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Blair Palese

@blairpalese.bsky.social
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Dir of Philanthropy @Ethinvest, Founder, Aus @ClimateCapitalForum, contributor @ClimateCapMedia. Interested in climate, solving the crisis & building a strong global democracy.

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Blair Palese @blairpalese.bsky.social · 1h
ICYMI… why? #auspol www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
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The US now has access to more than half Australia’s military bases – could it drag the country unwillingly into war?
Exclusive: US-controlled weapons corporations and forces have control or access to more than 100 facilities across the continent, which some analysts describe as a ‘colonisation’ of Australia’s milita...
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Anthony Klan @anthonyklan.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
🚨The Coalition's "MAGA arm" – billionaire-funded disinformation group Advance – has banned media from a public event featuring Senator Bridget McKenzie. Major questions for Coalition, follows One Nation's bans. Gina Rinehart biggest funder of both... theklaxon.com.au/gmvn
theklaxon.com.au
Coalition's “MAGA arm” bans media - The Klaxon
Media has been barred from a “public” event featuring National Party Senate leader Bridget McKenzie hosted by far-right lobby group Advance.
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Blair Palese @blairpalese.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Interesting read! #climate www.abc.net.au/news/2026-10...
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Unintended consequences of war in Iran are helping the climate
The Iran war is turbocharging global electrification. But experts say the global grid needs to roughly double in size, as infrastructure bottlenecks prevent a clean energy revolution.
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Blair Palese @blairpalese.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Say what???? #auspol www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
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Million-dollar public servants: 11 staff at Australia’s Future Fund paid significantly more than the PM
One executive received a $1.5m package last year, while 10 other staff received remuneration exceeding $1m each
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UCLA Emmett Institute @uclalawemmett.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
UCLA’s STOP Methane Project publishes reports and user-friendly rankings of top methane emitters in various sectors thanks to the satellite data of Carbon Mapper. Our ability to do this work is about to get a rocket boost. Literally. 🚀🛰️ stopmethane.substack.com/p/new-era-of...
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New Era of Methane Data Launches This Week
Here’s how to watch the scheduled Oct. 1 launch of the Tanager-2 satellite, which will provide “double the data.”
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Daily Kos @dailykos.com · 30/09/2026
Americans’ belief in press freedom just hit a record low. www.dailykos.com/stories/2026...
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Trump’s war on the media is backfiring
Trump’s war on the First Amendment has sent public confidence in press freedom to a new low.
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#TuckFrump @realtuckfrumper.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Norway Opens Extraordinary Public Hearings Into Elite’s Jeffrey Epstein Ties #HuffingtonPost
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Norway Opens Extraordinary Public Hearings Into Elite’s Jeffrey Epstein Ties
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Blair Palese @blairpalese.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
@ChrisMinns we just watched 10s of thousands die from heat exposure & 🔥 this n hemisphere summer & Nepalese communities devastated by flooding. Are you fucking kidding me? Responsibility to stop this #climate disaster is on you federal govt - What’s it going to be? A livable future or $? #auspol
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Blair Palese @blairpalese.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Bastards - I’d boycott but since I refuse to go anyway (Sydney… some of the best coffee on the world made by independent cafe owners!). Get lost @starbucks! @sbworkersunited.org
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Blair Palese @blairpalese.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Two years late and only because of the social media furore! #notallmen??? abcnews.com/US/district-...
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District attorney reopens case of alleged Cornell University 'gang rape'
Prosecutors in central New York say they are reopening the case of alleged gang rape at a Cornell University fraternity.
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Senator David Shoebridge @davidshoebridge.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Still so little information from the Albanese Government over what data they are planning to hand over to Trump. Every level of this Government is just addicted to secrecy. This agreement will cover our information, surely the public should know about negotiations.
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Blair Palese @blairpalese.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Meanwhile -#climatecrisis
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Blair Palese @blairpalese.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Meanwhile… #climatecrisis
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Blair Palese @blairpalese.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Funny that… #notallmen, no, but enough for these to be deadly times for women everywhere in the world!
