Netanyahu: “25 years ago I promised we would prevent the establishment of a Palestinian state — and we are doing exactly that” Was never about hostages …. This was in the planning for decades
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Netanyahu: “25 years ago I promised we would prevent the establishment of a Palestinian state — and we are doing exactly that” Was never about hostages …. This was in the planning for decades
🇺🇸 The US rejects a UN-backed report that declared a famine in Gaza, breaking with other members of the UN Security Council Donald Trump is a coward and a disgrace.
The US no longer deserves a seat on the Security Council
Met4Cast “The Pacific is burning. Average global sea surface temperatures are now the second warmest on record, this is despite a weak La Nina signature. The word "unprecedented" doesn't seem enough anymore.”
This is a great result. There should have been no consequences for him but at least they didn’t jail him
'March for Australia' is not common-sense patriotism — it’s a Nazi-led mobilisation by Tom Tanuki independentaustralia.net/politics/pol...
The messaging for the 'March for Australia' rally is slippery and vague, but the organisers are just another restructure of the far-right. ~ Tom Tanuki 'March for Australia' is not common-sense patriotism — it’s a Nazi-led mobilisation independentaustralia.net/politics/pol...
#auspol #FCKNZS 'March for Australia' is not common-sense patriotism — it’s a Nazi-led mobilisation @tomtanuki.bsky.social independentaustralia.net/politics/pol...
‘Organisers claim "endless migration, weak leadership and political cowardice" have caused Australia to change "in ways most of us never agreed to".’ Ah, but when the Indigenous say this…they tell them to suck it up. The far right are a bunch of pussies www.sbs.com.au/news/article...
I’d have, too, if I was Biden. If Biden had released it, Trump would have spun it as a political attack, made up all kinds of lies to muddy the water & then it would have been buried Especially, as Trump was very vocal about it being released Much better to leave it for Trump. Much harder to spin
Cool. So they can release everything, then. Unredacted
The US negotiated with Japan with two atomic weapons and a coupe of 100,000 civilian deaths. That type of negotiation?
Trump is winning. Americans are not
🔭 Perseids from Perseus Image Credit & Copyright: Marcin Rosadziński apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap25081...
No problem, it’s great that we can help each other 👍🏻 Looks like we are going to Manitoba
Briefing done and it looks like we are heading to Manitoba in Canada to help with their fires. They don’t often burn and this year they’ve been at it for 80 days!
Heading to Sydney today for a briefing and then deploying to Canada tomorrow to help with their fires. Not sure where but Saskatchewan or Manitoba seems likely
Do we get to decide who is threat to social cohesion? Or just the Government. Cause if they’re taking suggestions, I always found Poms to be disruptive to social cohesion
#BlueCrew - Quote of the Day
A galaxy with non-smooth features, observed with the Hubble Space Telescope in the AEGIS survey. It is at redshift 0.84 (lookback time 7.24 billion years) with coordinates (214.73686, 52.66485). 138 volunteers classified this galaxy in Galaxy Zoo: Hubble.
Surely this is just a ploy to appear electable again. They don’t really believe it, do they?
Great thread
‘Quotas say women or Indigenous people or any other cohort that aren’t good enough to get a position on merit…’ Nope, quotas acknowledge that the Liberal Party is full of bigots that only think white men are smart enough to lead. But nice try! #auspol www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
It’s a clear example that the major parties are businesses rather than organisations focused on the betterment of the country. They exist solely for the jobs and power they can supply their pre-selected members
Apparently, he’s ‘speaking on behalf of “the forgotten Australians”’ All those people that have been failed by his own party, which has had power 2/3 of the last three decades? #auspol
Well, it’s where they’re at. We are in no way part of whatever this is.
For Australians who are fed up with the political duopoly, who care about the environment, and think young people are being dudded - check out this new political party. They need 1,000 more members to register as a party. It's free to sign up. www.goodparty.com.au #auspol
We shouldn’t be allied to a country that worships paedophiles
Former U.S. Green Beret Anthony Aguilar says he routinely witnessed Israeli forces (IDF) firing artillery tank rounds and mortar rounds into crowds of unarmed, starving Palestinians at GHF aid sites in Gaza.
Yep, just so terribly disappointing. I wish people could see past the duopoly
When one side decided they were cool with paedos
You’re supposed to think up the excuse for the lie before you utter it 🤷🏼♂️
David Pocock says govt needs to increase funding to aid groups, should be “calling in the ambassador” of Israel & “ratcheting up Magnitsky style sanctions on members of the IDF” “Look what we’re seeing…starving young ppl being shot. What is the threshold for more action?”💥 #Abc
The UK followed us, too. The Hills Hoist, the stump-jump plough, the black box flight recorder, wifi, and indefinite offshore detention. Quite the list
Sounds like business as usual. Either the government implements the LNP’s agenda or they will be obstructionist. Same old, same old. The LNP always has a mandate, particularly when nobody votes for them.
