@coupdegraz7.bsky.social
Mostly re-tweeting in agreement ≠ endorsements. Against bigotry, racism & any kind of brutality.
“There’s a sense in which we’re all still on a slave ship.” Bayo Akomolafe
“Hope Needs a Place to Perch”
#BillionairesShouldNotExist
“There’s a sense in which we’re all still on a slave ship.” Bayo Akomolafe
“Hope Needs a Place to Perch”
#BillionairesShouldNotExist
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From Liberal Imperialism to Traditional Imperialism. Discussing Trump's kidnapping of Maduro and its repercussions with Glenn Diesen www.youtube.com/watch?v=OQ39...
Yanis Varoufakis: From Liberal Wars to Traditional Imperialism
YouTube video by Glenn Diesen
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January 6, 2026 at 1:05 PM
From Liberal Imperialism to Traditional Imperialism. Discussing Trump's kidnapping of Maduro and its repercussions with Glenn Diesen www.youtube.com/watch?v=OQ39...
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In today’s Venezuela Special of The Econoclasts, Wolfgang & I discuss the abduction of Nicolás Maduro, the dawn of a ‘Donroe Doctrine’ - with European leaders achieving non-entity status as Trump strategically 'floods the zone' unherd.com/watch-listen...
Maduro, oil, and Trump’s next target
In today’s Venezuela special, Yanis Varoufakis and Wolfgang Munchau expose the reality behind the abduction of Nicolás Maduro and the dawn of a ‘Donroe Doctrine’ that signals the end of international ...
unherd.com
January 7, 2026 at 8:39 AM
In today’s Venezuela Special of The Econoclasts, Wolfgang & I discuss the abduction of Nicolás Maduro, the dawn of a ‘Donroe Doctrine’ - with European leaders achieving non-entity status as Trump strategically 'floods the zone' unherd.com/watch-listen...
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The United States has no checks and balances. The SCOTUS is corrupt, our congress is useless and Republicans are too cowardly to do their jobs.
We have committed war crimes and violated international laws under the Trump administration.
It’s pure insanity. We’re no longer a super power, we suck.
We have committed war crimes and violated international laws under the Trump administration.
It’s pure insanity. We’re no longer a super power, we suck.
January 5, 2026 at 9:18 AM
The United States has no checks and balances. The SCOTUS is corrupt, our congress is useless and Republicans are too cowardly to do their jobs.
We have committed war crimes and violated international laws under the Trump administration.
It’s pure insanity. We’re no longer a super power, we suck.
We have committed war crimes and violated international laws under the Trump administration.
It’s pure insanity. We’re no longer a super power, we suck.
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Irish MP Thomas Gould—
"I hope Netanyahu burns in hell. Shame on Israel; this will never be forgotten." #GazaGenocide #GazaHolocaust
"I hope Netanyahu burns in hell. Shame on Israel; this will never be forgotten." #GazaGenocide #GazaHolocaust
January 7, 2026 at 3:13 AM
Irish MP Thomas Gould—
"I hope Netanyahu burns in hell. Shame on Israel; this will never be forgotten." #GazaGenocide #GazaHolocaust
"I hope Netanyahu burns in hell. Shame on Israel; this will never be forgotten." #GazaGenocide #GazaHolocaust
“The global impact of activism on the Central Coast was recently highlighted by South Korea’s decision to phase out coal use by 2040. This would likely have been impossible had Korean-owned mines . . . not been stopped by strong community opposition."
Read more: thepoint.com.au/news/260107-...
Read more: thepoint.com.au/news/260107-...
January 7, 2026 at 9:06 AM
Why is the gas industry notorious for paying so little tax, despite making billions in revenue?
Listen to the full episode of Dollars & Sense here, or wherever you listen to podcasts ⤵️ https://australiainstitute.org.au/post/housing-affordability-to-get-worse-as-big-corporates-do-annual-tax-magic/
Listen to the full episode of Dollars & Sense here, or wherever you listen to podcasts ⤵️ https://australiainstitute.org.au/post/housing-affordability-to-get-worse-as-big-corporates-do-annual-tax-magic/
January 7, 2026 at 9:05 AM
"PALMed Off is a special four-part series of Follow the Money exploring the Pacific Australia Labour Mobility (PALM) scheme, an Australian Govt guestworker program that could be putting people from nine #PacificIsland nations & #Timor-Leste at risk of modern slavery.” #auspol #PALM #modernslavery
Leeton has become a safe haven for some of the thousands who have ‘disengaged’ from the Pacific Australia Labour Mobility scheme.
