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[Climate Dad @ClimateDad77]

40 years of leaders ‘fixing’ the climate crisis inside growth capitalism…

[Climate Dad @ClimateDad77]

This. Is. Really. Happening.

[Dr. Ezzideen @ezzingaza]

There is no internet.
No signal. No sound. No world beyond this cage.

I walked thirty minutes through ruins and dust. Not in search of escape, but for a fragment of signal, just enough to whisper, “We are still alive.”

Not because anyone is listening,
but because to die unheard is the final death.

Gaza is silent now.
Not with peace, but with obliteration.
Not a silence of stillness, but of smothering.

They severed the last cable.
No messages leave. No images enter.
Even grief has been forbidden.

I passed the corpses of buildings, of homes, of men, some breathing, some not.
All of them erased by the same hand that erased our voices.

This is not a siege of bombs alone.
It is a siege of memory: a war against our ability to say, “We were here.”

The bombing never stopped, especially in Jabalia.
They shell the streets where children beg for food.
They shell the lines where mothers wait for flour.
They shell hunger itself.

No food. No water. No exit.
And those who try, those who reach for aid, are struck down.

People die here, and no one knows.
Not because the killing paused, but because the killing of connection succeeded.

The internet was our final breath.
It was not a luxury; it was the last evidence of our humanity.

Now it is gone.
And in the dark, they massacre without consequence.

I found this faint eSIM signal as a dying man finds a flicker of flame.
I stood beneath a broken sky, risking death, not for rescue, but to send this.

A single message.
A last resistance.

If you are reading this, remember:
we walked through fire to say it.
We were not silent.
We were silenced.

And when the cables are restored,
the truth will bleed through the wires,
and the world will know what it chose not to see.

[Purplepingers ☭ @purplepingers]

If you’re ever wondering what the commentariat is most concerned about - don’t worry, they’ll tell you x

[Doug Cameron @DougCameron51]

OMG, deregulation, red tape, the Productivity Commission, housing moved to Treasury. Neoliberalism will not solve the housing crisis. Treasury and PC bean counters are a problem not a solution. Fund public and social housing not real estate speculation. https://t.co/3QF4C4mtBq

[Ross Gittins @1RossGittins]

Rich old men fight to keep the young subsidising them https://t.co/W338LWXQ4X #ausecon #ausbiz #auspol

[Alan Kohler @AlanKohler]

Last night's @abcnews piece on the transmission cost blowout, and the need to shift the energy transition to more rooftop solar, with batteries.
https://t.co/9k36UDmEXI

[BowTiedStocks @bowtiedstocks]

When house prices go up no value is created…

Wealth is just transferred from the eventual buyer to the eventual seller

[David Pocock @DavidPocock]

Today, drilling for gas under the Barossa project off the coast of Darwin was approved

That's 274mil tones of emissions from one of the dirtiest gas projects in the 🌏

More than 100x emissions from the 🇦🇺 electricity system

Our approvals system is broken. We need urgent reform

[Dan Allison 🏕️ Cascade Camp Aug7-10 @danallison]

Scrolling social media makes it harder to read books because it trains your brain to discard previous context in order to understand the next thing, whereas understanding the next thing in a book requires retaining previous context.

[☮️💧 Sleeping Giants Oz 📣 @slpng_giants_oz]

A friend who owns a rental property, managed by a real estate agency, says she is being hounded almost monthly to raise the rent on her rental property.

Are real estate agents/ property management companies a contributing factor in higher rental prices??

#Auspol #qanda

[Max Chandler-Mather @MChandlerMather]

Jim Chalmers once said that if you're not reforming negative gearing and the capital gains tax discount then you're not doing anything about making houses affordable. He was 100% right.

[Just saying @kangaroos991]

👇 Okay, who made this? 🤣🤣🤣

[Bob Brown Foundation @BobBrownFndn]

"[The Maugean Skate's] predicament is forcing ordinary Australians to ask whether it’s right to snuff out 40m years of evolution for a salmon bagel" — Tim Flannery.
Fish farms out now! #politas #auspol
https://t.co/ATUu6htKUr

[Brenen M Wynd Ph.D. @brenenwynd]

This is not a dire wolf. They cannot do de-extinction. They can just tweak living animals to have primitive features. This company is going to make designer zoo animals. They will be isolated, lonely, and a shadow of their loving relatives. Real scientists support conservation.

[Bob Brown Foundation @BobBrownFndn]

“The old truism is taunting us all as never before: all that evil needs to flourish is for good people to do nothing.”
An essay from Bob Brown in @SatPaper on how to defeat the bully egotists ruling the world.

https://t.co/v0UOMToBHL

[Biko Konstantinos @BikoKonstantin1]

Because most people own their home in Australia, it's been easy and lazy to push policies them help them and make it harder for those who don't own property. However, the end conclusion to short sightedness is the destruction of a healthy functioning society - which is what we're seeing today.

“It’s my view John Howard did more than anyone to make housing unaffordable,” he said.

In 1999, Mr Howard cut Capital Gains Tax (CGT) by 50 per cent for individuals, after Labor had introduced the tax in 1985.

House prices surged and four years later, he was challenged in a radio interview about the property market overheating. His answer was telling.

“Anybody who owns a house is very happy that the value of that house has gone up, let’s be quite straight about that,” he said at the time. “I haven’t found anybody in seven and a half years shake their fist at me and say Howard I’m angry with you for letting the value of my house increase.

“So it is not a problem if you own a house, it is true that to get into the market in the first place it is harder if the prices continue going up.

[Bob Brown Foundation @BobBrownFndn]

PM Albanese should be doing all he can to save the Maugean Skate, not selling out its survival at the behest of huge multinational salmon companies.

Read our full release here:

https://t.co/m7tWenSOHn

[Boze Herrington, Library Owl 😴🧙‍♀️ @SketchesbyBoze]

we need to bring back words like wastrel, rogue, ruffian, ne’er-do-well. there is an epidemic of miscreants doing shenanigans and we have lost the vocabulary to describe them.

[Alan Kohler @AlanKohler]

My (22 minute) monster on housing for 7.30 on Monday, in case you missed it.
https://t.co/peqimW9cxJ