#AusPol #GasTax

Trans Rights are HUMAN RIGHTS! #TransRights #Trans #Transgender #HRT #HumanRights #Right-to-be-me #beyourself #1love #love

NSW has taken the first step towards Australia’s fossil fuel phase-out. There are many more to go. Read more from @ebonybennett.bsky.social and @rodcampbell.bsky.social on the Point ⤵️ thepoint.com.au/news/260321-...

Update: Russia is losing the War of Aggression it started against Ukraine; recently lost over 1,000 troops in a 24 hour period. Additionally Putin is backing Orban in Hungary, alongside Trump and Netanyahu, in a desperate attempt to save their asset inside the EU.

#BabyBeaverTantrum #Adorable

“Energy-intensive data centre proposals not closely aligned with the expectations will not be prioritised by Commonwealth regulatory assessments” #AusPol #CorporateWelfare #PayYourFairShare #DataCentres #Australia

Friendship fraud: warnings of rise in ‘insidious’ scam targeting older people

CEO says Australians should give him all their money #GFY #auspol #WhoAskedYou www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

The war in the Middle East could cost Australia $16.5 billion in growth by 2027. A 25% tax on gas exporters (making massive profits on the war making gas prices rise) could raise $17 billion for Australia. @grogsgamut.bsky.social @elinorjohnstonleek.bsky.social #auspol

The gas cartel has swiftly rolled out a campaign to preserve their wartime profits from OUR gas. The PM has the numbers in the House and the support of Greens in the Senate to ensure struggling Aussies benefit from high international gas prices. #auspol

Oh dear, One Nation has barred ABC from their election function tonight for revealing that one of their candidates is a sexual predator. Seems exposing their candidates as sexual predators is not something they’re happy about #auspol #sapol

#GasTax #AusPol

Sort out housing, reform the tax base, tax gas and multinationals so all Australians can have nice things. Get rid of mutual obligations, raise the rate, sort out universities and stop subsiding private schools at the expense of state. Watch xenophobia basically disappear… #auspol #SAvotes

It is One Nation’s job to conduct a thorough vetting process and One ‘s job to know. They are not a serious political party if they can’t put up good candidates. They are more interested in the public electoral funding than the quality of their candidates and serving the voters of South Australia.

this is completely insane: since when is it acceptable for a tech company to rewrite news outlets' headlines without their consent? especially at a time when audiences are sensitive to how stories are framed in headlines? (ie Israel/Palestine, the Trump admin, ICE) www.theverge.com/tech/896490/...

They'd rather spend 5% on blocking the initiative than just pay the 5% tax. These guys suck.

Microsoft 365 pauses Copilot creep after admins cry foul

It was bad before Dobbs, but it’s been getting worse. And we *knew* this was coming— Court-ordered major surgery against someone’s will. The violation of autonomy, let alone informed consent, is a violation of human rights. www.propublica.org/article/flor...

Whew 😅

I don’t see why a 15-second sliding context window with the working memory of a goldfish and fake l/t memories should not be subject to short-term capital gains taxes on everything (including unrealized gains) and a 100% inheritance tax.

Wealth inequality has never been so bad. While 60% live paycheck to paycheck, 938 billionaires got $1.5T richer in 2025. Justice Brandeis was right: "We can have democracy in this country, or we can have great wealth concentrated in the hands of a few, but we can't have both."

Illinois has same-day voter registration! Make sure you show up at YOUR assigned polling place with 2 forms of ID!

Flying cancer. What will Americans think of next?

Did you know that Medicaid isn't called 'Medicaid' everywhere, to the point that ONE out of THREE people who are on Medicaid don't ✨know✨ it? So how can they be incentivized to fight for their healthcare if they don't know it's their healthcare? (Alt in the comments, it's a lot!)

A federal judge in Massachusetts blocked RFK Jr.’s overhaul of the childhood vaccine schedule. The American Academy of Pediatrics and other medical groups sued the Department of Health and Human Services arguing Kennedy’s changes violated federal law. The judge agreed.

That interview buries all claims of "democratizing" access to information or capabilities like programming. It's not about empowerment, it is about rentseeking.

If these are fraudulent loans against properties, could the government seize them all and use them for housing? #AusPol #AUSTRAC www.afr.com/companies/fi...

The rapists won’t be happy until they can force young girls to have their babies. Where’s the consequences for the (usually old) men who get these minors pregnant? They can fuck right off 👊 #Guillotine

The cost of diesel subsidies for BHP, Gina Rinehart and friends is absolutely out of control:

#AusPol #CorporateWelfare

"Over the last 4 or 5 years, fossil fuel subsidies have been growing faster than the NDIS." "Over the last year, they gave $16.3 billion!" @mattgrudnoff.bsky.social @elinorjohnstonleek.bsky.social #auspol

#AusPol #CorporateWelfare

ICE Detention Kills Afghanistan War Veteran Mohammad Nazeer Paktiawal, 12th Custodial Death This Year Immigrants in ICE detention now dying at the steady rate of one every six days since January 1, projected to reach over 60 deaths by end of year. austinkocher.substack.com/p/ice-detent...

WELL NOW, would you look at that? A massive, 4-YEAR-LONG study of NEARLY 30 MILLION people in France found that individuals who received a COVID-19 mRNA vaccine had a 74% LOWER risk of death from severe COVID-19 compared to unvaccinated individuals and ZERO increased risk of all-cause mortality.

It’s almost as if insulting your allies, imposing tariffs on them, threatening to annex their territories, was a really stupid idea.

#AusPol #TheAustralian

ICE ripped a caregiver away from a disabled citizen and left him for dead. Wael Tarabishi described his father as his best friend and his “arms, legs and lungs”. He pleaded for him to be released from the camps & said he would die without him. He died in January. His father is being deported.

I think we need to have a moratorium on people saying, "they couldn't *possibly* be that stupid" because so far they've been That Stupid h/t @rcsmitheco.bsky.social

Good thing everyone involved is only in a position of power because of merit

Getting reports now that the majority of people who call certain Workforce Australia lines are now abandoning their calls, because of the enormous wait times. If you don't get through to these lines, there's no other way to overturn payment suspensions from your job provider

Another wrinkle to the Grammarly "expert review": The recommendations it makes have hallucinations. I put in the abstract for some of my work on Black podcasting. One of the names listed was Tiffany E. Barber, which summarized her work on the podcast Chitlin' Circuit and then linked to *my* article.

""I'm afraid I could be arrested if I travel to that state for your wedding and need to use the restroom at the venue ..."

Anna’s Hummingbird on sakura at dusk 📷🌿🪶🌸