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Great piece by @elienyc.bsky.social. Our institutions won’t save us. Only we can do that. Twas always thus, and always thus will be. Make sure to read the entite thing here: www.thenation.com/article/poli...

submitted 15 days ago • 299 comments

A non-government business that contracts with the federal government received notice today that in order to do business with the government they must certify that they don’t participate in DEI. So it’s not just the feds, it’s any private biz that contracts with the feds. Here’s the message they got:

submitted 15 days ago • 1692 comments

Women deserve to know the TRUTH about the impact of Texas' total abortion ban. Today, I along with Rep. Gerry Connolly, Rep. Summer Lee, and Rep. Ayanna Pressley sent ANOTHER letter calling on Texas to explain why it won't release maternal mortality data from the past 2 years after Dobbs.

submitted 23 days ago • 926 comments

www.thenerdreich.com

submitted 23 days ago • 2 comments

Promising!

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"—it is important to recognize that Palestinians in Gaza stood their ground, despite immense losses, and prevailed. This can only be credited to them—a nation that has historically proven unbreakable. This truth, rooted in “long history,” remains valid today." johnmenadue.com/gazas-unbrea...

submitted 23 days ago • 0 comments

www.thebulwark.com/p/post-heari...

submitted 23 days ago • 6 comments

Here's @ronnisalt.bsky.social. '26 thoughts I had watching Gina Rinehart’s National Mining Day conference' theshot.net.au/uncategorize...

submitted 23 days ago • 80 comments

We did not have a FAA administrator to respond to the tragic crash last night in DC. Why? Because Elon Musk pushed the head appointed under Biden to resign after he fined SpaceX for failing to follow safety license requirements. www.theverge.com/news/603113/...

submitted 23 days ago • 259 comments

from today's post — go read the whole thing. link is here: bit.ly/4h7i06Z

submitted 23 days ago • 394 comments

Senator Adam Schiff torched Kash Patel: "Mr. Patel may be, I don't know, but he may be the first nominee for FBI Director in history who felt it necessary to plead the 5th." BOOM! 🔥

submitted 23 days ago • 721 comments

Temu Trump .. at odds with reality. The LNP scaled back the number of APS employees by 17,000 from 2012 to 2020. But it hid the surge in spending on consultants. An audit in 2023 found that the previous LNP Govt hired a “shadow” workforce of 54,000 consultant workers, costing $20B pa. #auspol

submitted 23 days ago • 9 comments

Never, ever an original thought in his head. We don't want Trumpism here Peter.

submitted 29 days ago • 0 comments

Wow

submitted 30 days ago • 889 comments

Only 4 days to walk back one of his biggest campaign promises. Right then, on to cutting Social Security, putting hundreds of people out of work and increasing medication prices.

submitted 30 days ago • 0 comments

I don’t care. Fuck these McCarthyite bastards.

submitted 31 days ago • 35 comments

If she can do it, we can all do it.

submitted 32 days ago • 1756 comments

Biden: "I want to warn the country of some things that give me great concern. That's the dangerous concentration of power in the hands of a very few ultra wealthy people and the dangerous consequences if their abuse of power is left unchecked. Today, an oligarchy is taking shape"

submitted 38 days ago • 1082 comments

In which I have a bit of a rant about how shite the current climate change policy debate is just 5 months from the election. www.theguardian.com/business/gro...

submitted 38 days ago • 16 comments

"With #climate change we're going to wind up with a lot of Australians who can't afford to have home insurance or car insurance." Don't believe in climate change? Your insurance company sure does. - @richarddenniss.bsky.social, Executive Director #auspol

submitted 38 days ago • 6 comments

Governing with the aim of improving the world for future generations should be why people become politicians in the first place. #AusPol

submitted 43 days ago • 6 comments

The only thing that unites the GOP today is being Donald Trump's sycophants. Now it has spread to the billionaire class, legacy media and large corporations. They are throwing money at Trump. It is up to us to build and lead a new opposition movement.

submitted 43 days ago • 396 comments

Climate Betrayal: how backroom deals with Japan locked Australia in for decades of gas Despite the Australian public voting for the need to address climate change, the Labor government has backed in decades of future gas exports. Rex Patrick and Philip Dorling Listen to this story #auspol

submitted 43 days ago • 5 comments

"The term ‘antisemitism’ is being weaponised and stripped of meaning—and that’s incredibly dangerous" — Rachel Shabi "Israel uses it to silence critics of its Gaza war while the right uses it to attack opponents. Meanwhile, the issue itself goes unaddressed" www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

submitted 43 days ago • 3 comments

News. My @smh cartoon.

submitted 67 days ago • 50 comments

1.47%

submitted 67 days ago • 529 comments

Whoever this is, they’re tragically right.

submitted 72 days ago • 703 comments

Laura Tingle sets Peter Dutton straight in this latest piece which calls out his Nuclear fantasy for what it is Tingle “The decision to release the costing on December 13 feels like the Coalition is once again playing voters for mugs” 💯 Yup indeed www.abc.net.au/news/2024-12...

submitted 71 days ago • 24 comments

So the Australian government can sign Treaties when it suits them? Where’s the Treaty with the Aboriginal Nations then?

submitted 75 days ago • 6 comments

Rupert Murdoch’s own family have pulled up short of asking for a premature burial & assisted dying after the embarrassment they call a father is soundly defeated in court. “I look forward to the day, this greasy old fucker is gone” .. said one family member who wished to remain anonymous. #auspol

submitted 75 days ago • 20 comments

More than 75 Nobel Prize winners have signed a letter urging senators not to confirm RFK Jr. The letter marks the first time in recent memory that Nobel laureates have banded together against a Cabinet choice. But Kennedy is a threat they could not ignore, one said. www.nytimes.com/2024/12/09/h...

submitted 75 days ago • 795 comments

Following the arson attack on a Jewish synagogue, the ABC has so far reported on it over 30 times. Following the arson attack on an Islamic school bus, the ABC has so far reported on it 0 times. Will it even get a mention? Why don’t they care about Muslim Australians? #RacistABC

submitted 75 days ago • 50 comments

Workers are not robots! Woolworths needs to stop treating their warehouse workers like they are

submitted 85 days ago • 17 comments

Such a simple cartoon that really speaks volumes.

submitted 83 days ago • 202 comments

Seems to me that having more battery storage to absorb the excess output from solar and then put it back in the grid when needed is the answer. Not that I’m an expert www.abc.net.au/news/2024-12...

submitted 83 days ago • 2 comments

I hope she is seeing this, well done Edinburgh, a wonderful goodbye. #JaneyGodley a National Treasure.

submitted 85 days ago • 0 comments

Plibersek has been served up a diet of shit sandwiches all term, and Albanese decided to give her a side dish of roasted shit just to make sure she understood what her role is. This is very damaging stuff by Albanese. Won't help them in WA but will hurt elsewhere www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

submitted 86 days ago • 132 comments