I seriously cannot get over how stupid it is to be cutting back on research right now #ThePoint thepoint.com.au/off-the-char...

Trump has immunity, his enablers don't. They must be beginning to sweat #releasethefiles #trumpsenablers

I prefer this graph from Barbara Pocock showing wages have risen 20% in the decade but housing prices have risen 67%

“CodePink said—that “the resolution, while disguised as a peaceful and humanitarian proposal, is in reality a blueprint for the internationalisation of the Israeli occupation and a complete denial of Palestinian self-determination”.” CodePink is not alone. johnmenadue.com/post/2025/11...

❝ This documentary reveals how the lived reality in the occupied West Bank forms part of a larger unfolding pattern that we define as genocide, ethnic cleansing, and forced displacement ❞

Thanks Amy Remeikis. www.thenewdaily.com.au/news/politic...

What binds us together isn’t roles or labels, but the simple, enduring power of love. Love makes a family. Not gender. #LGBTQ+ 🏳️‍🌈

Australian Labor PM Albanese is reminding me a LOT of John Howard, Tony Abbott and Scott Morrison (with his never-ending self-praise). Could we elect a Labor Govt with Labor leadership and Labor values at the next election please? 😠 #auspol #Climate #environment #fossilfuels #AUKUS #Zionism #CSIRO

"If you surrended to the air, you could ride it." Toni Morrison Joel Meyerowitz, photo

One small(!) point. The way the debate has been engaged in over the last decade, asylum seekers have been conflated with illegal immigrants, illegal immigrants conflated with legal immigrants, and immigrants conflated with all ethnic minorities, you can’t attack one group without attacking all.

JFC this is shameful

'Australian values' according to whom, FFS? Given that most of the Libs' policies now seem straight from the 1970s, I'd be fairly sceptical they have the remotest idea what this country's values actually are.

This little piggy is in the Epstein files… 🐷

21-34 year olds 2014-2023: 67% ⬆️ in house prices & just 20% ⬆️ in wages 2014. Solutions? End subsidies for first home buyers eg Labor’s 5% deposit debacle & fix capital gains tax

#auspol #CSIRO

Just emailed Ed Husic's office to pass on my goodonyas. It's nice to contact a politician for positive reasons for once.

I'm loving Ed Unleashed

Definitely worth reading if you subscribe to Schwartz media. And then perhaps you won’t. www.thesundaypaper.com.au/opposing-sch...

Australian politicians see jails as simply new businesses. To be invested in, to make profits etc. The correctional Service model has been bought. Somewhere, needs of the First Nation children's have disappeared. Sheena Colquhoun Stop pretending punishment works johnmenadue.com/post/2025/11...

If Victoria is serious about real, material, lasting safety, it must abandon punishment and invest in the conditions that allow children to thrive. Long sentences don’t deter. They don’t heal. They don’t prevent harm. #auspol #Vicpol #youthjustice

‘The election of Pope Leo, a prominent canon lawyer, looked like a positive sign for more transparency, given that the leaders of his profession have been most vocal in calling for it. Sadly, nothing so far has happened.’ johnmenadue.com/post/2025/11... %26 Irritations

Generations of oppression, We look for freedom, Freedom from displacement, Freedom from bombs and bullets. I've never wanted to plant tomatoes on our farm in Rafah as much as now. But our land lies on the other side of a yellow line. Our greenhouses destroyed.

Gotta pay for AUKUS somehow.

♥️🌸♥️🌸♥️🌸♥️🌸♥️🌸♥️🌸♥️ This Just Breaks My Heart.

Seems like a good day to remind everyone that Jared Kushner advised Saudi Crown Prince MBS on how to “weather the storm” after his hit squad slaughtered American journalist Jamal Khashoggi.

Every outlet worth a damn should be calling this out. www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article...

I know I'm right

As a handful of us have been screaming for a long time now: there is no "ceasefire". The UN security council has approved the further colonisation of Gaza, and Israel is being rewarded for its genocide. It's still the 1700s in the West, we just have phones and cheap dopamine addictions now.

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Sloppy, careless policing is the least that can be said. Is this how the (mostly) male officers treat all cases? Or only those involving DV against a woman? www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

Utterly unbelievable. Utterly WTF. What is this government about? www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

Every smartphone, EV, e-bike and tablet relies on cobalt. The majority is mined in the Democratic Republic of the Congo under appallingly exploitative conditions. Companies like Apple, Samsung, Glencore and Tesla spread the fiction that their supply lines are ethical. They are not. A shocking read.

Some of you point out that the big players have used various tricks to keep their own $ safe. True. That's why we need to think about how to prosecute them for fraud. Those bubble-inflating claims - AI will cure all disease! end climate change! double lifespans! - are essentially Theranos X 1000.

"[A]t least 95 Palestinian medical workers, 80 of whom are from Gaza, still being held without charge in Israeli prisons." "The majority of them have been taken from their place of work while working to try and save patients." #Gaza #Palestine #Israel #Healthcare #Incarceration #Genocide #Military

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Me too!!!

Usual suspects are creating fear over the native title claim to Melbourne Narrm. This has happened before. In 1992 PM Paul Keating addressed it directly with John Laws & his listeners. As the PM explains the High Court gave long, careful consideration to the Mabo case. #auspol youtu.be/pn1SnTVYe_4

I find it curious that they can telegraph every bad faith policy by saying “these are the lies we are going to be spinning next” and Australian media just goes “OK we’re here to help you spread them.”

Tawny Frogmouth from Australia that blend well into their environment

Let’s make this arsehole famous.

Outstanding rebuke of PM Albanese by cartoonist David Pope. #auspol #Whitlam #Albanese #Mamdani #CostOfLivingCrisis

“I was 14… I was 16… this was me when I met Epstein… there are thousands of us… time to let the secrets out of the shadows” Powerful ad from survivors ahead of a vote to tell us where each House rep stands on protecting kids vs protecting pedophiles.

Lovely people of Bluesky I just want you all to know how much I enjoy your company. I hope we keep on meeting like this XX

Ireland has always valued its creative folk. And it's proved profitable, in more ways than one. 🇮🇪💚

www.theguardian.com/australia-ne... An important two year investigation

People might also be interested in this excellent FREE resource, a collective effort by >100 social scientists, 'Climate Obstruction: A Global Assessment' and the accompanying @drilledmedia.bsky.social podcast series interviewing authors about each chapter (deets, links in post below)