Andrew Loch

The Cass Review - Intro The biggest review into healthcare for transgender youth

open.substack.com/pub/gidmk/p/...

The Cass Review Continues To Be Severely Flawed A new paper from an Australian team shines a light on the problems with the review

open.substack.com/pub/gidmk/p/...

"The LNP were effectively giving Queensland's coal to Adani for free."

After the LNP abandoned a court case against Adani over unpaid coal royalties, it looks pretty dodgy that the data shows they received over half a million dollars in donations from Adani.
@rodcampbell.bsky.social #auspol

Screenshot of an X.com post by Melanie D’Arrigo (@Darrigo) stating that undocumented immigrants can’t vote and that voter fraud is extremely rare, arguing Trump and Republicans are using a nonexistent problem as an excuse to manipulate future elections. Below is an embedded Aaron Rupar post quoting an NBC question about whether Trump is suggesting the federal government count votes, and a response from Leavitt saying Republicans and Democrats should pass the SAVE America Act, which would require voter ID and proof of citizenship. At the bottom is a TV still of Leavitt speaking at a White House press briefing with reporters visible nearby.

Well put. This is a solution in search of a nonexistent problem, all to make it far harder for millions to vote. That's vote suppression, folks.

NO TAXPAYER BAILOUTS FOR THE CRYPTO SPECULATORS AND CON ARTISTS.

If you gambled and lost, don’t ask the American people to bail you out.

Thank you for your attention to this matter.

Trump posts, then deletes, video depicting Obamas as monkeys The video also included several debunked conspiracy theories linked to the 2020 US election, which the president has falsely claimed was stolen from him.

Regular reminder that Queensland Premier David Crisafulli is campaigning to host Donald Trump in Australia.

ABC Aus, the Obamas were depicted as apes not monkeys. The excuse from Karoline Leavitt is "The Lion King (1994)". There are no apes in the movie. #qldpol www.abc.net.au/news/2026-02...

I'm afraid you will have to be more specific

What the fuck has happened to us in last 10 years? Just imagine John Cena recording this today...

L.A. Reid Settles Lawsuit Shortly Before Sexual Assault Trial

Worth noting in the awards season hoopla & post-yule slumber #1. www.nytimes.com/2026/01/12/a...

Paul Haggis Reaches $2 Million Settlement After 2022 Rape Verdict

Worth noting in the awards season hoopla & post-yule slumber #2.
www.nytimes.com/2026/01/10/m...

Did you throw a slab of tofu on the Barbie just to fuck with them?

Origin Energy to face court over 77,000 alleged law breaches after taking millions from welfare recipients Regulator says ex-customers allegedly affected by Centrepay scandal were already ‘likely experiencing economic vulnerability’ * Follow our Australia news live blog for latest updates * Get our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcast Origin Energy will face court for allegedly overcharging thousands of former customers on Centrelink by a combined $2.5m and breaching laws more than 77,000 times. The company allegedly took payments through Centrepay over six years from over 3,400 customers who had closed their accounts and owed no money, including one customer who paid $11,000. Continue reading...

Origin Energy to face court over 77,000 alleged law breaches after taking millions from welfare recipients

Brandis defends 'right to be a bigot' Attorney-General George Brandis has defended the Government's plan to amend a key part of the nation's racial discrimination laws, saying people have "a right to be bigots".

www.abc.net.au/news/2014-03...

Climate hot takes for 2025 Scientific evidence in 2025 showed global warming accelerating faster than expected, while emissions continued to rise and climate policy lagged dangerously behind physical reality.

In 2025, climate science raced ahead of politics as warming accelerated, emissions rose and the Paris framework faltered, writes David Spratt @djspratt #auspol #climatechange #climatepolicy

“Staggering” Water Loss Driven by Groundwater Mining Poses Global Threat A new study finds that freshwater resources are rapidly disappearing, creating arid “mega” regions and causing sea levels to rise.

A recent study concludes that the uninhibited pumping of groundwater by farmers, cities and corporations around the world now accounts for 68% of the total loss of fresh water at the latitudes where most people live.

(Published July 2025)

Texas Won’t Study How Its Abortion Ban Impacts Women, So We Did Since Texas banned abortion, no one has studied the statewide effects on pregnant women experiencing complications. Here’s how we sifted through data on millions of pregnancy hospitalizations and anal...

Earlier this year, ProPublica found that the sepsis rate in second-trimester pregnancy loss hospitalizations increased by more than 50% under Texas’ abortion ban.

Here’s how we did our analysis.

(Published Feb. 2025)

Trump moves to dismantle major US climate research center in Colorado The Trump administration is breaking up the National Center for Atmospheric Research, taking aim at one of the world's leading climate research labs.

Exclusive: The Trump administration is moving to dismantle the National Center for Atmospheric Research in Colorado, according to a senior White House official, taking aim at one of the world's leading climate research labs.

After Trump Officials Cut Food Aid to Kenya, Children Starved to Death “Brutal and traumatizing”: Interviews and a trove of internal documents show government officials and aid workers desperately tried to warn Trump advisers about impending disaster and death.

NEW: Without USAID funding to help buy food for refugees, the World Food Program rushed to prioritize families based on need, determining that only half the population would get food.

Refugees learned which half they were in from a number stamped on the back of their ration card.

‘Bloodshed was supposed to stop’: no sign of normal life as Gaza’s killing and misery grind on The term ceasefire ‘risks creating a dangerous illusion life is returning to normal’ for Palestinians squeezed into the remaining 42% of their land behind Israel’s ‘yellow line’

‘Bloodshed was supposed to stop’: no sign of normal life as Gaza’s killing and misery grind on

Insurance Australia Group (IAG) Severe Weather in a Changing Climate report
www.iag.com.au/severe-weath...
“The report complements Australia’s National Climate Risk Assessment (2025) … together with anticipated impacts for the finance & insurance industry.”
Key Planning Recommendations are given

LLMs are racist snd sexist because the material they’re trained on is racist snd sexist and they’re owned and operated by racist, sexist billionaires.

Stop using this shit. It’s fucking up your brain.

An excellent response by David Taylor. Well worth a read!
#auspol #LNP

You lost me at opera

Modern opera or traditional?

Contact your countries politicians demanding they intervene to protect the flotilla.

globalsumudflotilla.org/contact-offi...

Email your politicians demanding they intervene

globalsumudflotilla.org/contact-offi...

COMPARE THE PAIR ABC Article ABC centres the perpetrator's voice. Does not mention one victim was killed. Does not provide racial context of the victims. Priotisies the perpetrator's derogatory statement about victim. NT Article National Indigenous Times immediately provide racial context of the victim. Active language regarding the driver's crime. Frames the sentence in the context of highly racialised "tough on crime" laws in NT that have been the subject of much criticism.

WTF is wrong with #ABCaustralia these days? #AUSpol

Department of War Crimes . Got a nice ring to it

About this Florida vaccine story:

When they were little - 1 yr and 3 1/2 - my two older boys, who’d had all their shots, got whooping cough.

We asked their pediatrician what would’ve happened if they hadn’t been vaccinated.

“Oh, they’d have died.”