Former Russian PM Dmitry Medvedev: “Europeans should not expect active intervention from the United States in a hypothetical conflict between certain EU countries and Russia.”

Which also means we don’t count the emissions from 83% of the gas we produce. That’s our contribution to climate change action 🙈.

The hidden public cost of private schools blowing a hole in our budget Yes, debt has blown out. Here's where you can start cutting back.

THIS

‘If you want to talk about wasteful government spending, the $12 billion a year going to well-off people sending their kids to private schools would be a good start.’ www.canberratimes.com.au/story/922838...

“The Japanese government is getting more revenue from taxing Australian gas than the Australian government is.”

It's wage-price spiral alert day!

A ‘cultural genocide’: Which of Gaza’s heritage sites have been destroyed? Nearly 200 sites of historical importance have been destroyed or damaged in Israeli air raids in the past 100 days.

www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/1/...

Israel kills three in Gaza Catholic church bombing At least three people were killed and 10 others wounded, including a priest, in Israel's attack on the church.

www.aljazeera.com/amp/news/202...

Never have pants been more aflame

They've pardon convicted rapist soldiers and convicted the whistle-blower...

Indeed, Iran has a vibrant Jewish population.

Netanyahu’s word is as trustworthy as Trump’s although to complicate things Trump trusts Netanyahu emphatically and Netanyahu trusts Trump to follow his advice. It’s so migraine inducing.

Blatant lies.

The Strait is closed to shipping again. Trump keeps stepping on the rake.
Geoff Gowers, Merricks North
The Age, letters

True colours, shining through

Jewish man among first charged in pro-Palestinian slogan crackdown that reminds some of 1970s Queensland Stephen Heydt says he spoke in a custom-made T-shirt and was ‘charged with two offences: one for the shirt, one for the chanting’

"Jewish man among first charged in pro-Palestinian slogan crackdown that reminds some of 1970s Queensland"
www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
“... these laws have nothing to do with Jewish safety and everything to do with silencing dissent against the state of Israel” #auspol #genocide

👶🏼👶🏼😅

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Endurance.

Anthropic’s Mythos release shows the world needs to regulate AI No one denies the potential of AI to transform economies and societies, but those who know the technology best are cognisant of its dangers.

“the AI industry raised a reported $US300 million to oppose candidates advocating AI regulation – mainly Democrats – at this year’s midterm elections.”

www.smh.com.au/business/com...

The Point Live: Gas, politics and the coming budget. All the day's events, live Welcome to a special edition of The Point Live, as we cover off the first day of the Senate’s Select Committee on the Taxation of Gas Resources, as well as take a look at what is shaping up in the bud...

I'm not saying the PointLive today is an absolute delightful trashing of Susan McDonald's lobbying on behalf of the gas industry, but I'm not not saying that

live.thepoint.com.au

Maddow: "Do we think our servicemen and women are in good hands? Do we think that there is care being taken in terms of what they're risking their lives for?"

Kash Patel lodges application to join club of Men Who Should Not Have Sued For Defamation

Groups Sue Administration Over Approval Of Ultra-Deepwater Oil Drilling Project In Gulf Five Gulf and environmental groups have sued the Trump administration over its approval of BP’s new ultra-deepwater oil drilling project in the Gulf of Mexico.

"BP’s first completely new oilfield in the Gulf since the company’s Deepwater Horizon disaster 16 years ago.

It will be deeper than Deepwater Horizon, and in riskier waters... drilling 6 miles below the sea floor, deeper than the height of Mt. Everest"

www.nationalparkstraveler.org/2026/04/grou...

‘Something is fundamentally wrong:’ Detainees start hunger strike at Pa. ICE facility A hunger strike at Moshannon Valley Processing Center, by roughly 100 people, started Thursday, April 16th.

www.pennlive.com/news/2026/04...

Where U.S. science has been hit hardest after Trump’s first year The Trump administration has slashed the number of grants from the National Institutes of Health, with far fewer focused on women, cancer and mental health.

trump and republicans making america great again by... cutting cancer research:

www.washingtonpost.com/science/2026...

Single frame. Prayer session in the Oval Office. Trump’s team laying hands on Trump, as his pastor says, “O Lord, cast out those misguided religious leaders who would dare to meddle in our politics…”

Let us pray.
My @smh @theage cartoon.

Won’t somebody save these hundreds of turtles condemned to death? | First Dog on the Moon There is a whole dam full of water right there but the turtles can’t have it

Why we can’t have nice things dept.

www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...