Europeans realising Trump can’t remember their country’s name long enough to invade it. #Davos

Remembering Hind

Come on, @albomp.bsky.social . Give Murdoch and his coalition lackies something to REALLY whinge about! #AusPol

Not ‘anyone’ - that part was removed. But it allows the minister to designate hate groups, based on state police vibes and an ASIO assessment of potential future behaviour (no conviction necessary). Supporting a group after the designation (donations, slogans etc) would then be the crime

Mate groups. Today’s Age cartoon.

Now this is really fascinating--a way to punish Trump's backers, rather than average punters. And there is a precedent: In World War I, the United States stopped honoring German patents and instead instituted a system of compulsory licensing.

Australia's 48 billionaires hold more wealth than the bottom 40% of the population – about 11 million people – combined. Over 3.7 million of these people live in poverty, including 757,000 children under 15. Tax the rich.

This will be history's ultimate test of whether this government had a functioning spine

when you are petting a cat and the purr descends in register from “love it” to the louder slower “oh hell yes now that’s the stuff” purr, that is a blessing in this world

Signing off with a sleeping cat, drawn by Federico Barocci. Italy c. 1600. Today has been his day.

wikipedia's new editor count is down a bit and perhaps it's your time to try it editing!!! it's a small and concrete way to help and here are a few ways to start!!!

“Saving lives is not a crime.” After a seven-year legal ordeal, a court on the Greek island of Lesbos has acquitted all 24 defendants who had been baselessly charged with felonies for saving lives at sea. Read more: https://bit.ly/4pMoOdR

Bluesky, the new Facebook.

The Greens have serious concerns about the proposed hate laws legislation, which we have shared with the government, and we will not support it in its current form. We can’t combat hate if we don’t combat it for everyone.

Here are some nice mushrooms

The Socialist Party stands against The Combatting Antisemitism, Hate and Extremism Bill (2026). This bill, which is being rammed through parliament early next week is a significant attack on Australian civil liberties and the right to protest against Israel’s genocide in Gaza. 🧵

"Australia is a lucky country run mainly by second rate people who share its luck. It lives on other people's ideas, and, although its ordinary people are adaptable, most of its leaders (in all fields) so lack curiosity about the events that surround them that they are often taken by surprise."

'Under the proposed laws, no one needs to have been convicted of a hate crime for the minister to be satisfied that an organisation has engaged in conduct constituting a hate crime and there is no requirement for the minister to observe procedural fairness.'

spineless..

'[Until] comparatively recently, ["cohesion"] was a concept associated primarily with the parties of the right and far right: the reactionaries who insisted that minorities assert their loyalty to the mainstream. Democrats, by contrast, argued not for cohesion but for the legitimacy of dissent.'

🚨“Irresponsible media” and political rhetoric are "actively fuelling" violence against Muslims, says top Islamic body, after alleged attack on Imam and his wife. Falsely tying peaceful pro-Palestine marches to Bondi attack is "contributing directly"... theklaxon.com.au/i03z

A guerrilla festival is indeed being discussed 📚❤️ ✊🏼 www.indailysa.com.au/news/just-in...

“We need writers now more than ever, as our media closes up, as our politicians grow daily more cowed by real power, as Australia grows more unjust and unequal.” www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Victoria’s bushfires have torched almost as much land as the Black Saturday disaster, prompting grave fears for threatened species. www.theage.com.au/national/vic...

Heartbreaking.

Mood.

This, please.

Where’s the Royal Commission into why the findings of Royal Commissions are usually ignored.

We’re going to need a royal commission into this royal commission when it’s all done.

It’s incredibly disturbing that so many Australian institutions and leaders can reproduce vicious assertions without evidence about the link between Palestinian rights campaigns and the Bondi killings, then use these assertions to ban people from public discourse.

The 'Tone Deaf' award this week goes to the Victorian National & Liberal parties, who have launched a pro fossil gas ad campaign during a heatwave which has the potential for catastrophic fire conditions. Well done, team. www.miragenews.com/libs-nationa...

Professor Ben Saul, Challis Chair of International Law at The University of Sydney and United Nations Special Rapporteur on Human Rights and Counter Terrorism about the US actions in Venezuela.

The weak response from Can, EU and UN to Trump's flagrant crimes in Venezuela is striking. It exposes that much of the world has been cowed. Most notable exception: the Latin American left. That is why the Trump Admin has gone to enormous lengths to defeat the left across the continent. 1/3

okay i am sorry to be that bitch but the one word you can't use to describe this is "unprecedented."

How the Albanese government ‘continues to support international law’ #auspol

I'm seriously starting to question the credibility of the FIFA Peace Prize.

Apt

Sleeping dog, drawn by Hendrick Goltzius of Haarlem, at the end of his day. Good night!

The Invisible Doctrine documentary starts with this statement: 'The use of AI in this film is an attempt to turn the tables and employ technology against capitalism.' 🤌 Did not watch.

One shepherd has arrived early & peers around improbably elegant curtain at quiet Adoration. After Hieronymus Bosch.

J.S. Bach: Weihnachts- Oratorium, BWV 248, by Philippe Herreweghe and Collegium Vocale ❤️

What comes after the longest day? My cartoon in today's @theageaustralia.bsky.social and @sydmorningherald.bsky.social

Also get offline and go do something nice for your community. We're all wasting our time here x

Zionism endangers Jews everywhere by tying their safety - whether wanted or not, Israeli or not - to this evil colonial project. Again, Palestinians had nothing to do with the Bondi shooting, and this rhetoric attempts to make them responsible for global Jewish wellbeing & punishable on that basis.