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Blair Palese @blairpalese.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Not all men…but it does seem like an ever growing number of men #raping women and getting away with it eh @cornelluniversity.bsky.social?
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
On this day in 1994, the Clinton administration's heathcare reform plan was declared "dead" by Congress. Over 30 years later, the US is still the only industrialized country without universal healthcare. This should be a national outrage.
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Blair Palese @blairpalese.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Looking at Aust hitting 80% clean #renewableenergy in the grid & 1/2 a million #EVs on the rd w/ a super El Niño summer coming & screaming #COAL & #GAS is the very definition of stupid! #auspol #liberals reneweconomy.com.au/coalition-vo...
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"Dumb and desperate:" Coalition panned after vowing to scrap renewable, EV and climate policies
Federal Coalition vows to detonate most of Australia's efforts to decarbonise "within 30 days" of winning power, including the advance of renewables and the emissions-curbing policy it introduced.
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Blair Palese @blairpalese.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
You don’t have to dig too deep to see the Trumpian destructive play book at every turn! #auspol www.abc.net.au/news/2026-09...
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'Insidious money grab': Aspiring candidates slam One Nation processes
Former One Nation candidates reveal they’re walking away from the party after witnessing its operations behind closed doors.
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ClimateHope @climatehope.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
A really important analysis if you are interested in China's energy and climate plans for the next 5 years. interactive.carbonbrief.org/china-plan-t...
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Interactive: What China’s dozens of ‘five-year plans’ say about climate and energy
Almost three-quarters of the 72 five-year plans published by China this year include policies or targets related to climate change and energy, according to Carbon Brief analysis.
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Sister Bernadette OMalley @srbernadetteom.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
look forward to AI hacking the unredacted #Epstein Files www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
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AI hack of Medicare exposes Australia’s vulnerabilities and experts warn ‘there is more of this to come’
Council on AI Strategy chief says incident unlikely to be isolated and country should enhance capability to detect and report incidents
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Renew Economy @reneweconomy.com.au · 25/09/2026
Network’s revamped community power trial aims to turn surplus commercial solar into lower bills for 32,000 customers across entire neighbourhoods reneweconomy.com.au/network-bets-it…
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Network bets its own money on filling commercial roofs with solar and storing it in community batteries
Network's revamped community power trial aims to turn surplus commercial solar into lower bills for 32,000 customers across entire neighbourhoods.
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David Marler @qldaah.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
From 2017. James Ashby was recorded on how One Nation could make money out of the Queensland state election that year by doubling the price of candidate packages on invoices to be claimed back from the Electoral Commission of Queensland. #auspol www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
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One Nation: James Ashby says 'make some money' quote taken out of context
One Nation adviser says suggestion One Nation ‘make some money’ from invoices to the electoral commission was him brainstorming
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Blair Palese @blairpalese.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Looking at Aust hitting 80% clean #renewableenergy in the grid & 1/2 a million #EVs on the rd w/ a super El Niño summer coming & screaming #COAL & #GAS is the very definition of stupid! #auspol #liberals reneweconomy.com.au/coalition-vo...
reneweconomy.com.au
"Dumb and desperate:" Coalition panned after vowing to scrap renewable, EV and climate policies
Federal Coalition vows to detonate most of Australia's efforts to decarbonise "within 30 days" of winning power, including the advance of renewables and the emissions-curbing policy it introduced.
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Miriam Cosic @miriamcosic.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
'Climate campaigner Bill McKibben says that while it's too late to prevent the climate crisis from unfolding, solar and wind energy are now cheap enough "to blunt its worst excesses."' @democracynow on Instagram
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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 23/09/2026
In @nytopinion.nytimes.com It is not too late for radical rethinking before a full-blown A.I.-driven crisis, our columnist @thomaslfriedman.bsky.social writes. “I’d rather be remembered as the boy who cried wolf when the wolf never came than as someone who got eaten by it.”
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Opinion | A.I.: Let’s Not Have Another Failure of Imagination
It’s not too late to avoid the potential disasters of A.I. Covid-19 and 9/11 taught us how to prepare.
