Anne-Maree Gray

Photo shows young white woman in a white tan top with from the river to the sea in black all caps text. She’s flanked by security or police Text of X screenshot: An 18-year-old woman in Queensland faces two years in jail for wearing a shirt that says "from the river to the sea." In Australia, you can bankroll mass murder and sleep fine. But wear a shirt that says "from the river to the sea"?Two years in prison.

I was told that a bombing campaign is needed to free her from a fascist government that controls what women can wear.

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Food prices could rise as Iran conflict disrupts fertilizer supply chain The Iran conflict is disrupting fertilizer shipments through the Strait of Hormuz, raising supply concerns and potentially increasing global food inflation.

I know the interagency planning process is slow & cumbersome, but it’s really important to have all the stakeholders at the table so they can flag stuff like this:

“Over 1/3 of global fertilizer trade moves through the Strait of Hormuz and disruptions are hitting during the spring planting season.”

The House of Commons tried to exclude the children of aliens born in the realm from being counted as English, about three decades before Calvin's Case, in 1580.

The bill failed in the Lords.

LOVE that movie!

After a series of fatal strikes involving civilians in Iraq and Afghanistan, Congress directed the Pentagon to reduce civilian casualties as part of a 2019 law. During the Biden administration, the Defense Department created the Civilian Harm Mitigation and Response initiative. The civilian mitigation teams – cut by 90% by Hegseth – work with military commanders on target planning, and making sure that targets are actually military sites. The teams help come up with "no strike" lists, including religious and cultural sites and schools

I knew that the Department of War shot a missile into a school & killed 175 civilians, mostly children.

This is learned today:

Secretary of War Hegseth had cut the teams assigned to prevent such tragedies by 90%.
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Here we go again.

Reminder that the CEO of Nike routinely tries to rig Oregon's gubernatorial elections to get Republicans elected.

ICE Rams Vehicle and Hospitalizes the Same U.S. Citizen Again in Ventura County ~ L.A. TACO "I expect this kind of lawlessness from ICE, I don’t expect the hospitals to be complicit in that lawlessness and detain people," says Thomas Harvey, one of Leonardo Martinez's lawyers, after the hosp...

What a shocking story, great local news coverage, and inspiring work all around. This is what it looks like when people (and lawyers) fight back for a more just society. lataco.com/ice-rams-veh...

FFS America

Australian governments subsidising fossil fuel use by more than $30,000 a minute, analysis finds Australia Institute data finds state and federal subsidies for coal, gas and oil products increased 10% in past year, growing at a faster pace than funding to NDIS

Subsidies to mining companies growing faster than the NDIS, child care, aged care.

Australian gov fossil fuel subsidies now at $30,000 every minute of every day.

Great piece on @australiainstitute.org.au latest research

www.theguardian.com/environment/...

I am constantly ANNOYED by the Audible app that will NOT LET me tell it I do not want this book - like I can do for most other titles in the three dot menu.

Stop shoving it in my face, Audible.

“Having a single seedling come up in a 16-metre plot would mark that area as regenerated and good to go,”

“You can see the absurdity of it when you step back and imagine what the forest was like before it was logged.

“No sane person could think that’s regenerated.”

- Dr Kita Ashman

Grammarly Is Facing a Class Action Lawsuit Over Its AI ‘Expert Review’ Feature The feature, which Grammarly shut down Wednesday, presented editing suggestions as if they came from established authors and academics—without their consent.

I'm suing Grammarly over its paid AI feature that presented editing suggestions as if they came from me - and many other writers and journalists - without consent.

State law requires consent before someone's name can be used for commercial purposes.

www.wired.com/story/gramma...

Cool!

"People used to be excited about tech, now they dread what data you're going to steal next, they dread what violation of privacy or the environment will turn up next."

this whole missive will make you want to stand on your desk and yell "O CAPTAIN, MY CAPTAIN!," but that bit really got me good

Hereditary peers to lose their seats in the House of Lords Upper chamber accepts final draft of bill, which offers life peerages to some of those who would otherwise be removed Hereditary peerages will be abolished before the next king’s speech after a deal was struck granting life peerages to some Conservatives and cross-benchers losing their seats. On Tuesday evening the upper chamber accepted a final draft of the House of Lords (hereditary peers) bill, marking the end of its passage through parliament and clearing the way for it to be added to the statute book. Continue reading...

