Good. Now we need a wide-ranging investigation into the #ZionistMcCarthyism against academia, the media, arts & culture. There are too many instances of people like Dr Randa Abdel-Fattah having their careers and reputations trashed because they dare to challenge the pro-Israel lobby's orthodoxy.

"None of us will ever safe until all are safe. None of us will ever be free until all are free. Literally."

How power works in Australia. #auspol

2014— LNP: "People do have a right to be bigots. In a free country people do have rights to say things other people find offensive or insulting or bigoted." 2025— LNP: Pro-Palestine anti-genocide speech is Hate Speech! We never meant things that some white people might find offensive! #auspol

Not just the US. #auspol

And still the Australian political and media establishment refuses to ask the obvious question: Why are we still pursuing an ever-closer defence and foreign policy alliance with this fickle fascist regime? #AUKUS #auspol

This story should be framed not so much about ABC management's 'defence' of Tingle and Ferguson. But that the pro-Israel lobby and its proxies in politics and media continue to try to monster the public broadcaster into submission. #auspol www.theguardian.com/media/2025/d...

Only took them 4 years

Other things that Sussan Ley makes no apology for: - performing shamelessly for the Murdoch media and the #FarRight thugs in the Coalition - abandoning whatever principles she had when she was co-convenor of Parliamentary Friends of Palestine - sounding horribly, pathetically desperate. #auspol

One moral of this story is that being a media corporation who sucks up to Trump is not just morally bankrupt. It is really bad for business.

This is largely about the US. But stupid tax incentives in Australia - that the Albanese govt is too spineless to change - means we are heading in the same direction. #auspol

It's about this time when I start reflecting upon my favourite bird photos of the year. Whenever I visit Seattle, my son takes me to Juanita Bay Park - which is always great for birds. Lovely spot. Here's a rear view of an osprey hunting over the water there in July.

"shared values", @albomp.bsky.social ? #auspol

Note the language: • When Israel announces 19 new Israeli settlements in the occupied West Bank, the use of the word "approves" and the absence of the word "illegal". • When Putin annexes Crimea, the word "illegal" is in the headline. • The BBC is giving tacit approval to #IsraeliTerrorism. 😠

BREAKING: WATCH the full 60 Minutes CECOT segment here. This was sent to me anonymously. It appears to be the segment CBS' Bari Weiss killed. www.muellershewrote.com/p/watch-the-...

I find it sooooooooooo weird people are upset "Albo" was booed, and not that his government is eroding our democratic rights to appease the extremist genocidaires that booed him. Big picture. Focus on our democracy and rights, not the pride/image of an individual politician.

Yet more news of Israeli #warcrimes for western mainstream media to not report on.

Wouldn’t want to politicise this tragedy. That would be terribly crass.

Francesca Albanese is now speaking directly to you, @albomp.bsky.social @senatorwong.bsky.social @chrisminnsmp.bsky.social. Authentic leaders would listen and act accordingly to prevent such outcomes and respect international laws. That rules you lot out. #auspol #Bondi #GazaGenocide

CBS NEWS: “We can’t report on the current murdering spree until we get the serial killer’s side of the story.”

Are these some of the "international events" that NSW Premier Chris Minns refers to so dismissively? #GazaGenocide #nswpol

Good that ABC management is defending at least its senior journalists from unjustified attacks. But even better if they explained how they were no longer under the sway of the Israel lobby. #auspol www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

"Terrorism isn’t only an attack on lives, it is also an attack on confidence – confidence in institutions, in social trust and in the idea that democracies can remain both secure and free. If Bondi becomes just another episode of blame followed by forgetfulness, we’ll have failed ourselves." #auspol

Hello? [Cartoon by Rick McKee]

"Deepcut is but one new voice in an emerging independent landscape dedicated to truth and the common good. Consider others such as Ette Media, Cheek Media & The Shot. Internationally, Drop Site News, Zeteo & Novara Media." Great advice. And I'd add Lamestream. www.deepcutnews.com/p/how-to-sur...

American carnage.

While Australian politicians pretend this isn't happening, or like the NSW Premier, speak euphemistically of "international events", Israel's #EthnicCleansing of the #WestBank continues.

