Dozens of Tasmanian environmentalists have been fined or jailed for defending the swift parrots’ nesting forests from logging, yet Murray Watt has authorised Korea Zinc to kill one a year. satpa.pe/686WyFv

if am not wrong, this law was used to criminalise the indigenous Sami from joiking, a form of throat singing, since it was considered the devils traditions. joiking hence went underground. so please, spare me the colonial era laws.

Today I learned “Norwegian Christian laws forbade citizens from conversing with and interacting with trolls, and in documents dating from 1274 to 1781, doing so would result in severe punishment” (source: Wikipedia), and I kinda think many people nowadays would be better off if this law was revived

Another question I came here with was: how effective are the whistles and honking? Does it stop abductions? And the answer is, surprisingly to my cynical self, yes, and often. I have talked to so many people who have successfully interrupted kidnappings.

this is a useful thread with specifics on how people are organising in Minnesota. I think the key takeaway for those of us outside the US is this: talk to your neighbours

there are so many gutting stories, but this one is hitting me extra hard. just imagining wael tarabishi slowly dying without his dad there to care for him because he was jailed by ICE makes me…i don’t have words. this country is disgusting.

Fuck Off with your sane washing shite

Sarah Kendzior on Greenland. Worth reading #auspol

So the NSN is dead. Good riddance. I wrote for @independentaus.bsky.social about the danger in abruptly creating hundreds of ASIO head Mike Burgess's 'lone actors' without having done a thing to support the families of ex-cultists through what comes next: independentaustralia.net/politics/pol...

It is unbelievable that Australian taxpayers are paying to send two former Defence Ministers, now weapons industry lobbyists, to the UAE and Saudi Arabia to spruik their clients and arms sales into the region. Unbelievable except it’s business as usual for Labor and the Coalition

Politicians, even dictators, come and go - an extinct animal is extinct forever #AusPol #Extinction #Renewables #Birds www.thesaturdaypaper.com.au/share/22449/...

Humans Most repulsive,self serving, destructive and invasive species on Earth. I much prefer dingoes #HumansFuckOff #auspol #TimeToExinctsUsMotherEarth www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

It’s shameful that this ongoing stain on our national character continues to go underreported and under-resourced by governments of both persuasions and an apathetic media. Nearly 200 women killed by violent men in the past 2 years. Isn’t that worthy of a Royal Commission?

Whole lotta firming going on

If you believe Angus Taylor is the Liberals’ best bet, I’ve got $80 million of flood water to sell you (pls transfer payment to my Cayman Islands acct)

Trump has his history wrong again NATO troops did not “stay away from the front lines” in Afghanistan. Hundreds were killed Perhaps he was thinking of WWII where America sat on the sidelines for the first 3 years. While Europe, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, India & South Africa fought the Fascists

“The lawsuit traces the oil companies' conspiracy back to 1979, when it says Exxon’s internal studies concluded that to avoid catastrophic global warming, it would be necessary to have renewable energy sources supply at least 50% of global energy by 2010.”

The autopsy of Piper James has "found physical evidence consistent with drowning and injuries consistent with dingo bites. Pre-mortem dingo bite marks are not likely to have caused immediate death." Coroner is awaiting pathology results. #qldpol www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

But watermelon pins. “Leaked chatlogs, photographs and other evidence analysed by this masthead show that members of the NSN have been in close contact with at least 30 neo-Nazi extremist groups overseas since forming five years ago. Nine of those groups are listed internationally as terror cells.”

Special Envoy to Combat Antisemitism Jillian Segal:

Nothing to see here according to Australia's Special Envoy to Combat Antisemitism. www.theage.com.au/national/a-s...

10. It’s time to recognise how deeply weird this is, reserve our votes for people who give us what we want, and stop subscribing to media outlets that lie on behalf of oligarchs. More on this subject, with facts and figures, in my most recent column: www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

1. This short thread is about the issue that dominates almost every aspect of politics, and causes or exacerbates most of our problems: the extreme wealth of a small number of people. Here’s the amazing thing: almost the entire political class aligns with the ultra-rich against the rest. 🧵1/10

Protest organisers, and those who choose to participate in public assemblies and marches, are entitled to hear clear and consistent reassurances from our government leaders that Australians are perfectly capable of doing both at the same time. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

The film draws on real audio from the 5-year-old’s call with emergency services as her family came under Israeli fire.

