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"All but one of the 102 antisemitism complaint letters we have analyzed focus on speech critical of Israel." Civil Rights Act of 1964 "repurposed [..] to remake higher education in line with [..] right-wing political and cultural agenda." #USA #Gaza #Palestine #Israel #Protest #Education #Genocide

This is a handy small thread

If nothing else, we can take comfort in the fact that these wanna be nazis have *no new ideas*

Just so we're all straight His secret government documents alleged theft hearing was two days ago, today was his alleged Tas car theft hearing, his alleged two counts of rape charges in QLD hearing is early 2026 and his defamation appeal hearing is August next year I mean, seriously . . . .

www.abc.net.au/news/2025-11... Energy Shift #wind

I'm hard-pressed to think of a non-Jewish Democratic politician who has spoken to Jews with more respect and empathy than Mamdani. The fact that many Jewish establishment orgs are going after him while staying relatively mum on resurgent Nazism is a disaster, both for American Jews and in general.

Hundreds of students & faculty members in Canada have faced repression for speaking out Israel's crimes against humanity and genocide. @drsabreena.bsky.social and I and several others lost their jobs. And now this U of T. I don't know what to say anymore.

The CPSU have also done bugger-all work on this for years other than to say the CES should come back. Get serious and involve yourselves please.

Just about everything good about Australia right now traces back to Whitlam. It’s been undermined by every government since, to varying degrees. It says a lot about the magnitude of change that he engendered that any of his legacy remains.

they worked out great. NOW it's xmas. I've gone fully nativity.

trying out speculaas style xmas biscuits. this is them uncooked.

Very sad that Cheney passed away before any one of hundreds, maybe thousands, of people whose lives he fucked up, got to strangle him to death.

Taking the lead from my favourite Irish documentary/horror film maker, I am deleting this app (Bluesky) from my phone, for the sake of my own mental well-being. It is my last remaining social media app. It will remain on my desktop - for now. Adios, see you all less frequently.

I knew this wouldn't last. It was too good to be true. But it doesn't change that @leximcmenamin.com is one of my favorite political reporters and I will be a faithful reader. We need to figure out our own media economy...there isn't a single honest MSM outlet left

And there it is. Vogue laid off @leximcmenamin.com, leaving TV without anyone on politics bsky.app/profile/lexi...

"The ‘60 Minutes’ interview with Trump showcased everything that is wrong with US political interviews in general. The deferential tone. The lack of preparation. The failure to ask follow-up questions or dig deep into answers. The inability (unwillingness?) to fact-check in real time."

"Factchecking Trump on '60 Minutes'" In today's 'First Draft' morning newsletter from Zeteo, I counted and debunked at least *17 obvious, brazen lies* that the president told CBS's Norah O'Donnell, and that she just let slide:

Just a quick update to the list.

"...we became the terror of tyrants & the masters of our destinies. (...) at the tragic cost of 38 lives, we had already toppled a gvmnt. (...), with the state seemingly dissolving around us— re-appearing only sporadically in the form of murderous repression— we got a glimpse of the new world."

the meme that it's environmentalists blocking clean energy is an reality-spinning lie roughly on par with the idea that gas is a climate solution, in just how obscenely wrong it is, but how confidently it's stated, and how widely it's believed by dumb-smart-guys

Allowing "blood libel" to be generalised from a very specific Medieval European conspiracy into "anybody getting mad at me ever" is one of the most shocking pieces of historical revisionism of my life

Out of respect for Exxon's modesty, please don't share this!

Protest peacefully and be demonised. Threaten the safety of the Táinaiste's home and family, attempt to burn innocent people to death, and be placated and offered a seat at the table and asked what your concerns are. This seems to be the choice.

DECADES IN THE MAKING... Ignored by Democrats! "battle-tested" on the bodies of Palestinians, now used against Americans www.thecanary.co/skwawkbox/20...

“As Canadian as haircuts and cheese”

I should have known that the "someone who said this" was @caitoz.bsky.social

This is the House minority leader... believe him Trust him. If the DNC is rejecting the most inspirational and enthusiastic politician in over a decade, then we should reject them. If Mamdani isn't the future of the party, then the party has no future.