@mhharrington.bsky.social asks why some make the difficult decision to walk away from their employer & speaks to local residents trying to help.
🎧 theaus.in/4q6Z78D
@mhharrington.bsky.social asks why some make the difficult decision to walk away from their employer & speaks to local residents trying to help.
🎧 theaus.in/4q6Z78D
January 7, 2026 at 9:03 AM
"PALMed Off is a special four-part series of Follow the Money exploring the Pacific Australia Labour Mobility (PALM) scheme, an Australian Govt guestworker program that could be putting people from nine #PacificIsland nations & #Timor-Leste at risk of modern slavery.” #auspol #PALM #modernslavery
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Best of 2025: The State of Israel, organs of that state, or just its defenders, have fallen into the habit of labelling anyone who they see as supporting the Palestinian cause as terrorists. But what defines a terrorist? #auspol #Israelpalestine #terrorism
Best of 2025 - Best of 2025 - Who is a terrorist?
Since 7 October 2023 there has been a growth of the use of the allegation of terrorism for propaganda purposes.
johnmenadue.com
January 6, 2026 at 10:31 PM
Best of 2025: The State of Israel, organs of that state, or just its defenders, have fallen into the habit of labelling anyone who they see as supporting the Palestinian cause as terrorists. But what defines a terrorist? #auspol #Israelpalestine #terrorism
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Best of 2025: Albanese’s sliding doors moment: lock in a strong climate target, lock in trust with the Pacific, lock in COP31, and unlock Australia’s place as a renewables superpower. #auspol #COP31 #pacificnations
Best of 2025 - Albanese’s sliding doors moment on climate
Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has just been handed an unflinching mirror at the Pacific Islands Forum.
johnmenadue.com
January 6, 2026 at 10:46 PM
Best of 2025: Albanese’s sliding doors moment: lock in a strong climate target, lock in trust with the Pacific, lock in COP31, and unlock Australia’s place as a renewables superpower. #auspol #COP31 #pacificnations
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Best of 2025: As the movement grows, there are some in the shadows peddling websites that have constructed various pseudo-law arguments for them – for a price of course, making things tougher at the bench. #auspol #sovereigncitizens
Best of 2025 - Courts brace for next wave of 'sovereign citizens'
When I wrote about the “Cavalcade of the Cretinous” in February 2022, I thought the anti-vaccination early incarnations of “sovereign citizens” were just a hopeless joke (“Summernats without the sophistication”) that would quietly go away.
johnmenadue.com
January 6, 2026 at 11:01 PM
Best of 2025: As the movement grows, there are some in the shadows peddling websites that have constructed various pseudo-law arguments for them – for a price of course, making things tougher at the bench. #auspol #sovereigncitizens
"In contrast to the general stability of income inequality, the inequality in the distribution of household wealth has continued to increase, and the extent of that inequality is also much greater.” #wealthdistribution #incomeinequality #housingaffordability
#auspol
#auspol
Best of 2025: What are the threats to intergenerational equity in terms of the distribution of income and wealth, and how far is tax reform relevant to ensuring future equity for today’s young people? #auspol #taxreform
Best of 2025 - Intergenerational equity and tax reform
Much of the discussion about the need for tax reform to preserve intergenerational equity is confused. The main challenges facing young people, in particular, are the limitations on the supply of housing and climate change.
johnmenadue.com
January 7, 2026 at 8:55 AM
"In contrast to the general stability of income inequality, the inequality in the distribution of household wealth has continued to increase, and the extent of that inequality is also much greater.” #wealthdistribution #incomeinequality #housingaffordability
#auspol
#auspol
"The Bill establishes a #voluntaryscheme allowing #employers with unpaid levy liabilities 2 enter payment arrgmt of up to 6 yrs, with the final 20% of hist debts waived once 80% is paid.
