"It is impossible to keep up an illusion of intellectual freedom when all you long for in the world is a cup of tea." -Women Against Men (The Single Heart), Storm Jameson 📸Photo by Julian Hochgesang on Unsplash #StormJameson #literaryfiction #classicliterature #cupoftea #booksky

No politician I know.

The whole AUKUS debacle needs to be put into this context. The proposal is a stalking horse to open radioactive storage sites on remote Aboriginal lands, most likey SA or WA, 'coz the Northern hemisphere is stuffed to the gills with red hot waste no-one wants to touch. #auspol

Congratulations to Catherine Connolly, Ireland’s new president 🇮🇪 A historic landslide for peace, justice, equality and socialism. Her victory is a triumph for hope, solidarity and a united Ireland 💚 An Phoblacht Abú!

Note: Self-knowledge possibly beneficial, but almost always unpleasant to a degree. -The Diary of a Provincial Lady, E.M. Delafield 📸Photo by Alexander Krivitskiy #emdelafield #autobiographical #classicliterature #booksky

COVID-19 Brought About a Large Rise in POTS Cases The study found COVID caused a surge in POTS, confirming a strong infection link. Cases rose from 4.21 per month (Jan 2018–Mar 2020) to 22.66 per month (Mar 2020–Jun 2024) — a more than 5-fold increase in this once-rare condition. archive.li/pN2gb

#SundayShot Labor is corrupted by Zionism. No independent foreign policy is possible under those circumstances - where the demands of ghost entities dictate terms for others. Discussion needs to get real.

Nebulised heparin reduces COVID deaths and intubation according to a meta-analysis

Australia is ‘just being stripped for parts for oligarchs’ Dave is right. There is nothing in the AUKUS deal for us. A one way deal that puts us in danger one way or another. #SundayShot

New Australian national intelligence chief faces a people challenge johnmenadue.com/post/2025/10...

"Yulia Sergeevna left, and a little later, Laptev took his leave of the doctor and went home. When a man is dissatisfied and feels unhappy, how banal seem to him all these lindens, shadows, clouds, all these self-satisfied and indifferent beauties of nature!

#IsraelisATerorristState #ZionistsAreWarCriminals A shocking testimony from American Jewish surgeon Mark Perlmutter, who recently returned from Gaza, reveals that Israeli soldiers buried two Palestinian children alive in a mass grave near Nasser Hospital in Khan Younis.

On this day in 1970, Salvador Allende, a Marxist, was elected by the Chilean Congress to become the new President of Chile🇨🇱 following his victory in a democratic election. Via @afshinrattansi.bsky.social (Telegram)

'...Gifts, sad and defining, books read, ideas stored-all intact and battered by an inconstant will.' -Sleepless Nights, Elizabeth Hardwick 📸Photo by Rachel Claire #elizabethhardwick

"I hear kind folks say: “Hang on! Not all Jews!” That is indeed true. Yet, at this point, “Not all Jews” functions in the same way as “Not all men” does, when discussing how to resist and put an end to gleefully vicious male violence." open.substack.com/pub/resistan...

Just published: my new book "Forgotten Times" (Amberley Publishing). 180 photographs taken by me in the 1950s and 1960s with street scenes of the UK, Ireland and the outer islands and depicting a world largely unknown to the present day. #up2410

More of your lies exposed, @albomp.bsky.social - buying weapons systems from apartheid, genocidal #Israel's corporations is despicable, when you should sanction them. www.theguardian.com/australia-ne... #auspol #BDS #GazaGenocide

Not just another flu, COVID-19 complacency risks lives Former ABC medical reporter Sophie Scott warns that complacency about COVID has set in. Public health messaging has faded, yet large numbers are still catching COVID, being hospitalised, or dying — COVID hasn’t gone away. archive.li/NccoV

THREAD: A veil of secrecy and forgetfulness hangs over a taxpayer-funded mission to the United States earlier this year, involving Special Envoy Jillian Segal and one staffer. The purpose of the trip, which covered less than ten days, have never been made public.

🇮🇱/🇵🇸 NEW: Hebrew media 'Maariv' reports that Israeli Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir has ordered the IDF to shoot every Palestinian child who approaches the 'yellow line' in Gaza The IDF has begun marking this line in Gaza with yellow blocks in recent days. ➥ Journalyze (Telegram)

What happened to Hind was not a tragic mistake. It was the deliberate product of a system that has normalised atrocity. The IDF, emboldened by impunity & justified by a national mythology of victimhood, acts with the psychosis of unchecked power. Every bullet, every bomb is an act of policy.

