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Some healthcare providers are still referring to #mecfs and #longcovid as psychological or "functional" despite considerable research to the contrary. Here, I review the latest findings and expert thinking, with potential for treatment: www.medscape.com/viewarticle/...

Gift horse. My @smh @theage cartoon.

Remember during oral argument on the presidential immunity case when conservative justices scoffed at and mocked the hypothetical that a president with immunity could just start killing whoever he wanted and there was nothing that could be done if he has immunity?

This announcement leaves so many unanswered questions: - Why is Brereton still a Major-General in the ADF? - What happens to all the defence referrals he has been working on, and making decisions on, until now? - Why is he paid over $800k a year not to work on defence referrals?

If you missed Emerge Australia’s Action Forum at Parliament House today, you can read the thread below. #mecfs #longCOVID

The USA has a President who is breaking laws, abusing human rights and behaving like a King. He got lost three times walking around a room in Japan. Surely Sarah Ferguson could find more pertinent questions to ask Kamala Harris about than Joe Biden’s competence as President. #abc730

The government sending their "we're not complicit, but..." talking points to APAN is fucking hilarious www.deepcutnews.com/p/exclusive-...

I call on the Australian government to #RaiseTheRate of all support payments to a living wage. This would be the single most effective way to lift the productivity, quality of life, and well-being of the whole country. #CommitToALivingWage

The biggest problem with the ALP right now is it is led by someone who irrationally hates the Greens. He doesn't really like to "fight Tories"; he loves to fight the party that reveals his actual lack of "left-wing" positions. Someone needs to tell him to get over his uni politics crap.

Covid is not over. People are still dying and becoming disabled every day. We rushed “back to normal” for the economy, not because the threat had passed. When you wear a mask, you’re not only protecting your health, you’re saying you don’t believe anyone is expendable.

So some companies defrauded Centrepay users and now companies are sad that they can’t access Centrepay?

hey @nytimes.com: there is no counterpoint here. There are no credible legal experts who would EVER say that the US military has any right or authority to blow civilian craft out of the Caribbean and kill their crews from afar without any provocation. There is no other side to this question.

Sidenote: Did you know that the NACC employs over 200 people, spends over $50m per year, has 5 offices, and in over two years of operations hasn't landed a single major corruption finding?

Students told by teachers Gazans ‘deserved what they got’. Sentiments like this have been stated by teachers in ACT public schools. I know of reading content set that displayed shocking bias. Totally agree, this is widespread. www.abc.net.au/news/2025-09...

"the autism problem" "the migration problem" "the trans problem" Never the fucking "rich white guy problem"

The AUKUS deal is a sinking ship in all ways except for the one we want. American experts are telling us "accept the fact that you're not going to get those submarines" but the Aus Gov is still giving America billions to make their own subs. Ditch AUKUS while we can still salvage some dignity.

Since 2022, Australia’s screen industry has shrunk by 60%. Streamers make $4B here, pay less than 1% tax, and invest little in local stories. I’ve launched a petition urging the govt to mandate investment in Aussie content by 30 June 2026. www.change.org/p/save-austr...

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

Okay, to put an even sharper point on this: they are not even 9 months in and they are openly censoring *Jimmy fucking Kimmel* because he poked fun at the president for lack of empathy. These are desperate moves. They are desperate because they are weak and people are naming it.

Union members at the ABC and across the media industry stand with John Lyons and reject the US President’s unfounded attacks on our colleague. #MEAAmedia

reposting with alt text because this feels incredibly significant. the right-wing disinfo machine means a lot of the people grieving Charlie Kirk never heard any of the things he said that would have tarnished his brand as Guy Who Just Wants to Have Dialogue Across the Aisle

Saw someone note that if Tyler Robinson had killed anyone else on the Utah campus (even if it had been multiple people) Kirk and his supporters would not have given one damn about them. We know this because not one of them gives a damn about the school shooting that happened the same day.

Maybe the people who baselessly blamed transgender people for Kirk's murder and spread disinformation and hate should apologize. Folks like Nancy Mace, Don Trump Jr and WSJ

Australia’s proposed FOI amendments add layers of secrecy, says Professor Gabrielle Appleby from UNSW Faculty of Law & Justice, and Head of Research for the Centre for Public Integrity www.governmentnews.com.au/foi-amendmen...

NEW — I wrote about attending the US Open with Trump in attendance, and what the tepid reaction to a fascist at a sporting event says about this country.

If the Productivity Commission was as interested in productivity as it is in ideology it would be pushing for much tougher efficiency standards for cars, houses and commercial buildings…but no…it wants market forces to fix market failure..FFS…my op-ed #climate www.thenewdaily.com.au/opinion/2025...

