London’s “worst mass eviction in recent history” is underway; hundreds of households across London told to get out of their homes this week by the same landlord, ahead of the renters rights act. The landlord? Billionaire Asif Aziz’s Criterion Capital. www.londoncentric.media/p/asif-aziz-...

Please explain www.abc.net.au/news/2025-02...

PayPal Confirms Data Breach — Money Stolen, Passwords Reset

Gisele Pelicot’s husband drugged her for a decade & invited men to rape her A man in the UK drugged his wife for 20 years & invited men to rape her. This man drugged 248 women at job interviews. He gave them something to make them urinate on themselves We aren’t angry enough

If a child says, ‘I won’t’, don’t reach for a label

Farah fled Morocco because it’s a crime to be homosexual She applied for asylum in the US but rather than finding safety, she was thrown in a camp for a year. A judge ruled she couldn’t be sent back to Morocco, so the regime sent her to Cameroon. It’s illegal to be gay there too:

Why does the Australian Future Fund hold a $100 million stake in Palantir? www.crikey.com.au/2026/02/20/c...

A landmark study finds 95 per cent of Australian enterprise agreements fail to address workplace surveillance www.theaustralian.com.au/nation/just-...

Reducing human value to what we can be trained to do is straight up technofascism. Every fascism has its suhumans. To technofascists, humans are the subhumans.

Yachts are rich people's carbon bombs. Yachts are a policy failure. We should put a 100% luxury tax on yachts, and put the money into green infrastructure that cuts carbon pollution and protects coastal communities from floods.

Politicians are outnumbered by lobbyists in Parliament House 15 to one; on sitting days hundreds of lobbyists roam the halls in Canberra, meeting with Ministers to influence government policies. My Clean Up Politics Act would shine a light on lobbyists’ activities.

So, like some kind of voice to parliament? Without referendum?

Gisèle Pelicot graces the cover of vogue germany, on the International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women

This should make your blood boil. But coming from a small country town, it is not at all surprising.

I’ve been listening to the ABC’s Background Briefing podcast, Hometown Boys, about a small, footy obsessed town that has a rape culture that is protected by this local community, because those that play for the Harrow Balmoral Football Club are considered rock stars. www.abc.net.au/news/2026-02...

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“We can’t just look at the abusers. We have to look at the society that enables them.” Explore this gift article from The New York Times. You can read it for free without a subscription. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/21/o...

As allies share their national risk assessments for climate breakdown, the Albanese government refuses to release its ‘frankly terrifying’ report from 2022. satpa.pe/cRdWxhY

This kinda reads like a joke that doesn’t need a punchline. ‘Gatto, Newman, Marshall and Setches walk on to a yacht…’ but it isn’t a joke. www.theage.com.au/national/rot...

It needs to be said clearly that it would be absolutely insane for the United States to start a war of aggression against Iran. If anyone thinks that Trump gives a rip about democracy or human rights you are kidding yourself. It’ll be another campaign of domination and plunder.

“[People in the plastics industry] are very happy for us to look at ourselves and at each other, and not look at them,” says @bethgardiner.bsky.social, author of "Plastic Inc: Big Oil, Big Money and the Plan to Trash our Future."

A ransomware attack has forced one of Mississippi’s largest health care systems to close clinics across the state on Friday, raising larger concerns about the cybersecurity of medical facilities across the country.

Exclusive: Robodebt architect remains employed in a senior governance role in the public service www.crikey.com.au/2026/02/20/r...

“Governance”??? I have *no* doubt that the the architect of the unlawful welfare compliance scheme Robodebt would have known, just like *anybody* else in that dept, that averaging annual taxable incomes could not possibly give an accurate value for fortnightly income for income test purposes.

“It just beggars belief how many people have taken the side of the rapists,” Twiggy says. “… [They] did something horrendous and atrocious. “And they’ve not owned up to it and they’ve been found guilty twice and people are still on their side.” www.abc.net.au/news/2026-02...

…money talks — and it's always louder than a woman's screams. www.abc.net.au/news/2026-02...

how misogyny, racism, and homphobia get to flourish in academia. www.salon.com/2026/02/19/j...

