For every $1 the world spends protecting nature, $30 is spent destroying it. You read that right. If governments are serious about climate action, the first step is simple: stop subsidising harm and start financing solutions.

What does Epstein’s household economy reveal about the billionaire far-right? Melinda Cooper traces the disturbing logic connecting primal patriarchy, transhumanism, and the rule of masters over servants. www.equator.org/articles/eps...

Do you have a slumlord? Together, we can confront them and win. #auspol #housing #housingmarket #costofliving #union

Twenty-nine banks have ruled out financing the Papua LNG project in Papua New Guinea over climate and human rights concerns. Project lead TotalEnergies says it will proceed anyway.

10% of Australian workers can't find full-time work. That's the real injustice. Historian and unionist Owen Bennett counters #union opposition to the #JobGuarantee - full ep. drops Sat. 2/14 @ 8am ET. #LearnMMT Find all our ep: realprogressives.org/macro-n-cheese/

Host of COP31 is busy approving fossil fuel projects and cracking down on citizens protesting against the Israeli president

BREAKING 🇵🇸🇬🇧 High Court overturns UK government's ban on Palestine Action under anti-terrorism laws.

The threat of fascism is real. Economics has too often helped rather than hindered its rise. We need an anti-fascist economics to defend our democracies. So, I’m writing a book to do my part. More soon.

Probably the single biggest error in mainstream econ climate forecasting is that the estimates of climate damage were wildly, ludicrously low. This is nothing to do with assumptions about equilibrium, how many agents you have etc. It does suggest that something is badly wrong with the discipline.

We need more public housing and to fix the tax rules that currently reward wealth more than work, so the next generation isn’t locked out.

"The beatings will continue until social cohesion improves" Poster seen in Sydney denouncing NSW Premier Chris Minns who ordered a brutal police attack on Palestine protesters this week, justified under the totalitarian mantra of "Social Cohesion". via @radicalgraffiti.bsky.social

Australian historian & unionist Owen Bennett presents his idea for a path to implementing a #JobGuarantee to combat #austerity - full ep. drops Sat. 2/14 @ 8am ET. #LearnMMT Find all our ep: realprogressives.org/macro-n-cheese/

South #Australia power prices plummeting as it nears 100% renewables, proving to the world relying largely on wind and solar energy with battery back-up is incredibly cheap, with electricity prices tumbling by 30 % in a year and sometimes going negative. www.newscientist.com/article/2514...

Moral clarity in a time of cowardice + complicity. Thank you, Grace Tame.

#HerzogOut #FreePalestine Naarm

I'm a bit surprised we haven't seen more applications for this amazing job from within the Pacific. If you're interested, apply now, because the window is closing soon. If you have questions, reach out. occrp.bamboohr.com/careers/55

Former CIA Agent John Stockwell: ❝We pumped dozens of stories about Cuban atrocities, Cuban rapists.. We didn't know of a single atrocity committed by the Cubans. It was pure raw false propaganda to create an illusion of communists eating babies for breakfast.❞

Satellite data reveals that coal mines are the largest detected source of energy sector methane super-emitter events in the EU. Poland’s coking coal mines were seen to emit the most but more venting may have occurred undetected, outside of satellite overpasses. ember-energy.org/lat...

"Don't buy hybrid" should be a climate campaign slogan. From cars to heat pumps, hybrids are meant to keep consumers unnecessarily hooked on dirty, expensive fossil fuels for a few more years.

"The simple fact is that Israeli actions endanger all of us, including Jews. Because what Israel is doing claims to in our name, in my name. And believe me when I say it is not in my name." Thank you to advisory committee member, Antony Loewenstein for speaking out at last night's rally

“Governments need to bravely address the root cause of rising racism, dogmatism & ignorance. They need to have the courage to tackle wealth inequality & the undue influence of media & tech barons which have an exponential impact on our democracy.” Thomas Mayo #Auspol

"Profits of pitchfork and hammer manufacturers expected to soar in coming years"

Sheikh Wesam Charkawi who was leading the sunset prayer at yesterday’s events in Sydney. Please watch.

