kim mcfayden

Australians pay; Japan and Woodside profit. #climateemergency
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The Liberals will have to choose between the Nationals and the climate It does not look feasible for a political party to succeed in Australia without a credible commitment to reducing carbon emissions.

It’s not feasible for a political party to win in Australia without a credible commitment to reducing carbon emissions, and that is only likely to become more so as the planet warms and life becomes less tolerable and more expensive through higher insurance premiums 👇
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YouTube video by Fardan Khan Louis Theroux’s The Settlers (2025)

Louis Theroux deploying his usual charming candour and eliciting the most chilling of answers has (naturally) earned him the anti semitism badge. Well worth a watch. #thesettlers youtu.be/tC8l09ut418?...

It's rather remarkable and quite illuminating that Louis Theroux is being accused of antisemitism by simply broadcasting the words of Zionists.

I want a well hung parliament and a very cross bench.

Very fucking cross.

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“The government is asserting a right to stash away residents of this country in foreign prisons without the semblance of due process that is the foundation of our constitutional order." - from the 4th Circuit's ruling on the Abrego-Garcia case.

The US judiciary is still holding the line.

🏆 @rollingstone.com wins the Headline of the Day Award

This is how it’s done. At least someone understands the assignment.
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Cry me a river.

I'm old enough to remember JD Vance saying in the debate in October: "The most sacred right under the United States democracy is the First Amendment. . . . Kamala Harris wants to use the power of government and big tech to silence people from speaking their minds. That is a threat to democracy."

To leave or not to leave the Trump war planning group chat? That is the question The US government is in hot water after top officials added a reporter to a group chat about bombing Yemen. We asked three eminent Australian journalists what they would have done if it were them.

If the Atlantic journo that got added to Trump’s war-planning Signal chat was Australian, he could’ve copped two years in prison just for being added. How? @daanysaeed.bsky.social explains.

If the White House is insisting that there was no classified or secret information in the Signal chat, does that mean Jeffrey Goldberg can publish it all?

Case 1:25-cv-00716 Document 1 Filed 03/11/25 Page 1 of 43 UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA PERKINS COIE LLP, Plaintiff, V. U.S. DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE, FEDERAL COMMUNICATIONS COMMISSION, OFFICE OF MANAGEMENT AND BUDGET, EQUAL EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITY COMMISSION, OFFICE OF PERSONNEL MANAGEMENT, GENERAL SERVICES ADMINISTRATION, OFFICE OF THE DIRECTOR OF NATIONAL INTELLIGENCE, THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, and, In their official capacities, PAMELA J. BONDI, BRENDAN CARR, RUSSELL T. VOUGHT, ANDREA R. LUCAS, CHARLES EZELL, STEPHEN EHEKIAN, and TULSI GABBARD, Defendants. Case No. COMPLAINT Plaintiff, the law firm of Perkins Coie LLP, brings this case against the U.S. Department of Justice, the Federal Communications Commission, the Office of Management & Budget, the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, the Office of Personnel Management, the General Services Administration, the Office of the Director of National Intelligence, the United States of America, and, in their respective official capacities, Pamela J. Bondi, Brendan Carr, Russell T. Vought, Andrea R. Lucas, Charles Ezell, Stephen Ehekian, and Tulsi Gabbard, and states as follows: 1

Case 1:25-cv-00716 Document 1 Filed 03/11/25 Page 2 of 43 WHAT THIS CASE IS ABOUT 1. This case concerns an Executive Order issued on March 6, 2025, entitled, "Addressing Risks From Perkins Coie LLP" ("the Order"). The Order is an affront to the Constitution and our adversarial system of justice. Its plain purpose is to bully those who advocate points of view that the President perceives as adverse to the views of his Administration, whether those views are presented on behalf of paying or pro bono clients. Perkins Coie brings this case reluctantly. The firm is comprised of lawyers who advocate for clients; its attorneys and employees are not activists or partisans. But Perkins Coie's ability to represent the interests of its clients and its ability to operate as a legal-services business at all— are under direct and imminent threat. Perkins Coie cannot allow its clients to be bullied. The firm is committed to a resolute defense of the rule of law, without regard to party or ideology, and therefore brings this lawsuit to declare the Order unlawful and to enjoin its implementation. The Order's peculiar title betrays its oddity as an Executive Order, for its purpose is not executive in nature. Rather, the Order reflects a purpose that is judicial-to adjudicate whether a handful of lawyers at Perkins Coie LLP ("Perkins Coie," "the law firm," or "the firm") engaged in misconduct in the course of litigation and then to punish them by: (I) terminating government contracts with firm clients, thereby driving away current and prospective clients; (2) denying all members and employees of the firm access to federal buildings and meetings or other engagement with federal employees; and (3) immediately suspending, and possibly revoking, security clearances for all firm employees. 3. The Order imposes these punishments on the entire law firm even though the attorneys involved in the purported misconduct numbered a mere handful of the more than 1,200

