If you think I'm joking, I am not. The German Chancellor had to correct Netanyahu publicly.

Rest in Peace Alex Jeffrey Pretti🙏🏾 The VA ICU Nurses send him off right 💔

"The logical consequence of concentrating Australia’s future submarine capability within a single, highly constrained external supply chain ... Australia requires an alternative submarine pathway." #Auspol navalinstitute.com.au/an-alternati...

Explore this gift article from The New York Times. You can read it for free without a subscription. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

every employee of the VA, and every veteran, now has definitive proof that Doug Collins does not have their back and will exploit their death for political gain the focus is rightly on Noem but this is disqualifying and he should resign or be impeached as well

hey everybody lifelong tech expert here > "system crash” deleted nearly two weeks of surveillance footage from inside the facility that's not how anything works they're lying and destroying evidence hope that helps

these right wing clowns continuing to express absolute shock over the organizing of the left also reflects a deeply sexist ignorance of the fact that EXPERIENCED, INCREDIBLY EFFICIENT AND HARDWORKING VOLUNTEERS, PRIMARILY WOMEN, RUN THE FUCKING SHOW WITH ALMOST EVERYTHING GOOD IN THIS COUNTRY

This won the Netherlands top cartoon award

Washpost foreign correspondents plead with Bezos to keep the overseas bureaus alive.

This was announced late yesterday, so ICYMI …. Aussie astronaut named Australian of the Year! I’m *very* excited about how this will now lift Australia’s space and science presence across more conversations that Australians will have. Some folks here still don’t know we have a space agency!

Hard agree. "...given Trump’s overall unpredictability – and uncertainty about Trump’s policy on China – an obvious decline in trust and a widening gap in values, our national addiction to the alliance relationship needs scrutiny." John McCarthy #auspol #AUKUS johnmenadue.com/post/2026/01...

Seems to me zionists are abusing jews. What can we do to bring an end to this anti-semitism? #auspol Any ideas @jewishcouncilau.bsky.social ??? Seriously

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Reminder: If the Supreme Court upholds Trump’s attack on birthright citizenship, some of the ICE officers currently brutalizing Minnesotans may be reassigned to apprehend newborns from the hospital for immediate deportation. Just read the Trump administration’s own memo. slate.com/news-and-pol...

spotted on Reddit, a little bit of history repeating

Is there anything more modern-day-Labor than Richard Marles defending Australia troops against slander without mentioning the slander was committed by Donald Trump? Surface level concern underpinned by utter cowardice and complicity.

🧵 on our new ambassador to the US

The nurses are pissed

Seems we need to TALK because I am astounded how little people know about who did what in Australia.

Yet as the US announces its new retreating Defense Strategy @AlboMP announces that our Secretary of Defence is to be our next ambassador to the US because “the #AUKUS deal is central to our relationship with the US” 🤦‍♂️. #auspol

This random online comment from 2018 remains one of the last half-century's most important works of political commentary. crookedtimber.org/2018/03/21/l...

To put a finer point on it: Republicans have embraced the “insurrectionist theory” of the Second Amendment—the notion that you have a constitutional right to stage an armed rebellion against the government if it becomes tyrannical. Now they’re lining up to say ICE can shoot any armed protester?

The unc who went viral a few weeks ago protesting in MN is back: "5 shots they put into that man's body. How do you look me in the eye and tell me you can justify this? I'm a veteran. I swore an oath back in 1969 to protect this country against all enemies foreign and domestic. This is unbelievable"

Also, may I say that I don’t agree with people saying ICE and CBP need “more training.” They’re doing exactly what this administration has trained them to—impose a reign of fear in blue cities. They don’t need more training. They need to be ripped up root and branch.

I need to change my time line ...

Scomo and Jen are in Jerusalem for some photo opportunities and an antisemitism conference

Funny how the people who think ID checks for social media are fine are so often middle class white men huh. Almost like they can’t imagine needing a safe anony space or facing govt persecution etc. a mystery (Also they weren’t one of the 70,000 ppl whose photos & passports were stolen from discord…)

No waaaaay did I just watch Aust #ABCTV news cover Trump’s comments about vets in Afghanistan without mention of Aust contribution, including deaths and injury. Total fail ABC…there’s a text story you’ve written which should have been folded in. Don’t let the interns produce these bulletins!

