While Pauline dines with Gina Rinehart and Albanese protects the profits of gas corporations and professional property investors, the Greens are fighting for people. We are not powerless. We can demand better. Join us: taxthe1percent.com.au

So much of this is predictable - and exactly why academia should be rejecting rather than adopting AI for almost every activity.

📣More than 300 citizens, researchers and organizations have already signed our Wealth Cap Declaration, and the number keeps growing! Join us in 30 seconds and help us promote a wealth cap in Europe! wealthcapproject.org/declaration #inequality #wealthcap #justice #wealth

Then as now, the important inequality was between classes, not age cohorts.

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Prediction (admittedly, an easy one): In the next two weeks, the world will have its first trillionaire. That is, someone who holds at least $ 1,000,000,000,000. What's worse, the guy is power-obsessed and dangerous in many ways. We need to curb the power and tax away the wealth.

(with apologies to Beckett) It can't go on. It'll go on.

The invasion of Iraq in 2003 was a defining moment in a generational crisis of trust in British institutions, damage we're still dealing with today. Strange, then, that we keep being asked to treat one of its architects as a sage.

Four weeks into the Royal Commission on Antisemitism, multiple glaring inaccuracies about Israel, Palestine and Lebanon have gone unchecked. We’ve decided to help the Commissioner by correcting the record. www.deepcutnews.com/p/fact-check...

My Human Rights Bill tabled today spells out in plain terms, the rights and freedoms that everyone in Australia is entitled to. It requires that fairness, respect, dignity and compassion must be put at the centre of all government decision and polices. #auspol #politas

Treatment. My @smh @theage cartoon.

Human rights groups have warned Australia may become “a safe haven for persons alleged to have committed the most serious international crimes” unless the government investigates Australian-Israeli dual nationals who may have committed war crimes in Gaza. www.deepcutnews.com/p/afp-urged-...

Psychic Cat. www.patreon.com/posts/psychi...

The onlye waye to create a list of the 100 best novels of all tyme ys to wayte until the ende of tyme

Today is Nakba Day - and Verso has compiled a reading list of books on Israel and Palestine: www.versobooks.com/blogs/news/5...

Some damage is irreparable actually, Angus.

Budget 2026 terminology @theageaustralia.bsky.social

Meer dan 450 voormalige Europese ministers, ambassadeurs en hoge ambtenaren roepen de EU-leiders op om op te treden tegen de Israëlische annexatie van het E1-gebied op de Westelijke Jordaanoever. www.mo.be/opinie/Er-is...

Ladies and gentlemen, 'the wily 63-year-old prime minister from the socialist left' ...

'Functional literacy is now widely recognised as a human right.' Australia needs a Bill of Rights.

Here’s a poem called ‘Life of a Naturalist’.

“This (genocidal) campaign, conducted by the IDF, appears to have had the enthusiastic support of the vast majority of Israel’s population. For this reason it is not possible for any considerable sector of Israeli society … to claim that it should not share in the blame for the atrocities in Gaza.”

Mass mobilizations across the EU have helped slowly move the needle, but the EU and its member states should: ⚪ Halt arms transfers to Israel ⚪ Suspend the EU-Israel Association Agreement ⚪ Ban trade with Israel’s illegal settlements ⚪ Sanction those responsible for apartheid atrocity crimes

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Some good news, long overdue

This country subsidises landlords to create the conditions that killed this baby. There is nowhere to go. This is what happens when there is nowhere to go.

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“A wet day. And I am glad of the rain, because I have talked too much.” ~ Virginia Woolf

The EU and its member states, the UK, and other countries with leverage should suspend trade deals with Israel and adopt a ban on trade and business with illegal Israeli settlements, applying to the occupied Golan Heights and the West Bank. Countries should also suspend arms transfers to Israel.

My column on the latest OECD figures on how much workers are taxed. And no Australians are not highly taxed thepoint.com.au/off-the-char...

'Evacuees from flooded remote Indigenous areas in NT housed in compound likened to "a prison camp"' This fucking country ...

'I do have a real question about taxpayer-funded health care facilities which obviously have a faith basis denying legal care to taxpayers in their care. I think that's a real issue [...]'

Uncommon courtesy. My @smh @theage.

Yesterday's European Championship Gull Screeching in De Panne, Belgium vrtnws.be/p.416vxNvvQ3Y

This stuff is straight out of the 1930s Fascist playbook. Anyone who has studied 20th Century History should be able to see it. This an orchestrated extreme right campaign designed to provoke precisely the reaction is has, with leaders questioning the validity of the Welcome To Country.

'"The damage is done": global oil crisis has changed fossil fuel industry for ever, IEA chief says.'

'Bakers don’t get their flour for free. Farmers don’t get their water for free. Gas exporters get their gas for free.'

Oh shit.

“Not my problem” is our biggest problem by far, followed closely by “out of sight out of mind”, and “why should I?” You can point to very clear harms and the blinkers still remain firmly in place. Empathy deficits are hard to watch, hard to experience, and increasingly hard to shift.

As Lewis Mumford wrote in 1957: "The right to have access to every building in the city by private motorcar in an age when everyone possesses such a vehicle is the right to destroy the city." This is doubly true if we allow driverless cars to have unlimited access to streets.

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If politicians had to live more like regular Australian workers, instead of like the ultra-privileged elites of the corporate world, they might think twice about making decisions that screw over the majority in the interests of the wealthiest few!

The NDIS is far from perfect. But there's something particularly inhuman about the Labor Party pushing through changes that will see 160,000 people kicked off disability support in the same week they proudly announced an increase in military spending of $53 billion over 10 years.

“World leaders have been far too submissive in the face of attacks on international law and the multilateral system. Their silence and inaction are inexcusable. It is morally bankrupt and will bring nothing but retreat, defeat and the erasure of decades of hard-fought human rights gains.”

1/ There's a system of ocean currents in the Atlantic that shapes Europe's #climate, drives monsoons, and keeps sea levels stable along the US coast. In the last 5 years, the scientific evidence that it could collapse has shifted dramatically. Most people have no idea. 🧵

Worrye not about 'being productive,' for thou art not a product. Thou art a star daunsinge yn a hopeful skye. A signal blinking across centuryes and worldes. Thou art a song performid just once and perfectlye.

Randa Abdel-Fattah reflects on the fragmentation she has felt since October 7, caught between daily life and the normalization of live-streamed annihilation of Arab and Muslim lives. mondoweiss.net/2026/04/bear... #Palestine #Israel