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Bruce Little @brucedlittle.bsky.social · 12h

U.S. AG Pam Bondi has basically said anyone visiting the US is subject to arrest and incarceration at any point, if law officials deem the individual a “threat”.

Bang goes the rest of the international tourism trade!

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The Australia Institute @australiainstitute.org.au · 3h

New Australia Institute research reveals that QLD has missed out on almost $400 million after Adani sold discounted coal to Indian companies.

‘It’s time Australian governments started charging for Australian resources and stopped giving them away for free.’

@rodcampbell.bsky.social #auspol

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James Murray @james-bg.bsky.social · 13h

This is the loudest alarm bell imaginable. And yet it will still be ignored.

David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 13h

The wet tropical rainforests of Queensland are now a carbon source because CO₂ emitted from trees dying and decaying outstripped the CO₂ taken up by trees growing. 😕

Australia's tropical trees emit more carbon than they absorb: study

Climate change is killing trees faster than they can be replaced leading to greater carbon emissions, according to a new study.

www.abc.net.au

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Kim Baublys @kimbaublys.bsky.social · 5h

Hey #Auspol @albomp.bsky.social

This is the way.

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Doug Parr @dougparr.bsky.social · 1d

This from the International Renewable Energy Agency is pretty mindblowing compared to a decade ago

www.irena.org/-/media/File...

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Doug Parr @dougparr.bsky.social · 1d

This from the International Renewable Energy Agency is pretty mindblowing compared to a decade ago

www.irena.org/-/media/File...

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The Australia Institute @australiainstitute.org.au · 6h

"The IMF always likes to be polite."

"It titled the October 2025 outlook 'Global Economy in Flux, Prospects Remain Dim' rather than as I would have: 'Trump remains dim, so who the hell knows what will happen'."

Chief Economist Greg Jericho in The Guardian
@grogsgamut.bsky.social #auspol

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Larissa Waters @larissawaters.bsky.social · 5h

The data is in - Labor delivering for the big end of town rather than helping people is damaging our wellbeing.

Today’s stats from AIHW should be a wake-up call for the Albanese Govt, on housing and on women’s safety. Australia again has the highest gender gap in feeling safe of 38 OECD countries.

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The Australia Institute @australiainstitute.org.au · 7h

"You’re not really holding out hope that environment laws passed with the blessing of Matt Canavan are going to really fix the problems."

"If Matt Canavan thinks they're good laws, I reckon the koalas should be nervous."

@ebonybennett.bsky.social @leanneminshull.bsky.social
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LorennaCleary.bsky.social @lorennacleary.bsky.social · 8h

She gets all the flowers. I mean ALL of them. If we see her, we immediately have to give her flowers.

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The Australia Institute @australiainstitute.org.au · 7h

"Opting to negotiate with the Coalition on the environment is opting to work with the very climate sceptics Australians just rejected."

From co-CEO Leanne Minshull in The New Daily
@leanneminshull.bsky.social #auspol

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Climate Dad @climatedad.bsky.social · 1d

My son was 1 when leaders pledged to keep warming below 1.5C.

By his 11th birthday even 2C is dead.

I’m lost for words at the scale of this betrayal.

Government told to prepare for 2C warming by 2050

The Climate Change Committee said the UK should make climate change adaptions beyond the Paris Agreement.

www.bbc.com

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Crikey @crikey.com.au · 8h

The disinformation in the anti-wind space is absolutely shameless. Today Ketan Joshi recalls two memorable times he was targeted.

How I was targeted and intimidated by information arsonists

www.crikey.com.au

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Jommy Tee @jommytee.bsky.social · 10h

Earlier this year (January 2025) Special Envoy Jillian Segal confirms the US govt lobbied and convinced the Aust Govt to get her position established.

www.c-span.org/clip/public-...

User Clip: Jillian Segal

US applies pressure on Australia to introduce Special Envoy to Combat Antisemitism.

www.c-span.org

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Eric Topol @erictopol.bsky.social · 18h

A new world record for ultra rapid whole genome sequencing and interpretation for critically ill individuals less than 4hrs! www.nejm.org/doi/full/10....

Toward Same-Day Genome Sequencing in the Critical Care Setting | NEJM

Decisions about critical care are almost always made without access to genetic information. The authors report the application of a new method of DNA sequencing in infants in a neonatal intensive c...

www.nejm.org

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Sp꩜꩜ky J ⋆｡𖦹 °✩☾⋆｡ @angrygoose.ruins.party · 17h

"You're so gullible"

No, I'm autistic and don't understand what you mean🧍‍♀️

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The Cathy Wilcox @cathywilcox.bsky.social · 13h

Welcome home.
My @smh @theage cartoon.

Single frame. Monochrome. Wasteland of rubble and detritus. Man greets woman through a door frame, the only structure in the scene.

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Rana Awdish MD @ranaawdish.bsky.social · 1d

So #medsky, the secret is out. BIG NEWS!! I am sooo very excited to share my thoughts on healing that truly honors the body’s wisdom and innate healing. I’ve learned so much in the process of writing this. I hope it can be a companion in your journey, as a healer or someone who is seeking healing ❤️‍🩹

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The Australia Institute @australiainstitute.org.au · 1d

Our governments are already caving in to pressure from the gas industry to export our domestic gas reserves.

90% of WA's gas is exported or used for export.

We don't have a gas shortage problem. We have a gas export problem.

@markogge.bsky.social #auspol

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Kim Baublys @kimbaublys.bsky.social · 1d

It's not a sigjn I've come across before...
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The Australia Institute @australiainstitute.org.au · 1d

In 2010, the Aus and QLD governments allowed a handful of multinational gas giants to begin massive exports of our gas — a decision that's making Australians poorer today.

‘Our gas prices tripled, then tripled again...electricity prices doubled as well.’

@markogge.bsky.social #auspol

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 1d

It’s amazing how all the reporting is just memory-holing this part

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Scripps Institution of Oceanography @scrippsocean.bsky.social · 2d

🌱🌋 A greenhouse experiment led by Scripps Oceanography & @unigreifswald.bsky.social has uncovered a powerful new way volcanoes give life to the Earth: volcanic ash can triple plant productivity by transforming the microbiome, reshaping entire soil ecosystems. Dig in: scripps.ucsd.edu/news/volcani...

Volcanic Ash Supercharges Plant Growth and Rebuilds Soil Life

A collaboration between scientists at UC San Diego’s Scripps Institution of Oceanography and the University of Greifswald in Germany has uncovered a powerful new way volcanoes give life to the Earth: ...

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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 2d

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Celeste Headlee @celesteheadlee.bsky.social · 1d

He came to drink tea and own shit posters, and he's all out of tea.

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Climate Dad @climatedad.bsky.social · 3d

The homes of a quarter of the animals that live in our oceans. Gone forever.

We should grieve & know that these tipping points are gonna fall like dominoes.

Now is not the time for ‘carrying on as normal’.

All our homes are at risk.

Planet’s first catastrophic climate tipping point reached, report says, with coral reefs facing ‘widespread dieback’

Unless global heating is reduced to 1.2C ‘as fast as possible’, warm water coral reefs will not remain ‘at any meaningful scale’, a report by 160 scientists from 23 countries warns

www.theguardian.com

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