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Jane Morton

@safeclimate.bsky.social
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Clinical psychologist campaigning on the #climateemergency with Extinction Rebellion Australia. Which do you choose: extinction or rebellion? Download my climate emergency messaging booklet at xrb.link/g64tn2Zsx

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cictar.bsky.social @cictar.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
www.mirror.co.uk/money/amazon... Great work from our comrades at Fair Tax Foundation. Backs up CICTAR's previous work: cictar.org/all-research... The ongoing lack of basic transparency measures calls into question the UK's commitment to tackling this type of abuse. @fairtaxfoundation.bsky.social
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Amazon accused of 'systematic tax avoidance' after release of UK accounts
Accounts for one of online giant Amazon's biggest UK companies show it paid no corporation tax last year despite profits jumping by a quarter
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cictar.bsky.social @cictar.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
"When you have such extremely poor distributions of wealth, you start to get quite bad social problems...we haven't reached this level of inequality before because it is so unhealthy on a societal level" www.rnz.co.nz/news/busines... CICTAR's Ed Miller quoted in RNZ piece on Elon Musk
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Elon Musk only marginally less wealthy than all New Zealanders combined
"When you have such extreme or maldistributions of wealth ... you start to get quite bad social problems."
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beyondbillionaires.bsky.social @beyondbillionaires.bsky.social · 01/06/2026
Sick of billionaires wrecking the joint? Join us at beyondbillionaires.org #politics #australia #taxtherich quote @ZackPolanskiolanski
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Beyond Billionaires
Tax wealth not work. Build people power
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beyondbillionaires.bsky.social @beyondbillionaires.bsky.social · 02/06/2026
Australian (multi) billionaires are doing just fine. Do you know who they are? #australia #taxtherich The wealthiest just bought a political party & media outlet. Guess who. www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
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Australia’s 178 billionaires are $25.7bn richer than last year as 3.7 million live in poverty
Oxfam finds the 20 richest Australians now hold more wealth than the bottom 3 million households
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Odd This Day @oddthisday.bsky.social · 13/05/2026
“The research was carried out on behalf of Patriotic Millionaires UK, a nonpartisan network of rich people which campaigns for higher taxes on the ultra-wealthy, with members including the musician Brian Eno and the YouTuber and former financial trader Gary Stevenson.”
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Three-quarters of UK millionaires would be happy to pay more tax, research finds
Despite concerns super-rich are leaving due to tax burdens, 88% of those surveyed were proud to live in UK and would pay more to fund public services
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The Australia Institute @australiainstitute.org.au · 18/05/2026
Australia Institute Deputy Director Ebony Bennett asks The People's Economist Gary Stevenson, why don't Government's tax wealth properly? Listen to Follow the Money for more from Gary: theaus.in/4rM2fYh
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Anonymous @opsnowcrash.bsky.social · 30/05/2026
🧵And if even Gary Stevenson doesn't persuade you 🔺, here is Prof Robert Reich proving that exact same truth🔻 Billionaires take minimal income—they just borrow tax-free and then use your taxes to subsidise their fortunes. The game is rigged because we tax workers' income, not billionaire #wealth.
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How The Ultra-Rich Game The Tax System
YouTube video by Robert Reich
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Anonymous @opsnowcrash.bsky.social · 30/05/2026
It's not income. It's #assets. If you don't believe us and so many others, listen to famous trader, economist, and millionaire Gary Stevenson 🔻 It's so simple. Things will continue getting worse until enough people understand this simple truth. Don't let the accent fool you—this problem is global.
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What happens when you stop taxing really rich people
YouTube video by Garys Economics
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Yung En Chee @yungenchee.bsky.social · 05/09/2025
Fri 5 Sep: not content with just approving Woodside's North West Shelf Extension, Environment Minister Watt has approved his 1st coalmine extension Glencore's Ulan coalmine makes it 32🤯 new/extension approvals (& counting) Slow 👏 #LaborClimateAction #LaborValues
Protestors picket the allegedly pro-environment Josh Burns' office in St Kilda
The deep orange banner says STOP NEW GAS IN WA AND NT
A protestor holds up a HONK FOR CLIMATE ACTION placard. The bottom of her ingenious skirt says NO NEW GASProtestors unfurl banners and hold placards across the road from Josh Burns' office protesting the majority Labor govt's unending approval of new/extensions of Coal & Gas projects 

The rightmost yellow banner says STOP NEW GAS IN WA AND NT

The orange banner says LABOR IN BED WITH DIRTY COAL & GAS

The left most banner says NO NEW COAL & GAS
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Dave Vetter @davidrvetter.bsky.social · 27/07/2025
Wildfires have claimed 14 lives near Turkey's fourth largest city as a record 50°C heatwave grips the country.
