"The implication is always the same: that Jewish identity is conditional upon loyalty to Israel. This is deeply dangerous. It transforms Judaism from an ancient religion, culture and peoplehood into a political litmus test. It also implicates all Jews in support of Israel’s crime." #auspol

“The Washington Post revealed leaked documents from Russian troll farms tasked with creating social media messages designed to turn US public opinion against funding for Ukraine. The messages were to suggest that support for Ukraine would be detrimental to the interests of white people in the US.”

Tom Morello absolutely nailing it RATM!

Conning your own support base seems like a particularly stupid business and political strategy.

"We need our institutions, all the way up to our governments, to adjust their current focus from fighting 'antisemitism' to fighting all forms of bigotry that threaten to drive us towards fascistic states" @lucyham.bsky.social #FarRight #auspol lucyham29.substack.com/p/western-ci...

and the western political and media establishment ..... does nothing.

1/2 The wonderful Loud Jew Collective has been designated not Jewish enough to speak at the Royal Commission, so it’s on us to spread their media release. The RC is promoting the establishment messaging and silencing dissent. Please share this. #Auspol

Texas’ politically-motivated detransition clinic “ignores the actual science and years of data about the overwhelming benefits of gender-affirming care.” It's also a cruel, pointless gesture attacking a vulnerable population. Which is, of course, the point. www.texastribune.org/2026/05/15/t...

Must read for anyone concerned about human rights and social justice. Australians should not feel complacent. One Nation and an increasingly far-right, Trumpist and culture-warring Coalition would go the same way. It's started in Australia's Texas: Queensland. #TransRightsAreHumanRights #auspol

Ask #FirstNations for solutions: "adequate support for kinship care, enough housing to go around and family support programs that are effective". Plus fixing poverty, racism & intergenerational trauma, with community-controlled services. But NT govt is forcing through leg. that will do more harm.

Stephen Colbert and David Letterman throwing things off the Ed Sullivan Theater. Colbert: “Anything you’d like to say, Dave?” Letterman: “In the words of the great Edward R. Murrow to CBS: ‘Good night and good luck, motherfuckers.’”

"The 80-bed facility was run by MSF for more than 3 decades. The only sec. healthcare centre in the region, it offered life-saving care including maternal and paediatric services... severe malnutrition and malaria... ~250,000 people depended on it." www.theguardian.com/global-devel... #SouthSudan

This exchange raises the broader question: Why has the royal commission, Federal & State govts, universities and other institutions uncritically accepted the IHRA definition? Especially when the principal author has warned it would be weaponized to suppress dissent. www.abc.net.au/listen/progr...

Angus Hanson. Superb from David Pope. #auspol

This is not just history. As the Netanyahu regime pursues its 'greater Israel project', the Nakba continues today. And still the world does nothing.

After Trump's wanton destruction of what remains of the US Constitution's First Amendment - aided and abetted by CBS - this is a very reasonable response.

"Why is Australia competing?" Wrong question. Why is Australia not boycotting? #GazaGenocide

"What economic policy do we expect from someone who spends her time flying to Mar-a-Lago, accepting a plane from Gina Rinehart, and vilifying anyone on income support?" But while Hanson & Taylor vilify anyone on income support, Albo ignores them. Not a recipe for 'social cohesion'. #RaiseTheRate

🧵. And any anti-BlueSky journalist who is still wallowing in the sewer that is X has zero authority to critique anything.

UK Labour = Titanic Wes Streeting = another deckchair.

In the depths of late stage capitalism - a small victory. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

BHP tried to get us into court today. They Failed

Someone on Trump's staff had to explain 'Thucydides Trap' to him, and the Sundowning Stalin tries to show that he knew all along. Because he is so good at differentiating between a giraffe, an elephant and a squirrel.

