Penrith could experience its hottest October day on record this Wednesday if predictions by the weather bureau hold. westernweekender.com.au/2025/10/penr...

The No Kings March in Chicago is one of the largest gatherings I’ve seen here. Looking down from by the river, the crowd stretches for blocks down Michigan Ave and wraps around Wacker Dr. This video is from a few minutes ago and the end of the protest is nowhere in sight. @blockclubchi.bsky.social

For Tolkien fans, a timely passage for No Kings Eve, from WH Auden’s review of Lord of the Rings.

Democracy dies in darkness. "Trump is not chickening out. His Tomahawk diplomacy made Putin blink." www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...

Everything you need to know about AI. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Pentagon "news" will come from the Federalist, the Epoch Times and One America News.... Hundreds of people cover the Pentagon. These are the 15 who signed its new press policy. www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...

could be 14 Nats if Barnaby bolts

wikipedia's data shows that AI is siphoning traffic away from the site, which is a danger to its sustainability. ironically Wikipedia is more important than ever to users who want reliable information instead of slop, and to AI companies that need it for training data www.404media.co/wikipedia-sa...

Photo of the Day One of the most significant airlifts in recent US history is still ongoing in Alaska. The remnants of Typhoon Halong battered the state on Sunday, sweeping some homes into the Bering Strait. Here, some of the 300 residents being airlifted to Anchorage. (📸 Alaska National Guard)

#Italy: An explosive device destroyed the vehicle of prominent Italian investigative journalist Sigfrido Ranucci overnight. We stand in solidarity with him and call for a swift investigation. There is no room for attacks on journalists in a democratic society. @fnsisocial.bsky.social

In the eternal words of Amos Milburn - One scotch, one bourbon, One Nation.

BREAKING: Pope Leo XIV is set to effectively disband Opus Dei in the coming weeks. This would be the most sweeping internal reform of his pontificate — and a dramatic continuation of Pope Francis’s legacy.

Barnaby and Pauline are both idiots, we know that, but neither has gone away after all these years and the far-right is only too keen to vacuum up those disaffected with more moderate conservatives (refer Reform in the UK). This is both crass opportunism and disturbing. #auspol

Never has a URL been more ironic than "go.nature.com"

Your Understatement For Today:

Ace Frehley, KISS’s original guitar king, has passed away aged 74. The Spaceman, Space Ace, he had the guitar chops & a laugh, a sense of humour & cheekiness that endeared him to fans worldwide. Farewell to a true original, RIP Ace, legend. 2025 can piss off! ‘New York Groove’😔 #metalsky #acefrehley

As you may have noticed, white supremacists want to stop the influx of hardworking young people (aka immigration) while somehow forcing white women to have lots more babies to compensate, but they refuse to make having kids more affordable and less arduous an experience.

Reporters leave the Pentagon but the leaks continue. This is in the NY Times today

The "ceasefire" does not seem to be going great

will this program be available to all, or just, ah, White families?

Is it time we all stopped giving this madman a platform?

NEWS: CBS News head of standards Claudia Milne has quit. It was announced in the network’s 9 am editorial meeting. Bari Weiss was not on the call. According to a source, Milne gave thanks but did not say why she’s leaving the network.

Good lord

I’ve been evicted from the Pentagon, a building I’ve covered for 18 years, Nancy A. Youssef writes. I’ll keep doing my job anyway. https://theatln.tc/hBoHf5y5

Welcome home. My @smh @theage cartoon.

It's tough to explain exactly how nutty this new report from fossil fuel industry consultant Wood Mackenzie is, but I'm going to try in a short thread. As you can guess: 1 trillion barrels of oil is...............................A LOT archive.ph/grTVe

New: The NACC has over two hundred employees and an annual budget of over $60m, but has yet to land a single major finding from over 5,000 referrals. The pressure is rising.

It's in the running for Tree of the Year. Go vote for it: www.nationaltrust.org.au/treeoftheyear/

NEW: A huge ice sculpture of the word “DEMOCRACY” is currently melting away in front of the US Capitol. Organized by artists and activists, it was commissioned by the Up In Arms campaign, an effort led by Ben Cohen, the cofounder of Ben & Jerry’s ice cream.

OpenAI's ChatGPT is so popular that almost no one will pay for it

wikimedia commons category "abandoned shopping carts"

Is it typical that multiple Governors and Senators openly say that the President has dementia?

spoken like a true aspirant for the Nobel Peace Prize

Does mean Israel intends to resume its genocide on a technicality? www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...

My belief is that Kamala would have won last year if they’d let Tim Walz keep calling Vance and Trump “weird.” But the professional Dem consultant class closed off the one attack that actually resonated with voters.

Where in the back garden has she buried these makings?

Trump has a very simple worldview: the Presidency is not a public office, it is his property. He can use it to satisfy his personal or partisan whims, or to enrich himself. So here, he threatens to reorganize an international competition, cohosted by Mexico and Canada, to settle a vendetta.

Funding for legal assistance will be very helpful.

Tim Walz: "Here's what I'd challenge Trump to do: find three soybean farmers who will stand with you and say that's okay. Just three. I challenge you to do that because you're not gonna find them."

> @governor.ca.gov

"I never liked taking pictures from underneath angles"

🌍 80% of people worldwide want stronger #ClimateAction. But not all choices are equal. WRI Climate research ranks 19 ways to help the climate, showing which actions make the biggest impact. Explore the list: bit.ly/4q0pWvC

Fox News, Defense Sec. Hegseth’s former employer, along with ABC, CBS and NBC, will not sign the Defense Department’s new restrictive press policy by its deadline, the news networks said in a joint statement.

The army in Madagascar seized power on Tuesday, days after the president fled the African island nation saying he feared for his life after several weeks of massive anti-government protests. n.pr/4qfA9Vk

LIVE: Israel shoots dead at least 9 Palestinians in Gaza despite ceasefire Israeli soldiers kill at least nine Palestinians trying to return to their homes in northern Gaza City and southern Khan Younis

Oh great