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after spending the day “reporting” what an opposition said about signature ALP government policy, the ABC is openly campaigning for the medicare-hating coalition.

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As many suspected, there seems to be a lot more to that "story" of the Bankstown nurses' video than initially meets the eye and/or ear. The "Israeli influencer" is Max Veifer, aka "a Tik Tok baiter." #auspol www.thenewdaily.com.au/news/state/n...

submitted 11 days ago • 28 comments

“I spent most of my adult life as an evangelical Christian, learning to accept a whole-body compliance to a regimented way of living & submission to Bible as God-breathed & infallible. this became a rigid & tortured way to live, opposite to freedom it promised.” www.theguardian.com/books/2025/f...

submitted 12 days ago • 0 comments

Isn’t it interesting how the word “activist” is used as a put down against those who support marginalised people, but when billionaires like Gina Rinehart or Elon Musk are activists for more money and power, their behaviour is never talked about pejoratively as “activism”.

submitted 12 days ago • 16 comments

Listen I just gotta rant about something, and it's an oft-repeated line that goes something like this: "renewable energy is just adding on top of existing sources" I find it really astonishing that people fail to ask a bunch of really basic questions about this and just repeat it instead.....

submitted 12 days ago • 19 comments

SHOW ME THE WATER, Mr Littleproud ‼️‼️ ‘Australian National University study that suggested #nuclear power plants use 1.4 times as much #water as coal-fired power stations.’ Farmers & Regional Communities take NOTE‼️ #Auspol #AusVotes25 www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

submitted 12 days ago • 12 comments

the major parties have seen their primary votes fall from 96% in 1975 to 68% in 2022. they had two options to arrest the decline: 1. win back trust with good governance & good policy 2. rig the system tonight they chose to rig the system. a dark day for australian democracy.

submitted 12 days ago • 57 comments

ABC staff ‘disgusted’ by handling of Lattouf case.

submitted 12 days ago • 4 comments

"Far-right populists are significantly more likely to spread fake news on social media than politicians from mainstream or far-left parties, according to a study which argues that amplifying misinformation is now part and parcel of radical right strategy" Verifiably: right wingers are liars

submitted 13 days ago • 31 comments

USA is experiencing a surge in flu cases. Thirteen THOUSAND people have died already. Could the high numbers be because of false claims about vaccines from anti-vaxxers? Darwinian natural selection? Be smart: Protect yourself and others. Mask up. Get vaccinated. Stay home if unwell. Sanitise.

submitted 12 days ago • 4 comments

Wow. From October no less!!

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submitted 17 days ago • 2 comments

"The emphasis [Hind Khoudary] places on her sense of returning home—carries the longer durée of the Nakba, the over eight decades of expulsion of First Nations Palestinians from their indigenous lands by the Israeli settler colony." — Norman Saadi Nikro johnmenadue.com/the-return-n...

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"—this narrative holds less sway in the Global South—vast bulk of humanity—[who] do not share same historical guilt & are more likely to view Israel’s actions accurately as instruments of Western colonialism/imperialism & violations of international law/human rights." johnmenadue.com/antisemitism...

submitted 17 days ago • 2 comments

It's not a demolition site it's a mass grave. It's not a demolition site it's a crime scene. It's not a demolition site its a homeland. It's not a demolition site it's Palestine. It's not a demolition site it's a genocide.

submitted 19 days ago • 98 comments

This is what the government did with 120K+ Japanese Americans in 1942. I know. I was there in those camps.

submitted 24 days ago • 3627 comments

I absolutely guarantee we are only at the very start of discovering how deep the fabrications of generative machine learning tools have already infected all fields involving human-created text content. It spits out plausible-sounding but frequently-false outputs. A recipe for slow disaster.

submitted 23 days ago • 5 comments

Ain’t that the truth…

submitted 22 days ago • 4 comments

Hallucinating copy/paste plagiarism robots are everywhere! What a time to be alive! | First Dog on the Moon

submitted 26 days ago • 4 comments

without knowing any of these details, I have consistently advised students not to outsource their intellectual curiosity to Silicon Valley techbros whose tools invariably reflect their bigotry and hatred for most of humankind. www.theguardian.com/technology/n...

submitted 25 days ago • 0 comments

Feels like time for more people to familiarise themselves with various aspects of history. www.openculture.com/2024/11/the-...

submitted 29 days ago • 1 comment

Unless there are indigenous people up there, the comparison is dishonest bunk. Australia was already owned... www.abc.net.au/news/2025-01...

submitted 29 days ago • 5 comments

Comprehensive shellacking of the AUKUS debacle by @marcusstrom.bsky.social Please read. "AUKUS is not about an independent defence policy for the Australian people, it is about locking Australia into US war plans with China..." johnmenadue.com/our-case-aga...

submitted 37 days ago • 7 comments

I think this is one of my favourite colourful climate chart type things, because it depicts two things at once: - Things are going to get worse, no matter what - The degree to which they get worse depends on decisions made today theconversation.com/my-new-dark-... by @edhawkins.org

submitted 38 days ago • 184 comments

Prince Harry's legal action holds the Murdoch media accountable for 'one of the most squalid episodes in the history of British journalism'. Hacking & 'blagging' violated the privacy of public figures & compromised politicians hostile to Murdoch interests #auspol www.vanityfair.com/news/story/p...

submitted 43 days ago • 6 comments

The peer-reviewed science shows that the primary factor behind the increase in wildfire extent in the western U.S. is increased aridity and fuel load due to human-caused warming. Via #AAAS #SciLine: www.sciline.org/climate/clim...

submitted 43 days ago • 24 comments

How the climate crisis fuels devastating wildfires: ‘We have tweaked nature and pissed it off’

submitted 43 days ago • 2 comments

H.L.Mencken wrote this in 1918 and it remains as depressingly true as ever: “The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed - and hence clamorous to be led to safety - by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary.” www.smh.com.au/politics/fed...

submitted 43 days ago • 11 comments

"Experts recorded 45 entanglements off Australia’s east coast in 2024 – but believe that’s ‘the tip of the iceberg’" HOW MANY TIMES DOES ALL THIS NEED TO BE SAID BEFORE WE SEE THE NEEDED CHANGE. SAME PROBLEM WITH FUCKING SHARK NETS TOO. #AnimalCruelty www.theguardian.com/environment/...

submitted 44 days ago • 2 comments

Another expert report finds Israel is committing genocide. The West yawns — Jonathan Cook www.middleeasteye.net/opinion/gaza...

submitted 54 days ago • 2 comments

This is the better economic management they, and their media cheerleaders talk about…

submitted 54 days ago • 1 comment