Steph

There are a lot of people invested in the idea that Epstein and all the other powerful perpetrators got away with it for so long because they’re so powerful.

But I can’t emphasize enough that almost all perpetrators get these protections. As long as they pick a victim with less power than them.

It triggers disaster response payments for those affected (including business), as well as help for local governments et al and more access to federal agency assistance. It IS a natural disaster, just not one our definitions allow for, but will become more common as climate change continues

for every like i will keep an opinion to myself

Unwelcome? This is literally your policies working as designed.

This is why there has been so much celebration from them around being promoted to being included in the dirty deal greenwashing pacts big tech is doing for its data centre expansion

Not a real or substantial change, but has the aesthetics of a comeback, so that's enough.

this is symptomatic of a general vulgar leftism that reduces all of capitalism to simply the profit motive and misses all the ways domination and control both material and nonmaterial are the prime directive that overrides mere exploitation and is willing to accept shortfalls and productivity losses

honestly assaults against officers (a charge which is almost always bullshit, like you kick an officer while they’re tasing you) is a much better metric of officer aggression than it is of aggression towards officers

Now look at the domestic violence rates

Turns out cost of higher education probably is a deterrent to accessing it, despite Labor pretending it isn’t.

Insane that under a Labor government an arts degree cost $50K, law $100K.

this comes to mind

bsky.app/profile/keta...

a chart showing volume of media coverage

There is a worldwide 'slump' that's been happening for three years, but Australia is quite unique in that the slump is much, much more severe

Elsewhere, coverage has dipped to early 2020s levels, or late 2010s - never lower than COVID19 (like in Aus)

mecco.colorado.edu/world/index....

a chart showing media mentions per month in Aus, falling since 2021

Narrow dataset of a few major print media outlets in Aus, but notable that June 2025 saw the lowest volume of climate coverage since mid-2014 - the last time it was consistently this low was 2004-2005

Exactly how Albanese wants it - out of sight, out of mind.

mecco.colorado.edu/index.html

A bit of both but it has a lot in common with Mar-a-Lago Face in that it was about appealing to the very specific sexual appetites of an authoritarian patriarch (Roger Ailes, in this case)

DECLASSIFIED AUSTRALIA REVEALED: AUSTRALIA HAS EXPORTED F-35 FIGHTER JET PARTS DIRECTLY TO ISRAEL Leaked documents reveal that as recently as this week, Australia has sent F-35 strike fighter jet parts directly from Australia to Israel in the midst of Israel's genocidal war in Gaza. by Peter Cronau and Kellie Tranter | 11 Jul,

As we have been saying for 2 years now, despite the government’s deflections and outright lies, this country is deeply complicit—we are supplying essential jet parts to Israel as they carry out a holocaust of Palestinians, starving and burning them to death daily. declassifiedaus.org/2025/07/11/r...

Would an Australian newspaper ever gleefully report that people on unemployment benefits or sickness benefits had found a way to rort our system?

The Australian media really do like to put tax dodgers on a pedestal while obsessing about ‘welfare cheats’

Exclusive: NDIA chief intervened to throw advocate off scheme Internal emails show the National Disability Insurance Agency rushed to withdraw access for a disabled person whose funding was criticised on talkback radio, only to reinstate it 10 months later.

Try not to overdo comparisons to robodebt. But this is closest I've seen to a post-robodebt copy of the playbook. NDIS boss demands participant be booted from scheme after conservative radio segment. No evidence. Sham process. Against policy. Gets it WRONG www.thesaturdaypaper.com.au/news/health/...

Police bashed, pepper-sprayed screaming naked woman on Sydney street Details of an attack by two NSW Police officers on a mentally ill woman can be revealed after media companies fought a 60-year suppression order.

two nsw cops brutally bash a 49 yo schizophrenic woman, pepper spray her vagina, pepper spray cuts on her back, laugh as she screams trying to wash in a gutter, kicking her head.

mental heath care in the police state of nsw.

www.smh.com.au/national/nsw...

Dr Max Kaiser, Executive Officer, Jewish Council of Australia “This document reads more like a blueprint for silencing dissent rather than a strategy to build inclusion. The report’s vague language around ‘antisemitic narratives’ or ‘affiliations’ , coupled with its emphasis on the discredited IHRA definition of antisemitism, make the actions recommended dangerously unclear. Consistent with her past statements erroneously linking antisemitic attacks with Palestine solidarity protests, Segal seems fixated on driving a pro-Israel narrative and repressing legitimate criticism of Israel’s genocide in Gaza. Antisemitism is real and must be taken seriously. But it does not exist in a vacuum. Any response that treats antisemitism as exceptional, while ignoring Islamophobia, anti-Palestinian racism, and other forms of hate, is doomed to fail.”

This by @jewishcouncilau.bsky.social's Max Kaiser is absolutely on point.

so, it's not enough that a politics exists where "woman" is taken apart and investigated for its existence (as one should), but "female" too. in fact, conservatives have retreated to defending its machinery via the "defense of femaleness". we ask ourselves - what is "being female"? who defines it?

this is why the "male and female subject" as a mere "fact" of bodies is a technique of instrumentalizing people into the reproduction of the family, state, and capital. this is liberalism.

this is why any politics that simply claims to be for "male and female equality" is a liberal feminism, regardless of whether it calls itself radical. the body has the potential to exist in a much more diverse manner of individual existence and relation beyond hetero-repro teleology.

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Entire Aus media in a lather about mushroom woman - a verdict that is no one’s business beyond victims’ families. Meanwhile, Yuendumu coroner’s findings, 600 pages of vital commentary on policing and race, pass almost unnoticed.

The real surprise came after the experiment. Fred Lambert, who writes for the blog Electrek, pointed out the same autopilot disengagement that the NHTSA had documented. “Autopilot appears to automatically disengage a fraction of a second before the impact as the crash becomes inevitable,” Lambert noted.

In a horrifying article about the dangers of Teslas, one point stands out: Teslas automatically disengage self-driving mode <1 second before an imminent crash--not enough time for the driver to react, but enough for Tesla to deny responsibility for fatal crashes, since self-driving "wasn't engaged."

While it is true that formal emissions accounting rules attribute the emissions created from the burning of fossil fuels to the places where these are burned, anyone who tries use this fact to entirely absolve Australia of any responsibility is either critically incompetent or critically dishonest. Most likely both. Like the incompetent/dishonest example, more than one thing can be true at once. Australia shares responsibility for these emissions because without the endorsement of Australian governments these fossil fuels would never have been burned. And if anyone tries to tell you that if we didn’t sell them, someone else would: kindly ask them to point to which country is politely sitting on its hands with a fossil fuel reserves capable of meeting 50% of the world’s trade in metallurgical coal, one-fifth of the world’s trade in thermal coal and one-fifth of the world’s liquefied gas. If Australia didn’t supply these fuels, there is no country on the planet that could replace it.

This piece by @timinclimate.bsky.social is a complete banger. I have really never ever read such a comprehensive analysis of Australia's fossil export emissions like this, it is something else.

Go read the whole thing now --->>>

timinclimate.medium.com/australia-em...

Carbon credits. What a fucking scam

Oh noes, the poor INVESTORS!!!!!

(Just in case anyone out there thinks taxation doesn't affect higher property prices...