I’ve been reading Trump’s "Board of Peace Charter," and despite the name, this isn’t a multilateral institution, it’s a centralised structure built entirely around the authority of one person (Trump). www.timesofisrael.com/full-text-ch...

The decision was taken over concerns that the “Board of Peace,” chaired by King Trump, would have extensive powers beyond transitional governance of the Gaza Strip, and undermine the United Nations framework.

Antarctic warming from fossil fuel burning is driving the fastest breeding shift ever seen in penguins. Gentoo, Adelie, and Chinstrap penguins are nesting up to 24 days earlier. This increases competition for food and space, helping Gentoos expand but threatening Chinstrap and Adelie.

Left: Mike Johnson, Speaker of the House, talking about liberty and freedom in the US in the UK parliament Right: ICE agents attacking a dancing fox

www.theguardian.com/commentisfre... The free world does not need the USA.

2/2 ICYMI, the deeply unimpressive AG failed to answer this key question four times: "Would a group be banned if it accused Israel of genocide or apartheid, and as a result, Jewish Australians feel intimidated?" She doesn't understand her own legislation. #auspol www.abc.net.au/news/2026-01...

🚨Parliament is going to debate the petition Calling for a public inquiry into Russian influence on UK politics & democracy on 9 February. This is why it’s so important👇 youtu.be/Cnl8MNhwEY0?...

Israel's Ben Gvir leads demolition of Unrwa headquarters in Jerusalem  - https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/ben-gvir-leads-israeli-demolition-unrwa-headquarters-jerusalem

Compare & contrast. This is Trump’s demand for Greenland. And this is Hitler’s for the Sudetenland. There is no difference. The language. The unstoppable need to dominate. The megalomania. It’s the same. And Keir Starmer’s response is appeasement. We are in that moment. 1/

“Early this morning, Israeli forces stormed the UNRWA Headquarters, a United Nations site, in East Jerusalem.” Statement by UNRWA Commissioner-General Philippe Lazzarini: www.unrwa.org/newsroom/off...

Every goddamn word of this ⬇️ "Economic inequality is at the heart of all humanity’s major problems, but the wealthiest refuse to confront a system that benefits them." www.theguardian.com/global/2026/...

Today's Liberal Labor deal to try and criminalise those speaking up against genocide is deeply dangerous but it will not silence us.

Make no mistake: the changes the Liberals made with Labor on the hate speech laws make them worse. Hear me explain just some of the impacts here.

15 years in jail for telling the truth would present the courts a bit of a legal conundrum wouldn’t it

Australia is one of the worlds richest countries. we can afford $360 billions for nuclear submarines and $14 billion per year for fossil fuel subsidies. We can give away more than half the gas we export for free.… But our privatised health system can’t even keep maggots & mould from our hospitals

"As ice recedes, new maritime routes are emerging, reshaping global trade and security.” This quote alone is why I'm so hell bent against the rich. Instead of being concerned about the receding ice, these vultures are circling a dying world in order to exploit it to the bare bones.

Debt collector hired to chase unpaid taxes for the ATO pays zero corporate tax itself

A presidential letter that will go down in infamy, with an equally infamous US electorate, dumbed down to the point of amoeba, voted in a Kremlin-backed stooge to paralyze western democracy.

If Trump's innocent: Why did MAGA Mike hold up Congress to block the Epstein files? Why did MAGA Mike block Rep. Grijalva from being seated? Why are they still withholding the Epstein files? Why is Trump named as a rapist in the files? Why hasn't Trump sued anyone for calling him a pedophile?

Sad about Phillip Adams getting sacked by the Australian after all these decades. Kinda glad tho that the increasingly ugly propaganda sheet has lost another of its fig leaves. It is not a respectable enterprise, and a small handful of good people can’t make it so.

I know we're well into the age of Nothing Matters nihilism, but it's darkly hilarious that after Republican lickspittles spent the weekend arguing that Greenland is essential to U.S. national security, we learn that Trump would've dropped the entire project if he could get a medal for his ego wall.

‘No longer in my hands’: How Hill Republicans stopped caring about DOJ releasing the Epstein files On the one-month anniversary of the Justice Department missing the deadline to release all the Epstein materials in its possession, Republicans in Congress are largely shrugging their shoulders.

America?

