Nicky Sharman

[Ronni🧂Salt-WhoWroteGunnawahYeahThatOne @RonniSalt]

This should make every one of us very, very afraid

It's not enough in Australia that we have a small, minority group forcing a distorted reality on us, we also now need to know some of those same powerful, well organised people are looking to own facts and information

[stranger @strangerous10]

Deb O’Neill unloads on ASIC’s Sarah Court for continuing to let PwC & KPMG “run ASIC round & round” at taxpayer expense after Court says it’ll be hard to investigate KPMG’s latest tender-rigging scandal coz they hire expensive lawyers
“It’s an outrageous proposition”🔥 #auspol

[Misinformation Fact Checker. @MisinfoFact]

Senate Estimates: Hanson has been absent for 88% of Senate estimate hearing days over the past decade. She attended at least one hearing on just 28 out of 239 total hearing days since returning to parliament in 2016.

#auspol

[Kos Samaras @KosSamaras]

The 5 million Angus Taylor thinks don’t vote and the millions in their households who do.

Angus Taylor thinks he’s punishing non-citizens. They can’t vote, so it’s a free hit. That’s the entire logic. But it’s a logic only someone who has never lived in the big cities would consider.

In the suburbs that decide elections, the household, not the individual, is the political unit. Three generations under one roof or in the same suburb.

Grandparents on partner visas. Parents holding PR while the citizenship queue grinds on. Citizen kids enrolled to vote, working part-time, doing the family’s Services Australia paperwork at the kitchen table.

Strip the NDIS from a permanent resident and you have not touched a single voter directly. You have touched their daughter. Their son. Their citizen niece. And they vote, very deliberately, for the people in their family who cannot.

This is exactly the structural shape of post-war migrant Australia. Greek, Italian, Maltese, Lebanese, Vietnamese households where the citizen children voted for the whole family. It is alive and well, three generations on, in the outer suburbs the Coalition needs to win government.

Taylor has told every one of those households that in his Australia, their parents are second-class.

He thinks he’s chasing Hanson voters in Farrer. He’s actually handing Labor a permanent structural lock on the seats that decide who governs. And he has possibly committed his party to losing opposition status at the next election.

Full piece and analysis below

[Dr Tom Montgomery @DrTOMontgomery]

#Birds

What do you think about this?

British-owned beef giant CPC has been granted a permit to poison and kill 20,000 native galahs and little corellas at one of their vast cattle stations in the NT, Australia.

In its permit application, CPC admits its practices created the problem: “grain production, on-site storage, and cattle feeding have provided an artificial food source.”

Ornithologist Dr Lilleyman was "shocked" to learn of the NT government's decision to grant the permit.
She said that Birdlife Australia is concerned about the potential for secondary poisoning of non-target species occurring close to "an internationally significant wetland".

CPC has ten cattle stations on about 9 million acres. They supply cattle and beef to Asian markets, domestic feedlots and processors, and export live cattle.

The company is owned by Guy and Julia Hands through the Hands Family Office. They live in Guernsey after leaving England to avoid UK tax.

CPC has also applied for massive water licenses for irrigation projects to grow grain sorghum and other crops which will inevitably attract even more birds.

So what happens then? Even wider-scale poisoning of native wildlife?

[Nicky Sharman @NickySharmn]

Paris. Low rise so abundant sunlight and now greening up. Smart.

[Massimo @Rainmaker1973]

Paris has removed the paving from its city hall square and transformed it into an urban forest.

[TheRealThelmaJohnson @TheRealThelmaJ1]

The new Banksy sculpture in London is brilliant

[Nicky Sharman @NickySharmn]

Im sure it is clear to most that loss of jobs to AI means loss of consumers with capacity to consume. This university study, peer reviewed, is an excellent read.

[Elias Al @iam_elias1]

Two economists just published a mathematical proof that AI will destroy the economy.

Not might. Not could. Will — if nothing changes.

The paper is called "The AI Layoff Trap." Published March 2, 2026. Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania. Boston University. Peer reviewed. Mathematically modeled.
The conclusion is one sentence.
"At the limit, firms automate their way to boundless productivity and zero demand."

An economy that produces everything. And sells it to nobody.
Here is how you get there.
A company fires 500 workers and replaces them with AI. A competitor fires 700 to keep up. Another fires 1,000. Every company is behaving rationally. Every company is following the incentives correctly. And every company is building a trap for itself.

Because the workers who were fired were also customers.
When they lose their jobs faster than the economy can absorb them, they stop spending. Consumer demand falls. Companies respond by cutting costs — which means automating more workers — which means less spending — which means more falling demand — which means more automation.

The loop has no natural exit.
The researchers tested every proposed solution. Universal basic income. Capital income taxes. Worker equity participation. Upskilling programs. Corporate coordination agreements.
Every single one failed in the model.
The only intervention that worked: a Pigouvian automation tax — a per-task levy charged every time a company replaces a human with AI, forcing them to price in the demand they are destroying before they pull the trigger.