He's eating your children's future right now. #auspol

“one day, when it’s safe, when there’s no personal downside to calling a thing what it is, when it’s too late to hold anyone accountable, everyone will have always been against this.” that was Omar El Akkad’s tweet. 2 years later, i’m preparing to discuss this with the senior center’s book club. 📚

Detection of Anti-SARS-CoV-2 Mucosal Immunoglobulin A in Clinical Saliva Samples After a Dose of Novavax COVID-19 Vaccine

Shakespeare, foretelling the existence of the US and Israel.

To celebrate Brenda Ueland’s birthday, I am happily putting one bead on after another. I #amwriting 📚💙 More: Brenda Ueland, American #writer and #journalist - theamericanscholar.org/lady-of-the-... #writers #quotes on #writing

Long COVID Underdiagnosed in Seniors: What Doctors Need to Know

This, obviously, includes Australia. UN expert says all nations with ties to Israel ‘responsible in some measure’ for Gaza genocide johnmenadue.com/post/2025/10...

Israel’s unspeakable sadism, its neurotic, psychotic nature has been revealed not just through first hand testimony and evidence from its victims, but from the gloating, openly-murderous public proclamations of its soldiers, ‘religious’ leaders, and politicians. open.substack.com/pub/changemy...

Dimitri Lascaris open.substack.com/pub/reason2r...

Foreign Minister Penny Wong stumbles in parliament, forced to admit F-35 parts are being exported from Australia Wong claimed parts are sent to a global supply chain—but Declassified Australia showed some are sent directly from Australia to Tel Aviv in Israel, this month. x.com/petercronau/...

Dr Assal Rad— "This is important. Look how Western media frames the story as if Israel is helping—rather than STARVING—Gaza. "When Palestinians die of starvation, Israel is erased from headlines. When even a little aid supposedly trickles in, Israel is named as the provider. This is by design."

How to "lead" from the rear when addressing urgent crises involving tens of thousands of lives currently enduring FORCED STARVATION and GENOCIDE www.crikey.com.au/2025/07/28/i...

The bombardment of Gaza has left contaminated soil, blackened water and mounds of garbage spreading disease and pollution; a toxic legacy that will last generations, and extend beyond its borders.

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“I am absolutely convinced that what’s going on in Gaza is a genocide, because the thing speaks for itself,” said Martin Griffiths. …vow by an Israeli Cabinet minister to ethnically cleanse Palestinians from the strip to make way for Jewish resettlement.” johnmenadue.com/post/2025/07....

Moss Magic

Former UN Aid chief calls Gaza genocide 'Worst crime of the 21st century' johnmenadue.com/post/2025/07...

“I don’t know how people who pretend to be part of our species can contemplate such calculated cruelty.” Bob Carr slams Israel for its orchestrated shooting & starving of children in Gaza. “Precious children & babies are dying before the world’s eyes”💥 #Abc

Peter Kyle: "I don't want anybody who is viewing this to underestimate our anxiety about what is happening in Gaza" Will you impose sanctions on Israel? No End all trade? No Halt all arms exports? No Stop all military assistance? No Tell us again how anxious you are.

The cost of conscience in post-October 7 Australia johnmenadue.com/post/2025/05...

Dee Madigan and the art of the possible: Branding progress or boxing it in? johnmenadue.com/post/2025/05...

A defining moment for the future of Palestine johnmenadue.com/post/2025/05...

What is going on in Gaza is beyond words. The starvation. The avoidable deaths of children. Australia should be leading, with other countries, the imposition of sanctions against Israel. Listening to Dr Rose is beyond painful. We are complicit as long as we fail to do everything we can.

Silence is no longer acceptable, and neutrality is no longer possible. Either you stand with justice, with life, with the children or you stand with the executioners. #auspol #Israel #Gaza

@albomp.bsky.social Ed Husic and Bob Carr telling it like it is ....why can't you?

By @prognosticchats.bsky.social "One of the greatest PR moves of the pandemic so far has been the use of “this variant does not lead to more severe illness than other variants” - which sounds good, until you realise other variants have killed tens of millions & disabled hundreds of millions so far"

Ayman Odeh, of the Communist Hadash coalition, was removed from the Israeli parliament for a second time after another fiery speech against the Israeli government and its crimes. Odeh has been attacked by Israeli fascists before for speaking up against the genocide. www.instagram.com/reel/DKCNGrF...

There’s a new Covid variant causing increase in hospitalizations & severe cases in Asia. It’s been detected in the US. RFK Jr pushes Vitamin A for measles. Casey Means says we just need “good energy” They’re not going to recommend masks & vaccines. They may not even disclose the risk. Mask up!

We first learnt of Israel murdering nine of Dr Alaa al-Najar's 10 children in Gaza over one day ago. A search at ABC News gave me these results. The Zionists appear to be well in charge of our national broadcaster. #MediaFAIL