Very important piece of journalism. The power of well-funded lobbies and vested interest to undermine our democracies continues apace.

2026: I am struggling in a terrible economy because America has fucked up the Middle East 2003: I am struggling in a terrible economy because America has fucked up the Middle East 1991: I am struggling in a terrible economy because America has fucked up the Middle East 1982: I am struggling in a

My dog and I have reached a deal. I’m going to continue to house her, feed her, walk her, play with her, love her unconditionally and pick up her poop, and in return she’s going to carry on doing whatever the fuck she wants.

People just want to watch a basketball game without everything turning into his circus. He finds a way to ruin anything good.

It’s how corruption works unfortunately.

We live in the stupidest timeline.

In Senate Estimates we asked hard questions of the Royal Commission into Antisemitism including how their approach is dividing communities - these questions and the responses are on my YouTube here www.youtube.com/watch?v=-xiF...

⚽️ CARTOON OF THE DAY 😕 (From @dennisgoris.bsky.social )

Huh. I just found out that my great-grandfather was the reason hog cholera left my hometown alone in the 1940s. He vaccinated thousands of pigs. In this house, we believe in science.

Trump takes a long blink during the NBA Finals

In case you forgot what it looks like when a real president gets the love at a game. You know, when the crowd actually wants the president there.

Friend waiting to get in to MSG reports that when the motorcade rolled by Trump was waving out the window to “the loudest set of boos I’ve ever heard”

Wow, the Philippines are very shakey. USGS Magnitude 2.5+ Earthquakes, Past Day 40 of 83 earthquakes in map area. So 39 of the global earthquakes above 2.5 in the last day were aftershocks. This will take a while to settle down.

I think it’s a safe bet Benjamin Netanyahu has a complete unredacted copy of the Epstein files.

Imagine being the most decorated gymnast in history, almost dying, and media referring to you as “NFL Wife” as your greatest achievement.😑 Misogyny is a helluva drug. Smh. Truly hope Simone is safe and makes a full recovery. What a horrible experience.

"Something remarkable happened in April. For the first time in history, wind and solar generated more electricity than gas across the entire planet. Not in a country. Not in a region. Globally." Tons of great news here from Danny Kennedy (via @billmckibben.bsky.social's newsletter, which rules).

Funny to see all the middle fingers, booing and vitriol on display to Trump and then to read NZ online news call it a ‘mixed reception’. Shows just how far NZ media has sunk. #nzpol

The killer line is basically this: debt abstracts the debtor; AI abstracts the subject. In debt, the person becomes a number on a balance sheet; in AI, the person becomes data.

A real page on the White House website

And why is Trump saluting? As we're all too well aware, he has no record of military service!

I think it is both. Mass surveillance is part of the carceral industrial complex, expanding the permanent underclass for racial capitalism. Enshittification of search accelerates “hollowing out the middle class” to disempower and subdue people in knowledge and creative industries.

If Labor was ever minded to revise AUKUS, it has already passed up two golden opportunities, writes Sam Roggeveen. We may now have come too far to go back. trib.al/v70QB7d

Alt text- Clive Palmer flyer in the recycling bin

Long COVID is damaging children's blood vessels. And doctors can see it in their eyes.

Foreign Minister Penny Wong has agreed to meet with Australian members of the Global Sumud Flotilla who allege they were raped, sexually assaulted and tortured by Israeli soldiers and prison guards. www.deepcutnews.com/p/wong-agree...

INTENSE boos just now when they showed Trump on the jumbotron during the anthem.

You're Most Certainly Correct, My Friend.......

"Families of those detained inside Delaney have had to navigate on-again, off-again visitation permission and chaos to visit their loves ones. Some told the Guardian how upset, angry and worried they are about their relatives, hoping they will be released soon to continue their immigration cases."

If Covid Infection Affects Every Part Of Your Body, Does It Really Affect Any Of It?

Very important article about qualitative data sharing and the risks of doing so in a rapidly changing environment, powered, in part, by AI tools.

