Leonie Wood

Exquisite

2 metres of sugar and potential seed

Single frame. Left side: Storm clouds, lightening, house on fire among trees also burning, “HELP” coming from house. To the right, David Littleproud, behind him a huge wave. He says: “No point in us doing anything until the rest of the world is on board.”

No hurry.
My @smh @theage cartoon.

Brilliant

Someone at The Age has had a long day …. Or some such sumfink, y’know.

Charlie Kirk’s killing was a tragedy. But we must not rewrite his life | Moira Donegan In the wake of horror, honest accountings of his life have not only become rare – they have also become dangerous

THE best piece I have read on this issue.
Bang on. Every word.

Kirk did not ‘debate’; he belittled, vilified, and based his opinions on vile moral prejudices.

www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Brilliant. I love your takes on the world.

Before each full moon first it must get fully charged at one of its strategically placed docking stations

NUMBER CRUNCHING "Yvette Cooper and Labour thought they could dump immigrants into communities and turn a blind eye... empty hotels are being filled overnight with young foreign men." - Shadow home secretary Chris Philp, Daily Express, 20 August 56,042 Asylum seekers being housed in hotels in September 2023, when Philp was a Home Office minister 32,059 Asylum seekers being housed in hotels in June 2025, the most recent month for which data is available

Private Eye, 6-18 Sept edition

Hear you - big-time.

And I value my old-school journalism.

Good god. Count the spelling mistakes.
You might miss a couple at first blush…

Magical. And Wally. And ball.

Even NewsCorp subs think some “news” is plain shit.

I kid you not: you might never see that headline again.

Your posts are poetry. It’s a daily joy.

Dear Jeff Bezos …

JFC!

See the Wall Street Journal - Boston Consulting was considered the elite of the elite in business and risk consulting.

Its ‘aid’ involvement in Gaza and a plan to restructure Gaza are horrendous. See the questions to be asked - last line of the article.

@shaynecalliss.bsky.social Thanks for putting me on to Jesse Welles. There is hope.

Domestic Error and Red are on high rotation in my car - every word, every dripping sanction.

Tillis: What do I tell 663,000 people in two years, three years, when President Trump breaks his promise by pushing them off of medicaid because the funding's not there anymore, guys?

‘Post-apocalyptic’: medical staff struggle as gangs fight over aid supplies in Gaza Militants, clans, Hamas and criminal gangs bring violence and anarchy as they vie for power amid Israeli strikes

Awful, appalling. And exactly to the Israeli government’s playbook.

www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j...

How Can the Democrats Be Losing to These Cruel, Stupid, Inept People? You may have noticed: While Republicans debate Medicaid and other cuts, there’s one aspect of Trump’s big ugly bill that absolutely cannot be discussed.

"The whole thing is just a disgrace. A policy disgrace. A moral disgrace. Rural hospitals will close, and working-class people will die so that Trump’s golf buddies can get tax cuts of tens or hundreds of thousands of dollars."

https://trib.al/bBYxuas

Opinion | I just graduated with a philosophy degree. Here’s my message to the Class of 2025. Why it’s better to doubt than to hold steadfast in a belief.

Lovely grad speech on the importance of doubt, how philosophy embeds the challenge of questioning, and what to do with all that.
www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...

You should be very, very proud. You are a gem.

Fight the good fight, Josh. Well done.

Antoinette Lattouf has won her unfair dismissal case against the ABC.

A hard won justice that came at great personal cost for Antoinette

Wow. Isn’t nature amazing!

JFC.

Fascinating read.⤵️⤵️

Why New Orleans Is Rallying to Save a Trash Collector The French Quarter’s trash-strewn streets are now spotless and smelling of lemons, surprising even residents. They are begging the city to take the win.

Love this.

www.wsj.com/us-news/fren...

Opinion | I hiked the Appalachian Trail. It fixed my brain. Nature can save us from a world gone mad.

worth reading and absorbing:

wapo.st/4kJERXT

All broken twigs should have legs imho.