Exciting news as UN Special Rapporteur on Human Rights and the Environment Astrid Puentes Riaño is granted leave to be heard in our client’s case against Woodside’s massive North West Shelf gas extension Johnson Legal proud to represent Friends of Australian Rock Art 👇 chuffed.org/project/1358...

Dunnarts! The photos in this ABC story are wonderful. "They do have a fairly big personality for such a small animal." www.abc.net.au/news/2026-05...

Here we Joh again. Violent clashes as the Crisafulli government sends police in to destroy the Goori Camp Embassy at Barrambin Victoria Park, Queensland. Indigenous people & supporters vow to fight on, returning to camp at dusk. Bulldozers scheduled for Monday. #qldpol

The Queen spoke the truth #auspol

Israel’s defence minister says large-scale Palestinian migration from Gaza will go ahead

First of five survivors rescued from flooded Laos cave

NEW: A federal judge just ruled Trump’s name was added to the Kennedy Center illegally and must be removed. The judge wrote the law is crystal clear that only congress can change the name, and blocked Trump’s closing of it. www.nytimes.com/live/2026/05...

China builds seawater-cooled wind turbine powered offshore data centres off Shanghai. www.youtube.com/watch?v=piEL...

I'm sure it's just a happy coincidence.

CONAN AT HARVARD: “No university in our nation has produced more Nobel laureates or white collar criminals… so whether you choose good or evil, know that you are among the very best.”

Step 1: Start a war with Iran. Step 2: Iran demands $300B in reparations. Step 3: Send your son-in-law…a real estate developer to pitch… investment properties. This is not satire. This is American foreign policy in 2026. #USDemocracy #Pinks apple.news/A8AOmptFXRoi...

Rescued baby kangaroo takes his first steps IG: The Kangaroo Sanctuary Alice Springs, Australia

Kal @kaltoons on #Iran #EpicFury #iranwar #middleeastwar #Middleeast @TheEconomist – political cartoon gallery in London original-political-cartoon.com

Amazing story this morning on AM about a conservative legal organisation, the Samuel Griffiths Society, lobbying the govt on High Court judge appointments. AG Michelle Rowlands refused to comment. Lobbying govt for judicial appointments should be illegal.

#abc breakfast finishing the week with John Farnham singing ‘from the river to the sea’ ! Has there been a change behind closed doors ? Not the first tiny but significant anti Zionism sign I’ve noticed. Still a long way to go though.

Hey, there's alot happening, but something to note: Trump burned the engine of U.S. science to the ground last year. They did it, it's done. The bell done rung, and until these men are driven out of town with pitchforks and hammers, we won't be able to rebuild a new engine. #ScienceSky 🧪

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Science matters. Here's a few headlines and stories that caught our attention this week. A flooded future for cities like New Orleans and T-Rex's tiny arms. We're thinking of doing more shorts like this, so if you like it, please let us know and pass it on. 🧪🦖🌊 www.youtube.com/shorts/tQm0A...

🧪 #BundibugyoVirus #Ebola #HealthcareWorkers „Since the outbreak was identified this month, Lokudu says a further five members of his staff are thought to have contracted the virus, three of whom have died, although testing for the disease has yet to catch up“ www.theguardian.com/global-devel...

🧪❄️🌊 I chatted with Patrick Pester at @livescience.com about the impending demise of the Thwaites Eastern Ice Shelf, future change to Thwaites Glacier itself and the implications for sea-level rise. www.livescience.com/planet-earth... #Antarctica #sealevel #ThwaitesGlacier

'I forgot what it feels like to be outside' – First (UK) rooftop intensive care ward opens. 🧪 www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

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BREAKING: KPMG Australia CEO Andrew Yates has resigned. Follows explosive Senate evidence revealed by Senator Deborah O’Neill of an internal whistleblower being suppressed after exposing KPMG Partners accessing secret Lendlease files to rig multi-million dollar tenders. #auspol

“Pauline Hanson and Barnaby Joyce billed taxpayers more than $3,000 to attend fundraising and donor events on board the luxury cruise ship The World, hosted by the mining billionaire Gina Rinehart.” www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

"The United Nations has added Israel to its blacklist of parties accused of committing sexual violence in conflict zones. "The experts said abuses occur in multiple contexts, including detention, checkpoints and house raids, and involve Israeli forces and illegal settlers.

