Trump’s greatest crime is practically invisible. USAID cuts killed at least 750,000 to date.: deaths from malaria, tuberculosis, HIV, malnutrition, diarrhea and more. Two-thirds of these deaths are children.
Aid cuts could cause 22m avoidable deaths by 2030.
www.theguardian.com/global-devel...
These laws are unconstitutional and they deserve to be chucked out.
Listen to Executive Officer, Bart Shteinman on PM overnight discussing why the anti-protest laws in QLD and NSW are anti-democratic and it's a good thing they've been struck down in NSW!
Full link: www.abc.net.au/listen/progr...
"We have a swarm of US bases on our [Australian] soil. The most significant is Pine Gap, which is currently very active in supporting Israeli attacks in Gaza and US attacks on Iran."
johnmenadue.com/post/2026/04...
During its ground invasion of southern Lebanon, Israeli forces left a cemetery in Marjayoun in ruins, with graves desecrated and burial sites damaged.
Fact check:
Bowen says EVs save Aus ~15M litres of petrol/week
As at Mar2026, Aus fleet:
389,431 BEVS + 125,399 PHEVs = 514,830
Av Aus annual car mileage 12100km at 11.1L/100km =1343L fuel for ICE use 🤔
Light vehicles use more
Aus growing fleet of EVs now save Aus >13.3ML/week🤓
Accurate 😎
Spot on!
Same with assessment of whether your pain is a heart attack.
In Australia, introduction of a better instrument to say "heart attack" (high-sensitivity troponin) reduced adverse outcomes for women only.
pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/40185319/
Headline from the AFR "Time to end welfare for the wealthy, says big business"
You mean the superannuation tax breaks? No?
You mean the CGT discount? No?
You mean the fossil fuel subsidies? No?
You mean the free gas for multinationals? No?
You mean the failure of the PRRT? No?
You mean the tax dodging trusts? No?
You mean the lack of a wealth tax? No?
No you mean the NDIS FFS
Told @NewsNation that Trump always uses social media to mock his counterparts, as an effort to create the optics of dominance. But it's one thing to do trash talk in a negotiation, completely different when the US is in an actual war and diplomacy is needed to end that war...
Well, it depends how many of those 61 are like John Fetterman.
If 10 of them are, including Fetterman himself, then you can do absolutely nothing with that majority.
Primaries are where the real election is happening.
A reminder that gas is not a vital industry to Australia.
As Polly Hemming explains, if anything, it costs the Australian economy.
Some more gas myths debunked here: thepoint.com.au/factchecks/2...
Meta just paid the lowest effective federal tax rate in its history.
Thanks to tax breaks and loopholes, it avoided $13.7B in 2025 federal income taxes.
But now it's planning to lay off 10% of its global workforce (8,000 people) by May 20 — with more job cuts later this year.
Trickle down hoax.
Defence has handed Palantir more than $26 million in contracts since 2013, including a $7.6m deal awarded without competitive tender to its Cyber Warfare Division. Palantir staff are embedded in Defence. How the hell did Labor let these wolves inside?
Video description from Israeli Telegram:
“Even during the ceasefire: Our forces are flattening Bint Jbeil in southern Lebanon”
t.me/newsil2022/3...
Indeed.
I'm sure the soldier is surprised seeing how his actions have backfired so hugely on the IDF.
Particularly given how little Christians cared when the IDF killed an actual priest, Fr. Pierre al-Rahi, on 9 March.
What power symbols have!
www.ncronline.org/news/lebanes...
Spot on!
I see the power of symbols and I appreciate their criticism of the IDF for this but where were they when 10,000's were being killed in Gaza? Where are they with continued killings? Were, even, were they when the IDF killed Fr. Pierre al-Rahi on 9 March?
www.ncronline.org/news/lebanes...
This is such a tendentious load of codswallop that by publishing it you, my dear The Economist, have convinced me you are totally divorced from truth and are, indeed, just a propaganda rag.
I'm improving my feed by blocking you.
It's not just Britain.
Australia's British-born former PM, Tony Abbott, has been a non-resident fellow paid by Hungarian tax payers through Orban's Danube Institute to spread the far right malaise into the Australian body politic.
Abbott should pay it all back.
www.crikey.com.au/2025/05/20/t...
Palantir's CEO published a manifesto arguing Western tech firms have a "moral debt" to US military dominance, that AI weapons are inevitable, and that "some cultures are dysfunctional." This isn't just a regularly evil tech or defence contractor, it’s a fascist political project.
“Japan, a country with no gas, oil or coal reserves of its own collected almost $40 billion over the last five years while the Australian PRRT provided only $7 billion to Australians.” - Dr Richard Denniss, co-CEO, The Australia Institute
🎧 Listen to the full interview: https://theaus.in/4sM88EC
The whole of Palantir’s manifesto is dystopian, but this is really chilling; “The question is not whether AI weapons will be built; it is who will build them and for what purpose.” They have a plan to build AI weapons to kill what we hold precious, we need a plan to stop them.
This isn’t an academic threat to democracy, social inclusion and genuinely liberal values where people are all valued equally. It is a clear and present fascist program attached to a military political project that stifles dissent at home and kills “adversaries” abroad.
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.
This is rather shocking. But yes - Japan has a gas import tax
australiainstitute.org.au/post/japanes...
I feel your heartbreak. I feel it too.
But is it pointless, or is it just fascism?
bsky.app/profile/osak...
Spot on!
He's a rude man who is credibly accused of being involved in spying on the European Commission and European Parliament for a pro-Putin push in Hungary. They seem naively certain he won't keep working for Putin a little more directly.
www.politico.eu/article/orba...
There are credible allegations Olivér Várhelyi was involved in spying on the European Commission. He's been publicly rude to MEPs and is reportedly even ruder in private. He's a Health Commissioner who says "abortion is not a medical question."
Why keep him?!?
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oliv%C3...
Tim Cook donated $1M to Trump’s inauguration.
He fawned over Trump and gifted him a 24-karat gold plaque (as Apple lobbied for tariff exemptions).
Apple donated to Trump’s White House ballroom.
And it removed ICE tracking apps from its stores following a demand from the DOJ.
Remember this.
This is what "Don't let the perfect be the enemy of the good" thinking gets you: a leader fundamentally incapable of acting in a way suited for the times, and scrambling to worsen fossil fuel reliance rather than decouple society from it
Reactionary centrism always ends up as a pro-fossil ideology
Dozens of Palestinian children have been unable to go to school this week in the occupied West Bank because a barbed-wire fence put up by illegal Jewish settlers blocked their way to school.