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Blair Palese @blairpalese.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
"Aust is doing our part at home & with our partners" is hard to stomach at @climateweeknyc.bsky.social given your gov's 37 new & expanded #fossilfuel project approvals since taking office @albomp.bsky.social? That's doing nothing but giving in to #coal & #gas vested interests in a #climatecrisis
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Blair Palese @blairpalese.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Definitely important to cuff someone after you’ve shot them in the back! Jeezus America… when does the rein of terror end?
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Blair Palese @blairpalese.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Today's great news - Aust hits 80% #renewableenergy in grid for the first time. @chrisbowenmp.bsky.social @reneweconomy.com.a reneweconomy.com.au/renewables-h...
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Renewables hit more than 80 pct of grid demand for first time - despite heavy throttling of wind and solar
Updated: Renewables met more than 80 per cent of total grid demand for first time over a weekend that also saw record levels of rooftop PV and new demand lows.
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Blair Palese @blairpalese.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Not sure Albo would know “bravery in #climate action” if it hit him on the head! “Biggest #coal project lines up for approval as Albanese calls for "bravery" in climate action” #auspol reneweconomy.com.au/biggest-coal...
reneweconomy.com.au
Biggest coal project lines up for approval as Albanese calls for "bravery" in climate action
As the PM calls for climate "bravery" at a global summit in New York, NSW regulators prepare to sign off on a major new coal mine extension described as a "carbon bomb."
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Blair Palese @blairpalese.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Today's great news - Aust hits 80% #renewableenergy in grid for the first time. @chrisbowenmp.bsky.social @reneweconomy.com.a reneweconomy.com.au/renewables-h...
reneweconomy.com.au
Renewables hit more than 80 pct of grid demand for first time - despite heavy throttling of wind and solar
Updated: Renewables met more than 80 per cent of total grid demand for first time over a weekend that also saw record levels of rooftop PV and new demand lows.
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Blair Palese @blairpalese.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Not sure Albo would know “bravery in #climate action” if it hit him on the head! “Biggest #coal project lines up for approval as Albanese calls for "bravery" in climate action” #auspol reneweconomy.com.au/biggest-coal...
reneweconomy.com.au
Biggest coal project lines up for approval as Albanese calls for "bravery" in climate action
As the PM calls for climate "bravery" at a global summit in New York, NSW regulators prepare to sign off on a major new coal mine extension described as a "carbon bomb."
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CNN @cnn.com · 21/09/2026
The three national news outlets President Donald Trump banned from the White House — CNN, MS NOW, and Politico — filed a critical First Amendment lawsuit to restore their access. CNN's Katelyn Polantz reports. cnn.it/4AIp7NB
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Blair Palese @blairpalese.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Definitely important to cuff someone after you’ve shot them in the back! Jeezus America… when does the rein of terror end?
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Blair Palese @blairpalese.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Having to reality ck the SMH headlines lately...Brethren leader backs Hanson, building #nucear bombs & last wk - Nazis support Hansen's One Nation??? - madness. #auspol www.smh.com.au/politics/fed...
smh.com.au
‘More power to redheads’: Brethren leader backs Hanson, building nuclear bombs
In a speech praising Hanson, the Exclusive Brethren leader also told his flock Australia should use its uranium to “build a few bombs”.
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Nick Feik @nickfeik.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
As his government approves its 37th new fossil fuel project
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No avoiding the cost of inaction on climate, Anthony Albanese says in New York
Before United Nations meeting, prime minister says Australians knows the impact of global heating as well as anyone
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Scott Dworkin @dworkin.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Trump ordered West Point to muzzle its civilian professors and demand ideological obedience. How veteran law professor Tim Bakken fought back in federal court and just killed the regime's gag order permanently: www.dworkinsubstack.com/p/eight-wins...
