Unless it's measles. Or COVID. Or syphilis.

Worst two-day stock market crashes in the U.S. by percentage loss:

1. 1929 (the Great Depression)

2. 1987 (Black Monday)

3. 2008 (the Great Recession)

4. YESTERDAY AND TODAY

And while this happened, the man responsible for it was golfing and dining with enemies of America.

This is Yale Professor Timothy Snyder, who studies authoritarians and tyranny, with a warning.

He and another Yale professor, Jason Stanley, who studies similar topics at Yale, are moving to Canadian universities, a result of the political and academic climate here.

Australia news live: ‘we don’t want our health system to be more American’, Albanese says; crews battle bushfires in Victoria and Tasmania Labor has pledged an $8.5bn investment in Medicare bulk billing and GP training. Follow the day’s news live

"we don’t want our health system to be more American" says Albo.

If only he had the same view of our
- defence system
- foreign policy
- respect for human rights and international law
- Murdoch-dominated media
- growing inequality and poverty... #auspol
www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

Meta-analysis confirms what is well known: cattle kept on pastures (grazing or hay) have a bigger climate impact than those kept indoors & given concentrate feed (but animal welfare is usually better). The bigger land use for grazing also often impacts biodiversity (though not examined in the paper)

“We found that from 2016-21, there were significant increases in crevasse volume across fast-flowing sectors of the Greenland ice sheet. In the southeast […] an area that has been particularly vulnerable to ocean-induced acceleration and retreat in the past few years, crevasse volume increased 25%”

Phylogenetic map of wildlife trade; graphs showing overlap with other traits like synanthropy; path analysis showing impact on zoonotic host status

Huge analysis out as a preprint today! For every 9 years an animal spends in the wildlife trade, it shares an additional pathogen with humans. Clear long-term impacts based on 40 years of global trade data 🧪😷 biorxiv.org/content/earl...

NEW: Trump is freezing money for clean energy — batteries, EVs, renewables, heat pumps, and more.

Nearly 80% of manufacturing investments spurred by the Inflation Reduction Act have flowed to Republican congressional districts.

w/ Lisa Friedman & @bradplumer.bsky.social

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A large number of members of the Psychology chapter of the German National Academy of Sciences (The Leopoldina) have signed an expression of concern about recenr developments in the U.S. relating to science: docs.google.com/document/u/1... 1/n

The Perfumed Warlord always was, and still is, a dangerous, US arse-licking, liability for Australia.

One wall in his Parl House office is entirely devoted to the USA, he even has a US flag there too.

His dickheaded devotion to the USA is both deluded and dangerous.

#RichardMarles

Headline "US democracy has died"

The neoliberal dream of fossil fuel billionaire Charles Koch was always the destruction of US democracy and the elimination of government (except for its repressive organs police, courts, prisons, military ofc), and now he has won.
What now? A 🧵.
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This is the most important thing you will read all week. Bar none. 👇

Read, reflect, act. 📖🤔🎬

Protecting democracy has never been so important. ✊

This is a team sport and needs *everyone* on the pitch. 🏈

Australian father calls out Spotify for allegedly playing Sportsbet ads during Frozen and Bluey songs Man says gambling ads ‘potentially damaging’ for his children who regularly listen to Disney and the Wiggles on his account on music streaming app

Gambling ads between Frozen and Bluey songs.
This shouldn’t be happening. Govt needs to have the guts to ban gambling advertising.
www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

Two polar stereographic maps side-by-side showing Antarctic sea ice concentration and its anomalies relative to 1981-2010 for October 2024. Red shading is shown for less ice, and blue shading is shown for more ice. More areas are below average than above. Antarctica is masked out in grey shading.

The contrast in regional #Antarctic sea ice concentration departures continued into November 2024, which is driven mostly by the pattern of the large-scale circulation (and ocean heat).

Data from NSIDC nsidc.org/data/g02202/... with the anomalies using a 1981-2010 reference period.

We MUST stop investing our trust in existing governing systems to solve this polycrisis

These systems caused the crisis. They cannot solve it.

These systems ARE the crisis

It’s well past time to withdraw our consent from them and cultivate the new world in which we can survive and thrive together

If you’re seeing some glitches today, it’s growing pains from scaling up so quickly! Thanks for bearing with us.

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What I voted for—
No more human rights abuses incl against refugees/asylum seekers
Real action on climate change
An end to keeping people in poverty

What I got—
Genocide is ok
More human rights abuses especially against refugees/asylum seekers
More fossil fuels
Poverty entrenched

#auspol

took a couple of weeks… but i’ve seen my first trolls and abusive dickheads on 🦋.

took me a few years to work it out at the #badplace but now i block on abuse, workout hesitation.

always happy to have spirited disagreements, but life’s too short to entertain f’wits.

The meme I didn't know I needed

Empty tanks and bare shelves. Australia's fuel and supply security exposed - Michael West Australia's supply security in the event of a crisis goes way beyond toilet paper hoarding. And the Government didn't want us to know.

‘Our “just in time” economy and society is absolutely dependent on uninterrupted fuel supplies. And yet Australia has only 26 days of in-country supply of diesel,’ writes Rex Patrick #auspol
Needs attention ‼️🚨⏰
🙏 @michaelwestbiz.bsky.social

michaelwest.com.au/empty-tanks-...

Lone Soldiers. New Australian IDF recruits due to arrive in Israel in January - Michael West Despite it being illegal to recruit soldiers for foreign armies, recruiters are hard at work enticing young Australians to join the IDF.

"The Israeli war machine is in hyperdrive". Inside the IDF's recruitment program for young Australians.
Yaakov Aharon reports
#lonesoldiers
#auspol
michaelwest.com.au/lone-soldier...

Every single one should be charged with assisting a terrorist organisation. I’d strip citizenship as well.

You chose who to fight for.

83% all plant life in Gaza destroyed: two devastating reports on Israel's genocide Two reports detail the hideous consequences of Israel's Western-facilitated genocide. And yet the Western media bury or ignore them altogether.

83% of plant life in Gaza has been destroyed.

Israel's genocide is making Gaza uninhabitable - and our media outlets are complicit by suppressing the truth.

New post 👇

www.owenjones.news/p/83-all-pla...

Screenshot of newspaper article: Help to Buy and Build to Rent housing supports to be put to vote without a deal, after Greens compromise rejected By political reporter Jake Evans Topic:Housing Policy 1h ago 1 hours ago O'Neil and Albanese walk through the lower house chamber, looking serious. Clare O'Neil says the government's housing bills will be put to a vote this week, despite not currently having a deal to pass them. (ABC News: Ian Cutmore)

This week the Albanese Government are refusing to negotiate with the Greens on housing reforms but they WILL negotiate with the Coalition on laws to attack migrants and people seeking asylum. Tells you a lot about their priorities.

Arrest warrants issued for genocidal babykiller, Benjamin Netanyahu  - The Shot The ICC has proven it has eyes and brains and has issued warrants to arrest Benjamin Netanyahu and Yoav Gallant for crimes against humanity.

"Any illusions of Western morality, or even the benevolence and effectiveness of our political systems, should be well and truly out the fucking window by now. Hold it all in contempt, you do not need to cheer for any of these people." #auspol
theshot.net.au/uncategorize...

This is the most bizarre hill to die on, and with approx 5-6 months to go until an election, it's an even more bizarre hill to risk votes over

Cost of living Anthony - cost of living

The man's determined to drive the tractor through the fence *and* through the shed before he drives it into the dam