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Interested in maintaining the world as a fit place for humans to live. Need comedy & art to keep me sane & to keep on believing in integrity and justice
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Let's get this straight.
Adani donates $600k the Qld LNP before election.
After the election, Qld LNP ends legal action over $400 MILLION in unpaid royalties.
Dodgy, dodgy, dodgy. Thread.
www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
Adani donates $600k the Qld LNP before election.
After the election, Qld LNP ends legal action over $400 MILLION in unpaid royalties.
Dodgy, dodgy, dodgy. Thread.
www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
February 5, 2026 at 11:32 PM
Let's get this straight.
Adani donates $600k the Qld LNP before election.
After the election, Qld LNP ends legal action over $400 MILLION in unpaid royalties.
Dodgy, dodgy, dodgy. Thread.
www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
Adani donates $600k the Qld LNP before election.
After the election, Qld LNP ends legal action over $400 MILLION in unpaid royalties.
Dodgy, dodgy, dodgy. Thread.
www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
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“The Israeli occupation has deliberately and methodically destroyed the health system” #Gaza Ministry of Health spokesperson Zaher al-Wahidi told Al Jazeera.
“The problem is just not in the news as much now”
www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/2/...
#Gaza #Genocide #Israel #Palestine #Healthcare #WarCrime
“The problem is just not in the news as much now”
www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/2/...
#Gaza #Genocide #Israel #Palestine #Healthcare #WarCrime
February 4, 2026 at 8:33 PM
“The Israeli occupation has deliberately and methodically destroyed the health system” #Gaza Ministry of Health spokesperson Zaher al-Wahidi told Al Jazeera.
“The problem is just not in the news as much now”
www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/2/...
#Gaza #Genocide #Israel #Palestine #Healthcare #WarCrime
“The problem is just not in the news as much now”
www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/2/...
#Gaza #Genocide #Israel #Palestine #Healthcare #WarCrime
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Every American needs to watch this:
February 5, 2026 at 8:41 PM
Every American needs to watch this:
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Not new or original - but it’s truly nuts that skin checks are so expensive given the rates of skin cancer in this country.
February 5, 2026 at 6:48 AM
Not new or original - but it’s truly nuts that skin checks are so expensive given the rates of skin cancer in this country.
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FINNEAS defends sister Billie Eilish amid online backlash over her anti-ICE comments at GRAMMYs:
“Seeing a lot of very powerful old white men outraged about what my 24 year old sister said during her acceptance speech. We can literally see your names in the Epstein files.”
“Seeing a lot of very powerful old white men outraged about what my 24 year old sister said during her acceptance speech. We can literally see your names in the Epstein files.”
February 4, 2026 at 11:07 PM
FINNEAS defends sister Billie Eilish amid online backlash over her anti-ICE comments at GRAMMYs:
“Seeing a lot of very powerful old white men outraged about what my 24 year old sister said during her acceptance speech. We can literally see your names in the Epstein files.”
“Seeing a lot of very powerful old white men outraged about what my 24 year old sister said during her acceptance speech. We can literally see your names in the Epstein files.”
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William Nordhaus received the Nobel Memorial Prize for these flawed economic models, and Bjorn Lomborg built a highly lucrative career on them.
They told rich and powerful people what they wanted to hear.
While helping to consign us all to catastrophe.
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
They told rich and powerful people what they wanted to hear.
While helping to consign us all to catastrophe.
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Flawed economic models mean climate crisis could crash global economy, experts warn
States and financial bodies using modelling that ignores shocks from extreme weather and climate tipping points
www.theguardian.com
February 5, 2026 at 8:28 AM
William Nordhaus received the Nobel Memorial Prize for these flawed economic models, and Bjorn Lomborg built a highly lucrative career on them.
They told rich and powerful people what they wanted to hear.
While helping to consign us all to catastrophe.
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
They told rich and powerful people what they wanted to hear.
While helping to consign us all to catastrophe.
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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It is terrible to see what is happening at The Washington Post. Democracy Docket is a small newsroom, but it is growing. If you want to work for an independent, pro-democracy media outlet, I encourage you to apply. ats.rippling.com/democracy-do...
Work With Us
ats.rippling.com
February 4, 2026 at 8:10 PM
It is terrible to see what is happening at The Washington Post. Democracy Docket is a small newsroom, but it is growing. If you want to work for an independent, pro-democracy media outlet, I encourage you to apply. ats.rippling.com/democracy-do...
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With inflation being driven by Christmas holidays & data centres, the RBA didn’t need to raise the interest rate this week.
@mattgrudnoff.bsky.social & @ebonybennett.bsky.social discuss why the RBA is so cautious about cutting rates, yet so quick to hike them up. #auspol
🎧 theaus.in/4qkepGv
@mattgrudnoff.bsky.social & @ebonybennett.bsky.social discuss why the RBA is so cautious about cutting rates, yet so quick to hike them up. #auspol
🎧 theaus.in/4qkepGv
February 5, 2026 at 12:07 AM
With inflation being driven by Christmas holidays & data centres, the RBA didn’t need to raise the interest rate this week.
