Just a reminder the media org that has been trumpeting that it cares about kids and their futures and wants social media banned is the same that worldwide has been running climate change disinformation and lies, ensuring the kids will live in a worse world

Scary stuff. Good tips on how to deal with it. . . From Sue Barrett When Your Groceries Become Surveillance: Why Every Australian Should Care About the Coles-Palantir Deal open.substack.com/pub/suebarre...

“What is happening is growing inequality. Assistant Minister for Productivity Andrew Leigh says we are at most a generation away from the American-style inequality that created the grievance fuelling Donald Trump’s ascendancy.” satpa.pe/8zvoFGI

If you don't fear for what awaits the world's children ... you haven't been paying attention. www.abc.net.au/news/science...

Fun fact: Santos has paid $0 in corporate tax in the last 10y while selling $48bn of Australian gas. Santos buys gas domestically and sells it overseas, increasing the price of Australian gas in our own market. Our govt must reserve gas for our domestic industries and homes.

This is a good piece for a rainy afternoon, dissecting how deep is our interaction with US war plans in the Pacific johnmenadue.com/post/2025/08...

Another $800 million to the US for AUKUS, bringing the total to $1.6 billion sent to the US this year. This money goes straight into the US military, no strings attached and no clawback.

🚨Antisemitism boss Jillian Segal and her husband are the second biggest funders of far-right group "Advance". The extremist lobby group spreads online racism and xenophobia, including directly targeting Palestinians... theklaxon.com.au/hrgd

This Labor government is complicit in genocide and occupation as long as it supplies weapons to Israel. End the two-way arms trade now.

Hear, hear, no excuses or dithering. Get it done

Coral bleaching crisis worsens. An unprecedented coral bleaching episode has spread to 84% of the world's reefs in an unfolding human-caused crisis that could kill off swathes of the essential ecosystems, scientists warn u.afp.com/SSKa

The pharmaceutical companies in the US would love the opportunity to dismantle our PBS.

For the record, Joe Hockey is a defence lobbyist who stands to make millions from defence contracts with the US and other allies. To just describe him in interviews as a former US ambassador and not his CURRENT vested interest role is not just irresponsible, it's lying.

Multiple sclerosis requires Epstein-Barr virus infection as an underpinning, exhibits self-directed antibodies to EBNA1, the virus's nuclear antigen, representing molecular mimicry. This combines with/ genetic risk factors (Figure, compared w/healthy controls) @pnas.org www.pnas.org/doi/epub/10....

Australians love a good piss take - literally in this case 😉 Well played

Boom

See you in court Senator Farrell! Excellent analysis from constitutional law professor Anne Twomey of the Labor/Coalition duopoly's shamelessly self-interested and constitutionally questionable rigging of our electoral donation and funding law. #auspol

A fabulous snapshot of some of my favourite Australian birds 🥰

Figure I should introduce my current housemates, my rescue buddies, thick as thieves they are! Zippy (left in first pic) and Lachy