Think this one through. Beautiful olive trees that grow and mature and serve as the livelihoods of families. People who think they are righteous and devoted to an all-seeing god, burn them down. And it happens again and again and again.
I know it’s become pretty cliche and cringey to talk about at this point but if you’re under like 25 I cannot stress enough how one time Obama wore a tan suit and people spent a week arguing over whether or not it was demeaning to the Oval Office and they were serious about it.
AstraZeneca's decision to withdraw this drug from the PBS will affect 1000's of women in Australia living with endo & breast cancer.
They say it's a "commercial decision" but are leaving the higher dose used for prostate cancer as is.
I asked questions at Estimates yesterday on behalf of Canberrans who had contacted me, worried about what their treatment looks like in the future.
I urge AZ to front up and explain what's happening - women with breast cancer deserve transparency here.
https://t.co/Ik0FCb8EBp
Israel continues its attacks on Lebanon and Palestine because the US and its allies like the Labor Government are allowing them to.
Israeli fighter jets require Australian made parts to drop its bombs. As long as the Albanese Government allows these exports it is part of the war
Betore Rome, there was Carthage. Before Carthage, there was Tyre.
Israel is currently demolishing Tyre—a city more than 5,000 years old and a UNESCO World Heritage Site.
Hard to believe I’m even writing this.
Meteorological summer hasn’t even begun, yet Paris, France has already logged more days above 32°C (89.6°F) than its annual average.
🚨 NEW: UN report details rape, gang rape and genital violence against Palestinian detainees by Israeli forces
The UN Secretary-General’s report submitted to the Security Council verifies 31 victims of sexual violence linked to Israeli forces in 2025 — against 14 men, seven women, nine children and one girl — across detention facilities in Gaza and the West Bank, according to Haaretz, which said it had reviewed the report.
Key Details:
🔸“Violations consisted of rape, including with objects, gang rape, attempted rape, physical violence to the genitals, instances of targeted shooting of the genitals, touching of breasts and genitals, strip and cavity searches conducted without apparent security justification, forced nudity and threats of rape,” the report said.
🔸 9 victims, most of them Gaza residents, were subjected to rape and gang rape — in some cases repeatedly. Men and boys were allegedly subjected to rape or attempted rape and violence to the genitals, “resulting in five male victims suffering severe rectal bleeding or swelling for multiple days or weeks and, in some cases, without receiving medical treatment.”
🔸 The report named the IDF, Israeli Prison Service and Border Police Counter Terrorism Unit as responsible. Facilities cited include Sde Teiman, Etzion, and prisons Megiddo, Ofer, Ramla, HaSharon, Shatta, Nafha and Damon.
🔸 The UN said its findings likely reflect only part of a broader pattern, citing Israel’s continued denial of access to detention facilities and explicit threats against detainees to coerce them not to report abuse.
🔗 Full report below.
I'm a meteorologist. Let me kill this one personally.
Weather and climate are different math problems.
Weather is chaos... tiny errors blow up, so we top out around 10 days. Climate is statistics... the boundaries of the system under known physics.
I can't tell you if it'll rain in Boston three Tuesdays from now. I can tell you July will beat January every single year. One is a coin flip. The other is knowing 1,000 flips land near 500.
And "a degree or two is nothing"? The last ice age, a mile of ice over Chicago, was only ~6°C colder than today. We're ~1.4°C warmer in 170 years. That's not modest. That's geologically violent.
The physics doesn't care about your wind turbine aesthetics.
Israel’s land-grab in Lebanon. 81 towns demolished & now evacuation of major cities: Tyre & Nabatieh. 3,200 Lebanese dead, over 1,000,000 displaced.
Why is the world silent? Don’t Lebanese lives matter? Why can Israel act w/impunity?
https://t.co/nUo9eA6WXq
35°C in London. 7 dead in France. A ball girl nearly collapsed at Roland Garros. It's May.
The UK broke its spring temperature record. Climate Shift Index for London: 5, the maximum. A Nature study found heatwaves are 200× more likely now. Fossil fuel companies caused half the intensity increase. 95% of UK homes have no AC. They were built for a climate that no longer exists. Full breakdown on Substack:
https://t.co/8v3O7DD8LJ
#UKHeatwave #RolandGarros #ClimateChange #ExtremeHeat #ClimateScience
I genuinely don’t think people understand how insane this is.
In just 50 years, we’ve wiped out around 70% of animal populations on Earth.
Not hundreds of years ago.
Not ancient history.
In one lifetime.
Entire species disappearing.
Forests going silent.
Oceans being emptied.
And somehow the world treats it like just another statistic instead of a full-blown emergency.
That should scare all of us a lot more than it does.
One Day Of Extreme Heat Causes 3,400 Excess Deaths Across India
With temperatures touching 48°C (118 F) in Rajasthan, India is facing intense heatwaves driven by climate change
People are dying in these oven like temperatures
Food crops are being devastated
https://t.co/y9sLtxQvfy
BREAKING:
Israel is dropping white phosphorus bombs on civilian areas in the village of Arnoun, Nabatieh, South Lebanon.
These are internationally banned munitions — and Israel is unleashing them against civilians.
Current CO2 is 425 ppm. Not 300. The “optimal 2,000 ppm” you’re pining for was the Cambrian… 500 million years before humans, when the sun was 4% dimmer and Arizona was underwater. 45 elections won, zero atmospheric science classes attended.
Large parts of India have been approaching “feels like” temps near 50°C. Some coastal regions may reach ~33°C wet-bulb. At 35°C wet-bulb, heat and humidity overwhelm the human body’s ability to cool itself. Survival becomes measured in hours, especially for the elderly & infants
I'm not even 30 years old yet (barely) and I recall that when I was a child, 30° was something we'd get for maybe a few days in mid-August, with anything near 33° being considered newsworthy
31° in May... what have we done to this planet, man