in addition to every other problem here, mamdani spends the vast majority of his time in the public eye speaking about hyper-local new york city governance issues. the idea that he is preoccupied with israel at all times is based on nothing other than the fact that he is muslim

Nazi is as Nazi does

Scientific American is 180 years old. The most eminent science magazine for the general public. And today, sold off as scrap to stop the staff from unionizing. Many top editors I've worked with for a decade on several articles have been fired. What a disgrace @sciam.bsky.social

Watching BBC News and they just did 5 minutes with a doctor about how this heatwave is life threatening and the interviewer closed it with "well, it's just an opportunity to have ice cream for breakfast!!". Amazing clip of how the BBC seems just blissfully unaware of what is happening

Tend to agree with the theory that he's trying to get fired by Nine for the complete "I've been cancelled" pipeline. www.theguardian.com/media/2026/j...

"t seems it’s out with the old and in with the old." Succinctly put by @zackpolanski.bsky.social Northern Starmer might even turn out to be WORSE than southern Starmer. Labour is changing the wrapper nothing else.

Gina will be pleased 😱🤣 "Canavan demanded on Wednesday that Hanson declare her party’s position on the fuel tax credit scheme after Farley supported an independent-led push on Tuesday to cap the benefit for the wealthiest mining companies, and to redirect the savings to renewable energy projects."

Really annoyed with the #Lowy Institute. For the second time, they’ve asked Australians whether we should seek a nuclear-powered submarine, then reported the answer as “support for #AUKUS”. I wrote and complained last time and they said they would fix it, but they haven’t.

Meet James Purnell. Andy Burnham's chief of staff. In earlier incarnation, he supported the Iraq invasion; was chairman of Labour Friends of Israel; said that Winter Fuel Allowance and free bus passes should not be sacred; supported PFI, lie-detector tests for benefit claimants. What next?

The reflecting pool debacle is the perfect visual metaphor for the Trump Administration - superficial approaches to complex problems leading to worse outcomes than if he had done nothing.

Reminder: -Our farms are no longer yielding -Heatwaves -Advancement of desert is alarming -Our rivers are drying -Proliferation of pest and pathogens -Development of tropical diseases. -Our crop are dieing out. Climate change is a reality we must fight.

Victorian state Liberal MP denies assault on fellow Lib MP amid police probe over dinner ‘incident’ www.heraldsun.com.au/news/victori... #springst #auslaw archive version: archive.is/uPTKa

Trump literally drove a presidential motorcade through the reflecting pool while it was still being refurbished & before the new liner even dried properly. if you drift a bunch of armored SUVs around inside of a dry pool, it damages the liner. it isn’t difficult to figure out what happened.

Just when you think it can’t get more weird….. Fencing going up around Reflecting Pool

AOC on the Reflecting Pool: They talked a bunch of smack. They said they had to repaint the pool, and now they’ve turned it into an actual swamp.

Step 1: Guardsmen around the Reflecting Pool Step 2: Fence around the Reflecting Pool Step 3: Tarp around the Reflecting Pool Step 4: Ballroom around the Reflecting Pool

“I will be one of the Jewish members of Congress most willing to stand up for Palestinian human rights. And I will stand firmly against bigotry aimed at Jews. Those are not two different jobs. They are the same job,” Brad Lander said.

You have to wonder: if Nine is worth $2.8m a year to him (and just let that sit with you for a bit...), and he's either trying to get himself sacked or doesn't care if he is - what else has he been offered, and by whom? The Oz RW media griftosphere alone isn't going to pay that sort of compensation.

Hmm. Newly arrived, don't speak the language, immediately given housing and food and provided with all their needs... are babies the real immigrants we need to fear?

NY-10, my district, is the most Jewish congressional district in the country, w/about 25% of voters identifying as Jewish. And yet tonight the district threw out pro-Israel Rep. Dan Goldman, and elected Brad Lander, who calls Gaza a genocide and favors an cut-off of weapons to Israel, by 30+ pts. 1/

New figures out today show 27% of women who would like to work but don't, cite child care as the main barrier. 2% of men cite child care. live.thepoint.com.au

"Political operatives are trying to intimidate me. It's not going to work". Fucking brilliant stuff by @amyremeikis.bsky.social www.deepcutnews.com/p/political-...

