Reading through the FT at the moment is a strange experience: revolution, war, disaster, brutal autocratic oppression, mad dictator shit....and then "markets continue to thrive"; "record profits".

Breaking News: The EPA will stop considering lives saved when setting pollution limits and instead calculate only the cost to businesses.

“We need a society that values its visionaries, those who go against the grain to create new dreams that reveal other ways of being,” writes Ben Quilty in his essay, Collective Ambition, featured in A Time for Bravery. Buy your copy of A Time for Bravery: australiainstitute.org.au/store/A-Time...

If you were part of the Robodebt class action settlement, you may be eligible for compensation. Registration for compensation ends in early March 2026. Make sure you’re registered. Contact Gordon Legal if you haven’t received a information document package from Services Australia

Feel free to ask the PM why Emergency Services, the media and the majority of MP’s (State + Federal) and LGA’s have no presence here on Bluesky but they’re still over on the vile site #auspol Only the vile are worth informing?

The best cartoonists, like court jesters of yore, tell truth to power. Cathy Wilcox is one of the best cartoonists, and she's being cruelly punished.

Almost twice as many Australian GP clinics bulk billing since Medicare incentive changes, analysis suggests

Brilliant, on point cartoon. I absolutely stand with Cathy

In 2024 you all combined to write and complain about the NACC's Robodebt non-investigation Over 1000 people complained It's time to make yourself heard again Take 30 secs or 30 mins to write to the Adelaide Festival board about their actions Voice your complaint Be heard Share this far & wide

This is stunning. Listen to this in Philadelphia. Thousands singing “Hey-Oh, we won’t be silent while our friends are gunned down.” Really listen to it.

RIP Renee sign at the anti-hate rally at Toronto City Hall today (which greatly outnumbered the racist Canada First protest)

She will. I knew Virginia Bell when she worked at Redfern Legal Centre and I was a lowly law student volunteer. Her integrity and passion for justice had a profound effect on me, and I've watched her career since then, all the way to Justice of the High Court. She will not tick boxes.

It’s going to be an interesting few weeks when the royal commission examines, as I suspect it will, the defraying of social cohesion caused by the organised censorship of writers, artists and employees across the country for daring to speak against an unfolding genocide

FYI: In 1916 the U.S. signed an agreement for control of St. Thomas, St. John & St. Croix, known as the “Danish West Indies,” in exchange for $25 million & a declaration that the U.S. would “not object to the Danish Govt extending their political & economic interests to the whole of Greenland.

Rising tree death rates in all types of Australian forest tied to climate change #climatechange #environment People do realise we actually need trees, right?

Ben Austin’s parents. Incredible people. Re the friend who bowled the fatal ball: “We just hugged him and said, it wasn't your fault. "We've given him Benny's bat to use. We've given him Benny's shirt and I've even said he's going to be my cricket son now."

Sports media is failing fans. Two months ago, the NBA and MLB had players and coaches indicted by the federal government for placing bets on games. In previous eras, this would be a crisis. Now? Crickets.

The world is marching toward its own destruction, episode 236.

Cannot reiterate this strenuously enough: heatwaves are a public health crisis. They kill. Take action to protect yourself

For many years I lived in an apartment without aircon. My list of places I could go to escape the heat in metro Melbourne

Democracy is going to prevail. Oh, there will be moments each day...when you fear that it won't. That's just a reminder from your deeper self...of just how damned important preserving democracy really is. And that...is fuel.

How grotesque. At a time where we need positive political leadership that brings us together, unites us, protects our social cohesion & multiculturalism these dills seek to exploit tragedy, division and fear. Shame on them all.

Won’t sleep until I hear where Marilyn from Home and Away stands on a royal commission

The world is in denial, and we cannot afford to be. @carolecadwalla.bsky.social on "The Threat from America". broligarchy.substack.com/p/the-threat...

Support for international law, you say.

If your position is that regime change should be forced on countries where the president does not respect democratic norms and regularly kidnaps opponents using an officially sanctioned paramiliatary, have I got news for you about your position on the United States

More reaction to Maduro’s “arrest”

Chris Minns wondering if anyone will think it is too early to ban protests against the US

Has FIFA asked for their ‘peace’ prize back yet?

After removing Maduro, the USA will finally be able to bring freedom to millions of barrels of oil.

ABC reporting a “period of rising tension between the United States and Venezuela” Venezuela hasn’t done anything. There is no rising tension, it’s just Trump.

sit down when I tell you a bunch of media corporations are amplifying a bunch of other corporations campaigning with the pro-Israel lobbyists against the actual elected federal government bless their egomaniacal hearts. www.abc.net.au/news/2026-01...

“The Albanese Government is promising to transition away from fossil fuels by expanding the production of fossil gas,” writes @ketanjoshi.co in @thepointau.bsky.social Read more ➡️ https://thepoint.com.au/opinions/251125-australias-gas-bonanza-is-for-corporate-super-profits-not-climate-superheroes

For over two thousand years Christians have been warning us about the antichrist. When he finally shows up, they vote him into office. Twice. 🤦🏻‍♂️

People who paid pure lip-service to a Royal Commission's findings suggesting we need a Royal Commission. Glorious. Stick it on the front page.

Speechwriters are so back, baby

Remember: If we allow ourselves to fall into fatalism, or wallow in disappointment, or become resigned to what is rather than what should be, we will lose the long game. The greatest enemy of positive social change is cynicism about what can be changed.

We need a new generation of leaders who are the voices of democracy, freedom, social justice, & the rule of law. A new generation that renews the “we” in “we the people.” Instead of fretting over Zohran Mamdani, the Democratic Party should embrace him as part of its future.

Waited a year for a specialist appointment in the public system. Couldn’t make the date they’d set, asked to reschedule. Because some people with chronic illness have work. Anyway, they reschedule it. To a year from now

It’s bizzare that the Chief Executive of the SA Department for Energy and Mining has not received any briefs on the stabilisation of the Whyalla Steelworks. It’s extraordinary that they ‘ordered’ me not to publish 👇this letter👇. #saparli

How in the frog-boiling fuck do we live in a world where the simple phrase “stop bombing children” now seems to be both deeply subversive AND anti-semitic? #NewsCorpse

Crikey Re-read | "It’s often only when a whistleblower contacts a journalist that we learn just how secretive and media-managed normal operations of the state have become, or how broken."

Humble and respectful after Christmas lunch in aged care with my 94yo mum. Gratitude to staff at Mercy Place Warrnambool for beautiful table decorations, a tasty three-course meal and hospitality with a smile. As well as the ongoing care for residents, 365 days a year. You are the best.

The lesson of history is that tyrants cannot be appeased. Appeasement only feeds their insatiable hunger for power. Tyrants prey on people who feel unsafe and vulnerable. But without mass submission, a tyrant is powerless. Remember this.

Merry Christmas to all who honour and celebrate. I'll be visiting aged care to be alongside my 94yo mum for lunch, where the spirit of Christmas is fully revealed by staff and residents in the most powerful and moving way 🙏❤️

Btw this is one of the biggest reasons why it’s not as easy as people think to start up independent newsrooms or just be an indie journalist on substack. If you are actually holding powerful and rich people to account, you WILL need legal representation. Not a matter of whether but when

Father of three meets bone marrow donor who saved his life for 'most special Christmas' Medsky ❤️❤️

U.S. military spending is set to hit a record $1 trillion. Roughly half of defense spending goes to private contractors that routinely price-gouge the government. Meanwhile, the Pentagon has failed EIGHT straight audits. This is the military industrial complex on steroids.