⛵️ Over 50 vessels depart Italy bound for Gaza in largest civilian maritime mobilization yet The Global Sumud Flotilla departed from Augusta, Sicily with over 50 vessels setting course toward the eastern Mediterranean in what the organization describes as the largest coordinated civilian maritime...

This is what Marco Rubio decided to do with his life: "AIDS Creeps Back in Parts of Zambia, a Year After U.S. Cuts to HIV Assistance: A once-robust HIV treatment and prevention system, credited with saving hundreds of thousands of lives, has begun to crumble..." www.nytimes.com/2026/04/25/h...

BREAKING | Press TV correspondent on the ground in southern Lebanon reports Israeli attacks have killed 10 people and injured around 30 civilians, most of them women and children.

Professor Alan Gamlen has called out the media’s nonsense hysteria over “Mass Migration", exposing their cherry picked migration data, & how they conveniently omit departure data in their reporting. ‘The headlines are just simply not true.’💥 #auspol

The power of political cartoons, this is actually quite confronting in its multi layered truth telling, excellent disturbing work

www.theguardian.com/australia-ne.... #News #Qld

C’mon now, news across our land is making me despair today, what are we doing and becoming

“I’m..familiar with the dreaded functional capacity test; as an autistic NDIS participant..these tests are draining, can contribute to poor self-worth & perpetuate a deficit lens. The thought of every NDIS participant having to do one yearly..fills me with dread” www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

‘Women will lose out’: Advocates raise alarm over gendered impact of NDIS overhaul womensagenda.com.au/latest/women...

Amal is still trapped under the rubble and Israel reportedly deployed stun grenades to stop the Red Cross from reaching her. This is terrifying and should outrage everyone everywhere.

The Government has had the national anti-racism framework for nearly 18 months and still hasn't responded. We joined ANIC, FECCA, @edhusicmp.bsky.social and AFIC in @australia.theguardian.com to once again call for its immediate adoption and implementation: www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

⚡️New from @dropsitenews.com: Rare Survivors of Pacific Boat Strikes Allege US Forces Kidnapped & Tortured Them As airstrikes & reports of torture under Ecuador’s US-backed military regime continue to mount, fishermen tell Drop Site... By Camila Lourdes Galarza www.dropsitenews.com/p/rare-survi...

The Stable Genius team with corrupt real estate agents, no diplomatic experience or respect for history or other cultures surprisingly is finding it hard to negotiate with a highly educated Iranian ‘opponent’ …. bring back smart and a bloody work ethic

hmmm…

Bulgaria: Pro-Russia Rumen Radev wins ‌election

Tsunami warning for Japan.

Palantir put out a 22-point summary of their CEO's book The Technological Republic. It's pitched as a defence of the West, but if you read it through the VDA framework, verification, deliberation, accountability, what it's actually doing looks rather different. twitter-thread.com/t/2045574398...

A bunch of Queenslanders in Meeanjin of whom we can all feel mightily proud. 🙌🏻🫶🏻 #auspol #qldpol #FromTheRiverToTheSea #PalestineShallBeFree

“Diphtheria is one of those diseases that had effectively been eradicated in Australia," he said. “In the last 12 months, cases have appeared in the Northern Territory & this year have now spread into the Kimberley so it's somewhat unprecedented & a concern to us." www.abc.net.au/news/2026-04...

I’ve been dog sitting my cousin’s little dog Molly this weekend, she’s so sweet and gentle, enduring me most kindly as a former cat owner with no dog experience, she has more empathy, patience and kindness than some of our fellow humans, I’ll just return to hanging out with her than consuming news

A MUST READ, Australia #auspol Walking for truth: Travis Lovett’s 500km journey to remind Albanese of his promise to create a First Nations truth-telling commission

Israel killed an average of at least 47 girls and women per day in Gaza. A new analysis published by the United Nations shows that more than 38,000 girls and women were killed in between October 2023 and December 2025.

