Trumpism didn't just normalize corruption. It normalized cruelty, spectacle, and the idea that power no longer has to answer to decency. The greater damage? Convincing Americans that institutions can't be trusted, decency is for suckers, and shamelessness is a virtue. Read @zeblarson.bsky.social

"Water used at power plants that supply their electricity can be many times as great as the water used in the data centers themselves."

#AusPol #AUKUS

Ooh, now. This is proper-job commentary. A moving analysis of the portentous reappearances of Vanilla Ice since medieval times.

Space junk should be managed as a more-than-planetary interconnected system extending from the spacecraft cemetery at the bottom of the ocean, through the atmosphere, to all Earth and lunar orbits. 🧪 🔭 #PlanetSci

#auspol #Australia #OneNation

I got this into the Associated Press.

Labor has ganged up with the Libs to vote against the Greens’ efforts to get under 18 year-old workers paid super, denying 515,000 young workers across the country. Instead they've chosen to line the pockets of big corps with money that should be going to our 15-17 year olds.

🫠 www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

They sound too poor for religious tax breaks 🤷

Everyone is talking about Trump’s mock up arch at the Great American State Fair, so I filmed it from top to bottom and front to back for everyone who can’t see it in person.

Dangerous to record setting heat will expand across the eastern two-thirds of the nation this week. Be sure to follow your local forecast information from weather.gov and heat.gov

This, not polar bears, is what climate crisis means. Cascading infrastructure breakdowns. Can't get around coz roads have buckled; power plants shut down coz rivers are too hot & shallow Never forget that the "economy" is a wholly owned subsidiary of nature phenomenalworld.org/analysis/glo...

Monoculture: all Norman Gunston and no Aunty Jack.

They took the weather with them ❤️ #NOAA #ClimateForUs #DataScience #ClimateData #MapSky #DataSky #DisasterManagement

“Mankind will reach maturity on the day it learns to value diversity —of life and ideas. ... The worst thing that could happen is for all of us to look and think and act alike.” — Gene Roddenberry I'm guessing Pauline Hanson is no fan of #StarTrek. #auspol #diversity #multiculturalism

Bridget McKenzie spoke at Alliance for Responsible Citizenship (ARC) whose advisory board members include: Tony Abbott John Anderson Andrew Hastie John Howard Amanda Stoker Robin Batterham Bjørn Lomborg Jordan Peterson Vivek Ramaswamy Michael Shellenberger Mike Johnson Danny Kruger #auspol

"I have enough money to do research," says Shu, laughing. Meanwhile HHS shut off the NIH grant that funded related work on gene therapy for deafness at Harvard Medical School, because “woke” or something like that Shu trained in the very same lab that HHS defunded

The Gross Ole Pedophiles once again block attempts to ban child marriage. This time Ohio with one Republican declaring he knows 13yos who are more responsible than adults. Funny how that claim is never used to extend voting rights to kids, just the ability for men to rape them.

Vaccines save lives. This is the FIRST time that ZERO cervical-cancer deaths have been recorded for this age group, and it’s thanks to the introduction of a vaccine against the human papillomavirus (HPV). Yes, you read that correctly. ZERO.

#AusPol #GasTax #CleanUpFossilFuelMess #Accountability

Australia loses its lunch 🤮 Ewww. But on brand for both.

Deborah O’Neill blasts fmr KPMG CEO Andrew Yates after he refuses to answer questions about his latest scandal, claiming he’s now resigned from the firm. O’Neill “You’ve only been out a few weeks Mr Yates, have you forgotten what your responsibilities as CEO were?”🔥 #auspol

Voters need to know what’s at stake here. Once the PBS and Medicare are privatised to the big multinational corporations, there is no going back to a universal health system. #auspol

GOOD NEWS! Researchers have discovered a new antibiotic, known as manikomycin, that may be a bulwark in the fight against drug-resistant superbugs. By attacking the ribosome in a never-before-seen way, manikomycin can evade the existing mechanisms pathogens have developed to resist antibiotics.

Our letter calling on the @who.int to implement better masking policy (essentially, eschew medical masks for the much superior respirator mask) has passed peer review and is now published. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

“The results can now be seen from space” “Last year, Real Ice added about 30cm, and this year’s extra thickness is 50cm” “Ice reflects 70% of the sun’s heat back into space, while open ocean reflects just 7%. The more that melting exposes the sea, the warmer it gets and the more melting there is”

#Israel’s ambassador has looked at Australian citizens who say they were beaten, tortured & raped, & called them frauds. Sit with that. A foreign envoy, in Australia, telling Australian women that their rape and torture is a performance. Time to expel him. #Auspol michaelwest.com.au/flotilla-vic...

Love this city. The racists are all stuck in a shit pub rn being yelled at by *checks notes* Fatboy slim?

Insane self-blinding of the US. They are throwing away their investment in the ocean observation system and the benefits it provides. The only explanation I can think of: they don’t want the people to know what their fossil emissions are doing to our oceans. easternherald.com/2026/06/13/u...

#AusPol #HawaiiSaysNo

It's great that the cage fight at the White House - an almost fatally embarrassing thing in its own right; try saying the phrase out loud - is happening during the NBA Finals, the Stanely Cup Finals, and the Men's World Cup. Unless he dies at ringside, it might be the 4th sports headline on Monday.

I am constantly baffled by the fact that our society has spent more resources than it has ever spent on anything else on the creation of computer programs that can't accurately do math, the one thing computers are best at doing accurately.

AI got the number of arm holes right, that’s just as good as human designers, right? 🙄 #Enshittification

#AusPol #OneNation “repeatedly failed to meet its legal obligations for running an incorporated association.” “The party has not filed annual returns with the regulator since 2022.” “Pinnuck said the “incredibly sloppy” reports raised questions about the party’s fitness for government.”

ICE will no longer publicly report the deaths of immigrants recently released from detention. ICE frames this as "common sense," when in fact, it's an effort to obscure the true number of people who die as a result of being detained—especially now as in-custody deaths surge.

More news from the party that supposedly protects woman and girls. Reform UK controlled councils in Essex have banned libraries from promoting International Women’s Day. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Honestly I hope anyone investing for others (*stares at Australian super funds*) is at least considering whether the US is still a safe place to invest the many billions in retirement funds they hold.

open.substack.com/pub/jaspercl... $650 billion is being poured into AI data centres globally. Half the US builds are delayed or cancelled. Your Australian super fund is invested in the companies building them. Nobody told you. New piece. #auspol #AI #datacentres #superannuation #tech

Dishonest, manipulative extremists, backed by One Nation & infiltrated state & fed Liberals, want to force girls & women to give birth. US women are dying because of new laws there: follow @jessicavalenti.bsky.social. For Australian girls & women's health rights, say no to forced-birth candidates.

Be alert and alarmed! This of all issues is increasingly bubbling below the surface - and is a slippery slope to erode our rights. Getting politically active is the counter - and now is the time to step up. No one is coming to save us but us. We are the plan!! #auspol

What can you do today? Close your account and tell them WHY. Public pressure works. www.democracynow.org/2026/6/1/cit...

UK is implementing the Epstein Agenda 🤮 What an odd choice. #UKpol

Imagine, something very expensive, environmentally damaging, water wasting, frequently inaccurate isn’t popular in poorer countries 🙄

One Nation win. Brought to you by... The Liberal Party. Yes. The Liberal Party deliberately got Pauline Hanson's One Nation into power in #Farrer, by directing all its preferences there. The Libs knew this would happen, but did it to avoid an independent getting in. #auspol