“Our transition to EVs is aimed at ensuring our energy sovereignty,” said Ethiopia’s state minister for transport and logistics. “As a net importer of fuel, we are affected by global supply and price fluctuations. In contrast, EVs use electricity, which we produce locally and can price ourselves.”

Intergenerational asset transfer? Get out of the way dad! www.theguardian.com/society/comm...

Hey lovely rabbits here is the spoken cartoon version of my Transgenerational Wealth cartoon feat. my dad. www.youtube.com/watch?v=4g7m...

Gareth Hutchens’ exceptional article gives you the background. You can’t understand the last 50 years of #Auspol without this article. Actually our political economy was shaped much earlier. www.abc.net.au/news/2026-01...

#Morgan SMS (state) ALP 25.5 L-NP 21.5 ON 26.5 (!?) Grn 13.5 Ind/other 13. Massively different to Resolve which had ON only 11% though it is worth noting Resolve sample was half in previous month. #springst www.roymorgan.com/findings/101...

Imagine still thinking Labor gives a sh!t about Climate Change when this guy is posting this garbage. #Auspol #DontLookUp

What's driving inflation? Not your wages, but the RBA remains worried we all are doing too well and more of us need to be unemployed www.theguardian.com/business/gro...

notorious radical left communist rag says tax the rich

🧵Advance has 3 international guests at its conference this weekend. One promotes conspiracies including to Alex Jones. A second conducts messaging for Steve Bannon, ran his “gladiator school” in the Italian monastery. The 3rd reps a vile US hate group. #Auspol lucyham29.substack.com/p/the-advanc...

“Canavan said until this inquiry he had never heard of Atlas..That was interesting, because Canavan has been a regular speaker at..CPAC.. which is part of the Atlas Network..Dr Walker said the fact that few people had heard of the Atlas Network was deliberate” www.abc.net.au/news/2026-02...

Ted Lieu: “Donald Trump is in the Epstein files thousands and thousands of times. In those files, there are highly disturbing allegations of Donald Trump raping children … of Donald Trump threatening to kill children. So I encourage the press to go look at these allegations.”

A giant in the bicycle industry has died. RIP.

.@AstroKatie: "We got tricked by science fiction into thinking a futuristic city is all about flying cars and crystal towers and hologram billboards but what it really looks like is nice apartment blocks, good mass transit, pedestrian zones with shade trees and safe bike lanes."

people pretend to not be nazis and couch that in dog whistles but i think a reality we have to contend with is that there are so many, many, many incredible ignorant people out there

ABC TV gets Pauline Hanson on for an interview, where she goes on an absolutely vile hate rant against Islamic Australians. Also she wants to remove GST on building materials. Really looking forward to the next few years

The American Academy of Actuaries warns that dismantling NCAR would degrade the catastrophe models insurers depend on to price climate risk—driving up premiums and threatening coverage availability nationwide. "Uncertainty carries a positive cost." www.riskmarketnews.com/trumps-clima...

Although apologists for the state claim that strong, centralized government is necessary to prevent “chaos” and ethnic violence, in Syria, we see the opposite occurring: those who aim to centralize state power in their hands are using ethnic violence as a means to do so. crimethinc.com/Rojavaperil

UPDATES There are no more words to describe tne insanity going on : dozens of thousands of records are being smashed allover Asia. RUSSIA is with +24C at over 1000m asl and rising. In many areas is way warmer than a July day and next days will be MUCH hotter.

Thinking of Jon Kudelka and those who are in Tasmania today (awful place, never go there) attending his farewell. So very sad that we will never see another new, brilliant toon from him. Love to his family and friends. 🤍

Paul Keating was never afraid to call a racist a racist. Who thinks Albo is made of the same stuff?

Japan historically led the world as a car maker Now, Japan has ceded that position to China - means weaker external balances, fewer high‑wage domestic jobs And less spill‑over innovation into other sectors. While China does that in spades. bsky.app/profile/prof...

