I feel like I’m at Thanksgiving dinner with a crazy uncle and the dinner doesn’t end and the uncle is a mass murderer.

Regardless of the issue, it's always the same story: commercial interests allowed to ride roughshod over everything and everyone else. Faced with the urgent need for action, successive governments twiddle their thumbs. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Hillel Newman has justified Israel’s new laws applying the death penalty only to Palestinians, saying it’s because Palestinians are “deranged” & “the usual punishment is no deterrent” — Horrifying the broadcast is allowed to go on. This man is sick. #auspol

Women Who Win. Ooft. It's here. 'Blending memoir with powerful storytelling, this urgent new book traces the lives of Australian women who resisted, were punished, and still prevailed. From wins that are resounding, to ones that are costly, others invisible – yet all of them transformative.'

I hope all those people who said the US had done no planning for war in Iran will now apologise. www.ft.com/content/744e...

How do we live in a world where Medical researchers, with PhD minds, have to beg for a pittance of funding to try and cure cancer but mediocre, pointless wankers like this feel entitled to $82 million?! 🤦‍♀️

Andrew Probyn grills Hillel Newman as he refuses apology to family of Australian aid worker Zomi Frankcom. Pivots to denying the genocide in Gaza and gloats that Israel should be commended. On Zomi says “sympathy has been expressed…as far as I know” — utterly shameless. #auspol

Am not an energy analyst but why does seem every interview with a U.K. minister this week included a pointed question about why not drilling more in North Sea and almost none about renewables/net zero as an energy security imperative? It’s bizarre, frankly

Hang on, but wasn’t the strait open just a few short weeks ago? Or was his goal to shut the strait?

So much winning

Israel is evil and only exists to perpetrate evil

"Fuelling inequality: The brunt of a global crisis should not be borne by people in poverty" @kristin8x.antipovertycentre.org for @thepointau.bsky.social thepoint.com.au/opinions/260...

NYTimes has spent years breathlessly repeating claims that objecting to the treatment of Palestinians is antisemitic, but when right-wingers say they're “J-pilled,” NYTimes calls this "slang for skepticism of Israeli influence." Where's the "J" in "Israel"? Might that "J" mean something else?

Marco Rubio: "Imagine an Iranian regime who instead of spending billions.. building up all these weapons had invested that money into Iran for the people of Iran" The US defence budget is currently around $900 billion/year and the US doesn't have universal healthcare

A disgraceful move by the National Press Club to platform Israel’s ambassador to Australia today after Israel overnight introduced an apartheid death penalty regime for Palestinians.

“That decision to stop compulsory activities, taken almost 6 years ago to the day, was coupled with a payment that doubled JobSeeker, lifting it to the poverty line. These were decisions that met the moment we were in.“

National Press Club: how about we invite these guys for a fancy lunch

"It’s not as if there’s a Strait of Hormuz between us and the sun." My good friend Dave announcing a community solar farm in Goulburn, set up by his dad and part owned by his children. www.abc.net.au/news/2026-03...

Front page of Boiling Cold today a real snap shot of how unreliable fossil fuels are for the Australian economy. Time to stop faffing around and get on the with clean energy transition as fast as we can.

australia having a Very Normal Weather Day www.abc.net.au/news/2026-03...

We have a date! On 13 May 2026, my office is heading to the High Court of Australia for the first ever hearing before that court on climate change. We are proudly representing local Hunter Valley residents against MACH Energy’s Mount Pleasant Coal Mine. www.johnsonlegal.au/newsfeed/mac...

Fun fact. $2.55 billion - the total avoided income from this plan in three months - is the same amount that was originally allocated to Tony Abbott’s Emissions Reduction Fund over ten years after he repealed the carbon price.

If the govt had brought in a 25% tax on gas exports when it came to power in 2022 it would have raised $68bn by now and the missed revenue is growing every second. Check out our gas tracker gas.australiainstitute.org.au

Yesterday I came across an article Leigh Sales wrote on Thursday when the ABC was on strike. It is one of the worst commentary pieces on Australian political-economic history I've read. It was clear no one of quality was around to check her work or prevent it from being published. 1/13

Wikipedia now has higher standards than all universities

Some free communication advice: this argument doesn't work when mortgages are plural.

This statement by Madeleine King is just jaw-dropping. "We" *need* gas to be supplied to other nations because Australia is not big enough to use it all. Who is the "we" in "We need those international investments to get the benefit"?????

The banning of trans women from the Olympics is one of the most disgusting examples of bigotry I can recall. There was literally ONE trans woman to compete at the Olympics. She failed to record a lift. 5 years ago the Olympics website lauded her. Now the IOC regards her as an unperson.

the article alleged that Azerbaijan-linked support and lobbying networks helped advance her profile and that her work advanced Azerbaijani government agendas.

The phrase balls-out insane is overused these days but…

Me on the weird convergence of petrol prices @thepointau.bsky.social thepoint.com.au/news/260327-...

hearing the Aust business lobby wants the public to give them money via government to subsidise the cost of business stealing from the public via price gouging and excessive profit trousering - by business.

We laugh at how unutterably pathetic he is (me as much as anyone) but if you think Trump won’t sacrifice countless American soldiers’ lives to postpone the public humiliation of his epic failure in Iran, then you really haven’t been paying attention…

If talks were going very well, we wouldn’t be sending thousands of troops to the Middle East

Keep calm. My @smh @theage cartoon.

Shit is so bad anderson loosened his tie

Ryan: Over 10,000 of our bravest and finest are en route to escalate a war they never had permission for in the first place—and for which no good case has been made. They still literally couldn’t tell us in this briefing what their mission was.

For the first time in 165 years, a sitting president is going to put his own signature on new US currency. You will never guess who pissed on another American tradition and custom.

Walz: What happened in Minnesota and the absolute horrific assault on this state, if this happened in another country, it wasn't that long ago that the US would investigate those things. We're going to do that.

It just keeps getting better.

Canada has hit its 2% NATO defence spending target. We made a promise to transform our defence — and we’re getting it done.

He comes off more desperate with every post

The Combatting Hate Act passed in the House of Commons this week.    That’s a huge step forward in our mission to build a stronger, safer country where everyone — no matter who they are or how they worship — can live free from violence and intimidation.

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I don't think people fully appreciate how apocalyptic things are for US science. I haven't had any new funding since 2024, but I'm still ok since typical grants are for three years. This means next year I will be completely out of funding and will have to fire everyone in the lab. It's not great.

A gigantic record-breaking heat dome is baking the US and war is skyrocketing fuel prices and the cost of living. If only scientists and climate activists had warned us…. Oh wait they did.

The California sheriff who last month seized over 650,000 ballots has ties to a movement of radical right-wing local enforcement officials that has embraced election denialism and conspiracism. www.democracydocket.com/opinion/cali...