Indonesian military massacres West Papuans in latest round of violence Indonesian security forces have killed at least six people, including two children, in Dogiyai regency in West Papua, allegedly in retaliation for the killing of a police officer. Ben Radford reports.

Indonesian military massacres West Papuans in latest round of violence www.greenleft.org.au/2026/1451/world/indonesi... #Auspol

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Computer says 'Yes'.

Parties on boats - trapped!

The Broligarchy's First World War? AI-guided weapons, two out-of-control authoritarians, no legal authority and a toxic mess of masculinity: welcome to the manosphere's first major conflict

NEW: Is this the broligarchy’s first world war? AI, like war & rape, is a hyper-masculine fantasy of God-like power, a myth at the dark heart of what we’re seeing play out in the Gulf. This war hasn’t replaced the Epstein scandal. It is the Epstein scandal.

open.substack.com/pub/broligar...

The rivers of the Murray-Darling Basin won't do well out of this campaign. Water buybacks are opposed by the independent Michelle Millthorpe, One Nation and the Coalition.

And last year was the 40th anniversary of French agents sinking the Grenpeace ship Rainbow Warrior in Auckland Harbour. How times have changed!

Marxan is conservation planning software that helps design the most efficient and effective biodiversity conservation zones. It's widely used around the world in forest conservation, marine parks etc. Aussie luminary Professor Hugh Possingham @hugepossum.bsky.social was one of the originators.

This is the real intergenerational legacy of the Albanese Government.

That's a massive flotilla of Optimist dinghies sailing out of Rose Bay today.

Ernest Shackleton's Famous Job Ad, 'Men Wanted for Hazardous Journey,' Is Probably a Myth Citizen historians have spent decades searching for the original text of Shackleton’s advertisement. Now, some say it might never have existed

It was an astonishing feat of human survival, undiminished by the likelihood that the ad is not real: www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/e...

Fed gov signed up to the Global Biodiversity Framework which includes a target to "eliminate, phase out or reform annual incentives that harm biodiversity" & was meant to identify these harmful subsidies by 2025

🦗🦗🦗fr the Albo govt but Paul Elton & colleagues+@biodivcouncil.bsky.social did the job

Readers or royalties? why now I make my books open access [Updated 16 Fed, 2026] I wrote my first book in 1983. It was a small manual of tactics for counteracting the tobacco industry’s promotional strategies, described by a tobacco industry snoop at the …

Readers or royalties? Why I've made my last 8 books open access (free) @bookshelfie.bsky.social simonchapman6.com/2018/12/12/r...

One more: A high wind in Jamaica by Richard Hughes (1929). This is a masterpiece. A group of unaccompanied children sailing from Jamaica to England are captured by pirates. Not in any sense a children's book, however. Chilling realism.

Aldous Huxley - Brave New World, Eyeless in Gaza

"Some have argued the impact of introduced species has been overstated, and that introduced species should be seen as a legitimate part of Australia’s ecosystems. Scientific evidence and conservation outcomes do not support this." theconversation.com/yes-feral-ca... - @aunz.theconversation.com

Australia Institute research shows that nurses pay more tax than gas and oil companies.

Meanwhile, multinational gas companies get 56% of our gas for free and then export it overseas.

Sign the petition: nb.australiainstitute.org.au/fix_gas_export_problem

Papua, Indonesia: The World's Largest Deforestation Project YouTube video by Mighty Earth

—The World’s Largest Deforestation Project —

West Papua: A forest that couldn’t scream loud enough, and a people the world chose NOT to hear.

#deforestation #rainforestdestruction #ecocide
#WestPapua

via @mightyearth.org

This.....

Power to the People (Demo Version) YouTube video by Curtis Mayfield - Topic

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Treasury figures reveal $18 billion capital gains windfall for Australia’s richest 10 per cent The latest tax expenditure figures released on Friday by the Treasury department show this financial year the richest 10 percent of Australians will receive $18bn worth of tax breaks from the capital ...

The richest 10% of Australian households get more money from the capital gains tax discount than the government spends on Jobseeker, the childcare subsidy, government schools or higher education - nearly $4.5bn more than it would cost to include dental in Medicare.

NEW: Deforestation in Indonesia is underway at a rapid pace, with the help of the military, to make way for rice and sugarcane.

Huge thanks to @mightyearth.org for their help with the data.

Read Anantha Lakshmi's excellent report
www.ft.com/content/27a6...
#dataviz #gistribe

Indonesia is running the world’s largest deforestation program in occupied West Papua In Indonesian-occupied West Papua, soldiers are enforcing the destruction of vast areas of rainforest to be replaced by the monoculture plantations of the government’s “food estate” program, reports C...

World’s largest deforestation program. Military occupation. Indigenous land. One crime scene: West Papua.

#WestPapua #ecocide #deforestation #palmoil #sugarcane #GreenColonialism #RainforestDestruction

Closing out my year with a journal editor shocker 🧵

Checking new manuscripts today I reviewed a paper attributing 2 papers to me I did not write. A daft thing for an author to do of course. But intrigued I web searched up one of the titles and that's when it got real weird...

Offer hope to the disenfranchised and disengaged, but then unlike the populist right, deliver meaningful change that benefits them.

David Bowie - Sorrow (Live 1973) YouTube video by Ichnos71live

Not just the greatest cover of all time, but also the greatest ever pop single. youtu.be/AkfmPmaTnKg?...

The image presents a comparison of the leading causes of death in the United States for 2023 and the media coverage these causes receive from three news outlets: The New York Times, The Washington Post, and Fox News. In the footer, it notes the data sources, indicating that the information is based on media mentions from Media Cloud (2025) and death data from the US CDC (2025) and the Global Terrorism Index, with a clarification that values are normalized to sum to 100%.

Does the news reflect what we die from?

It would have been easy to do the homework on this because BOM report publicly on the accuracy of their forecasts every year.
beta.bom.gov.au/about-the-bu...

Portrait of Voltaire (maybe) with inscription: "If you want to know who controls you, look at who [sic] you are not allowed to criticize"

There seems to be increasingly frenzied coercive activity to silence legitimate comment and questioning.
Maybe because that's all that's left to people who have lost all credibility in their denial & justification of the depraved behaviour of a cruel & vindictive rogue state.

Truth will win
#Auspol

Today at Jabiluka with Traditional Owner Yvonne Margarula & family, on their first “legal” return to country in 40+ years. Soon this land will join Kakadu NP after one of the most important land rights & conservation struggles in modern Australia. A really important day.