Nothing says “land of the free” like armed agents of the state saying “show me your papers if you want your daughter back” bsky.app/profile/nbcb...

Australians pay; Japan and Woodside profit. #climateemergency next-themonthly-www/zali-steggal... Code of resilience | The Monthly

It’s not feasible for a political party to win in Australia without a credible commitment to reducing carbon emissions, and that is only likely to become more so as the planet warms and life becomes less tolerable and more expensive through higher insurance premiums 👇 www.abc.net.au/news/2025-05...?

Louis Theroux deploying his usual charming candour and eliciting the most chilling of answers has (naturally) earned him the anti semitism badge. Well worth a watch. #thesettlers youtu.be/tC8l09ut418?...

It's rather remarkable and quite illuminating that Louis Theroux is being accused of antisemitism by simply broadcasting the words of Zionists.

I want a well hung parliament and a very cross bench. Very fucking cross.

“The government is asserting a right to stash away residents of this country in foreign prisons without the semblance of due process that is the foundation of our constitutional order." - from the 4th Circuit's ruling on the Abrego-Garcia case. The US judiciary is still holding the line.

🏆 @rollingstone.com wins the Headline of the Day Award This is how it’s done. At least someone understands the assignment. www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

I'm old enough to remember JD Vance saying in the debate in October: "The most sacred right under the United States democracy is the First Amendment. . . . Kamala Harris wants to use the power of government and big tech to silence people from speaking their minds. That is a threat to democracy."

If the Atlantic journo that got added to Trump’s war-planning Signal chat was Australian, he could’ve copped two years in prison just for being added. How? @daanysaeed.bsky.social explains.

If the White House is insisting that there was no classified or secret information in the Signal chat, does that mean Jeffrey Goldberg can publish it all?

The PERKINS COIE law firm spits hot fire in its suit against Trump’s executive order aimed at punishing the firm. Strongly recommend reading the first 10 paragraphs of the “WHAT THIS CASE IS ABOUT” section. (h/t @mikescarcella.bsky.social) fingfx.thomsonreuters.com/gfx/legaldoc...

“The populist right is powered by scarcity. When there is not enough to go around, we look with suspicion on anyone who might take what we have. This is the fuel of Trump’s politics. Scarcity — or the perception of it — is the precondition to his success.” www.nytimes.com/2025/03/09/o...

Women and girls are on the frontline of climate change, but their stories are seldom heard. A vital piece by my dear friend @sanammahoozi.bsky.social, who recently received her PhD!🥳

It would be helpful if more people understood renewable energy is actually an extremely disruptive technology and the reason monied interests are trying to make folks hate it is that they are the ones which will be disrupted.

In case you’re wondering why home insurance is costing more and more, Australia’s 3rd largest city is about to experience a rare Cyclone - fuelled by rising sea temperatures.

If you work at the Washington Post, now is the time to resign. You’re a part of this now.

We should have a Royal State Visit for Zelenskyy instead, on a grander scale than anything the Queen put on from Trump last time round.

At University of Cambridge, I was asked if I maintain a sense of optimism about climate change. My answer: Yes, because unlike cancer, where we often don't know the cause and don't have a cure, we know exactly why global temperatures are rising and how to stop it. We just need the political will.

I am so sick of this shit. It’s a Sieg Heil. It’s a Nazi salute. Anyone who sees it knows. It’s ridiculous that legal departments presumably won’t let media call it what it is. Bannon made “a provocative gesture that resembled the salute Elon Musk gave at a post-inauguration rally”? Fuck off.

No one alive will experience a better climate than today. But young people will experience a much more dangerous and chaotic world in the future, and the extent to which that happens will depend on our choices today. Trump doesn't care because he's old and a sociopath. www.ipcc.ch/report/ar6/s...

It's not a demolition site it's a mass grave. It's not a demolition site it's a crime scene. It's not a demolition site its a homeland. It's not a demolition site it's Palestine. It's not a demolition site it's a genocide.

Are the next 4 years really going to be logging on everyday to sentences like "a 19 year old doge intern called Big Balls has your social security number" because I'm already at capacity for this sort of thing

For the visual learners...

Yes!

Grace Tame doesn’t miss in her piece. What a massive disappointment Albo and much of the political class are. www.crikey.com.au/2025/01/29/g...