Well Done Angus must be a sleeper agent for One Notion. How else to explain his move to kill off the Liberal party so quickly? #auspol

Goodnight Bluesky

"Laura Tingle’s analysis of the killing of journalists by Israel has been found to be 'duly impartial'" Now investigate who organized 56 identical complaints, their links to similar campaigns against journalists, artists, writers and academics and Israel's coordinated foreign interference. #auspol

Riding bikes is 10X more important than electric cars for reaching net-zero cities. And that’s just the climate emissions. Doesn’t include the massive public & personal cost difference, the air & noise pollution difference, the massive space difference, etc, etc…Via @theconversation.bsky.social

We’ve had so many hummingbird moths at the nursery and I’m loving it. Such amazing insects. #moth #insects

Yes every past and present member of the LNP male or female has the morals of an alley cat.

“Angus Taylor’s proposal is a race to the bottom with the far right." Shamefully, that's all he's got. #racism #auspol

Worth remembering Australians pay a low rate of income tax compared to other advance economies. You would have to earn more than $200,000 before you start paying more tax in Australia than in the USA We are a low taxing nation. Automatic tax cuts each year will only reduce govt services.

All bluff and bluster of course from Mr Genocide. But if Netanyahu really did sue the NY Times, the discovery process may be quite useful for his appointment with the ICC. www.theguardian.com/world/2026/m...

“A cohort of entitled extremists who refuse to take responsibility for a genocidal position while presenting as a group of marginalised victims is hard to stomach.”

Managing aspirations. My @smh cartoon.

A detailed report on rape against Palestinians was published by the New York Times earlier this week. Prem Thakker & Minnah Arshad examine the media’s double standards in covering sexual violence in the Middle East & the lack of accountability for Israeli perpetrators. 🔗: zeteo.com/p/the-medias...

"Many Australians would be surprised to learn that non-citizens are eligible for welfare" dogwhistles Well Done Angus. Many Australians would be unsurprised to learn that Taylor has zilch besides dodgy numbers, far-right scare tactics, racism, and a pathetic effort to go lower than Hanson. #auspol

Politicians often have a specific tell when they lie. Could be a key word, a hand gesture, an eye movement. For Well Done Angus, it's when he uses the phrase: "But the truth is..." #auspol #abc730

"Are charges of antisemitism to be reserved for those who challenge power, or who oppose the genocide in Gaza? If so, this is deeply disturbing. Using antisemitism for political purposes devalues the meaning and urgency of this terrible ideology."

#Auspol Angus just announced the return of the White Australia Policy

apparently knowledge institutions that employ thousands of experts on racism, colonialism, and geopolitics did not conform to a specific form of words acceptable to this one tiny powerful lobby group who provide cover for a livestreamed genocide. www.abc.net.au/news/2026-05...

ABC reported on input to the commission from the "left wing" Jewish Council of Australia. If support for universal human rights and international law are considered left wing, many JCA members would wear the label with pride. But notable the media rarely names pro-Israel lobby groups "right wing".

"Commentators can’t bring themselves to use the word 'class'. Economic inequality, rather than generational inequality, is our biggest problem" 💥🎯💯 I'm old enough to remember when Labor talked class. Even Albo, when he was still pretending to fight Tories. #auspol www.crikey.com.au/2026/05/14/c...

Unemployment is *built into this system*, so the idea that everyone’ll be employed is insulting nonsense. Aspirational propaganda. Raise the rate. Do some good.

We know that Well Done Angus is in a race to the bottom of the political barrel with One Notion. But does he realise how stupid he sounds? #auspol

Chalmers has been talking up trying to reduce the difference between how much wage earners and investors pay in tax. The Treasury did some research to show just how big the difference is. I cover it in my column www.theguardian.com/business/gro...

More accurate headline: ‘Taylor promises to increase homelessness, poverty, illness and crime.’ His strategy to look more cruel and racist than One Notion won’t win back any seats. Voters scared of “mass migration” will go for the original. #auspol thenightly.com.au/politics/ang...

APAN, the voice of the Palestinian community in Australia has been refused leave appear at the RC on antisemitism and social cohesion. Denying Palestinian Australians who have had relatives slaughtered in the Israeli genocide in Gaza is a denial of natural justice,

An accurate summary of the aim of the royal commission.

"The material conditions that allowed a party like One Nation to rise are not going away, making the question of how its opponents respond more pressing than ever." #auspol