Hereditary peers to lose their seats in the House of Lords

it's not 'collective self defence' if the US attacked them first.

"Fifteen cops to arrest one girl." An 18yo woman was arrested for wearing a singlet with a banned phrase. Another man was arrested for speaking the phrase outside Queensland parliament. Premier David Crisafulli's criminalisation of speech will now be tested in court. #qldpol

Larissa Waters asks Penny Wong if Australia is “at war”
Wong “we are engaged in collective self defence…”
Waters “Point of order on relevance, are we at war?”
Wong “I responded by being clear that we are engaged in collective self defence…”
Is that a yes? 🤔 #auspol

Death toll from Israeli attacks on Lebanon rises to 570, health ministry says <article data-history-node-id="435405" about="https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/death-toll-israeli-attacks-lebanon-rises-570-health-ministry-says" class="live-blog-update default clearfix"> <h2> <a href="https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/death-toll-israeli-attacks-lebanon-rises-570-health-ministry-says" rel="bookmark"> <span class="field field-title">Death toll from Israeli attacks on Lebanon rises to 570, health ministry says</span> </a> </h2> <div class="content"> <div class="field field-field-text"><p>Israeli strikes have killed 570 people in Lebanon since the Middle East war spread to the country on 2 March, the health ministry said on Wednesday.</p> <p>The ministry provided a demographic breakdown of those killed, reporting that 439 of them were men, 45 women, and 86 children.</p> <p>The toll includes 14 healthcare workers, the ministry said.</p> </div> </div> </article>

Death toll from Israeli attacks on Lebanon rises to 570, health ministry says - https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/death-toll-israeli-attacks-lebanon-rises-570-health-ministry-says

A nine panel comic strip following two figures as they traverse a barren and desolate landscape - their journey takes them through ruins and abandoned structures of a former civilisation - we realise that this was once our world and the destruction is the result of a massive global war - we also learn that these ruins and wastelands are the home and country of the victors in the war! The strip is titled Deadsun.

DEADSUN

“We need more Australian humour, more Australian jokes…”

Dr Hussam Abu Saffiya, Albina his wife and small child in a vehicle. Man in foreground, woman in pink and little face of the child

This is a picture of Dr Hussam Abu Saffiya his wife Albina - and probably their child from some years ago, he looks younger. Israel have held him in prison since December 2024, no charge nor trial. Just another injustice committed by Israel on top so, so much..

Prison guards discussed cover-up of Epstein’s death, inmate tells FBI One officer said: “Dudes, you killed that dude.”

Julie Brown is an absolutely stellar reporter. Brave, stubborn dedication to the truth of what happened to Epstein survivors and to report other aspects of this story. A real-deal local and investigative reporter. www.miamiherald.com/news/local/c...

Why We Must Fight to Stop HR 7661 Before It Destroys the Lives of American Children Lately I’ve been calling my House rep and screaming about one zillion things, and maybe you have too. But today I want to talk about one thing in particular you should add to your list: H.R. 7661 i…

How a bill targeting trans literature could ban all LGBTQ+ books from American public schools (and why you should care).

Great. So if you write to BlueSky support about a violation of your intellectual property, they reply telling you to contact another email address, which replies telling you to contact BlueSky support.

NASA's next X-ray mission, AXIS, has been killed The path to exploring the high-energy Universe was clear and compelling. Here's how 2025's cuts are still causing NASA casualties in 2026.

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NASA’s next X-ray mission, AXIS, has been killed
The path to exploring the high-energy Universe was clear and compelling. Here's how 2025's cuts are still causing NASA casualties in 2026.

ECCC was fun and I had a wonderful time.

But there was a storm cloud. When I complained about Trump with my white straight cis friends, we were all sincere and concerned.

But I talked with many Trans friends, and it’s so much worse. They are in fear for their lives.

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It will be historically significant that the Albanese government decided to spend its enormous political capital not on addressing systemic inequality but on mindless fealty to the demands of the United States and Israel. That is how it'll be remembered.

Trying to get my head around the Anti-Corruption Commission's argument that a corruption hearing of a former prime minister is somehow not in the public interest