But remember — it was “mild for children” 🙃 By tern Just think about it. Seriously. They told you that covid infection would not harm children, and now long covid is the *most common chronic illness in children*. Source: x.com/1goodtern/st...

Today's quick update [Oct 20]: - RSF drone strikes reported in ElObeid, North Kordofan. - Heavy RSF shelling continues in Elfashir, North Darfur; more than 1500 people have escaped to Tawila since yesterday, with 2 children reported dead from starvation. #KeepEyesOnSudan

Many NSW residents don't realise that the "Westpac" Rescue Helicopter's operations aren't funded by Westpac, but by taxpayers. Ripper piece from @sydmorningherald.bsky.social www.smh.com.au/politics/nsw...

Job agency companies and bosses continue to make an extraordinary amount of money from a Mutual Obligations system we now know operates unlawfully Here's the latest example of what they're doing with that public funding. Enjoy Sarina at the Louis Vuitton resort in St Tropez 👇

This is so fucked up. Is anyone in govt seeing this? Louis Vuitton handbags for staff of a govt funded job agency? wtf

The magnitude, advanced methods and extent of Native American agriculture continues to be vastly underestimated IMHO: scitechdaily.com/archaeologis...

He was missing for a week.

I heard a Nat on RN talking about ‘prime farming land’ being sacrificed to wind turbines &solar. Let’s ignore coal mines & fracking as he did, but no one wants profitable land converted. Its in the rubbish land every farmer has that can be converted to renewables that opportunity lies. &he knows it.

Update: I've added an important correction/amendment to this piece on my substack. Unfortunately it makes the NACC look even worse:

What a ride. www.abc.net.au/news/2025-09...

RFK Jr unloaded a paper into my hellsite replies to support his teen sperm count claims. I do love a vigorous evidence-driven academic debate, so LFG! Does this paper show teens only have 50% of the sperm counts of dudes his age? SPOILER: No.🧵 rasmussenretorts.substack.com/p/secretary-...

Historians of the future: Rest assured, millions of us know all this in real time. We are horrified, shocked, enraged, and ashamed. We are acting, in a thousand ways, to oppose it. This cannot, and will not, be how the United States ends. trib.al/HpD2mwJ

That's by design.

Here is a map showing the exact spot a CHP vehicle was struck by shrapnel after a shell detonated over I-5 during the Trump-Vance missile firings at Camp Pendleton:

NBC just gutted the very teams that gave marginalized voices a seat at the table—then called it “restructuring.” The cuts: 📌NBC BLK (Black community coverage) 📌NBC Latino (Latino community coverage) 📌NBC Asian America (Asian American community coverage) 📌NBC Out (LGBTQ+ community coverage)

Exclusive: The NSW government rejected advice from an expert scientific panel before it attempted a failed reintroduction of koalas to a forest in the state’s south. 8 out of 13 koalas died, one more than the govt claimed, with postmortems showing emaciation and “undernutrition”.

What’s the point of an “expert panel” if their advice is ignored? #NSW officials rejected expert guidance, and 8 of 13 koalas died. Those who rejected expert advice owe the public answers. Do better, #NSWGov!! #AusPol #NSWPol #Accountability

Fifteen presidents have invoked the Insurrection Act. Trump claims one president used it 28 times in the course of a single presidency. The Insurrection Act has been used a total of 30 times over the course of its 217-year history.

I’m glad this is being covered. Federal judges have been warning us as best they know how. When I looked into this back in June, I found dozens of cases where judges suggested that the Trump administration’s conduct was untrustworthy or acting in bad faith.

(🧵) I’m going to say some things that may cost me followers. That’s only appropriate, given that what I say in this thread is about exactly that: how utterly meaningless everything is right now besides saving America—because without rule of law and democracy, nothing we dream of will ever come true.

The corrupt begat corruption

"3 civilians, including 2 children and a woman, were killed in an #Israeli drone strike on a displacement tent near the Asdaa area in northern Khan Yunis. ...35-year-old woman was killed & 10 others, mostly children, were wounded in a strike on tents..." english.palinfo.com/news/2025/10... #Israel

Ellie Leonard: People ask why I fight so hard to solve every mystery of the Epstein files, and it is this: Because the last generation of men are teaching the next generation of men that there are no consequences for abusing the next generation of children. And those are my children. Point blank.

