“Australians released from Israeli detention after alleged beatings, according to DFAT report”

So - let me get this straight… They’ll ban social media for under 16s even though most experts say it WON’T work But they won’t ban gambling advertising & other key recommendations even though most experts say it WILL work What? #4corners #auspol

It looks very much like the National Press Club statement lied about their cancellation of Chris Hedges. His appearance WAS confirmed, and even listed on the website, according to this. (Hedges believes his talk on Gaza was cancelled following pressure from the pro-Israel lobby):

A major immigration raid in Chicago last week led to dozens of arrests, including of green card holders and U.S. citizens. While the Trump administration has released a highly produced video of the raid, it still has not answered basic questions about the operation.

Trump is trying this on with Canada purely because Putin has already done it with Ukraine. At a psychological level, this is nothing but Trump trying to impress his mates. He is that vacuous.

ht @domesticanimal.bsky.social

In which another recent wingnut Australian PM demonstrates not only his psychosis, but also his complete ignorance of Australian (and British) history

When will the word word ‘reimagine’ finally die? It’s about 30 years past its use-by date.

Christianity.

“Germany threatens to boycott Eurovision if Israel excluded”

Which one is Keith Urban?

Presumably by ‘ immune system researchers’ the Nobel prize committee means RFK Junior.

AI. Is. Garbage.

The Australian cult of Year 12 exams must end. It's bullshit. I deliberately scraped through Year 12 in protest at the hype more than 20 years ago, then went on to get 3 uni degrees in 3 fields, including a PhD. The hype mongers in education and media live in a bubble of their own self-loathing.

Despite Canada’s historic support for the International Criminal Court #ICC, the current government has yet to officially defend it against the recent accusations, even though one of its sanctioned judges, Kimberly Prost, is Canadian. theconversation.com/why-is-canad...

Another Northern Territory clusterfk.

Four Corners is so hot right now ✊🏼 “Four Corners has also confirmed the commission has never cancelled or suspended a bookmaker's licence due to disciplinary action.” #auspol #nt #clpcorruption

Indigenous Nation Plan Tariff-Free Trade Corridor Across Canada-US Border. 🇨🇦 🇺🇸 The "Jay Treaty," a 1794 agreement between the US & Great Britain, recognizes the right of Indigenous peoples to freely cross the Canada-US border for trade & travel.

Little green men retired by One Large Frog

But Jim Chalmers thinks it’s great so that’s ok.

We may be witnessing (and be about to *experience*) the greatest misallocation of capital in human history.

This is an *Australian* mass shooting. So only 50 rounds over a one-hour period (no auto), and most importantly *no deaths*!

For people noticing publicly that Trump, Hegseth, Miller et al. are displaying behaviour ‘demented’ behaviour: Fascism is always demented. Fascists are nothing if not demented. It’s one of the first red flags for spotting them.

Biggest understatement of the century so far (after the characterisation of Israel’s genocide of Palestinians as a ‘war’)

One of the most insidious concepts in politics and policy-making is the idea of deserving and undeserving poor.

This is why they’re banned in Australia.

I hate how the internet has given absolute confidence to the most ignorant and ill informed people.

You can in fact have entire university departments staffed mostly by idiots.

“Over half of Australians support sanctions on Israel and its leaders for ongoing attacks on Gaza, poll shows”

#BREAKING 🚨 Deloitte to refund government, admits using AI in $440k report into mutual obligations issues. Fake quotes from Federal Court case that ended Robodebt deleted from new report in Friday DEWR dump. 📰 AFR ✍️ @paulkarp.bsky.social ✍️ @edmundtadros.bsky.social 🗣️ @chrisrudge.bsky.social

"[The government] knows that an active public website celebrating the jobs and profits being made in Australia from the F35 program would be obscene while the jet is being used to commit a genocide. "Instead of stopping that trade they have instead chosen to hide the evidence."

New government data confirms what everyone already knew...multinational gas exporters are reaping billions from Australian resources while paying little or no tax. "People are getting increasingly sick of it." 🔊Richard Denniss, co-CEO, the Australia Institute @richarddenniss.bsky.social #auspol

now that’s what i call posting

“Terrible things are happening outside. Poor helpless people are being dragged out of their homes. Families are torn apart. Men, women, and children are separated. Children come home from school to find that their parents have disappeared.” Diary of Anne Frank January 13, 1943

#OtD 5 Oct 1934 miners in Asturias, Spain, rose up seizing military barracks and occupying the provincial capital with worker & peasant assemblies taking over. They were savagely crushed: 3k killed & 35k jailed. But revolution broke out 2 years later stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/1056...

This is good —the Mayor of Yellowknife NWT in Canada’s far north weighs in on “Car Bloat” (truck bloat actually) and its many big costs & consequences (thanks @davidzipper.bsky.social for heads-up). And like most who dare tell the truth about that, he’s taking flack. www.linkedin.com/mwlite/feed/...

British politics is basically a doom spiral of increasingly unhinged hostile policies. Reform says something unhinged ⬇️ Labour counters with their own unhinged policy ⬇️ Tories shout from back they'll be even more unhinged ⬇️ Reform announces different unhinged proposal in response ⬇️ And repeat...🔁

Men in balaclavas set fire to a mosque in East Sussex last night. It's only appearing on the BBC's local coverage, rather than its main national headlines, despite coming just a week after the (also under-reported) firebombing of an asylum hotel in London last week www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

“Israel accused of ‘sowing division’ in UK with Tommy Robinson invite” In case anyone needed a clearer demonstrations of the difference been Judaism and Zionism, here is Israel issuing an official invitation to infamous neo-Nazi Tommy Robinson.

Amid relentless Israeli bombardment, young men in Gaza gather in a small courtyard near Al-Shifa Hospital, baking bread w their weary hands. They feed the wounded, the sick, journalists, staff , the aroma of bread rising as a symbol of life from beneath the rubble of death. x.com/gazanotice/s...

Sean Combs sentenced to over four years in prison for prostitution-related charges

the people who told us to calm down because Roe was settled law are the same people now telling us to calm down because the military would never open fire on Americans

This is the third tech CEO, by my count, that has admitted that this is a bubble in the past month.

Over 2 million people across Italy have rallied in more than 100 cities for a one-day general strike.

<Waves from over the fence in the land of social science 👋> We’re working on it.

ABC now running completely untrue propaganda for America and Israel. The bombing hasn’t stopped and it has been widely reported that Netanyahu said to his own people they wouldn’t stop pretty much as soon as trump asked him to.

Macron remarks are notable- some quotes: "We have been incredibly naive in entrusting our democratic space to social networks that are controlled either by large American entrepreneurs or large Chinese companies, whose interests are not at all the survival or proper functioning of our democracies."

Lies and propaganda - hasbara #StoptheGenocide

Wellness culture feeds directly into eugenics. Eugenics feeds directly into fascism. This is nothing new, and it’s why disabled people have been screaming for solidarity for years. We saw this coming. We know it’s going to get worse. Refuse to leave vulnerable people by the wayside.