This is a truly excoriating and well-deserved take-down of the National Press Club @PressClubAust by Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Chris Hedges. You really, 𝘳𝘦𝘢𝘭𝘭𝘺 should read it. His words cut like a hot knife into butter. #auspol #GazaGenocide johnmenadue.com/post/2025/10...

Murdoch media is more deranged than The Onion, and has been for some time if you are somewhat tethered to reality. A parody like this isn't any more dishonest than the real thing. Naked, divisive propaganda, but under what sort of Law can it be curtailed? Is mass boycott enough when lies>policy?

Albanese adopted AUKUS with raised eyebrow passion. Marle’s wet dream. American military bases popping up everywhere with no expense spared nuclear waste dumps, houses, fuel storage laid on for Trump’s war machine. China knows. Expecting trade to go on as always was never going to happen.

“Treasurer Jim Chalmers and BHP CEO Mike Henry to discuss reports of Chinese iron ore blockade.” www.theguardian.com/business/202....

BTW the reason there aren’t actually any consistently right wing AI models really is more or less because the right wing is wrong and they aren’t going to be able to fix this overall.

If we were meant to fly we would have been born with wings. #DefyDogma

“—how the political class take care of their own while the innocent are fair game to be hunted, harassed & bullied. Morrison’s own windfall, paid out to ensure a “certainty and seamless” separation from the public service, was never pursued.” Don't miss Jommy Tee. michaelwest.com.au/brawl-over-s...

Dr Assal Rad— "Israel has attacked Gaza, the West Bank, Qatar, Lebanon, Iran, Syria, Yemen, and Tunisia. Yet, I don’t recall a headline like this."

Designed from top to bottom to be the biggest swindle by the body politic on the Australian people by its political class and the whole body politic Career politicians, advisors, ex military - there’s an army of people taking their cut at the table WHEN YOU GIVE A DUOPOLY A LANDSLIDE!

We have a plan to blow more smoke up everyone's arse while allowing crimes against humanity go unpunished. We also hope to share in the profits of this unfortunate genocide, or at least make Mossad leave us alone. Regards, LibLab, Australia.

Carly Lubicz-Zaorski uses Gina Rinehart as an example of why we need greater disclosure laws on who funds Anti Climate groups such as Advance & the IPA, after we only found out Rinehart funds the IPA bcoz it was revealed in court Michelle Ananda-Rajah “2.3 million?”😳(in 1 year) #Estimates

Big money in war. That's why we always have it. www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

We will continue to send them money, and they will continue to not supply subs. We're also going to pay for the next US banker war. Yay.

"Not just false - it's cartoonishly stupid." This is modern media and politics summed up nicely. I am sure they don't know how ridiculous, or dangerous they are.

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Sunset near Benalla.

What's that? Climate predictions, you say? Okay! www.realclimate.org/index.php/cl...

If Netanyahu thinks reognition of Palestine is a "reward for terror", he's gonna be so mad when he hears about the King David Hotel. He's gonna be furious when he hears the Haganah paramilitary became the IDF.

Dam been writing a book about this and she just TikToked it in 90 seconds.

Andrew Podger: “Maybe some of proposed rats and mice changes relate Hawkie’s recommendations, but bill overall goes the opposite direction to that he proposed, which was aimed to build on the reforms John Faulkner introduced in 2009-10.” johnmenadue.com/post/2025/09...

“It is truly extraordinary that of the three countries that are party to the deal, Australia – which bears the brunt of both the cost and the risk – is the only one not to have put AUKUS to a genuine review." Petition for an inquiry into AUKUS > theaus.in/AUKUS_inquiry

Trump might be horrible and embarrassing, but at least his Russian handler is funny.

Where the separate divisions of ANTIFA landed on the beaches of Normandy on June 6, 1944:

My poor daffodil. I swear I didn't mow it this year.

Foliage exploding. Watching bare sticks grow into lush, fluffy trees is a nice part of Spring.

Rosemary still blooming. Pretty, and tasty on lamb.

Triffids are coming out! (I don't know what they're actually called)

The Kyle bit is priceless

Priorities. My @smh @theage cartoon.

More inflation incoming. The credit bloat is now too large to have actual market forces, so 'financial system stability" (bank profits) require currency devaluation and more poverty, as per the simplistic "low IR = more employment = no riots yet" formula. $AU response will be interesting.

📈Climate change-driven summer heat led to an additional 16,500 deaths in 854 European cities, a new study led by the Grantham Institute and the @lshtm.bsky.social estimates 🧵 Watch Dr @clairbarnes.bsky.social from @ic-cep.bsky.social & @gkonstantinoudis.bsky.social explain the findings.

The photographer's remains were never recovered.

Big goofy underwater zeppelins!

Fucks sake. If this were white wealthy families, the media would be frothing like they do with their convenient political marionettes. Instead, years of atrocity are muted and normalised. It's genuinely mind fuckingly bonkers.

www.theguardian.com/australia-ne....

Excellent. I love it. Now, how to fix spollcheck and autocarrot.

Albanese's handing nearly $500k to an Israeli weapons manufacturer — one that has advertised using its products on an unarmed man in Gaza?

And of course, that's the point. The last thing Netanyahu wants is any sort of negotiated agreement with Hamas. Because that might lead to a ceasefire, or even worse, a peace deal. And then he'd start to face accountability. #GazaGenocide

Nectarine blossoms. Spring in full swing now.

The implications that former LNP Minister Hunt, who now works for the Exclusive Bretheren cult, may have corruptly handed them tens of millions of taxpayer dollars when he was Minister would be an ideal investigation for an anti-corruption commission. If we had one. Thanks Albanese.

“Wed 25 February 1976, The Australian published sensational front page story headlined “Iraq promises $US500,000 to pay Labor’s debts/Whitlam in secret Arab election deal”. “Special Correspondent”. That correspondent was in fact Rupert Murdoch filing from London.” johnmenadue.com/post/2025/09....

“As universities sack thousands, unions have criticised university managers for spending millions on consultants and executive salaries” www.abc.net.au/news/2025-09...

Aus governance: Situation normal.

That myth is being exposed every day. The extent of the capture of governments and every democratic institution is Extraordinary. Just what state is Australia’s democracy really in? There’s a heavy feel of Trump US about a lot of this. Project 2025.

neoliberal capitalist don’t like renewable energy because _they want to control the means of production_. that’s it. they want to sell you energy and make a profit, and they can’t do that if the price of solar comes down enough that you install them at home. #tedTalk

Nice sunrise yesterday.

A gentle reminder: While entropy is the price of structure, collapse is the cost of hypercomplexity. #collapse

I can't watch the ABC because of this sort of language distortion. They hype up enemies and shit on good people with shitty headlines with loaded language. Fox/Sky/HellNet even worse, of course!

Morning commute. Windy, warm, and looking a tad ominous.

“Australia’s Race Discrimination Commissioner, Giridharan Sivaraman, has warned that inaccurate and dehumanising rhetoric over migration risks fanning the flames of racism, and distracts from the real causes of inequality.” humanrights.gov.au/about/news/m....