This effectively rewards employers for systemat failing to pay workers the #LSL entitlements." #auspol #CoalLSL
This effectively rewards employers for systemat failing to pay workers the #LSL entitlements." #auspol #CoalLSL
Following @sstephanietrann.bsky.social coal fraud investigation, govt bill to stop companies robbing workers' (LSL) leave pay. But the small print shows ... it's voluntary!
#auspol #unions
michaelwest.com.au/government-t...
#auspol #unions
michaelwest.com.au/government-t...
Government to coal giants: pay your workers' entitlements if you like - Michael West
The Government's bill addressing historical underpayments of coal industry workers has serious shortfalls and may not work as intended.
michaelwest.com.au
January 7, 2026 at 8:46 AM
"The Bill establishes a #voluntaryscheme allowing #employers with unpaid levy liabilities 2 enter payment arrgmt of up to 6 yrs, with the final 20% of hist debts waived once 80% is paid.
This effectively rewards employers for systemat failing to pay workers the #LSL entitlements." #auspol #CoalLSL
This effectively rewards employers for systemat failing to pay workers the #LSL entitlements." #auspol #CoalLSL
"A seventeen-year-old Naveed Akram [Bondi killer] stood outside Bankstown train station, preaching".
That was 2019. Part 2 investigation into Bondi attacks, ISIS cell links, Wakeley attack #auspol
michaelwest.com.au/isis-links-b...
That was 2019. Part 2 investigation into Bondi attacks, ISIS cell links, Wakeley attack #auspol
michaelwest.com.au/isis-links-b...
ISIS links behind Bondi killers point everywhere but Gaza - Michael West
While the NSW police have yet to make any statements about the surviving Bondi killer, Naveed Akram, his links to ISIS abound.
michaelwest.com.au
January 7, 2026 at 8:37 AM
The Trump AUKUS protests are coming. Govt secretly earmarks $200m for anti-US Protest Force to guard US and UK interests in oz. @joshbarnettmw.bsky.social on @mrrexpatrick.bsky.social FOI scoop
youtu.be/HverWMzaiGY?...
youtu.be/HverWMzaiGY?...
Australia’s New AUKUS Protest Police | The West Report
YouTube video by The West Report
youtu.be
January 7, 2026 at 8:36 AM
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How in the godforsaken fuck do we live in a world where deviants on Twitter can tell Grok to remove women’s and children’s clothing and neither Grok’s inventors nor those deviants are then charged with serious sexual crimes?
#NewsCorpse
#NewsCorpse
January 7, 2026 at 2:24 AM
How in the godforsaken fuck do we live in a world where deviants on Twitter can tell Grok to remove women’s and children’s clothing and neither Grok’s inventors nor those deviants are then charged with serious sexual crimes?
#NewsCorpse
#NewsCorpse
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Quoting two professors of environmental laws at UCLA, the authors write that the US needs to bring online two 400MW of solar facilities a week for the next 30 years. The authors quote these academics as saying each of these would take up 2000 acres. This is taken at face value.
January 6, 2026 at 8:33 AM
Quoting two professors of environmental laws at UCLA, the authors write that the US needs to bring online two 400MW of solar facilities a week for the next 30 years. The authors quote these academics as saying each of these would take up 2000 acres. This is taken at face value.
There's also an assumption that solar must be built like coal fired power plants when it can be distributed. You can spread solar distribution over existing rooftops, carports, balcony's and combined them with grazing land to provide cover for livestock.
You could do more of this if you regulate.
You could do more of this if you regulate.
January 7, 2026 at 8:32 AM
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Much of the books attractiveness seems to come from articulating a vision of what the world could and possibly should be. This is frequently missing from politics - the problem is that the sci-fi future it is fascinated with the promise of technologies like AI, nuclear and vertical farming.
January 6, 2026 at 8:33 AM
Much of the books attractiveness seems to come from articulating a vision of what the world could and possibly should be. This is frequently missing from politics - the problem is that the sci-fi future it is fascinated with the promise of technologies like AI, nuclear and vertical farming.