What does AI do to our civilization? That’s the thrust of a recent paper from the Boston University School of Law hackaday.com/2026/01/21/c...

Ötzi, the 5,000-something-year-old man found frozen in the Alps, did not have an easy go of it. But at least he had sex. defector.com/let-the-reco...

“So xAI is just a carnival company?” Sulaiman Ghori OUT at xAI after revealing👇🏽Elon has 80 (!!) gas turbines operating (illegally) and got a “special exception” short term lease meant for carnivals🎪 Surrounding (Black) neighborhoods had no input, suffer the pollution. gizmodo.com/engineer-at-...

Earlier today I encountered a pair of gang-gang cockatoos (Callocephalon fimbriatum) which is cool because they’re a vulnerable species and generally quite shy. The female came down to feed while the male stayed up high to watch. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gang-ga...

#AusPol Us this a reliable ally, @albomp.bsky.social ? Are these the "shared values" we have in common ?

You may’ve seen coverage of a new report on the threat to national security from environmental collapse. A common response that’s got my goat is: “Look, it’s not just tree-hugging enviros saying this, it’s hard-nosed spooks!” A short thread on why this framing is bad history & bad politics🧵😡😉

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I genuinely think boycotting the World Cup is some of the strongest leverage the Europeans have.

www.thesaturdaypaper.com.au/share/22449/... Free link (1). TLDR? Foreign companies have a listed number of vulnerable to extinction birds their operations can kill per year without consequence (for them, pretty consequential for the birds). Approved by the fire ant guy. #auspol #wildoz #birds

Old tricks aren’t working. Calling someone who criticises Israel an “antisemite” is widely recognised for the fraudulent manipulation it is. Pro-Palestine politicians are winning elections despite highly coordinated smear campaigns. Everyone knows Israel lies about everything all the time. #Auspol

Las Vegas getting desperate for Canadian tourists

COLBERT, on the so-called “Board of Peace”: “.. Paying a billion dollars to obey Donald Trump seems a little steep. After all, CBS got to do it for just 16 million." @latenightercom.bsky.social #$PSKY

What’s actually happening: Donald +flag is being given as tribute to Mawson Peak on Big Ben massif (our Active volcano). Volcano did not like the brain worm infested RFK, so we are praying this orange skin sack buys us 300 years of freedom from tariff threats and AI misrepresentation.

A marvellous take down

it's really good that Oracle bought TikTok, a business that only loses money, at a time when it took on $56bn+ in debt and $240bn in lease obligations for GPUs to rent to OpenAI, a company that will run out of money. This could all have the funniest ending ever

One of the most unexpected media events of this moment has been entertainment (Teen Vogue, People) & trade (Wired) publications accurately reporting the news & cogently calling out fascist falsehoods, while our Serious News Sources (NYT, WP, WSJ) avoid truth or sane-washes it, and publishes pablum.

Stop the Genocide! Israel's President Herzog is not welcome here! Scrap the anti-protest laws. Pro-Palestine Rally Sun 01Feb26 1pm Hyde Park North, Sydney #EndTheOccupation #FreePalestine

A Hand From One Page, A Bomb From Another: Rethinking "Spy vs. Spy" longreads.com/2023/09/12/r...

@albomp.bsky.social Go on Albo. Hold another Presser, look into our eyes & tell us, the ignoramus, the values that we share with Criminal Mein Trumpf. SC Smith & Grand Jury had charged him with 4 Felony Counts. @senatorwong.bsky.social Ditch AUKUS QUAD and cancel Nuke Subs NOW NOW and NOW

'Australian and Palestinian legal groups have jointly made a formal request to the Australian Federal Police (AFP) to investigate Israel’s President, Isaac Herzog'. Don't be a hypocrite, keep him out, @albomp.bsky.social for 'social cohesion'. acij.org.au/media-releas... #HerzogOutOfOz #auspol

Universities, companies, and government agencies that continue to operate on X, now that this is clearly documented (majority of content included sexualized images of women and children) are actively supporting "industrial-scale abuse." Paid subscribers can still do this.

As I recall the Star Of David was projected on the sails of the Opera House post October 7. Despite 10,s of thousands of Palestinians being slaughtered by Israel, the Palestinian flag was never projected. So what does he mean by 'taking back'?