The year is 2036. It is 11:59 AM.
Supreme Leader Donald Trump Jr. says the Strait of Hormuz is now open.
It is not open.
No ships have passed through in 8 years.
Polymarket received a 20B stake at 11:58 that the President would mention Iran before lunch.
U.S. national debt is 400 trillion Euros.
It’s what InfoWars has always been about.
This is so damn good and then you squint at the gas in the background to find the hidden bad news but gas' share is falling too 😍
I do not agree on Judd's ability to attract the public gaze, because I have never heard of her before in my life.
I suspect he actually goes quite deep in his preparation, but he's very adept at rolling it up into a short format that looks like a chat at the pub rather than champagne journalism.
Almost everything we argue about is a substitute for the thing we should be arguing about: the immense wealth & power of an oligarchic class, which captures governments, ruins lives and wrecks the living planet.
This class redirects our rage at scapegoats. To resist its lies is to resist its power.
True colours, shining through
TV program looking at appalling mining practices in #Congo says it is a blight on the #renewables and storage industry. But it falls over at the first fact check.
Food banks are not part of a safety net. they are proof we do not have a safety net.
Get yourself to the Shark & Ray Museum at Port Stephens and learn you some shark facts.
Their unforgettable spiel:
"If sharks wanted to eat people, there would be HUNDREDS of deaths every day. They are an apex predator and are all around you in the sea. But they're just not interested in us."
BREAKING: Just 20 minutes before Trump's announcement that the Strait of Hormuz was open, massive trades hit the market.
Investors sold a combined 7,990 lots of Brent crude futures, a $760 million bet that oil would go down.
These orders were much larger than anything else at the time.
Unusual.
Carbon Brief’s diagram mapping Australian political parties’ climate policies to implied warming at a global level. Shows Labor party policies imply the high end of 2° warming, and Liberal policy almost 4°.
They are disappointing, but also…
- The signs were there that they would not be Whitlam-esque revolutionaries
- They’re still much better than the opposition.
Ms 16 just now: “Most ponies can’t even do one trick. A one-trick pony is doing pretty well.”
FYI Industry Super has a pretty poor record in investing in fossil fuel expansion, as do all funds except about 3. Most funds will just invest in anything that moves.
www.marketforces.org.au/superfunds/a...
A political cartoon by Megan Herbert showing an assembly of renewable energy solutions - solar panels, battery storage, high speed rail, electrified truck freight, EVs and charging infrastructure, wind turbines, and bicycles - put together in a shape that resembles a military tank. A different approach to a massive increase in military spending that would increase Australia's security and sovereignty in times of global unrest.
Best defence.
My cartoon in today's @theageaustralia.bsky.social and @sydmorningherald.bsky.social
"SpaceX bought 1,279 Cybertrucks in Q4 2025, representing over 18% of Tesla’s total US sales during the quarter. That’s not fleet expansion—that’s a bailout wearing corporate camouflage"
www.gadgetreview.com/spacex-bough...
Computer programs are good if we use them in good ways. Electricity is good if we use it for good things. More is better if we use the new stuff for good things.
These sentences are almost too obvious to type out, yet strangely contentious in techno-optimist circles, where the vibe is just "more."
☑️ I’m in this picture and I don’t like it
☑️ I’m in this picture and I don’t like it
Temporary Squeaker Mike is so dumb it hurts.
Fixed.
Court rules NSW protest laws introduced post-Bondi attack are unconstitutional
www.sbs.com.au/news/article...
SBS News article: “Court rules NSW protest laws introduced post-Bondi attack are unconstitutional”
Just wild that an Aussie parliament created laws to quell dissent that they don’t have the power to create, and citizens had to take them to court to prove it.
Huge levels of both incompetence and overreach as lawmakers.
#auspol
The generalised hot take: Democracy with a functioning public service enacting evidence-based policy and generating new knowledge is good.
Four frames. Angus Taylor and journo. 1. Angus: “We need to decide who we let into this country...” Journo: “We already do, through our immigration process.” 2. A: “Yes, well we need to make sure they respect our values…” J: “They already have to pass a values test.” 3. A: “Well, we need to ensure they don’t breach these values…” J: “We have laws, and consequences for people who break them.” 4. A: “Something something people from Gaza…” J: “It’s hard coming second to Pauline, isn’t it.”
All he’s got.
My @smh cartoon.
I guess Floridians look forward to their property returning to its natural habitat of being under water.
Perhaps the most galling thing about Liberals, Nationals, One Nation wanting you to blame all your problems on immigrants, is that they’ve controlled parliament for 2/3rds of the last 3 decades.
We’re living in the result of their conservative neoliberal designs, but you should blame others!
#auspol
Person cleans out 100 year old box o’ junk, finds first evidence of giant echidnas having lived in Victoria.
Really enjoyed this detailed autopsy by Simon Copland of the “Abundance” book: “Abundance Gets It Wrong”
greenagenda.org.au/2025/09/abun...
Screencap of SBS News article headline: “Coalition's migration plan panned as 'Trumpian', likened to 'White Australia' era”
The party of Free Speech Warriors want to ban anyone who doesn’t agree with them. #auspol