The PERKINS COIE law firm spits hot fire in its suit against Trump’s executive order aimed at punishing the firm.

Strongly recommend reading the first 10 paragraphs of the “WHAT THIS CASE IS ABOUT” section.

(h/t @mikescarcella.bsky.social)

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“The populist right is powered by scarcity. When there is not enough to go around, we look with suspicion on anyone who might take what we have. This is the fuel of Trump’s politics. Scarcity — or the perception of it — is the precondition to his success.” www.nytimes.com/2025/03/09/o...

Agree wholeheartedly. The universities producing scholarly articles are funded by governments so I don’t understand why they are hidden behind paywalls.

Women and girls are on the frontline of climate change – but their stories are seldom heard The media must do more to amplify women in climate and environmental reporting.

Women and girls are on the frontline of climate change, but their stories are seldom heard. A vital piece by my dear friend @sanammahoozi.bsky.social, who recently received her PhD!🥳

It would be helpful if more people understood renewable energy is actually an extremely disruptive technology and the reason monied interests are trying to make folks hate it is that they are the ones which will be disrupted.

In case you’re wondering why home insurance is costing more and more, Australia’s 3rd largest city is about to experience a rare Cyclone - fuelled by rising sea temperatures.

If you work at the Washington Post, now is the time to resign. You’re a part of this now.

We should have a Royal State Visit for Zelenskyy instead, on a grander scale than anything the Queen put on from Trump last time round.

At University of Cambridge, I was asked if I maintain a sense of optimism about climate change. My answer:

Yes, because unlike cancer, where we often don't know the cause and don't have a cure, we know exactly why global temperatures are rising and how to stop it. We just need the political will.

The Daily Beast tweet: “Steve Bannon whipped up the CPAC crowd by talking about the possibility of Trump staying in office for a third term - and concluded his speech by giving a provocative gesture that resembled the salute Elon Musk gave at a post-inauguration rally last month.”

I am so sick of this shit. It’s a Sieg Heil. It’s a Nazi salute. Anyone who sees it knows. It’s ridiculous that legal departments presumably won’t let media call it what it is. Bannon made “a provocative gesture that resembled the salute Elon Musk gave at a post-inauguration rally”? Fuck off.

A visual representation of global temperature change from 1900 to 2100, illustrating past and projected warming relative to 1850-1900 levels. The timeline includes historical data up to 2020, where temperatures were about 1.1°C warmer than pre-industrial levels. Future temperature changes are depicted under different emissions scenarios: very high, high, intermediate, low, and very low. The color scale ranges from blue (cooler) to dark purple (warmer). Human figures show the expected lifetime temperature exposure for individuals born in 1950, 1980, and 2020, reaching 70 years of age in 2020, 2050, and 2090, respectively. The diagram highlights how future climate conditions depend on present choices regarding climate change mitigation.

No one alive will experience a better climate than today. But young people will experience a much more dangerous and chaotic world in the future, and the extent to which that happens will depend on our choices today. Trump doesn't care because he's old and a sociopath.

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It's not a demolition site it's a mass grave. It's not a demolition site it's a crime scene. It's not a demolition site its a homeland. It's not a demolition site it's Palestine. It's not a demolition site it's a genocide.

Are the next 4 years really going to be logging on everyday to sentences like "a 19 year old doge intern called Big Balls has your social security number" because I'm already at capacity for this sort of thing

For the visual learners...

Yes!

Why is my t-shirt more offensive to our prime minister than a 50-year assault on democracy? The boy who lived in public housing comes to die on a corporately owned hill.

Grace Tame doesn’t miss in her piece. What a massive disappointment Albo and much of the political class are.

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