Climate change became politically polarised when it “moved from a comfortably future issue to an issue that we had to do something about now” . . . people rejected the science to avoid the need for action. #climatesky #greensky #climatechange #climatepolitics

physics of climate impacts 101: - Stuff gets hot (worse heatwaves) - Hot air holds more water vapor (heavier rainfall) - Hot air is thirstier air (higher drought risk) - Warm water is hurricane food (stronger storms) - Hot water expands and hot ice melts (sea level rise)

I wonder what our so-called political leaders really think & feel when they approve yet more fossil fuel projects while fires rage & lives & livelihoods are destroyed? You can't defeat fundamental laws of physics & chemistry, & scientific evidence, with political spin. Climate criminals.

Great article on why Zuckerberg is cosying up to Trump www.ft.com/content/917c...

Well done humanity. For it is us who have caused this rapid warming of the planet, and the devastating consequences for people and ecosystems that are so visible today and every day. theconversation.com/my-new-dark-...

Climate change is not the only factor at play in the #lafires but it is a threat multiplier. Rapid expansion of housing adjacent to wild lands + land management geared to preserving timber stocks has resulted in a deficit of low-intensity and forest-regenerating natural fires allowing an (1/2)

this is what the world is like at 1.5 degrees Celsius of warming (2.7 degrees Fahrenheit) - we're on track for a significantly hotter planet, where we've passed dangerous tipping points, this is only the beginning

The mistake being made about Meta is to say they're just doing this to make conservatives happy. They've been doing that a decade+. Removing fact checkers and bringing back political content means there will be more stuff that gets more people mad which creates more engagement. Growth at all costs.

In Australia its a cheaper to cause an oil spill than to get a nursing degree In Norway they tax their oil industry and give kids free degrees while in Australia we subsidise the oil industry and charge kids a fortune to go to uni Priorities matter

The most comprehensive scientific article I’ve read on the climate impact of beef. #climatesky #greensky #climatechange

"If humans are to have any chance of avoiding the collapse that is now so powerfully indicated, then it is only by the individual citizens of the Earth..despite the corruption of rulers, the ignorance of oligarchs, and the self-interest of corporations" #ClimateSky cribb.substack.com/p/2024-a-dir...

72 days to stop a climate disaster - let Tanya Plibersek and the govenment know you oppose any more climate wrecking approvals by them 👇 #climateemergency #climateaction nb.australiainstitute.org.au/reject_north...

Scott Reef’s a rare, unspoiled gem home to endangered sea snakes, turtles & manta rays. But Woodside’s mammoth Browse gas project threatens it all. The Environment Minister must act to protect this natural wonder, not to allow further damage to our climate. www.smh.com.au/environment/...

Latest CSIRO GenCost report confirms integrated #renewables – including storage and transmission – easily the cheapest option for Australia

When hearing talk about the need to protect the Tasmanian salmon industry, just remember this is not a local-owned industry. It is dominated by foreign-owned companies. The profits go offshore, and they don’t pay tax here. But the environmental damage very much happens here.

I haven't made one of these for a while, so here's a heatmap that shows the monthly global temperature anomaly for 1880–2024. This shows the difference between the average temperature in each month and the 20th century average for that month. Data from NOAA: www.ncei.noaa.gov/access/monit...

By far and away, my favourite thing about this spectacularly dumb post... Is that that's THE MATTERHORN

Every time you use the GPS on your phone you're utilizing the Special Theory of Relativity, the General Theory of Relativity, and Quantum Mechanics. But go ahead and be a science denier.

It’s not us, it’s you. If you move to the right, you leave a space in the centre. @PaulFletcherMP should see the community independent movement is caused by the Libs abandoning liberal values, not an ‘elaborate plot by left wing political operatives’! #auspol www.smh.com.au/politics/fed...

How literally 𝘨𝘰𝘣𝘴𝘮𝘢𝘤𝘬𝘪𝘯𝘨 is it that it's the year 2024—soon to be 2025—and 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘰𝘯𝘭𝘺 forensic analysis and reporting we can find in our mainstream media comes 𝘧𝘳𝘰𝘮 𝘰𝘶𝘳 𝘤𝘢𝘳𝘵𝘰𝘰𝘯𝘪𝘴𝘵𝘴! 🤦‍♀️ #auspol #FirstDogOnTheMoon www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

The gas lobby is rolling out more fearmongering about a gas "shortage". Don't fall for the con job. It's a cover for them to justify opening up massive new export projects. Australia exports 35 times more gas than any predicted shortage. #auspol