independent.co.uk
‘Apocalyptic’ Turkey wildfires spread as 14 killed in blazes sparked by 50C heat
Over a thousand firefighters are battling flames outside the country’s fourth-largest city Bursa
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Prof Bill McGuire @profbillmcguire.bsky.social · 27/07/2025
"In 2029, The choice will be stark: socialism or barbarism. Billionaires already have three parties fighting for them. It's time the rest of us had one." www.lbc.co.uk/politics/uk-...
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Corbyn hints at 'Your Party' as name for new political movement as sign-ups near 500,000
Jeremy Corbyn has suggested his new party may end up being called Your Party after all, as sign-ups for the new group edge closer to 500,000.
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Greg Jericho @grogsgamut.bsky.social · 19/06/2025
The latest Dollars & Sense pod is up talking wealth australiainstitute.org.au/post/the-ric...
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The rich are getting richer - The Australia Institute
Australia’s overly generous approach to taxing wealth is allowing the richest Australians to keep more for themselves.
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Jane Morton @safeclimate.bsky.social · 02/05/2025
Voting in the Senate in Victoria? Keep numbering till you get to at least 11 to ensure you’ve numbered the smaller parties competing for the sixth senate seat with One Nation. Many how-to-vote cards suggest only six. But that’s a minimum not a maximum. Visit VoteClimate.net.au for other states.
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Prof. Eliot Jacobson @climatecasino.net · 08/03/2025
Breaking News! Code UFB!!! The daily CO2 number from Mauna Loa exceeded 430 ppm yesterday. This is the first reading above 430 ever recorded. CO2 levels have not been this high since the Pliocene epoch, 3 to 5 million years ago.
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Jon Owen @anotherjon.bsky.social · 18/02/2025
This from @kevinclimate.bsky.social was, according to the senior editor at The Conversation, "too polemical." I don't know about you, but I see a piece that's forthright but transparently referenced, and critical of the status quo. Maybe the latter is the nub of it. climateuncensored.com/1485-2/
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A habitable Earth can no longer afford the rich – and that could mean me and you - Climate Uncensored
A few days ago I was commissioned by the energy and environment section editor at The Conversation to elaborate on my contribution to the recent Guardian
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Lighter Footprints @lighterfootprints.bsky.social · 16/02/2025
Lighter Footprints, ACF Boroondara and KCCA have been campaigning for nature and climate for over a decade. People have been becoming more worried about global heating, and this has correlated with a change in voting patterns, moving towards voting for stronger climate action. #KooyongVotes #auspol
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John Englart / Indiana Jones & Juliet @takvera.bsky.social · 15/02/2025
Community members gathered in Coburg to kick of their #Willsvotes campaign for #climateaction: It’s time for the Fed govt to rule out new coal & gas projects! #NoMoreCoal #NoMoreGas #Auspol
Crowd with No new coal and gas banner inside Reynard st neighbourhood house
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Jane Morton @safeclimate.bsky.social · 18/02/2025
Labor has done a deal with the Coalition to kill off challenges by independents and smaller parties. Watch this video by @TheAusInstitute. youtu.be/ZnfPBMM7xhU?... The federal election will be the last under the old rules. It’s time to vote in as many independents and smaller parties as possible.
A tweet about the Australia Institute video on the political stitch up
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Prof. Eliot Jacobson @climatecasino.net · 05/02/2025
gml.noaa.gov is now non-functional. This is the site that I would go to every month to get updated GHG data for my graphics. I'm not sure if scrippsco2.ucsd.edu will have access to the CO2 data, or where I will get CH4 data. I made a local backup of gml last week in anticipation. In remembrance:
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Prof. Eliot Jacobson @climatecasino.net · 04/02/2025
Your 'Arctic weather forecast' for today: Mostly f&%ked with regional extreme f&%kery, widespread sea-ice melting, and some locations exceeding 28°C (50°F) above average.
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Jane Morton @safeclimate.bsky.social · 04/02/2025
Will climate collapse insurance costs crash the US economy? the Australian economy? www.nytimes.com/2025/02/03/o...
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Opinion | The New Evidence Climate Change Will Upend American Homeownership
A new analysis predicts an extraordinary reversal in housing fortunes for Americans.