That’s an invitation to be gracefully declined. The well is comprehensively poisoned www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

Jack Smith testifies publicly on Thursday at 10am at House Judiciary Committee Smith has been pushing to give OPEN and PUBLIC testimony about his probe of Trump's effort to overturn the 2020 election results

Norwegian Prime Minister Jonas Gahr Støre has confirmed he received a message from Donald Trump at the weekend saying he was no longer interested “purely” in peace due to not getting the Nobel Peace Prize.

"a fanatical xenophobe and white supremacist with the power of the federal government in his hands" This is who is running our 'closest ally'. And why the Australian govt cannot continue conducting foreign and defense policy with its fingers in its ears, and its head up Trump's arse. #auspol

Minnesota is a litmus test to see what the US military would do if ordered to take Greenland by force. If the US Army 11th Airborne Division actually parachutes into Minneapolis to help ICE gestapo violate US citizens' constitutional rights, then it's likely that they'd invade Greenland if ordered.

Despite claims by the Trump administration, a new study has found that Americans are absorbing about 96% of the costs of President Donald Trump's tariffs.

An FBI agent conducted an initial review of the Renee Good killing and determined sufficient grounds existed to open a civil rights probe into the actions of the ICE officer who shot her. Justice Department says no inquiry is warranted. @perrystein.bsky.social www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...

When does AUS join ranks with fellow democracies like Canada and stand up to this frickin lunatic?

The world’s wrongest man, Daniel Hannan, contending that Trump’s utter unfitness for office only emerged *yesterday*… Because it’s the only way the irredeemable idiot can cling on to the delusion that he’s not an irredeemable idiot.

The abduction of Venezuela’s president is a warning sign: when global rules collapse and impunity takes hold, violence becomes precedent, writes Refaat Ibrahim. #Venezuela #InternationalLaw #Gaza #PearlsAndIrritations

This is what happened in our neighborhood yesterday. ICE snatched a human being off of our streets, roughed them up badly, and then pepper sprayed legal observers as they documented it all. This is a daily occurrence happening all throughout Minnesota right now.

“Trump is the first president not to issue an official proclamation recognizing Martin Luther King, Jr. Day since President Reagan made it a holiday.”

According to the Times of Israel, missile signing Israeli president Herzog will be visiting Sydney on Feb 7.

"In the immediate aftermath of the death of Renée Good in Minneapolis... an FBI agent in Minnesota conducted an initial review of the shooting and determined that sufficient grounds existed to open a probe into the actions of the officer who shot Good..." www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...

“Give us a chance to give [Trump] a way out of this that comes to the right ending. … I don’t know if that’s possible.” - @durbin.senate.gov to Danes in Europe. Can the Senate Dems sound any more limp, facile and impotent to Europeans across the Atlantic?

Today we will see the clamouring of politicians, all desperate to appease the lobbyists of a foreign govt, blaming the “cultural left” for the human toll of hatred. So I’m posting this to demonstrate what an Australian leader looks like (cc @albomp.bsky.social - watch & learn) #auspol

Nearly all of the flimsy tents in displacement camps have been rendered unusable due to the harsh winter conditions.

For Antarctic scientists, getting a handle on what’s happening under the ice shelves is urgent because the fate of the planet’s coastlines will depend on how fast they melt. #climatecrisis #antartica #auspol www.theguardian.com/world/2026/j...

"So businesspeople have a choice: Continue to abase themselves, destroying their dignity and their reputations, in an attempt to curry favor with a wannabe dictator who’s falling short, or show some spine. And that stiffening of the spine must be a collective endeavour.'

Video shows the aftermath of deadly forest fires in southern Chile that have killed at least 18 people and forced more than 50,000 to flee their homes.

Billionaire wealth jumps to highest ever at $18.3 trillion, up 16% in 2025, up 81% since 2020 Half the world lives in poverty. Billionaires are 4,000 times more likely to hold political office than normal people. Richest 56 Britons hold more wealth than 27m. Concentration of wealth is a danger.

LOL, what sane country would hire an aged-over-70 xenophobic idiot politician as its leader? [Wait, I'm being handed a note....]

Calling Albanese govt foreign policy "sycophantic" to the US is far too polite. Now seems they will sell out any remaining pretence of respect for international law or human rights for a seat at the table with genocide profiteers. And to stay on side with a fickle fascist. #GazaGenocide #auspol

In one sentence, this is why what passes for Australian foreign and defence policy is so stupid and dangerous. #AUKUS #auspol

mad king moment from the PBS Newshour correspondent