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Lilly @lillyull.bsky.social · 6h

It's all so familiar and so unsurprising.

Many details remain buried in Australia’s rare earths deal with America www.crikey.com.au/2025/10/23/c...

Many details remain buried in Australia's rare earths deal with America

There are no memorandums of understanding, no published timelines for major new projects, and very few clear commitments on who invests how much, in what and by when.

www.crikey.com.au

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Julie @goodgreengirl.bsky.social · 5h

Australia's PM has decided to give away the nation's assets & cuddle closer to fill the void left by sensible govts distancing themselves from a mad dictator.

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Jen Rubin @jenrubin.bsky.social · 7h

Here they are- donors for destruction of WH

The Contrarian @contrariannews.org · 12h

UPDATE: More donors funding the demolition of the East Wing for Trump's $250M ballroom have been identified

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BarnyGazaNegger 🍉🇵🇸 @bar-ny.bsky.social · 7h

The arrest of UK Dr Rahmeh (a Palestinian), 2 days before her medical tribunal, is shocking.

This is how far the UK has fallen under Likud Labour. It completely serves the interests of Isitreal & puts the British people last.

Free speech to criticize the zi0s is non existent.
#FreePalestine 🇵🇸

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David Milner @davemilbo.bsky.social · 7h

Here's me. '“People aren’t buying their shit anymore”: They think they can make you forget what you’ve seen'

“People aren't buying their shit anymore”: They think they can make you forget what you’ve seen - The Shot

Like colours, neurodivergence and political ideology, being a dickhead operates on a spectrum. From narcissistic middle managers, to people that...

theshot.net.au

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Amy Remeikis @amyremeikis.bsky.social · 7h

Sensible? That's the giants of The Rocks, Eureka

www.thenewdaily.com.au/opinion/2025...

'Sensible' centre? Tell that to the giants of The Rocks and Eureka

We've had decades of sanitising radical progressive action in Australia, to make successes seem as if they were just the sensible position.

www.thenewdaily.com.au

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Julie @goodgreengirl.bsky.social · 6h

This all reminds me of the schloss Neuschwanstein folly built by the 'mad King Ludwig' of Bavaria. I wonder if he's a relative? Or just a fan?

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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 22h

New 'state of climate action' report gives you a much better picture than daily headlines about contextless solar panel or EV sales

- Most things are going in the right direction

- Most things are badly off track to the pace of change required

systemschangelab.org/state-climat...

Share of electric vehicles in light-duty vehicle
sales (%)
Share of electric vehicles in the light-duty
vehicle fleet (%)
Reforestation (total Mha)
GHG emissions intensity of soil fertilization
(gCO2
e/1,000 kcal)
Ruminant meat productivity (kg/ha)
1.8x Global private climate finance (trillion US$/yr) d
Share of zero-carbon sources in electricity
generation (%)
Share of solar and wind in electricity
generation (%)
Share of coal in electricity generation (%)
Share of unabated fossil gas in electricity
generation (%)
Carbon intensity of electricity generation
(gCO2/kWh)
Energy intensity of building operations (kWh/m2
)
Carbon intensity of building operations (kgCO2
/m2
)
Share of electricity in the industry sector's final
energy demand (%)
Carbon intensity of global cement production
(kgCO2/t cement)
Share of new buildings that are zero-carbon
in operation (%)
WRONG DIRECTION, U-TURN NEEDED
INSUFFICIENT DATA
RIGHT DIRECTION, OFF TRACK
RIGHT DIRECTION, WELL OFF TRACK
1.2x
1.6x
7x
4x
N/A Green hydrogen production (Mt) b,d
Share of sustainable aviation fuels in global
aviation fuel supply (%) N/Ab,d
Share of electric vehicles in bus sales (%)
N/Ab
N/Ab,d
1.8x
5x U-turn needed Mangrove loss (ha/yr) d
Number of kilometers of rapid transit per
1 million inhabitants (km/1M inhabitants) 5x
N/Ab,d
Share of electric vehicles in medium- and
heavy-duty commercial vehicle sales (%) N/Ab,d
Share of kilometers traveled by
passenger cars (% of passenger-km)
Carbon intensity of global steel
production (kgCO2/t crude steel)
U-turn needed
U-turn needed Share of food production lost (%)
U-turn needed Public fossil fuel finance (trillion US$/yr) d
Ins. data
Ins. data Peatland degradation (Mha/yr)
Ins. data Peatland restoration (total Mha)
Ins. data Food waste (kg/capita)

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The Cathy Wilcox @cathywilcox.bsky.social · 1d

I really think I should get my tomorrow's cartoon out there today, while it's fresh.

Ballroomocracy. My @smh/@theage cartoon.

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Kent Parkstreet, Laird of Doofus @kentparkskeet.bsky.social · 2d

Signing a deal with the bloke who broke our previous free trade deal?

Seems legit.

Our culture abounds in stories of doing deals with the devil and the costs to our integrity and dignity.

But it should be fine this time.

Right?

#AusPol

US and Australia sign rare earths deal to counter China's dominance

The US and Australia agreed to a framework that includes investments in projects to expand mining and processing of rare earth and critical minerals.

www.bbc.com

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Ann Aguirre @annaguirre.bsky.social · 2d

No image has ever spoken so succinctly about the current situation in the US.

