The mayor of Tamworth Council is a very old mate of Barnaby Joyce's and a National party member No surprises this backward collection of red-necks drags their council to court on their ratepayers' money to oppose a wind farm - and even then can't get their legal arguments right

This is BRUTAL. Trump LOUDLY BOOED at the Commanders game. America lets him know exactly how they feel — to his face.

Trump getting booed at the Commanders game

Israeli settlers attack Palestinians, journalists at West Bank olive harvest, witnesses say ground.news/article/wild... it's Lebensraum supported by Netanyahu

$40B of your money to this guy, so he can dance at CPAC at Mar-a-Lago while Americans wait for their paychecks, hoping the money actually comes.

“Whitlam announced “there should not be foreign military bases, stations, installations in Australia. We will honour agreements covering existing stations. We do not favour extensions or prolongation of any of those existing ones”.” Oh, how I miss him. #auspol johnmenadue.com/post/2025/11...

This is because Intuit, Inc. gave Donald Trump $1,000,000 for his "inauguration." Intuit owns Turbo Tax, which makes money off charging taxpayers to file their returns. The corruption is rampant and in plain sight.

Our EO @sarahschwartz.bsky.social spoke to ABC News this morning about yesterday’s neo-Nazi stunt outside NSW Parliament. We stand with Jewish people and all people impacted by racism and acts of hate.

Israeli forces kill several people across Gaza, as settlers and military continue attacks in the occupied West Bank.

Just spitballing here, but wouldn’t power prices go down if power companies weren’t allowed to gouge customers? #insiders

@bmj.com, a renowned health journal, slams car bloat: "Cars are becoming steadily larger, [and] with this comes potential harms to health...Action is needed locally, nationally, and internationally to curb sales of new SUVs and to reduce their presence in urban areas." www.bmj.com/content/391/...

According to The Age, it appears that Rene Rivkin (died 2005) and David McNicoll (died 2000) rose from the dead to launch a newsletter.

Trump calls it a 'disgrace' that South Africa is hosting the G20, reiterates debunked claims of a white 'genocide'.

“Providing the homeless with a place to live may seem like a high cost for taxpayers. But the alternative, it turns out, is more costly, new research shows. Subsidized accommodation could actually be a bargain for the public, in purely economic terms.” Via @fastcompany

The National Association of the Deaf is celebrating a legal victory against the White House. A judge ordered ASL for briefings conducted by the press secretary or President Trump.

Nobel Prize winner James Watson died at 97 having made monumental contributions to science while also leaving a legacy tarnished by sexism, racism and the erasure of colleagues like Rosalind Franklin. His life illustrates both the best and worst of the scientific establishment.

Socialism is what they called public power. Socialism is what they called social security. Socialism is what they called the growth of free and independent labor organizations. Socialism is their name for almost anything that helps all the people. —Harry Truman, 1952

A $12 billion loss, you say? in three months

Buried in the Big Beautiful Bill were changes to food assistance that demanded “any future change be cost-neutral. Translation: no more benefit increases, even if food prices skyrocket.” The result was “institutionalized hunger.” @kristencrowell.bsky.social www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

Sick beyond comprehension. “Marles says the Indo-Pacific exposition will showcase “an incredible display of what our industry can produce; awesome power, ingenious autonomous systems and craft of all shapes and sizes which span the breadth of the beautiful, the menacing and the extremely cool”.”

Whoever made this, you nailed it.

Exactly via @thelondoneconomic.bsky.social

For those who will bear witness. For everyone who pretends there was benevolence from 'employers' & governments, and no slavery in Australia; who believes Tony Abbott's version of history. Debra Dank writes with beauty and anger of the truth we cannot dodge. theconversation.com/friday-essay...

How much longer is this farce of a sideshow going to continue? NACC Commissioner, Paul Brereton, is once again embroiled in controversy. The NACC Inspector, Gail Furness is currently investigating several complaints against Mr Brereton. His position is untenable. www.abc.net.au/news/2025-11...

