Alan Baskin 🦋

Dr Jeremy Walker details the “enormous war chest” of Advance & lists funders inc Gina Rinehart, James Packer, IPA board, Woodside’s Charles Goode & “the priv foundation of Jillian Segal” - who pay Advance to “flood social media with aggressive Far Right disinformation”🔥 #auspol

YouTube video by How’s Your Day Honey These bees almost froze to death

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Don't mention the war Australia is struggling to respond proportionately to violence, fear and political pressure in the wake of the Bondi attacks, October 7 and Israel’s war in Gaza. The result has been a contraction of d...

Well worth a read! Don't mention the war johnmenadue.com/post/2026/02...

Carney:

"In a time of rising populism and ethnic nationalism, Canada can show how diversity is a strength, not a weakness... Canada can't solve all the world's problems. But we can show that another way is possible. That the arc of history isn't destined to be warped toward authoritarianism".

YouTube video by davey ewart Honkfest. Bed's are burning . Outstanding hoot band performance honk Australia 🌏

youtu.be/rdcGEBk9egA?... it would really kick 🦶 this video into the stratosphere if everyone with a passing interest in promoting live music instead of AI took a moment to like or comment on the video on you tube.

On faith and the exit ramp

"The world I am about to leave has changed for the worse," writes Barry Jones. "Facts, figures, evidence, testable proposition and rational debate no longer count. Liberal democracy is in sharp decline." satpa.pe/tagm5G6

Maria Shriver, niece of JFK:

He was a man interested in the arts, culture, education, language, history... It is beyond comprehension that the president has sought to rename this great memorial.

C’mon my fellow Americans! Wake up! This is not dignified. This is not funny... It’s downright weird.

Have a quiet think. Let it be a guiding lesson for you

Whatever regretful comments you may have made in your life, whatever actions you wish you could take back, let your benchmark for the lowest of the low be using the deaths of 15 people for the relaunch of your political career

“I’d have no problem releasing the video”

“I didn’t say that, you said that. Fake news.”

5 days apart 😬

(From @therecount.com )

The Mary Hopkin Radio Show S01 E04 - Ralph McTell In this latest episode of the Mary Hopkin Radio Show, Mary talks to her great friend, the legendary Ralph McTell. A warm and funny show, with songs from both Ralph and Mary, and a story about pumping ...

Listen to Ralph and Mary reminisce in this lovely chat: www.mixcloud.com/SpaceStudios...

Great culture can save lives. Literally.

Amazing letter in today’s @thetimes.com about Tom Stoppard

The Age headliner: ‘I wouldn’t move to Victoria’: Pauline Hanson speaks at Melbourne anti-immigration rally

The good news just keeps on coming

He’d know all about exploding rockets..

ALL governments end in a mess.

Parents outraged as Meta uses photos of schoolgirls in ads targeting man Exclusive: Instagram pictures of girls as young as 13 were posted to promote Threads site ‘as bait’, campaigner says

Meta and Mark Zuckerberg know no shame. This is disgusting conduct worthy of a prison sentence for Meta executives including Zuckerberg.
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My latest in the Guardian is about why and how America is turning Australians into a nation of stunned mullets.

Robert Redford, Screen Idol Turned Director and Activist, Dies at 89

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Depends what charges police lay of course, but I would have mentioned the fact a person was injured in the lead par.

Just wondering about Nine Radio's news reports describing an incident in which a homeless person was set alight as an 'arson attack'. Surely it was a bit more than that. #NineNews #Auspol

UN Security Council to meet over violation of Polish airspace, Poland says

Bad journalism anyway. One of the first things I was taught, if someone is ‘famous’ there’s no need to say it. Same with ‘popular’.

So You Want to Own Greenland? Lessons from the Vikings to Trump: A much sought-after property Australian defence analyst frames book as ‘a buyer’s guide’, highlighting challenges facing Trump or anyone else sizing up the world’s largest island

So You Want to Own Greenland? Lessons from the Vikings to Trump: A much sought-after property

‘Don’t touch it’: Port Arthur veterans on gun law amendments www.thesaturdaypaper.com.au/news/politic... via @thesaturdaypaper.com.au

JFK: “Ask not what your country can do for you — ask what you can do for your country".

Contrast country Visiting the wide-ranging country electorate of Sussan Ley, the leader of a party in desperate need of winning seats in the distant big cities

'While Canberra’s opposition parties dither on net-zero targets it’s interesting to note that [Ley] represents an electorate that's home to some of the most vigorous renewables development in the country.'

Me in The Monthly on Sussan Ley's electorate, Farrer.

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Thank you to The Age for truth in headlining.

#auspol

Wish I knew what you were responding to 🙂

Farage adviser said UK would be better off if it had not fought in WW2 Exclusive: Jack Anderton says UK may ‘regain’ former colonies in future and suggests end to support for Ukraine

In your fascist dreams, dickhead. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Switched on the TV. As Putin & Trump walked toward each other on the tarmac, Trump actually applauded the murderous war criminal.

‘Not a time for silence’: More than 30 authors quit Bendigo Writers Festival The festival started on Friday, but the opening night gala and the closing event have been cancelled along with a number of other sessions.

I feel desperately sorry for Byron Bay Writers Fest cancelled due to catastrophic rain, not so much sympathy for Bendigo. Writers are meant to make the powerful uncomfortable. It is literally our job. www.smh.com.au/culture/book...