Here is an alarming illustration of what happens when governments ignore expert advice. This is truly appalling and those responsible must be held accountable. Koalas died due to negligence, and trust in conservation is undermined. Story by @lisacox.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

Gaza has 2.2 million people. In 2 years, 10% of the population has been killed or wounded. Their entire infrastructure has been destroyed.  Instead of giving more military aid to Netanyahu’s extremist government, the US must work with the international community to rebuild Gaza.

This is an international disaster. They targeted a disabled fishing boat in Colombian territorial waters and killed fishermen.

FFS tasmanianinquirer.com.au/news/cement-...

While the unapproved earthworks were underway, the federal minister for climate change and energy, Chris Bowen, visited the Railton cement works to announce a $52.9 million grant to Cement Australia to upgrade the kiln to allow burning woodchips and shredded tyres as a partial substitute for coal.’

I spoke with Epstein survivor Lisa Phillips who shared her story of what happened on the Island, what she observed, and her fight for survivors today. We spoke about details that I haven’t seen in any other interview to date. youtu.be/4ux1OBz9NZM?...

The fact that there were no counterprotests shows that Trumpism and MAGA barely exist outside of social media. This movement has gradually collapsed completely within the population. — It’s difficult to fill the real world with Trump government troll bots.

Friends at the front of protests in Melbourne today say the police started firing in response to people shouting at the Nazis. Many more usually-not-fatal weapons being used by police. The police overreach from the beginning of the day triggered responses #SpringST 7ampodcast.com.au/episodes/why...

Happening today outside SEA LIFE London from 10.30am – join us! 🐧

If you want people to do hard things EN MASSE, you must support them when they show up in the MILLIONS to tell the ONE SPECIAL BOY to GTFO.

In social movement studies, we talk about how marches and protests expand the threshold of acceptable risk so that people take more and bigger social risks IN PUBLIC, EN MASSE. This is extremely important for the bourgeois white folks holding signs and building social rapport.

Scientists say they have developed a blood test that can diagnose myalgic encephalomyelitis/ chronic fatigue syndrome (ME/CFS) with 96% accuracy – the first of its kind. www.sciencealert.com/can-a-new-bl...

Someone updated this meme.

If chubby and cute pygmy #hippo 🦛named #MooDeng could talk, she'd tell us all to stop staring at her online and instead to take action to save her home! Sign the #petition, be #Vegan and🍓🌱 #Boycottpalmoil #Boycott4Wildlife 🌴🪔🚫 @palmoildetect.bsky.social wp.me/pcFhgU-97b

Fantastic. I can't think of two people better suited to each other. They'll need a larger meeting room to fit both egos in the door, and they'll need to buy a bigger bar fridge. And just like the Mark Latham debacle, I give it 12 months. www.smh.com.au/politics/fed...

Barnaby doing what he does best . Getting attention and achieving nothing for Australia or for anybody except himself. A history of outrageous behaviour, being a drunk and upsetting people . To think he was once acting Prime Minister and now he is considering joining PHON .

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I thought the Constitution was a thing… 🧐🤷🏻‍♀️🦁 #HeJustCantWaitToBeKing #parody

Savoring every last drop of my summer hiatus ☀️🍹 before I’m back with something new for you 🎬✨ In the meantime, here’s a throwback that still sparkles 💫

For sure some of the legacy media outlets are downplaying the protests because they’re aligned with Trump, but I think an even bigger factor is how many elite journalists have a patrician disdain for the idea that politics can happen in the streets and not just the CNN green room.

More of the Trump extortion game at work. Apparently @albomp.bsky.social intends to pay 1 billion of our money to appease Trump. Hell NO. #Auspol

I asked the @australiainstitute.org.au if the Government's FOI Bill would make another Robodebt more likely. They said yes. That alone is grounds enough to bin this bill!

Your reminder that feral, invasive, non-native deer are basically better protected under law than *native* dingoes are in some regions of Victoria www.premier.vic.gov.au/balancing-di...

Research by @aprilhayes.bsky.social indicates bacteria exposed to antibiotics alongside a mix of other meds, were more likely to develop antibiotic resistant traits. That's bad news because that's often what happens in sewage. 🧵 1/10 theconversation.com/growing-cock...