Absolutely superb work by @skyelark.bsky.social: Hanson's massive non-English speaking figure includes 100,000 babies. Yes, really. thepoint.com.au/factchecks/2...

So many years of him not understanding what an asylum seeker is.

“Raised doubts” FFS.

It’s cold and foggy in Canberra, but @amyremeikis.bsky.social is up and blogging #PointLive live.thepoint.com.au

It's the 10th anniversary of the dumbest moment in modern British history so let's celebrate some of the idiots who made it happen. First up ... Jacob Rees-Mogg and his promise of cheap food and wine... In fact food prices have increased some 12% as a direct result of Brexit (LSE) 1/5

Whinge Nation encapsulates everything they are

"It is an admirable idea that these awful allegations are fully investigated by our own authorities, independently of political influence. But nobody should expect the outcome of this investigation to lead to anything." @marquelawyers.com.au #auspol www.crikey.com.au/2026/06/23/g...

Pauline Hanson confirms she wants to end maternity leave, claiming it forces businesses to “fold” Clearly just rubbish. And clearly One Nation want to force women to choose b/w having kids & having a job. Not a policy, a dangerous misinformation campaign. #auspol

“The safeguard mechanism is failing.” – Fergus Green, Associate Professor, University College London Read more ➡️ https://theaus.in/4uOVh5G

The same day top mining lobbyist Tania Constable claimed @australiainstitute.org.au criticisms of the government’s safeguard mechanism were “ridiculous" ....turns out the government paid foreign owned gas exporter/ tax cheat - Shell $90m free carbon offsets despite INCREASING it’s emissions

Cost of living is rising in Australia – but migrants are not the cause. “People have really felt the squeeze, but migration isn't the issue here and blaming migrants is not going to fix the problem.” – Matt Grudnoff, Senior Economist For more info 👇 https://theaus.in/3SVnxWS

Still thinking of ways to build community (you know, before the pogroms) and have met some very thoughtful and concerned people looking for the same answers. And it is also clear that there is a big difference between attending an event and building community.

“If the government is serious about reducing emissions, it should be serious about getting rid of fossil fuel subsidies and serious about putting binding targets on major polluters like the mining industry.” – co-CEO Dr Richard Denniss Read more ➡️ https://theaus.in/4eBVdQv

We really don't need them

The Safeguard Mechanism is failing to drive real emissions reductions across Australian industry because it enables polluters to rely on unlimited amounts of so-called “offsets”. Read the full report 👇 https://theaus.in/3SffmEO

A 25% tax on gas exports could raise $17 billion every year. That's enough to fund public schools to agreed levels while the current students are still enrolled and not after they graduate. ✍ Sign the petition to support a 25% gas export tax: https://theaus.in/3QAc3HK

Tuesday: Parliament is sitting and @amyremeikis.bsky.social is blogging #PointLive live.thepoint.com.au

Centrist Americans being mystified by Kier Starmer's unpopularity despite him doing everything they're always telling Democrats to do is so funny. Just the biggest dumbasses around.

The endlessly brave Andrey X gives Starmer a dose of what he deserves here.

i think, if I tried to boil it down to a sentence, it'd be: "All politicians are hated by their opponents - but Starmer went out of his way to be hated by his supporters too."

Look I’m just an old lefty, but if the leader of a supposedly progressive party has been knighted, I’m pretty sure that a 🚩 right there that he ain’t exactly in touch with the people

Mamdani has shown everyone that Starmer’s(et al) bullshit “need to find the centre by being right wing” is total unadulterated horse shit.

Remember him this way *forces out a tear*

Keir Starmer lied through his teeth to become Labour leader. He justified Israeli war crimes, arrested opponents of genocide, attacked pensioners, disabled people and migrants, pocketed freebies, crushed dissent and threw others under the bus to save himself. History damns him

On behalf of the people of Gaza; of our trans siblings; of every minority made to feel even less safe; of every prisoner of conscience smeared as a terrorist by corrupt jurisprudence; and anyone else harmed by his short tenure, I hope his descent is long and arduous and he enjoys the fucking ride.

Kind of says it all that he looked in the reflecting poll and couldn’t see who was responsible for ruining it.