Um, do federal prosecutors *really* want to take the position that it's not okay to receive something of value from … Qatar? I can think of 747 reasons why they shouldn't. 🤔

Totally normal

▫️ At least Sophie Mirabella is relieved ▫️

US president says Gaza ceasefire 'working out very well' despite deadly Israeli attacks and severe aid restrictions.

Two top executives furiously backtracked from an earlier comment that suggested OpenAI might need government support to cover the $1.4 trillion in chips and data center infrastructure it’s committed to buying. https://cnn.it/4hKJ4dv

The CA Supreme Court rejected a First Amendment challenge to a state law that protects the rights of gay and transgender people in nursing homes. bit.ly/3Lkm3lz 📝 @nigelduara.bsky.social 📸 Damian Dovarganes, AP

If kids got raped by clowns as often as they get raped by preachers it would be against the law to take your kids to the circus. joemygod.com/2025/11/mo-y...

Leaked internal documents showed not only that Meta (Facebook etc) failed to remove scammers, but actually decided to identify scam-prone victims and TARGETED them. The scammier the advertiser was, the more they charged. It’s unquestionably aiding and abetting crime. arstechnica.com/tech-policy/...

Let’s hear more of the dangers of democratic socialism under Mamdani

In @nytopinion “For institutions tied to the Emirates, choosing to act” or speak out about the genocide in Sudan “would have an economic cost,” write three experts in global human rights. “Yet the cost of silence, of continuing business as usual, is infinitely greater.”

The editorial takeover of Teen Vogue now looking even *more* sinister.

These red wave pollsters are to polling what Fox News is to news. Final poll (Sherrill-Ciatarelli): Atlas 50-49 (+1) Emerson 50-48 (+2) co/efficient 48-47 (+1) Quantus 49-46 (+3) Trafalgar/Insider Advantage 45-44 (+1) Sherrill wins by +13.4 pts (56-43) 👇 www.hopiumchronicles.com/p/my-2025-el...

The carbon market is not the way to do CO₂ removal (CDR). If we're serious about this, it has to be a government-led effort.

We have put a lot of effort recently in making available the entire archive of OVERLAND’s 70+ year history. In that spirit, on the penultimate day of Subscriberthon we bring you this previously unpublished interview with historian Humphrey McQueen on state violence and the arming of the police.

"As efforts to silence dissent and deny freedom of speech gather pace, the spaces for democratic engagement steadily diminish, and notions of transparency, accountability and integrity in government are reduced to empty rhetoric." johnmenadue.com/post/2025/11...

The inspector of the National Anti-Corruption Commission is inquiring into the agency's head, Paul Brereton, in relation to several complaints including from a former employee.

When I talk about how the history of progressive/radical movements is tied to a history of intimacy this is what I mean. Socialism is always both a theory of economic redistribution and a chance to hang out!!

“authors & publishers who filed a lawsuit against the Sam Altman-led firm have secured access to internal Slack messages… discussing the mass deletion of a pirated books dataset… A NY district court ordered OpenAI to hand over the communications regarding data deletion” futurism.com/artificial-i...

Gaming regulator announces temporary halt on accepting bribes www.abc.net.au/news/2025-11...

Stellar political commentary from the team at @theshovel.bsky.social. #auspol

Hard to understand a govt that thinks a News Corp campaign is good policy

Palestinian football suffers under occupation and apartheid, while Israeli settlement teams play freely, writes Palestinian footballer Mohammed Bassim Rashid ⬇️

Identities presents a curated selection of Open Access articles that illuminate Black histories and lived experiences across the Black Atlantic: spr.ly/633237K36R

The Fairey Band have been British brass band champions nine times, now they're bringing the soundtrack of Wallace & Gromit to the stage.

These clips are unusual because Trump has difficulty getting through a single take. Typically his stuff cuts between a shot front on, and then a shot from the side - a 3/4 profile. Given his health, it's a peculiar achievement him to get through 30 seconds without flubbing something.