Should we scrap private health insurance rebates and direct the funding to public hospitals? – Croakey Health Media www.croakey.org/should-we-sc... #AusPol

People missing an important point about folks getting fired for whatever they said about Charlie Kirk: Americans are being conditioned to be snitches on their fellow citizens who don’t toe a party line on what is “allowed” to be expressed. And employers are going along. It’s the new secret police

Charlie Kirk was an arsehole No one should be murdered Charlie Kirk was still an arsehole.

Senator Price quits the Liberal Party to join the PHON Party, in 3,2,1…

No one would be confused about what is happening here if they saw it in another country.

Next steps for the Australian Centre for Disease Control, hailed as “a momentous” development www.croakey.org/next-steps-f... HT @asidaud.bsky.social @saferairproject.bsky.social @publichealthaus.bsky.social #AusPol #publichealth

Boooooooooo

at this rate we’re on track for america to lose the super bowl

RFK Jr has to go before he kills us all.

“I didn’t write it” when his signature matches many others, and he gave leniency to the only woman who could corroborate that he sent it to her, isn’t very convincing.

The gaslighting on the signature is maybe their most embarrassing thing yet. Just an absolute disregard for the truth, or dignity. @reptimburchett

@bera.house.gov www.change.org/p/rfk-jr-mus...

Foreign Minister Wong has broken the emergency glass and deployed the Ministry’s Wet Lettuce Brigade against Israel, again. Israel attack on Qatar 'flies in the face' of ceasefire via AAP News aapnews.aap.com.au/a/yXNJxSXmg

Could a party hack with daddy issues and selective data please come into my mentions and explain the centrist position on drone-bombing Greta Thunberg's boat in Tunisian waters

I was today years old when I discovered that Pieris spp. also evolved grayanotoxins, as part of the Ericaceae family. Many of us might know about Rhododendrons and ‘mad honey’… this beauty is in flower in the Old Parliamentary Gardens in Canberra. (Wisteria not out yet!😉) #poisonousplants

Florida’s move on vaccine mandates will lead to avoidable illnesses and deaths.

Alternate headline: Johnson Lied.

Artificial intelligence is reshaping healthcare, but at what environmental cost? www.croakey.org/artificial-i... By Jason Staines #AusPol #PublicHealth

He canceled her Secret Service protection to stop her book tour. What a fragile, little, rotting mango.

Mood.

Child mortality used to be 50%. As recently as 1950, 25% of children died globally. Now it’s 4% globally, and 0.3% in some rich countries. A large part of that is better public health and vaccines. Republicans are trying to take us back to the past. ourworldindata.org/child-mortal...

I know, I know, but: The president of the US saying, literally, "we're going in" in reference to sending the military to an American city for no reason beyond terrorizing the local population should be the most immediately impeachable shit imaginable

I honestly don't know what I did to deserve this incredible tribute. I can only say I'm honored, flattered, and humbled—and, of course, deeply grateful to everyone who made this accolade possible. I pledge to do my utmost to live up to it. 🙏🏼🤗

According to the colonial police forces, 70 people marched in Brisbane, 85 people marched in Sydney, 65 people marched in Melbourne, 68 people marched in Adelaide, 47 people marched in Canberra, and 53 people marched in Perth.

If you’re a parent who’s trying to ban “inappropriate” books from the school library but you let your kids listen to the current President unsupervised you’re doing it wrong

Tremendous crossover move right here:

stephen miller's tailor forgot to give him a breast pocket

Israelis oppose Palestinians right of return because they’re afraid the Palestinians might treat them the way they’ve treated Palestinians…

My origin story…

Women lead, teach… We will never be deleted.

Novo Nordisk’s move to cut the price of Ozempic to $499 for the uninsured is a modest step forward, but let’s not forget. Ozempic costs just $59 in Germany while it costs less than $5 to make. The U.S. must no longer pay the highest prices in the world for prescription drugs.

Hey I don't want to accidentally blow up society or anything but I just paid a "processing fee" I know that's grandfathered in, but like, we have computers now What uhh what is the additional processing that is happening and why does your computer need a little extra money to do it

Sussan Ley has decided to support a foreign power over the Australian gummint. Aren’t there laws against that sort of thing, #auspol?

Thank you, Boston Globe. This is how it's done.

Excellent Truisms!👇

just lost $100,000 on a polymarket bet that trump would negotiate a peace deal today with putin. i was sure of it. i can't believe i lost all this money. he wrote the art of the deal.

Bless these Alaskans!

Here’s some maths stuff to give you an idea how rich a billionaire is. *The average salary in the UK is £37,500. £1bn is about 27,000 times more than that. (1/)

"Let me be crystal clear: crime in DC is ending and ending today."

Honestly, there’s so much to cover, it’s almost overwhelming but don’t worry I’m not overwhelmed yet. Im regular whelmed. I’m just right whelmed.

Next week these protestors will march off to do their national service killing Palestinians. Then they’ll come home and protest against their own killing. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...

usually if you ask experts why an empire fell they’ll say it’s nuanced and multifaceted, so i think it’s kind of cool that with America future historians will get to just say like “oh they took the idiot train to moronsville”

As end-of-empire scenarios go it is so much more dignified to get your capital city sacked by the Visigoths than to have a bunch of illiterate rich people in their 70s doing it through a series of incomprehensible tantrums because their brains were defeated by their phones.

This is magnificent. The world is fawning over the whims of a petulant 5 year old Joffrey: including #auspol. A Nobel Prize winning economist has the moxie to ask: ‘What to Do When the President Acts Like a 5-Year-Old?’ www.nytimes.com/2025/08/03/o...

“Most children learn that flipping the board doesn’t make them the winner. It just means the game is over. In a democracy, the same lesson holds. We need our referees…& leaders who understand that losing the game fairly is far more honorable than winning by force.” www.nytimes.com/2025/08/03/o...

I love it when I see moderates try and use “radical leftist” as a slur. Fuck yeah. That’s me. What of it?