"Would you be interested in becoming an Amway independent business owner"?

Australia is built on immigration. The economy *still* relies heavily on immigration. New migrants make it better, stronger. Building new housing and infrastructure would help everyone. Every major political party: We will cut immigration. Mainstream media: But can you be as racist as Pauline?

This ABC article states that NSW Police have admitted deploying a Long Range Accoustic Device at the 9 February protest in central Sydney www.abc.net.au/news/2026-02...

"Look, it's okay for moderates to say they won't vote for someone because they're too progressive, but progressives aren't allowed to say they won't vote for someone for being too moderate/conservative"... for reasons. Uh huh. Sure.

Every whistleblower I've ever spoken to believed (correctly) they were doing their public duty, bc others failed. None wanted to become a "whistleblower". Yet they're punished by systems designed to destroy them. Labor promised to protect them but have only tormented them with inaction & gaslighting

These "Australian values" sound pretty good! Especially the bits about "freedom of speech", "freedonm of religion", "mutual respect", "tolerance" and "compassion for those in need" ... wonder if we can get some of our state premiers to sign up

The Liberal Party is chasing right-wing voters off a right-wing cliff, failing to even try to win back the urban, educated women who have locked them out of the cities until further notice.

“Because is Texas really where we draw the line? Just say Palestinian. This is taking so long.” 🔥

Exactly this. "I'll vote for whichever candidate has a D next to their name no matter what their actual policy positions are!" sends a message to the politicians that they don't need to care about what you want at all. It's wild that people keep volunteering their unconditional support.

I guess the counterpoint to my own previous argument is, here is one of the most senior dlDemocrats saying out loud: “This is who we are and have always been.” Voters could stand to be reminded of this early and often in the lead up to the midterms, primaries, and federal election.

Reminder that Francesca Albanese is not being targeted for a sentence twisted and lifted out of context in a speech. She is being targeted for daring to name the names of giant companies complicit in the crime of genocide. They would rather destroy international law than be accountable to it.

We can't fall into right-wing populism’s lie that the most vulnerable in society are to blame for wealth inequality in our countries. We need to build movements that tell the truth: the story of wealth inequality is not a cultural one, but a class one.

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We were even crueller than this lot. We were just more *civilised* about it

A colleague reminded me this morning that Angus Taylor misled parliament in his very first speech in the building!

That Kristi Noem propaganda ad playing while I was watching Inglorious Basterds was kinda on the nose, HBO

We built Jikipedia, a new wiki that compiles Jmail data into exhaustive reports on key figures in the Epstein scandal. It lists all recorded visits to Epstein's estates, each person's possible knowledge of Epstein's crimes and laws that they may have violated.

We will all pay for this

‘Late Tuesday evening, the FAA A administrator, Bryan Bedford, caught off guard that the laser weapon system was being used without authorization and concerned for public safety, believed he had little choice but to close the airspace for 10 days, www.nytimes.com/2026/02/14/u...

Stephen Miller is never gonna be able to solve his average-guy-from-Camden-New-Jersey-who-has-never-protested-but-just-saw-ICE-hurt-children problem. That's not solvable for him

This is what authoritarians are never gonna understand: average, everyday citizens do not like watching paramilitary thugs brutalize children. All the vaporware memes in the world can't fix that for them

Dr Assal Rad— "In today’s episode of things you don’t see in Western media."

‘The conservatives have destroyed themselves in the process, but they have been victorious in creating a Labor Party that governs in their memory…’ 🔥

There's a short video clip of Pinker and Epstein on the plane and a girls voice says "where are you taking me" and this is the still from it. So I don't know what he's talking about.

another guy who never protested before radicalized to the point of tears by watching masked ICE agents terrify children in his neighborhood the Republicans are not ready or mentally capable of comprehending the backlash they have generated

Always enjoy being told that the private sector is a more efficient and productive way to deliver public services

Wow. www.levernews.com/the-complian...

So, I watched Merrily We Roll Along last night. Never seen the stage play. I have a question: … is that it? It’s just about a guy who fucks off his friends and family after he gets famous? There’s no resolution? It feels like it ends on what should be the intermission…

One of my lasting memories of working in the gallery was ducking into the House of Reps in the night during speeches on the marriage equality bill and Katter said some of the most homophobic stuff I've heard there. Pyne was one of the only MPs in the chamber and said: "Bobby this is rubbish"

‘In a narcissistic age, just saying what you feel is enough to bring about the reality you desire and according to Sturla's strange, internal world, he thought it might actually bring his princess back to him. Dearest, gentle reader — it didn't.’

Excellent read.

‘Under international law, the right to protest is particularly important for marginalised groups. These include the victims of Israeli violations in Palestine, whose families also live among us, www.smh.com.au/politics/nsw...

Angus Taylor's leadership is about avoiding extinction not winning government paulkarp.substack.com/p/angus-tayl...

… ok that’s pretty good. I’ll grant him that

"zoomers are killing the bar industry" oh interesting was it zoomers who decided a drink should cost seventeen dollars

‘What happens next could redraw the Australian political map forever and see a new centrist party emerge.’ A new centrist party? Has Hartcher been watching a different show to the rest of us this whole time? www.smh.com.au/politics/fed...

At least he admits that he asked them to do it.

People like this should be in prison. They should be made to feel unwelcome in polite society.

end qualified immunity and make cops carry personal liability insurance

Meanwhile, the Australian government consolidates its commercial links with this merchant of death and state terror, Palantir. #auspol

I feel this way about pretty much all vaccine-preventable infectious diseases. You shouldn't be allowed to dump cyanide into municipal drinking water and you shouldn't be allowed to recreationally spread viruses around shared public spaces.

AOC: "Extreme level of wealth inequality leads to social instability and drives authoritarianism, right-wing populism, and really dangerous domestic internal politics. That is a direct outcome of the failure of democracies over decades to deliver."

get bent, starmer

this is comically evil. brazenly anti-social. just absolute black-pilled nihilism. we will not have a republic, we will not be free, until we regulate these companies to the point where — at a bare minimum — they're too afraid to put stuff like this down on paper. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/13/t...

Kevin Rudd has told Lamestream that he would welcome an inquiry into a think-tank he formerly chaired, funded by the Australian-government, that was used by Epstein to employ his victims. Our latest exclusive: www.lamestream.com.au/young-beauti...

new police version of what police did to Muslims praying at Town Hall just dropped. This is why we never believe what police say, and why the dominant media culture of Police Say reporting is both grotesquely irresponsible and intentionally spreads disinformation. www.abc.net.au/news/2026-02...

"As for the peculiar logic of the Adelaide board, I just found it shameful to attempt to connect an individual Palestinian academic with a terrorist attack. To me, that’s the logic of the mob. It’s not people running a literary festival, and a Palestinian writer is not a terrorist with a gun."

‘Likewise, if and when the cops decide there’s nothing wrong with your Nazi cosplaydate, everything will run smoothly.’

Because I grew up in QLD in the ‘80s, I’m more often surprised when police *don’t* attack demonstrators. So I’ve had that familiar feeling this week of watching people come to a difficult truth: when you see a demo turn ugly, it’s almost always because the cops decided that’s how it was gonna go.