The NY Times again, everybody.

Ron Baumann, one of the 4000-odd Jewish people living in QLD responded directly to #Crisafulli's tweet:

Keep this in mind when people claim cars mean business — closing Central #Madrid to cars over holidays resulted in a 9.5% boost in retail spending on its main shopping street: STUDY. There was also a 71% drop in air pollution. Via @carltonreid.com in @forbes.com. #citymakingmath #citiesforpeople

Israel appears to be threatening the Jewish Council of Australia now, for supporting human rights and international law.

www.theguardian.com/australia-ne... This might be a tad confusing as I’ve heard “From the river to the sea” as both a slogan for an inclusive free society & as a racist Zionist campaign against Palestinians

Remember folks, it just keeps getting worse until we stop burning fossil fuels. ##ClimateEmergency

Speculation on #Insiders of changes to the CGT legislation. About time. Still need to focus on housing for working class Australians who will never afford to buy a home. Labor should establish a national housing commission and build homes for battlers. A real Labor policy.

The government did sfa in other words, stood around moralizing, risking people's lives Minister for Music and the Night-Time Economy, John Graham, said there was no trial pill-testing facility available at the event. He said a safety action plan was in place, as legally required by the government.

" ..the idea that Anthony Albanese is somehow being forced into actions—from slow-walking climate mitigation to inviting the Israeli President to Australia—is a nonsense we need to get past."

Rights-minded Sydneysiders have been shocked by the imposition of the ban, and that the laws were spurred by a nonexistent link posited between Bondi and the local pro-Palestine protest movement. Bondi was ISIS inspired, which has nothing to do with the Palestinian cause. #ZionismIsDevilIncarnate

We need to normalize rich people not getting what they want.

ICYMI yesterday’s #WinterOlympics cartoon for @australia.theguardian.com

I’m at a loss why half the Jews in Australia are labelled fanatics for opposing genocide and why the government only speaks to the 50% who support the ongoing slaughter.

"what incrementalist policies actually do is close down that so-called centre space...If you keep making concessions to the right in the name of owning the 'centre', then all you are doing is shifting the centre to the right." @timdunlop.bsky.social #auspol tdunlop.substack.com/p/wake-in-fr...

www.abc.net.au/news/2026-02... Hate speech is to be banned but actual hate activities such as locking up ten year old children to continue unabated. #Racism

'Disunity is death' – but Labor's cowed caucus has a cost too www.thenewdaily.com.au/news/politic...

Walk away from provocateurs Film them Stay clear of police and their horses

ICYMI. The ABC should do much more of this. #auspol

"How is it that Labor’s backbench, among the most powerful institutions in this country in terms of effecting change, lacks so much bravery in speaking up?" Labor policy once emerged from robust factional debates. But such 'creative tension' is discouraged in Albanese's risk-averse world. #auspol

This. “…the fallout we’re focusing on now [is] a mass displacement activity, driven subconsciously or consciously by men so we don’t have to reckon with the fact that we now have searchable records of the way some of the most powerful guys in the world talk and think about women. And about girls.“

Wake in Fright open.substack.com/pub/tdunlop/...

Amy Remeikis 'Disunity is death' – but a cowed caucus also costs www.thenewdaily.com.au/news/politic...

If you voted for those in power so won’t criticise them for bad decisions, you’re in a fascist based cult, not living under a democratically elected political party. #Auspol

I think I'm willing to take that chance.

The ABC on the JCA - "the left-wing Jewish Council of Australia" Never heard them describe the AJA or ECAJ as "the right-wing", which they 100% are. The AJA was literally created by LNP and further right politicians. www.abc.net.au/news/2026-02...

Insanity. If @albomp.bsky.social did this with the PBS, even Angus Taylor could beat him at the next election.

We have been herded down this path

Important info. please share.🪧✌️ #Auspol #Herzog #PeacefulProtests (Image of posts by @deniseshrivell.bsky.social & @eddyjokovich.bsky.social from elsewhere... )

The true stalwarts of Labor would be appalled by what it had become under @albomp.bsky.social #auspol

“For decades, Australia has comforted itself with a familiar bedtime story: that our alliance with the United States is equal, benign, and stabilising.. That story has expired. The United States is no longer a stable liberal democracy.” By @lachiemc64.bsky.social theaimn.net/australia-is...

Mr Kitchener-Waters, a Gomeroi and Ngiyampaa activist and singer, was recently fired from his public service role by the Minns Government for stickers on his guitar that were in opposition to genocide. Kitchener-Waters

From The Chaser.

So the PM wants us to believe that "healing" and "social cohesion" after the Bondi massacre will be best achieved by the state visit of someone who is not only a genocide enthusiast, but is allegedly an associate of Epstein's. Poor judgment does not begin to describe Albanese's craven stupidity.

Chris Minns to fine his citizens $5,500 for protesting Isaac Herzog: a probable visitor to Pedophile Island who is head of an apartheid state executing a genocide. #EpsteinFiles #auspol

Our government should face the condemnation they deserve - every time they say they’re ‘taking climate seriously and acting on climate change’ They are not. @chrisbowenmp.bsky.social @albomp.bsky.social @australianlabor.bsky.social #climatechange #auspol

Fun and games- my #WinterOlympucs cartoon for @australia.theguardian.com www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Yes, true, and trying to orchestrate who can have an artistic & cultural voice is the same mistake Malinauskas made on SA & that ended very badly. Our compassion & sympathy for members of the Jewish community should not silence Palestinian Australians from voicing their pain.

He left a word out. “The protesters who turn out against Herzog are not representing the Australian mainstream [media].”

A massive increase in 75+ year olds living in rental stress. More are renting, & for longer, in a housing crisis where rents are thro the roof.

No joke: I got angry hate mail today for writing an obituary of a Black woman scientist—because the person felt she did didn’t deserve the recognition. Which just makes me want to share it again: www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Government by sortition has always been an option. It really should be pushed more. Especially in the lower stakes local levels as a pipeline for true diversity of public servants.

Tasmania’s Liberal Government is being warned against rushing to lock in long-term logging contracts. “The ecological cost is enormous, the climate impact is profound, and the economic losses continue to pile up.” - Louise Morris Read the full piece on The Point: https://theaus.in/4qntkjk

'Labor, supported by the Liberal Party' Time to rid ourselves of the other half of the duopoly

“Oh it’s just money, no real impact tho, it’s just such a small amount…” Because people on Centrelink payments *survive on small amounts* assholes

My piece today on the appalling hate speech bill. Bad laws are the worst sort of tyranny – and this one ticks every box johnmenadue.com/post/2026/01...

There is something very odd happening to Labor leaders. They seem to think that inviting the President of Israel to Australia will help heal trauma while inviting an Australian of Palestinian descent to a literary festival will cause division. Is this stupidity or capture?