Cait Ogdon

YouTube video by The Sunday Shot SUNDAY SHOT - OCT 19 - CHRIS HEDGES, SARAH SCHWARTZ, SCOTT BURCHILL

The Sunday Shot starts at 9am with me, @instanterudite.bsky.social, @sarahschwartz.bsky.social, Scott Burchill, and an interview with Pulitzer prize winning war correspondent Chris Hedges.

Excellent interview, when he spoke about ‘the disappeared’….chills

Excellent interview with Chris Hedges by Dave Milner for #TheShot

With an abundance of lemons from the garden atm, today’s cake is a classic Lemon Cake with lemon icing. Perfect for Spring.
#food #cake #lemons

‘AI, no worries it’ll be great’ & ‘Digital ID? Nothing to worry about!’
How’s that going?

So many breaches, so many compromises. We keep galloping ahead before we fully understand what it is we’re doing. It wouldn’t hurt take a step back for once.
@albomp.bsky.social @australianlabor.bsky.social

Hey @albomp.bsky.social @jimchalmers.bsky.social @australianlabor.bsky.social
When are you going to start charging these corporate cowboys and their ilk tax?! Every company with even a toehold in this country should be paying tax - enough is enough!

We have agreed that attempting to maintain a habitable planet is not in shareholders' interests.

I’m over the world today - I need cat pics. Here’s my gorgeous little cat Peachy.
#cats

FFS! Come on @albomp.bsky.social @jimchalmers.bsky.social @australianlabor.bsky.social the average person in Australia is so overtaxed now from birth - death and you STILL won’t tax the fossil fuel industry! You have a duty of care & social contract to the people not the ff companies. #budget

The best way to punish these guys is to stop using their products, give your business to smaller startups and independents, stop paying these guys.

One, that's not how copyright works and there will be an entire battalion of IP lawyers who will be happy to correct Open AI of this misapprehension, likely to the tune of billions of dollars, and two, fuck this shitty thieving waste of proteins and lipids

‘Grotesque wealth creates grotesque people.’ (Ryan McTague 2025)

Never a truer word spoken.

More of this, everywhere he goes.

This is not the win he thinks it is.

Maybe it’s time for the United Nations headquarters to find a new venue, this is an embarrassing display by the host country.
#unitednations

So #SussanLey would rather we be a subservient nation to American interests that supports genocide than remain an independent free-thinking country with humanitarian values (cough, mostly)? Once again the Liberals walking the dark paths of history.
I know what side of history I’d prefer to be on.

Our belligerent, authoritarian AUKUS partner True allies share common visions, common objectives, common strategies, common standards of behaviour and common criteria of success.

True allies share values & vision. Australia & the US no longer do. America is fractured, authoritarian, reckless abroad & complicit in genocide. Yet Canberra clings to the myth of the alliance. It’s time to face reality & chart our own path. #AusPol #US #Alliance

I thought I’d start the day with some beautiful bookends.

That’s some clear and definitive messaging right there!

Does our Australian govt have the gumption to stand up to foreign bullies? I hope so.
#auspol

Thanks Denise.

Hey @deniseshrivell.bsky.social any chance today’s show could be loaded onto the fb page so we can share it there too?

Excellent interview Dave with @emmashortis.bsky.social - it’s so important to hear clear intelligent discussion and interviews on this current rise of fascism.

What If Wednesday: Increased taxes on the gas industry - ABC listen Today on 774 ABC Radio Melbourne Drive, What If Wednesday tackled the question: What if we increased taxes on the gas industry?

What if we taxed the gas industry properly?

"We're incredibly generous to the gas industry, most of which is foreign owned.

"Norway taxes gas & gives their kids free education. What we do is give the gas away for free & charge our kids a fortune to go to uni."

@richarddenniss.bsky.social on ABC ⤵️

What’s the real resason Meanjin was shut down? It doesn’t seem to be financial as stated by Melb Uni or MUP, so was it political? Something doesn’t add up.

www.instagram.com/p/DOrySH2EjV...

Going through some boxes that belonged to my sister Cassie Ogdon (d.1987) and came across this songbook of resistance songs from her Roxby Downs blockade days, circa August 1983. The contents pages are a feast of protest songs.
#protestsongs

You see this a lot with the Australian media too, the sanitising of evil or bad people. We have media corporations run by bad people employing people willing, sometimes even eager, to be compromised.

Today's final approval of the North West Shelf is a climate, economic, and energy security disaster.

Australia Institute analysis shows the 45-year expansion is equivalent to building 12 new coal power stations.

@grogsgamut.bsky.social #auspol

Dear Prime Minister @albomp.bsky.social, @australianlabor.bsky.social given your insistence that the reason our alliance must continue is our shared values with the US, can you please confirm you will not deploy the military against Australians.

It’s a joke, but it isn’t…. End #Aukus

How in the fuck do we live on a planet where it’s now acceptable for powerful men to be rapists, criminals, liars, bigots, corrupt arseholes and/or genocidal cunts but it’s NOT acceptable for us to try to make them stop?

#NewsCorpse