This isn't a "blow" to Australia, though. There is nothing good that comes from leaders meeting with Trump. Another good time to cancel AUKUS though. www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

Right-wing extremist violence is more frequent and deadly than left-wing violence, data shows www.pbs.org/newshour/pol...

This is it, essentially. The core of it. The goal of ICE detention in the mass deportation system is to make people give up their case without fighting; to have an officer say “if you want to see a judge and plead your case, you’re going to be jailed for months and months, so why not give up now?”

Hard to overstate what a *huge* win this is for OpenAI in its strategy to spread its malign, brain- and planet-destroying tentacles all through the education sector. Oxford’s global standing will create a permission structure for many other schools to do likewise. “If Oxford’s doing it, then…”

Reminder that Canada and Australia play the role of ‘good coloniser’ and recognising Palestine this late into the genocide is part of that narrative. They’re still supplying weapons, still using Israeli talking points.

Imagine if we had an actual progressive news network. Huge proportion of Australians completely ignored, insulted and gaslit by every form of legacy media.

Oxford has been around since 1096. Imagine tossing almost a thousand years of academic reputation into the garbage, setting it on fire, and then pissing it out over a useless fucking plagiarism machine what loses billions of dollars a year telling people to kill themselves.

The West is peddling hollow symbolism designed to obfuscate its culpability and support for genocide. At this point, all they care about is reputational harm in the history books, not the fact that Palestinians are being murdered by Israel on a daily basis using their weapons and military aid.

Cool, cool, not fascism at all

We didn't "awaken" fascism, it's a disease that was merely suppressed in its most virulent forms after the last outbreak which almost destroyed the world; it lay waiting for the oligarchs to get comfortable enough to give it the opportunity to ooze back out and do the same evil shit it always does.

"Centrists" are welcoming the new fascist overlords and dooming us all

Netanyahu essentially bragging about breaking International Law and stating he intends to continuing doing so “We have done this with determination and with astute statesmanship. Moreover, we have doubled the Jewish settlement in Judea and Samaria, and we will continue on this path”

Netanyahu saying it very loudly now so I hope all the Western leaders can hear him “There will be no Palestinian state to the west of the Jordan River For years I have prevented the creation of that …, against tremendous pressure, both domestic & from abroad” www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

You can't have criticism of the regime! This isn't one of those countries with freedom of speech and civil liberties!

My god Australian "news" media are a joke. Live, uncritical crosses to an American "memorial service" for some extremist far right YouTuber. Pathetic.

Recognizing Palestine. Recognizing genocide in Palestine. Ok, so are you going to stop it? Are you going to intervene? To withdraw your material support at the very least? Otherwise it’s just words.

For my friends, everything; for my enemies, the law

The censorship and the violations of freedom of the press by this regime are unprecedented in our modern history.

Did Trump’s DOJ shut down this bribery investigation? Was it Attorney General Bondi or FBI Director Patel? The act was caught on camera. The administration must turn over the tapes to Congress. Every decision made by Homan must be scrutinized for possible corruption.

End AUKUS. We can't have an ally threatening us with "punitive measures". Republicans warn Anthony Albanese of 'punitive measures' over Palestinian recognition www.abc.net.au/news/2025-09...

Again, why would we rely on these flakes? These *expensive* flakes?

Why would we base our defence on this capricious, unreliable "ally"?

God, I hope they don't cancel AUKUS and force us to keep the hundreds of billions of dollars we're sending them for submarines that wouldn't help and we'll never see anyway. Please don't do that, US!

It never ceases to amaze me how many individuals genuinely believe that, under fascism, bad things will only happen to other people who surely deserve it.

As Kellie Tranter stressed, Australia's business-as-usual trade, diplomatic relations, export of weapons parts etc ignores that 🇦🇺 has very clear legal obligations under intl law "activated at least from 24th Jan 2024 by the International Court of Justice which found a plausible risk of genocide"

If you’re rich and not a coward, this is what you’d refer to as a “market opportunity” to dominate a media ecosystem that’s about to be covered in grotesque government slop. To be a pop of color in a sea of beige will be easier than ever. People will flock to it. You gotta be a little brave, though.

if Jimmy Kimmel's political humor is too hot for you to handle, I'm not sure "snowflake" even cuts it as a term of derision for the level of fragility you've achieved

the kimmel thing is bad but as long as they arent rounding people up indiscriminately based on race, building concentration camps and talking about eradicating those they deem sexual deviants, i think we’ll be ok

Shocked but not surprised to learn how many ~titans of industry~ who probably think of themselves as brave ballsy businessmen are actually cowardly pieces of shit when it counts.

This is what fascist scholars mean when they say "don't give them an inch."

Netanyahu: ‘These So-Called Genocide Experts Have Probably Never Committed A Genocide In Their Lives’

I am biased but I don’t think there is a better website on the internet today than TheOnion.com.

This is what all our *currently* elected officials should be doing, and not nearly enough are. We need people who are willing to stand up against fascism, not weak-willed appeasers. Good on you, @katmabu.bsky.social

"Fascism is a temper tantrum disguised as an ideology" is a great line

Dam been writing a book about this and she just TikToked it in 90 seconds.

It’s wild how some people act like being kind and inclusive is radical when really it’s the baseline of just being human.

Apologies to everyone across Australia from Queensland. Once the Qld Governor signs off on the legislation I will not be able to comment on pill testing. Anything I say could lead to a criminal offence. Please keep the discussion open across all Australian jurisdictions. #qldpol

I believe strongly in truth over partisan tribalism. Yesterday, I published an op-ed arguing that the US left should take rising support for political violence on its side more seriously. But it’s a simple fact that far more lethal attacks in 🇺🇸 have come from the right. Decades of data prove this.

Minorities are afraid the right wing will kill them. The right wing are afraid you'll laugh at them.

This is the playbook, folks. If you're not paying attention now and doing something about it, then you're going to have to sit down the rest of your life because democracy is being taken away. Do not be quiet in this moment.

More chilling developments for US democracy. The DOD is considering using Kirk’s org, Turning Point, as military recruitment centres. Turning Point is explicitly partisan. So this move jeopardises democratic (small d) control of the US armed forces. Imagine if Dems did similar w/ one of their orgs.

“Left did cancel culture and now right is doing it.” No, right framed and named cancel culture (fighting against the monopolisation of speech by the repressively powerful) and have now appropriated it for the purpose of actively repressing the powerless and silencing dissent *against the powerful*.

This is insane. Instead of reaching for help, many will just go straight to the next step.

Just made a few corrections to the gas industry billboard at Darwin airport. You're welcome Australian Energy Producers.

you hear people say stuff like "we live in a post-ideological world" but the reality of it doesn't fully hit until you see an image like this

lol @theonion.com

Droves of Americans, esp youth, are giving up on politics & chattering abt civil war. As I wrote in Prospect yesterday, anti-politics inc support for violence is rising. I saw sth similar in Tunisia before the coup. Keeping youth in politics is a perk of Mamdani, even for ppl who dislike his views.

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