It's a sign of how debased our politics has become, that this challenge will be largely dismissed by the political and media class as just 'left wing activists', rather than people standing up for what used to be everyone's democratic rights. #nswpol #auspol www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

The Coalition has mistaken the unity it has found as a party and like minded political bedfellows over its response for actual unity. Its feverish rhetoric comes from the brief cohesiveness it’s discovered after so many fractures, rather than an organic groundswell. It also will not hold.

ICYMI, interview with drafter of IHRA definition, Kenneth Stern. Says the Segal plan for a 'university report card' on antisemitism is "a horrible place to go"; worries that the definition would be "used to try and stigmatize pro-Palestinian speech". #nswpol #auspol www.abc.net.au/listen/progr...

A white-plumed honeyeater on an old farm gate.

“If there is more intifada against genocide, there will be less genocide". #nswpol www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

The choice for the Federal Liberals: 1. Stick with a cynically opportunistic leader who once was a convenor of Parliamentary Friends of Palestine, but now channels Netanyahu to suck up to the Murdoch media, or 2. Change to a Christian nationalist who will take the party to the #FarRight. #auspol

If press gallery journos were honest: "We love to be players, and pretend we are not" "Many of us have had our views shaped by junkets to Israel" "When I write shit like 'The Jewish Australian community feels...', I am quoting self-appointed representatives, who really represent a foreign power."

Police "didn’t know what law they were planning to make any arrests under, so that helped. When the police finally got into the room, 'one officer started reading a section of the Town and Country Planning Act, which another officer asked him to stop reading because it wasn’t right'.” 😂

Narrator: His critics can't be satisfied. The criticism is the ends, not the means, where ghouls compete to see who can climb atop a pile of dead bodies to shout the loudest.

1/2 "The pro-Israel right has moved quickly & effectively to set the parameters of the political response to this tragedy. But the divisive measures proposed by Segal & Hanson make no-one safer. They will only hinder the real fight against antisemitism and put our community at risk" - Sarah Schwartz

A gentle reminder that the genocide and illegal activity by Israel in Palestine continues barely untroubled by a "ceasefire" www.bbc.com/news/article...

Scratch an Oz opinion writer and you’ll find a wannabe white nationalist authoritarian. Do they think one should fight antisemitism with even more indiscriminate racism? Yes they do. It’s obvious why none of them have a problem with Advance’s race-baiting.

Which was more likely to incite antisemitic violence: weekly pro-Palestinian marches attended by hundreds of thousands of citizens, or the televised devastation of Gaza? It's a fair question, but even asking it may soon be illegal.

A rabid Zionist is calling me sick and deranged for journaling truth. My entire year has been getting yelled at by these guys because I dont like kids being bombed. Sure, the ratio is satisfying, but it means nothing if our PM rolls over for their fascistic demands on our democracy, anyway.

Pantone just updated their Color Of The Year

Rabbi Eli Schlanger is STILL being praised on the ABC News website. This Zionist hate preacher openly celebrated Israel's #GazaGenocide, raised funds for illegal Israeli settlements in the #WestBank AND called for the ethnic cleansing of "Arabs" from Palestine bc "it's our land, it belongs to us." 😲

Dr Naama Blatman of @jewishcouncilau.bsky.social "called Minns' proposed reforms 'anti-protest laws' and said they would not make the community safer. 'These laws are borne of political pressure, not genuine consideration for safety'." There is no evidence to back Minns' repressive move. #nswpol

Denied bail for minor criminal damage (spraying paint on aircraft used in a genocide), 8 courageous prisoners are on hunger strike & close to death. Is the UK gvt willing to sacrifice Britain's reputation for liberalism to aid and abet Israel's genocide? www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

Anthony Albanese needs to tell Australians whether we still have "shared values" with the US. And if not, why TF are we going "full steam ahead" with #AUKUS and the 'alliance' with the fascist regime in Washington? Denmark now sees the US as a security threat. So should we. #auspol

My son’s new favourite game is playing doctor, or playing hospital. In it, he is in control and he performs, exactly, what was said and done to him, but on me. Kids are so vulnerable, and so much more perceptive than we like to imagine.

ICYMI: 1/2 "What we need is greater, more nuanced understanding of an age-old European prejudice culminating in the Holocaust, itself giving rise to a militarised Zionist state as refuge for Jews in what had been British Mandate Palestine, but a subsequent hell for its Palestinian inhabitants."

An absolutely magnificent Freudian slip! 🤌🏼