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Dr Luke Buckmaster @lukebuckmaster.bsky.social · 30/01/2025
The visual definition of a truly timeless cartoon
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The Australia Institute @australiainstitute.org.au · 07/01/2025
"The mission of Australian think tanks should be to give frank and fearless advice that challenges government policy. That goal is jeopardised when think tanks rely on government funding." #auspol
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Mark Cuban @mcuban.bsky.social · 05/01/2025
Does anyone have a contact for Ann ? Would love to discuss with her the possibility of partnering with her to publish her cartoons exclusively on @bluesky
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Prof. Eliot Jacobson @climatecasino.net · 09/01/2025
Last year was likely the hottest year in the last 120,000+ years on this planet. Human civilization has never existed in conditions like these, and the f&%kery is just getting started. The tragedy is not the loss of human civilization, it's what humans are doing to everything else.
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Saving Everything Else
It’s not about saving us. It’s not about saving ourselves. It’s not about saving our ability to eat whatever we want, to buy more crap, to travel to distant places, to have a good job, to send our kid...
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News Eye @newseye.bsky.social · 09/01/2025
These extraordinary photos of the LA fires have been shared widely on social media, often without crediting the photographer. These are all the work of Ethan Swope, an LA-based photojournalist working for AP. You can follow his remarkable reporting here👇 www.instagram.com/ethanswopeph...
A street is orange from flames and you can see the high winds in the palm trees. Sparks fly down the streetA fire truck is engulfed in parks and flames are seen on the hill. The entire photo is red and orange from the fireA fireman with a hose runs across the front of a house in flames in the backgroundThe inside of a house is a ball of flames. The only visible thing inside is a burning Christmas tree
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Mike Luckovich @mluckovich.bsky.social · 09/01/2025
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Katharine Hayhoe @katharinehayhoe.com · 10/01/2025
A disaster is a function of three things: the hazard itself, people's vulnerability to the hazard, and their exposure. @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social explains eloquently how the LA fires are a perfect storm of all three. Read more:
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The chronicle of a fire foretold | Rebecca Solnit
The current fires in Los Angeles are reminders of the costs of forgetting
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Dr. Jeff Masters @drjeffmasters.bsky.social · 09/01/2025
California’s fire season has lengthened considerably in a warming climate, which has increased the overlap between “critically dry vegetation season” and the Santa Ana “offshore wind season” (Oct-Jan). A hotter climate also dries out vegetation. yaleclimateconnections.org/2025/01/the-...
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The role of climate change in the catastrophic 2025 Los Angeles fires » Yale Climate Connections
Summer dry seasons are extending into winter, intensifying the impacts of Santa Ana winds.
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Rebekah Jones @georebekah.bsky.social · 08/01/2025
ABC, NBC & CBS dedicated about 16 minutes of airtime last night to the California wildfires without once mentioning climate change. Since the news failed do it's job, here's a short summary of the role of climate change and wildfire risk: www.noaa.gov/noaa-wildfir...
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Wildfire climate connection
Climate change, including increased heat, extended drought, and a thirsty atmosphere, has been a key driver in increasing the risk and extent of wildfires in the western United States during the last ...
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Jane Morton @safeclimate.bsky.social · 07/01/2025
LAUNCHED‼️#DadvsAdani doco by renowned Indian journalist @Paranjoygt. It features Ben Pennings’ historic Supreme Court case and the whole #StopAdani movement ✊🏽 It will certainly cause a stir when soon released in Hindi 😎👇🏽 Watch - tinyurl.com/5n6z94a9 Chip in - tinyurl.com/3ebym4nv
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Mark Cuban @mcuban.bsky.social · 04/01/2025
Why are Bezos, Zuckerberg, Musk, Pichai and Tim Cook visiting and giving money to Trump ? Because they are in “The Race “ to become the dominant platform in the world. Amazon/Anthropic vs FB/LLama vs Google/Gemini vs Twitter/Grok, vs IPhones/ChatGpt is the penultimate global power war ever.
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Prof. Eliot Jacobson @climatecasino.net · 04/01/2025
Daily global sea surface temperatures continue to be hot, running #2 to 2024, despite El Nino ending and a mild La Nina already in place. We are now seeing what 4.8 billion Hiroshima bombs worth of heating since 2001 have done to the oceans.
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Dr Kathleen Hall @yankeekat.bsky.social · 15/12/2024
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Common Cause Australia @commoncauseaus.bsky.social · 05/12/2024
Just putting this out there. Can we stop using the term 'cost of living' effective immediately and especially in the run up to the election? It's not supposed to cost something to LIVE. That's our right as human beings. What we should call it is a cost of greed crisis. Let's change the frame.
