Headline in The Australian: Labor’s green law reforms critical to Trump deal

Well isn’t that just lovely - a shit deal on the environment to ensure the Orange Haemorrhoid is happy

The devastating, lyrical "One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This" is as good a book about our current moment as I've read, and @jessielilley.bsky.social @rachelwithers.bsky.social and I are so lucky to have Omar El Akkad on Spin Cycle tonight.

Join us from 7pm on @3rrrfm.bsky.social

Oslo Davis cartoon, October 18, 2025

This week’s cartoon, by Oslo Davis: satpa.pe/I1vKCe1

Andrew Cuomo’s campaign just posted — and quickly deleted — this AI-generated ad depicting “criminals for Zohran Mamdani.”

Features a Black man in a keffiyeh shoplifting, an abuser, a trespasser, a trafficker, a drug dealer, and a drunk driver all declaring support for Mamdani.

On a basic publicity level this is one of the most weird and amateurish things I’ve ever seen a brand do, let alone a politician. It looks awful, barely a step above jibjab

WATCH: @chrislhayes.bsky.social asks Rep. Hakeem Jeffries who he plans to vote for in the NYC mayoral election.

you can’t really call this anything other than cowardice

'Sensible' centre? Tell that to the giants of The Rocks and Eureka We've had decades of sanitising radical progressive action in Australia, to make successes seem as if they were just the sensible position.

"The idea that we “all have to learn to get along together”, which the Ezra Kleins of the world love to harangue people with, and which weak-hearted politicians love to adopt because it means they don’t actually have to do anything" @amyremeikis.bsky.social

www.thenewdaily.com.au/opinion/2025...

One might think it relevant that nearly 300 Oz journalists who signed an open letter in early Dec 23 calling for more ethical media coverage of the Gaza/Israel conflict were told they would be “unable to participate in any reporting or production relating to the war.”

Just say you hate mothers in the workplace dude

Try reading the ruling:

"Ms. Chandler offered an alternative arrangement whereby she would work from a local Westpac branch at Bowral for 2 days per week rather than attend the closest corporate office at Kogarah in Sydney. That offer was rejected by Westpac."

FWA ain't the blinkered one.

Straya!!! Albanese, Bowen and Watt helping break the world record. Go ALP.

Albanese hints US could still seek changes to Aukus agreement amid review Speaking in Washington, the prime minister downplayed US comments about ‘ambiguity’ but conceded he knows that the Pentagon want some updates

Asked if Trump’s govt had told him about changes they wanted, Albanese replied: "Yes, but we don’t make announcements about AUKUS and structures at a press conference like this"

Comes after US naval secretary "clarify some of the ambiguity" in AUKUS
www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

Thanks to Murray and his ALP pals, weather reports like this will become increasingly scary and weird

Australia was in no way trying to troll Trump, we are currently paying billions to retrofit American shipyards to buy nuclear subs we will likely never receive nor command, and we promised to give the US billions in critical minerals out of concern over Chinese dominance of the supply chain.

Historians will judge the moment of demolition of the East Wing portico of the White House to accommodate more floor space over a garden was when Donald Trump truly became an Australian

Everyone in 2021 after Mark McGowan and WA Labor reduced the opposition to being unable to even fill a minivan: we will never see figures like this again

SA: hold my how-to-vote card

🚨 NEW: Labor leads in South Australia with a 66% two-party-preferred vote ahead of the March state election, according to the latest DemosAU/Ace Strategies poll

One Nation are now only 5% behind the Liberals in upper house polling, while Peter Malinauskas continues to lead as preferred premier

Australian Christian Lobby says any new laws protecting people from cults could be ‘very dangerous’ Lobby groups tell Victorian inquiry legitimate churches could be caught up in any proposed crackdown on coercive practices

ACL says laws targeting “coercive behaviour in faith-based institutions” would be “very dangerous”

www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

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There are new plans to fix how universities will run. But will they work? Federal Education Minister Jason Clare says, ‘if you don’t think there are challenges in university governance, you’ve been living under a rock’.

Unless there’s a reset of senior officials at the top, universities won’t change. Toxic cultures are embedded. Broken governance is breaking people. theconversation.com/there-are-ne...

Floods have devalued Australian homes by $42bn. Experts say that’s the cost of ‘a changing climate’ Of the 2m flood-prone houses across the country, at least 70% have had values reduced, a new report by Climate Council and PropTrack has found

Flooding has already wiped $42B from the value of 🇦🇺 homes

Climate change isn’t a future cost. It’s here, harming our economy and our safety

We can’t keep ✅ fossil fuel projects at expense of communities & property values, and need to get serious about adaptation
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Every now and then, I recall in October 2023 all the living former PMs except Keating signed a letter which included the line "Israel promises it will do all it can to avoid civilian casualties"

‘Every dollar counts’: Westpac Rescue spends big on high teas, golf days, lavish balls The service, which has announced an investigation into allegations of a toxic and unsafe workplace, splashes more on fundraising and events than other agencies.

Many NSW residents don't realise that the "Westpac" Rescue Helicopter's operations aren't funded by Westpac, but by taxpayers.

Ripper piece from @sydmorningherald.bsky.social
www.smh.com.au/politics/nsw...

while i have been sympathetic to the "actually targeted advertising means the ads are more relevant to you" argument, it cannot explain the tsunami of fucking annoying gambling gambling ads voiced by performatively ocker sounding VO artists that make me sick

Journalist Chris Hedges on being cancelled by the National Press Club - ABC listen Australia’s National Press Club was due to host Pulitzer prize winning journalist, the former Middle East Bureau Chief for the New York Times, Chris Hedges on Monday October 20, 2025. But after receiv...

Weird interview by David Marr of Chris Hedges. Marr seems to think his job is to stand up for the Press Club (and media like the NY Times)
www.abc.net.au/listen/progr...

unreal gear: one of the agencies cited by the attorney-general as being inundated with AI FOI requests, Services Australia, did not even seem to think that it was a problem.

complete shambles of a reform that seems to have no other justification than making government more secret

Trump posts AI video showing him literally dumping shit on America

Barnaby Joyce to succeed Pauline Hanson as One Nation leader The former Nationals leader will leave the party at the end of this term to explore “all options” as his relationship with its leaders had “irreparably broken down”.

I always thought One Nation would go down when Hanson leaves, but if this is true, I genuinely think the path forward for the party might be around (and be far more successful) for longer than we might have expected www.afr.com/politics/fed...

‘We will get there’: Nuclear company key to submarine plans rejects AUKUS doubts Rolls-Royce has expanded its workforce to build the nuclear power systems for the vessels – and is searching for more trainees, including Australians.

Imagine writing this AUKUS puff piece saying “Rolls-Royce dismisses critics” of its UK nuclear reactor program and … forgetting … to mention the UK audit authority’s finding that “successful delivery of the project appears to be unachievable.” www.smh.com.au/world/europe...