Last night they tested the UFC stage lighting at the White House. Check it out. The People’s House is looking more like a Six Flags amusement park after dark. It’s embarrassing.

I thought people were kidding, turns out Elon really did axe the screwworm containment program back in March 25. fucking imbecile www.agri-pulse.com/articles/226...

Mental Health Monday: Don't spend all night developing... unless you're building a UBI (Universal Basic Income) banner app. 😉

Math doesn’t lie. The narrative about voter fraud is simply untrue. It’s been proven time and time again by the courts and now even the Heritage Foundation themselves. In 40 YEARS there have been 1,500 fraudulent cases. “It isn’t about reality, it’s about control!” #dontbelievethelies #Pinks

Amazing things are happening in this world for those with the eyes to see them

Speaking to Times Radio about my views on a social media ban. An Australia-type ban will just leave us playing whack-a-mole with new platforms as they appear, and we’ll always be one step behind them. 1/2

Watching Four Corners on ABC tonight you get to see the machinations and power plays that pushed Ed Husic out. Another Albo fail in giving in to AI and not upset Trump by putting regulations around the emerging tech. Ed Husic was right all along with what he had proposed to govern this tech mold.

Surely it’s also influenced by the garbage scientists who have long and loudly proclaimed that CFS/ME is deconditioning caused by fear of exercise. They poisoned the well in the way that Wakefield did with autism. www.statnews.com/2016/09/21/c...

Before I got covid I was boxing 5 nights a week, 2 hrs a night, at 38. Best shape of my life. Long covid has ruined my physicality completely. After 4 years of a fully medicalized life experience and endless effort to rehab myself, I can be functional maybe a couple hours a day now.

1. Remember that any attempt to paint Long Covid as psychogenic in nature deliberately and completely incorrectly biologically decouples SARS-CoV-2 infection from Long Covid. In essence, this rhetoric shifts the causative factor for LC from the virus to the patient's mind.

One of the most devastating parts of emotional abuse is that it turns you against yourself. You stop needing the other person to silence you because their voice has already taken root inside your mind. #Unbroken #abuse #healing #narcissisticabuse #domesticviolence

This is SOLID reporting from Emily and every working NZ journo who's regurgitated this government's propaganda about "low attendance" or "tackling truancy" or framed the issue as Tough-Talking David Seymour vs Lazy Teacher Unions should sit down and take some goddamn notes

Just putting a thought out before bed, seeing a bit of an uptick of AI or AI looking images in #nzpol and can I say... don't just don't. AI is stupid, steals from creatives, sucks up resources and is the aesthetic of fascists now. Just don't.

New in PN: Bondi was the worst AG in history. Until now. "Whether he becomes AG or not, Blanche has made clear what qualities Trump prizes in his appointees — contempt for any principle superseding his brain burps. MAGA wants AGs who are unfit to be AGs. Only hollowed-out fascists need apply."

While writing this story I thought about a close family friend who helped raise me who went through chemo a few years ago for leukemia (she's doing well now!). Depending where she was in her chemo cycle, she was either completely fine or bedridden. www.politico.com/news/2026/06...

New Medicaid rules may force doctors to do something they were never trained to do: determine which patients with HIV, cancer and other conditions are too sick to work. Doctors told me this will be especially hard bc the energy/mobility of the chronically ill fluctuates day-to-day.

Zelensky offers Putin direct talks and a ceasefire in an open letter, "Enough of war," the Kremlin rejects offer www.yacnews.com/zelensky-off...

World Cup players' worst foe on the pitch this year may be the extreme heat [via @insideclimatenews.org]

Get your HPV vaccine. I did my series of 3 and I'm happy I can at least rest assured I'm not a part of the problem.

AUKUS assumes nuclear-powered submarines are Australia’s only viable path. But rapid advances in battery-powered submarines, all-electric vessels and underwater drones are changing the undersea warfare equation, Derek Woolner and David Glynne Jones write. #auspol #AUKUS #Defence @Woolner_Jones