Germany is trying to limit the reach of the AfD. The GOP is welcoming it in. As AfD leaders gain visibility and political access in Washington, Republicans and MAGA are helping normalize a movement rooted in hate, Islamophobia, and “Great Replacement” rhetoric. Read more:

I was fired from the Holocaust Memorial Day Trust for my activism with Standing Together. Our community leaders are telling young Jews like me that any diversity of opinion on Israel and Palestine is not only unwelcome, but will be punished | Opinion www.haaretz.com/opinion/2026...

Australia has a rich, diverse artistic culture but it's being plundered by AI companies who are lining their pockets at the expense of those artists and media workers. It's time for big tech to PAY UP! meaa.org/stop-ai-theft #PayUP #StopAITheft

The hate groups provisions in the hate speech bill are deeply flawed. They still exclude advocating genocide from the definition of hate crimes, and they will be open to misuse to target peaceful activist groups because of political influence. They shouldn't be passed into law in their current form.

We are all Denmark. www.theguardian.com/world/2026/j...

As Greg points out, the great weakness of Australian constitutional government is how much is left to ministerial discretion on the assumption that whoever holds the post is serious and accountable. As the US, and maybe soon the UK suggests, this assumption can be deadly.

The idea that we’re going to ruin our long standing alliances and waste billions of dollars to buy Greenland while our own people can’t afford health care or groceries is maybe the dumbest thing a president has done in the history of this country.

I hope this bit should be strictly adhered to, as it reads “revoke or refuse visas for people with extremist views seeking to come to Australia.” That would disqualify Isaac Herzog from entering Australia, as the UN Commission of Inquiry has named Herzog for inciting genocide.

Worth tracking down tonight's Anderson Cooper's AC360, first ten minutes, w Sen @gallego.senate.gov . Gallego is holding nothing back. (See attached image, from this story www.rawstory.com/ruben-galleg... I heard this live.) Text gives you the gist; worth finding video for the vibe.

Fairly sure it’s unintentional, but the end date on this mug being sold by the Smithsonian does make it sound a little like they’re saying America dies in 2026…

THIS is IT. Community wins.

If you want to see the “mainstreaming of hate” in 2026, look at the videos of Nick Fuentes and Andrew Tate partying to “Heil Hitler” in Miami this past weekend. This isn’t fringe. It’s the cultural vanguard of the MAGA machine. I break down how the pipeline to extremism was built in my latest piece.

We are watching one of the wildest things a nation-state has ever done: A superpower is committing suicide because the GOP Congress is too cowardly to stand up to the Mad King. This is one of the wildest moments in all of geopolitics ever.

I just woke up from a nap and somehow while I was asleep, everyone on the bus has figured out we are not going to the right place

“On the WA Wholesale Electricity Market (WEM)…Over past 2 years, gas generation has declined while renewables surged to supply around 55% of annual electricity… New utility-scale batteries now on occasion exceeding more than 25% of evening peak demand.” 1/2 reneweconomy.com.au/the-rise-of-...

Judy McCrow says the families "fully support" the federal government's proposed gun buyback scheme and are calling on political parties to stop "bickering".

sorry my mentions are a wreck now—will be sending photos and videos to the company tomorrow and will update if I learn anything about how this happened or what they did about it but uh, thanks for tuning in for this episode of “musicology duck gets briefly kidnapped”

this is uh, fucking crazy

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🇵🇸🕎🇵🇸🕎🇵🇸🕎 No matter the amount of oppression by the Zionists We will continue to proclaim the eternal declaration of Judaism 🕎 Judaism will never unite with Zionism 🙅‍♂️ Palestine is the state of Palestinians, regardless of their religion.

In @nytopinion.nytimes.com “This is tyranny,” Keith Ellison, Minnesota’s attorney general, told our columnist Lydia Polgreen as she was reporting from Minneapolis. “We now don’t have to speculate as to what American fascism looks like. It’s right outside the door.”

UK to consider Australia-style ban on social media for children https://aje.news/6o7ndl

Read more from Ebony Bennett about gun reform ⤵️ australiainstitute.org.au/post/the-sta...

