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Johnson: "He has defunded our education system. He has defunded our transportation system. He's firing black women across this country. He's defunding our healthcare system. This president is absolutely out of control... Chicago is going to stand firm in protecting humanity."

Australia Institute Live — Daily Updates Stay updated with the latest from The Australia Institute.

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Arrest of conservative influencer Nick Sortor outside Portland ICE building now under federal investigation | CNN A conservative influencer who this week posted videos of clashes outside the Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility in Portland, Oregon, has been released without bond after he was arrested late...

Let's talk a bit about the broader context of the DOJ's newly announced investigation of the Portland Police's arrest of "conservative" influencer Nick Sortor. For context, Sortor is one of over a dozen far right "citizen journalists" who has come to Portland. www.cnn.com/2025/10/03/u...

These 3 counter-protesters continue to be a chronic source of police and medical calls at ICE. Despite repeated advice from officers to stay away from the ICE crowd, they constantly return and antagonize the protesters until they are assaulted or pepper sprayed. They refuse or are reluctant to walk away from these confrontations, even when police are in the area trying to meet with them. They even engage in the same trespassing behavior on federal and trolley property as the main protesters. Aside from the confrontation between opposing protesters, there was no reported activity around ICE that would have otherwise generated a police response.

The testimony submitted to the Oregon v Trump case includes a September 21 email by Portland Police Bureau Sergeant Andrew Braun describing the behavior of three right-wing "counterprotestors": Rhein Amacher, Chelly Bouferrache, and Katie Daviscourt.

A Gladiator Finds His Arena The ball soared over the towering fence and landed right in front of me as I walked down a pedestrian only cobblestone street in Abbesses. It was the size of a football (soccer, if you're basic) but ...

'God, having kept a few of his belongings in the storage shed of my soul, turned the locker over to the sharks at Storage War$ and fled'. Writing about possibly the happiest/most stressful moment I've had since living in Paris. Newsletters can be fun! rick-morton.ghost.io/a-gladiator-...

How data centre lobbying is shaping Canberra's climate policy, right down to our timid emissions target Hidden in the fine print on the Climate Change Authority's decision to pull back its emissions target? The role of artificial intelligence and data centres.

Good morning!!

Here's my latest for @crikey.com.au -> one of the reasons the CCA weakened its climate target suggestions is the possibility of uncontrolled data centre growth.

I found the lobbyists already working to sell them as 'climate solutions' in Aus ---->>>>>

the only clash this guy has seen is in the pattern between his shirts and ties

Exclusive: University sought secret KPMG staff spreadsheet The University of Technology Sydney denied the existence of a KPMG spreadsheet ranking the research performance of academics, in breach of its EBA, until it was forced to release it.

University of Technology Sydney ordered a spreadsheet from KPMG targeting individual academics by research income, which might contravene the bargaining agreement. They repeatedly denied it even existed for several info requests. But that wasn't true. www.thesaturdaypaper.com.au/news/educati...

Re-sharing this just for the pullquote, waking up in Paris early mornings and doing five interviews in a row before coffee leads to even less of a filter than usual

Canberra, big jump in Covid. Be aware. 😷
#ausoik
#CovidIsNotOver
#LongCovid

Oh my word
Zali Steggall the only adult in the room #auspol
Grow up Bridget

You’re being played – your part in the culture wars - The Shot When Zack de la Rocha told you to rage against the machine, he didn’t mean take it literally. Agitprop. Fury bait. Yes, you feed it too.

Excellent piece from Ronni Salt.
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Australian War Memorial changes book prize rules to reject Ben Roberts-Smith exposé When the judges announced acclaimed journalist Chris Masters as the winner, it proved a step too far for the institution.

Why do these losers think they won’t get found out? www.smh.com.au/culture/book...

The Peacemaker

(🚨) BREAKING NEWS: Sole Far-Right Talking Point on Tyler Robinson Being a Leftist Obliterated; All Remaining Evidence Confirms Him As a Conservative and Possibly a Groyper

(Do not expect MAGAs to acknowledge this development.)

Violence is at the heart of MAGA to a degree the average person cannot possibly comprehend.

Many thanks to those who wrote in here and elsewhere to note that Elon Musk is also calling for a civil war in the United Kingdom, now.

I just do not know where all this leads—but I have the same fear you all do.

America has officially entered its Dark Ages. God help us all—because there's no longer any reason to believe Congress or the courts or media will. We have lost our way to a degree I never thought possible, and I am not going to pretend to have any answers about how we find our way back. We may not.

CPI at 2.1%. The sound you heard is the RBA being very wrong and very stupid.

Did Trump Just Confess He Learned about Virginia Giuffre before Jeffrey Epstein Recruited Someone Else at Mar-a-Lago? - emptywheel Trump's latest explanation for why he cut off Jeffrey Epstein some time after 2004 -- that Epstein stole an employee, Trump told him to stop, and then Epstein did it again -- would be a damning confes...

Context.

www.emptywheel.net/2025/07/29/d...

The front page of the NYT. In a tiny space well below the 25 best restaurants in DC, a story on Trump's admission that sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein "stole" Virginia Giuffre. I've marked all that with a pink rectangle and arrows.

BREAKING!! Front page NYT!!!!

Lordy, there are tapes…

We know he’s guilty. Trump knows he’s guilty. And he’s pretty disgusting talking about women and girls as if they are property.

If he weren’t in the Epstein files and if they actually exposed Democrats or his enemies, he would have demanded the release a long time ago.

Australia Institute Live: YouTube officially part of under 16s social media ban, climate still tricky. As it happens The government has announced Facebook, Instagram, Snapchat, TikTok, X and YouTube will all be part of the under 16s social media ban, following advice from the eSafety Commissioner. But there is still...

Good morning live.australiainstitute.org.au/2025/07/aust...

Fact Sheet: The United States and European Union Reach Massive Trade Deal MAKING GLOBAL HISTORY: Yesterday, President Donald J. Trump announced a trade deal with the European Union (EU), fundamentally rebalancing the economic

Believe it or not, the EU-US trade deal just got messier.

The White House has published a fact-sheet about the agreement with claims that directly contradict the European Commission's version of events.

Let's take a closer look.

Australia is a solar nation – with the highest rate of rooftop solar anywhere in the world.

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No Moral Panic Sparked Over Attack on Islamic Place of Worship The lack of outrage over the attack at an Islamic youth centre highlights the stark difference in media and political treatment of Islamophobia and supposed antisemitism.

More govt white supremacist double standards exposed in Victoria www.sydneycriminallawyers.com.au/blog/no-mora... #ZionismIsWhiteSupremacism #auspol #Islamophobia

My favourite culture war from the right is their refusal to remember that batteries exist whenever solar or wind is brought up #auspol

screenshot of the headline from an 'off the charts' blog post from the Australia Institute titled Nearly a fifth of Australia’s emissions now come from sending fossil fuels overseas July 25, 2025 by Polly Hemming and Matt Saunders. A graph with the heading "Share of total Australia emissions from exporting coal and gas" shows how this has increased since 2010. There is accompanying text with the graph saying: "Australia’s exports of fossil fuels are not only increasing emissions across the world, they are also becoming a larger share of our domestic emissions."

The govt is under pressure to increase Australia’s climate target. Obvious way to cut emissions would be to stop digging up coal/gas for export. We don’t use it here, it adds little to the economy—but producing it is nearly 1/5 of domestic emissions #auspol
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BBC News: Do you think you were a witness to war crimes?

American veteran who worked at Gaza Humanitarian Foundation aid distribution center: Without question I witnessed war crimes.