Progressives, aesthetics really matter. Grim, earnest or ironic are not what people crave. They want a vision that is beautiful in every way.

The ACTU is calling for a 25% tax on all gas exports and for the tens of billions it would raise to be invested in public housing…sounds good to me…what do you reckon we should spend all the money we’d get if we stopped giving our gas away for free? #climate thepoint.com.au/news/301025-...

ICE/Border Patrol held a weapon on a guy who was demanding they show him their face in Rogers Park today

In these apocalyptic times, a little project I'm working on with 2 of my favourite people: @sonyasemmens.bsky.social & @lerns10.bsky.social makes it all seem a little bit better. We ask, when the 1st City falls, what does the 2nd City look like? youtu.be/WsBTbIo_0I4

Too many in media/politics frame Palestinian life only in the context of Israel & geopolitics. This not only dehumanises, it erases the richness, beauty, & diversity of Palestinian culture. This Israeli campaign of extermination is about more than the death of physical bodies. 1/

This week's #SundayShot is up! @rachelwithers.bsky.social, @6newsau.bsky.social's @leopuglisi6.bsky.social & @auspoldaily.bsky.social join me to discuss the Big Why of the election result, and what the losers do next. Watch and subscribe (and maybe even donate!)👇 www.youtube.com/watch?v=xwLq...

Guess who's getting up early just for you @rachelwithers.bsky.social, @leopuglisi6.bsky.social & @auspoldaily.bsky.social, that's who! Make it worth their while by tuning in to the #SundayShot @ 9am AEST. A better bet than hate watching #Insiders. Watch & subscribe @ www.youtube.com/@TheSundayShot

The #SundayShot is back on Sunday, people! We're looking forward to some hard core analysis with friends of the show @rachelwithers.bsky.social & @auspoldaily.bsky.social + @leopuglisi6.bsky.social from @6newsau.bsky.social making his Shot debut! Watch & subscribe at www.youtube.com/@TheSundayShot

An Easter #SundayShot! We gave panellists the week off so I check back in with Alex Fein to assess the mood of the electorate and Dave has an extended interview with the Australia Palestine Advocacy Network's Nasser Mashni. An Easter bunny makes an appearance. www.youtube.com/watch?v=LxbW...

The prerecorded interview by @instanterudite.bsky.social with @auspoldaily.bsky.social on today’s The #SundayShot is well worth a listen. It’s such a relief to hear women talk politics and polls and attitudes and campaigns. Highlight of the show today, no question.

🎙️NEW PODCAST: Jokes, Data and Election Predictions. @auspoldaily.bsky.social , @edcoper.bsky.social join @danilic.bsky.social and Lewis Hobba for the A Rational Fear podcast. www.arationalfear.com

are we seeing the birth of anarcho-sufism

Follow Spin Cycle - RRR on your fave pod platform. Last week we spoke to Alex Fein @auspoldaily.bsky.social about focus groups and the impact they have on election promises and policy.

“What’s transpired over the last three or four days just takes it to a whole new level of cruelty and inhumanity and, frankly, a whole new level of stupidity in doing this is the most non-strategic way.” Tens of thousands of people will die as a result of this action. www.salon.com/2025/02/28/a...

I've always said: once they get opposable thumbs, we're fucked.

Imagine if all the ABC AM/FM broadcast towers were on foreign land. Or all the 7/9/10 TV transmitters were in international waters broadcasting into Australia. @camwilson.bsky.social says it perfectly “You shouldn’t build your emergency broadcast systems in other people’s kingdoms.”

Facebook and YouTube have both put up barriers to people getting info during Cyclone Alfred, reminding us why governments shouldn’t be trusting closed, private platforms with crucial info during a crisis Read: thesizzle.com.au/p/facebook-y...

“In Finland, the number of homeless people has fallen sharply. Those affected receive a small apartment & counselling with no preconditions. 4 out of 5 people affected make their way back into a stable life. And all this is CHEAPER than accepting homelessness.”

If you missed this brilliant show, catch the podcast when it goes up (and hit subscribe - you won't regret it). So fun! Thanks for having me, Spin Cycle folks!

The western world right now.

Just wanting to signal boost this and ask you to as well (if you haven't already) This is the sort of thing that engaged progressives can put some momentum behind in conversations w friends/family who are less politically engaged. But it also helps to get the word out on a platform like this.

My research shows *strong* resistance to being forced back into the office. Progressives who talk to friends/family about how this policy would also send a strong signal to the private sector, risking everyone's wfh, will have an interested audience. Don't assume people will hear about it otherwise.

