We Do Care | New England Journal of Medicine www.nejm.org/doi/full/10....

The nazis keep stirring up hate and division. At least this is a bit better than recent efforts from the abc: www.abc.net.au/news/2026-01...

"To date, 757,314 people – the majority children – have died from the funding cuts, according to ImpactCounter, which tracks the effect of USAID cuts via sophisticated modelling tools. That is 88 deaths every hour."

"Long overdue." Yes, really should have implemented it BEFORE we were sure it was near useless and far dangerous.

Today's comic in the Guardian: I'm worried about our brains in 2026. As more of the online world becomes fake and polarising, I hope that people start to return to reality. I plan on gazing at the moon, chatting with strangers and learning more about my local environment in 2026. Join me?

How the internet became enshittified – and how we might be able to deshittify it theconversation.com/how-the-inte...

As music festival season ramps up, artists can help shine a light on an ‘invisible’ workforce theconversation.com/as-music-fes...

Extraordinary. And extraordinarily worrying. Keir Starmer Machine Ran a Secret Campaign to Demonetize Breitbart News and Other Opposition Outlets open.substack.com/pub/dropsite...

This is an absolutely amazing piece of work - the ABC spent five years (!) working on this interactive feature that brings together First Nations oral histories spanning 65,000 years www.abc.net.au/news/deeptim...

NEW: The British politician, his Russian intelligence handler & a Kremlin plot against the US & Ukraine. My new piece about Nathan Gill and Nigel Farage for @thenerve_news in which we ask: Why, even now, is no-one asking questions? t.co/BUTtpK9C4S

NEW: Since October 2023, the IDF Spokesperson's Unit has released dozens of 3D animations illustrating alleged Hamas, Hezbollah, and Iranian sites The style is now unmistakable: satellite zoom-ins, black & white wireframes, and red-textured houses - a new visual language of war

And? What's the point of making this comparison exactly? Is this meant to be proof that Trump is better than Biden re: Gaza? Complete bollocks! He just wants his real estate development as soon as he can get it. At best they are as bad as each other.

Good from the abc... even though they've played their role in boosting so much of the misinformation they refer to. www.abc.net.au/news/2025-09...

I am perhaps warier of "shame overreach" than the author, but this, by @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social, is a thing of beauty. It should be read and shared widely www.bostonreview.net/articles/how...

CNN has confirmed that Steve Witkoff, President Trump’s special envoy, has delivered Russia’s Order of Courage to CIA Deputy Director Juliane Gallina, whose son received the medal after dying in Ukraine while fighting alongside Russian invasion forces. meduza.io/en/news/2025...

The headline is quite misleading. This is an interesting interview, and interesting and probably appropriate use of AI. Still not sure if I like it though. www.theguardian.com/books/2025/a...

Trump’s response to European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen about returning Ukrainian children from Russia was, uh, something else.

Hard/impossible to fathom how Segal is still the antisemitism special envoy.

People think money has ruined football but the sight of a rapist dictator standing next to a corrupt football official in front of a big gold trophy at a competition bankrolled by Saudi Arabia reminds me the game still belongs to us.

I think we need to stop obsessing over the mushroom murders and turn our attention to the NT coroner’s inquest report into the police shooting and death of Kumanjayi Walker by policeman Zach Rolfe

Waiting for news outlets and reporters to acknowledge that maybe, just maybe, reporting Trump's social media posts on foreign policy without confirmation is deeply irresponsible and an embarrassing failure of journalism.

Well this is going to be interesting... www.abc.net.au/news/2025-06...

Occasionally this govt. gets things right. It took more than a century, but women are taking charge of Australia’s economy – here’s why it matters theconversation.com/it-took-more...

Amazing how these myths started spreading when legacy car manufacturers realised the threat from China... 9 myths about electric vehicles have taken hold. A new study shows how many people fall for them theconversation.com/9-myths-abou...

I'd hate to see anyone in power panicking... (Seriously, why the fuck isn't EVERYBODY panicking?) UNESCO expresses ‘utmost concern’ at the state of the Great Barrier Reef theconversation.com/unesco-expre...

Researchers created a chatbot to help teach a university law class – but the AI kept messing up theconversation.com/researchers-...

The return of Wilson.... #auspol

Five out of five experts agree the coalition is lying about energy bill costs... yet this is the headline three days out from an election. Expect better from The Conversation. Would the Coalition lower energy bills by more than Labor? We asked 5 experts theconversation.com/would-the-co...

Man, this is a pretty fucking gross move from Amazon, huh? Good on @bookshop.org for not mincing words, though:

Here's a Harvard Professor imploring Australia to lead climate action (and a good summary of the forces aligned against action)... Fossil fuel companies ‘poisoned the well’ of public debate with climate disinformation. Here’s how Australia can break free theconversation.com/fossil-fuel-...

Sure, the govt. has been disappointing in many respects but they've still done some good stuff and that should be applauded. A landmark ruling will tackle the gender pay gap for thousands of workers theconversation.com/a-landmark-r...

And within hours of the election being called, the Liberal Party embarks on illegal data harvesting posing as postal vote registration AGAIN

Absolutely appalling from SBS www.sbs.com.au/news/article...

That reporter should be taken outside and stripped of all belongings and responsibilities

It’s totally cool the head of Radio National did an in conversation event with a far-right activist who hosts a show funded by Elon Musk and no one in the media even wrote about it, let alone argued it was probably quite bad.

Oh dear, there's going to be a worldwide shortage of orange makeup at this rate.

Phew! So lucky the President and AG are such reasonable, intelligent and charitable people.

Freakin' awesome

It’s so pathetic apart from anything else.

Blair Cottrell, from Australia - a man with a string of convictions…spoke about a black criminal in Australia. He said: "You can't reason with them, you have to use brute force…Literally skin them and hang a few of their bodies up across some traffic lights." www.bbc.com/news/article...

Statement on my speech at a comedy event pillorying Peter Dutton’s racist, ignorant and monolithic conception of Jewish people

Excellent NYT interview with the outgoing U.S. ambassador to Hungary. This is a key insight!

I dunno, maybe the ABC could mention the 1,000+ Palestinian hostages Israel might release...

I don't know how many of y'all are watching the migration of American TikTokers to RedNote, but it's the most fascinating thing I've EVER SEEN HAPPEN ONLINE. 🧵

The Coalition highlights it wants to emulate the NZ conservative government's fiscal approach. It is a government that has imposed savage austerity to pay for tax cuts & driven its economy into recession www.afr.com/policy/econo... #auspol

This letter in the New Statesman a couple of years ago seems even truer now.

Australia really does have more than its fair share of weird creatures... www.theguardian.com/environment/...