Think about how little Washington is paying attention to this & then imagine if any other nation did it. Israel just kidnapped nearly 200 people from around the world in international waters near Greece. And it did what many are calling "piracy" all to defend its other crime: its blockade of Gaza.

Everyone needs to read A Narrative Of Denial www.mup.com.au/books/a-narr...

Israel abducted nearly 200 people from the Global Sumud Flotilla in international waters, with many activists accusing Greece, a NATO member, of complicity after Israeli forces intercepted the boats. Among those kidnapped is Zeteo contributor Alex Colston. Read the story: zeteo.com/p/gaza-floti...

The Supreme Court has effectively gutted Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act, the last remaining major provision of the landmark 1965 law. “This is central to whether or not we maintain a multiracial democracy in this country,” says lawyer and civil rights activist Maya Wiley.

Attorney and civil rights activist Maya Wiley responds to the Justice Department’s fraud case against the Southern Poverty Law Center, which centers on the group’s history of paying individuals to infiltrate white supremacist groups in order to monitor their activities.

The return to Jim Crow is already starting. This is akin to Texas immediately implementing a new voter ID law that allowed someone to vote with a gun permit but not a student ID hours after Shelby County decision

Pianist Jayson Gilham up for 60k for his court transcripts and the $ goes to a foreign multinational for AI - as with Simon Turner v BHP #whatsthescam with 'open justice' #auspol michaelwest.com.au/whats-the-sc...

How the ABC left $2.2B on the table with BBC deal on Bluey. Have Aussies got a thing for letting foreigners carve up our assets ... ie gas? @joshbarnettmw.bsky.social explores. #auspol michaelwest.com.au/how-bluey-be...

I wonder why politicians aren't canning the negative gearing and CGT discount rorts for the wealthy? It's a mystery. #auspol www.abc.net.au/news/2024-10...

Just a reminder that here in Victoria after the recent High Court decision we have no system for the regulation or disclosure of political donations and we have a State Election in November. www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

That booing on ANZAC day was terrible says the RSL - so we are going to give in to it and let local RSLs cut the welcome to country. The worst response to ugly racist meanness. www.abc.net.au/news/2026-04...

Six of the world’s biggest fossil fuel companies are on track to make almost $3,000 in profits every single second this year, according to a new report, as households across the world grapple with soaring energy prices and inflation, which are driving a cost-of-living crisis. https://cnn.it/499vXza

FOI confirms Donald Trump's grab of Australians' biometric data is even bigger than feared. Bernard Keane hopes his latest intel will prompt questions of our PM and Foreign Minister. www.crikey.com.au/2026/04/27/d...

Was 'amused' by his categorising the horrors of Gaza as not being perpetrated by those from liberal democracies! Obviously what Israelis are doing is compatible with Australian values!

Shocking contrast between mainstream media coverage of (ex Harvard Pres) Claudine Gay and Hind Rajab’s murder. From @ahjohnson.bsky.social “How to sell a genocide”

BHP’s lawyers Minter Ellison have threatened coal miner Simon Turner with legal proceedings for ‘breach of confidence’ over an MWM story. Latest twist in David v Goliath court case. #auspol #BHP #coal #pettifogging michaelwest.com.au/bhp-threaten...

Another outstanding conversation with @ahjohnson.bsky.social NYT & WSJ = the worst incitement to genocide in this US assessment. No surprise for Murdoch w fossil fuel investments in greater Israel & part of Islamophobia Networks since 90s? 2001? That WSJ messaging carried over in The Australian.

Liberal leader Angus Taylor defends Farrer preference deal putting One Nation ahead of community independent Michelle Milthorpe as “worst best option”. With PHON ahead in voter surveys this gives racist/divisive Porleen/Beetrooter party a strong chance to take Farrer.

If the lesson of these wars is that empire, occupation, imperial machinery and industrialised violence against civilians are unconscionable and catastrophic - that lesson applies today just as much as 1915. Lest we forget means nothing if it only looks backwards.

Also did you see this? A different set of graves desecrated. #GallipoliArtPrize is usually a big deal but because of the topic of the winning piece, there’s been hardly any coverage. #Gaza

Reminder: Israel bulldozed the Gaza War Cemetery in Al-Tuffah, Gaza City, destroying graves of British, Australian, and other allied soldiers from World War I and II. The war cemetery had been cared for by a Palestinian family for several generations. #AnzacDay #LestWeForget #FreePalestine #auspol

Crowd funded billboards on Australian highways organised by @GetUp! justifiably question the bona fides of Trumpists Porleen and the Beetrooter. Getup donors can’t possibly match Gina’s #$M’s or Murdoch megaphones but in a democracy all voices have a right to be heard.