If you missed the #SundayShot this morning. I highly recommend a catch up. The panel is great and it’s hosted superbly by @instanterudite.bsky.social — There’s a funny moment when @pollyjhemming.bsky.social yells to get through some sound issues and the interview w/ @auspoldaily.bsky.social is 10/10

The latest #SundayShot is up! Come for the insightful chat with @pollyjhemming.bsky.social, @ketanjoshi.co & @auspoldaily.bsky.social. Stay for @davemilbo.bsky.social's new t-shirt. Subscribe to us so you know when we're on - can we hit 5000 subscribers by next week? www.youtube.com/watch?v=kJxm...

The YouTube recording for this week's The Sunday Shot with me, @instanterudite.bsky.social, @ketanjoshi.co, @pollyjhemming.bsky.social and @auspoldaily.bsky.social is up now! Climate themed discussion, cutting through the crap. Just how fucked are we? Let's find out. www.youtube.com/watch?v=kJxm...

It’s a map of which human lives they value in convenient graph form.

Outstanding #TheSundayShot today. Thanks @instanterudite.bsky.social and @davemilbo.bsky.social and guests @ketanjoshi.co, @pollyjhemming.bsky.social. Superb discussion on climate, emissions, and fossil fuels. Stellar insights & advice from @auspoldaily.bsky.social. #auspol #SundayShot #AusVotes2025

And a great interview by @instanterudite.bsky.social with @auspoldaily.bsky.social — excellent discussion including the importance of community organising and connection throughout the electoral cycle. Couldn’t agree more.

#TheSundayShot Sun 2 March 9am with hosts @instanterudite.bsky.social and @davemilbo.bsky.social and guests @ketanjoshi.co, @pollyjhemming.bsky.social & Redbridge's @auspoldaily.bsky.social. Subscribe at www.youtube.com/@TheSundayShot. #SundayShot #auspol

The #SundayShot is back again tomorrow for those who are sick of watching Insiders. www.youtube.com/@TheSundayShot Joining @davemilbo.bsky.social and @instanterudite.bsky.social this week is @pollyjhemming.bsky.social and @ketanjoshi.co. Plus an interview with @auspoldaily.bsky.social.

The #SundayShot is back on Sunday ...and unlike @washingtonpost.com, we don't have billionaires telling us what we're allowed to say! Join Dave & me & special guests @ketanjoshi.co, @pollyjhemming.bsky.social & Redbridge's @auspoldaily.bsky.social. Subscribe at www.youtube.com/@TheSundayShot.

These groyper rats are 100% feeding sensitive data into Grok and asking the AI to find "fraud" for them

Like I said: Quiet coup www.nytimes.com/2025/02/01/u...

Literal Nazi shit.

With DeepSeek AI, China has landed a hell of a blow in the cold tech war with the US. The ramifications of this are much better understood through @yanisvaroufakis.bsky.social 's Technofeudalism framework. If you haven't read it, it's past time.

Brilliant piece by @beneltham.bsky.social. www.crikey.com.au/2025/01/24/b...

Incredible stuff from the NACC. New disclosure reveals it hasn’t initiated a single successful corruption investigation yet. theklaxon.com.au/nacc-finds-n...

We thank our Muslim and Palestinian partners for sharing their solidarity and standing against all forms of racism. We also condemn those who are using these incidents to spread hate and stoke Islamophobia and anti-Palestinian racism.

2. comments such as 'they did it to themselves' should be called out as antisemitic conspiracy theories. Implying that all Jews act together as one to deceive people is a common antisemitic trope propagated by the far right.

The Jewish Council is disappointed in conspiratorial comments from many people in response to the recent antisemitic vandalism at two synagogues in Sydney. Regardless of who the perpetrators are the act of graffitiing synagogues with swastikas is a clear act of antisemitism.

i hate these tech freaks so much. shut up about politics and go make me a little computer.

DOGE is simply procurement capture by government vendors. The "efficiency" they seek is disadvantaging competitors to any of their businesses (like Rivian attempting to compete with Tesla) by throwing up regulatory obstacles and cancelling government contracts. They're not being subtle.

I just ate some hot chips in the backyard and I feel fantastic! How long can this summer madness last? What horrors await?

I have never been so relaxed in my life! Something terrible is surely about to happen.

And a Merry BLOODY Xmas to all: Israel just killed 50 & is attacking the only hospital left. “Yesterday they didn’t let the Patriarch enter Gaza as they had promised & yesterday children were bombed. This is cruelty. This is not war”, the Pope said. www.aljazeera.com/news/liveblo...

The head of the UN agency for Palestinian refugees decried Israel’s “escalation” in Gaza over the past 24 hours, noting attacks on schools and hospitals have become “commonplace”. 🔴 LIVE Updates: aje.io/84hmic

Once again, for those at the back: The cruelty is the point Governing for capitalism means deliberate cruelty to poor, racialised and marginalised people and communities, as a warning to the rest of us not to step out of line. Hence, this despicable shit: