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Phil Laird

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Working for the kids. Water is life. All posts are my opinion and not a statement of fact #maulescreek #auspol #climate #renewables

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Independent Media Australia. @indymediaaus.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 4h
Australia’s climate policy – a crime against humanity pearlsandirritations.com/e/daily/20… #Auspol
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Australia’s climate policy – a crime against humanity
Australia cannot credibly claim climate leadership while expanding coal and gas exports that accelerate global heating, deepen Pacific vulnerability and lock in further human suffering.
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Mia Farrow @miafarrow.bsky.social · 3h
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Ambassador Greg Delawie @gregdelawie.bsky.social · 5h
My Governor, on Facebook, tells it like it is!
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Alina Pereverzieva 🇺🇦 @perevaa.bsky.social · 7h
According to Cloudflare Data Explorer the amount of russian bot traffic has dropped to 49% after Ukraine struck a yandex data center. yoda69 / twitter
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Phil Laird @phillaird1.bsky.social · 4h
“Consider” is a very, very low bar.
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 5h
Since the end of 2022, “real debt payments grew more than eight times as fast as real household income—14.8 percent compared with 1.7 percent, respectively.” @tcforg.bsky.social tcf.org/content/repo...
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 4h
BARCLAYS DESK: “.. let’s face facts; the combined disclosed lab revenues of circa $150bn .. is not going to cut it when the ecosystem needs well in excess of $1trn .. I’ve yet been presented with a credible framework as to where this money is going to come from ..”
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Phil Laird @phillaird1.bsky.social · 4h
Forget about post election. Strong contingency plans must be in place in case of an attempted election steal. Focus.
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Peter Murphy @peterwmurphy1.bsky.social · 4h
I remember when Labor stood for "Labor values": caring for people and the planet, not for protecting the interests of billionaires, the fossil fuels industry, multinationals and arming genocidal Israel. Vote @greens.org.au. #auspol
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 4h
“.. Since the final F-150 Lightning rolled off the assembly line in December, it has become one of the most coveted cars in America ..” @bloomberg.com $F www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
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Carole Cadwalladr @carolecadwalla.bsky.social · 8h
NEW: Prime Minister Andy Burnham finally breaks a decade of UK govt silence…& reveals there was ‘clear’ Russian interference in the Brexit vote. 1/
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Olga Nesterova @onestpress.onestnetwork.com · 23h
Yesterday folks were fighting me on this. It’s a logical step for pro-Russian administration. militarnyi.com/en/news/usa-...
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USA Threatens to Stop Sharing Intelligence With Ukraine Over Attacks on Russian Oil Refineries — Axios
The U.S. has threatened to stop sharing intelligence with Ukraine if it continues to attack Russian oil refineries.
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Kate from Kharkiv @kateinkharkiv.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
ZELENSKYY: At this very moment, when we are talking about peace, America gives Russia the opportunity to export diesel — that's millions, billions. It all goes toward the war against people, against Ukraine, against all of us.
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Signs you’re a war criminal: You attack the court that goes after war criminals
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Pearls and Irritations @johnmenadue.com · 10/10/2026
Australia cannot call itself a climate leader while expanding coal and gas exports that intensify global heating and Pacific vulnerability. After decades of warning, this is no longer ignorance but deliberate policy, Ian Dunlop writes. #auspol #Climate
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caitbsky.bsky.social @caitbsky.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
#Auspol Beetaloo Energy are proposing a massive $40bn data centre on #Kungarakan Country near the border of #Larrakia Country. 1/
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Belinda Weaver @longtimeleftie.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Each year an estimated seven million youthful tourists depart Israel for vacations in at least twenty-four countries. But recent reports indicate that they are encountering trouble and often creating trouble for their hosts, and global anger is mounting. genocidetoday.substack.com/p/israeli-to...
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Israeli Tourists are Becoming Unwelcome Guests
Is it the open displays of arrogance demonstrated by these traveling young people, or simple disgust from locals knowing that most of these folks are members of the IDF genocidal forces?
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Jake Grumbach @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
New working paper: the Norwegian wealth tax was a huge success. The "exodus" of wealthy people never happened (less than 100 individuals left). Tax revenue increased by 71.5%. No changes in business activity or investment. www.nber.org/papers/w35854
Taxing Entrepreneurial Wealth: Evidence from
Norway, 2021-2025
Marius A. K. Ring
WORKING PAPER 35854|
DOl 10.3386/w35854
ISSUE DATE October 2026
Whether imposing higher taxes on business owners adversely affects business activity by constraining investment and inducing capitalist flight is a central question in the ongoing debate on how to tax the ultra wealthy. To shed new light, I exploit a series of related Norwegian reforms during 2021-2024 that increased dividend tax rates, removed migration-related capital gains tax loopholes, and nearly doubled the effective marginal tax rate on business wealth. These reforms spurred international debate and, allegedly, an "exodus" of Norwegian billionaires (Financial Times,
2023). While I document clear effects on migration, these responses are concentrated among the top 0.1% of the wealth distribution and mostly confined to 2022 and 2023. My results indicate that at most 100 individuals left due to the reforms. I find no evidence of significant outmigration or reduced inflows of startup founders or inventors. I estimate that absent any outmigration, wealth tax revenues would have increased by 75% from 2021 to 2024. Reform-driven outmigration lowers the revenue gain to 71.5%. My findings further show that outmigrating owners' firms remain economically active and do not reduce investment. In a broader set of analyses, I examine whether business outcomes are affected, regardless of whether owners outmigrate, since firms may reduce investment both due to liquidity constraints or distortions to owners' savings decisions. I compare firms owned by Norwegian individuals subject to the wealth tax with firms owned by foreigners and other tax-exempt entities. By merging historical ownership data from Orbis with the Norwegian shareholder register, I perform these analyses on both Norwegian and foreign-domiciled firms.
Across settings, I find no evidence that Norwegian-owned firms pay out more dividends or invest less after the reforms,…
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Phil Laird @phillaird1.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Trump, Netanyahu , Putin There’s only one catch, and that’s Catch 22 www.abc.net.au/news/2026-10...
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Trump strikes deal with Putin for Russia to supply diesel to US
In an apparent reversal of Washington's campaign to squeeze Russian fuel revenue powering the war in Ukraine, Donald Trump says Moscow will supply diesel to the US.
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Drew Harwell @drewharwell.com · 09/10/2026
Hard to overstate how much Hegseth's execution stream mirrors the U.S. military's traditional description of ISIS propaganda: broadcast killings designed to send a message, strike fear and create a social media spectacle. Will almost certainly be repurposed by online terror cells
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Darebin Climate Action Now @darebincan.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
DAMSHEG, a Hunter Valley community group, has won the first climate case ever heard in the High Court of Australia, and coal company MACH Energy has lost its appeal. #ClimateAction #StopNewCoal #darebinclimateactionnow
COMMUNITY WINS IN THE HIGH COURT
DAMSHEG, a Hunter Valley community group has won Australia's first High Court climate case.
Image: People standing on the steps of the High Court holding placards.
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
The modern, American homepage: @bloomberg.com www.bloomberg.com
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
* Goldman’s Special Bonus for Top Brass Set to Exceed $500 Million @bloomberg.com $GS
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NPR @npr.org · 07/10/2026
A possible Iranian threat led the U.S. to remove long-range bombers from a U.K. base. And, Israelis are learning that their prime minister may have been warned before the Oct. 7 attacks. n.pr/4i5ZzSV
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U.S. moves long-range bombers from U.K. And, Israel allegedly warned before Oct. 7
A possible Iranian threat led the U.S. to remove long-range bombers from a U.K. base. And, Israelis are learning that their prime minister may have been warned before the Oct. 7 attacks.
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Mike Zaccardi, CFA, CMT @mikezaccardi.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Discretionary continues to dump... here are some 52wk drawdowns... @finviz_com
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Phil Laird @phillaird1.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Insurance companies should welcome the sensible determination made by the High Court re Mt Pleasant #coal mine 100% expansion to 2048. But Science, demographics and the Separation of Powers all out of scope for the party of nothing. #auspol #morons www.liberal.org.au/2026/10/07/h...
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High Court Decision on the Mount Pleasant Coal Mine - Liberal Party of Australia
Today’s High Court decision on the Mount Pleasant coal mine is a direct threat to the Hunter, to thousands of future mining jobs and to Australia's standing
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Daniel Swain @weatherwest.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
ECMWF is also indicating potential for *extremely* high ocean temp anomalies (>= +10F) along immediate CA coast. That would profoundly affect CA winter temps & amount of moisture available to landfalling storms. It will also have huge implications for coastal ecosystems.
Model-relative sea surface temperature anomalies for November 2026–January 2027. The supplied grid is displayed without added smoothing or coastal filling. Beige marks land and gray marks missing ocean values. The main colour scale spans -2 to +10°F, with white at zero. Hot pink marks anomalies above +10°F. This map does not establish an operational ENSO category.
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Phil Laird @phillaird1.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Nowhere Man announces another nowhere plan #Shit4Brains www.abc.net.au/news/2026-10...
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Taylor concedes aged care workers would be hit by migration plan
Angus Taylor acknowledges some aged care workers would be affected by the Coalition's proposed migration changes, as business and education groups warn of wider economic damage.
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Miaganga @miaganga.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
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Phil Laird @phillaird1.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Someone needs to explain Robo Debt to him
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Zeke Hausfather @zekehausfather.com · 05/10/2026
I often see people argue that clean energy is not reducing emissions, because it just adds to rather than replaces fossil fuels. This argument is deeply misguided – clean energy built since 2005 has displaced 23 billion tons. I dive in over at The Climate Brink:
theclimatebrink.com
What if the world hadn't built wind and solar?
Clean energy does not simply “add to” global energy use; it displaces fossil sources that would otherwise get built.
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Tim Baxter @timinclimate.naruresearch.com.au · 06/10/2026
Tomorrow at 1pm Australia's High Court will hand down a judgment in MACH Energy v Denman Aberdeen Muswellbrook Scone Healthy Environment Group, which is one of the first climate law case to find its way to the High Court in a very long time. Enviro Justice Australia have an explainer here:
envirojustice.org.au
High Court climate case could reshape future fossil fuel approvals
A community group from the Hunter Valley has taken a climate case all the way to the High Court. The outcome could influence how governments assess the climate impacts of future coal and gas projects ...
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Independent Media Australia. @indymediaaus.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 06/10/2026
The immigrants leading the anti-immigrant right pearlsandirritations.com/e/daily/20… #Auspol
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The immigrants leading the anti-immigrant right
Across Europe and the US, some of the loudest anti-immigration politicians have migrant roots, migrant spouses or family histories shaped by migration. The contradiction has done little to slow their rise.
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Glen @gergyl.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
The first really huge aerial bombing of a city was Nazi Germany's attack on (Picasso's!) Guernica during the Spanish Civil War, April 1937. That isn't quite 100 years.
Ruins of Guernica, 1937; Allgemeiner Deutscher Nachrichtendienst - Zentralbild (Bild 183). Photographer unknown.
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The Australia Institute @australiainstitute.org.au · 06/10/2026
As leaders gather in Fiji for pre-COP31 climate talks, co-hosted by Australia’s Climate Change & Energy Minister Chris Bowen, delegates will see this message in the Fiji Times: australiainstitute.org.au/post/full-pa...
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Phil Laird @phillaird1.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Would mean zilch to Shoebridge.
