🅦🅞🅡🅓🄸🄿🄻🅈 #1116 🌟 Length Score: 100% 🚀 Letter Score: 42 🔗 Play Wordiply: www.wordiply.com 🎬 Today's starter: 🄻🄴🄿🅃

The death of decency in the face of rage. Testosterone and fear Trumps the Good and the kind. I'm shaking my head, almost to tears and can't watch that video any more. #ICE #MAGAstapo

If you didn't know something, you either had to find someone who did, or who knew in which book to look, or you had to go to the library. And sometimes you never found out for ages. One computer took up whole warehouses and we didn't have the space for them in the front room.

Majoritarian duopolies are the ruin of #democracy. I want to see the primary vote of ours continue on its decades-long decline. Power-sharing governments are our only salvation. It seems we are on an evolutionary path to a unique #Auspol experiment, with the rise of #Independents. Fingers crossed.

Hannah Arendt was in Germany during the start of the Nazi terror in the 1920s and 30s. She knew it was just the start. We need to stand up now to ICE and to Fascism before its too late.

How to hold on to the light of the world www.themarginalian.org/2026/01/09/m...

X is only allowing “verified” users to create images with Grok. Experts say it represents the “monetization of abuse”—and anyone can still generate images on Grok’s app and website. www.wired.com/story/x-didn...

I generally don't like divisive language, and you have to tread a fine line calling out evil. But I also have a creative streak in me that loves language and its many playful yet profound quirks. It's why I find it hard to avoid calling #ICE agents in the US the MAGAstapo. Funny. True. Terrifying.

they didn’t leak it to make the shooter look innocent, but to make the victim look guilty. not guilty of a crime. guilty of having a visibly queer wife. guilty of liberalism. guilty of opposing the regime. they don’t seek to exonerate themselves, only to demonstrate who deserves to die.

This sounds so much more like "domestic violence" than it does like "domestic terrorism."

as everyone can see with Grok Ai, sexual violence with impunity is a core value of patriarchal societies. Few norms are as fiercely and aggressively protected and enabled to proceed unimpeded. Patriarchies are very deeply vested in sexual violence with impunity on race and class lines.

This is why I have hope for Australia. When we see authoritarian censorship, we answer not with a wave, but a tsunami. Aussie, Aussie, Aussie! Boycott, Boycott, Boycott! #Auspol

Funny. True. Terrifying.

Why aren't we hearing from these Aussie Jews? Even the ABC has been known to occasionally platform alternative voices. But we hear nothing about this plea, or from any of its authors. #Auspol michaelwest.com.au/jewish-voice...

How long will Albo 'monitor the situation' regarding America's fascist transformation? Maybe it will take an Australian being shot in the face while on holiday. Even then, I'm not so sure. He's a next-level waffler. #Auspol

“Men are born soft & supple; dead they are stiff & hard. Plants are born tender & pliant; dead, they are brittle & dry. Whoever is stiff & inflexible is a disciple of death. Whoever is soft & yielding is a disciple of life. The hard & stiff will be broken. Soft & supple will prevail.” ― Lao Tzu

Here’s the video. bsky.app/profile/thet...

Please don’t tell me that a single letter was behind the Adelaide Festival board’s decision

Unfortunately for Malinauskas, the internet remembers. Instagram user beccilove dug out this quote from a few years ago.

Strong piece by @richarddenniss.bsky.social: "Engaging with people you disagree with is part of democracy. Silencing authors is not." #ThePoint thepoint.com.au/opinions/260...

Actual critical analysis, as good as is available in 20 minutes, on our hostile takeover by Zionism. youtu.be/UEdhtoHBvlQ?...

After Bondi, calls for a Royal Commission appeared overnight, delivered by rotating groups using identical language. That is astroturfing, a PR tactic that simulates grassroots demand to manufacture urgency, crowd out scrutiny, and lock in policy before evidence is tested. More on YT

Another shooting in Portland by DHS agents. A man and woman were injured in their vehicle but managed to escape their attackers. They called police for assistance & are now hospitalised. Portland police were not present at the shooting. abcnews.go.com/US/2-shot-fe...

Even more alarming is that TheAge concealed that the author of this article is a 'Staff Writer/Policy Analyst' for AIJAC which is synonymous with Israel Lobby/carries out their bidding & notorious for attacking journalists critical of Israel. This is an Israel Gov PR disguised as journalism. #auspol

Makes me proud, #Auspol, especially since its bogan central at a WWE event. Our rednecks are better than yours.

I'm off to a good start. Just back from the library with two essential research books: Sapiens by Yuval Noah Harari and Humankind by Rutger Bregman. See you in a brighter future, #Auspol

Inuition

Statement: Jewish Council Condemns Adelaide Festival Removal of Dr. Randa Abdel-Fattah

Makes me proud, #Auspol, especially since its bogan central at a WWE event. Our rednecks are better than yours.

After successfully campaigning for a Royal Commission into antisemitism, The Age seamlessly moves to making that synonymous with criticism of Israel. Watching it happen so transparently is next level.

Crackdown. My @smh @theage cartoon.

Iran security forces attack hospital after protests in western region

Please send to Prime Minister Albo if he wants to know his buddy's views on international law. Or perhaps someone could spray-paint the quotes about Trump's own morality as law on the front of parliament house. #Auspol

We do it not alone

He did say he'd be a dictator on day one, but he secretly meant day 2, 3, 4, 5 ... etc. Believe them when they tell you what they are. Narcissists think they are all-powerful and untouchable. Until we take away their power and touch them hard with big sticks. #Trump

Canadian PM Carney spoke with German Chancellor Merz on strengthening Euro-Atlantic security, backing Ukraine with guarantees, and upholding Denmark’s sovereignty—incl Greenland. They also discussed Arctic security and deeper Canada–Germany cooperation on AI, defense, critical minerals, and energy.

Another great cartoon by Cathy Wilcox.

This song needs to be famous. Long Live Palestine 🇵🇸

"To be clear, saying prices need to fall is radically more ambitious than the weasel words of saying things need to be more affordable. We can measure price but there’s no actual definition of affordability." #Auspol

In Australia, the government is scared of #Independents, which is why they legislated to make it harder for them to campaign and why Rex Patrick and Zoe Daniel have to challenge it in court. They're probably shit-scared of these two #democracy warriors right now. Sic 'em, Rex! #Auspol

Fortune 500 companies that have contracts with ICE: -Amazon -AT&T -Booz Allen Hamilton -Caci -Charter Communications -Comcast -Dell -Ecolab -FedEx -General Dynamics -L3Harris -Motorola -Thermo Fisher -UPS Know who profits from Trump's cruelty.

I hope Australians never have to make cartoons about its citizens being shot in their car by 'law enforcement.' #ICE #MAGAstapo #Auspol

Yes, the world seems fucked up right now, and Australia seems to be trying hard against all our better impulses to follow suit, but we've got to react in a way that doesn't destroy all our fucks and we channel that outrage into fucks to give. Give a fuck and make it kindling into action. #Auspol

There are a few indications that Bell has enough integrity and grit that the Gaza elements might actually get aired in public, which is why she's so unpopular with the Zionistas. If so expect more interference and more pressure put on 'poor old' Albo. #Auspol

She will. I knew Virginia Bell when she worked at Redfern Legal Centre and I was a lowly law student volunteer. Her integrity and passion for justice had a profound effect on me, and I've watched her career since then, all the way to Justice of the High Court. She will not tick boxes.

Randa Abdel-Fattah’s response:

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