A year later Weev would play a key role in professionalizing the trolls who played a key role in getting Trump elected.

When they say the immigration policies of the 1950s, 60s and 70s, you know they mean the White Australia policy.

Not just Portugal...

In bad fire seasons we rely on the northern hemisphere to support us. We do the same in return. But climate change is messing with everything - incl making fire seasons longer. This is the 1st season since 2019–20 where VIC has asked for international support. www.abc.net.au/news/2026-02...

Our new columnist @grogsgamut.bsky.social on why establishment media is failing in our current moment www.deepcutnews.com/p/epstein-an...

Stay safe Wellingtonians… that is a big storm with strong winds… 174km/h at Mt Kaukau. Lots of houses without power. N🇳🇿 💨 🌀

The Z1onists have been at it for a long time. Remember this from 1986..?

Senior journalist Peter Lalor was among those attacked by police at the protest against Israel President Issac Herzog. “We were assaulted on the streets of our town by police itching for a fight". theklaxon.com.au/g2vd

Maybe if we seized the capital of nations that engaged in war, capitalist nations would be less prone to starting them? theconversation.com/how-europe-c...

The costs of climate adaptation will dwarf the cost of climate change.

Marx made predictions about declining labour power almost 200 years ago. He's still right.

China’s Yangtze River shows signs of remarkable recovery after fishing ban - the most positive freshwater conservation story in the world in 20 years, says one veteran biologist Story by @jonathan-watts.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Editorial: Jon Kudelka was a scientist and that method was in his cartooning. His horror at the world was a horror at the abandonment of facts and reason. Years working for a right-wing newspaper had made his jokes subtle and a little sly. satpa.pe/eshBNHO

9 Feb I reported antisemitic harassment to my federal MP #TimWilson. 42 minutes later, he responded from Canberra with screenshots of my business website, telling me I "put information in the public domain." This is what representation looks like in Goldstein 👇 open.substack.com/pub/suebarre...

Next time you hear someone ask how will the govt pay for <insert new spending on services> just remember right now the richest 10% get $27.5bn in tax breaks on just super, and negative gearing and the capital gains discount on housing www.theguardian.com/business/gro...

The negligent, outdated beliefs of medicine's management class (everywhere; from the UK inquiry here) contrasted with well-understood science from 👉1934👈. If you got sick after being told that COVID falls to the ground within 3 feet and N95/FFP2/FFP3 respirators aren't needed, 👉it was their fault.👈

“The most effective way to undermine a democracy today is to purchase it” open.substack.com/pub/georgets...

“Since one cannot know a radically better world is not possible, are we not betraying everyone by insisting on continuing to justify, and reproduce, the mess we have today? And anyway, even if we’re wrong, we might well get a lot closer.” - David Graeber

And the north island is going to be impacted by another big storm next week

New drone footage from @floodlightnews.org - the fossil methane power plant Musk built specifically to create abusive and racist material on his social media website is still wildly breaching EPA regulations even after a ruling against using them -->>> floodlightnews.org/thermal-dron...

Here is my cartoon about Mr Jon Kudelka www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

A great article by @jasonhickel.bsky.social and @yanisvaroufakis.bsky.social. But I do wish we could all stop using the wolf as a metaphor for the worst kinds of human behaviour. Wolves are wonderful creatures, endlessly maligned - and also victims of capitalism. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

The utter sham of offsets, yet again... “Destroying the equivalent of 40 MCGs worth of greater glider habitat and then attempting to relocate all hollows and claim this somehow offsets the harm to greater gliders is genuinely deluded, and contemptuous.” - me www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Today, under the cover of the Liberals tearing each other down, Labor has approved another coal mine extension. Extending Middlemount to 2044 means Labor has now approved 35 fossil fuel projects. In the middle of the climate crisis, they're approving more coal & gas.

please. please. please. make this happen!