City of LA faces free speech suit after public library officials scrapped two writers’ Read Palestine Week book talks

While Russian President Vladimir Putin has made the absurd claim that he is waging war to "de-Nazify" Ukraine, his regime has a long record of collaboration with far-right extremists, writes Robert Ho...

Israel's desalination crisis exposes the consequences of destroying Gaza's sewage system, refusing to let it be rebuilt and failing to prepare Israel's own water economy for a worsening climate crisis

Five desalination plants shut down for days, while Gaza remains in grip of severe water and sanitation crisis Israel is facing weeks of water shortages after an exceptional algae bloom crippled much of its desalination capacity, in a crisis scientists say was triggered when Israeli attacks destroyed much of Gaza’s wastewater infrastructure, causing a massive discharge of untreated sewage. “Pollution does not recognise political borders,” said the Zalul Environmental Association, an Israeli NGO dedicated to protecting the country’s seas and shores. “The discharge of untreated sewage from the Gaza Strip into the sea is contributing to the worsening crisis affecting the Israeli desalination facilities. The wastewater contains nutrients such as nitrogen and phosphorus, which feed microalgae and cyanobacteria and may intensify their blooms.” Continue reading...

Five of Israel’s six water plants shut as scientists probe whether Gaza wastewater fuelled the bloom

Defeat looms for Prime Minister Ulf Kristersson and his allies on the far right.

Colin Kaepernick has accused NFL owners of colluding against Macklemore after the rapper was removed from Ed Sheeran’s tour over comments on Palestine

The report detailed Israelis who denouced of the Venice Film Festival-winning doc's depiction of the war in Gaza

Wildflowers at Tickle Belly Hill near Quorn. Orange darling peas (Swainsona stipularis) I think.

Trump’s EPA strips itself of regulation ability, gutting Clean Air Act in what experts say is a gift to planet polluters

Good morning. A male Superb Fairy Wren, a few days ago. Have a great Sunday.

A male always handles the childcare in the emu world. Here is one protecting three stripeys (not necessarily his babies, btw). That's what baby emus are lovingly called, for obvious reasons. Credit to Rhonda for spotting these as we travelled along Flinders Ranges Way yesterday.

Australia’s greatest living novelist, Richard Flanagan, issues an impassioned condemnation of the McCarthyist campaign by Zionists to silence protests against Israel’s genocide in Gaza by hiding behin...

In a letter to the Federal Trade Commission, a coalition of U.S. civil society groups call AI giants’ mass book buying and destruction an effort to "corner the essential inputs of AI development." ...

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"It’s 𝘯𝘰𝘵 the foreigners, legal or illegal, who are pissing on us; it’s the billionaires who own the media and the internet and can pay the debts of the political parties they want to control, and fuc...