They’d need to be introduced to reality first
Good! They’ll need all the money they can get to live in the climate damaged world Labor is leaving for them
A barred spiral galaxy, observed with the Apache Point 2.5m Telescope in the SDSS survey. It is at redshift 0.059 (lookback time 819.8 million years) with coordinates (166.88907, 3.25517). 33 volunteers classified this galaxy in Galaxy Zoo 2.
This is why their share of the primary vote is collapsing. At every turn, they prove they are completely out of touch with modern Australia. Keep up the good work
So glad that people are starting to come to the obvious conclusions 👏🏻 www.abc.net.au/news/2025-07...
I would gladly donate to any fund set up to assist Frankston Council to stop this bloke
Everything is rosy in conservative fantasyland. Good to know. Keep up the good work 👍🏻
'...the Arctic Boreal Zone, which has sequestered more carbon in its forest soils than humans have ever released from all sources since industrialization, and this system is now aflame.' Wildfire in the Arctic, a Wildfire special issue #bushfire #wildfire issuu.com/wildfiremaga...
No Australia? I guess Scope 3 emissions aren’t counted and therefore this analysis is severely lacking…almost useless. Because the countries making money off the emissions of others are also holding us back. It doesn’t matter who emits, it all affects everyone #ClimateChange
It’s been quite something to watch MAGA supporters come to the realisation that Trump doesn’t care for them at all. Watching Trump come to realise he’s not actually a god in the eyes of MAGA is going to be next level
#Australian firefighters arrive to help battle #Saskatchewan wildfires www.ctvnews.ca/saskatoon/ar...
Santos face $6.3 billion liabilities to clean up 3 decades of environmental destruction… and some analysts say that “could underestimate the longer-term liabilities Santos faces.” All that free gas, bugger all tax ... and they’ve trashed the place. www.afr.com/companies/en...
CommBank’s $10M CEO backs a wealth tax over income tax. Housing reform too. Murdoch press buried it. Business lobby’s panicking quietly. We broke it down on The West Report. Watch here: youtu.be/EoBTNZOKw4w Support: patreon.com/thewestreport
Genocide when will it end #auspol www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/7/...
Albanese at a structure built in 1505 telling the press pack he is “literally standing on history” in China. Imagine being that guy. Approving destruction of ancient Aboriginal sites, no authentic sense of history at all, while spruiking his place in it.
"—the public was not merely dumbfounded as to the draconian nature of the plan the ASCECA unveiled, which is supposed to combat antisemitism, but this shock shifted to questions about how the PM had allowed this matter to develop so far." www.sydneycriminallawyers.com.au/blog/antisem...
Researchers in Darwin added First Nations seasonal calendars to solar irradiance forecasting and came up with some vastly improved results.
The last three years have been in the UK’s top five warmest on record, with 2024 the fourth warmest year in records dating back to 1884. Met Office scientist Mike Kendon explains why temperature and weather records are becoming more frequent in the UK 👇
Cliff collapses near Robe lighthouse as SA coastal erosion worsens www.abc.net.au/news/2025-07...
He drove past me in Kiama on Saturday arvo, and we passed the accident on the highway on our way back north. We were pretty confused as to what was going on. I’m glad they caught the psycho
“Sir, we would use them underwater”
'we’re now told that reducing greenhouse gas emissions alone will be insufficient' Nope, this has been known from the start...over a decade. You are just now paying attention. Drawdown has always been required to reach the Paris targets. #ClimateChange www.abc.net.au/religion/ipc...
The @jewishcouncilau.bsky.social has put out a very strong and well argued statement rejecting the special envoy’s antisemitism plan
Whenever I see that photo I can’t help but think hes a grown up Cabbage Patch Kid. But with less intelligence
Gas belongs in the ground
Five too many
Honestly, we are led by idiots. So, despite acknowledging that we will be badly impacted by climate change we continue to grow our fossil fuel exports. How does that make sense?
3 decades of ignoring warnings about climate change should be at the top of the list of what went wrong. Sad thing is, this won’t change anything. Many more children will need to drown before we start acting like adults
Conservatives don’t like their playbook undergoing any scrutiny. I believe Australia has to be told about the atrocious crimes the government committed because we are led by cowards like Littleproud
‘Now it’s too late….If we pass one [planetary] boundary, we should be shitting our pants. We’ve passed seven!’ Never too late, it can always get worse, but we’ve already locked in a massive amount of pain and suffering. One day it will get bad enough for action www.ipolitics.ca/2025/07/02/i...
Unless and until we hit tipping points (and who knows if we have yet or not) it’s never too late. Things can always get worse. I still have hope that we can turn this around but we’ve already locked in a massive amount of pain and suffering.
Howard cautions Liberals against gender quotas Two major political parties. One introduced quotas and has equality the other hasn’t and doesn’t - in fact is going backwards. So, listen to Howard. If you flirt with quotas you might just end up with equality #auspol www.sbs.com.au/news/article...
