Georgina

[Canberra Things @ThingsCanberra]

A grizzled looking roo with his back to evening sun - Jerrabomberra Wetlands

[Elaine McKay @ElaineM11584892]

Two more leukaemia drugs now on the PBS. How wonderful. From $7000 to $25.

[Josh Bornstein @JoshBBornstein]

Modelling shows 90% of young Australians will be better off under Labor’s tax reforms https://t.co/ZUTw5VGzvI

[Caitlin Johnstone @caitoz]

They are building a UFC arena
on the White House lawn,
because the world has gone insane,
and there are chatbots in our skulls,
and our eyes have been crossed out
with black ink.

They are building a UFC arena
on the White House lawn
so the president can watch men fight in a cage
while the Paramount Plus audience
watches military recruitment ads
marketed to teenagers
and a podcast plutocrat
interviews men with bloody hands
as shame-soaked survivors
sleep on the sidewalk
in Washington DC,

as Cuban parents light a candle
and skip another meal,

as Lebanese medics
die in double-tap airstrikes,

as billionaires cackle
about stripping all human knowledge
and selling it back to us
as a subscription service,

as we shovel fistfuls of mood stabilizers
down our gullets
to keep us functional enough
to turn the gears of industry,

as we sit in dark rooms
with flashing screens and dead eyes
while silverfish crawl all over us,

as women hold loaded pistols
to their heads on camera
to pleasure men who have concrete
in their chests,

as The Last Good Thing on the Internet
gets purchased by Google
and turned into military software
where it will be used
to train weaponized robot dogs
to rape prisoners in IDF torture camps,

as forgotten godlings awaken within us
to sharpen our teeth and our blades,

as Nature returns
wearing a necklace of wet skulls
to reclaim all that was stolen from Her,

as the blood on the Octagon canvas
mixes
with the blood of the Muslim martyrs.

They are building a UFC arena
on the White House lawn
so the president can watch men fight in a cage
from the comfort of his home
on his birthday.

He does not know
about the strange beasts
stirring with in us.

He does not know
about the sharpening blades.

[Brent Terhune in Cincinnatti July 11 @BrentTerhune]

Correspondents’ Dinner Eyewitness

[Brent Terhune in Cincinnatti July 11 @BrentTerhune]

The people that are already making jokes are disgusting. We need to come together and buy a T-shirt to commemorate this moment available at my website right now for only $29.95.

[Mark Kenny @markgkenny.bsky.social @markgkenny]

Utter disgrace.

[The Last Squatch @TheLastSquatch]

FUN FACT: Michelle Obama and Jill Biden never had to hold a press conference to deny being part of a sex trafficking ring.

[David Sharaz @SharazDavid]

You don’t have to call him “former Liberal staffer” anymore.

Rapist will do.

[Ronni🧂Salt-WhoWroteGunnawahYeahThatOne @RonniSalt]

Liam Bartlett's CV. . . . . 'nuff said

(It doesn't include his career highlight of palling around with, and interviewing adjudicated rapist, Bruce Lehrmann)

[Rex Patrick @MrRexPatrick]

@thaussiimmi If we cancel AUKUS, we will not get US submarines. If we don’t cancel AUKUS, we will not get US submarines.

[sarah @sahouraxo]

BREAKING:

Israel is wiping out entire civilian homes in the village of Taybeh in South Lebanon — a village that stood for over 7,000 years.

Not a battlefield.
Not a military base.

Homes.

An ancient village erased in real time.

[- Cass @Cassandrasl99]

You can't paint a murial or wear a t-shirt in Qld without being arrested for saying from the "riva to the see"

But this maniac says it's acceptable to hang Palenstians !!!

Fuck this shit.

[James Tate @JamesTate121]

I miss boring Joe Biden who had a great cabinet and just did his job.

[David Caldicott @ACTINOSProject]

Israel's parliament has passed a law today authorising the death penalty - exclusively for Palestinians.

There are over 9,300 Palestinians in Israeli detention.

Executions will be carried out by hanging.

Do @AlboMP & @SenatorWong consider this an appropriate intervention?

[Kos Samaras @KosSamaras]

This is why the UK Greens are succeeding. And it’s a lesson the Australian Greens need to learn.

Meet Mothin Ali. Deputy Leader of the Green Party of England and Wales. Son of a Bangladeshi immigrant who came to the UK in the 1960s and worked as a unionised steelworker in Sheffield. Mothin grew up in that world, the world of shift work, union solidarity and communities holding each other together. He’s now a Leeds councillor in Gipton and Harehills, one of England’s most deprived wards, where 40% of residents are Muslim and the cost of living is a daily crisis.

He’s not the stereotype of a working-class northerner. But his family has been in those communities just as long as anyone. His father worked the same steel. Paid into the same union. Felt the same deindustrialisation tear through the same streets. Mothin Ali is working-class Britain, as it actually exists in 2026, not as a sepia photograph. We could say the same about the working class in Australia in 2026.

That’s what the UK Greens under Zack Polanski have understood. Working-class communities are diverse. They always were. But they share the same material reality: rents going up, wages going nowhere, streets hollowed out, and a political class that stopped listening decades ago. The UK Greens are speaking to that shared experience, in English, Urdu and Bangla, and putting leaders who come from it at the front of the room.

Now contrast that with the Australian Greens.

The Australian Greens remain culturally anchored to the inner city. Fitzroy. Newtown. University-educated, professionally progressive, and genuinely well-meaning but culturally legible only to a narrow demographic slice. When they go to the outer suburbs, the places actually doing it hardest, they have historically struggled.

The difference isn’t ideology. Both parties want economic justice. The difference is who is seen to speak for working people and where those people feel the party actually comes from.

Mothin Ali spent decades in one of England’s toughest communities before he ever stood for office. That matters more than some appreciate.

https://t.co/QXIQDeTB2i

[Aaron Bastani @AaronBastani]

Superb political ad. One of the best you’ll see.

This is better, and resonates more, than anything coming from Labour or the Tories.

[Iran News 24 @IRanMediaco]

BREAKING:

Iran national football team holds tiny backpacks in tribute to slain Minab schoolgirls

During the national anthem before kickoff vs Nigeria

[Robert Barwick @RobbieBarwick]

Not so fast.

It's time you & your neoliberal accomplices owned up to stripping Australia of all sovereign capability.

YOU sold Australia's national shipping line in 1998; YOU boasted in 2000 we aren't a "shipper" nation.

Now we're fully reliant on foreign shippers.

Apologise.

[EVERALD COMPTON @EVERALDATLARGE]

Report says last 11 years have been hottest in recorded history of #climate. Deniers will find fault with it but fact is we should be fighting global warming not wars.
Latest world climate report grim, but it’s not end of the story https://t.co/ZeNEbzuppc via @ConversationEDU