Petrol prices suddenly almost back to pre-war levels near me. Has the sudden demand for EVs got oil companies spooked or did Australia suddenly receive a big influx of petrol?

He killed over 160 young girls at a school and threatened to end their entire civilization out of respect and admiration

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Ghostin' the Empire is definitely what Iran is doing.

Can't really blame them.

Have a day, y'all!

#SheShed

Won’t someone think of the gas companies

Coachella is removing these videos, so they might be about to learn about the Strokesand Effect.

Men, We Need to Talk About "Rape Academy" This isn’t about women. This is about us. And it’s long past time we had this conversation

The number of angry messages I got from insecure men on my article demanding men be accountable for rape culture & 'Rape Academy' reminds me to share my article repeatedly.

Men: Stop being insecure. Stop being pathetic. Start holding rapists accountable.
qasimrashid.substack.com/p/men-we-nee...

Jerusalem Post: Despite a “ceasefire” the IDF is giving orders to open fire on everyone in Southern Lebanon trying to go home — “Even if the person is unarmed… based on the idea that there are no civilians left in Southern Lebanon.”

www.jpost.com/middle-east/...

I remember seeing a young English football hooligan being dragged off a pitch in Europe yelling "You can't arrest me. We won the war". Utterly bizarre.

The IMF is worried the energy crisis could lead to a 'wage-price spiral'

But no mention of a profit-price spiral... 🤔

Even though last time war made gas prices spike, the IMF itself said HALF of Europe's inflation was due to PROFITS
@grogsgamut.bsky.social @elinorjohnstonleek.bsky.social #auspol

Outrage over Israeli soldier's vandalism of Jesus statue in Lebanon The Israeli military says it views with "great severity" the actions of the soldier, as the US ambassador demands "swift" consequences.

If you are outraged by a statue being vandalised but not outraged by genocide you may just be a hypocritical piece of shit.

Dr Richard Denniss dismantles the gas industry’s favorite threat.
If taxes kill investment, why is the gas industry rushing to Norway to pay 78%? 🙄
“They are playing us for fools.” 🔥
Nationals’ Susan McDonald has no rebuttal & scrambles to change the subject. #auspol

Beyond the dispossession of the Palestinians, the creation of a latter day Sparta in the Middle East is an ongoing agent of destruction and regional instability. #Israel

Nigel Farage Has Personally Accepted £675,000 from Foreign Sources Reform UK leader Nigel Farage has accepted more than half a million pounds from foreign companies, governments, and donors while serving as an MP, DeSmog can reveal. Since July 2024, when he was elect...

“Farage rarely turns up to do his actual job. Yet he finds time to jet off around the world on his donor’s private plane and trouser half a million quid while families struggle. Reform are not on your side. They’re just in it for themselves”

It’s so obvious, it hurts.
www.desmog.com/2026/04/18/n...

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 world once believed Americans had courage, pride and guns. Now we know Americans only have guns. And, those guns are more likely used to kill children, spouses & police than they are to be used to defend children, Americans & America from thieves, rapists, fascists & murderers.

The Animals - House of the Rising Sun (1964) ♫ 60+ YEARS 🎶⭐ ❤ YouTube video by The Animals Tribute Channel (unofficial)

House of the Rising Sun
The Animals

youtu.be/4-43lLKaqBQ?...

If trickle-down economics worked at all, the world gaining 400 billionaires last year would have set off an economic boom, given everyone raises, and lowered our prices.

But it didn't. Because trickle-down economics is a scam designed to make the rich richer off the rest of us.

Iran was a signatory to The 1970 Nuclear Non-Proliferation Agreement.

They have never had a nuclear weapon.

Benjamin Nutanyahu has been warning that Iran would have one imminently since 1986.

Every single article I read about Madonna at Coachella mentioned that she’s 67. Not one article I read about Nine Inch Nails at Coachella mentioned that Trent’s 60.
ISN’T THAT WEIRD?
It’s almost as if everything Madonna has ever said about misogyny is true, or something. 🤷‍♂️

Being anti-Netanyahu is not anti-Semitic. It’s anti-corruption, anti-genocide. It’s pro-peace.

COVID vaccines tied to less hospital care, long COVID, and economic burden

"COVID vaccines tied to less hospital care, long COVID, and economic burden."

"People vaccinated against COVID in Germany in 2023 experienced reduced hospitalization rates, fewer long-COVID diagnoses, and lower all-cause mortality than those who weren't vaccinated, according to a new study"

History will ask: why did no one send armies to liberate Palestine?

It's complicated isn't an answer.

25% you say, Angus? 😱

There's a 78% tax on gas profits in Norway, and they're doing just fine. But I guess their political leaders aren't captured by oligarchs ... 🙄
#auspol

A reminder:

Haunted by ‘Dark Thoughts,’ Louisiana Father Kills 8 Children

If this man had murdered eight strangers the story would lead every news outlet. But because they are his children, it's "family violence," "domestic violence" -- undeserving of the same attention. Even though this violence is much more common
www.nytimes.com/2026/04/19/u...

The UK is letting the US use UK military bases in its war on Iran – without parliamentary approval. The UK must uphold international law and end its support for this illegal war.
secure.waronwant.org/page/187860/...

I believe it would be beneficial to American if we were to take away the lifetime healthcare and pensions for elected representatives and made them find healthcare and benefits just like their constituents
We have created lifetime of benefits for a job that was not meant to be a career

Term limits!

Chart showing 2014-15: Exports $16.9bn 2024-25: Exports $64.6bn 2014-15: PRRT $1.9bn 2024-25: PRRT $1.4bn

The gas industry has chosen to focus on exports, the PRRT was set up to tax oil in the Bass Strait. It ain't working

That's why we need a 25% tax on gas exports

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

WATCH: Researchers at Stanford University modeled how many people could die or be disabled in 25 years if vaccines for polio, measles, rubella or diphtheria were no longer available.