If there's anyone who still thinks this will all blow over when our big beautiful president Leaves Us, you have to realize the Republican Party is crawling with fascists

I can't put into words the feeling of watching our government, a hive of evil antisocial filth, the absolute worst humanity has to offer, colliding with the best. Ordinary people trying to help each other, risking everything to stand up for what's plainly, unambiguously fair and right. It's unreal

In the Commonwealth under Labor and the Coalition, if you are a senior mate, you always fail upwards. Defence Secretary Moriarty has overseen procurement disasters and scandals, the AUKUS debacle and recruitment fails - so next stop Washington of course.

Greg Moriarty off to Washington? This is the same guy who quietly handed #Robodebt architect Kathryn Campbell a plum, top-tier AUKUS role while the Royal Commission was exposing the damage she helped cause. If this is merit, what does failure look like? #auspol

An insane, perfect encapsulation of it all: The same day Trump’s agents kill a Veterans Affairs ICU nurse in broad daylight, the CEOs of Apple and Amazon join Trump to watch a private screening of a film about his wife directed by an alleged sexual abuser who was seen shirtless in the Epstein Files

I keep thinking “my god the people they’ve killed seem like exceptionally good folks” and I think the lesson there is that they’re not exceptional, but that wonderful people abound and that a baseline distrust in humanity is a shitty conservative trope that privileges power over collective strength

they're executing moms and nurses in the street. they're using preschoolers as bait. they're stealing people's dads and grandmas and children. they're tear gassing babies. they're staking out schools. there is no remedy but abolition. any proposal that doesn't start there is an act of violence.

AUSTRALIA HEAT WAVE Brutal heat today with temperatures up to 48C in South Australia with the heat expected to just get worse. Next week will compete with Jan 1939 for the hottest week ever recorded in New South Wales: ‼️We can approach 50C

That we're rewarding Putin for the most barbaric assaults on civillians of this century is shame that I'll carry until my last breath.

Yes. Support for Ukraine HAS BEEN INSUFFICIENT. Unless you’re Putin.

Israeli intelligence police stormed the Yabous Cultural Centre and prevented the screening of the film, which the venue said was "part of a systematic policy to suppress Palestinian cultural presence in Jerusalem"

Congrats to polio survivor Mitch McConnell for directly causing all of this

CNN put together a clip of JD Vance claiming ICE agents have "absolute immunity" followed by him two weeks later claiming "I didn't say that officers who engage in wrongdoing would enjoy immunity"

This is so fucking haunting.

Do it

Amazon is planning to cut up to 16,000 jobs starting next week. The company is valued at $2.5 trillion and made nearly $60 billion in profit in the first nine months of 2025.

TIL they’re calling DHS’s operation in Maine “Catch of the Day.” This dehumanizing language tells you all you need to know. It’s a big joke to them.

The Trump administration will expand a policy that blocks foreign aid to groups that discuss, refer or perform abortions to include groups that address transgender health care or have policies on diversity, equity and inclusion, JD Vance said Friday. wisconsinexaminer.com/2026/01/23/r...

“We have a nice little database, & now you’re considered domestic terrorists” says an ICE agent after photographing a civilian who was videotaping them. Posted today by Brian Allen on X. h/t @allenanalysis.bsky.social

“We know the old order is not coming back. We shouldn't mourn it. Nostalgia is not a strategy.” Ping @albomp.bsky.social

It’s unimaginable that Albanese would deliver a speech as thoughtful and principled as this one by Carney. Let’s hope he’s at least capable of reading it:

Beyond the emergency cycle: remote Australia needs strategic support in this era of climate disasters www.croakey.org/beyond-the-e... #publichealth

“We’ve invented a magic computer. It uses all of the earth’s resources, we’ve spent trillions on it and it’s the sole growth area of the US economy.” “What does it do?” “We were hoping you could tell us.”

bro there’s a gofundme to crowdfund attorney fees for a preschooler who was kidnapped by our federal government and shipped across state lines and his senator is posting about high school hockey while every other elected official is debating whether to give a zillion more dollars to the kidnappers

Trump ‘aiming for regime change in Cuba by end of year’ after Venezuela raid

If you're not religious, mark ‘No Religion’ on the 2026 Census. #auspol - share widely pls censusnotreligious.org.au

Remember: a Labor government is better than a Coal-ition one. Really? Hint: the WA EPA just said it's OK for the US frackers to frack the Kimberley. #duopoly #capturedstate #fossilcriminals #auspol #wapol www.youtube.com/watch?v=-uXo...

This guy went to work today, put a mask on, kidnapped a 5 year old child, and then used him as bait so both he and his father could be sent behind bars

Let's stop calling it "domestic violence" and call it what it really is: "MEN KILLING THEIR PARTNERS." www.ctvnews.ca/montreal/art...

The government is living in an alternate reality. During WW2, Michael Foot and others wrote Guilty Men about the disastrous failure of the British elite’s appeasement policy: their inability to grasp the world they were living in. He’d have a field day with this lot.

A cadre of political, business and media interests is using the fear of blackouts to keep harmful coal-fired power stations open. We need to make it harder for them to get their way.

I guess I do think if you participated in the arrest of a five-year-old you are probably just fundamentally incompatible with society. That you are not a safe person for humanity to be around, generally

we're getting all the downsides of cyberpunk (social alienation, ruthless hyper capitalism, digital mass surveillance state) but none of the promised upsides (cheap street food, cool jackets, super drugs that make you really fast and strong before they kill you)

When Israel bombed the first hospital in Gaza and suffered zero consequences, they and every tyrant knew the international rules based order was over

So true. “Had the world stood up to Netanyahu as he illegally annexed more and more of Palestine then we wouldn’t be talking about the U.S. colonising Canada and Greenland” Dr Daniel Goyle

Quite the statement from the Prime Minister of Poland

the best time to disentangle our relationship with the world superpower led by an insane right-winger was 20 years ago, the second-best time is now

Every Western journalist should be standing in solidarity with Palestinians and against their targeted murder by Israel #auspol www.theguardian.com/world/2026/j...

It was obvious from the get go, #Trump, in his self-infatuated, dictatorial delusions, envisaged his Peace Board as an ersatz UN Security Council entirely under his control incl a veto. All the more reason for Australia via @albomp.bsky.social to resolutely avoid joining. #fascism flip.it/BBXie4

Ok so advocating genocide is fine (exempt) under the hate speech laws but criticising the guy responsible for genocide is an offence. 👌

The BBC refuses to criticise Israel. This action by Israel is illegal land theft, a breach of both int'l law and the "ceasefire". None of that is mentioned in the headline. The BBC refers to it as moving a yellow line. Silence is complicity. #journalism #IsraeliTerrorism #GazaGenocide

In Australia, the government will allow tax-deductible donations to charities supporting the IDF and illegal settlements in the West Bank. But donations to local journalism are not permitted the same status.

Coalition can’t agree on how to be racially intolerant but not antisemitic, falls apart under the strain

Foreign Affairs Minister Penny Wong has said Israeli President Herzog’s visit to Australia is "a good thing", in case you were wondering.

Sadistic nonsense

Criticising this could now be considered hate speech.

Perhaps the most disgraceful of all the “national security” laws that have been passed since Sept 11 2001. Albanese would have been a good, compliant minister in the Howard govt. www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

A lot of British "patriots" siding with a hostile foreign leader who has declared economic war on their country. A hostile foreign leader who is now looking for anything he can do to damage Britain - because he wants to steal Greenland. You have all been totally exposed.

Artillery fire, gunship attack, demolitions in war-battered Gaza as PM Netanyahu accepts US 'peace board' position.