Penny’s really looking forward to welcoming Isaac Herzog, though.

If you do one thing today and one thing only, make it reading this thread and then sending it everyone you know.

Bloke autographed bombs. Investigation complete. #AusPol

Scoop: One of the first acts of Australia's new anti-corruption watchdog, NACC, was to carry out $30 million of office fit-outs. It was only when staff were preparing the agency's first annual report that they realised the project broke laws meant to fight... corruption. www.crikey.com.au/20...

Amazing when you have a system that lets the private sector deliver a public service it gets rorted. Grog’s Rule: When you privatise public services be sure to also allocate space in a few years for the Royal Commission into abuses in the system.

“Give us a chance to give [Trump] a way out of this that comes to the right ending. … I don’t know if that’s possible.” - @durbin.senate.gov to Danes in Europe. Can the Senate Dems sound any more limp, facile and impotent to Europeans across the Atlantic?

Australian officials are currently trying to scheme up ways to sneak the president of Israel into the country for a visit without him getting confronted by massive anti-genocide protests. Read that again. When you are doing things like this, you're on the wrong side of history.

The world is being held hostage to the whims of the smallest micro man who has ever walked on this earth.

1. These are concentration camps, whose purpose is ethnic cleansing and state terror. 2. Democrats not calling to abolish ICE are complicit with fascists. 3. Any govt who fails to condemn the Trump regime's behaviour at home and abroad is complicit with fascists. That's you @albomp.bsky.social.

Hard to reconcile the ICE account being here. People are banned for threats, but ICE can shoot completely innocent people dead, commit countless acts of violence, break the law, yet still be allowed here? There's something fundamentally wrong with that. It's not like there's shortage of evidence.

If you haven't yet, make sure you block @icegov.bsky.social Block ICE

This is remarkable. More remarkable in light of current events is that the Australian government has not updated this since 19 November. Compare this with some of the places the Australian government ranks as requiring a high degree of caution. Total negligence and cowardice.

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If Greens support this fascistic bill and enshrine Zionist capture, it will destroy them. Your voters will see sellouts and cowards caving on our liberties because you're not up for the fight. Because you're scared of getting yelled at in the newspapers. @davidshoebridge.bsky.social

Imagine a political ideology so evil, so despised, so racist and murderous, so globally unpopular - but also so entrenched in Western establishment depravity - that your government (with the opposition), would seek to make criticism and protest of it illegal. Imagine that.

@senatorwong.bsky.social still think it’s a great idea to invite Herzog here do you?

Nothing says social cohesion like inviting the guy who autographs his bombs before blowing up children. #auspol

I can just see it now too - one way or another, the ABC will cave to this. It won’t be today or tomorrow and it won’t be direct in the same way that for example Antoinette Lattouf was. But I’d bet my bottom dollar the ABC will eventually penalise or sideline Lyons and Tingle.

Solidarity with Louise Adler and Randa Abdel-Fattah. We stand against this retrograde decision and with the countless authors withdrawing in support of Randa and her work.

Rolling out the red carpet for the president of a genocidal apartheid state that’s murdered hundreds of thousands of Palestinian and other Arab civilians is a good thing. Hope you don’t sleep well, Penny.

The one rule that always hold true for these far right pieces of shit is that they also possess the glassiest of jaws. They actively seek to destroy the world for everyone who isn’t rich, white and male, but a widdle expletive makes them piss their pants. They are the absolute smallest of men.

this is all it’s really about for them. Not domestic policy, not “economic anxiety”, just an endless desire to punish stand-ins for the Mommy who forced them take a bath, even if it tanks their own quality of life.

When this blows over I might have to share some of the emails I’ve received over the days which really make me wonder why I am the one accused of hatred. There is deep unresolved trauma being spewed by some of these people and we cannot consent to living according to their warped reality.

If there was any justice, Musk would be under arrest now, and X would be closed down.

A *very* weird statement by Tracey Whiting announcing her resignation as chair of the Adelaide Festival board.

