ACADEMICS: Research $$ now available from oil billionaires & oligarchs to research methods of eliminating unions & workers rights, & refining methods of globalising 'culture war' disinfo to erode democracy & rewrite constitutions in shock & awe RW counter-revolutions. Apply to: #AtlasNetwork USA

tell me again about asset owner feelings for their massive subsidies we give them to accumulate yet more wealth. What other priorities could there possibly be. www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

Ohio’s state sales tax exemption for data centers cost $1.6 BILLION in 2025 — 11x more than its original estimate. That’s $1.6 billion that could have gone to public schools and healthcare instead of Big Tech CEOs’ pockets. Is it any wonder communities are organizing against data centers?

This is …….. really bad

Let me share with you a "just get a job story". My friend has been diagnosed with FND (Functional Neurological Disorder). He would LOVE to work. He has applied for an insane number of jobs. All said no. Some days he's ok, others not. It's random. They all say he's a risk.

No one in govt is talking about before the budget, but just FYI, the level of Jobseeker is now 42% below the poverty line - worse than it was during the Howard years... live.thepoint.com.au

In 18 years of closely watching federal budgets, I've never seen a budget measure with this level of social spending cuts (not even in Joe Hockey's 2014 budget). $36b in NDIS cuts over the forward estimates

Reaganomics & Thatcherism was & still is a Ponzi scheme that the right are still trying to convince everyone trickle down is working, when clearly after 50 yrs we have more multi millionaires, billionaires & some on the cusp of being trillionaires, while a growing number live in dreadful poverty.

Okay, so we all know NDIS fraud is a thing, but I want to addressa claim I’ve heard of “fraud” about SILs charging 24/7 care when clients go out for 3 hrs a day for social and community support. 1/

“It’s not just complicity. They are conspiring against their own citizens … on behalf of the apartheid genocidal state” Greek economist and politician Yanis Varoufakis breaks down the depth of European collusion with the occupier, and how the return to white […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

It's weird how so many outlets are failing to mention that 3 people were stabbed. I guess it's because the third, being a Muslim, doesn't fit the anti-Semitism propaganda campaign? www.abc.net.au/news/2026-05...

Yeah the rotisserie chicken amendment is neat! Unfortunately it was attached to the Farm Bill which locked in $187 billion in cuts to SNAP. So, yes, now SNAP can be used for rotisserie chickens but more importantly, this bill means red tape, cuts & tons of people losing access to food completely.

I've had a few months break from The Shot and the socials due to trying to finish my latest novel (which is now done) So I'm happily back writing for the @theshot.net.au Here is my latest article, and as always, feedback and discussions most welcome 🙏🏽 link 👉🏽 theshot.net.au/uncategorize...

Almost all inflation in March was petrol prices. Not sure why the RBA would think a rate rise will fix that. My column www.theguardian.com/business/gro...

'No gas company left behind' @albomp.bsky.social

About to hit $70bn

This is a set of frames of the surface of Comet 67P taken by the Rosetta mission on 1 June 2016. The particles in the foreground are bits of dust and ice or cosmic rays effects. The "waterfall" of points moving in the background are stars.

We were overwhelmed by some of the results: not only was there majority support for treating housing as an essential service, but almost everyone agreed on what that should actually look like–even landlords.

Earlier this month, the federal gov't released the latest data from Australia's largest emissions reduction policy: The Safeguard Mechanism. It's important that you understand the SGM, because the existence of that scheme is being used as an excuse to do some pretty heinous shit. Here goes...

@life_in_kayos on TikTok

the conversation we need today💪🏼🇵🇸

I'm Jewish. I condemn genocide. I condemn the Labour Governments role in the Genocide. The Prime Minister repeatedly conflating criticism of the Israeli Governments genocide and actual antisemitism is disgusting - and makes so many of us as Jewish people feel less safe.

