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We turned away from the light when we invented a way to go online without the computer screaming in warning.

Powerful right-wing regressive weirdos gather to plot at Atlas-linked conference in Australia - The Shot There is a transnational Islamophobia Industry of massive family foundations and “think tank” operations that have been generating fear and loathing of Muslims since the 1990s.

Here's @lucyham.bsky.social with a great piece of research about the local right-wing establishment social engineering operation occurring of late.

"Powerful right-wing regressive weirdos gather to plot at Atlas-linked conference in Australia"

Nature Report, Killed by Trump, Is Released Independently

Scientists and other experts were preparing an assessment of the health of nature in the US when Trump returned to the White House. He canceled the report. The researchers went ahead and compiled it on their own. This week, they released a 868-p draft for public comment and scientific review.

The people that run our media have dedicated CBD carparks. PT is something you do for fun in Japan.

Fancy being led into world conflict by such a mob of hateful, reprehensible people. That’s what feels even more devastating this time around. Even in the disaster of the Iraq invasion, while we knew they were lying, they hadn’t been going out of their way to be the most vile, venal criminals.

Single frame. PM Albo and Penny Wong in Albo’s office sitting at coffee table, looking exhausted, Albo holding a beer. Portrait of John Howard on wall. Albo’s desk and shelves behind showing photo of him with Trump, football, rabbit, plaque saying “Social Cohesion”. Albo says, “Remember Saddam’s WMDs?” Wong says, “Good times.”

Déjà vu.
My @smh @theage cartoon.

'Extraordinarily dark' town swaps out light bulbs to gain dark sky certification The town of Winton receives international recognition after going "above and beyond" to protect its night sky.

Winton, a tiny town in Central Queensland is now 'dark sky certified'

😊

www.abc.net.au/news/2026-03...

Very strong statement from the First Lady of Iraq:

FT comments section this morning - saying what everyone else is thinking, right?

Spain baulks at Trump’s threat to cut off all trade over NATO, Iran stance The US has relocated 15 aircraft, including refuelling tankers, from military bases in southern Spain.

Yay Spain, for standing up to bullies.

Source: Al Jazeera
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David Shoebridge asks if any Australian troops were used in the US submarine attack which blew up & sunk an Iranian warship off the coast of Sri Lanka.
Penny Wong says for “operational & security reasons” this cannot be disclosed. #auspol

Americans are dead. Prices are skyrocketing. The Middle East is on fire. Civil war is brewing in Iran.

And for what? A war that will leave the same hardliners in charge? A war that can't actually destroy their nuclear program?

This is incompetence. Plain and simple.

Breaking: Antibiotic licence for salmon farming revoked over 'unacceptable risk' The use of florfenicol in Tasmania's salmon industry has been banned as the country's veterinary medicine regulator suspends an emergency licence for the antibiotic.

Good. No concern was given for the impact on other marine species nor for human health. #politas

NEW: Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy says the United States has asked Ukraine for help intercepting Iranian-made Shahed drones, citing Ukraine’s battlefield expertise. Zelenskyy said any assistance will come only if it does not weaken Ukraine’s own defenses.

Single frame. Trump at whiteboard with pointer. A line of backs of heads of various world leaders. (Macron Carney Albo Starmer Merz Von der Leyen). Written on whiteboard: “INTERNATIONAL RULES-BASED ORDER. 1. I RULE. 2. I ORDER THE REST OF THE WORLD AROUND.

Rules-based order.
My @smh cartoon.

Single frame. Karoline Leavitt on the press briefing lectern with a US flag and a large “chocolate wheel” with coloured panels showing: “REGIME CHANGE -YAY!; THEY’RE TERRORISTS!; THEY HAVE NUKES!; THEY DOT HAVE NUKES YET; WE WANT TO REPLACE THE LEADER; WE KILLED THE REPLACEMENTS; ARMAGEDDON!!!; PRE-EMPTIVE SELF-DEFENCE; BIBI IS OUR FRIEND; (SOME SCHOOLGIRLS MAY HAVE DIED); WHAT OIL?!; MID-TERMS - YIKES!” Leavitt says, “Next question?”

Spin.
My @smh cartoon.

Can you do a piece on the ‘worrying’ sign for Australia that our Antisemitism envoy’s family trust also makes large donations to racist political group Advance? #auspol

Australia just experienced its wettest summer in nearly a decade – and the eighth-hottest on record South Australia saw most of the season’s wildest swings with January heatwaves followed by wet weather in February

www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Andrew Wilkie says there’s “alarming parallels” b/w what’s happening in Iran now & the war in Iraq in 2003
“In both cases the threat was exaggerated to justify the war”
“For a country to attack another country in self defence then they have to have been attacked first.” #auspol

What a lost opportunity.

Giant gas-fired power station planned for power-hungry AI data centre A small town in the NSW Southern Highlands is watching the AI revolution take shape in its backyard, as plans emerge to build one of the state's largest gas-fired power stations to run a data-processi...

Cloud Carrier proposes gas-fired power station to power Moss Vale AI data centre. New data centres should be banned from requiring fossil fuels to operate www.abc.net.au/news/2026-03...

The Trump doctrine exposes the US as a mafia state | Jan-Werner Müller The Venezuela incursion is in line with this logic, made even plainer as the US eyes Greenland

the "tyranny of the mob" was indeed a major concern of the earliest American political philosophers, but this wasn't exactly what they meant

www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

WATCH — @senpeterwelch walks through a no-bid $143,000,000 contract that went to @KristiNoem’s spokeswoman Tricia McLaughlin’s husband’s company that had just been formed.

She should be impeached for this outrageous scandal alone.

Yet it’s barely a blip in this corrupt regime.

Push from Saudis, Israel helped move Trump to attack Iran President Trump launched a wide-ranging attack on Iran after weeks-long lobbying by an unusual pair of U.S. allies in the Middle East: Israel and Saudi Arabia.

SUPER SHOCKED: Israel and the Saudis lobbied Trump to start the war. As @maddow.bsky.social asked: who benefits? www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

Albanese government rejected advice on Tasmanian salmon farming impact before passing pro-industry laws FoI documents show ministers ignored recommendation for fresh inquiry that could have reduced or paused farming

Far out.

“The environment department advised the government in late 2024 that it should revoke a 2012 decision that allowed salmon farming to expand …”

The Iranian regime is vile and the attack on them by Israel and the US is a war crime. Much needed clarity on these two realities by Geoffrey Robertson. Solidarity with the Iranian and Lebanese people and condemnation of this latest US Israeli war of aggression is what the world must focus on.

table of what time to see the eclipse across australia. best at 9.33pm brisbane

If you are in #Brisbane,, the blood moon's looking pretty special at the moment.

#Moon #Eclipse