The Nethanyahu Israel Governnent and IDF are criminals. Sadistic, cruel murderers. Genocide and occupation their intention. They are Albanese and Marles’ best friends who share their values. God help the Australian people with Jillian Segal, White South African, now running the show. #auspol

How surprising! www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

The Government is planning to cut more than $35 billion from the NDIS. This cut will see over 160,000 people kicked off the NDIS. $35 billion also equates to roughly two-thirds of the cost of one AUKUS submarine.

"A history professor course could not allocate instructional time to the Stonewall riots or the gay rights movement. If a U.S. history textbook includes a chapter on the AIDS crisis, the professor must skip it." www.erininthemorning.com/p/texas-tech...

"16-year-old Palestinian Mohammad Majdi Al-Jaabari was killed this morning after being run over by a vehicle belonging to an Israeli settler in Beit Einun, north of Hebron." www.threads.com/@pbipalestin...

Lebanese francophone outlet L’Orient Le-Jour: the Nakba of South Lebanon. We Lebanese are calling it for what it is: a continuation of the 1948 Nakba. The photo shows a Lebanese village with an Israeli flag on it, planted by the genocidal army.

When Trump talked about ushering in a "new golden age," he was talking about a new golden age for his family's pocketbook.

United Nations: More Than 38,000 Women and Girls Killed in Gaza from October 2023 to December 2025

For at least 7 years, a well funded goal of the Zionist area of Jewish and Hebrew studies at Sydney Uni has been to silence staff and students who see Israel as a occupier and BDS supporters -

The Guardian documented quadruple-tap by Israeli forces in southern Lebanon. Three waves of ambulances were struck. Paramedics came for the injured. They were struck. Backup crews arrived. They were struck too In six weeks of war, Israel has killed at least 91 medical workers.

As every expert predicted - but Labor wanted their headline 🤦‍♀️ Meanwhile we’re not developing solutions addressing these significant issues. Frustrated parents of under-16s look for help to enforce 'ineffective' social media ban #auspol www.abc.net.au/news/2026-04...

• Since 2020, no Israeli has been prosecuted for the killing of Palestinians in the #WestBank. • Over 1,100 Palestinians have been killed in the West Bank since 2020. A quarter of them were children. • 368 investigations, 8 convictions. The most recent in 2019. #IsraeliTerrorism #FreePalestine

Thanks to this elderly Jewish man for his courage, and for Ben Pennings climbing a tree to get the footage. This is how many cops Queensland sent to arrest a Jewish man for wearing a “river to the sea” tshirt. No police state for 🇮🇱 🍉 ✊ Footage here: www.facebook.com/share/r/1CnM... #auspol

The lure of violence The Right and the Edwardian crisis in Britain, 1901–1914 by Alessandro Saluppo Manchester University Press Interesting (and free to download) book on armed associations and political violence in pre WW1 Britain. www.manchesterhive.com/display/9781...

Straya - where an alleged serial murderer can get bailed, but children who allegedly steal groceries can get remanded for months in rape factories

Meanwhile, in Moree, police are using drones to surveil actual children who are then more likely to plead guilty because of changes to the bail act to make it easier to lock up children than adults. www.theage.com.au/national/rob...

The US ran a simulation called the Millennium Challenge in 2002 which found that the US would lose any war with Iran based on the fact Iran would stop traffic in the Hormuz Strait, and attempting to take this would cost 20,000 US lives. www.nationalworld.com/your-world/m...

This is hell.

Since Israel’s genocide of Gaza, “the silence of states and the continued flow of weapons has only emboldened Israel,” says Beirut-based Human Rights Watch researcher Ramzi Kaiss in an interview about Israel's intensified attacks on Lebanon.

“I drove through the destroyed villages of southern Lebanon, speaking to several families who are risking their lives to stay in the area as Israel escalates its bombing and ground invasion.” Read here, by Ali Awada: zeteo.com/p/southern-l...

An Israeli onslaught sought to force them out. Some refused to leave, others had nowhere to go. In southern Lebanon, families remain under daily strikes. Read Ali Awada’s reporting from the villages they still call home: zeteo.com/p/southern-l...

Did I mention Labor, One Nation and the Coalition all cheered this war on. They wanted it. The war parties are reckless with Australia’s future. One party, the Greens, opposed this awful, destructive and illegal war from the beginning.

If you are an older Australian OR have parents in the older age bracket, I implore you to read this. 🧵1 Canberra paraplegic woman stranded in hospital for 19 months due to aged care bed block #auspol #aging #AgedCare

‘It was revealed…that the government was bringing to an end an annual report on delays and cost blowouts in major defence projects... The report has previously highlighted about $80bn in projects currently running a combined 30 years behind schedule.’ 🤔😠 www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

"full academic professorship"

This is so fckin dodgy. According to this earlier AFR article, the ANU school of cybernetics had two academic staff members to every student. www.afr.com/work-and-car... Now we know why I guess