Karoline Leavitt’s got a new reason why Iran’s leadership had to die and it’s her most extraordinary declaration yet To the White House now, where White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt told reporters precisely why Iran’s leadership ‘are no longer on planet Earth’. Presumably she means dead, rather than taking...

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Presumably she means dead, rather than taking a previously undisclosed Elon Musk test flight to Mars. Anyway, we mention it because this particular reason is surely the new dictionary definition of ‘beggars belief’.

Jim Chalmers: No tax, no contract This government-hired debt collected paid $0 in corporate tax – despite revenue of more than $100 million. Tell Jim Chalmers: No tax, no pay

Companies receiving millions in taxpayer-funded government contracts aren't required to show they pay their fair share of tax. getup.to/8eVnwmC8CdLdsW

Agreed

Soaring petrol prices have exposed a 'rotten core' in Australia The existential already became real for people when fuel prices increased almost overnight and then interest rates followed.

Our political discourse is dominated by the manipulation of “existential threats,” which are used to justify policies & maintain a status quo without scrutiny and the material costs of war are downplayed to protect powerful interests fossil fuel and mining. #auspol

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We just learned that 6,000 companies have contracts with ICE. Not just a few hundred. SIX THOUSAND.

We have a lot of boycotting and demands to make, folks.

The environmental cost of datacentres is rising. Is it time to quit AI? As the QuitGPT movement gains momentum, should people concerned about the environmental impacts of AI consider opting out?

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Get your FREE stickers I just ordered a free sticker to help push back on Pauline Hanson’s Trump-style politics of division. Stickers are heading into communities across the country to make the message visible. Grab one and...

I just ordered a free sticker to help push back on Pauline Hanson’s Trump-style politics of division. Stickers are heading into communities across the country to make the message visible. Grab one and help spread the word. getup.to/pNJ8AmhaC5VAsx

A dizzying web points to who owns Trump and the depth of his treason Eight of our American service members are dead and more than 140 wounded because Iran’s military has suddenly gotten really good at targeting our soldiers, airmen, and marines. News reports say they’v...

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How the of doctrine of Dahiya works.

‘We’re living in an Orwellian nightmare’: Grace Tame calls Anthony Albanese a ‘coward’ in scathing critique In an essay for Crikey, the former Australian of the Year says the PM is a ‘turncoat’ who is ‘capitulating to foreign powers’ amid the US-Israel war on Iran

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Tame said there was a “disconnect” between the “values of everyday voters and desires of influential powerbrokers”, which was placing the Australian government and some media outlets out of step with its people.
#auspol #gracetame

Make Tax Fair | Oxfam Australia In 2025, average Australian billionaire wealth grew by over half a million dollars per day. Meanwhile, ordinary households are cutting back on essentials and

Australia’s 48 billionaires hold more wealth than the bottom 40% of the population combined, almost 11 million people. The existence and rapid growth of billionaires is a sign of an economy where too much wealth and power are concentrated in too few hands. #auspol #taxreform
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What are the odds…….
The US withdrawal from Iran ?
US ground invasion?
China and Russia become actively involved?
Use of nuclear weapons?
Armageddon end of times as preached Hegseth ?
#Iran #Hegseth

Labor must stop juicing house prices and make buying a home the Australian dream – not negatively gearing one | Greg Jericho The rumours of action on the capital gains tax discount and negative gearing are louder than before any budget this century. But is the PM up to the task?

My column on the latest house price figures and what needs to be done

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Elon Musk is now worth $845 billion.

Tesla reported paying ZERO federal income tax on $5.7 billion of U.S. income in 2025.

Meanwhile, nearly a quarter of Americans are living paycheck to paycheck and household debt has risen to a record high.

See the problem here?

US Tomahawk hit naval base beside Iranian school, video shows US President Donald Trump has claimed that Iran was responsible for a strike that killed 175 people, most of them children.