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Prof. Eliot Jacobson @climatecasino.net · 17/12/2024
This graphic gives the 12-month running average for Mauna Loa CO₂ since 1959, with a quadratic trendline (in red). An R² of 0.9995 is overwhelming evidence that atmospheric CO₂ growth is accelerating. And at present, CO₂ is above the trendline! The climate 8-ball says: "Outlook f&%ked, try again."
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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @aoc.bsky.social · 17/12/2024
Tried my best. Sorry I couldn’t pull it through everyone - we live to fight another day. ♥️
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Jane Morton @safeclimate.bsky.social · 17/12/2024
Yep.
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Prof. Eliot Jacobson @climatecasino.net · 05/12/2024
Your 'moment of doom' for Dec. 5, 2024 ~ The f&%king canary is back! “This has been the canary in the climate coalmine, and it’s now hitting households’ pocketbooks." www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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How climate risks are driving up insurance premiums around the US – visualized
‘Tight correlation’ between premium rises and counties deemed most at risk from climate crisis, experts say
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Dr. Jeff Masters @drjeffmasters.bsky.social · 01/12/2024
“Compared with areas with no wetlands, wetland areas can reduce surface runoff by 15 to 30% and enhance soil retention by 30 to 50%, thereby decreasing flood peak levels by 10 to 25% and lowering the risk of mountain floods and debris flows.” www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
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Small wetlands: Critical to flood management
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Mike Hixenbaugh @mikehixenbaugh.com · 30/11/2024
Bluesky is winning because both twitter and threads have gone out of their way to make their platforms inhospitable to reputable journalists and news. @kattenbarge.bsky.social reports: www.nbcnews.com/tech/social-...
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Journalists flock to Bluesky as X becomes increasingly 'toxic'
Journalists are finding more readers and less hate on Bluesky than on the platform they used to know as Twitter.
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Ian@collapseaphorisms @collapseaphorisms.bsky.social · 28/11/2024
"After night temperatures up to 30C, afternoons still reach 35C in this mad absurd November in Morocco and Canary Islands, where >50%/60% of the days and night of the month have been much hotter than average summer." (Extreme Temperatures Around The World) #collapse
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 28/11/2024
1. The one benefit of Brexit was a new farm subsidy system, that would pay for public goods such as ecological restoration. But now the government has frozen the new grants, while swiftly cutting off the old ones, leaving farmers high and dry. It's deeply unfair and highly destructive. 🧵
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Jane Morton @safeclimate.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
I don’t usually bother with petitions, but it’s vital to stop the diabolical proposed changes to election laws being rushed through parliament next week. These changes are designed to shut out independents and small parties. Please sign and share: nb.australiainstitute.org.au/donations_bi...
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Thomas Ableman @freewheeling.info · 13/11/2024
Absolutely the right choice! Here's why I made the same decision - and why we all need to: www.freewheeling.info/blog/its-tim...
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Why I’ve Quit Twitter, Why You Should Too - And Why Social Media Should be Regulated — Freewheeling
Staying on Twitter means providing free content and monetisation for Elon Musk. In my first Freewheeling blog post for three years, I argue that it's time to quit Twitter and for regulators to end it...
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 13/11/2024
3. I thought for a while that the best alternative would be Threads. But Meta’s deliberate downgrading of political content and suspension of journalists on Threads rules it out as a prime platform for people like me. theguardian.com/commentisfre....
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First came the bots, then came the bosses - we’re entering Musk and Zuck’s new era of disinformation | Joan Donovan
Tech leaders’ politics are encoded into their platforms – and with Trump’s ascent, they have direct access to the Oval Office
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Prof. Eliot Jacobson @climatecasino.net · 18/11/2023
Breaking News! Code Yikes! Yesterday's global 2m surface temperature hit a new high for 2023, at 1.98°C above the 1850-1900 IPCC baseline. Only one day since 1940 has been more extreme than yesterday. That day was Feb. 28, 2016, with an anomaly of 1.99°C. Tomorrow?
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Jane Morton @safeclimate.bsky.social · 13/11/2024
Breaking news! Climate COP-out 29 protest. Another fossil fuel dominated festival of ‘blah, blah, blah’ is under way in Azerbaijan. The world is watching, waiting, DYING! #COP29Baku #COP29Azerbaijan
Extinction Rebellion disrupting traffic in Melbourne to protest inaction on the climate emergency
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