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#BREAKING 🚨 Independent candidate Michelle Milthorpe has confirmed she will recontest Farrer at the upcoming by-election, setting up a possible five-cornered contest following the resignation of Sussan Ley

Milthorpe received 43.7% of the two-candidate-preferred vote in 2025

In the blanket incident, Noem had to switch planes after a maintenance issue was discovered, but her blanket wasn't moved to the second plane, according to the people familiar with the incident. The Coast Guard pilot was initially fired and told to take a commercial flight home when they reached their destination. They eventually reinstated the pilot because no one else was available to fly them home.

The details of the Kristi Noem blanket incident are just fucking perfect

“…in one incident, Lewandowski fired a U.S. Coast Guard pilot after Noem's blanket was left behind on a plane, according to people familiar with the incident.”

The case for banning fossil fuel donations In the grand scheme of things, it’s not much money. This is part of what makes it so sad. The country’s politicians have sold out the climate for little more than a rounding error on projects that will continue for decades.

Editorial: It is very obvious that donations from fossil fuel companies should be banned. This is a kind of sickness shared across politics, a cynicism that fits neatly into brown paper bags. satpa.pe/NqcwLhz

China’s Yangtze River shows signs of remarkable recovery after fishing ban Doubling of fish biomass and rebounding of endangered species shows government measures starting to work, biologists say

China’s Yangtze River shows signs of remarkable recovery after fishing ban

- the most positive freshwater conservation story in the world in 20 years, says one veteran biologist

Story by @jonathan-watts.bsky.social
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Quoth RFK Jr.: “Measles is a harmless childhood disease.”🤦🏻‍♂️

Africa leads growth in solar energy as demand spreads beyond traditional markets, report says A report shows that Africa has emerged as the world's fastest-growing solar market even as global growth slowed last year, driven by a 60% surge in imports of solar panels from China.

African states should develop the energy sources they need to power their development. But the US has decided to sit this one out, and under Trump to jump in on the side of fossil fuels, whereas China is reaping the benefits of decarbonization. Self-own.

Oh boy

YouTube video by Bruce Springsteen Bruce Springsteen - Streets Of Minneapolis (Official Audio)

I wrote this song on Saturday, recorded it yesterday and released it to you today in response to the state terror being visited on the city of Minneapolis. It’s dedicated to the people of Minneapolis, our innocent immigrant neighbors and in memory of Alex Pretti and Renee Good.

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“ANZUS has slipped from being an opportunity for a chat to a continuing display of Australian subservience and servile support for US military power.” - Allan Behm, Advisor, International & Security Affairs Program, The Australia Institute

Read more on The Point: https://theaus.in/4q8vEdP

The Inspiring New Movie About a Neighborhood That Stood Up To an Immigration Raid—and Won The most timely movie at this year’s Sundance Film Festival is also a lot of fun.

Sundance’s filmmakers spoke to the urgency of the political moment. Their movies, mostly, did not. But there was one powerful exception.

It’s really difficult & disorienting but the feds hit LA extremely hard today. There were kidnappings all over & reported cluster raids in Chinatown, East LA, Ktown. This list shows to 1130 AM but they haven’t stopped all day

Just because the media attention stopped doesn’t mean the abductions have

I know all eyes are on Minneapolis, but there's a fast-approaching nightmare in Springfield, Ohio.

Trump is revoking protected status for tens of thousands of Haitians living there on Feb. 3.

Reportedly, on Feb. 4, 1000 ICE agents are arriving to remove this population. Ethnic cleansing.

What measles does to a body, since most of us were raised having been responsibly vaccinated and never had to encounter it:

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This is what letting RFK jr go wild on health looks like

What’s the book?

Trump Administration Orders USDA Employees to Investigate Foreign Researchers They Work With The new directive asks workers to check the backgrounds of foreign nationals collaborating with the department’s scientists for evidence of “subversive or criminal activity.” Their names are being sen...

The new directive asks USDA workers in the agency’s research arm to use Google to check the backgrounds of all foreign nationals collaborating with its scientists.

The names of flagged scientists are being sent to national security experts at the agency, according to records reviewed by ProPublica.

Join Chief Political Analyst Amy Remeikis on The Point Live, and get the lowdown on what's happening in politics today, as it happens! #auspol @amyremeikis.bsky.social
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Pew Research Institute (2023):

• Red State Texas has about 2.1 million undocumented immigrants

• Red State Florida has 1.6 M undocumented immigrants

• Blue State Minnesota has 130,000.

And yet only Minnesota is being occupied by masked thugs over "immigration."

It's *not* about immigration.

What I always hear: “We can’t afford to pay our workers more than $15 an hour.”

What I never hear: “We can’t afford to pay our CEO millions of dollars a year.”

Funny how that works.

A precursor to slavery?

Zohran Mamdani Is Listening — and Taking Notes At an unusual event in Queens on Sunday, everyday New Yorkers lined up to offer their expertise and experience to democratic socialist mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani.

At an unusual event in Queens on Sunday, everyday New Yorkers lined up to offer their expertise and experience to democratic socialist mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani.

Of course people of Jewish faith have the right to live without fear, George. This has my FULL support.

Exactly like people of Muslim faith have the right to live without fear as well as without settler-colonial violence, apartheid, illegal occupation of their lands & genocide. #auspol #BondiBeach

Because it’s not getting reported on enough:

Muslim fruit shop owner Ahmed al Ahmed, father of two, was the hero who bravely tackled one of the Bondi Beach shooters and took away his gun.

He saved lives during a major terror attack. Say his name, and honor the lives of the victims of the shooters

Australian here 👋

Stop saying the tragedy in Sydney demonstrates that strict gun laws don’t work.

There were ZERO mass shootings in Australia in the two decades after strict gun laws were passed in 1996.

We have so much we need to do, but strict gun laws remain a critical part of the solution.

The upsides of the gun buyback • Andrew Leigh John Howard’s buyback scheme had more than one clear benefit

“We asked the question a little differently: did places with more gun buybacks experience a larger drop in gun homicide and suicide? The answer turned out to be a resounding yes.”

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David Shoebridge doesn’t hold back after Chief of Defence David Johnstone repeatedly refuses to state his salary
“You get paid $896,373 a yr, & the Chief of Def in the US gets paid $343,000 a yr. You get paid 3 times as much! Is that why you didn’t want to tell me?”🔥 #Estimates

4%?

Trump to Roll Back Fuel Economy Rules in Nod to Rising Car Prices It’s not clear that relaxing the standard will lower costs for consumers.

If someone wanted to destroy the US automobile industry and tremendously strengthen the Chinese automobile industry, they wouldn't be doing anything differently than what Trump is doing now. China is now producing smarter, cheaper, cleaner cars than the US.

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