@mattgrudnoff.bsky.social & @ebonybennett.bsky.social discuss why the RBA is so cautious about cutting rates, yet so quick to hike them up. #auspol
🎧 theaus.in/4qkepGv
@mattgrudnoff.bsky.social & @ebonybennett.bsky.social discuss why the RBA is so cautious about cutting rates, yet so quick to hike them up. #auspol
🎧 theaus.in/4qkepGv
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This is what "Christian Nationalists" stand for.
February 5, 2026 at 12:23 AM
This is what "Christian Nationalists" stand for.
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"...staff reported seeing a human femur and other bones on the roads, dead bodies abandoned in cars and 'catastrophic human needs, particularly for food and safe drinking water.'
But the U.S. ambassador [...] blocked the cable from wider distribution [...]because they believed it lacked balance."
But the U.S. ambassador [...] blocked the cable from wider distribution [...]because they believed it lacked balance."
US envoys blocked early warning of Gaza 'Apocalyptic Wasteland'
U.S. Agency for International Development staffers in early 2024 drafted a warning to senior officials in Joe Biden’s administration: Northern Gaza had turned into an “Apocalyptic Wasteland” with dire...
www.reuters.com
February 4, 2026 at 11:26 AM
"...staff reported seeing a human femur and other bones on the roads, dead bodies abandoned in cars and 'catastrophic human needs, particularly for food and safe drinking water.'
But the U.S. ambassador [...] blocked the cable from wider distribution [...]because they believed it lacked balance."
But the U.S. ambassador [...] blocked the cable from wider distribution [...]because they believed it lacked balance."
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UN special Rapporteur Francesca Albanese condemned Israel’s ban on Doctors Without Borders (MSF) from Gaza, saying “Israel has NO authority to block anyone from entering the Palestinian territory it illegally occupies.”
February 4, 2026 at 12:46 AM
UN special Rapporteur Francesca Albanese condemned Israel’s ban on Doctors Without Borders (MSF) from Gaza, saying “Israel has NO authority to block anyone from entering the Palestinian territory it illegally occupies.”
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🚨 Breaking | Four Palestinians, including children, were killed in intense Israeli bombardment targeting the Al-Zaytoun and Al-Tuffah neighborhoods east of Gaza City. Civilian areas continue to come under heavy fire as casualties rise.
February 4, 2026 at 7:57 AM
🚨 Breaking | Four Palestinians, including children, were killed in intense Israeli bombardment targeting the Al-Zaytoun and Al-Tuffah neighborhoods east of Gaza City. Civilian areas continue to come under heavy fire as casualties rise.
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Its destruction came as Israel said it will ban Doctors Without Borders, or MSF, from operating in Gaza, after the charity refused to provide Israeli authorities a list of its Palestinian staff. MSF currently provides at least 20% of hospital beds in Gaza.
February 4, 2026 at 2:18 AM
Its destruction came as Israel said it will ban Doctors Without Borders, or MSF, from operating in Gaza, after the charity refused to provide Israeli authorities a list of its Palestinian staff. MSF currently provides at least 20% of hospital beds in Gaza.
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"—smoke rose from the scraps of the tents where 10s of 1000s of miserable displaced people had found a refuge that turned out to be false. In vain, they'd believed in the cease-fire; in vain, thought they were in a safe area. On both counts, Israel deceived them."
johnmenadue.com/post/2026/02...
johnmenadue.com/post/2026/02...
Like a gambler who lost his fortune, Israel wants another war
Despite a declared ceasefire and the return of hostages, large-scale killing has continued in Gaza. The war has become self-perpetuating, leaving Israel morally, politically and strategically diminish...
johnmenadue.com
February 4, 2026 at 7:54 PM
"—smoke rose from the scraps of the tents where 10s of 1000s of miserable displaced people had found a refuge that turned out to be false. In vain, they'd believed in the cease-fire; in vain, thought they were in a safe area. On both counts, Israel deceived them."
johnmenadue.com/post/2026/02...
johnmenadue.com/post/2026/02...
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French diplomacy: “Fake news receives 70% more retweets than the facts.
When algorithms prioritize user engagement over reliability, disinformation becomes systemic.
Regulating platforms means protecting information. Source: MIT Media Lab”
When algorithms prioritize user engagement over reliability, disinformation becomes systemic.
Regulating platforms means protecting information. Source: MIT Media Lab”
February 4, 2026 at 3:13 PM
French diplomacy: “Fake news receives 70% more retweets than the facts.
When algorithms prioritize user engagement over reliability, disinformation becomes systemic.
Regulating platforms means protecting information. Source: MIT Media Lab”
When algorithms prioritize user engagement over reliability, disinformation becomes systemic.
Regulating platforms means protecting information. Source: MIT Media Lab”
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That is pretty bad, but I’m not so sure it’s a bigger scandal than child sex trafficking, and raping children. Have we hit the bottom yet?
February 3, 2026 at 2:53 AM
That is pretty bad, but I’m not so sure it’s a bigger scandal than child sex trafficking, and raping children. Have we hit the bottom yet?
