Konrad Benjamin nails the root of the problem: to stop large industries from ripping us all off, politicians need to stop “going to work in the industries that they literally wrote the rules for”🔥
Rules that as Dr Denniss points out, see gas co’s “pay more in PR than PRRT”💥
The Australian Greens are calling on the government to audit every Palantir contract across Government and particularly in Defence, Home Affairs and intelligence agencies and table the findings in Parliament. The public has a right to know the full scale of the risks and the sell out.
When will the media just accept that Trump’s war “news” is simply market manipulation for his insider trading buddies?
"When I started writing about the climate crisis in the 1980s I was in my twenties, & I didn’t fully comprehend that there could be a force on this planet so steeped in greed & power that it would sacrifice the earth and its inhabitants for its own narrow interests. But there is, and it’s Big Oil."
Here it is, my annual reminder: don't spray spring dandelions with roundup. One flower can be visited by 100+ bees in a day, and your chemicals will kill all of them. 🌻
Dr Abu Hussam Safiya - distressed surrounded by mask military men and a background of Star of David flag.
U.N. experts demand Israel release... Gaza doctor after reports of 'severe torture'
Dr. Hussam Abu Safiya, who has been in Israeli detention since December 2024, is in a "dire" health condition, United Nations experts warned as they called for his immediate release.
www.nbcnews.com/world/gaza/u...
This couple had planned a sunrise photoshoot today. They went through with it.
April 16, 2026. Kyiv, the reality of millions of people.
📷 & 📹: ph.dariazatochna/Instagram
Now do #AUKUS
one immediate dramatic consequence of the Hungarian result:
Magyar has promised to repair relations with the EU and unblock a €90bn EU loan for Ukraine
People are expressing outrage about how Ben Roberts-Smith was arrested, saying it was too public. He was arrested with no cuffs, not a hand on him, despite facing allegations of war crimes.
I can’t help but think of the young Aboriginal boy wrongly arrested at gunpoint by the AFP on a Canberra bus.
At least once a day there is something on blue-sky to which you will want to post one of the following 3 things
Tony fucking Blair
Tony fucking Abbot
John fucking Howard
But there is some joy in that Alexander fucking Downer seems to have died.
Tony fucking Blair
Change the Record, Raise the Age and the Justice and Equity Centre all pointing out how cruel it is to put 10 year old children in jail. So right. A national law saying “no one can torture children” is needed, and just saying that makes real the national youth justice crisis.
NO that is not the thing that differentiates us.
www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/4/...
Spoiler alert: nothing trickled down.
Is he using airplane as a metaphor for their marriage?
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Yesterday I said we had two weeks before we were back to April 7th. Turns out, it didn't last one overnight! We need a plan people, fossil fuels need to be a thing of the past as fast as we can make it.
Stand against genocide of any people, of any culture or religion, anywhere. There are no excuses. There can be no place for eliminationist rhetoric by any one. Human rights are for all people, everywhere, all the time, with no exceptions.
I don't know, I am not feeling great about the leaders of the free world being unable to read and absorb just 10 bullet points. They cannot even get to point number 3 with a grade 4 level of comprehension.
And governments running these lines. @senatorwong.bsky.social #auspol
Impossible to disagree with a single word that Ben Rhodes (Obama era NSC official) is saying here:
#nzpol. Any investigations into the Epstein Files?
"last time you guys were in power you did a genocide instead of actually prosecuting the pedophile, then you let him get back into power and fuck everything up.
Then you wrote a strongly worded letter when he threatened to murder almost 100 million people. Fuck you."
Really misleading to post that headline with a picture of someone getting a vaccination. As if the cookers need anything more to lean into.
Every dollar spent by Australia on developing this US weapon is taken from public funds that could be used for health, housing and renewable energy. We must stop the complicity, and use public funds for Australia’s security and Australian needs, not Israel’s and Donald Trump’s.
