Karen O'Leary 🐅💛🖤🧶

What you have to understand is that Carbon Capture and Storage is driven not by environmental concerns but by fossil fuel industry demands. It provides both a new revenue stream (at our expense) and the mother of all greenwashing schemes. Whether it works or not (it doesn't) is entirely irrelevant.

Convicted rapist runs One Nation election campaign Pauline Hanson's party has quietly rehired convicted sex offender Sean Black a second time — this time as campaign director.

Please explain www.abc.net.au/news/2025-02...

"Thriving" looks different when you see the receipts:
💰 ExxonMobil: $36 Billion profit (2023)
💰 Shell:$28.25 Billion profit (2023)
💰 BP:$13.8 Billion profit (2023)
These are "Godfathers of climate chaos"earning billions while pushing the planet to the edge of destruction .We cannot sustain this.

Israeli quadcopter drones dropped suffocating gas bombs on homes near Al-Shifa Hospital in western Gaza, aiming to forcibly drive exhausted families southward

Enjoy your time here @trishgreenhalgh.bsky.social 🌞

I don’t know when Labor governments stop trying to please conservatives and learn that even by adopting their talking points and agreeing they’ll still get slammed - SO WHY NOT STAND FOR THE ACTUAL TRUTH AND WHAT’S RIGHT but it’s not today. This goes for appointments too

The DOJ released nudes photos of Epstein victims including girls AKA Kiddie p0r𝕟!

Trump's DOJ released the names, phone numbers, addresses, birthdays & even private banking information of these #EpsteinFiles victims.

The depravity is astounding!

BREAKING NEWS from #RolandMartinUnfiltered: House Speaker Mike Johnson has denied a request from Democrats and the family of Rev. Jesse Jackson Sr. For him to lie-in-state at the US Capitol

Exclusive: Robodebt architect remains employed in a senior governance role in the public service Scott Britton was a national manager of the customer compliance branch in the Department of Human Services and signed a June 2014 minute that first detailed how robodebt would work.

One of the central figures in Robodebt, former welfare bureaucrat Scott Britton has another job ... in the Commonwealth DPP. Incredible story by Rick Morton www.crikey.com.au/2026/02/20/r...

"They're raising prices because they can.

"That's what's driving inflation and yet it's workers who get smashed by an interest rate rise."

@grogsgamut.bsky.social on how corporate profits are driving inflation while workers bear the cost. #auspol

🎧 theaus.in/4rS2eSg

U2 blasts Trump administration & ICE in new song

tweet from @cliftonhowze on twitter Last night at the #DataCenters meeting in Claremore, Darren Blanchard, who has attended most of these meetings around NE Oklahoma & has some pretty impressive FOIA/ORA skills, was arrested after going over his 3 min. allotted speaking time. First arrest I've seen at one of these.

in america, if you go over your 3 minute allotment to speak, men with guns come to take you away.

If someone had told me ten years ago that in 2026, there could be evidence of the president raping and threatening to kill children, and he would *still* be allowed to stay in office, I would have politely asked them to put down the meth pipe.

If being associated with Jeffrey Epstein cost Andrew the title of "Prince," it should cost Donald the title of "President."

But we are not a morally sound country.

Oh, the grand old duke of york
He ██████████████████
He ██████████████████
And he ██████████████████

The political effects of X's feed algorithm https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-026-10098-2 Received: 16 December 2024 Accepted: 4 January 2026 Published online: 18 February 2026 Open access • Check for updates Germain Gauthier,5, Roland Hodler?5, Philine Widmer35 & Ekaterina Zhuravskaya3,4,5 m Feed algorithms are widely suspected to influence political attitudes. However, previous evidence from switching off the algorithm on Meta platforms found no political effects'. Here we present results from a 2023 field experiment on Elon Musk's platform X shedding light on this puzzle. We assigned active US-based users randomly to either an algorithmic or a chronological feed for 7 weeks, measuring political attitudes and online behaviour. Switching from a chronological to an algorithmic feed increased engagement and shifted political opinion towards more conservative positions, particularly regarding policy priorities, perceptions of criminal investigations into Donald Trump and views on the war in Ukraine. In contrast, switching from the algorithmic to the chronological feed had no comparable effects. Neither switching the algorithm on nor switching it off significantly affected affective polarization or self-reported partisanship. To investigate the mechanism, we analysed users' feed content and behaviour. We found that the algorithm promotes conservative content and demotes posts by traditional media. Exposure to algorithmic content leads users to follow conservative political activist accounts, which they continue to follow even after switching off the algorithm, helping explain the asymmetry in effects. These results suggest that initial exposure to X's algorithm has persistent effects on users' current political attitudes and account-following behaviour, even in the absence of a detectable effect on partisanship.