Today, we have imposed a €200 million fine on Temu under the Digital Services Act, for failing to identify, analyse, and assess the systemic risks of illegal products being offered on its platform. 🔗 link.europa.eu/YFcf6y

He wasn’t quite able to create the sound he wanted.

UK's rudest chalk figure gets a glow-up to stop it fading in the rain. 🧪 www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Just released - latest WMO decadal outlook report "The annually averaged global mean near-surface temperature for each year between 2026 and 2030 is predicted to be between 1.3°C and 1.9°C higher than the average over the years 1850-1900." library.wmo.int/viewer/69882...

🛰️ Using old satellite radar techniques, scientists have developed a new way of measuring the true extent of an under-studied and crucial region of the #Antarctic sea-ice system for the first time. 🌊 aappartnership.org.au/miz-ing-in-a...

Springsteen. Choose peace over war. #nowar

i need hell to be real so bad, man

BREAKING: Ethics complaint just filed against Pam Bondi — & it's damning She ran DOJ like a weapon — & now 100+ scholars, retired judges & retired FL Supreme Court Chief Justice Peggy Quince — joined by @democracydefendersfund.org @ldadorg.bsky.social & LFRL — are holding her accountable -TN

“Today WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, PhD, said the conditions in the DRC are making it nearly impossible for contact tracing and containment, the only tools health workers have to limit disease caused by the Bundibugyo strain of the virus.” www.cidrap.umn.edu/ebola/ebola-...

"Caravan" (1936) - Juan Tizol, Duke Ellington & his Famous Orchestra #coffeebreak 🎶🎧 www.youtube.com/watch?v=0jpH...

UC Berkeley Law creates new AI policy that bans AI for "conceptualizing, outlining, drafting, revising, translating, or editing any work submitted for credit" or exams because "thinking remains the sine qua non of good lawyering (and of a quality legal education)." That's what I'm talking about.

#Neoliberalism is cancer - Exhibit X - #Employment services in #Australia #auspol

Dear ABC, You might need to offer these two a gig.

How is the Australian federal government doing at meeting its obligations under the Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework? "Terribly," says wildlife ecologist @euanritchie.bsky.social. However, the government claims they are 'on track' on most of those targets. Listen here @mongabay.com

"The entire catchment of the River Wye has been formally recognised as a living ecosystem with intrinsic rights in a charter" a first for Wales, second for the UK after the River Ouse in 2025. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Why the only viable solution to an ectopic pregnancy is an abortion. Via Jeff Yoo MD Abortion is healthcare #pinks

Obviously trained but still, what an intelligent crow. 🐦‍⬛👑 (Cr: @coolcrow) #birds #crow #intelligence

When he’s right, he’s right.

Ossoff: "What those who build ballrooms and monuments for themselves, what they hate the most is when people hold them accountable at the polls. So why Fulton County? I submit to you it is bc the fact Black voters were instrumental to his defeat might be more offensive to him than the defeat itself"

i love her make her president

In addition, literal stacks of M4000 chemical bombs, used by the Assad regime to drop sarin on civilians in 3 recorded incidents, were found and photographed. Yet more evidence everything we published at Bellingcat based on our open source investigations of chemical attacks was accurate.

We’ve launched an investigation into the popular online gaming platform Roblox. Roblox built an online pedophile playground. We’re going to uncover what the company knew about child exploitation on its platform, how they have profited, and what they have or haven’t done to protect our kids online.

THIS Friday 29 May marks 1 year since 5 local environment grps began protesting the @albomp.bsky.social gov's approval of WoodCIDE's North West Shelf Extension carbon💣 that'll harm Murujuga Indigenous rock art cultural heritage & enable Browse gas devt JOIN US 12.30PM at 219 Barkly Street, St Kilda