SNAP doesn't exist to help poor people really but to keep them alive to keep working. SNAP being like "You can't treat poor people better" as part of the deal makes it clear. We need SNAP back but we also need eating to be a right not just gatekept small sums of money.

Taps the "Politico is owned by German Nazis" sign. Posting links to their articles is like posting links to the Daily Stormer

For additional context 1) Over €100m of overpayments *was* recovered 2) 75% of the unrecoverable payments were to people who are now dead 3) the vast, vast majority of such payments are down to errors by the Dept, not fraud by the dead.

The people who run Bluesky are not as obviously evil as Musk and Zuckerberg, but they're not our friends and they are using us for whatever it is they are trying to do, and whatever that is will almost certainly not be anything positive for people like me and you.

I've been on Bluesky for almost two & a half years now. Initially, I jokingly compared it to methadone, as against the heroin of prime period Twitter. Now I don't think it's a joke. Bluesky is methadone; not as fun or useful as Twitter was when it worked, but just as addictive & just as bad for you.

How I described this in April "The world’s oil producers know they are in for trouble trying to make profits on oil and are painting a rosy picture for investors about how they will all just buy and sell LNG to each other even if there are no end users for the LNG."

"These entities sign contracts without necessarily having final consumers, creating a floating layer of LNG volumes circulating between regions. This flexibility, while balancing the market in tight conditions, can amplify financial pressure on portfolio buyers during price collapses."

Great @jasonkoebler.bsky.social piece here on Meta's generative advertising systems - to me, a really REALLY stark illustration of how GenAI enables *massive* volumes of content - all of which will come at a phenomenal, eye-watering energy cost (particularly video) www.404media.co/the-future-o...

Check out my two-parter on Meta's emissions in @crikey.com.au if you're keen to learn about their incredibly active efforts to ensure all of this is powered specifically by fossil fuels www.crikey.com.au/2025/09/29/m... www.crikey.com.au/2025/10/03/m...

One of the arguments made for why it's okay to steal copyrighted IP to train an AI is that it's like educating a child. First of all, no, because no child has read millions of books and retains all of them. Second of all, when you educate a child, you don't then OWN that child. Currently.

You know what's exempt from Labor's enviro laws? AUKUS. Apparently the US alliance controls even this. The damage cause by a nuclear waste dump can literally be written off if the Environment Minister wants to.

"if you think that cancelling the subsistence people on Centrelink are forced to live on will make a domestic... abuser more likely to hand themselves in, and not subject their loved ones to an even more extreme...form of abuse, you do not understand abusers, or living with one"

Even if she’s talking about England, she seems to be worried about the Welsh and the Scots - the two parts that make britain’Great’.

I think the only thing of interest regarding E Musk’s racist lies is psychological. Why make up such easily disprovable bullshit? Is it to prove to himself govts are too afraid to call him out? Or because he is mentally and emotionally aged 8-12 years old?

Look folks gen AI videos are out in the wild so if you weren't already being careful about sharing rage bait videos then now is a great time to start If you can't trace a video back to a trusted source then I recommend leaving it where it is, like a slice of bologna you found on the street

Good morning beautiful people! If you’re in Sydney or Melbourne, PARA is looking for furniture donations for Palestinian refugees. If you don’t have any furniture to donate, they have options to purchase items for the families directly. See below, poke me if you have questions.

God knows how many times this has happened: Zero. Much like Vance lying about Haitian immigrants eating people's pets, this is 100% racist bullshit being spewed by an unabashed white nationalist. Congrats to everyone who patronizes the Nazi bar he runs.

Again, this precise use case is why these systems exist-to proliferate people’s racist (transphobic, misogynistic…) imaginary at scale. This should not be seen as a “misuse” but rather the product being used exactly as intended.

For those keeping count, Simon Harris "took to social media" to decry the shooting of Charlie Kirk the following day. He's gone cycling today, apparently.

We have never been beggars, but the situation in Gaza is beyond imagination. I ask for your support, help, and for you to share the link. gofund.me/20dee64f6

5/ Both the nazis &/or the organisers of the March for White Australia have announced that January 26 is their next Big Day Out, & if the attack on Camp Sovereignty (to date, 15 ppl, inc NSN fueher Tom Sewell, have been charged over the event) hasn't alerted you to their intent, I dunn0 what will.