Trump: "[Iran] gave us a present, and the present arrived today. It was a very big present, worth a tremendous amount of money, and I'm not going to tell you what that present is, but it was a very significant prize" Is it a giant wooden horse?

the fact that it’s a strategic and tactical disaster has really distracted from the fact that this war is a criminal and immoral act of aggression that must be opposed

NACC lets Morrison off the hook, believing Ministers shouldn't be expected to "examine or interrogate" new proposals like Robodebt. They say Ministers also don't have the time or ability (??) to ensure programs are compliant with the law. What...do they think we're paying these people to do?

It will be historically significant that the Albanese government decided to spend its enormous political capital not on addressing systemic inequality but on mindless fealty to the demands of the United States and Israel. That is how it'll be remembered.

Why are our owls dying?? It’s all about which rat bait that you, your neighbours, your council, and pest controllers are using. Read this excellent article by @andrewstafford.bsky.social , with expert comment from myself among others. www.canberratimes.com.au/story/919290...

To restore democracy and create a fairer, safer, greener world, we need massive taxes on the ultra-rich. As in the 1940s. People get confused about this. The main purpose of such taxes is *not* to raise revenue. The point is to stop the few dominating the many. It's an essential democratic measure.

Quietly, calmly and forensically, BBC just dismantled the Trump communications shitshow on Iran. No hyperbole, just laying out an unprecedented military, diplomatic and reputational shambles. Worth a watch. (🎥 BBC News/BBC Verify)

"I had to punch that guy because I could tell he was going to hit me back once we jumped him" is just a description of jumping a guy

America first. Today’s Age cartoon

my local park is full of hundreds of snow sculptures and someone has been adding museum labels

And the Anti-Semitism Royal Commission’s terms of reference must be expanded to explicity address all forms of racist hate and white supremacist violence.

Words of concern are not enough. Where is the concrete action? Where is the coordinated response to white supremacist extremism?

We’ve seen neo-Nazis attack Camp Sovereignty, white supremacist terrorism unleashed against Aboriginal people on Invasion Day in Boorloo, and now our Muslim brothers and sisters being targeted during Ramadan. The Albanese Government must treat this as the national security threat it is.

If you care about heritage in space, you might have heard of For All Moonkind, run by Ole Miss law professor Michelle Hanlon. She's just published a blog saying that archaeologists have no contribution to make regarding heritage in space. spacelawandethics.substack.com/p/who-actual...

We'll say it again: "social cohesion", to those who chant it, means maintenance of the status quo which privileges them, and silencing of everyone else. In the mouth of a Labor MP, it is an expression of the deepest hypocrisy.

"Social cohesion is a scam, a strategy employed by the powerful to delegitimise and suppress the voices of the less powerful... If you are othered by powerful groups, you become the victim of cohesion, not the beneficiary; what you get from social cohesion is a punch from an armed official."

Yes, Mister Bunny’s performance was obviously political. But I think everything short of gargling a meth addicted klansman’s truck nuts comes across as an implicit denunciation of the president nowadays.

TODAY. Be there if you can - share endlessly if you can’t to fight the algo.

We gotta come up with a better system than “everything rests on whether these twelve billionnaires are nice”

The origin story of our current moment in American fascism is the creation of white fraternities—which exempted a piece of campus from race and gender integration and allowed the most powerful students to bond over their hateful ideologies and group violence.

If archaeologists with aerial surveying tech can find details of long lost civilizations that have been hidden under dense rainforest for thousands of years, they can send those drones over the back nine and see if anything is buried in that golf course.

If the government just 'did better', there wouldn't be this problem. There is no need to balance the interests of grifters against the well-being of the public because the grifters might wage war on you. The public will support a war on grifters any day.

Arising from Carney's speech, middle powers, including Australia, should issue coordinated statements of concern about rule-of-law breaches and the need to respect alliances. They should defend international institutions like WHO & the UN and accelerate strategic diversification away from the US.

