Proposing targetted culls of sharks is a nonsense & demonstrates Dr Adam Smith is ignorant about shark life history, ecology & behaviour, & changing the statistical probability of exceedingly rare events. Sharks behave nothing like kangaroos, koalas & starfish. au.news.yahoo.com/calls-grow-f...

January 20. Three years remaining. Hopefully much less. Thank you for your attention to this matter!

Donald Trump plans to sign an executive order that would prevent other football games from scheduling against Army-Navy. awfulannouncing.com/college-foot...

So why does the winner (first-hand!) of the FIFA Peace Prize no longer have an obligation to think purely of peace? Is this why he is calling for an exclusive window for the Army-Navy college football game?

Meanwhile, Gianni Infantino

No, he has more in common with the Duke of York

This is a real letter, confirmed by the Norwegian government. Our Congress has the power and duty to stop, immediately, this unspeakable perversion of our military.

Globalise the infantile

I want to see someone give him a stick of Nobel's original invention as a prize

On This Day: 1948: Birth of British Hall of Famer Malcolm Reilly in Barkston Ash, Yorkshire, England 1895blog.com/halls-of-fam...

Not headline news. No real fuss by Democratic leaders. No calls to censure. No pushback. No questions asked of GOP leadership by the press. Just totally accepted anti-Muslim bigotry across the board.

Pro-Palestine activist Ahmed Azhar has announced he will run with the Socialists against Peter Malinauskas in the SA premier's electorate of Croydon – which he won with 75% of the two-party-preferred vote in 2022 – at March's state election WATCH: www.youtube.com/watch?v=h1Jb...

Today’s comic in @australia.theguardian.com It’s only mid January and we’ve had destructive cyclones, deadly heatwaves, bushfires followed by flash floods and the cherry on top, a coal approval!

Trump is trying to sell Palestinian sovereignty for $1 billion per seat while Palestinians are still being bombed and starved under the so-called “ceasefire.” This isn’t diplomacy, it’s profiteering off genocide. Australia better not touch this with a 10-foot pole.

"I feel badly for anybody who buys credits from Aetium in the belief they are helping ‘fight climate change’.” - ANU's professor Andrew Macintosh, following our referral of Aetium to consumer watchdogs.

Albanese (and everyone else) needs to decline this offer, and what's with the billion dollar membership fee if "Peace" takes longer than three years? And does the serial bankrupt property developer still have Mediterranean Mar-a-Lago on his agenda? www.abc.net.au/news/2026-01...

In 1964, Cameron Crowe’s mother took kids to see Bob Dylan, and after the concert, she issued a prescient warning.

Originally posted Jan. 15, 2026: 🔴 At least 12 civilians have been killed and more than 16 injured when the RSF carried out a drone strike on a market in Dilling, South Kordofan, in central Sudan, as fighting intensifies in the area, Sudan Tribune reports. Medical staff said hospitals are...

Houston Texans’ Azeez Al-Shaair has reportedly been fined $11,593 for wearing eye black that contained the message "stop the genocide” The report says he was fined for violating NFL uniform and equipment rules www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/...

If it's Cary Grant's birthday, it must surely be time for me to post the "puppy in the jacket pocket" picture again. Be rude not to, really.

#OtD 18 Jan 1922 unemployed people in Greenwich and Deptford, London occupied the Board of Guardians offices demanding a coal grant to those receiving unemployment relief. The allowance was granted that same afternoon stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/8977...

"I'm in the wrong meeting."

The Nobel parody memes are getting better and better!🤣 #Trump #Nobel #PeacePrize

A real shame if this photo went viral again today.

Ok I'm going to bed Bill Kristol is quoting Karl Marx

This generates more questions than answers. (There's only one answer btw: No.)

The following post is a comprehensive, formal analysis of the Australian Labor Party’s exposure draft Combatting Antisemitism, Hate and Extremism Bill 2026 (the Bill), first released on 13 January 2026. It’s now appears to be dead in the water, as it should be blakandblack.com/2026/01/18/a...

Pictures from Gaza Strip are horrifying. How come no-one is asking why Israel's IDF had to turn practically all of the Strip into rubble to defeat a relatively small Hamas army? Hamas neither defeated nor destroyed (unlike Gaza Strip) & is now refusing to disarm. War, or land clearance operation?

Catch as Catch Can, by Francis Picabia, 1913

One of the most interesting aspects of contemporary media discourse is the way that massive popular displays of support for pro-Palestinian and pacifist positions are just ignored by mainstream media. The Gathering for Gaza gig in Melbourne was huge

On Greenland... and everything else...

Gaza tourist haven incoming

Did Harry S Truman use autopen?

Kleptocracy kakistocracy klanocracy

Adelaide Writers’ Week books in warehouse limbo after festival implodes www.indailysa.com.au/news/just-in...

we have a fascist party and we have a party of fascist enablers

Here’s a quick block for everyone

This is the second time in less than two weeks that Tucker Carlson - an extremist who promotes antisemitism, white nationalism, and idiotic anti-government conspiracy theories - has been welcomed in Trump’s White House.

Two days ago it was Elissa Slotkin. Last week it was Jerome Powell. Before that, Mark Kelly. Weaponizing the justice system against your opponents is an authoritarian tactic. The only person not being investigated for the shooting of Renee Good is the federal agent who shot her.

The US is run by a racist organised crime syndicate and Australia should leave its Ambassador position vacant once Kevin Rudd departs.

"Economic terrorist" is the term you're looking for

Another reminder of the genocide that the Israeli Government and its Defence Forces are enacting on their Palestinian neighbours. Condemnation of these actions must not fall under the definition of "antisemitism" or "hate speech".

Just in case you needed the reminder - the right to disconnect is now law. Because if you're not being paid 24 hours a day, you shouldn't be on call 24 hours a day.

No, they should be impeaching & removing already. The fact it’s progressed this far is already a total abdication of their constitutional responsibilities.

Rich kids squabbling in the schoolyard

One of the stories that makes me the saddest out of this ICE invasion is one out of the Minnesota Star Tribune today about ICE agents eating at a little Mexican restaurant in the small town of Willmar, Minn, —and then, when they were done, arresting some of the workers.

Possession of a medallion is irrelevant to the fact of identity of the *winner* of the underlying prize