A newly released video adds to the evidence that a US Tomahawk missile probably hit an Iranian elementary school where 175 people, many of them children, were reported killed. The US military is the only force involved in the conflict that uses Tomahawk missiles.
#Iran #Oil
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As a middle power, Australia should be careful what it wishes for when it comes to an illegal war with Iran | Andrew Wilkie I resigned from the intelligence services over the fraudulent case for the invasion of Iraq in 2003. And I see some alarming parallels with this case

International law works to constrain the worst excesses of power politics and geopolitical competition, and attempts to elevate and equalise the rights and voices of all nations – and indeed of all people. We treat it with contempt at our peril.
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Miami GOP Secretary's Group Chat Pushes Antisemitism, 'Killing N-ggers' The recent uptick in antisemitic and racist language being disseminated by younger GOP activists nationwide has largely been fueled by a you

Carvajal’s chat, titled “Uber Retards Yapping Inc.,” gives a shocking glimpse into the GOP’s younger element of college students who espouse hateful ideas. Even more concerning are the chat’s members: Carvajal; Dariel Gonzalez and Ian Valdes

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Section. From linked article. Poor ratings have been compounded by a prolonged campaign by activist group Mad F---ing Witches, which has resulted in falling metro advertising revenue and lost ground to its main competitors, Nova and Southern Cross Austereo.

Congrats & Thanks to @mfwitches.bsky.social helping end K&JO Shit Show✊

They’d on air fight, yes, but massive pressure from MFW’s prolonged campaign, sucking 100’s of advertisers from station & posting about misogynistic, toxic & bigoted content, sealed the deal😎💜
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Australia’s shameless support for the US attack on Iran makes us gullible, duplicitous, or both | Allan Behm For Anthony Albanese – as well as Mark Carney and Keir Starmer – to go along with Trump and Netanyahu’s cynical ploy negates any sense of moral authority we possess – a catastrophe for the rules-based...

"Australia’s shameless support for the US attack on Iran makes us gullible, duplicitous, or both" by Allan Behm
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The Pentagon strongarmed AI firms before Iran strikes – in dark news for the future of ‘ethical AI’ Questions about ethical AI may go out the window when democratic norms are collapsing.

The idea of ethical military AI also assumes it's operating under democratic principles.The idea behind algorithmic transparency is that we should know how these systems work because “we the people” ultimately hold power in a democracy That's the theory anyway #ethics #warfare

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Kansas Sends Letters To Trans People Demanding The Immediate Surrender Of Drivers Licenses "The legislature did not include a grace period."

As a result of this extreme anti-transgender law, the state of Kansas has seen its status deteriorate to a "Do Not Travel" warning for transgender people and for those who do not already live in Kansas, the risk is now too great to travel there at all.

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Neither preemptive nor legal, US-Israeli strikes on Iran have blown up international law With the latest strikes on Iran, The international legal order is now in free-fall.

Once again powerful states conduct illegal wars to openly pursue regime change and ignore the international rules-based order.
Anthony Albanese support for these strikes places Australia in open contradiction with basic principles of liberal international order. #auspol #Iran

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Genocide is defined as an intent to destroy a group

Algorithms and AI have turned Gaza into a Laboratory of Death By Sayid Marcos Tenorio for The Middle East Monitor The revelations by +972 Magazine and Local Call have exposed the darkest core of the contemporary war in Gaza, in which genocide is car…

We must resist a world in which data is worth more than lives, in which technology serves colonialism, and in which genocide is presented as an “algorithmic decision”. Today it is Gaza. Tomorrow, any people who dare to resist.

#AI #technology #Gaza

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The attempt to punish Grace Tame tells us everything about how we treat women who speak up Are Australian of the Year recipients like Grace Tame meant to be moral mannequins frozen in the moment of their acceptable suffering?

Grace Tame never promised to be comfortable. She promised to be honest. #auspol #socialjustice

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True story.

How Israel is spraying herbicides on Syrian crops Israeli planes sprayed chemicals on farmland in Quneitra, Syria in late January and early February, 2026. Farmers say that their crops yellowed and died in just a few days and that they lost dozens of...

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