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It takes these technologies at face value. For example, here's a guy busting four myths about vertical farming. The first myth is that vertical farming will dominate:
"Whilst vertical farming uses land efficiently [...] it cannot compete with the sheer scale of food production required globally."
"Whilst vertical farming uses land efficiently [...] it cannot compete with the sheer scale of food production required globally."
Four myths about vertical farming debunked by an expert
Vertical farming - growing plants without soil in huge controlled environments - has huge potential to support traditional agriculture but won’t ever replace it.
theconversation.com
January 6, 2026 at 8:33 AM
It takes these technologies at face value. For example, here's a guy busting four myths about vertical farming. The first myth is that vertical farming will dominate:
"Whilst vertical farming uses land efficiently [...] it cannot compete with the sheer scale of food production required globally."
"Whilst vertical farming uses land efficiently [...] it cannot compete with the sheer scale of food production required globally."
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The authors spend a long time asking why the US can't build high speed rail or enough houses any more and why productivity is falling. Their prescription is libertarian: regulations and NIMBYs. It scans like a rant in a pub, complete with China comparisons, but at times it verges on the absurd.
January 6, 2026 at 8:33 AM
The authors spend a long time asking why the US can't build high speed rail or enough houses any more and why productivity is falling. Their prescription is libertarian: regulations and NIMBYs. It scans like a rant in a pub, complete with China comparisons, but at times it verges on the absurd.
The Anglosphere does have a rail cost problem, but it’s not low regulation jurisdictions whipping our fat car dependent arses
humantransit.org/2020/12/why-...
humantransit.org/2020/12/why-...
Why Are US Rail Projects So Expensive? — Human Transit
We’ve known for a long time that the US pays more than most other wealthy countries to build rapid transit lines, and especially for tunneling. If the incoming Biden administration wants to invest mo...
humantransit.org
January 7, 2026 at 8:31 AM
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If I recall they do cite that figure for the cost of construction but the reason is not properly explained. There's an anecdote about Klein hanging out with rail engineers talking about the paperwork and consultation requirements on the project they are working on as proof its all regulations.
January 7, 2026 at 2:52 AM
If I recall they do cite that figure for the cost of construction but the reason is not properly explained. There's an anecdote about Klein hanging out with rail engineers talking about the paperwork and consultation requirements on the project they are working on as proof its all regulations.
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We need systemic change, not just individual change - BUT a lot of resistance to systemic change is built on the belief that individuals don't care & won't change.
Individual action can be a good start for creating social momentum and maybe getting involved in campaigning against airport expansion!
Individual action can be a good start for creating social momentum and maybe getting involved in campaigning against airport expansion!
#FlightFree2026 is now LIVE!
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Could 2026 be your year to go flight free? Sign up today! flightfree.co.uk#take-the-cha...
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Could 2026 be your year to go flight free? Sign up today! flightfree.co.uk#take-the-cha...
Flight Free 2026 is now live!
YouTube video by Flight Free UK
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January 6, 2026 at 11:21 AM
We need systemic change, not just individual change - BUT a lot of resistance to systemic change is built on the belief that individuals don't care & won't change.
Individual action can be a good start for creating social momentum and maybe getting involved in campaigning against airport expansion!
Individual action can be a good start for creating social momentum and maybe getting involved in campaigning against airport expansion!
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E-bikes and bicycles are often thought of together. A new study now questions this, as electric bikes very often replace cars in everyday life.
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Further, steeper, greener: Implications from an electric bicycle mode choice model
Electric bicycles are transforming the active mobility landscape, potentially increasing active mode uptake and delivering environmental and health benefits. This study examines electric bicycle mo...
www.tandfonline.com
January 6, 2026 at 1:09 PM
E-bikes and bicycles are often thought of together. A new study now questions this, as electric bikes very often replace cars in everyday life.
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
New research from our group: A pervasive increase in tree mortality across the Australian continent - driven by rising temperatures
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Pervasive increase in tree mortality across the Australian continent
Nature Plants - Eight decades of forest plot monitoring show a pervasive increase in tree mortality across Australia’s forest biomes driven by climate change, jeopardizing their role as...
rdcu.be
January 7, 2026 at 8:26 AM