And yet he accessed firearms. Meanwhile the libs are trying to tell us we don’t have a gun problem.

If it’s officially a ceasefire these are all murders surely

If the vote in the party room for Liberal leader is a show of hands, Andy will shit it in. He's got bags of em. https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2026/jan/23/sussan-ley-confident-she-will-survive-as-opposition-leader-and-says-door-is-open-to-nationals-rejoining-coalition

If the so-called civilised West allows the dog Ahmed al-Sharaa to commit a genocide against the brave heroes of Rojava, them our world is completely lost. The West used the Kurds in Rojava when they were fighting ISIS, if they abandon them to be massacred by another terrorist it will be a disgrace.

“in light of serious and credible criminal allegations of incitement to genocide and advocating genocide” by President Isaac Herzog during Israel’s “military onslaught” in Gaza

If you're interested in reading Randa Abdel-Fattah's actual views, instead of reading the various (mis)interpretations of them by bad-faith actors, here they are:

Randa Abdel-Fatteh sets the record straight in her own words

“Past logging has demonstrably increased the vulnerability of forests to climate risks and increased the severity of fires,” writes Bob Debus, NSW's longest serving Environment Minister, and Chair of @wildernessaus.bsky.social. Read Bob Debus’s full piece on The Point: https://theaus.in/3NC2DJS

The revelation that the Forestry Corporation of NSW is proposing to log a cloud forest in southern NSW, teeming with threatened species, is another reminder of the spiralling decline of the native forest logging industry - Bob Debus, former NSW enviro minister thepoint.com.au/opinions/260...

My feed telling a story here. If he doesn't want to lead Jeffries should resign.

What kind of sick demented mind even conceives of wanting to go jet skiing in the UK?

Such social. Much cohesion.

1/ Australia's Special Envoy To Combat Antisemitism Jillian Segal & her husband John Roth help pay for this Advance 🇦🇺 propaganda to the tune of $50,000 ...

The Age's "what school did you go to" obsession knows no bounds.

In this time of pure moral cowardice and the utter failure of global leadership, Francesca Albanese stands tall. Her refusal to be silenced, her courage, and the moral clarity of her message stands in contrast to the vacillation of the world's political, business & leadership class. Free Palestine.

ABC have delivered numerous media report saturation on or about something regarding Bondi. Which I’ll remind you was about #GunViolence. Three people overnight shot dead in Lake Cargelligo, all Indigenous, they offer a minute news item. What’s the fucken difference and it is also about GUN VIOLENCE!

Australia’s worst heatwave since black summer made five times more likely by global heating, analysis suggests www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

Francesca Albanese: "the only legal thing Israel can do in the occupied Palestinian territory is withdrawing.. Israel has no right to obstruct UNRWAs operations.. member states should suspend all dealings, military, economic.. with Israel, otherwise Israel will not stop"

As a descendent of Irish men and women displaced by England’s genocidal policies in Ireland in the 1800s, I will not be celebrating the day the English opened a prison colony and began a new genocide against the Indigenous people.

Distracted ex-boyfriend.

Since we're talking about One Nation and their history of providing us with some truly exceptional candidates, this is from the PHON candidate for Macalister in the 2017 State election. One of the top ten twitter exchanges of all time.

It grows worse. Updated for the latest polls:

Never let right wing libertarians near power: 'When the Patagonia fires began, a week passed before Pres Milei addressed the emergency, posting an AI image of him shaking hands with a firefighter. He has slashed Argentina’s fire management budget by >70%'. insideclimatenews.org/news/2001202...

Hung a guy at Nuremburg for doing this, FYI. Not "a thing like this" but literally this, exactly.

Don't any of you people remember when Joe Biden was threatening to invade Iceland?