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Gaza health officials estimate over 1,200 Palestinians have died in Gaza while waiting for medical transfer due to Israel’s closure of the Rafah crossing.
February 3, 2026 at 2:40 AM
Gaza health officials estimate over 1,200 Palestinians have died in Gaza while waiting for medical transfer due to Israel’s closure of the Rafah crossing.
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Perfect.
![Single frame. Title: “[redacted]” A line of early teen? girls looking at the viewer. Behind them, silhouettes of four generic men, some with hand on shoulders of the girls, which have been through six iterations of redaction to satisfy the newspaper’s lawyers that none are identifiable.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:udzkh2jubo3w6ei42ftanhhj/bafkreic3fp5yp3asvebljrnnzovrw5a5nljp57bgxoyzh6z33m3qczpn4u@jpeg)
February 3, 2026 at 9:07 PM
Perfect.
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“In Australia, it’s perfectly legal to lie in a political ad. And thanks to taxpayer funding of election campaigns, you could be the one paying for the ad that lies to you," writes Bill Browne from The Australia Institute.
Read the full piece on The Point: https://theaus.in/4kn5u5S
Read the full piece on The Point: https://theaus.in/4kn5u5S
February 2, 2026 at 11:53 PM
“In Australia, it’s perfectly legal to lie in a political ad. And thanks to taxpayer funding of election campaigns, you could be the one paying for the ad that lies to you," writes Bill Browne from The Australia Institute.
Read the full piece on The Point: https://theaus.in/4kn5u5S
Read the full piece on The Point: https://theaus.in/4kn5u5S
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Looking back fondly on this quote Mandelson gave me last September
"I do not, and have never, lobbied government on behalf of any commercial interest," he added.
February 3, 2026 at 10:54 AM
Looking back fondly on this quote Mandelson gave me last September
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And yet the BBC *censored* @rutgerbregman.com from saying precisely this in his Reith lectures, and also kept their journalists from reporting that he had said so. When it is an *empirically verifiable fact*, in addition to being a valid opinion in a free society. @bbcnewsnight.bsky.social
I was a White House ethics lawyer.
I used to advise people not to even accept a free cup of coffee from someone who had interests before them. And staff followed those rules.
I can’t even find the words to describe the scale of Trump’s corruption here.
I used to advise people not to even accept a free cup of coffee from someone who had interests before them. And staff followed those rules.
I can’t even find the words to describe the scale of Trump’s corruption here.
Foreign countries are bribing our president to sell out the American people.
Trump family businesses made $187 MILLION from this deal, and just months later he gave the UAE some of our most top-secret AI tech.
They are selling our national security to the highest bidder.
Trump family businesses made $187 MILLION from this deal, and just months later he gave the UAE some of our most top-secret AI tech.
They are selling our national security to the highest bidder.
February 3, 2026 at 7:01 AM
And yet the BBC *censored* @rutgerbregman.com from saying precisely this in his Reith lectures, and also kept their journalists from reporting that he had said so. When it is an *empirically verifiable fact*, in addition to being a valid opinion in a free society. @bbcnewsnight.bsky.social
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Things Anthony Albanese refuses to stand against (over and over again):
Genocide
The US military industrial complex
War criminals
Gambling industry
Climate destruction
Palantir
Murdoch media
Negative gearing
Sovereign risk
Democratic erosion
Genocide
The US military industrial complex
War criminals
Gambling industry
Climate destruction
Palantir
Murdoch media
Negative gearing
Sovereign risk
Democratic erosion
February 3, 2026 at 7:20 AM
Things Anthony Albanese refuses to stand against (over and over again):
Genocide
The US military industrial complex
War criminals
Gambling industry
Climate destruction
Palantir
Murdoch media
Negative gearing
Sovereign risk
Democratic erosion
Genocide
The US military industrial complex
War criminals
Gambling industry
Climate destruction
Palantir
Murdoch media
Negative gearing
Sovereign risk
Democratic erosion
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In which I encounter the privilege of trying to order a plumber in French, go to the opera and reckon with the USA's quickening descent into fascism. I contain multitudes. rick-morton.ghost.io/plumb-and-pl...
Plumb and Plumber
On a recent Wednesday, the kitchen sink in my Paris apartment became totally clogged and I was deserted by the civilising infrastructure of modern life.
Thus begins my nightmare.
The building pipes ...
rick-morton.ghost.io
February 2, 2026 at 8:18 PM
In which I encounter the privilege of trying to order a plumber in French, go to the opera and reckon with the USA's quickening descent into fascism. I contain multitudes. rick-morton.ghost.io/plumb-and-pl...
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🔴 Breaking: The first moments after Israeli forces bombed a condolence tent in Al-Nuseirat camp in the central Gaza Strip, killing and injuring mourners, Shehab News reports.
February 2, 2026 at 4:32 PM
🔴 Breaking: The first moments after Israeli forces bombed a condolence tent in Al-Nuseirat camp in the central Gaza Strip, killing and injuring mourners, Shehab News reports.