They actually can’t lie more than they already do and video evidence is entirely meaningless, as the past few years of atrocities filmed in Gaza have shown.

9. We’ve become so used to all this that we hardly notice it. But isn’t it extraordinary? Almost everyone wants one thing, and almost everyone who represents us – whether in politics or the media – wants the opposite. Yet we tell ourselves we live in a democracy.

8. You cannot have both a free market in media ownership and a free market in information and ideas. The oligarchs who dominate the sector stifle inconvenient thoughts and promote the policies that protect their fortunes.

We don't hate Jews or Judaism, Greg. We hate genocide. We hate apartheid. We hate ethnic cleansing. We hate racism. We hate war. We hate terrorism. We hate settler-colonialism. We hate all these things that Israel was and is guilty of yesterday, today and tomorrow. We want Israel to stop.

If your peace plan includes Vladimir Putin and excludes actual allies, it’s not peace. It’s submission.

Today we will see the clamouring of politicians, all desperate to appease the lobbyists of a foreign govt, blaming the “cultural left” for the human toll of hatred. So I’m posting this to demonstrate what an Australian leader looks like (cc @albomp.bsky.social - watch & learn) #auspol

This opens up wider questions about how far the UK and Canada in the 5 eyes intel sharing framework as well as other former allies of the United States can still provide the Americans with any sensitive intelligence information at all

This would be genuinely hilarious. And the best thing is, you don't even have to be American - international trophies are accepted!

It's now time to thank the Special Envoy into Anti-semitism for her time, and allow her to pursue other opportunities. The project she was disgracefully pursuing has now essentially collapsed when confronted with the first test of the body politic.

"My community’s security will not be possible at the expense of others. That is not safety. It is scapegoating."

"Move fast and break things," say the people who, in an uncanny coincidence, are responsible for breaking the entire planet at a terrifying speed.

I’m profoundly uninterested in the “cultural safety” of the status quo, especially when that culture is predicated on a violent, racist and discriminatory dominance. You do not get to invoke this language to erase those already disadvantaged and discriminated against - it is entirely obscene.

Statement: Jewish Council Condemns Adelaide Festival Removal of Dr. Randa Abdel-Fattah

Well I didn't think I'd be reading about a literal dick-measuring contest today, but

🧵In my expert opinion as a researcher of vehicle ramming attacks, what has been publicly described in the video evidence does not support the claim that Renee Nicole Good was attempting a deliberate ramming attack when she was shot in Minneapolis on January 7, 2026. 1/7

My gut feeling about the Fermi paradox is that, due to some fluke of stellar evolution, we are amongst the first generation of intelligent species. Statistically unlikely, but somebody has to be first to the party.

THREAD: I'll fact-check all the viral misinformation about the US military operation in Venezuela in this thread This image, purporting to show the US military arresting Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro, is AI-generated. According to Google's SynthID detector, it was created using Google AI.

They're seeing 1) how the world reacts 2) how Congress reacts 3) if there is any formidable legal or military opposition 4) if they can normalize it like they tried to do with the Gaza genocide (I don't think that succeeded, and their attempts to normalize Epstein are succeeding even less)

Once you have pulled the trigger you are in and they own you.

There's no other credible position available

The world must boycott the World Cup and the Olympics. It is both the only moral choice and will actually get the attention of these dead-eyed clout demons.

It would be practically and legally impossible to hold a royal commission that goes anywhere near the actions or motivations of the accused killer, before his criminal proceedings are concluded, which could take years. That limitation would render the royal commission itself pointlessly premature.

Incredibly moving interview with Sydney philosophy professor Peter Slezak, son of Holocaust survivors. “Recognising Palestine was the right thing to do - in fact it was long overdue. How on earth can that be connected to two mass murders who commit an atrocity?”

As we watch the capitulation of the Australian media, it’s worth remembering that Israel has murdered almost 300 journalists

If you have a moment I’d be very grateful if you read this.