No government has implemented this. No major economy is seriously discussing it.
Meanwhile the numbers are already tracking the curve. 100,000 tech workers laid off in 2025. 92,000 more in the first months of 2026. Jack Dorsey fired half of Block's workforce and said publicly: "Within the next year, the majority of companies will reach the same conclusion."
Nobody is doing anything wrong. Companies are following their incentives perfectly. That is exactly the problem.

Rational behavior. At scale. Simultaneously. With no mechanism to stop it.
Two economists built the math. The math leads to one place.

Source: Falk & Tsoukalas · Wharton School + Boston University ·
https://t.co/4m8E9jQNYm

[Rep. Mike Levin @RepMikeLevin]

This should be on the front page of every newspaper in America.

A Syrian billionaire needed U.S. sanctions lifted so he could cash in on $12 billion in reconstruction contracts.

In an attempt to influence American foreign policy, he proposed a Trump-branded golf course, cut Jared Kushner & Ivanka Trump into a multibillion-dollar real estate deal for a resort in Albania, and had someone physically deliver a stone engraved with the Trump family crest to a Republican Member of Congress with instructions to take it to the White House to get the President's attention.

Trump threw his weight behind repealing the sanctions. They were lifted. The contracts are moving, the Trump family’s deals are expanding, and not a single Washington Republican is willing to say a word about any of it.

This is a corruption of everything the office of the presidency is supposed to stand for, and the American people deserve to know about it.
https://t.co/A4lQE3ktoG

[Jan Rosenow @janrosenow]

Denmark's coal-to-wind transition is one of the most dramatic energy transformations of the past three decades.

In 1990, coal provided 90% of Danish electricity. Today it is under 3%.

Wind now covers roughly 60% of electricity generation.

[The News Agents @TheNewsAgents]

'Man of God' Pete Hegseth tries to quote the bible - ends up quoting a fake verse from Pulp Fiction.

"He would have got away with it if it hadn’t been for all those people who, unfortunately, had seen Pulp Fiction."

@maitlis | @jonsopel

[M Fella 🇺🇦🇬🇪🇺🇸 @agazeblank]

@TBC_on_X

[TBC @TBC_on_X]

Has anyone else been seeing these Dr. Trump ads nonstop on TV or is it just me?

[Gregory Andrews @LyrebirdDream]

In the middle of a global fuel crisis I’ve got 93% battery and 415 km of driving in the tank - powered by rooftop solar.

No petrol station. No oil shock. No drama.

This is what real energy security looks like.

#EV #RooftopSolar #EnergySecurity #ClimateAction

[Boston Smalls @smalls2672]

FBI document that says Epstein introduced Melania to Trump.

[Gandalv @Microinteracti1]

Piers Morgan, a man not historically known for self-restraint, has just detonated a very large bomb directly underneath the White House’s victory parade.

His conclusion is not subtle. Iran still controls the Strait of Hormuz. The Pentagon burned through thirty billion dollars achieving approximately nothing. And Trump’s approval ratings are now doing what all truly expensive things eventually do: falling apart faster than expected.

This is the kind of post-war assessment that nobody in a MAGA hat is going to enjoy reading. The historic victory, it turns out, was historic mainly in the sense that the gap between the announcement and the collapse was unusually short.
Thirty billion dollars. Iran still has the Strait. The ratings are down. If this is winning, one hesitates to imagine what losing looks like.​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​

Stay connected,
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[Sentletse 🇿🇦🇷🇺🇵🇸🇱🇧 @Sentletse]

Iran’s delegation to the Islamabad Talks is made up of four men with doctorates:

- Dr. Ghalibaf (Speaker of Parliament)
- Dr. Araghchi (Foreign Minister)
- Dr. Ahmadian (Secretary of the Defense Council)
- Dr. Hemmati (Central Bank Governor)

The US delegation is made up JD Vance, a failed author, Steve Witkoff, Trump’s gold buddy and Jared Kushner, Trump’s son-in-law. None of them have the technical range to negotiate complex nuclear issues.

[stranger @strangerous10]

Chris Bowen fires back, schools & embarrasses Anti-renewables journo on importance of Renewables during a crisis & for refusing to let other journos ask questions
“Solar energy has to travel 150 mill km from the sun, it doesn’t have to travel the 150km of the Strait of Hormuz”🔥

[Furkan Gözükara @FurkanGozukara]

Absolute disaster for the Pentagon. Professor John Mearsheimer confirms the US Navy is utterly terrified to enter the Strait of Hormuz because Iranian missiles will easily sink them. He reveals 13 US bases are heavily damaged and Trump's ground forces are completely useless.

[Ryan Rozbiani @RyanRozbiani]

🇮🇷 NEW Lego Style Music Video from Iran via Uknown Studios

Titled: Fake Peace

"The Art of the Steal"