5. Contrary to the orthodox crowding out story, the truth is that government investment ‘crowds in’ private sector investment. It puts money into the economy and that creates greater demand -

Here's how the Olympics are used by local governments to expand policing and militarization long after the closing ceremony.

Some thoughts on "social cohesion" up at the newsletter.

When we speak up against injustice we are being ‘divisive’. When they want ‘social cohesion’ they employ state violence.

Read executive officer, Sarah Schwartz's opinion piece in the Financial Review today about why Herzog doesn't represent Australian Jewry and shouldn't have been invited in the first place: www.afr.com/policy/forei...

‼️ BREAKING!!! 29 banks now rule out financing Papua LNG! A growing number of financial institutions are going on the record that they don’t want any part of this project – which poses serious biodiversity, climate and human rights risks. Find out more: tinyurl.com/5e2dajv5

Post a banger not in English

Post a banger not in English www.youtube.com/watch?v=qsTv...

Here's me. "Why the fuck would we 'socially cohere' for monsters?"

Strong content warning: Police assault of protester #auspol From Jared Kimpton @jared_kimpton on Twitter

Strong content warning: Police assault of protester #auspol From Jared Kimpton @jared_kimpton on Twitter

🆕 🆕 🆕 NEW: Vanuatu has introduced a draft UN 🇺🇳 General Assembly resolution that builds on the International Court of Justice’s landmark ruling on States' legal duties in the context of climate change. The resolution aims at turning legal clarity into collective #ClimateAction.

More than £10.5bn of UK pension savings are invested in thermal coal - the world’s dirtiest fossil fuel. That’s bad for pension savers, the economy, and the climate. Read our new research with LINGO Initiative. filab.uk/3ZNdX8O

An absolute sea of people has gathered at Flinders Street Station in Naarm/Melbourne this evening. Tens of thousands saying loud and clear: HERZOG IS NOT WELCOME HERE! ✊

No to Herzog #FreePalestine Naarm

Thanks to your support, our full-page ad is in today’s Sydney Morning Herald and The Age. Over 1,000 Jews and thousands of allies have signed our open letter to say that Israeli President Isaac Herzog is not welcome here. Help us spread the word!

'Australia would be wise not to rest on federal-government diplomacy alone in promoting its credibility and influence in the Pacific,' writes Anna Alexander.

Asset Manager Capitalism, inequality, and the climate breakdown polq.at/asset-manage...

Asset Manager Capitalism, inequality, and the climate breakdown polq.at/asset-manage...

Substack is awful. There are so many alternatives out there!! www.theguardian.com/media/2026/f...

MY LATEST: Our World Cup-bound Socceroos face an anxious wait on whether top midfielder Jackson Irvine can play. It's a result not of injury, but of #Trump 's “McCarthyist” policies. Fans and other visitors to the US could be in the same boat. @MichaelWestBiz.bsky.social tinyurl.com/2tknc2y7

Former chairperson of Indian Oil Corporation Limited (the country's largest government-owned oil and gas company) writes an op-ed calling for a focus on industrial decarbonisation www.thehindu.com/opinion/lead...

Great article by Cory Doctorow on primogeniture: "...the world's chinless inbred monsters embarking upon an orgy of bloodletting to relieve one another of the lands – and peoples – they'd claimed as their property in order to carry on the "eternal" tradition of every son starting his own fortune."

A must-read from Cory Doctorow. Many things that feel as settled as gravity are actually not at all. But also, if zoomers and alphas feel oddly right-wing, maybe it's because this hellish time is all they've ever known? Just as GenXers are imprinted with reaganism.

This should really be a moment of reckoning for UK centrism — but somehow I don’t think that the modal centrist is much given to introspection.