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Elseagee 🟧 🌊 🌊 🌊🎨 🎸 @elseagee.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
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Denise Difficult-Shrivell @deniseshrivell.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Alan Kohler today on failure to curb global warming... "One of the key reasons for that failure has been the cynical opposition & denial by Rupert Murdoch & his media companies in order to make money, which has meant that the issue became a totem of right-wing politics" #auspol
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Blair Palese @blairpalese.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Where is the nat’l leadership? “1 in 4 women have experienced physical or sexual violence from an intimate partner since age 15 - ABS data 2023…The 2021 Aust Child Maltreatment Study found higher proportions of intimate partner violence aged 16-24 (48%) & 25-44 (51%)” www.sbs.com.au/news/article...
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A 'child bride' divorced at 20: Meet Australia's youngest divorcees
These Australians got married and divorced young — their reasons why are eerily similar.
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Blair Palese @blairpalese.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
???!!!! womensagenda.com.au/latest/eds-b...
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One Nation’s plan to make Australian women poorer in retirement
One Nation’s latest plan to make women poorer comes in the form of a new policy proposal that would enable millions of Australians to access superannuation early.
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Nick Feik @nickfeik.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
It’s not enough that they get paid a million a year and are completely unaccountable - now they also want to be protected from criticism. Rightio.
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Australia’s top bureaucrats want to block sharing of clips from parliament on social media to save them from ‘ridicule’
Secretaries board concerned material posted without proper context as Greens warn ban could result in lack of transparency
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Blair Palese @blairpalese.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
An excellent read. Tk you Simon Copeland. simoncopland.substack.com/p/no-the-fem...
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No, the ‘feminisation’ of schools is not to blame for the rise of the Manosphere
And having more male teachers will not solve the problem either.
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Paul Marvin @paulmarvin.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
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Blair Palese @blairpalese.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Anyone other than Albo & Marles ok with this? www.theguardian.com/global/video...
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US military presence in Australia, mapped – video
Do American weapons and military in every corner of the Australian continent make Australians safer – or less safe?
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stranger @strangerous.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
David Littleproud has lashed out against Labor’s stronger gun laws claiming the “animals” of Bondi could’ve used “a bomb, a car”🤔 Newsflash, David, bombs & vehicle-murder are also illegal. Especially rich given the laws have explicit exemptions for rural workers/farmers.
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Blair Palese @blairpalese.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Disturbing is an understatement - our democracies are under siege by far right billionaires bent on destroying them a country at a time! @theguardian.com www.theguardian.com/world/2026/s...
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Germany’s far-right AfD thanks Elon Musk as France warns state election win a ‘serious moment’
Lead candidate in Saxony-Anhalt welcomes further ‘strong’ cooperation with Musk as French minister says ‘we cannot forget our history’
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Emily Johnston @enjohnston.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
Serious people focus on the THEORETICAL harms, not the ACTUAL harms. I mean, who cares about a burning planet if a "rogue" statistics program does more or less what it was designed to do, with unanticipated consequences because some fools were in a damned rush to build the ultimate category killer?
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Blair Palese @blairpalese.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Not surprisingly, #exremeweather and #fires starting very early this year! Displaying a more appropriate news image than people having a glorious time surfing at the beach AAP. Really? We're still doing that? #climatechange @aapfactcheck.bsky.social aapnews.aap.com.au/news/fire-an...
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Blair Palese @blairpalese.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Which is it @albomp.bsky.social - celebrating massive #gas expansion or committing to save the homelands of the Pacific neighbours you just met with? Can’t have it both ways. #climate #auspol www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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Albanese’s resources minister celebrating the Beetaloo carbon bomb is a hell of a choice. Labor can’t say it wasn’t warned | Clear Air
Scientists will be able to estimate the amount of heating and destruction caused by the gas ultimately drawn from the Beetaloo
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Blair Palese @blairpalese.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Labor… still trying to have it both ways on #climatechange. Is it any wonder voters are fed up Anthony Albanese? #auspol #beetaloo #gas #fossilfuels www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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Albanese’s resources minister celebrating the Beetaloo carbon bomb is a hell of a choice. Labor can’t say it wasn’t warned | Clear Air
Scientists will be able to estimate the amount of heating and destruction caused by the gas ultimately drawn from the Beetaloo
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