It is truly astounding how much they want to hurt people

The abundance of evidence of the Biden administration just looking the other way and being willing to supply arms to actions they knew violated international law will continue to grow

Yes and yet several European countries are embracing a far-right worldview that would burn these policies to the ground, so let’s be not be smug or complacent here - particularly as Mamdani‘s pro-immigration stance is radical by European standards.

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Ahh heck 💔

As a Jew who works on stuff like human rights and international law, it is such a breath of fresh air to have one candidate willing to find a first principles, human rights-based answer on Israel and repeat it endlessly for a very, very long year, trusting that many Jews understand and agree

The views of the average pro-Palestinian student broadly match what the academic literature says, what international courts say, what the relavant UN officials & orgs say and what the relevant NGOs say. It is views of Clinton and her peers in Western capitals which are largely divorced from reality.

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Neo-conservativism presaged Trumpian neo-fascism in several respects. It saw violence as a positive policy option not a defensive last resort. It held laws, norms and the lives of non-white people in total contempt. And many, many centrists either cringed in deference to it or actively collaborated.

I think it's so awesome that print and digital media is ran by evil people

The US-sponsored framework of "ceasefire" agreements with Israel is predicated upon one theme: the Arabs cease, and Israel still fires. Sooner or later, this investment in being Israel's lawyer and arms dealer will become verboten in the domestic sense, and what will Israel do if Arabs respond?

@4boat.bsky.social thanks so much for the repost ❤️🙏🏻

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I would humbly put forward that it is not a coincidence that the best US politicians on Palestine are also the best US politicians on Sudan

I’m in total agreement. For the average white person to put their bodies on the line to push back against American fascism takes a substantial escalation in the political climate, particularly if they are not immediately the targets of the fash.

I gotta be real, I did not suspect we would reach "roving mobs of white folks chanting "shame" at ICE" within 9 months, and it really feels like a sign of how much more horrifying it must be on the ground than those of us not there can even imagine.

you know what I was just saying about how only white men are permitted to embody the American Working Class

Begging people to understand how big of a deal a net 40-point shift against Israel among your base within two years is for the Democratic Party

Thread of required reading

The standard pro-Israel complaint was previously directed toward protesters as “what about Sudan” — now it seems to be “OK now you’re talking about Sudan but picking the wrong side”

Western governments preferred to break the world, destroy every institution that uplifted human rights in some capacity, just so they didnt have to extend those human rights to us. Think about that.

Can’t speak to the accuracy of everything in this. I’m not an insider - have just taken my own kid out to Cambridge for lessons - but I’m glad to see this Tasmanian private pilot touch on what the loss of Par Av Flight training means for the state 😔 #politas landingareas.com.au/pft?fbclid=I...

An interesting analysis which makes the case that Hamas is prepared to engage in a Northern-Ireland style decommissioning process of its offensive arsenal if Europe and the Arab mediators are willing to exert the necessary pressure to ensure the political components are dealt with accordingly.

Israel has bombed Gaza again. 104 Palestinians are dead. Critical aid being let into Gaza remains far below agreed levels.

I will never understand how both Libs and Labour are supporting a stadium but we have a horribly understaffed and underfunded healthcare system. People are experiencing massive delays accessing MRIs, mental health professionals and specialist appointments. #Politas needs to do better

Israel is going to keep bombing Gaza and making our efforts at diplomacy loon stupid and embarrassing until we actually take away their toys. Which the President can do with a simple phone call to his Secretary of Defense or his Secretary of State, or both with the miracle of a conference call.

There are no examples of genocidaires willingly ending a genocide and Israel is no exception. Unless Israel is turned into a pariah state and diplomatic and trade relations severed, the genocide will continue.

Want it noted that every single critic of this investigation's conclusion was correct

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A new poll puts us in second place! With 7 MSPs we delivered free bus travel under 22s, ended peak rail fares, banned new incinerators, increased taxes on the rich, scrapped school meal debt, introduced rent controls, and much more. Imagine what we could do with double that. 👀

If Labour is continuing to lose votes, just got 11% in a by-election in a seat they've held for 100 years and in a few recent polls is equal to or just behind the Greens maybe we should stop suggesting they're the only thing that can defeat Reform.

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Everyone got pissed off about discussion of it at the time, but seeing as Labour have been election obsessed since day one - the gov majority is a house built on sand, and their one job (electorally) was to shore up the foundations, something they are doing the opposite of.

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I don’t know who the ‘we’ is in this headline because every serious analysis I’ve read has said this throughout…

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A bit of spring colour for the timeline 🩷

Love to see that the Tasmanian Aboriginal palawa kani place names map has had a whole makeover. Great user info, a better layout, it's beautiful. tacinc.com.au/map/map (Of course, I discovered the update because an article in press has the old URL in a footnote & it's too late to change it...)

What is even the point of the Labor Party? 🙃

Straya!!! Albanese, Bowen and Watt helping break the world record. Go ALP.

Intentionally triple-tapping a group of easily identifiable journalists who are IN A HOSPITAL can in no possible scenario be described as an "error".

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One of the Eastern rosella pair nesting in the trees over the road from us must have been hit by a car because we found it dead by the kerb, and now we keep seeing the its mate sitting alone on a wire chirping - and I am trying not to anthropomorphise but I am still not sure my heart can take it 😭

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A full 24 hours later and I’ve just realised that when I was listening to the news on the car radio yesterday they said Albanese and Trump would be discussing “critical minerals and AUKUS” not “critical minerals and orcas”. 💀💀💀