⚡️Drop Site Daily | April 17, 2026 Iran opens Strait of Hormuz; Thousands return to southern Lebanon as ceasefire takes hold; House rejects Iran resolution by one vote www.dropsitenews.com/p/iran-opens...

A very depressing read on how Greece and Cyprus have become bosom buddies with Israel on arms production, surveillance, military alliances, natural gas, and shipping: thecradle.co/articles/gre...

President Trump referred this morning to "OUR TRANSACTION WITH IRAN." This is, of course, interesting because the last time the United States struck a deal with Iran involving a transaction, Republicans completely lost their minds. Let's take a trip down memory lane. 🧵

The people living in Gaza are still enduring a genocide at the hands of the Israeli military. The horrors they face each day should horrify all people of conscience.

Fellow Australians, I’m not quite sure exactly what kind of manosphere tragicomedy this is but this whole thread is chefs kiss although I confess I had to look a couple of words/phrases up and now return safely to my usual reposting of geopolitical despair

Great detailed thread re Hungary’s new leader and his early priorities around accountability, the rule of law and returning to the European fold… c/f Greece’s incredibly corrupt govt attacking the EPPO prosecutor for investigating their complex systemic multi minister corruption

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Canadian government obtains majority after by election wins, previous defections from opposition parties www.cbc.ca/news/politic...

Latest attack brings death toll from US strikes on vessels in the Pacific and Caribbean to at least 170 since September.

Doctors Without Borders (MSF) has warned that ongoing and expanding Israeli military attacks and control over the Gaza Strip are causing what it described as a deliberate pattern of destruction and “suffocation of life”. Read: www.middleeastmonitor.com/20260413-gaz...

‘Stagflationary shock’ from Iran war a ‘nightmare’ as confidence among Australian households crashes

Look I can armchair analyse this with the rest of the bluesky informed layperson community, also inclined to avoid analysis and just keep muttering why and what now every morning while experiencing the full spectrum of global existential dread imposed on us by the American regime without our consent

Tougher penalties are the default response to youth crime. But without understanding how young people – particularly First Nations children – learn and develop, punishment risks deepening the problem, John Frew writes. #auspol #YouthJustice #FirstNations #SocialPolicy #Crime

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Get in folks, because Peter Magyar is doing the Hungarian New Deal www.reuters.com/world/hungar...

Those US-Iran negotiations in a nutshell: Iran sent 4 PhDs to Islamabad. The US sent a real estate developer, a son-in-law, a lawyer and a general.

The extreme corporate corruption of an already rotten US foreign policy is quite something

🚨Just In | Lebanon Ministry of Health: The death toll from Israeli attacks on Wednesday has risen to 357 killed and 1223 wounded.

Colombia responds to Ecuador’s tariff hike with 100-percent import tax https://aje.news/3qigfa

I was taught to speak up about injustice. Thank you to Caitlin Cassidy and The Guardian fir taking me for a walk and allowing me to shine a light on the glaring injustice of how we fund public and private schools. www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...

Surreal times… as a lapsed Greek Orthodox on Greek Easter Saturday pondering *waves arms wildly* all of this, I repost the Pope for he seems to be fighting the good fight and well using his pulpit and the word of God quite forcefully to meet the moment…

Tens of thousands chant “Russians, go home!” at tonight’s anti-Orbán concert in Budapest’s Heroes’ Square ahead of Sunday’s Hungarian election.

Spoke to one of the teens involved in the high court case against the social media ban. Like most other kids he was able to get around the ban. www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

Tunisia and Libya planning an overland trade corridor. It begins at the Ras Jedir border crossing and extends through Libya to connect with Niger, Mali, Burkina Faso, Chad, and the Central African Republic, serving a population of over 150 million people.

The Atlantic’s “conveyor belt” is slowing. New observations from 16.5°–42.5°N show a two-decade, basin-wide decline in deep western overturning, the first robust observational evidence that the AMOC is weakening, confirming long-standing model predictions. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Taiwan's opposition leader meets China's Xi Jinping as both sides call for peace

According to official figures, some 24,000 Cuban doctors and other healthcare professionals were deployed in 56 countries in 2025.