BBC journalists have been banned from describing the kidnapped Venezuelan leader as having been kidnapped. The BBC News Editor has sent this to BBC journalists.

This is really fascinating - and does give me a small sliver of hope.

There is not one part of this that isn’t immensely chilling.

Are you a vehement racist? Do you have a "Controversies" subheading on your Wikipedia page that cites your totally offcolour "racial views"? Well, there's good news! You too can sanitise your public image and recieve entirely uncritical press adulation. All you need to do endorse a Royal Commission!

Hitler alleged all sorts of things against the government and leadership of Czechoslovakia. I would advise the "Maduro's no angel" crowd to just stop. Whatever his personal sins and the government's failings, it just isn't the point.

Why the fuck are we still in an alliance with this regime?

yet again remembering senator chris murphy admitting right in public on twitter that we tried to coup venezuela in trump's first term and he was talking about this not to condemn it but to bemoan how trump bungled the job and embarrassed the US

Just your occasional reminder that Venezuela’s oil reserves are greater than Saudi Arabia’s, and nearly 4X those of the United States www.nytimes.com/2025/12/05/b...

Chris Minns wondering if anyone will think it is too early to ban protests against the US

Remember how appalled we all were in 2022 when Russia completely unprovoked attacked Ukraine? That is what we’re doing tonight with Venezuela. We are the bad guys here. Everyone who supports this is supporting unprovoked murder. Fuck every last one of them

Hey chat remember the times (yes, that’s plural) when people had themselves convinced that Trump wouldn’t be a warmonger. I sure remember.

Centrists seem to have no idea how illegitimate and undemocratic they now appear to huge masses of ordinary people. The cowardice, the hypocrisy, the lies, the selling out, the fascistic overreach to support Israel's depravity. Business as usual is just waking people up.

Labor is simultaneously talking about letting CSG, a Zionist security org with close links to the IDF, carry heavy firearms at events in Australia, and also Australians can't protest anymore... What does that feel like?? Seriously?? Anyone that isn't batshit psycho ok with this?

What in the living absolute fuck is going on? This is not shark being jumped level, we’re talking the entire contents of the ocean being pole vaulted.

In December 2023, Isaac Herzog was pictured signing bombs to be dropped on the men, women & children including babies of Gaza. In December 2025, the prime minister of Australia @albomp.bsky.social invited Isaac Herzog to visit with him in Australia. There is no saving @australianlabor.bsky.social.

This is the guy who Albo has invited to visit Australia “as soon as possible”.

The Age continuing its decades of coverage of Melbourne's west on behalf of people who drive through it on the freeway to get to the Surf Coast. What if Richard and Karen from Malvern end up in Altona? They night die!

Another utterly biased ABC News headline — the house bias that you fund, hard at work. 'Brumby' 'Heritage value' 'Dumped' Words matter. Why choose these, if not from bias? www.abc.net.au/news/2025-11...

Ahahahahaha. Ahahahahahahahahaha. Ahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha.

A smart govt - or even one with a PM who had a desire to do anything - would be using the LNP rabble to put in place every fucking thing they wanted. Problem is Albanese doesn’t seem to want anything other than power.

It really needs to emphasised as strongly as possible: Do not eat Tasmanian farmed salmon.

I reckon if we deem you responsible and mature enough to face a 25 year jail sentence you're probably also mature and responsible enough to be able to use fucking tiktok

I cannot believe I ever once thought this guy was worth reading or taking notice of.

Anyone else noticed how Nazi rallies get the go-ahead fairly easily from state governments, then the horrified public reaction is weaponised to pass anti-protest laws, which are then used to quash anti-genocide dissent and justify police assaults on small brown women? You picking up on this, too??

That’s it Jacinta, lock up a few 14 year olds for twenty years and the media will stop manufacturing a crime crisis. So-called ‘left’ parties like the ALP, Labour (NZ and UK) and the Democrats in the US just refuse to learn - leaning into this stuff NEVER works. It’s also socially regressive.