A new paper shows that less than 2 months of exposure to Twitter’s algorithmic feed significantly shifts people’s political views to the right.

Moving from chronological feed to the algorithmic feed also increases engagement.

This is one of the most concerning papers I’ve read in awhile.

Federal MPs accept free sport tickets from gambling companies amid calls to restrict wagering ads Tabcorp and Sportsbet provided tickets to at least six Liberal and Labor politicians, register of interests shows

Next month we'll hit 1000 days since the Murphy Report into gambling harm was handed down.

More than 3 in 4 Australians want stronger gambling advertising laws, but the Govt continues to stall. Politicians from both major parties continue to accept donations, gifts & perks from gambling companies.

Don’t play with matches

Fiji: Former FijiFirst (Centre) prime minister Frank Bainimarama, who led Fiji for 16 years after a 2006 coup, has been charged with inciting mutiny over a 2023 plot to oust the military chief. He is in custody pending court.

➤ oceaniaelects.com/Fiji
#Fiji #Viti #Fijipol

Incredible how much the media has spent talking about hate speech laws and yet none of the thousands of articles on Hanson mention she recently was found by a federal court of breaching hate speech laws.

A new study published today in Nature has found that X’s algorithm – the hidden system or “recipe” that governs which posts appear in your feed and in which order – shifts users’ political opinions in a more conservative direction.

#auspol

theconversation.com/a-few-weeks-...

🔆 Hey First Nations researchers 🔆

Get in quick: 3 fully funded PhD scholarships available now to undertake research that supports First Nations people and communities access and realise benefits in the clean energy transition

Thanks Monash!
careers.pageuppeople.com/513/cw/en/jo... #mobsky #auspol

Another new low in human behaviour...😒😒😒🤬

Protect your kids from measles by ensuring they get two doses of the measles vaccine. Don’t leave health to chance.

Check today’s daily dose.

Australian One Nation Senator Pauline Hanson

Imagine the outrage if a Federal MP asked "Show me a good Jew!" Yet Pauline Hanson can rptedly vilify the Australian Muslim community by asking "Show me a good Muslim!" Shouldn't she be charged under the new hatespeech laws?! #auspol #Islamophobia

Don’t forget, when Pauline drops racist bombshells into the media for everyone to react to, she’s now being funded by Gina Rinehart, major contributor to racist propaganda group Advance and inspired by MAGA-guru Steve “flood the zone with bullshit” Bannon.
The offence is the point.

Photo ISTAND WITH GRACE TAME! THE RED HEART MOVEMENT 📷 AustralianFemicideWatch.org

Grace Tame has spent yrs standing up to abusers, while supporting victims & survivors. She exchanged a safe, quiet existence for one of consequence & impact.

Right now she is being vilified by journalists, politicians, organisations.

I stand with Grace - I hope you'll stand with her too!
#Auspol

CSIRO funding falling short by ‘at least’ $1 billion Internal correspondence and Senate submissions show the CSIRO is running out of money and may lose its position as a leading research agency.

Internal correspondence and Senate submissions show the CSIRO is running out of money and may lose its position as a leading research agency, Rick Morton reports. satpa.pe/Myrihmn

Child vaccination rates are falling fast - Grattan Institute Child vaccination rates are falling fast

Child vaccination rates are falling fast. Our children are increasingly unprotected against painful and potentially deadly diseases. Here’s what governments should do – urgently.

Our new analysis, published today.

buff.ly/9RD7CD8

#auspol #health

Australia Institute research shows a 25 per cent tax on gas exports could raise $17 billion every year, while incentivising producers to prioritise the supply of gas to domestic customers.

Read the full piece on The Point: https://theaus.in/4tIpzaM