"If you want to stay on the NDIS, you must play — NDIS GAMES! All you have to do is compete a Battle Royale to the death, then final 2 will race fill out several multi page forms, given as PDFs but must be submitted as MS Office files. The quickest will win the care they desperately need to live!"

For every $1 put into the NDIS, the economy gets a return of $2.25 For every $1 put into Defence, the economy gets a return of less than $1 Cutting the NDIS isn't just cruel — it's illogical and damaging *According to a study done in the US by RAND in 2021. www.rand.org/pubs/researc...

AUKUS will cost $365 billion for 5-8 submarines with nearly $100 billion in just the next decade. That is over $1 million… Every hour. Meanwhile Labor are stripping support from over 160,000 people with disability because they 'can’t afford it!?’

In honor of #EarthDay, here is a reminder that there is a bot account that posts a photo of the whole Earth from a million miles away, taken by the Deep Space Climate Observatory, several times daily. You can view all the images (and zoom in) here: epic.gsfc.nasa.gov

Friday, Brisbane protesters sing & dance to John Farnham’s Two Strong Hearts - ‘River to the Sea’ Saturday, 20 arrested for saying the exact same words in a chant. So if you wear a wig & dance you won’t be arrested. The inconsistency is utterly humiliating for David Crisafulli.

This is a real low point for Australian govt hysteria rn. The butt-kissing gutlessness is sickening. 🤮

Judge denies appeal. Australian @freedanduggan.bsky.social to be extradited to US where they can't even prosecute Epstein pedophile ring - also slugged with costs. Robbie Barwick on a travesty of justice #auspol michaelwest.com.au/prioritising...

When Parliament votes, we publish exactly how far your MP stands against the majority view of the people who elected them. No party. No agenda. No ideology. Just the data.

Just in case you're wondering why the gas industry hates the idea of a 25% gas export tax and wants to keep the PRRT

An mRNA treatment for PANCREATIC CANCER was in trials, among many other uses. Choosing to end this research is choosing to sentence millions to an early, painful death

America’s favorite sport: saying the right thing and hoping no one checks the scoreboard.

The real way to fix "poverty brain" is to end what creates poverty - capitalism. Poverty - scarcity - is artificial. A paywall put around our needs to force us to work for the rich. The ones hoarding all the resources in a world that's already post-scarcity. It doesn't have to be this way. #AusPol

Australia: real house prices vs real wages #auspol #ausecon #HousingMarket #poldebt

In 2025, the Clean Energy Finance Corporation found that data centre growth in Australia induces higher electricity prices ***whether the companies build new renewable energy generation or not*** www.cefc.com.au/media/hs5ner...

every time i write about wage theft i do a double take because it's so crazy corporations steal more than $50 bn from workers' paychecks each year, illegally paying workers less than they earned for their labor that significantly exceeds the combined losses from larceny, burglary, & vehicle theft

Now is it time, @albomp.bsky.social @australianlabor.bsky.social ??

A man this crazy cannot have nuclear weapons Why do we understand that when it comes to North Korea but not when it comes to Washington

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This woman is facing a copyright claim for her own music by an AI company that took her youtube page and copied her.

The Prime Minister’s plan will keep people working in key industries like care in temporary status for a decade or more, it will keep people in insecure work, make them more easily exploitable, poorer and marginalised - when did that become the policy of a Labour government?

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.

Might be the greatest opening paragraph of anything ever.

"For someone on jobseeker the cost of fulfilling mutual obligations has just skyrocketed past their ability to pay given the truly meagre level of jobseeker"

Part 2 in "Just how big is the oil and gas industry". The private adult education sector pays almost as much in wages as does the gas industry. Profits are a tad different. live.thepoint.com.au/2026/03/the-...

It is increasingly likely that devastating heat is on the way later this year and into next, as another El Nino supercharges global temperatures Expect records to be smashed across the planet www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Crushing reality. My cartoon in Thursday's @theageaustralia.bsky.social