Alex Kelly

A former Labor MP's new oil and gas client, Liberal senator misses Taylor's memo, and Rinehart corrects her record Plus are you sweltering under the oppressive collapse of civil society as we know it? Progressive magazine The Nation has just the cure.

A former Labor MP’s new oil and gas client www.crikey.com.au/2026/02/19/c...

Wittenoom traditional owners launch $1.5 billion compensation claim Banjima traditional owners say the thousands of hectares left poisoned by decades of asbestos mining has left them with one of the highest death rates of mesothelioma in the world.

Banjima traditional owners say the thousands of hectares left poisoned by decades of asbestos mining has left them with one of the highest death rates of mesothelioma in the world.

I love* how the framing is "powerful AI tools" and not "overcomplicated pattern copying software granted access to ridiculously unrelated functionality."

*loathe, actually. The term is "loathe."

This guy gets it.

Satellite proposals threaten the night sky In the United States, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC), the agency responsible for authorizing satellite launches and operations…

The FCC just opened public comments on SpaceX's plan to launch a million satellites to do AI compute in space. Under the current proposal, an environmental review won't be required. Please consider submitting a public comment to oppose this damaging plan.
darksky.org/news/two-sat...

Dramatic changes in upper atmosphere are responsible for recent droughts and bushfires: new research Fast-flowing jetstream air currents have shifted further southwards, dragging rain-bearing weather away from Australia.

Dramatic changes in upper atmosphere are responsible for recent droughts and bushfires: new research theconversation.com/dramatic-cha...

QuitGPT — OpenAI Execs are Trump's Biggest Donors Join the movement. Delete ChatGPT. Cancel your subscription. It's time to quit.

I just joined the @quitgpt boycott. OpenAI's president was the biggest donor in Trump's Super PAC's year-end report. It's time to quit. Join us: quitgpt.org // #QuitGPT

Breaking: Washington Post gutting its climate team Clean energy dies in darkness. Courtesy of Jeff Bezos.

The Washington Post has laid off least 14 climate journalists, newsroom sources told @sammyroth.bsky.social, effectively decimating one of the most important reporting teams in American climate journalism.

A sad, terrifying, enraging day for the planet.

“Trump had accumulated 30,573 untruths during his presidency”

the fake conspiracies are a distraction from the real conspiracies... this is what I found again and again while researching Doppelganger.

And Bannon is doing it in overdrive these days.

“There’s a tendency in certain government departments to trivialise the impacts of #climate on the economy so as to avoid making difficult choices today. This is a big problem – the consequences of delay are catastrophic.” - Mark Campanale, CEO of @carbontracker.bsky.social

The billionaires bankrolling rightwing astroturfer Advance Australia - Michael West Gina Rinehart, James Packer, Mark Leibler and other business figures the major backers of right-wing lobby group Advance Australia. #AEC

The billionaires bankrolling rightwing astroturfer Advance Australia

michaelwest.com.au/the-billiona...

QuitGPT — OpenAI Execs are Trump's Biggest Donors Join the movement. Delete ChatGPT. Cancel your subscription. It's time to quit.

ChatGPT is Trump’s biggest donor and is used by ICE. If you don’t like Trump or ICE, you should quit ChatGPT.

7/9

The question isn’t just “what happened?”

It’s: who allowed it? Who could have prevented it? And why did society fail to act, even when the risks were known?

I’m pleased to share my latest article in @uk.theconversation.com

It asks what overheated apartments, flooded rice fields, & invisible policy failures have in common, & how preventable harm becomes the slow violence of necropolitics in the Chthulucene.

Here's a short thread on some key points 🧵

I've studied fires for 40 years and I keep coming back to the same solution As we contemplate a future where catastrophes like the one currently engulfing Australia become increasingly frequent, there's an idea to which I keep returning: maybe it's time to say goodbye to the ...

This piece is from 2020 & I think about it a lot; “This crisis occurring in peak holiday time is highlighting the fact that the assumptions of normality we have got are being challenged by climate change.”

I agree we need to rethink the summer break.
www.abc.net.au/news/2020-01...

Stop penalising people on Jobseeker payments during heatwaves Heatwaves are the deadliest environmental disaster in Australia. We need to make sure everyone can prioritise their safety, and the safety of their family and communities when it gets hot. Unfortuna...

We are grateful for the solidarity from @swelteringcities.bsky.social in the campaign to stop compulsory activities for people on Centrelink payments during heatwaves.

You can support the campaign by signing and sharing the petition: actionnetwork.org/petitions/st...

“Heat is our biggest environmental killer, according to Professor Watkins, who said more people had died as a result of heat than all other natural disasters combined.”

two images 1 fire with text “the world right now” 2 a man cupping mouth and shouting with text “me: did you finish heated rivalry yet?”

Camp sovereignty attacked by neo-Nazis last year.

A bomb thrown at attendees to the Invasion Day rally in Perth yesterday - thankfully didn’t detonate.

Royal commission into bloodthirsty racists? Special envoy? Motions of solidarity in the parliament?

No.

How could all these fires, floods and heatwaves possibly be connected?!

FOI docs reveal Meanjin axing never debated by Melbourne Uni. And why were all bids to save it rejected? The University of Melbourne's finance committee didn't invite members to question the closure of the 85-year-old literary journal, instead only waving it through. Meanwhile, all external offers to sav...

Catching up on summer reading - FOI docs reveal Meanjin axing never debated by Melbourne Uni. And why were all bids to save it rejected?https://www.crikey.com.au/2025/12/17/meanjin-closure-melbourne-university-publishing-foi/

"Total transformation of the Australian summer:" Climate change made January heatwaves five times more likely Australia has just experienced its worst heatwave in six years but it's set to become much more common under existing policies to curb carbon emissions.

“Total transformation of the Australian summer:” Climate change made January heatwaves five times more likely reneweconomy.com.au/total-transf...

this whole thread.

The core of Trump's project is an attempt to destroy the possibility of virtue itself.

They seek to normalize brutality, to accustom us to servility and cruelty. Their goal is to mass-produce a new kind of human being: selfish, rapacious, and motivated chiefly by hatred.

To care is to fight. 🖤🏴

A discreet intellectual network has been reshaping the world for 70 years. Here's how A constant battle of ideas reshapes the world we live in, and few groups have been more successful in winning the war than the little-known Atlas Network.

‼️ important feature - How the Atlas Network is shaping your life, even if you've never heard of it

www.abc.net.au/news/2026-01...

** No new coal and gas. **

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Alex Pretti seemed like an awesome guy who was doing what every person not being targeted by ICE should do. But even if he was an asshole, no one should be executed by government thugs in the streets. There is no statute of limitations on murder so their day will come.

One step into admission of reality, one foot stuck in undermining truth. Note "swarmed" to characterize protesters; animalistic metaphors for human activity convey that people are out of control, perhaps dangerous mass. Locusts & angry bees "swarm." People gather in righteous, brave witness.