Mossad is exploiting unrest that rocked Iran this month to recruit informants through a new series of social media ads Oddly, the Israeli spy agency has arranged Google ads through an LLC owned by an Atlanta-based comedian, Desi Banks By MaxBlumenthal thegrayzone.com/2026/01/19/m...

Blast at Chinese restaurant in Kabul kills 7. The Islamic State armed group claimed responsibility, saying it had “placed Chinese nationals on its list of targets, especially in light of the escalating crimes committed by the Chinese government against the oppressed Uyghur Muslims" u.afp.com/SB5S

Deutsche Bank here with the good stuff. Game on.

This seems to allow the Australian government to follow the UK example on groups like Palestine Action, but could probably applied to groups like Extinction Rebellion or Rising Tide.

Trump Is Pushing the U.S.-Europe Alliance to the Brink Over Greenland - The New York Times www.nytimes.com/2026/01/19/w...

provisions on banning so-called hate groups - overview by Greg Jericho: live.thepoint.com.au

the other 100 pieces of legislation using crises to expand state control since September 2001 - laws used by authorities to specifically target Arabs and Muslims - did not prevent a mass shooting by two extremists. www.crikey.com.au/2026/01/20/a...

One more reason to never go to the UK for those with dual citizenship.

It was inevitable.

💯🎯! #TrumpEpsteinFiles! open.substack.com/pub/michaelp...

Those with excessive privilege often struggle to handle even the simplest challenges.

Cool. Microsoft has broken an obscure product feature known as 'being able to save and close a Word document'. But at least I have AI features I didn't ask for!

Don’t know about you but I’m embarrassed by the actions of this republican president and the republicans in congress. There is no moral compass in this administration. They should all be jailed.

Israeli occupation forces raided southern areas of Hebron overnight. In a joint statement, the Israeli army and the Shin Bet said they launched a large-scale operation in the Jabal Johar neighborhood. Hebron’s governor told Al Araby TV that the occupation aims to expel residents from the area...

Bruce Springsteen tells #ICE to ‘Get the f— out of Minneapolis’ during set www.yahoo.com/news/article...

Proud to say I know the formidable peace studies professor and activist Barbara Wien who is profiled here in the Washington Post after being targeted and subjected to surveillance for protesting Stephen Miller www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/202...

Army deploys armoured vehicles and imposes curfew in the city, shutting down neighbourhoods.

ICYMI: Major airfield upgrades are in the works for the U.S. military's base in Greenland as diplomatic tensions between the United States and NATO allies in Europe ratchet up over President Donald Trump's push to take control of the territory.

We are currently in the first S4 Solar Radiation Storm since the big one over Halloween of 2003. Keep an eye out for aurora!

An explosion tore through a Chinese-run restaurant in a hotel in a heavily guarded part of Afghanistan's capital on Monday, killing a Chinese national and six Afghans and injuring several others, including a child, officials said.

This is a huge worry too podcasts.apple.com/au/podcast/7... #auspol

The number of confirmed #measles cases in South Carolina has hit an astonishing 558 in an outbreak that started in October. For context: that is more cases in 4 months than the entire US racked up most years in the past 30+ years. www.reuters.com/business/hea...

The long-serving Catholic archbishop for pastoral care of all US military branches says troops can refuse orders to take Greenland by force as there aren’t circumstances where this would be a “just war”: aleteia.org/2026/01/19/u...

This is fascinating. There was a proposal to import the 14th Amendment to the Australian Constitution. It was roundly defeated for patently racist reasons. blr.scholasticahq.com/article/1547...

And here’s the “Combatting Antisemitism, Hate and Extremism (Criminal and Migration Laws) Bill 2026” www.aph.gov.au/Parliamentar...

The bill is 93 pages and difficult to read because it’s a series of amendments to other acts. To understand what it *means* the Parliamentary Library has written a Bills Digest, which is only 32 pages and explains things. parlinfo.aph.gov.au/parlInfo/dow... (PDF) All hail the Parliamentary Library!

The Parliamentary Joint Committee on Intelligence and Security (PJCIS) review recommends a few minor amendments but yeah go for it. www.aph.gov.au/Parliamentar... I assume those amendments are in the bill introduced this morning.