The white house, a gaping wound in the east wing. It looks like a ruin or a mound of garbage

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Dr Sally @drsally.bsky.social · 2d

Am I alone in feeling unhappy about this?

Crikey @crikey.com.au · 2d

Anthony Albanese has finally met with Donald Trump, with the pair signing a critical minerals deal (although not before the US president got in a dig at Kevin Rudd).

Trump and Albanese sign critical minerals deal, Kevin Rudd humiliated

Anthony Albanese has finally met with Donald Trump, with the pair signing a critical minerals deal (although not before the US president got in a dig at Kevin Rudd).

www.crikey.com.au

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Julie @goodgreengirl.bsky.social · 2d

Watching that uncouth man belittle a former, highly educated Prime Minister while his sycophants giggled & guffawed made me furious. One of those giggling was our PM - who should have instead supported his Ambassador. Instead he was continuing on his merry path of signing over our assets. Shameful!

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Professor Euan Ritchie @euanritchie.bsky.social · 2d

Seriously?!

It was actually your own party and Anthony Albanese that scuttled the EPBC reforms last time around, to appease your W.A. Labor colleagues and mining interests!

And now you're asking us to lobby to pass legislation we haven't even seen the details of?!

www.linkedin.com/posts/murray...

We need your help to deliver a new Federal Environmental Protection Agency that enforces the law and protects our incredible natural environment. Tell the Senate to pass the EPA:… | Murray Watt | 11...

We need your help to deliver a new Federal Environmental Protection Agency that enforces the law and protects our incredible natural environment. Tell the Senate to pass the EPA: https://alp.org.au/...

www.linkedin.com

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Jenny Frecklington-Jones #IStandWithWatermelon🍉🍉 @joneshowdareyou.bsky.social · 4d

In rare moment of honesty, Donald Trump owns up to shitting all over America.

Yashar Ali 🐘 @yasharali.bsky.social · 4d

The President of the United States has posted an AI video of himself unloading tons of raw sewage on American cities.

One of the targets in the AI video is Harry Sisson.

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David Milner @davemilbo.bsky.social · 3d

My career to this point is very much a case of "fuck it, someone needs to 🤷‍♂️"

jamesicameron.bsky.social @jamesicameron.bsky.social · 3d

It boggles my mind that you've taken up this role David (been following your writing since you used to write on videogames), that because our journalism institutions have failed us so badly, people like yourself are stepping up to the role with a mentality of 'I guess I'll do the journalism myself'.

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Selwyn Davis @selwyndavis.bsky.social · 3d

#auspol when Australians voted for Labor, they assumed they would get a left wing, progressive party with socialist ideals. You know, like a workers party. Like a Labor party. What we got was a more media savvy version of the LNP.

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Karl Jacoby @karl-jacoby.bsky.social · 4d

Proud papa moment: my son J published a letter in the @nytimes.com today (in print tomorrow) on the need to think our definitions of autism.

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Seth Abramson @sethabramson.bsky.social · 4d

I know Donald Trump is a pathological liar, malignant narcissistic sociopath, racist, antisemite, misogynist, xenophobe, homophobe, transphobe, hater of our troops and believer in euthanizing folks with disabilities, but we too often forget that he's *also* an adjudicated rapist and convicted felon.

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Julie @goodgreengirl.bsky.social · 4d

Only an obsequious sycophant would do that Senator. Surely we wouldn't have those in Australian parliament?

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Senator David Shoebridge @davidshoebridge.bsky.social · 4d

Millions of Americans are marching against Trump today. I sure hope no leader from Australia is about to pop over and bend the knee to him, offer him tribute and fawning adoration, maybe some of our resources and real estate for US military bases. Surely that won’t happen.

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Simon Rosenberg @simonrosenberg.bsky.social · 4d

Hey @australia.theguardian.com - you forgot to mention what and who might be *causing* this excessive heat.

And the vastly inadequate response from our fossil-fueled politicians. #ClimateCrisis #auspol

www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

October heat records could tumble in multiple states as hot weather sweeps east through central Australia

Unusually high temperatures in the low to mid 40s to hit parts of NSW, Queensland and SA, the Bureau of Meteorology predicts

www.theguardian.com

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Jenny Frecklington-Jones #IStandWithWatermelon🍉🍉 @joneshowdareyou.bsky.social · 4d

"From glacial outbursts in Alaska, to dying coral reefs in the tropics, to tree die-back in the Amazon and the imminent collapse of the North Atlantic circulation, humans are soon to cross into an uncharted world of devastating shocks and consequences."
johnmenadue.com/post/2025/10...

Tipping, tipping, tipping... the dominoes fall

Dying reefs, shrinking icesheets, withering forests and collapsing currents are the latest symptoms of an Earth system enduring dangerous trauma, according to the Global Tipping Points Report 2025.

johnmenadue.com

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Jenny Frecklington-Jones #IStandWithWatermelon🍉🍉 @joneshowdareyou.bsky.social · 4d

A few short hours ago, 7 children and 3 women were murdered by Israel when an IOF tank fired on a Palestinian family as they tried to return home in Gaza.

Did you find this news "extraordinarily moving," @senatorwong.bsky.social? Is this the "pause" that induced you to fawn over Trump? #auspol

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