"if 'Shariah New York' means taxing stagnant wealth, banning exploitation, guaranteeing food and healthcare, and ensuring freedom of belief—then perhaps America could use a bit more of it. Because justice, after all, isn’t foreign. It’s the foundation of every great civilization"

“The rich get breezy upper stories with the view, pool and state-of-the-art amenities, while the poor are hidden away downstairs with a discreet entrance and no access to facilities” What was that about Australia not having a class system? #inequality #auspol www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

Zohran Mamdani will continue 'standing up' for transgender people as New York City mayor www.advocate.com/pol... #transgender #trans #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA

#TransRightsAreHumanRights ...but not in the US, where the Supreme Court has been steadily eroding rights for anyone who isn't a straight white cis man.

I'm sorry - who are you, and what have you done with the real MTG?

"Charles was a very active participant in the dismissal of Gough Whitlam 50 years ago...He was not politically neutral." @johnmenadue.com Mainstream media has been focused on the Andrew scandal. It's time©️ they paid as much attention to the king's meddling. #auspol johnmenadue.com/post/2025/11...

Defining picture of this president.

"Does Australian politics need a Mamdani-style shake-up?" Yes. #auspol www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

Rep. Yassamin Ansari has set up a table and this sign outside Speaker Johnson’s office.

"Australia has, to its credit, been a global leader in opposing the death penalty. ...So if Israel passes this horrific death penalty law, it is yet another reason for Canberra to end its timidity and impose sanctions on this rogue state." @barnsgreg.bsky.social johnmenadue.com/post/2025/11...

“The world will see Jews living in peace under a Muslim just like they did in Palestine before the Zionists came. And then they will understand that it’s Zionism that is the problem” — A Jewish voter in New York

Nice line from Rachel Withers: "Insiders say there will be a leadership challenge in the new year either way, with conservatives still deciding which generic-looking A-hole (Angus or Andrew) to back."

The Australian Antisemitism Envoy Jillian Segal remains in witness protection. But fascinating to see how her "monitoring" proposals are reflected in this absurd idea from Jonathan Greenblatt of the US ADL. No surprise that Zionist McCarthyites share ideas on silencing criticism of Israel. #auspol

UK publication day for the paperback edition of The Forever War. Two new chapters on Trump 2.0 and the 2024 election. The Trump presidency has been 250 years in the making. If you look at US history in a different light, as I try to do so in the book his shocking presidency isn’t such a shock.

One of my favourite shots I have taken. A beautiful Great Grey Owl flying straight towards me. #wildlife #wildlifephotography #birds #birdphotography #photography

Perfection from Pope. #auspol

What he looks forward to far more is his next bribe from AIPAC.

When Greenblatt mentions the "right Jews", he means those who unquestioningly support corrupt war criminal Netanyahu and Israel's #GazaGenocide.

"Israel is still blocking humanitarian groups from delivering the aid necessary to alleviate the suffering of Palestinians in Gaza" notes @caitoz.bsky.social . But following the so-called 'ceasefire', most media ignores Israel continuing the #GazaGenocide. www.caitlinjohnst.one/p/israel-is-...

Sometimes I let YouTube's algorithm take me on a musical journey and down, down, down the rabbit hole I go. In honor of NY's spiffy new mayor, Zohran Mamdani💙: www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoh3...

💥🎯🍾 @fionakatauskas.bsky.social on #ZohranMamdani www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

"Incentivising new fossil fuel production, implementing weak, offset-ridden policies, and seizing up at a critical moment of coal power elimination are all notable climate failures". But media's obsession with LNP conflict, and failure to grasp 'net zero', lets Labor get way with climate murder.

Amen.