“A woman was murdered in Reservoir, Victoria, last night. A man known to her is charged over her homicide. She is the 10th Australian woman killed this year. Police allege the Reservoir victim was deliberately run down by the man with his car.“ #Auspol

Drought deepens hunger in northern Kenya as aid cuts bite Four years after a record drought devastated northern Kenya, failed rains are once again causing starvations, with aid cuts forcing agencies to scale back their efforts and feed fewer people.

<irony on> That would disqualify most One Nation voters, and lots of Libs/Nats. Perhaps we should deport them to wherever they or their ancestors came from <irony off>

Bendigo business group hasn’t caved to pressure to cancel the Grace Tame event. It will go ahead. www.abc.net.au/news/2026-02...

This agreement allows DHS agencies like CBP & ICE to essentially skip the competitive bidding process. Palantir's software is considered dangerous primarily because its technology facilitates mass surveillance & enables targeting which erodes civil liberties. Gift link => archive.ph/1yX5v

Can cows swim? Is this a question you never knew you wanted to know the answer to?

We owe a great deal to this lesser known Darwin

While it might be nice to see him prosecuted for passing secret trade info, let's remember he's not being charged with anything to do with Epstein's sex trafficking. He'll likely escape any consequences of abusing underage girls. Along with all the other paedoligarchs. www.abc.net.au/news/2026-02...

If only it were possible to wrest the microphone on Australian republicanism from the easy does it yacht club crowd at the ARM. The ARM promise that nothing would change in an Australian republic is yet another example of small target politics making itself irrelevant.

AOC describes what has happened in Gaza as a genocide, praises the idea of wealth taxes and has condemned corporate monopolies. Those positions are correct, and they are shared by many Democratic voters. But not by most of the party’s other 2028 hopefuls. trib.al/x5i2RnA

NBC ran a piece where Mary Carrillo went to Norway to find out why they're so good at the Winter Olympics and i was yelling BECAUSE IT'S COLD THERE then she went to a little tiny ski jump for kids and was like "it's free, equipment is provided, & they don't emphasize results" and i was like. oh!

One of the things that personally drives me crazy in the U.S. is how youth sports/athletic activities went from a part of the public good (municipal leagues and fields! rec centers! public parks!) to a privatized, expensive, highly competitive, highly structured pursuit for wealthy kids’ résumés

Oh, my goodness, this is a huge breakthrough in cancer research. This is another example of why it is crucially important to fund basic scientific research. Scientists Discover How To “Switch Off” Cancer Genes for Good share.google/WFhMJP5m3AK4...

“No child should be a test subject for unregulated AI.” António Guterres, UN Secretary-General, 18 Feb 2026

Grace Brewster Hopper (1906 –1992) was an American computer scientist, mathematician, and US Navy rear admiral. She was the first to devise the theory of machine-independent programming languages, and developed two early high-level programming languages still in use today. #CelebratingWomen

Pauline Hanson has spent decades demonising Muslims in the Senate with zero consequences, but put an anti-fascist poster on your bar wall and the AFP comes knocking. Labor's first scalp under their hate speech laws isn't a hate group and that says everything.

Federal police raided Dissent Bar in Canberra and stripped anti-fascist posters off the walls under Labor's brand new hate speech laws. Not a Nazi compound. A local café with political art. This is what biased laws look like in practice. 🧵

Britain's former prince Andrew has been arrested on suspicion of misconduct during his time as a trade envoy, police say. "As part of the investigation, we have today (19/2) arrested a man in his sixties from Norfolk on suspicion of misconduct in public office," the Thames Valley force said.

OMFG Alcoa will pay $55 million through enforceable undertakings cos for 6 YEARS between 2019-2025 they ILLEGALLY CLEARED jarrah forest, including habitat for endangered black cockatoos, for bauxite mining without approvals

!!! #auspol

"One prominent Liberal woman outside the parliamentary party, who likes Taylor personally, says he is a 'caricature of a Liberal male – males who have managed to progressively alienate women from the Liberal party'." - Michelle Grattan