‘Scientists expect more extreme weather events as a result of human-induced climate change.’ Really? What a cowardly take. Scientist predicted this decades ago. The ABC largely ignored those predictions and still aren’t conveying the urgency of the situation we find ourselves in
Working as planned then. NACC is simply a way for politicians to act like they’re against corruption (by punishing public servants) while putting themselves above any scrutiny. Corruption involving politicians is an order of magnitude more serious than public service corruption.
A good article explaining the changes to the rotation axis of Earth and what causes them. blogs.egu.eu/divisions/g/...
Taylor claims gender quotas ‘subvert democratic processes’. Major parties are businesses. They maintain a system where some of their members get to live a very nice life at tax payers expense. Monkeys could get elected and the parties would still function. The last two Oppositions prove that
When the west spends money on the military it ‘peace through strength’. When China does it’s ‘a threat to world peace’. The disconnect is staggering and we are very quickly outing ourselves as the bad guys in any coming conflict.
I really like this video showing some of the 2104 asteroids found in 10 hours of data - really gives a sense of how Rubin's view of the changing sky will be different. www.youtube.com/watch?v=JrmI...
Iran has protested the illegality of the strikes, pointed out that it was already engaging in negotiations when the assault began and highlighted the absurdity of being told to de-escalate and "make peace" when it was the party attacked This should be the story the ‘good guys’ should be focused on
‘Iran has protested the illegality of the strikes, pointed out that it was already engaging in negotiations when the assault began and highlighted the absurdity of being told to de-escalate and "make peace" when it was the party attacked.’ How is this not the lead? www.abc.net.au/news/2025-06...
Major party politics is truly dead. They don’t serve us. They don’t have morals or ethics
His one job was to get Dutton elected. Failure is apparently worth $42 million
www.lowyinstitute.org/the-interpre...
When will the electorate stopping getting it wrong!? #auspol Publicising that you are completely out of touch with voters used to be a bad thing. 'I didn’t feel that way': Sussan Ley on the Coalition alienating migrants at the last election www.sbs.com.au/news/the-fee...
NACC, as it has been designed, is for public servants not politicians
Price point?
Can’t fit his massive bonce in a photo 🤣
The real question is why did they wait so long? We’ve been a carcass ripe for the picking for decades
Increase in methane emissions from fossil fuels has been underestimated. Our new PNAS paper just published today: www.pnas.org/doi/epub/10....
Their complete betrayal of their constituents will be written about for decades. At a time when they should be advocating aggressively for climate action they are deceiving them for their own benefit. Disgraceful, and Canavan is the worst
Pulling water from the air; so cool! Just like my mates at Cerveza Atrapaniebla (on the edge of the Atacama Desert, just outside La Serena in Chile) who pull water from fog and then use it to brew beer. So, so cool. www.facebook.com/atrapaniebla www.nature.com/articles/d41...
How either party can claim they are fiscally responsible is beyond me. They are willing to spend/forgo billions purely for the sake of two party politics. No amount of taxpayer money is too great to neutralise a two-party political issue The major parties aren’t for us
NSF have confirmed that the Giant Magellan Telescope will advance into its Major Facilities Final Design Phase, one of the final steps before becoming eligible for federal construction funding. #astro giantmagellan.org/2025/06/12/g...
“Any undermining of this serious and substantial alliance between our two countries should be of grave concern to all of us” Bridget McKenzie using a routine review of part of that alliance to undermine Albanese and Australia #auspol tinyurl.com/teh754b3
He saved lives? Bollocks! Covid deaths really kicked off in Australia after Morrison decided to open up for Christmas holidays in 2021. We were world’s best before that
For services to himself and his mates.
The two major parties will always protect each other because they need each other to continue the grift. They do nothing for the country and at times have open contempt for us. This award is proof of that
You forgot, reminding women that they are lucky to live in a country that doesn’t shoot them when they demand an end to violence against women. POS He even needed to lie and deceive just to become a politician. Ask Michael Towke. That episode should have disqualified him from being a politician
I think they are very different but agree with your prediction of blame shifting
At least we won’t have to listen to all the Labor die hards defending him with ‘give him time, he can’t fix everything immediately’ There will still be some, tho
If ever there was a sign that our political system exists to benefit those that work in it rather than citizens then this is it. The bloke ran away during the worst fires we ever had and tried to cover it up. He created and enforced Robodebt even tho he knew it was illegal. People died He is scum
I see she’s an adherent of Morrison’s School of Lying. And she’s gonna try to pretend that she’s not the leader of the same old LNP 🙄
It seems fitting that yet another atrocious political decision should be linked to Morrison. But I’d hoped that we would not have suffer through anymore of him
With a proper NACC he’d be in jail
Yep, I’m happy for Labor to keep pushing for this and I hope next time the question is put to the population we have effective truth in politics laws.