Cathy identifies yet another case of bad hasbara. But so many Australian journalists who focus on the Middle East still seem incapable of moving beyond "Israel says...". 🙄😬

Newsom’s social media team is on a level we’ve never seen before

The released prisoner of war, Roman, embraces his children. He had been held in Russian captivity since February 24, 2022. 📹 Serhii Nuzhnenko/X

The Albanese government is going all out to keep the public uninformed about anything #AUKUS. The mainstream media will never say the obvious, so allow me: the secretive sycophancy of both Labor and LNP to the US & UK is a huge threat to our national security. And national interests. #auspol

"Wow", indeed. Seems that Merrick Garland was not just blindsided, but blind.

Zohran Mamdani polled +40% on men under 30. So we wasted all that time on all those think pieces about how we need a Joe Rogan for the left, when what we actually needed were *policies* for the left.

No matter matter what individuals believe about climate change, one thing thats for certain is that their insurance company believes in it #climate thepoint.com.au/news/251106-...

"I see a man who makes the previously politically invisible feel seen, and who is at the very least willing to try to make the world better than how he found it." @marisakabas.bsky.social beautifully captures the joyous but cautious optimism of the moment. www.thehandbasket.co/p/zohran-mam...

The IDF is a State Sponsor of Terrorism. Labor's new laws allow them to be listed as such, so let's get on with it!

'And Jesus said unto the righteous: Bring me your whistleblowers, your #FOI requests, your corruption allegations ....and I will cast them into the pit of hell so the government can avoid all accountability' #auspol

If Mamdani succeeds in providing New Yorkers with free city buses, free childcare, cheaper groceries, and rent freezes ...there might be more than a few MAGA voters who decide that - compared to what Trump is delivering - this "communism" isn't so bad. 😆

So much direct testimony of Israel's atrocities against children. So much deliberate avoidance or excusing by western political and media establishment. No-one can say they didn't know. #GazaGenocide

"When will the Australian Govt impose sanctions on Israel for its failure to comply with international humanitarian law?" One of ten essential questions the govt needs to answer on our dealings with Israel. But our craven media are asking none of them. #GazaGenocide johnmenadue.com/post/2025/11...

"Mamdani has forged a coalition that allows Americans who disagree in their ultimate vision for Palestine and Israel to work together to end unconditional US support for Israel. In the coming years, that coalition could change the Democratic Party, and American politics, as a whole." Long overdue.

Our message to Andrew Cuomo was loud & clear in June. It’s louder & clearer tonight.

It's on pay-per-view 👀

Andrew Cuomo was practicing racist hate speech the right way - by Ezra Klein

What Jonathan said ....is beautifully demonstrated right throughout Mamdani's victory speech. ICYMI, well worth a listen. www.youtube.com/watch?v=kOQT...

Attacking trans people is proving an ineffective distraction when Republicans increasingly "bear the blame for rising costs, unpopular tariffs, ICE’s horrific actions, the declining healthcare system, abortion restrictions, all the Trump administration’s relentless controversies, and so much more."

A black-fronted dotterel at Lake Hattah.

"will the Democratic leadership take the right lessons from this tsunami and double down on progressive politics that address the people’s needs, or continue to suck at the teat of the broligarchy and corporate donors?"

And in Australia, the major political parties give us a 'choice' between - opposition who rejects the science on the #ClimateCrisis and prioritizes fossil fuel profits, or - government who says they accept the science on the #ClimateCrisis but prioritizes fossil fuel profits. #gaslighting #auspol

Now that Mamdani has to govern, "this might scare the Democratic establishment: not because Mamdani could fail, but because he could succeed. Perhaps the only thing they would hate more than bad socialist government, one suspects, is good socialist government." 💥🎯 @moiradonegan.bsky.social

Can journalists stop labelling politicians like Hastie, Joyce, Canavan, and Antic as "conservative". They are the opposite: radical right misogynist ideologues following American christo-fascist campaigning to strip women [and anyone else who isn't a straight white man] of their rights. #auspol

As Israeli terrorism ramps up in the #WestBank, western governments continue to do.....nothing.

"A story where no one is left behind." Sound familiar @albomp.bsky.social ? What a pity that you said it, you didn't mean it. #poverty #inequality #auspol