Julian Leeser and co should apologise to Australians for tarring them with accusations that turn out to be unfounded, that were always unfounded. Rather than blaming the Albanese govt, what has the Netanyahu govt done to exacerbate antisemitism? #insiders

When will the world recognise the Trumpian elephant in the room — the US is a rogue state — and act accordingly? The United Nations General Assembly must be relocated out of the US. #AusPol #USPol

Soon the development of new clinical guidelines for #mecfs in Australia will start. I will wear this Erstwilder brooch, called That’s Witchcraft, to every meeting (attached to my PJs!), to remind myself that what we are creating is something magical and precious for our community.

It’s so weird how even doctors who supposedly understand PEM pretend we weren’t conditioned by the same “movement is good” mentality they were—AND we’re extremely motivated to get better & to LIVE, so of course we’re in constant danger of overdoing. Their role ALWAYS needs to be encouraging less

BREAKING: Hero whistleblower Richard Boyle walks FREE! After 7 years of hell for exposing ATO's brutal debt collection, he's received a good behaviour bond. Justice at last! But this travesty shows we urgently need whistleblower law reform & compensation for what he's endured

Round and round. My @smh @theage cartoon.

Yes! The company is responsible for its product. ChatGPT isn’t an entity that is responsible for its behaviour. It’s a product that has been put to market without sufficient market testing. OpenAI needs to be held accountable.

Linda Reynolds is pleased that her successful defamation case against Brittany Higgins has cleared her reputation. She’s right. Her reputation is now cemented as the person who further traumatised a rape victim by relentlessly & heartlessly pursuing legal action against her. #AusPol

Linda Reynolds may have won in court but her narcisstic and vindictive defamation case has done more to damage her reputation than anything Brittany Higgins or David Sharaz ever tweeted

The Iranian Ambassador to Australia has been expelled bc Iran was behind 2 antisemitic attacks in Australia. (No one killed or injured.) Israel has killed 63,000 Palestinians in #Gaza AND Australian aid worker Zomi Frankcom! No expulsion of the Israeli Ambassador. No sanctions. Nothing! 😠 #auspol

The Australian announcement that Iran has been behind at least 2 of the recent attacks on Jewish entities in Australia is important. It puts to rest Netanyahu's idiotic claim of a tide of antisemitism in Australia. It raises questions re the envoy for antisemitism & her outrageous grab for power.

"Howard immediately began dismantling hard-won gender equality measures that had made Australia world-leading in gender equality policy." @blairwilliams26.bsky.social Poetic justice; historical blame for Liberal party's sexism and demise starts with The Lying Rodent. www.abc.net.au/news/2025-08...

It’s 2yrs since the Robodebt Royal Commission & we are yet to see the Fed Gov legislate to stop it happening again. Well, I’ve now done the work for them & urge the Gov to come to the table on these reforms. We cannot allow a repeat of this shameful part of Aus history #auspol

Always great to have the straight talking @janecaro.bsky.social on #SundayShot, today talking about the urgent need to address growing inequality. Would love for The Sunday Shot to have Gary Stevenson (Gary’s Economics) on as a guest to help spread his “Tax Wealth, Not Wages” message. #AusPol

HEY friends: recently seen heaps of "disclosures" from AI companies of the energy cost per question you type into chatbots (most recently from Google)? Presenting per-query 'efficiency' is part of big tech's efforts to hide its extremely real and happening-right-now climate impacts! NEW POST -->>>

Krishnamoorthi on the FBI raiding Bolton's house: "It looks like it's also an attempt to distract from the other big news of the day, which is the first production of the Epstein files that is required by subpoena from the Oversight Committee and they want to change the conversation."

Sarah Ferguson mentions the need to clamp down on the fraud in the #NDIS, but fails to mention that said fraud is overwhelmingly perpetrated by service providers, NOT NDIS participants, who end up as much a victim of this fraud as the scheme itself. #AusPol #ABC730

"Write, but do not offend. Comment, but do not divide. Observe cruelties, barbarities and murder, yet refrain from having an opinion. This is the constipating, stifling regime being put in place via suggested codes of conduct for organisers of writer events in Australia." theaimn.net/lethal-nonse...

You’ll remember the blow-up over Matthew Knott’s SMH piece quoting a Hamas co-founder in what looked like a hit job on Albanese. (Context in the quote tweet below if you aren't up to speed.) Well, it gets worse, and no one’s noticed. A thread.... /1 bsky.app/profile/aaro...

Highly recommend @emmashortis.bsky.social’s issue of @australiainstitute.org.au’s publication Vantage Point: After America - Australia & the New World Order. Excellent, insightful analysis, like this on the AUKUS deal, which (if the subs are delivered) won’t be complete until the mid-2060s. #AusPol

The Democracy Index downgraded the USA from a Full Democracy to a Flawed Democracy in 2016. I’m sure that recent events such as this will see it downgraded yet again. The so-called “shining city upon the hill” no longer. #AusPol #USPol

An unleashed Katie Phang… more of this!

It’s quite astonishing how many of our institutions have failed to clear the “genocide is wrong” hurdle. Govt, media, education, culture.. Probably others as well.