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NPR @npr.org · 05/10/2026
Talks between Khan's party and the government failed two days ago. Besides Khan's release, protesters demand his transfer to a hospital and family visits. n.pr/4zf51sG
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Imran Khan supporters march in Pakistan to demand his release after talks failed
Talks between Khan's party and the government failed two days ago. Besides Khan's release, protesters demand his transfer to a hospital and family visits.
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Oliver @oliver48.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
"Denmark has built so much wind power that its grid now regularly produces more than the country can consume, and on the windiest days the wholesale price of electricity falls below zero." via Amazing Maps
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Olga Nesterova @onestpress.onestnetwork.com · 04/10/2026
Several hospitals were closed in Irkutsk for quarantine and a mask regime was introduced at an aluminum plant due to the plague ru.themoscowtimes.com/2026/10/04/v...
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Independent Media Australia. @indymediaaus.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 04/10/2026
A childless future: what falling birth rates are really telling us pearlsandirritations.com/e/daily/20… #Auspol
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A childless future: what falling birth rates are really telling us
Falling birth rates are usually treated as an economic problem. But the deeper crisis may be cultural: societies losing faith that the future will contain something worth creating.
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Nicole Chvastek @nicolechvastek.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Murdochs hard right News Corp has racked up a decade of paying ZERO tax while blaming the poor, migrants and Indigenous Australians for our economic woes. Don’t fall for the bullshit fed to you by billionaire media moguls. “Truth Lies&Media” is live!⚡️ Promo Match Frame Editing #auspol #NewsCorpse
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Phil Laird @phillaird1.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Who knew? www.reddit.com/r/ThatsInsan...
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From the ThatsInsane community on Reddit: LG TV recording audio offline, despite LG claiming 'no, we don't do that'.
Explore this post and more from the ThatsInsane community
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Miaganga @miaganga.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
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Phil Laird @phillaird1.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
I’ve never had faith in the IPC process. The fact that these coal mining decisions cannot be challenged in court on the merits is all you need to know
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David @daverino.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
“The Independent Planning Commission’s published reasons for approving the largest coalmine in New South Wales history in the context of mounting death, disaster and despair brought on by global heating reads like a hostage statement” www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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The green light for the largest coalmine in NSW history is shocking proof that our governance systems are betraying Australians | Georgina Woods
There is no greater treachery than this failure to face up to the climate crisis. How can we now fend off despair?
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Extreme Temperatures Around the World @extremetemps.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
It took 1 DAY for October 2026 to break more records than the WHOLE October 2025. Dozens of thousands of records smashed in all Continents BY FAR; the most record breaking day the in world climatic history. But in the next 6 months ,even worse days can happen.
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Phil Laird @phillaird1.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
When governments around the world are saying a human must always be in control - What could possibly go wrong?
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Blue Community .net @blue-community.net · 01/10/2026
‘Water yes, mining no!’: the 87-year-old farmer who became a nature hero in Colombia Porfirio Garcés is one of the ‘Jerico 11’, who face kidnapping charges after opposing a copper mine.Their fight has become more urgent www.theguardian.com/...
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Gerry Flynn @geraldrflynn.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Latest for @mongabay.com looks at the murky mineral trade fueling transboundary river pollution in Myanmar and Thailand, with Thai companies buying from the very mines contaminating their rivers w. arsenic & worse. Food & water security for thousands has been jeopardise by the critical mineral rush.
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Myanmar’s polluting mines selling to China through Thai companies
UMPHANG, Thailand — At 8 a.m. on June 26, at least 13 double-trailer trucks were lined up at the Pheung Khleung border crossing in northern Thailand — one of the few places where minerals can be legal...
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Dr Jeremy Walker @jeremywalker.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
South Australia Northern Territory Oil Search founded by Adelaide blueblood John Bonython, far-right Texas oil billionaire Clint Murchison & a Royal Navy spook. Bonython paid #AtlasNetwork Antony Fisher to set up the Centre of Independent Studies in 1976 with $$ from Santos, Shell, Esso, RioTinto..
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