

'Renee Good and Alex Pretti were murdered for daring to interfere with the Trump administration’s efforts to normalize abductions and state violence.' The Crime of Witness - by Fintan O’Toole #USPolitics #ICE #murder www.nybooks.com/online/2026/...

'As Trump’s America increasingly unsettles global diplomacy, defence chief Greg Moriarty is an experienced choice as Australia’s new ambassador' Washington post - by Karen Middleton #auspol #USPolitics #diplomacy www.themonthly.com.au/karen-middle...

I deleted this pinned post by accident, but have to put it back up there:

Every so often I re-read this from 2019 to remind myself what I've read and what I know. It's even scarier now. Exhortations to the Resistance: Miriam Cosic on democracies in decline #politics sydneyreviewofbooks.com/reviews/exho...

'Australia’s Future Fund drastically increased its stake in Palantir in the year since Trump took office, according to its latest figures.' Revealed: Australia’s $100 million investment in controversial tech giant Palantir - by Cam Wilson www.crikey.com.au/2026/01/29/p... video: @perfectunion

The verbiage Trump is using against Iran sounds more like Gengis Khan than 21st c. diplomacy. "Responsibility to Protect" might have been a nicer whitewash, but he's probably never heard of it. And anyway, it's not about human rights. #USPolitics #Iran www.abc.net.au/listen/progr...

Inviting Herzog to mark the Bondi horror will not help the fight against antisemitism being undertaken, most powerfully by Jews worldwide, by constantly drawing and reinforcing the line between being Jewish and supporting Israeli government policy in Gaza. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...

Why the looming visit by Israel’s president Isaac Herzog may backfire on Anthony Albanese - by Josh Bornstein www.abc.net.au/religion/jos...

What is being ‘normalised’ through politics and media is abhorrent and dangerous. www.thenewdaily.com.au/news/politic...

"And to add insult to injury is the denial of the reality that we all witnessed. They're lying. We saw it. And that's how brazenly they lie, when they know we've seen the truth. Imagine how they lie when there's no evidence to contradict them." #MAGA #Pretti 👇

'The long history behind the bill to criminalise incitement of race-based hatred (and why George Brandis says it proves he was right)' ‘A right to be bigots’ - by Karen Middleton @themonthly.com.au #auspol #law #bigotry www.themonthly.com.au/karen-middle...

Sen. David Shoebridge: Palantir, the far-right US data corporation, has just been given security clearance with access to secret Australian govt data. They're enabling ICE surveillance and helping target the genocide in Gaza. It's time ban them from govt contracts and all our data. #auspol

Reminder: copyright still applies in the AI era. Read about the copyright risk here: buff.ly/8IfTDLU #GenAI #Copyright #AIatWork

Canadian PM Carney's speech at Davos that foreign policy circles have been applauding #Davos #Canada

Here's a timely post, after Trump's statement that only his own morality and his own thinking, not international law, limit his global power. God help us all. Louis Farrakhan in 1966. (landpalestine on Insta) #USPolitics

Our world might be going to shit, but just look at this. Our species of hairless ape is capable of looking 30 million light-years away (and into the past), and seeing this with boggling clarity. The Sombrero galaxy contains ~100 billion stars, each with (on average) multiple planets. Heck.

#BREAKING 🚨 Eight more Nationals MPs – including leader David Littleproud – have resigned from the shadow ministry, following Sussan Ley’s decision to force three senators out for voting against hate speech legislation, the AFR reports

🔴 WOW... This defiance and solidarity video for Greenland is EPIC. 👌🏼

It’s notable that the president can go on TV and be a total gutter racist, and somehow this isn’t news in the slightest. Says a lot about the sickness of American society right now.

I knew Dame Marie Bashir for decades.When my 89yo FiL was dying and knew he would be awarded an OAM for 40yrs servce to Vinnies, I asked if she would do a bedside presentation at his nursing home.She stayed for 3hrs, holding his hand, honouring him before all the residents and staff.A gem of a human

How saddening that Marie Bashir has died. She was a marvellous woman. Vale ...

Extraordinary what PR people think their job is with journalists these days ...🙄 (And surprising to non-journalists that political media people are the most useful to us. Often more useful briefers than the politicians themselves, albeit usually speaking on background.) #journalist

Investors sell dollar, seek safety as Trump threatens Greenland tariffs reut.rs/3Zg7gMe

Have I missed the press conference in which Trump explained how tariffs went, in his administration, from being a strategy for protecting parts of the economy (i.e. local production) to being a political punishment for countries that won't do as he demands? #USPolitics #tariffs

Pew Research Institute (2023): • Red State Texas has about 2.1 million undocumented immigrants • Red State Florida has 1.6 M undocumented immigrants • Blue State Minnesota has 130,000. And yet only Minnesota is being occupied by masked thugs over "immigration." It's *not* about immigration.

Democracy requires political debate. Political debate requires scrutiny, which means (preferably polite) criticism, of policies & strategies. How can that scrutiny take place with the spectre of defamation hanging over politicians & media? #auspol www.abc.net.au/news/2026-01...

Imagine having the entire news media, the entire opposition and a bunch of former Olympians attacking you literally non-stop for a month, and the outcome is a poll which matches your 2025 election landslide. #auspol #newspoll

'Whether it was Arthur Balfour’s support for Zionism in 1917, or Tony Blair’s support for genocide in 2025, the truth is we need less British colonialism and more Palestinian self-determination.' #Gaza #Blair

It’s weird that Trump can stand up to allies but not Russia

This isn’t inevitable. A few Republicans in Congress could still stop a reckless annexation or attack on Greenland — right now. Silence is a choice.

First, he threatens to take Greenland by force, now he is threatening to tariff anyone who stands in his way. First, he claimed tariffs were a way to fix the so-called trade imbalance. Now he’s openly using them to bully the free world.

I wonder how long it will take the media to catch on to the fact that ICE’s recruiting spree has effectively deputized every white supremacist hate group out there.

Let’s call this what it is: a disgusting abuse of power and a farce. As his agents terrorize Minnesotans, as prices rise, as he fails to deliver for Americans, he is also weaponizing the DOJ against his perceived enemies. This is not a banana republic and justice will prevail.

President Macron and French soldiers arrive in Greenland #Greenland